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CUBAN AND HAITIAN REFUGEES Second, the Refugee Act of 1980 ex Federal refugee policy will not impose presses the will of Congress regarding undue burdens upon them. Honestly HON. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM equitable principles, benefit eligibility, classifying Cubans and Haitians as ref OF NEW YORK and Federal fiscal responsibility for ugees is also in the national interest in the cost of refugee resettlement. If the order to distinguish legitimate policy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES integrity of the act is to be upheld, for refugees from U.S. policy for aliens Thursday, August 28, 1980 Cubans and Haitians must be brought who, on the basis of objective facts, do e Mrs. CHISHOLM. Mr. Speaker, on within its terms. not fall within the 1980 act's defini June 20, 1980, after weeks of uncer Third, refugee policy is set by the tion of refugees. In this regard, tainty and delay, the administration Federal Government and the financ Cubans and Haitians who arrive in the announced its intended policy regard ing of refugee policy and resettlement future should also be presumptively ing Cuban and Haitian refugees. A leg assistance is a Federal responsibility. classified as refugees. islative package was sent to Congress States and localities extraordinarily Over the past 20 years, the United in early August. Many knowledgeable impacted by resettlement of signifi States has granted political refugee observers agree, however, that the ad cant numbers of refugees should be re status to over 800,000 Cubans who ministration's proposal does not ade lieved, to the greatest extent possible, have fled their homeland. Many of quately address the issues presented, of social and financial burdens associ these refugees have settled in south and that it is therefore necessary to ated with refugee resettlement. There Florida. They have enjoyed full access propose an alternative approach. fore, consistent with past policies and to virtually all Federal benefit pro I am also concerned with indications practices and the Refugee Act of 1980, grams. The Federal Government has that the administration's proposal will for the first 3 years of their residence assumed virtually full responsibility be rejected by the relevant congres Cuban and Haitian refugees should be for financing these programs and sional committees, and that the cur fully eligible for Federal benefit pro other resettlement services. As a rently untenable situation will contin grams with 100 percent Federal fi result, Cuban retJ.Igees have been able ue indefinitely. I believe that the des nancing of these programs. quickly to become active members of perate needs of the Cuban and Hai Fourth, the Federal Government our society. They have made signifi tians refugee populations, and the should reimburse at a 100-percent rate cant contributions to the social and costs incurred by States and localities economic revitalization of Miami and fiscal and social needs of State and arising prior to passage of the pro local communities impacted by these other communities. Increases in local posed legislation from the presence of taxes or cutbacks in services available refugees, must be immediately and Cuban and Haitian refugees in their fully resolved. communities. to citizens were avoided which would To this end, I am convinced that the have been inevitable absent full Feder if, SUMMARY OF JUSTIFICATIONS FOR LEGISLATION al financing of resettlement and other national interest will best be served TO GRANT REFUGEE STATUS TO HAITIANS AND as expeditiously as possible, Congress CUBANS essential service needs. And, by grant enacts legislation authorizing the The United States has admitted mil ing refugee status to the Cubans the granting of political refugee status to lions of refugees in the last 20 years. United States demonstrated its com up to 120,000 Cubans who entered the The vast majority of these persons mitment to providing sanctuary to United States after April 21 and date have fled Communist dominated re those fleeing oppression. of enactment, and up to 30,000 Haitian gimes, and are not persons of color. The administration, however, has boat people who entered the United In enacting the Refugee Act of 1980, announced a proposed policy which re States in Florida after January -of · Congress recognized this country's hu jects the positive accomplishments of 1972 and date of enactment. Today I manitarian responsibilities to provide 20 years of Cuban refugee policy. No am introducing legislation which refuge to persons who have a well justification is offered and no reasons would provide that these persons are founded fear of persecution if re are given to explain why 800,000 political refugees within the meaning turned to their homeland. Congress Cubans have been admitted as refu of the Refugee Act of 1980, and are also explicitly established that U.S. gees, but suddenly the most recent ar thereby eligible for rights and benefits refugee policy must be free of racial, rivals are to be denied refugee status. accorded the Indochinese, Soviet Jews, ideological, and geographic bias. The Further, virtually all affected parties and other refugees. The legislation Refugee Act further recognizes that agree that the administration's pro would also provide for Federal assist refugees are particularly in need of re posal portends human, social, and ance to States and localities pursuant settlement assistance, and that full fiscal disaster for these newly arrived to the provisions of the 1980 Refugee refugee access to social services is nec Cuban refugees and the communities Act. essary to accelerate assimilation and into which they resettle. Problems mount day by day as the self-sufficiency and minimize long In contrast to the success of a 20- status of the Cubans and Haitians re term social and fiscal costs. The act year policy of granting refugee status mains unresolved. I, therefore, which also establishes that refugee policy is a to Cubans, the tragedy of south Flor to stress my hope that this legislative Federal responsibility and that the ida's Haitian refugees represents a initiative can be considered and en costs of resettlement and social serv shameful experience. As is eloquently acted prior to congressional adjourn ices for refugees should be borne 100 described by U.S. District Judge James ment on October 4, 1980. percent by the Federal Government Lawrence King in a 180-page opinion PRINCIPLES WHICH SHOULD GOVERN U.S. REFU during the first 3 years of a refugee's issued on July 2, 1980, in Haitian Ref GEE POLICY AND THE RESOLUTION OF THE residence in the United States. ugee Center versus Civiletti, the Hai CUBAN /HAITIAN REFUGEE PHENOMENA As described below, the record estab tians and south Florida have suffered I believe that appropriate resolution lishes that Cubans and Haitians are greatly as a result of the Federal Gov of the Haitian/Cuban refugee situa true political refugees within the ernment's intentional racial and na tion should be guided by the following meaning of the Refugee Act. The pro tional otigin discrimination. Moreover, principles: posed legislation is necessary to pre after considering evidence from both First, U.S. refugee policy must be serve the integrity of this newly en the Haitians and the State Depart consistent, based upon objective fact acted legislation and preserve the con ment regarding political conditionS in and free of racial or ideological bias. fidence of States and localities that Haiti, Judge King made findings of
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 23732 EXTENSIONS OF REMARK~ August 28, 1980 fact which established beyond doubt incurred by States and localities prior give well-deserved recognition to this that the Haitians are true political ref to the granting of refugee status. great American: ugees. As his opinion states: The foregoing benefit and fiscal LEGLEss, HE WoRKs A FIVE DAY WEEK, AsKs This case has forced the court to confront pack: ge for Cuban and Haitian refu No HANDOUTS a profound set of questions: Why have so gees is a critical component of the pro TALLAHASSEE.-James R. Robh!Son sits on many taken such great risks? What do they posed legislation. As past policies and a pile of rubble at the base of the state's flee? Why do they fear to return? the Refugee Act recognize, refugees new 22-story Capitol eight hours a day, five In reaching its conclusion the court has have extraordinary service needs days a week, the sun beating down on his listened to a wealth of ... testimony. Much nearly hairless head and the dust of the of the evidence is both shocking and brutal, which must be met to facilitate reset rubble pile coating his thick, graying mous populated by the ghosts of individual Hai tlement and accelerate self-sufficien tache like snowflakes. tians-including those who have been re cy. Thus, in contrast to the adminis Occasionally, he takes a respite from the turned from the United States-who have tration's program for Cubans and Hai sun by maneuvering into an adjacent lean been beaten, tortured and left to die in Hai tians, refugees enjoy eligibility for vir to fashioned of stacked bricks and corrugat tian prisons. tually all Federal programs. Experi ed metal. The rubble makes movement diffi Returnees, particularly those who claim ence indicates that meeting service cult. Sometimes it's a struggle, especially to asylum abroad, will be greeted with great when his hand slips from a brick and he suspicion upon their arrival. G.iven the Hai needs early and fully best insures lurches to the side. tian legal system that status means they avoidance of acculturation problems But he props himself up again and keeps face a substantial danger. Many will go to and long-term social and fiscal costs. trying with the determination that comes to prison, their sole offense having been an at Further, 100 percent Federal funding a person who's been without legs for 15 tempt to gain asylum. In prison many will of service expenses minimizes the po years-he's not sure of the year that he lost be beaten, perhaps even tortured and some tential and unfair impact of refugee them. will die as a result. Even those who are not resettlement costs on local taxpayers. Nearby, in the $45 million skyscraper Cap itol, the state's power brokers talk of com imprisoned will not be entirely free. They ~osts are spread over all taxpayers, will undergo harassment and live with a plex governmental problems. To the rear of continuing threat of a midnight visit from not simply those residing in the limit the Capitol's sweeping plazas and fow1tains, the Macoutes. ed number of communities where re Robinson also talks about these problell13 settlement is concentrated. Full Feder and proposes solutions iru::pired by 84 years Mr. Speaker, in summary, an objec al funding also ~est insures that refu of life and thorough familiarity with the tive assessment of political conditions gee resettlement does not result in Bible. in Cuba and Haiti establishes the like cutbacks in local programs available to "The whole world is depending upon the lihood that Cubans and Haitians government and the government is going citizens, and thereby tends to alleviate down the drain-hole," he declares with au would suffer severe persecution if re potential tension between refugee and turned to their homeland. They are thority. domestic communities.• His hands are in uninterrupted motion, political refugees. Consistency and the left reaching for an ancient brick in the commitment to the fundamental prin pile on one side, the right chipping the ciples that U.S. refugee policy must be HANDICAPPED SENIOR CITIZEN mortar away with 10, 15, sonetimes 20 free of racial and ideological bias re REFUSES WELFARE strokes of a small pickax and the teft then quires that the Haitians and Cubans flipping the newly cleansed brick onto a be granted refugee status. HON. BILL CHAPPELL, JR. stack in front of him. The proposed legislation would ac Four of the fingers on Robinson's left OF FLORIDA hand are bandaged, the result of blows from complish this objective. It would not, IN Tl: E HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the pickax miscalculated despite his 40 however, prevent the United States years oi experience in using one. from expelling common criminals or Thursday, August 28, 1980 "I work because it's right to work," he other undesirables who may seek to e Mr. CHAPPELL. Mr. Speaker, in a tells a visitor. "That's what the Bible says. remain in the United States. Section time when many Americans appear to As long as you feel like work, then work. 207(c)(3) of the Refugee Act of 1980 have lost the will to fend for them That way you stay off the welfare checks. provides that refugee status may be Give welfare to the people who need it." selves and the faith necessary to sus The bricks come from dismantled sections denied persons excludable from the tain that will, an outstanding black of the state's old Capitol, which stands United States by reason of criminal American and senior citizen is an in behind the new structure and is undergoing conduct, security risks and other char spiration to us all. James R. Robinson, renovation for use as a museum. Once &.-teristics which pose a danger to soci 84, of Tallahassee, Fla., works a full 5- stripped of their clinging mortar, the bricks ety. Under the proposed legislation, day week. That is perhal not so re are returned to use inside the 135-year-old Cubans and Haitians in the prescribed markable except that Mr. Robinson, domed structure. Robinson is paid two cents class would be presumptively eligible for each brick he chips clean. besides being 84 years old, had both "I worked like hell yesterday and made for refugee status. Howev .... r, they legs amputated 15 years ago because $15. You've got to clean a whole hundred to would have to apply and would be sub of diabetes and his work is one of the get $2," he says, frowning. ject to screening to determine if they hardest physical labors there is-chip Robinson lost his legs above the knees are ineligible pursuant to section ping and cleaning bricks. from the effects of diabetes. Eight years ago 207(a)(3). Those found excluC.:tble . I would like to direct my colleagues' he suffered another loss with the death of would be subject to expulsion. attention to this superb article by his wife. But one son and two daughters remain close to him in Tallahassee. ELIGIBILITY AND FEDERAL FINANCING OF Tom Hillstrom of United Press Inter "Everytime God looks at you, you ask him RESETTLEMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMS national which was in the August 18, for a favor and when he does you a favor, The proposed legislation provides 1980, issue of the Florida Times you walk off from him," Robinson says, that those Cubans and Haitians grant Union. It is an excellent story both for citing an appropriate passage from the ed refugee status shall be refugees for the example that Mr. Robinson sets Bible. all purposes pursuant to the Refugee for all of us and because of his elo Robinson has the neck of a bull and the Act of 1980. Thus, like Indochinese, quent philosophy which all of us broad shoulders of someone who has Soviet Jews, and other refugees, these should heed: worked hard at farming and construction most of his life. He receives Social Security Cubans and Haitians would be eligible I vrork because it is right to work. That's from his earlier labors and supplements it for the full range of benefits the 1980 what the Bible says. As long as you feel like with savings and his earnings at the brick act authorizes for refugees. An inte ~1t work, then work. That way you stay off the pile. will be stated that these programs welfare checks. Give welfare to the people "Welfare is for disabled persons, I don't would be 100 percent financed by the who need it. need no damn welfare. I could be home sit Federal Government. In this regard, James Robinson is a shining exam ting around, waiting for a check, but we're the proposed policy is fully consistent ple of humanity and I insert the news going to have to cut that off for them that can work," he continues. with past and current refugee pro paper article recounting this story of "The taxpayers are getting tired of giving grams. encouragement and hope in the body their money away to do-nothings sitting The legislation is also intended to re of the REcoRD to be shared with our around on their-. Work awhile and rest imburse, at a 100-percent level, costs colleagues and fellow citizens, and to awhile, That's my philosophy." August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23733 A brick splits in half from the force of the to stimulate their ability to stand ta'l with .,orts and receivers of goods throughout the pickax. Robinson tosses the two chunks head high, with dignity unimpaired. united States. behind him. When his pay is calculated, What we need is a people united in an en Perhaps most revealing is the fact that they won't be counted. deavor to perceive Right and Justice. What the Chairman of the Subcommittee actually A fellow worker, Nathaniel Green, lights we need are representatives of the people to wrote to the Chairman of Conrail express up a cigarette. take time to meditate and conceive a means ing the fear that the surcharge and cancel Robinson looks at him disapprovingly. "I of affecting strong action to alleviate our lation powers would be abused by the large don't drink and I don't smoke. All that beer bounding from extreme to extreme. A repre railroads. Unfortunately, Mr. Florio's re kills you. And the caffeine in coffee is sentative body dedicated to the preservation sponse to that fear is a mere annual report poison. God don't kill you; you kill your own of individual freedom; rights and above all ing requirement by the ICC to the Congress. self. You drink and those Milwaukee compa responsibilities. We need a government with Small railroads and small shippers could be nies get plenty and you get not hing. Look foresight to adjust social justice to modern forced out of business between the time a how long you've got to work for a can of technology. surcharge is imposed and the tinie that the beer." We have heard the cry of free enterprise Congress receives, reads and acts upon a Robinson's wheelchair is parked next to for years, yet when enterprise fails in fore report from the ICC. the lean-to. The wheels wobble. The chair's sight to avoid financial ruin then our gov The small railroads strongly object to the lower carriage is reinforced with baling wire. ernment guarantees loans to assist them. surcharge and cancellation power because it The rubber of its tires is worn and muddied. Thus enterprise is free to succeed but not can be used in an extremely discriminatory Strips of old carpeting have been stretched free to fail. A one way street. fashion against them. While the alleged to replace the long-shredded canvas seat On the other hand government uses fi ceiling on a surcharge is 110 percent of vari and backing. nancial maneuvering to combat inflation, able costs and while cancellation of a joint "The state sent a girl out here to tell me causing financial distress to millions of rate can be nullified by giving the cancelling to rest one day but I didn't pay her no workers and families. Does the government carrier 110 percent of its variable costs, in listen," he says, smiling. "And a man from guarantee their prosperity? point of fact the economic leverage provided Jacksonville said he'd buy me a new wheel How long before freedom's back breaks by Section 301 can be enormous. chair but I never heard from him. A lady under such discrepancy .e Surcharges can be imposed on certain told me to go buy one and send her the bill rates and withheld on competing rates even but I don't have time to go shopping. Maybe though the latter could be below 110 per someday I'll find a way to get one." RAIL ACT OF 1980 cent of variable costs. The dominant rail A roar comes from inside the old Capitol roads could do this in order to favor certain as another wall of bricks is sent tumbling. HON. JOHN D. DINGELL shippers or certain areas of the country "I was born a Democrat and I'll vote for where in the long run they will make more Carter," he says. "Inflation's not his fault. OF MICHIGAN money either through creating a monopoly Inflation was predicted in the Bible and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or because they will be able to reduce their that Republican setup is nothing more than Thursday, August 28, 1980 costs through increased traffic. Shippers, sweet talk." small railroads, ports and the communities Robinson raises a battered jug-like picnic e Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, in the in which they are located will suffer drasti cooler to his lips and takes a sip of water. interest of providing you with the cally. The minor increases in revenues to His brown hands are caked with white most factual and up-to-date informa the large railroads will be greatly overshad mortar dust so he runs his forearm across tion regarding the level of opposition owed by the costs to the state and federal his month. governments in supporting these communi to various provisions of H.R. 7235, the ties. "God takes care of me," he says, looking Rail Act of 1980, I urge that the fol the visitor directly in the eyes. "If you ask As you are aware there are endless exam him, he'll take care of you."e lowing letter I received be seriously ples of the methods by which large railroads considered. can injure the smaller railroads using these The letter articulates why the sur powers. We would be most happy to de THOUGHTS OF OWEN STANLEY charge and cancellation of rates provi scribe them should you so request. An at sion of H.R. 7235, even as amended by tempt to include them in this letter would the proposed Lee amendment, would make it unduly lengthy. HON. AL SWIFT Attached is a list of railroads which are OF WASHINGTON be disastrous for small railroads, their shippers, ports, and receivers of goods opposed to Section 301 even as it is proposed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to be changed by the "Lee Amendment." throughout the United States. To the You will note that the list includes nine Thursday, August 28, 1980 60 short lines and small rail carriers members of the Board of Directc :s of the • Mr. SWIFI'. Mr. Speaker, while who endorsed the letter, 10 of which American Short Line Association which, back home recently I had a chance to are members of the Board of Directors when it stood alone without the support of meet with a long-time constituent of of the American Short Line Railroad the thousands of shippers and many ports Association, even a Lee amendment now opposing Section 301, adopted the Lee mine, Mr. Owen Stanley, of Edmonds, Amendment. In addition we have been ad Wash. Mr. Stanley, now in the twilight version of section 301 of the bill spells vised directly by at least ten other railroads of his years, ~1as had a long and active certain disaster. located throughout the country that they history on behalf of senior citizens I hope that my colleagues will not be oppose Section 301 as amended by Mr. Lee; throughout his r:ative Snohomish misled by blanket endorsement of that they are contacting their Congression County. For example, he has long H.R. 7235. Cogent arguments have al representatives to urge them to support been a champion of low-cost housing been presented, backed by solid sup Eckhardt's substitute; but that for very un for seniors. Now, sadly, Mr. Stanley is port, that substantial changes must be derstandable reasons do not wish to be in made to provisions of the Rail Act of cluded i. .-1 the attached list. seriously ill. But Owen is using these In closing, we wish to thank you for previ days to collect his thoughts. He re 1980 in order to make it acceptable to ous efforts on behalf of the small railroads cently shared some of them with me. I all parties concerned-particularly on this issue and urge you to continue this would like to share them with my col smaller railroads and shippers who most important effort. leagues. stand to be hurt the most if the bill is Very truly yours, Let we of all phases and modes of living adopted in its present form. GEORGE A. SMATHERS. Attachment. show concern for the dignity and integrity SMATHERS. SYMINGTON AND HERLONG. of our fellow men. No longer can we or ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, SMALL RAILROADS WHICH SUPPORT ELIMINA should we rely on each faction seeking their Washington, D.C., August 22, 1980. TION OF SURCHARGE AND CANCELLATION PRo special laws or special maneuvers to seek Hon. JoHN DINGELL, VISION, SECTION 301 economic assistance without clarification of U.S. House of Representatives, Green Bay & Western Railroad Co., 1 Wis its enhancing the "General Welfare". 2221 RHOB, Washington, D. C. consin; Ahnapee & Western Railway Co., Only in the Senior Citizens do all people DEAR CONGRESSMAN DINGELL: As you are Wisconsin; McCloud River Railroad, Califor have potential of eventual participation in aware from the urgent pleas of the many nia; Hartford & Slocomb Railroad Co., Cali programs designed for Senior Citizens. No small railroads in Michigan, the surcharge fornia; Apalachia Northern Railroad Co., other program or faction of society encom and cancellation of joint rates provision of Florida; New York Dock Railway, New passes the entirety of citizens in their the Rail Deregulation Bill, Section 301 of York; Hillsdale County Railway Co., Inc., waning years, from the sage to the less for H.R. 7235, even as amended by the proposed tunate. They do not ask to be assuaged or "Lee Amendment" presents the utmost 1 Members of the Board of Directors of the placated. They do rightly ask for conditions danger for small r ~ilroads, their shippers, American Short Line Railroad Association. 23734 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 28, 1980 Michigan; Lenawee County Railroad, Michi aged by Chuck Robbins. Mr. Arthur days after receiving notice from the gan; Florida East Coast Railway Co., Flor Welch is president of the little league owner that repairs have been complet ida; Chippewa River Railroad Co., Wiscon of Berwick and Mr. George Seeley is ed, or within 90 days after a final de sin; Ann Arbor Railroad System, Michigan; chairman; and the program is spon termination has been made that a Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Rail way, Michigan; Brooklyn Eastern District sored by the Berwick Athletic Booster safety problem is design or manufac Terminal Railroad, New York; Brillion and Association.• turing defect related. The bill specifi Forest Junction Railroad Co., Wisconsin; cally excludes labor charges as a reim Chicago, Madison & Northern Railroad Co., bursable expense, and limits a manu Wisconsin; Nicolet, Badger & Northern THE DEFECTIVE AIRCRAFT facturer's liability for reimbursement Railroad, Wisconsin; Railroad Task Force REMEDY ACT to 1 year from the finding that a Northeast Region, Inc., Pennsylvania; Little defect exists. Rock & Western Railroad, Arkansas; Michi HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING gan Northern Railway Co., Michigan; Mas The Defective Aircraft Remedy sachusetts Central Railroad Co., Massachu OF OHIO Act also requires aircraft manu setts; North Louisiana & Gulf Railroad Co., IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES facturers who have knowledge of a Louisiana; Prairie Trunk Railway, Illinois; Thursday, August 28, 1980 safety defect to notify the aircraft East Camden & Highland Railroad Co., Ar owner and the factory, provides for kansas; Stockton Terminal & Eastern Rail e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, ex full public hearings on questions of road,1 California; Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific isting consumer laws provide reason defect, and sets penalties for failing to Railway Co., Texas; Tulsa-Sapulpa Union able redress for defective consumer Railway Co., Oklahoma; Transkentucky notify the Secretary of a design or products. If nothing else, they guaran manufacturing defect, or for failing to Transportation Railroad, Inc., Illinois; tee consumers a public forum for the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, Inc., Il comply with the repair or reimburse linois; Canton Railroad Co., 1 Maryland; La resolution of conflicts with product ment provisions at $1,000 per inci Salle & Bureau County Railroad, Illinois; manufacturers when questions of re dent-to a maximum of $800,000. The Gettysburg Railroad Co., Pennsylvania; pairing or replacing defective mer bill also gives the Secretary the au Mercersburg Railroad Co., Pennsylvania; chandise arise. thority to reduce or eliminate the pen Texas Central Railroad Co., Texas; Madison However, for the owners of nonmili Railroad, Indiana; New Hope & Ivyland alty, and requires the Secretary take tary aircraft, there is little opportuni into consideration such factors as the Railroad Co., Pennsylvania; Louisiana Mid ty for such redress without resorting land Railway, Louisiana; Lamoille Valley gravity of the violation and the size of Railroad, Vermont; the Vermont Railway, to lengthy and expensive litigation. A the business when determining the Inc., Vermont; Wisconsin & Southern Rail constituent of mine has forcefully size of the penalty, in order to help road, Wisconsin; Denver & Rio Grande brought to my attention the problems insure that small companies are not Western Railroad, 1 Colorado and Utah; he has faced as the owner of a small unduly penalized. Green Mountain Railroad Corp., Vermont; aircraft. Aircraft owners must meet I believe that my bill will help pro Bath & Hammondsport Railroad Co., New rigid safety requirements as adminis York; Kansas City Southern Railway Co., vide aircraft owners with a reasonable tered by the Federal Aviation Admin means of redress when they are forced Missouri; Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad, istration, or else lose their airworthi Oregon; Soo Line Railroad Co., Minnesota; to make repairs because of design or South Buffalo Railway Co.,1 New York; ness certification. Therefore, they face manufacturing defects. Let me note Longview, Portland & Northern Railroad, considerable expense in complying that I do not consider this bill to be a Oregon and Washington; Georgetown Rail with routine airworthiness directives 1 finished product. I am introducing it road Co., Texas; Salt Lake, Garfield & issued by the FAA. Privately owned now in the hope that interested indi Western Railway,1 Utah; and Yancey Rail aircraft are frequently covered by war road Co., North Carolina.e viduals can give me their views and ranties for as little as 6 months from help in such redrafting as may be nec the date of purchase. Thus, it is very essary to improve the bill. I welcome LI'l"'TLE LEAGUE CHAMPS difficult for aircraft owners to recover any comments my colleagues or other ·even part of the cost of effecting re interested parties may have.e HON. RAPHAEL MUSTO pairs required by a Federal agency, even when those repairs may be neces OF PENNSYLVANIA sitated by a manufacturer's design or GREEN PRAISES MANHATTAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES manufacturing defects. RSVP Thursday, August 28, 1980 With this in mind, I am today intro e Mr. MUSTO. Mr. Speaker, I would ducing legislation designed to help HON. S. WILLIAM GREEN like to direct our colleagues' attention nonmilitary aircraft owners recover OF NEW YORK to a champion ball team from Berwick, some of the expenses incurred in com IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Pa., that has competed with the best plying with airworthiness directives in and has deservedly earned its fine cases where the safety problem is the Thursday, August 28, 1980 reputation. It is the Sam Balliet All result of design or manufacturing de • Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, as a Star ~enior Division Little League, fects. My bill, the Defective Aircraft member of the Select Committee on winners of the district 13 and section 3 Remedy Act, requires the Secretary of Aging, and as one with a congressional playoffs and eastern regional State Transportation to determine whether district population of 23 percent senior champions. an unsafe condition resulting in the is citizens, I would like to take this op The Sam Balliet all-star team went suance of an airworthiness directive is portunity to pay tribute to the retired on to represent the Eastern United the result of a design or manufactur senior volunteer program in States in the world series at Gary, Ind. ing defect. If so, my bill requires the Manhattan. Participation in this pro They finished in fourth place against manufacturer either to repair the de gram will be honored at a ceremony teams from Taiwan, Western Europe, fective part without charge to the on September 5, 1980. Canada, Venezuela, Western United owner within a period of time speci The national program of RSVP is States, Southern United States, and fied by the Secretary, or to reimburse sponsored by ACTION on the Federal Central United States. aircraft owners who have had the re level and is supported locally by the All who participated in this achieve pairs made at their own expense for Community Service Society. These ment is deserving of recognition, start the cost of the parts used in the volunteers, who are 60 years and older, ing with the team members, Dave Got repair. The bill requires owners who contribute their time and energy in an chall, Carl Pruitt, Wade Prueitt, Keith choose to make the repairs on their effort to better their communities. Seeley, Keith Warner, Rich Bodwalk, own to notify the manufacturer that Many schools, hospitals, and senior Andy Thomas, Mike Dalberto, Dave they have done so not more than 30 citizen centers benefit from the valua Kishbach, Doug Collins, Todd Rob days after receiving notification that a ble service that these dedicated volun bins, Scott Karchner, Chet Kem defect exists, and requires the manu teers provide. Volunteerism plays an penski, and AI Steward. They were facturer to reimburse owners-who important function in today's society, coached by Dave Kishbauch and man- have done their own repairs-within 90 and I thank RSVP for responding to August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23735 and fulfilling the needs of the people selfishness and her special devotion to pay and the attitude of the American of Manhattan.e young people.e people. Many of us ask ourselves why we are in the military, working long hours, leaving our families and being paid just enough to put hamburger on the table while we lay -TRIBUTE TO MRS. GEORGE M. THE MILITARY MANPOWER our lives on the line for a people who are "LIB" TROTTER PROBLEM not willing to serve or defend theinselves. If today's youth is only concerned with HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN HON.CHARLESF.DOUGHERTY theinselves and are not willing to guarantee OF PENNSYLVANIA their own future, then why should we con OF TENNESSEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cern ourselves, make these sacrifices; why IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES shouldn't we get out there and get some of Thursday, August 28, 1980 those good-paying jobs and live the easy Thursday, August 28, 1980 life, too? A hell of a lot of us are. e Mr. DOUGHERTY. Mr. Speaker, What the American military establish e Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, in the the following letter to the editor of ment needs is young, strong, well-educated next few days, on September 8, 1980, the Washington Star was written by men and women, dedicated to duty, honor to be exact, a large number of people Gunnery Sgt. Thomas G. Poulk, U.S. and country. Without these good people, in my hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., Marine Corps. Sergeant Poulk has the American armed forces have no future, will gather to honor one of our com aptly described some of the major and neither have the American people. munity's most outstanding civil lead causes of the manpower problem As President Lincoln said in 1838: "If ers. Unfortunately, the business of the facing our military today and I share danger ever reaches us, it must spring up Congress will prevent me from being from amongst us. It cannot come from his letter with my colleagues: abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must, present for the occasion, which is THE DANGER LIEs WITHIN Us? ourselves, be its author and finisher. As a sponsored by the Citizen's Honor To the Editor: nation of free men, we must live through all Committee. However, I would like to If one believes the recent newspaper arti time or die by suicide." share with my colleagues a brief sum cles and news broadcasts about the draft The manpower crisis in our military estab mary of the outstanding public service and registration of 19- to 20-year-old men, lishment is at hand. The cause is simple: ne of Mrs. George M. "Lib" Trotter. one would think that the majority of the glect, complacent attitudes, social ills, mis Mrs. Trotter has become known youth of America do not desire to serve in placed values and a lack of concern by the the armed forces of the United States. It is American people for their own future and throughout the Southeast as a person really saddening that this fact is true and security. The American people are allowing always ready to help young people. that the young people feel that serving history to repeat itself for the third time in She began volunteer work with the their country is beneath them, infringes this century, and no one really seeins to March of Dimes 20 years ago, and 14 upon their civil rights, hinders them in ac- care, least of all our own youth. years ago helped organize Knoxville's . complishing future aspirations and is the The only thing your Army, Navy, Air· first March of Dimes Telerama. This first step towards another world war. Force and Marine Corps cannot do is pro highly-successful fundraising program I would like to address these self-centered tect the American people from theinselves. has led the Nation for 3 of the last 4 children of American democracy for they THOMAS G. POULK, hold the destiny of this nation, and the Gunnery Sergeant, U.S.M.C. years. entire free world, in their hands, whether ARLINGTON, VA.e It was more than 20 years ago when they like it or not. Lib Trotter began working with There are many probleins with America's Brownie and Girl Scout troops. In all-volunteer armed forces, ranging from THE CAPITOL-AN INSIDE LOOK 1964, she began volunteer service with low pay to shortages of equipment. We, the the Knoxville Teen Board. In 1966, career service men and women, recognize HON. AUSTIN J. MURPHY these probleins and try to cope with them so OF PENNSYLVANIA she became chairman of the Teen that we may accomplish our primary mis Board of Knoxville Presentation sion-to support and defend the Constitu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Dance. Her service continues today as tion and the people of the United States. Thursday, August 28, 1980 an adviser to the Teen Board. However, there is one major problem that Mrs. Trotter has also served as co the military establishment cannot deal with • Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. chairman of the Medical Auxiliary and that is the "I don't give a damn" atti Speaker, a newspaper article written Fashion Drama, a fundraising activity tude of the American people, especially by an inspiring young journalist and by the auxiliary of the Knoxville young Americans, when it comes to national former intern in my office presents an defense. interesting view of our Government Academy of Medicine to benefit their If the youth of America will not defend nursing scholarship fund. She is also a and its legislative process from an in their country, who will? What is really ap tern's perspective. Therefore, I submit member of numerous other philan palling is how older Americans tolerate and thropic and charitable organizations, at times even encourage the anti-draft atti this excellent article into the CoNGRES including Women's Guild of the Knox tude. The manpower problem facing our SIONAL RECORD SO that it may be ville Symphony Society; Women's military today is the end result of the lack shared by all. Circle of the First United Methodist of concern, the misplaced values and the THE CAPITAL-AN INSIDE LooK Church; Alpha Omicron Pi Alumni; poor attitudes of the American people. NEBRASKA or and Insular Affairs, I came to the conclu sion that the making of law is not unlike Not all the interesting people in Washing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the buying and selling of used cars-the ton work for the government, though. One Thursday, August 28, 1980 of the most fascinating individuals I met in seller always asks for more than the car is e Mr. CAVANAUGH. Mr. Speaker, it worth; the buyer always offers less than he the city was an artist named Agnes, who is willing to pay. And a lot of bickering goes had worked on the Hill for 20 years before is not often that the death of a single on before the two come together. quitting and making her hobby, painting, person affects an institution, a society, A whole lot of bickering. her career. or a city as deeply as the August 13 The bill in question was a revision of land An afternoon in Agnes' gallery, located death of Father Carl M. Reinert has reclamation laws, which affect irrigated across the street from the Eastern Market, moved Creighton University, the lands in the West. At the outset it was evi could be a memorable experience. People of Jesuit Community, and the city of dent that the committee was sharply divid all ages from all over the country and the Omaha, Nebr. Father Reinert has ed on the issue. Several committee members city would wander in and out, browsing at touched the lives of many students, were in favor of amendments that would the paintings and taking a short rest. impose acreage limitations and residency re businessmen, and fellow clergy across quirements on land irrigated by Federal One day near the end of my stay I was the Nation in his different capacities water projects-measures which would pro talking with a local photographer who had as an educator, a fundraiser, and most tect the small family farmer. come by to ask Agnes if she knew of a small importantly a Jesuit priest. Other members of the committee insisted studio that was for rent. After discovering In his 30 years of service to that "the days of 40 acres and a mule" are that I was a congressional intern, he pro Creighton University he is credited over, and that large, corporate farms are a ceeded to ask me several questions about with adding 12 new buildings to the solution to the world's and the Nation's the job-what kind of work did I do, what campus and raising some $200 million were the hours, who I worked for. food shortages. At one point in the debate, for the university's development. the opposing sides became so enraged that And then he asked another question. It Father Reinert entered the priest they couldn't even agree on what time to was a simple query, straight forward and break for lunch. Committee Chairman direct-so much so, in fact, that I wondered hood, as did two of his three brothers, Morris Udall settled the issue and eased the why I had never heard anyone ask it before. out of a deep sense of dedication and tension by saying, with a hint of a smile, I decided, with some regret, that it was the zeal for enriching the lives of students that the committee would break for lunch kind of question you could only hear in through the teachings of Christ. when he was good and ready. Agnes' gallery on a Sunday afternoon. Father Reinert was loved by all who The result of five days of furious debate, "Do you believe in what you're doing?" he knew him and will be missed by many. dazzling oratory and red-faced rebuttals In his honor I would like to include was, or course, a compromise. And through asked. out the markup Udall kept reminding the And it was possibly the most enjoyable this tribute to Father Carl M. Reinert committee that the bill they finally ap moment of my congressional internship which appeared recently in the Catho proved should have enough flexibility to when I was able to answer "Yes" without lic Voice newspaper of the Archdiocese give the committee a strong bargaining posi- hesitation.• of Omaha. August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23737 The tribute follows: The first drive in 1955, led by Omaha ad ment and fire prevention programs. FATHER REINERT'S DEATH ENDS ERA vertising executive Morris Jacobs, raised Under the chief's leadership the Yuba He had been dying for almost a year. more than $2 million. That became the first City North Substation was dedicated phase in an expansion program that was· to on March 31, 1980. Maybe that's why his death didn't seem like reach the $14 million mark in the next few the sudden, shocking end of an epoch-it years. The chief's professional capabilities would have been had he been taken away In 1962 when, in a sense, he traded jobs were enhanced by his active participa while still in his vigorous prime. tion in organizations such ·as the Cali Death for Father Carl M. Reinert was a with the late Father Henry Linn, Father release and a blessing. It came after long Reinert guided a five-year $24 million pro fornia State Board of Fire Services, months during which this once poised, gram. By 1970 he was in the midst of a 10- the California State Firemen's Associ strong, dynamic leader suffered in body and year "Centennial Thrust" campaign that ation, the National Safety Council, the spirit as an invalid without hope of recov was to bring in more than $117 million. California College Fire Advisory ery. Before 1956, the campus had seen little Board, the California Fire Chiefs' As But on the rainy summer Saturday morn physical change for more than a quarter century. After 1956 the sight and sound of sociation, the International Fire ing that his remains were buried, the throng Chief's Association, the California of his mourners overflowed St. John's construction were continuous. Church on the campus of the university Yet Carl Reinert was more than a dollars Conference of Arson Investigators, which had been his life-right up to the day and-bricks man. He was always approach and the California State Fire Educa last September when recurrent chest pains able and accessible. He was constantly in tors. sent him into surgery. For most of the contact with students and alumni-counsel Married to Marjorie and the father throng, it would be hard, after an associ ing, encouraging, and even interceding when of William, Michael, Pamela, and ation of 30 years, to think of Creighton Uni asked to. Janet, Chief Burke found time in his versity without its Father Reinert. He also was recognized as a community daily life not only for his family and That association began in 1950 when the leader. The list of his awards and citations 37-year-old priest was looking forward to an more than proves that. career but also to help better the lives other year as principal of Campion High Through all this activity, he insisted that of those around him. This includes School in Prairie du Chien, WI. As he him he was, above all, a priest. such activities as serving as chairman self told it, when he received a B'nai B'rith Though he had grown up in Boulder, his of the American Red Cross, CPR Americanism citation in 1962, "I might have parents had sent him and his four brothers chairman of the Yuba-Sutter-Colusa spent my days in this work, or in the college to the Jesuit high school in Denver because Heart Association, a director of the· classroom-both honorable and appealing of their belief in the importance of Catholic Midland District Boy Scout Council, a occupations. But my superiors challenged education. And it was at Regis High School me to embrace a broader scope." that Carl Reinert at age 18 made his deci director of the Arroyo Grande Girl That was putting it mildly. Creighton Uni sion to become a priest. Scout Council, public education chair versity in 1950 was in serious trouble. He entered the Jesuit seminary in Florri man of the American Cancer Society, Not only was enrollment down after a sant, MO in 1931, continued his studies at and a director of the Rotary Club. He temporary resurgence following World War St. Mary's College in Kansas, then spent has also been involved with the March II. It faced a financial crisis. There was talk the traditional three years as a scholastic of Dimes, United Way, Muscular Dys of closing at least one of its professional before his ordi trophy Association, YMCA, and the schools. nation in 1944. For almost 36 years of his There hadn't been a new building in dec active priesthood he began each day by cele Lions Club. ades. Facilities were inadequate in many brating Mass-halted only when his crippled Chief William Burke deserves to be areas. Alumni still resented the recent deci body became a prison for his soul.e honored by the community he has sion not to resurrect intercollegiate football. served so well for 16 years. He has Worse yet, few seemed to recognize the been a competent leader of the fire de full plight of the institution. A fund drive WILLIAM E. BURKE partment and his fine work reflects had fallen on its face-primarily because his dedication to the public. He has people couldn't believe that the university endowed by the wealthy Creighton family HON. VIC FAZIO made unselfish personal contributions really needed money, some say. OF CALIFORNIA of his time to improve the lives of When Carl Reinert received his new as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES those in the community. I commend signment at age 37-making him the young Chief Burke as an outstanding citizen est of Creighton's presidents-he wisely Thursday, August 28, 1980 and superb public servant.e spent those first weeks and months learning • Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, on August as much as he could about the university. 31, 1980, William Edmund Burke re He had one distinct advantage-he knew tires as the fire chief for Yuba City, ASSURING ACCESS TO Creighton and Omaha from his years <1938- Calif. I would like to take this oppor STRATEGIC MATERIALS 41) as a Creighton Prep teacher, and he had friends here who could help him size up the tunity to commend this distinguished situation. citizen for his outstanding service to HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD The rest is history. He saw the universi the community. OF MICHIGAN ty's plight, spoke about it frankly and credi Born on November 2, 1923, in Ros IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bly, won the enthusiastic support of influen well, N. Mex., Chief Burke served his Thursday, August 28, 1980 tial business and community leaders, and country in the U.S. Air Force from led an effort which saw Creighton develop 1942 to 1945. In 1946 he began his e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, and grow into a strong independent urban assuring access to foreign energy and university. career as a firefighter in Lynwood, raw materials requires the harmoniza He was gracious, enthusiastic and positive. Calif. and subsequently was promoted tion of economic policy with our de He was also confident, decisive and articu to the position of engineer captain, re fense and foreign policy. In particular, late. Sometimes his confidence led to action spectively. He also served as president beyond the perimeters suggested by better of the Lynwood Firemen's Association a strong defense is vital not only to informed advisers, and sometimes his deci and president of the Lynwood City our physical security but also our eco sions seemed heedless of the experience and Employees' Association. In 1957 Chief nomic well-being. In this regard, I wisdom of subordinates. Sometimes he commend to my colleagues the follow drove his staff to distraction by telling too Burke joined the Downey Fire Depart ing article which appeared in the much too soon about the university's hopes ment, again serving as president of August 21, 1980, edition of the Wash and plans. both the Downey's Firemen's Associ ington Star: More often than not, this was a result of ation and the Downey Employees' As his enthusiasm and his love for the institu sociation. THE STRATEGIC MATERIALS GAP tion whose nurturing had become his life's In September of 1964 Yuba City was work. most fortunate to have Chief Burke Mention American dependence on shaky He was most widely hailed as a successful accept the position of fire chief. In or hostile foreign sources for essential raw fund-raiser, sometimes deprecatingly. He materials and most people think oil. But made many key contacts personally, but he this capacity, Chief Burke worked to update department rules and regula other strategic materials may turn out to be was also peerless in recruiting talent-both more important to our defense effort and in his full-time staff and among the thou tions, develop and finalize new ordin ultimate national wellbeing. sands of volunteers who carried out Creigh ances and enforcement procedures, Consider. The U.S. Bureau of Mines lists ton's major campaigns. and to improve fire protection equip- four minerals of prime concern in the manu- 23738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 28, 1980 facture of such weapons as fighter jets, ments since, President Carter has leum industry-with the notable exception tanks and other armaments. These are chro strongly endorsed the passage of legis of Texaco. mium, manganese, platinum and cobalt, all lation to provide a major overhaul of During recent House Government Oper of which come from central and southern the Federal regulatory process. ations subcommittee hearings arranged by Africa. Fithian on the Purdue campus, several of The United States imports 98 percent of However. the actions of the adminis the university's most authoritative gasohol its manganese, 92 percent of its chromium tration raise questions in my mind researchers assured subcommittee members and 91 percent of its platinum besides about how fervent, indeed, is its com that use of corn in fuel production would nearly all of its cobalt from Gabon, Zaire, mitment to regulatory reform. not significantly reduce world food supplies, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Manganese is The House Judiciary Subcommittee and that Purdue's tests of biomass conver essential to making steel. Platinum is a nec on Administrative Law spent many sion processes definitely shows they develop essary catalyst in the automotive, electronic more energy than they consume. and petroleum industries. Jet engines re long hours in hearings and markups The most important point made at Purdue quire cobalt. Chromium is vital to aerospace on all the pending versions of regula was that current technology permits use of weapons. tory reform bills-including the ad agricultural starch and sugar to be devel The United States is also over-dependent ministration's. All viewpoints were oped into fuel while still leaving its protein on foreign sources for less exotic but equal given careful and thoughtful attention products for the l arm feed lots where a lot ly significant materials. Take bauxite, the before a bill was reported to the full of the American corn crop is used. basis for aluminum, which is, in turn, the House Judiciary Committee. At Purdue they pointed out that maybe in basis for many defense and non-defense The full committee has already held the long run it will not be corn anyhow but manufacturing needs in this country. the "biomass" process that can best manu Ninety-three percent of our supply comes several markup sessions on this impor facture alcohol to stretch gasoline. Gasohol from abroad, much of it from the conspicu tant bill. While the product of all this is about one-tenth alcohol and the rest is ously unstable and dubiously friendly coun labor is not perfect it is, on balance, an unleaded gasoline. try of Jamaica. excellent piece of legislation. It does Biomass is a catch-all term for vegetation There is also rubber, which goes into the not deserve the fate it seems to have that can be converted to energy through making of tank treads and aircraft tires as been consigned: to be allowed to slip fermentation, or possibly distillation. This well as ordinary radials, for which synthetic under the murky waters of the 96th vegetation may include cornstalks, wood substitutes are unsuitable. The United Congress without a ripple. chips and straw-essentially residuals. It is States, which does not grow rubber, is more difficult to ferment these materials forced to import all its supplies. And these Daily, I hear complaints from resi than starch from corn kernels, but Purdue come from, of all places, Southeast Asia, dents and business people of the Third is one place where researchers are coming whose rubber production was denied to Congressional District that they are up with solutions to this sort of conversion. America when the Japanese occupied the driven to distraction by the flood of We hope that the congressmen who have region in World War II. Forty years later, bureaucratic rules and redtape. They witnessed the immense possibilities for bio the United States has gone back to total de are pleading for relief. mass development such as using feedlot pendence on the same unreliable source. · Mr. Speaker. passage of legislation wastes that we previously never dreamed Happily, we are exploring the possibilities were reusable can take this message back to of producing a natural rubber substitute to increase congressional oversight Washington and convince political decision from a natural plant, guayule, in this coun of-and public participation in-the makers there that gasohol can become a try. But research has scarcely begun, and regulatory process should no longer be viable source of energy.e even if guayule proves feasible, it will take delayed.e four or five more years to produce commer cially. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is as inde CONGRESSMAN FLOYD FITHIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT pendent of foreign sources of strategic ma CARRIES THE MESSAGE OF SPENDING terials as the United States is dependent on GASOHOL them. It needs to import only six of the 93 substances defined by the Strategic and HON. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY Critical Materials Stockpiling Act of 1979 as HON. JOHN BRADEMAS OF IOWA critical. Soviet imports run no higher than OF INDIANA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 50 percent and that maximum applies to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, August 28, 1980 only two materials. The most serious Soviet lack is of bauxite, Thursday, August 28, 1980 e Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. Speaker, at of which it imports only one-third of its e Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, no this time I would like to bring to the needs. In a conventional war, the Soviets Member of the House of Representa attention of my colleagues and readers would be virtually self-sufficient in strategic tives has been more articulate or effec of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a matter materials. in The Stockpiling Act, an update of a meas tive in urging the use of gasohol as an that its own right needs no intro ure dating back to World War II, sets stock alternative to petroleum than our dis duction. I am referring, of course, to piling goals for the 93 materials it has desig tinguished colleague from Indiana, Federal governmental spending. nated as strategic or critical. Under the act, Hon. FLOYD FITHIAN. I sincerely feel that it is time to take the quantities to be stockpiled should be I insert at this point in the RECORD action. It is time to account for the bil "sufficient to sustain the United States for the text of a most thoughtful editorial lions of taxpayers dollars that, during a period of not less than three years in the from the August 22, 1980, issue of the the course of every year, are so reck event of a national emergency." lessly spent on projects and programs So far, though, only 50 materials have LaPorte Purdue University alization that its spending cannot HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI campus. exceed its revenues. Much like the OF KENTUCKY Fithian has been concerned that Congress American taxpayer the Federal Gov IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the federal Department of Energy ernment must be responsible in its Thursday, August 28, 1980 are among the hardest people t.o con vince that gasohol can indeed contribute to spending ways. We cannot continue to e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, in his the petroleum conservation, and that it is spend more than we take in. It must state of the Union address to the 96th feasible economically. The most difficult to also initiate its own "belt tightening" Congress, and in many public state- convince, of course, are leaders in the petro- to maintain fiscal stability. August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23739 In light of this fact, I would like to To overcome past inconsistencies appreciate the courtesies which the Chinese share with my colleagues now, a reso and to avoid vacillation in our Far leaders extended to our party, and I also lution of special significance. Auth Eastern policies, Governor Reagan wish to thank U.S. Ambassador Leonard Woodcock for his kind assistance. ored by Iowa City attorney, John T. and Ambassador Bush, in their recent We now maintain full and friendly diplo Nolan, the resolution was adopted as statement in Los Angeles, have out matic relations with China. This relation part of the platform by Republicans of lined a strong, vigorous role for our ship began only a few years ago, and it is Johnson County, Iowa, and Iowa's Nation in Asia. one which we should develop and strength First Congressional District. The reso Mr. Speaker, in order to share their en in the years ahead. It is a delicate rela lution proposes to heighten voter views with my colleagues, I ask that a tionship, and the Reagan-Bush Administra awareness of the big spender problem full copy of the Reagan-Bush state tion will handle it with care and respect, by focusing on the diametrically oppo ment on Far Eastern policy be insert with due regard for our own vital interests site calendar dates of the April dead ed at this point in the RECORD: in the world generally, and in the Pacific region specifically. line for filing income tax returns and STATEMENT BY RONALD REAGAN China and the United States have a the November general elections. It is Ten days ago George Bush and I met with common interest in maintaining peace so felt that the voter, still ripe from you here in Los Angeles on the occasion of that our nations can grow and prosper. Our filing his returns, would give more his departure for Japan and China, a trip he two-way trade has now reached approxi thought to the candidate and his undertook at my request. As we stressed at mately $3.5 billion annually, and China's spending proposals when voting. The the time, the purpose of the trip was to pro program of modernization depends in a resolution text follows: vide for a candid exchange of views with major way on Western and U.S. technology. leaders in both countries on a wide range of Along with many other nations, we and Be it resolved that the deadline for filing international topics of mutual interest. Am State and Federal income tax returns be China share a deep concern about the pace bassador Bush returned last evening, and and scale of the Soviet military buildup. moved to the ~onday first preceding the has reported his findings in detail. Chinese leaders agree with Japanese leaders general election Tuesday, and correspond We are both very pleased with the results ing off-year dates. that the United States must be a strong and of his extensive discussions. In a series of vigorous defender of the peace, and they The intended purpose of the Resolution is meetings with distinguished leaders in to achieve the heightening of voter aware specifically favor us bolstering our defenses Japan, including Prime ~inister Suzuki, ness as to fiscal responsibility, and to pro and our alliances. Former Prime ~inisters Fukuda, Kishi and vide artillery for candidates who are so in It is quite clear that we do not see eye to ~iki, Foreign ~inister Itoh and ~ister of clined.e eye on Taiwan. Thus, this is an appropriate International Trade and Industry Tanaka, time for me to state our position on this he had the opportunity to hear their views subject. REAGAN AND BUSH SPEAK OUT and recommendations concerning the future I'm sure that the Chinese leaders would ON ASIA of U.S.-Japanese relations. place no value on our relations with them if Our Republican Party Platform stresses they thought we would break commitments that Japan will remain a pillar of our policy to them if a stronger power were to demand HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN for Asia, and a Reagan-Bush Administration it. Based on my long-standing conviction OF NEW YORK will work hard to insure that U.S.-Japanese that America can provide leadership and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES relations are maintained in excellent condi command respect only if it keeps its com tion, based on close consultation and mutual Thursday, August 28, 1980 mitments to its friends, large and small, a understanding. Reagan-Bush Administration would observe e Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, at a Japan's role in the process of insuring these five principles in dealing with the time when the Soviet Union is increas peace in Asia is a crucial one, and we must China situation. reinforce our ties with this close ally. Japan ingly flexing its muscles throughout is our second most important trading part GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE FAR EAST the world, our relationships with our ner, and we are her first. We have close ties First, U.S.-Chinese relations are impor friends and allies around the globe in other fields, too. A most important exam tant to American as well as Chinese inter continues to gain importance. The ple is the U.S.-Japan ~utual Security ests. Our partnership should be global and recent report by Ambassador Bush of Treaty which recently marked its twentieth strategic. In seeking improved relations with his mission to the Far East stressed anniversary. the People's Republic of China, I would the vital role that Japan plays as a Understanding the Japanese perspective is extend the hand of friendship to all Chi pillar of our Asian policy, both mili important for the success of American nese. In continuing our relations, which tarily and economically. At the same policy. As Ambassador Bush will tell you in date from the historic opening created by detail, he found Japanese leaders unani President Nixon, I would continue the proc time he noted that United States mous in their view that the United States ess of expanding trade, scientific and cultur China relations have developed far must be a strong, reliable, leading partner. al ties. beyond trade and cultural ties as we I appreciate receiving their views, and I Second, I pledge to work for peace, stabil share mutual concerns about the pace am grateful to them for the courtesies ex ity and the economic growth o.f the Western and scale of the Soviet military build tended to Ambassador Bush. I would also Pacific area in cooperation with Japan, the up. like to express my appreciation to, and People's Republic of China, the Republic of Upon the return of Ambassador regard for, U.S. Ambassador ~ike ~ans Korea and Taiwan. George Bush from his special mission field, who also extended many courtesies. Third, I will cooperate and consult with Of equal importance was Ambassador all countries of the area in a mutual effort to Japan and China, Gov. Ronald Bush's trip to China, where he held a series to stand firm against aggression or search Reagan commented upon the impor of high-level meetings. As I said on August for hegemony which threaten the peace and tance of our role in Asia and in the Pa 16, "we have an obvious interest in develop stability of the area. cific area and the findings of Ambassa ing our relationship with China, an interest Fourth, I intend that United States rela dor Bush's trip. In a series of high that goes beyond trade and cultural ties. It tions with Taiwan will develop in accord level meetings with the distinguished is an interest that is fundamental to a ance with the law of our land, the Taiwan leaders of Japan and China, Ambassa Reagan-Bush Administration." Relations Act. This legislation is the prod dor Bush had an opportunity to hear The meetings in Beijing provided for ex uct of our democratic process, and is de their views firsthand and to discuss tensive exchanges of views. George has re signed to remedy the defects of the totally ported to me in great detail the points of inadequate legislation proposed by Jimmy their recommendations concerning our similarity and agreement, as well as those of Carter. future foreign policy. dissimilarity and disagreement. Since the By accepting China's three conditions for Governor Reagan pointed out that objective of the trip was to have just such "normalization," Jimmy Carter made con the leaders of both China and Japan an exchange without necessarily reaching cessions that Presidents Nixon and Ford acknowledged to Ambassador Bush agreement, I believe that the objective was had steadfastly refused to make. I was and that the United States must be a reached. am critical of his decision because I believe strong and vigorous defender of the We now have received an updated, first he made concessions that were not neces peace and they favor the bolstering of hand of China's views, and the Chinese sary and not in our national interest. I felt our defenses and alliances. In particu leaders have heard our point of view. that a condition of normalization-by itself While in Beijing, Ambassador Bush and a sound policy choice-should have been the lar, he found the Japanese leaders Richard Allen met at length with Vice Pre retention of a liaison office on Taiwan of unanimous in their view that the mier Deng Xiaoping, Foreign ~inister equivalent status to the one which we had United States must be a strong, reli Huang Hua, as well as with other top for earlier established in Beijing. With a able and leading partner. eign policy experts and military leaders. I persistent and principled negotiating posi- 23740 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 28, 1980 tion, I believe that normalization could ulti keep the same number of offices in this a secret peace pact that divided East mately have been achieved on this basis. country that they had before. Previously, ern Europe into separate spheres of in But that is behind us now. My present con Taiwan had 14 such offices. Today there are fluence. The essence of the pact was cern is to safeguard the interests of the but nine. that the countries of Finland, Estonia, United States and to enforce the law of the Taiwanese military officers are no longer land. permitted to train in the United States or to ·and Latvia were to come under the It was the timely action of the Congress, attend service academies. guidance of the Soviet Union, while reflecting the strong support of the Ameri Recently the Carter Administration at the nation of Lithuania was to be con can people for Taiwan, that forced the tempted to ban all imports from Taiwan la trolled by the German Reich. In Sep changes in the inadequate bill which Mr. beled "Made in the Republic of China," but tember of 1939, a formal treaty was Carter proposed. Clearly, the Congress was was forced to rescind the order after opposi announced that placed Lithuania unwilling to buy the Carter plan, which it tion began to mount in the Congress. believed would have jeopardized Taiwan's The Carter Administration unilaterally under Soviet control as well. The security. imposed a one-year moratorium on arms treaty was known as the Molotov-Rib This Act, designed by the Congress to pro supplies even though the Act specifies that bentrop Pact. vide adequate safeguards for Taiwan's secu Taiwan shall be provided with arms of a de fense character. On August 14, 1941, President rity and well being, also provides the official Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked basis for our relations with our long-time The Carter Administration abrogated the friend and ally. It declares our official Civil Aviation Agreement with Taiwan, with Prime Minister Winston Chur policy to be one of maintaining peace and which had been in effect since 1947, in re chill to produce the Atlantic Charter. promoting extensive, close, and friendly re sponse to demands from the People's Re Point 2 of this charter declared that lations between the United States and the public of China. both the United States and Great seventeen million people on Taiwan as well I recognize that the People's Republic of China is not pleased with the Taiwan Rela Britain would "not consent to any ter as the one billion people on the China main ritorial changes which are not in land. It specifies that our official policy con tions Act which the United States Congress siders any effort to determine the future of insisted on as the official basis for our rela agreement with the freely expressed Taiwan by other than peaceful means a tions with Taiwan. This was made abun wishes of the nations involved." Point threat to peace and of "grave concern" to dantly clear to Mr. Bush, and, I'm told, is 3 stated that the signatory nations the United States. clear to the Carter Administration. But it is the law of our land. would "respect the right of all nations And, most important, it spells out our Fifth, as President I will not accept the in to choose for themselves that form of policy of providing defensive weapons to government under which they want to Taiwan and mandates the United States to terferences of any foreign power in the maintain the means to "resist any resort to process of protecting American interests live • • • and strive to reestablish the and carrying out the laws of our land. To do sovereign rights and self-rule of those force or other forms or coercion" which otherwise would be a dereliction of my duty threaten the security or the social or eco as President. nations which were deprived of these nomic system of Taiwan. This Act further It is my conclusion that the strict observ by means of force." The U.S.S.R. spells out, in great detail, how the President ance of these five principles will be in the signed the charter on September 24, of the United States, our highest elected of best interests of the United States, the Peo ficial, shall conduct relations with Taiwan, 1941, despite the fact that the Soviets ple's Republic of China and the people on had already annexed several Baltic na leaving to his discretion the specific meth Taiwan. ods of achieving policy objectives. The specific implementation of these tions as part of the Molotov-Ribben The Act further details how our official duties will have to await the results of the trop Pact. personnel LAS MA VROULES jump over the current illness. The equal number of spendable dollars OF MASSACHUSETTS President remains unfortunately com provided for investors and consumers mitted to policies which in his own would help investors six times as much IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES words will result in 8 percent or more on a percentage increment basis, be Thursday, August 28, 1980 unemployment by 1981, and this is cause consumer spending is about six e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, consistent only with use of plant ca times as large in dollars as nonresiden ringing the bells to extol the pride of pacity not much better than 70 per tial fixed investment. the American people and the Ameri cent and an annual deficiency in total Moreover, investment by big compa can tradition is an appropriate tribute national production between $200 and nies is not held back by absence of on the Fourth of July and every other $300 billion. This degree of neglect of funds, which they can obtain more day of the year. Accept with qualified human misery and economic forfeit easily than others, but by their conclu apologies, therefore, my late submis ures today cannot be assuaged by sion that market demand on the part sion of this expression of patriotism promises of how healthy we are going of consumers and Government is in from a constituent of mine, Maurice to be much later on. These promises sufficient to justify more investment. Goldsmith, of Swampscott, Mass. are no more convincing than when the Technically, productivity is still ad HAPPY BIRTHDAY U.S.A. ON JULY 4TH President asked the American people vancing rapidly, and the serious slow On July 4th, 1980, America will celebrate to overlook the mistakes in policies to down in actual productivity growth is 204 years of independence. A simultaneous date and what they are doing to us the result of high plant disuse and un ringing of the bells on July 4th will herald and instead to gaze ahead to the derutilization of employed workers. America's march into the third century. bright future which he claims for his The remedy for this is more business July 4th affords each one of us precious policies in the sweet by-and-by. volume through sales, not excessive time to think about our nation's beginning, There is nothing in the President's tax bonanzas to the wrong people. and the meaning of our American tradi new program which swerves 1 inch Coining a newfangled term like tions, the historic importance of Massachu from the continued commitment, both setts and its historic towns and cities. "supply management" solves nothing. On July 4th, 1776, liberty was proclaimed through budget policy and monetary We need to create a proper balance be by the tolling of the Liberty Bell in Phila policy, to defer economic recovery and tween supply and demand, and when delphia's Independence Hall. On July 4th, prolong recession in the name of fight there are 8 million unemployed repre 1980, Americans will pause and listen to the ing inflation. This so-called tradeoff senting a very slack economy the first message from the bells all over the U.S.A. policy has been a disastrous failure approach is massively to reduce unem The bells will peal out a reminder of our whenever tried during the past quar ployment. freedoms, how hard they were won, and ter century, and especially in more Recent experience confirms the view how easily they can be lost. recent years. For more than 1 year that the excessive emphasis upon the The July 4th story starts with those memorable words, "When in the course of now, this has been recognized in wrong method of stimulating invest human events ... We hold these truths to almost unanimous reports of the Joint ment in the President's program is not be self evident, that all men are created ... Economic Committee, and even to the new, but tried and failed. Repeatedly and endowed by their Creator ... that gov extent not recognized, the facts are it has been tried, and never has it ernments are formed by the will of the gov there. The reduction of consumer worked. To take but one example erned." price inflation during recent months which is typical, the 1971 tax cuts allo On this July 4th we should rediscover and from 13 to 10 percent is at best an am cated almost three times as many dol reread the rest of this great American his biguous undulation, and in any event lars to investment as to consumption, torical document. We might find greater inspiration and 10-percent inflation in recent months and by the time this took much effect something more meaningful about Indepen is worse than 13-percent inflation ear we were well on the way to the most dence Day and our American heritage and lier, because one is piled on top of the severe recession to date. Tax conces tradition. July 4th is a sacred day in world other and comes to more than 23 per sions to investors are indeed necessary, history and the most important day in the cent compounded. The President's but they should be selectively pin- U.S.A. In 1776 a determined group of citi- 23742 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 28, 1980 zens affixed their names to a document that Democratic party stretching from Jefferson danger for what it is-and join together in eventually changed the shape of the world. to Jackson, and continuing forward through the greatest election effort we have ever On this July 4th let each one of us rededi Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and made. Everything we believe in is at stake cate and rekindle a devotion to the princi is found today in the stewardship of Jimmy and I am here to ask you to respond accord ples and ideals upon which our great nation Carter and Fritz Mondale. ingly. was founded. To love America is our right It is a mightly wave of human energy and I hope that no person within the reach of and privilege. To make America better is the effort stretching across two centuries that these words would allow the proper debates responsibility of us all. God Bless America. has rebuilt both the foundation and the within our party to divert us from the im Happy Birthday U.S.A.e face of our nation. mediate task that now faces us. In every critical fight-Civil Rights, Work We must begin the hard work of electing ers Rights, Senior Citizens Rights, Educa our entire Democratic ticket-and that must SPEECH TO DEMOCRATIC STATE tional Rights, Health Rights, Womens begin with an all-out personal commitment CONVENTION Rights. to re-elect President Jimmy Carter-and It has been this Democratic Party-our Vice President Fritz Mondale-and we must party-that has fought to remove the bar start here and now. HON. WILLIAM D. FORD riers and inequities and bring the promise of It is their jobs and ours to keep Ronald OF MICHIGAN freedom, dignity and opportunity to all our Reagan and his reactionary camp-followers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people. out of The White House. That is the lifting dream of our party We must re-elect all our Democractic in Thursday, August 28, 1980 and we meet here today to re-affirm it-and cumbents in Congress: John Dingell, Bill e Mr. FORD of. Michigan. Mr. Speak apply it to the challenges that now, in 1980 Ford, Jim Blanchard, Dave Bonier, Dave er, on August 23 and 24, I had the are our responsibility to deal with. Kildee, John Conyers, Bill Brodhead, Bob unique honor of chairing the 1980 A few weeks ago, the Republican Party Traxler, Don Albosta, Bob Carr, Howard Michigan Democratic State Conven held its national convention in this great Wolpe. And we have other vital races to win. city. We need George Crockett and Dennis tion, at Cobo Hall in Detroit. They wrote a platform-and selected a Hertel sent to Congress. One of the highlights of the conven Presidential candidate that does not under We must give our Congressional challeng tion was a stirring and hard-hitting stand the needs of our people-and would ers-Dan Dorrity, Kathleen O'Rielly, Dale speech by Michigan's senior Senator, cause Abraham Lincoln to hang his head Spick, Wayne Daniels, and Jerry Furst, the Hon. DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR. with dismay and a heavy heart. support they need to win. The message in Senator RIEGLE's The Republican alternative in 1980 is not We must work hard to elect our Demo speech, and his summary of our Na relevant to this nation's urgent problems cratic State Legislative candidates-who will and opportunities. draw the new political boundary lines for tion's challenges, were so incisive, and the next decade. so meaningful, I thought they de The Republican alternative in 1980 is per haps best summed up by its cruel and mis We must elect all the State Board and Su served a wider audience. guided decision to walk away from the fight preme Court candidates we nominate today. For that reason Mr. Speaker, I insert for equal rights for women-and it should We must support and elect our local in the REcoRD at this point the text of hang its head in shame. Democratic candidates at the city, county Senator RIEGLE's truly outstanding Sending a reactionary retired movie actor and township level. speech before the Michigan Democrat from Hollywood into our Nation's highest We need a united effort for all Demo ic State Convention: office would be a travesty of common crats-! am pledged to that effort-and I am sense-and bring new dangers to our coun asking for your pledge today. SPEECH TO DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION, try. In 1968-our party went throught a great DETROIT, MICH. struggle before we nominated Hubert Hum Just within this last week we have heard phrey for President. Let me ask you to remain seated and join Ronald Reagan tell us that the Vietnam Because our party did not unite to elect me in a moment of silent prayer. War was good for America. Any misguided that great man-we have had instead long Dear God we ask you today to be with us person who believes that must never be years of difficulty and national damage. and give us strength and wisdom as we given the power to send our nation into an We could have spared ourselves Water reason and work together. We ask you to in other Vietnam. gate-if we had elected Hubert Humphrey spire our judgment and give us the courage We need instead a Presidency that is wise when we had the chance. to do the things we believe are right. enough and strong enough to both protect The President we elect on November 4th We ask also, Lord, that you guide and our strategic interests and avoid a foreign will soon be naming 3 or 4 people to lifetime strengthen our brothers and sisters in war. appointments to the Supreme Court of our Poland as they struggle for freedom and And we have one. land. their rights as workers and individuals. We need, instead, a Presidency that will Those Supreme Court justices-will likely Their courage is an inspiration to all the turn to the urgent task of confronting the serve until the year 2000 and beyond. world. economic war now occurring in this city Can you imagine what would happen if Lord, we ask you to be with and strength and in every community across our entire Ronald Reagan were to be President and en our brothers and sisters in all the captive state. make those appointments? nations. Let our deliberations here always And we have one that must do more-and Can you imagine what would happen on be aimed at bringing the freedoms we enjoy will do more_:and we have a role to play in the great civil rights questions? to all the people of the world. Amen. making that happen- What would be the outcome of the strug We gather here at a moment of great pain gles of women and minority persons to re and difficulty for our people. We need jobs-and industrial revitaliza tion. We need action to reduce the invasion ceive equity and equal justice under the With our party platform-our candi law? dates-and our personal commitment of of Japanese cars and trucks-we need ex panded Trade Adjustment Assistance-and What would happen on the labor issues effort to serve the people-we are here for and to the working men and women across the purpose of responding to the needs of new efforts to retrain displaced workers. We need emergency help for our people. our land? the people with a vision of the future. A Every person in this room today has the vision of the possibilities of change for the Only one party in America understands power to affect those decisions. better. this need-and is committed to action-and With the Nazi party and the Klu Klux A vision of a better life for all our citizens. it is our Democratic Party. Klan on the march again-here within our It is a vision of justice, decency and a driv Tomorrow, in Washington, Senator Ken own state. ing commitment to the fullest possible de nedy and President Carter will meet togeth We must understand our duty and we velopment of every man, woman, and child er in The White House to begin work on an must do it. in America. economic recovery program for America. Our Democratic Party is not perfect-nor It is a vision that means to reach into the This is what we have been fighting for-this are those of us who make it up. Our great most remote corner of the Jeffries Housing is what we need. party is the sum total of our dreams and Project to the most frail and troubled The hard truth is that enough has not yet ideals-and yearnings for our country-and youngster there-and to say that that child been done-and we must continue to press for the future. We are the party of the is our child-is America's child-and is and the fight for greater action within our party people-of all the people. will always be the child of this Democratic and our elected leadership. Arid my friends, there is no other. party. But we must never confuse that valid So our task is clear. We must leave here And that vision reaches equally to the fight for greater efforts and new priorities united as one-to fight with all our strength black child, the white child, the Hispanic within our party-with the deadly dangers to carry Michigan for the Carter ticket and child, the Indian Child-and all others posed to all we believe in by the possibility every other Democrat on the Ballot. across our land. of a Ronald Reagan presidency. With God's help-and our best effort-we That human family bond of love and con Whatever reservations any of us may shall achieve that goal. cern and commitment is the history of the have--we must understand the Reagan Thank you.e August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23743 RIGHTS OF LANGUAGE MINOR this obstacle to educational equality sponding to the Justice Department's re for all our children. Let the public quest for all documents relating to Billy ITY CHILDREN THREATENED Carter's activities in Libya and U.S. aircraft comment period determine the final sales to that country. rules for bilingual education.e (3) and <6> Classified material provided to HON. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM the Committee indicates that the White House made clear to the State Department. OF NEW YORK INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE RE prior to Billy Carter's second Classified material provided to the preme Court mandated that language mission that the report be printed at Committee indicates that throughout 1979 minority children had a right to an this point in the REcoRD: the White House and foreign policy officials equitable education. Lau found that were very aware of the unfavorable public non-English-speaking students were REPORT IN THE MATTER OF BILLY CARTER ity from Billy Carter's first trip to Libya. being denied equal educational oppor aware that the White House, in March, tunities when educated in English The Permanent Select Committee on In 1979, objected to senior level diplomats visit only classrooms. The major debate telligence has examined classified material ing Libya because of fears that such visits which surrounds bilingual education is touching on the relationship between the might be attributed by the press to Billy whether children should be taught in Government of Libya and Billy Carter and Carter's influence and that Libya might in their native language. The proposed his affairs. The Committee received materi terpret any change in U.S.-Libyan relations guidelines by the Department of Edu al of this nature from the White House, the to Billy Carter rather than the Libyans' cation specify that bilingual education Department of State, the Department of own actions and conduct. must be provided to children who have Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation The classified material also reflects the limited proficiency in English and and the entire intelligence community. The belief of State Department officials that in materials examined by the Committee date March and April. 1979, the White House greater proficiency in their native lan from February, 1978, until early August, was concerned that the sale of Boeing 747s guage. If a child is found to be more 1980. to Libya would be misinterpreted as the proficient in his native language, the The Committee conducted a thorough product of Billy Carter's influence; and the new rules would mandate that he be review of all the classified material provided belief of Commerce Department officials offered bilingual education in required to it. The Committee decided to issue an un that officials in the State Department be subjects as well as instruction to im classified report which responds to the ques lieved that the White House might force prove his English. The Department of tions raised by H. Res. 745, as reported by cancellation of the sale for this reason. Education has not overstepped its the Committees on the Judiciary and For Finally, the classified material reflects bounds and created a new Federal in eign Affairs. White House concern in July, 1979, when it The Committee wishes to note at the was learned that Billy Carter would travel terventionist policy rather the Depart outset that its report reflects examination again to Libya. ment is only continuing a policy which of only the classified material dealing with (8) Classified material provided to the has existed for 10 years. Since 1970 Billy Carter and his affairs. Further, the Committee from the Justice Department's the Federal Government has inter body of the Committee's report does not file on Billy Carter's activities confirms con preted discrimination on the basis of draw conclusions or make judgments. It tacts between Billy Carter and his repre national origin to include students simply describes the substance of the classi sentative, Randy Coleman, and the Libyan with limited English proficiency. The fied material provided to the Committee in Government concerning oil allocations for House action yesterday ignores both a way that protects sensitive intelligence the Charter Oil Company. the litigative and administrative histo sources and methods and ongoing govern Classified material also indicates Billy ment investigations. Carter's receipt of sums of money from the ry of the Lau regulations and violates This report does not represent an investi Libyan Government but there are conflicts the intent of title VI of the Civil gation of Billy Carter or his affairs. The on the amounts involved. This classified ma Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits dis Committee's endeavors were directed at se terial also suggests that some of Billy Cart crimination in federally funded pro curing and reviewing the classified material er's activities may have been undertaken on grams on the basis of race, color, or in the possession of the government con behalf of the Government of Libya. national origin. cerning Billy Carter and his affairs. Howev <12 ) Classified material provided to the The House amendment, in effect, er, the Committee examination of the classi Committee indicates that meetings occurred throws into complete disarray the fied material provided to it raises a number involving the President and Dr. Brzezinski hundreds of agreements entered into of unresolved issues in the Billy Carter case. with a representative of the Libyan Govern The committee is concerned that these mat ment after Billy Carter helped arrange a during the past 5 years between the ters receive attention and will communicate meeting between the President and the Federal Government and school dis its concern by secure channels to appropri head of the Libyan diplomatic mission in tricts. The Department's efforts to ate investigatory bodies in the executive and connection with the hostages in Iran, but provide clear guidance for protecting legislative branches. this material makes no mention of Billy the rights of language minority chil REPORT Carter. dren have been stymied before any . <5>. Branch's provision of classified material to tions promulgated by Federal agencies <9>, (10), 01> or 03). the Committee has complied substantially before the public has an opportunity <2> Classified material provided to the with the requests of H.Res. 745 in this to give their views on these regula Committee indicates that a White House regard. Inasmuch as the material has be~n staff member was kept routinely apprised provided in several successive increments. tions. It should not be our job to de by the State Department of developments however, the Committee recognizes the pos termine the characteristics of a regula relating to Billy Carter and that, after sibility that additional classified material tion, otherwise there would be no need having been apprised of the paucity of in may develop which may require the careful for a public comment period. formation of a negative nature, this staff examination of the Committee. I would hope that our companion member advised an official of the State De The Committee also recognizes that the body, the Senate, will act to remove partment to follow routine procedures in re- Department of Justice is continuing some 23744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 28, 1980
elements of its investigation of certain activ CANCER CLAIMS STEELE two years ago, "but there will be a new ities of Billy Carter, including an internal commitment to just princip~es are the entire Nation, and not just specific he-could he-should he-establish normal more important. school districts, share in the costs of ized relations with his running mate? Mr. Speaker, I have observed how educating these children. Reagan said, correctly, that our cause in Any program designed to assist Vietnam was noble. But that subject, like well the message of Reverend Cooper the subject of evolution, is large enough to has been delivered to his congregation school districts in educating undocu deserve more than brief, off-the-cuff venti and to the people in the community. mented alien children must recognize lation. But perhaps nowhere is it more pro two facets of the problem. First, the Our cause was the defense of a small ally nounced that in the words of his son, undocumented alien population is from aggression: it was an attempt to pre Austin Cooper II, who worked in my likely to be unevenly distributed vent the horrors that have, in fact, followed office this summer. I would like to across the country and within a State. our failure. Reagan understands that large quote Austin at this t_ime: This means that some school districts events cast their shadows forward, and that are going to have major demands reassertion of American strength depends, So often I have heard him say that I have in part, on Americans' rejecting the shame an obligation to carry on the work of those placed on their resources, while other they have been told to feel about Vietnam, who went before us. My father has taught school districts are going to have little an undertaking that actually was, in the me always to be least concerned about or no pressure placed on their re words of Eugene Rostow, "legally, morally people liking me and to be more concerned sources. Second, undocumented alien and strategically . . . identical with the about people respecting me. children are likely to have special edu Korean War." Mr. Speaker, Reverend Cooper has cational needs, such as a need for spe Regarding Taiwan, Reagan's explication indeed carried on the work of those cial English language instruction. My. was careless, but his instinct is sound, which is more than can be said for the president. who went before him. He, in turn, has bill takes into account these two as Reagan understands that Carter has acted received the respect of the entire com pects of the problem. as though Peking was doing us a favor by munity and probably most important One title. would provide aid to dis accepting normalized relations, a favor for the respect of his son. tricts based on the number of undocu which we should pay much and ask nothing. Therefore, I would like my col mented alien children enrolled in a Such relations are at least as important to leagues to pause and salute Rev. district's elementary and secondary Peking as they are to us, so Peking can jolly Austin Cooper, Sr., and not only on his schools. This title would authorize well pay the price of tolerating decent rela $450 per eligible child. tions between the United States and an old anniversary celebration but also on ally. Instead, Carter allowed Peking to dic the work he is doing in the communi A second title is designed to assist tate terms that made the United States ty.e those districts that experience a par party to a range of niggling humiliations of ticularly heavy increase in their stu Taiwan. dent population due to the court or Regarding Vietnam and Taiwan, Reagan JIM MATTOX STATEMENT ON dered admission of undocumented has a better case to make than he has taken ALIEN EDUCATION IMPACT AID alien children. Any district in which care to make. Regarding both, he has at ACT OF 1980 the number of undocumented alien least been more concerned with honor than politics. The reverse is true of Carter's cam children equals 500 or 5 percent of the paign. HON. JIM MATTOX student enrollment, whichever is less, Many Americans, schooled in cynicism by OF TEXAS would be eligible for aid under this Carter's manipulation and exploitation of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES title. Funds provided under this title the Iran tragedy and other foreign and de fense matters for political gain, expect "Oc Thursday, August 28, 1980 would be used to provide supplemen tary educational services. This title tober surprises"-foreign policy adventures • Mr. MATTOX. Mr. Speaker, I have provides greater amounts for the first timed to influence the election. Certainly today introduced a bill, the Alien Edu and second years of an eligible child's Carter's August surprises were remarkably cation Impact Aid Act of 1980, that reckless. attendance than for the third year of His revised nuclear targeting strategy sur would provide financial relief to school his attendance. It authorizes $750 per prised Republicans: it plagiarizes page 55 of districts that are ordered by Federal eligible child for the first year of at the Republican platform and concedes Rea courts to admit undocumented alien tendance, $500 per eligible child for gan's point about the vulnerability of our children as students. the second year and $350 per eligible land-based deterrent. It surprised the secre On July 21, 1980, the U.S. District child for the third year. tary of state, who would have liked an op Court for the Southern District of This legislation addresses a problem portunity to shove his oar into the policy Texas issued a decision requiring making process. It surprised the Russians, that arose because of Federal inaction. who know Carter is not taking the procure Texas school districts to admit undoc Federal assistance in remedying that ment and other measures necessary to make umented alien children. The court's problem is surely warranted.e this new "policy" more than a campaign order has been stayed by the Fifth maneuver. Circuit Court of Appeals. Carter surprised the American Legion Under our Constitution, States have GEORGE WILL'S ARTICLE (and anyone else who knows the record he no power to influence the flow of is struggling to obscure) when he said that people across international borders. HON. THOMAS B. EVANS, JR. "instead" of building the Bl bomber, he de cided to "accelerate" development of air Immigration is a national responsibili OF DELAWARE launched cruise missiles. The truth is that ty. But the Federal Government has, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in effect, failed to enforce its own im after he killed the Bl, he continued to Thursday, August 28, 1980 retard the air-launched cruise missile pro migration laws. This Federal inaction gram, and has delayed it at least two years. has resulted in the presence of large • Mr. EVANS of Delaware. Mr. Speak Now the administration has leaked and numbers of undocumented aliens in er, George Will's article deserves the wildly misrepresented information about our country. attention of Members of this body and some of the most closely kept defense se If we are realistic, we must admit the American people: crets since the Manhattan Project. VIRGINIA cause he killed it, the United States can sive actions on the part of foreign powers. have nothing comparable until the 1990s. America must also hold a position of eco IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The administration may have contrived to nomic leadership in the world. To do this, Thursday, August 28, 1980 give the impression that it has plans to uti the United States must develop a consistent lize "Stealth" technologies for an aircraft economic policy toward other nations. For e Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, I would that will fill the gap of vulnerability created example, we must pioneer the search for al like to express my strong support for by its Bl decision. It does not. ternate forms of energy, thus alleviating the provisions in two conference reports Still, Harold Brown, the compliant secre dilemma of being dependent on foreign oil. approved by the House which make tary of defense, says, preposterously, that We must also share our advanced technol much-needed improvements in pay "Stealth" technologies during the consideration of the Labor, feasibility and one of significant risk) in two had not provided enough evidence of signifi HHS, and Education appropriation, different provisions of the law. cant risks to their health to justify reducing these editorials are especially relevant. The plurality noted that "the validity of their exposure to benzene from the current Mr. Cooper accurately describes how an agency's determination must be judged standard of 10 parts per million down to 1 on the basis of the agency's stated reasons ppm. The Supreme Court decision was the the Supreme Court's recent benzene result of a petrochemical industry lawsuit decision takes away from workers an for making that determination," and it ex pressly refrained from holding that the against OSHA to block the standard. important political victory and places record in the benzene case would not sup What OSHA and the Supreme Court did unintentioned obstacles to OSHA's en port the new standard. Rather, the plurality not know-because the industry had with forcement of occupational safety laws. overturned the new standard because it re held important new evidence from the gov Mr. Wolfe's editorial shows that some jected OSHA's rationale for it, which was ernment-was that workers at Dow Chemi companies have withheld or failed to based on what the plurality held was an er cal Co. exposed to less than 10 parts per mil gather data that proves a need for roneous interpretation of the statute. lion had been found by the company's own stronger worker safety standards; yet OSHA's position was extreme indeed, even scientists to have a significant increase in though it had support in the words of the damaged chromosomes. these same companies oppose the statute. OSHA argued that it had a statu The results of the study on workers in stronger standards on the grounds tory duty to eliminate the cancer risk pre Freeport, Tex., by Dow genetic toxicologist that no evidence exists to prove a sented by benzene in the work place, subject Dr. Dante Picciano had been written up by stronger standard is needed. to only one constraint; that it not put the June 1977 and sent to three outside Dow Yesterday's vote to "pull the reins in regulated industries out of business. That consultants who generally agreed with the on OSHA" is a part of an attempt to was the position the plurality rejected. findings. One consultant, Dr. Marvin Lega cripple one of the most important If you disregard the language of the stat tor, director of environmental toxicology ute, there is much to be said for the plural and epidemiology at the University of Texas functions this Government can pro ity's position, and it should not set back the Medical School at Galveston, has said that vide. It is a sad day for the American cause of health protection in the work "because of the serious implications for worker when his and her elected rep place. Under OSHA's view, an industry had worker health, there is no question that the resentatives refuse to provide needed to be forced to the brink of disaster, if nec study should have been immediately sent to enforcement powers and funds to an essary, to reduce the perhaps negligible risk the government." By July, Picciano's super agency chartered to insure job safety. from a single toxic substance; the industry visor, Dr. D. J. Kilian, had sent the study to [From the Washington Post, Aug. 27, 19801 would then have few or no resources left to Dow's biomedical research director, Dr. reduce the risks from other toxic sub Benjamin Holder, in Midland, Mich., with a WHAT THE COURT DECIDED stances. Even if OSHA's reading of the stat memo that stated that the study "identifies in terms cancer or will have children with birth de standing can lead to the point of of health and safety concerns are much too fects or mutations. But no worker, given an breakthrough with the success that is great to encourage these options in the informed choice, would opt for damaged being experienced at the present time near-term to lessen our dependency on for chromosomes instead of healthy ones, espe in this program. eign oil. This position is not taken on firm cially with the mounting evidence of in This program must be funded at ground by measuring the comparative risks creased rates of cancer in people with cer least at the $150,000 level this year of these technologies but rather from a vis tain kinds of chromosomal abnormalities. and that will only maintain part of ceral "feel" on the part of the authors that Given that critical evidence was withheld what is needed. It is my understanding such costs tangible and intangible are from OSHA, it is difficult to blame the simply too great. It seems to me that the agency for not doing a better job of quanti that because of the language in the thrust of the National Energy Policy and its fying risks under 10 ppm. But now that report it is the total intent of the com implementation can hardly be based on OSHA has the industry data it should have mittee to send a message to the Na such tenuous grounds as is the case for this had much earlier, its director, Dr. Eula tional Institute that they should con study. • • • Bingham, has said the government will reini tinue the program and not close it out. It seems to me that a much more quantita- · tiate the process of lowering the standard I have discussed this with the chair tive study of energy technologies addressing to one part per million in order to protect man of the committee, Mr. NATCHER, all aspects of concern about various options 35,000 workers from being harmed by ben e.g., from mining to disposal, would have zene. for sometime and he has assured me been much more constructive. Also, a more The example of benzene shows the con that it is his and the committee's objective approach without such demon flicting roles industry plays in occupational intent that that be so. strated a priori bias would enhance the prob regulation. Chemical companies have failed I thank the chairman for his sup ability of acceptance by different camps to gather or have withheld from OSHA evi port in this most vital research fight leading to a genuine consensus on a reason dence that would strengthen the case for a against cancer·• able energy strategy. I believe that Re lower work place standard. Yet when the sources for the Future has completed such a standard is finalized, industry usually has study called "Energy in America's Future sued OSHA to block its implementation, ar A FRESH LOOK AT ENERGY The Choices Before Us" and I intend to guing that there is inadequate evidence of STUDIES comment on this document in the near risk. Ironically, while all this is occurring, future. industry continues to attack OSHA for not HON. JOHN W. WYDLER On October 11, 1979, I wrote the fol- · adequately protecting workers. Industry lowing dear colleague letter to all thus has both the ability to cripple the col OF NEW YORK lection and prompt dissemination of impor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Members of the House, on the study tant health data and the seemingly unlimit entitled "Energy in America's ed tax-deductible financial resources to sue Thursday, August 28, 1980 Future-The Choices Before Us": OSHA to stop every standard. • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, last Last month, Resources for the Future pro As long as this death grip continues, in fall several major energy studies were duced "Energy in America's Future-The dustry will be able to make its allegation released, and there was considerable Choices Before Us," an objective perspective that OSHA is not adequately protecting on energy issues firmly grounded on a factu workers a self-fulfilling prophecy.e attention given to all three by the al basis for deciding energy policy. I found it Congress and other interested parties particularly useful to have a document in Washington. At that time, I wrote which strives to be a consensus paper rather TUMOR RESEARCH an entry in the RECORD critiquing the than engaging in polemics toward the hard study on energy future and, I wrote a or soft technology advocates. HON. GUNN McKAY dear colleague letter on the study The following points struck m~ as OF UTAH "Energy in America's Future-The particularly useful: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Choices Before Us". At that time, I la -A balanced effort is required to achieve mented the fact that the energy Thursday, August 28, 1980 U.S. energy self-sufficiency. future study became the subject of -Significant conservation can be achieved • Mr. McKAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise faddish praise rather than solid evalu but we must increase energy supply unless to suggest to the committee that they ation. This spring, Paul L. Joskow of we are to accept a considerably lower stand support at a higher rate the large Harvard University and MIT reviewed ard of living. animal tumor research. It has been re -A broad set of alternatives to our de the two studies I mentioned and pendence on imports is necessary. duced from somewhere in the neigh "Energy: the Next Twenty Years", a -Nuclear power can make major contribu borhood of $300,000 to $150,000 in this Ford Foundation study. Professor Jos tions to electricity supply provided we can present budget. That is damaging to a kow's reviews were publish ed in the assure the public of its safety. ing reasons. nal of Economics" and he deserves Development of synthetic fuels will re Research in this field has reached its considerable praise for a solid analysis quire environmental compromises but we most critical phase. There are some of all three studies. I thought it would can avoid serious environmental degrada who feel the only research you should be useful for my colleagues to read tion. have is with rats and mice when in summaries of Professor Joskow's cri I believe that there are certain con fact we are getting much greater re tiques in the context of my own per clusions of the study which I cannot sults in many cases from the large spective on two of these studies which support but, all in all, it is a realistic animal research than we are in that appeared in the RECORD last fall. and constructive perspective on energy other respect. It has been demonstrat On September 12, 1979, I noted in issues and policy and I strongly recom ed that immunotherapy increases the RECORD: mend it to all my colleagues. cancer cures in large animals whose There has been much attention given in The Joskow evaluation of the Har biochemistry in this regard most re the past few weeks to a recent publication vard energy study, "Energy Futures" sembles that of human beings. We do of the Harvard Business School entitled, follows: not yet know why this reaction occurs. "Energy Future" edited by Robert Sto The book suffers generally from the lack The answer to that question will baugh and Daniel Yergin. I think it is im of a clear and consistent analytical frame provide the breakthrough we need to portant to highlight the shortcomings of work for effectively evaluating the ways in apply the therapy to humans and to the book since it has become extremely fad which all of the components of the energy dish to praise it at the other end of Pennsyl supply and demand system can most effec apply it to a variety of tumor types. vania Avenue. I believe that it should be tively and efficiently play a role in adapting Therapy is presently being used in recognized that the authors have clearly the U.S. economy to increasingly expensive limited instances with human beings. taken a position of strong advocacy for soft and insecure foreign oil. The analysis that is The success rate is fair and looks very technology. Their energy approach is fo presented is too often based on selective ci favorable even in so-called hopeless cused on conservation, particularly institu- tations from secondary sources or, even August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23753 worse, no analysis at all, quotations taken be economically supplied by solar energy by And finally, his comments on out of context, the burning of straw men, the year 2000 if various economic and insti "Energy in America's Future" are very and the general tendency to be very pessi- tutional barriers are overcome. As with most much in concert with my own. mistic about the things the authors do not discussions of solar energy, solar energy is "Energy in America's Future" is a like . In and wood. There is essentially nothing new sumption scenarios. It covers much the some cases political and institutional diffi- in this chapter. It is basically an uncritical same ground as the Harvard and Ford stud culties are taken as reasons for not counting discussion of the most optimistic assess on particular energy sources, while in other ies do; however, the mode of analysis and cases political and institutional barriers are ments for the potential for the various the general policy conclusions are more sim viewed as being targets to be eliminated. sources of solar power. The chapter con ilar to those of the Ford study. Although Economic analysis and consideration of the eludes that it is technically and economical there is considerable overlap between the tradeoffs among alternatives is at best ly feasible to produce 10 million barrels per Ford study and the RFF study, the RFF casual. day oil equivalent by the year 2000 . But what is this statement based on? · provide, but they believe that the rate of tunities that must all be drawn on to con One single study by Ross and Williams is growth will be modest in the medium term tribute to future energy requirements as cited as support for this conclusion. This and they implicitly assume that nothing can· well as many opportunities to use energy study says nothing about living standards, be or should be done to speed it up. Similar economically and more efficiently. The key nothing about timing, and nothing about ly, proponents of nuclear energy are round is to get the whole system working properly.e costs. Rather, it is based ~m a hypothet~cal ly criticized for making a heavy commit assessment of the maximum theoretical ment to an untried technology with un ene~gy savings _that could ?onceiva~ly be known costs and for ignoring the full THE 1980 CAPTIVE NATIONS achieyed by dom~ such thmgs ~ rmple- "system" the United States, as the citadel of human people. In 1977, adding insult to injury, Inasmuch as Ronald Reagan speaks with freedom, for leadership in bringing about Carter almost failed to issue a proclamation; great sincerity when he expresses his desire their liberation and independence arid in re CARTER NOT ALONE to spread freedom throughout the world, storing to them the enjoyment of their Nevertheless, it is not fair to shift all the whereas others might be accused of indulg Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, or blame on Carter. Declarations by President ing in inflated campaign oratory, it is to be other religious freedoms, and of their indi Johnson and Nixon were nothing more than hoped that one of the former California vidual liberties; and administrative formality. President Ford governor's first acts, if he attains the presi Whereas it is vital to the national security once went as far as to recognize Soviet rule dency, will be to reinstitute the fine tradi of the United States that the desire for lib over Eastern Europe as an irreversible fact tion initiated by another Republican Presi erty and independence on the part of the of history. As secretary of state, Henry Kis dent, Dwight David Eisenhower, and- in peoples of these conquered nations should singer had equated the Captive Nations law pursuance of Public Law 86-90 enacted by be steadfastly kept alive; and with "cold war relic." Congress and signed into law in 1959-issue All these aberrations have turned CNW a meaningful proclamation of Captive Na Whereas the desire for liberty and inde pendence by the overwhelming majority of into one of the most celebrated anachro tions Week, the third week in July. nisms in modern times: On the one hand, On the other hand, if the proclamation is the people of these submerged nations con our luminaries have complied with the law, to be of the weasel-worded variety, out of stitutes a powerful deterrent to war and one but on the other, they have tried their best fear of offending the Communist imperi of the best hopes for a just and lasting to stray as far as possible from its lofty alists, it would be better if the Captive Na peace; and spirit. The need to do what the other party tions Week commemoration in 1981 not be Whereas it is fitting that we clearly mani has not done or to make a hit with an influ signaled from the Reagan White House at fest to such people through an appropriate ential constituency has given rise to such all. and official means the historic fact that the abnormalities as detente, the East-West Although the original proclamation re people of the United States share with them bridge building concept and the attempt to quested future presidents of the United their aspirations for the recovery of their ridicule our "inconsiderate fear of commu States "to issue a similar proclamation each freedom and independence; Now, therefore, nism." year until such time as freedom and inde be it Furthermore, the CNW law was conceived pendence shall have been achieved for all Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep at a time when the plight of Eastern and the captive nations of the world," President resentatives of the United States of America Central European countries especially non Carter's proclamation in 1978, for example, in Congress assembled, that the President Russian peoples within the U.S.S.R., was didn't even refer to the captive nations of the United States is authorized and re still the dominant element. Ethnic preva other than in the designation of the occa quested to issue a proclamation designating lence has inevitably led to a geographical sion, let alone to those responsible for their the third week in July 1959 as "Captive Na tendency-which fortunately, has shown captivity! tions Week" and inviting the people of the signs of receding-to lump Czarist Russian In our view, the original proclamation United States to observe such week with ap imperialism together with present-day issued by President Eisenhower, with appro propriate ceremonies and activities. The Soviet communist expansionism. This selec priate changes designed to modernize it President is further authorized and request tiveness, although justified, is not compati without diminishing its impact on all free ed to issue a similar proclamation each year ble with world realities, and more impor dom-loving people in the world. would be until such time as freedom and indepen tantly, with the advent of the Russian-in difficult to improve upon. We publish that dence shall have been achieved for all the spired human rights movement behind the original Captive Nations Week proclamation captive nations of the world. Iron Curtain with such prestigious mentors below. as Andrei Sakharov. Communist imperialism is no longer ex PuBLIC LAw 86-90 [From News-World, New York, N.Y., July clusively Caucasian, let alone Russian. It is 13, 1980] ESTABLISHING CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK also yellow. And black. Jesus Christ did not CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK: TIME FOR hail from the Vatican, cap).tal of world Ca Whereas the greatness of the United RECOMMITMENT tholicism. In India, the home of Buddha, States is in large part attributable to its -July 13-19-is upon us. alism and Russia. from the most diverse of racial, religious Twenty-one years ago, by unanimous vote, More significant than geographical color and ethnic backgrounds; and Congress established the third week of July ation is the saddening fact that proclama as CNW in an effort to focus world atten tions and celebrations alone could not turn Whereas this harmonious unification of tion on the real imperialistic nature of the the diverse elements of our free society has the tide in the battle against communism. Soviet Union, and to emphasize continued, In 1959, there were 22 captive nations. Now, led the people of the United States to pos unwavering U.S. commitment to the princi sess a warm understanding and sympathy there are 30 of them. It is irrelevant, even ple of universal freedom and unalienable cynical, to proclaim support for captive peo for the aspirations of peoples everywhere human rights. Since then and through 10 ples and at the same time to sell them and and to recognize the natural interdepend Congresses, not only presidents but gover their still-free friends down the river. Be ency of the peoples and nations of the nors, mayors and state legislatures have cause of budget curbs, Radio-Free Europe, world; and issued CNW proclamations. Radio Liberty and VOA have cut down pro Whereas the enslavement of a substantial The annual ritual has not changed. Be grams intended for captive listeners in the part of the world's population by Commu cause of election year pressures and the Soviet Union and Asia. But the same budget nist imperialism makes a mockery of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, there is less curbs have not prevented communist dicta idea of peaceful coexistence between na equivocality and even more resolve. It ap tors from Moscow to Managua from receiv tions and constitutes a detriment to the nat pears, however, that this strong display of ing U.S. taxpayer money. vocal support is not able to dispel lingering ural bonds of understanding between the WHO'S NEXT? people of the United States and other peo doubts and concern. Instead of hope-the ples; and glimmering hope kindled by President In 1960, after Cuba many asked, who's Dwight Eisenhower's 1959 CNW proclama next? The same question was raised in' 1975. Whereas since 1918 the imperialistic and tion, pointing a finger at the Kremlin as Now, we have Afghanistan, Taraki, Amin aggressive policies of Russian communism "the tyrant"-CNW is being observed with and Karmal are a strong reminder that com have resulted in the creation of a vast mixed feelings throughout the land. munism will stop at nothing in its effort to empire which poses a dire threat to the se Proclamations have been issued for the enslave the world. curity of the United States and of all the simple reason that this was required by law. Alarmed, Americans have resigned to be free peoples of the world; and Public Law 86-90 clearly states that the lieving that a militarily vigorous America Whereas the imperialistic policies of Com president is "requested" to issue a CNW may work Iniracles. Yet, Soviet troops were munist Russia have led through direct and proclamation each year "until such time as not in Havana when Castro took power. Cas- August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23755 tro's master was in Moscow, but his real And while trying to avoid the image of tics and the functions of Government. allies and friends were in the United States. Cold War, right-wing crazies, he said, the To him they are one and the same, Thus, the best way to commemorate CNW nationalists want Western democracies to be even when our national security and this week is to zero in on those Americans more "vigilant about the aims and goals of our foreign alliances are on the line. who continue to weaken our security and in the Soviet Union." telligence; who help communism with U.S. The Allies are in "grave peril," Zapla To him government exists to serve his money and technology; and who use tynsky said, citing recent Soviet moves and political ends, when for centuries we "human rights" as a pretext to throw our President Carter's admission that "misun have always insisted that politics allies to the wolves. derstandings" led him to underestimate should serve the ends of government. Russian aggressiveness. This is not a matter of Cabinet offi [From the Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, July There is a "direct connection" between oc cers defending the record of their ad 22, 1980] cupying the Ukraine in 1920 and modern moves into Afghanistan, Zaplatynsky said. ministration. This is a matter of Cabi CAPTIVE NATIONS DoN'T WANT To BE CALLED net officers going full tilt into the RussiAN That it took 60 years is no proof that Rus sian policies have changed. fray, citing rumor as fact, distorting (By Ben i.. Kaufman> On the positive side, Zaplatynsky said the figures and using the respectability of Don't call . Andrew Zaplatynsky, Ignas new Cincinnati joint committee is "novel" Government, or what's left of it, as an Dudrys or Lew Melnyk "Russian." because most captive-nation groups else expendable tool of the reelection cam Their homelands are unwilling republics where pursue their goals without close co paign, however, and whenever it serves in the USSR and they are not Russians and operation. political purposes. never will be. "We have really enjoyed working togeth-. They are the survivors of Russian occupa er-;'' he said. "We find that we learn - lol A vivid example of this gross abuse tion and the descendants of survivors. a of power was provided recently in a They are Ukrainians and Lithuanians, and from each other. We have already achieved so much more in a few months than I could newspaper article written by someone their cause with Estonians and Latvians is who knows what he is talking about, national and cultural survival under Soviet ever have imagined.'' oppression and American insensitivity. The committee distinguishes between former Defense Secretary Melvin "We have an identity problem," Andrew such nations as Poland and Hungary, where Laird. Zaplatynsky, secretary of the new Joint national identity survives under Communist Former Secretary Laird understood Committee of Soviet Occupied Nations, said rule, and the three Baltic States and the the sensitivity of his office and knew Monday. "People lump us all together as Ukraine where Kremlin leaders are in direct better than to play fast and loose with 'Russian.'" control and pursuing "cultural genocide" or Organized this year, the joint committee "Russification." defense matters, for the sake of politi includes the Estonian Association of Cincin Nations absorbed into the USSR by the cal gain. His comments appeared in nati, the Latvian Group of Cincinnati, the Russians "have to fight for the right to na the August 17 issue of the Washington Greater Cincinnati Lithuanian Council and tional identity," Melnyk, head of the Post and I insert the article "Defense the Ukrainian Society of Greater Cincin Ukrainian Society, explained. Secretaries Shouldn't Play Politics," nati. Zaplatynsky said the joint committee's ap at this point in the RECORD: "Anyone who identifies himself or herself proach probably will not be "protest DEFENSE SECRETARIES SHOULDN'T PLAy as a member of a national group is wel marches and flag-waving ... By tempera come," Zaplatynsky said. ment, we're not inclined to sensationalism.'' POLITICS Their "captive nations" cause and cultures Another restraint is fear. Four years ago, as a candidate, Jimmy are being celebrated this week in a display Carter lambasted Republican defense plan at the downtown public library. Threatened retribution against family ning and urged massive cuts in expenditures The goal is public education about resist members in the USSR often forces them to for the armed forces. He said multi-billion ance to Russian "cultural genocide" and re repress their "seething resentment" against · dollar cuts were desirable, particularly in pression of Baltic and Ukrainian national the Russians, he said. the personnel area. He was wrong then, and ism. And in nationalist groups larger than Cin there's much wrong and misleading about That they often are considered Russians cinnati's, Zaplatynsky said, there always is current Democratic proclamation on de is a victory for Soviet propaganda which the fear of informers. "Something I am sus fense issues. strives to equate every national group picious of is the super-super patriot." He within the USSR with Russia, although said there may be 400 members of the four With November approaching, the Carter most are not, Zaplatynsky said. groups in the new joint committee. administration has become increasingly stri dent in its criticism of the defense programs As a result, "We have the same problem of the Nixon and Ford administrations. To that the Jews face, survival as a cultural, hear the president, Zbigniew Brzezinski and national group. They are faced with possible A DEADLY GAME OF POLITICS Secretary of Defense Harold Brown tell it, extinction; we are faced with possible ex their Republican predecessors let the de tinction.'' fense budget fall sharply between 1969 and But anytime Westerners distinguish be HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL 1976, while the Carter administration, it is tween Russians and others under Soviet OF ILLINOIS argued, has increased it substantially. control, "the Soviets frown on it and we're IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES very happy with it . . .'' These partisan remarks allege that the Eight nations, including the Ukraine, Thursday, August 28, 1980 Republicans were responsible for the pres came under Soviet domination in 1920; the e Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the ent sorry state of our defenses, and were it Baltic States went under in 1940 and the· Carter administration has apparently not for Jimmy Carter and his national secu problem is as fresh as Afghanistan. rity team, things would be even worse. As decided to throw caution to the wind Secretary Brown told it on the "Today" But nationalism survives despite the and engage in one of the most deadly carrot-and-stick of Soviet promises and re show in early July, defense spending fell by games ever played in election year more than 35 percent during those years of pression. politics. It is a desperate attempt to This is clear from continued unrest Republican stewardship, while during the behind the Iron Curtain and underground win the political prize at the risk of first four years of the Carter administration literature and stories of dissidents in the li giving away the national security in it rose 10 percent and will increase by more the process. than 25 percent during a second Carter ad brary display. ministration. Ignas Dudrys, chairman of the joint com President Carter has forced into his mittee, said the display seeks to acquaint lineup of surrogate speakers, to defend Brown's politically oriented assessment is Cincinnatians with what the Russians are his indefensible record, a group of in distorted and cannot be substantiated by doing "You have to do something about it if the facts. Moreover, by insisting that the you acknowledge a problem." dividuals who have no business on the secretary of defense become involved in Nationalists still hope for freedom from campaign trail. campaign rhetoric, the administration risks Russian rule, and today they concentrate on Among them, Secretary of State politicizing an office that throughout its 35 keeping "heat and pressure'; on the Rus Muskie, Ambassador to the People's years of existence has essentially remained sians for abridgments of the Soviet Consti Republic of China Woodstock, Secre above the political fray. tution, United Nation's Charter and Helsin tary of Defense Brown, and National When I served at the Pentagon, I took the ki human rights agreements. position that the secretary of defense "We have no illusions that there will be a Security Adviser Brzezinski. should stay out of partisan politics, but popular uprising next year," Zaplatynsky Apparently, President Carter does always had the public responsibility of set said. not distinguish between partisan poli- ting the record straight on def_~nse issues. 23756 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 28, 1980 As a private citizen, I still believe that is the TRIBUTE TO DR. WAYNE administration has launched a vitriolic correct procedure. Here, then, are the facts: McCALL campaign against his Repulican chal From FY71 through FY78, the Republi lenger, Gov. Ronald Reagan; that is, cans submitted budgets to the Democratic HON. BILL CHAPPELL, JR. deliberately distorting the Governor's ally-controlled Congress that increased de labor positions in an attempt to fright fense budget authority from $71 billion to OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES en voters away from the Republican $115 billion, an increase of 62 percent. Meas ticket. The President's pollsters have ured in today's inflated dollars, however, Thursday, August 28, 1980 that represents a decline from $140.5 billion apparently decided that President in FY71 to $131.8 billion in FY78, a drop of e Mr. CHAPPELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise Carter's dismal labor record cannot 6 percent, not the 35 percent claimed by today in tribute to a dear friend, Dr. stand on its own, so any administra Brown. He ignores the fact that when Re Wayne McCan; of Ocala, Fla. Wayne tion campaign rhetoric must be con publicans took over the executive responsi was a dedicated and intensely patriotic centrated on smearing the Republican bilities of government in 1969, 37 percent of American, a strong supporter of youth candidate with lies and emotional dia the defense budget was consumed by ex athletics, and a devoted and energetic tribes. penditures for an unpopular war in South public servant. His recent death was a Mr. Speaker, the American people east Asia. In today's dollars, that war was shock to his family and friends and all are too smart for that. This election costing almost $70 billion a decade ago. The who knew him. year, they are not looking for the best real decline in what is called the baseline As the State representative of dis budget is substantially less because $14.7 muckraking candidate. They are look billion of the FY71 budget, or 20 percent, trict 32 in Florida, Wayne McCall was ing for a leader with the issues to was spent on the war in Vietnam and bring a fiscal conservative and a man who bring them out of this deepening re ing about the termination of U.S. involve truly cared about his constituents and cession with hope and opportunity for ment. their needs. Dedicated and responsive, the future. In today's dollars, the FY71 baseline Wayne always urged his constituents The administration's strategy was budget was actually $118.6 billion; this is · who had a problem to pick up the brought to my attention by a speech $20.6 billion or 17 percent less in real terms phone and call him rather than send that Vice President Walter Mondale than President Ford's last proposal to Con letters. A quiet-spoken man, Wayne gave before the New York State AFL gress. During the FY71 to FY78 period, it truly listened when people spoke and CIO. In that speech, according to the must be noted, Congress cut more than $40 in his careful and kind way gave assist Buffalo Evening News, the Vice Presi billion from the defense requests of Repub ance. dent stated that "Reagan favors bust lican administrations, primarily in the in On the political side, he was a strong ing up the American trade-union vestment area. For example, Nixon and supporter of the two-party system and movement." In the same speech, the Ford requested authority to build 171 ships, would annually sponsor a fundraiser but Congress voted funds for only 130. Were Vice President accused Governor it not for those Democractic reductions, at his lake camp in the Ocala National Reagan of wanting to trash the social eight years of Republican leadership in the Forest to benefit local Democratic can security system, "union security," and White House would have led to real growth didates. the Occupational Safety and Health of almost 2 percent per year. A family man and community boost Act. Mr. Mondale continued to accuse On the other side of the defense coin, er, Wayne had seven sons who all par the Republican Party of hating the Brown's claims about real increases in this ticipated in high school sports pro working men and women of America, administration are inflated. If one compares grams. He, himself, presided over the and offered as a Carter defense the Carter's request for FY81 with the amount local booster club to raise funds for contention that "his administration he requested three years ago, when he set youth athletics. has ·put more persons to work in 4 out to slash defense spending, the real A dentist, Wayne was a member of years than any administration in his growth is about $5 billion, or 3 percent, not the dental society. He also served as a tory." 10 percent. In contrast to its previous be director on the National Governor's Let us examine the facts. havior, Congress has been urging the presi Board of College and Universities and dent to spend more for defense to correct In the first place, Ronald Reagan deficiencies that have occurred during the served long and with distinction as a was elected president of his union, the past three years, notably with regard to at member of the board of regents. Screen Actors Guild, six times, where tracting and retaining outstanding young All of us who knew Wayne-those of he led its first strike. As far as I know, m.en and women for military service. us who worked with him over the Ronald Reagan is the first union presi years, and the people of the 32d dis If it has not been for Carter's veto of the dent ever to be a candidate for Presi FY79 authorization bill and his lobbying ef trict who were recipients of his calm dent of the United States. As one who forts against proposed increases in the de and responsive service-will sorely knows what it is like to bargain from fense budget, the real growth might have miss him. We have lost a great friend labor's side of the negotiating table, been closer to the 10 percent that Secretary and the community of Ocala has lost Governor Reagan strongly supports Brown proclaims. Finally, of course, the in an outstanding public servant. On the collective bargaining system free ternational situation that has existed since behalf of the Fourth Congressional from Government intervention. Carter took office is much less favorable District, and all who knew him, I offer than that which existed during the Republi Claims to the contrary by would-be de our expression of deep sorrow and tractors are obviously attempts to dis can years. Those years saw more restraint sympathy to Dr. McCall's family. by the Soviets. He was my dear friend. I shall sorely tort the facts. In my view, the really unfortunate aspect miss his wise and devoted counsel. In And let us look at the employment of this unseemly episode in Department of remembrance, I have caused to be picture that Vice President Mondale Defense history is that Secretary Brown has flown over the Capitol a flag in his so virtuously described. When Presi chosen to become or has been pressured dent Carter took office in January into becoming involved on the political bat honor.e 1977, the unemployment rate stood at tlefront. It is one thing for a president run 7.3 percent. There were 6,958,000 ning for reelection to play games with de THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION fense numbers. It is quite another thing for RESORTS TO THE POLITICS OF Americans unemployed at that time. a secretary of defense, who knows better, to HYSTERIA, AND THE FACTS Now, as of July 1980, the latest figures lend the essential non-partisan quality of BEHIND GOVERNOR REAGAN'S available, the unemployment rate his o~fice to political distortions. APPEAL TO LABOR stands at . 7.8 percent, with 8,207,000 If defense continues to be an issue in the Americans unemployed-almost 1 v. 1980 campaign, as I believe it will, the secre HON. JACK F. KEMP million more unemployed working tary of defense, I hope, will heed the advice men and women in the work force of Winston Churchill, which the secretary OF NEW YORK than when he took office. quoted in his most recent report to Con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES And where did most of this unem gress: "You cannot ask us to take sides Thursday, August 28, 1980 ployment come from? From layoffs in against arithmetic. You cannot ask us to take sides against the obvious facts of the e Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, in this, the most heavily unionized industries situation." e the week before Labor Day, the Carter in the country-the auto, steel, rubber, August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23757 and maritime industries. Hundreds of aftertax incentives for both workers THE ECONOMIC LIBERALS: IRO thousands of workers have been laid and businessmen by narrowing the NIES OF MANDATORY CON off here-workers who have little hope Government's wedge between them. TROLS that their factories will reopen in the Governor Reagan plans to bring near future. Surely Carter cannot labor and capital together with a HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER claim that this has made him a friend sound monetary policy. President OF ILLINOIS of labor. Carter's whole inflation program has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been based on the premise that infla Or take the President's Council on Thursday, August 28, 1980 Wage and Price Stability. This is an tion is caused by workers and business agency created by President Carter men, by consumers and producers. e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, many that believes labor's wages should be The wage guidelines explicitly blame of the economic liberals have proposed frozen at 7 to 8V2 percent while the inflation on workers' wage demands, mandatory wage and price controls as Democrat-led Government devalues just as 2 years ago, the administration the solution for our inflationary woes. their paychecks 'by 13 to 15 percent. blamed inflation on business profits. There are many ironies in their The administration that supports But Governor Reagan believes that in taking this stance. these policies cannot believe in render flation can only be caused by the Gov First, these economic liberals are ing a fair wage for an honest day's ernment. those who pride themselves in the pro work. That administration is no friend Inflation is a decline in the value of tection of individual liberties-the of labor. the currency produced by Govern rights of the individual vis-a-vis the Let us take a look at some of Vice ment. It is caused by a combination of State-as I do. But here they are, President Mondale's other claims. too much money and too little produc saying that the individual choices of The so called radical statement of tion. The answer, therefore, is not to working men and women to seek Governor Reagan regarding social se blame workers and businesses for in higher wages and of individual busi curity on January 31 of this year was: flation, or to slap on wage and price ness people to ask higher prices-in The Social Security System must be re controls as a solution. The answer to each case made necessary as a re formed to guarantee that those depending inflation is to print less money and to sponse to the inflationary flames on Social Security, and those looking for restore incentives for higher employ fanned by the failure for so long a ward to its protection in the years ahead, ment and production. time for Congress to act with even a will continue to receive their payments, and The administration cannot match small measure of fiscal responsibility that their payments will keep pace with the this vision for the 1980's, because ought to be denied. This anomaly of cost of living • • • such reform cannot come President Carter says he will not commitment to some individual rights from increasing the already exorbitant taxes paid by workers to finance the system change his basic economic policies. and not to others by those who call • • • the final answer, however, must be fis This time, it is President Carter who themselves liberal is nothing new, but cally sound on a long-range basis. has triggered a recession, and Gover it is always fascinating. nor Reagan who offers a plan for pros Second, there is great irony in the Do you hear a attack on the social perity. fact that these economic liberals, who security system here? Not at all; It is time for American labor and the have consistently put themselves for Ronald Reagan's strategy for econom American people to recognize that ward as deep thinkers on economic ic growth will save social security. they share a growing consensus of questions, have chosen to champion As to OSHA, Governor Reagan values with Governor Reagan about the ham-handed approach of manda clearly is not calling for the disman family, community, and country. It tory controls. It evidences not econom tling of the Agency. He strongly feels was because of Ronald Reagan that ic intellectualism, but a total surren that the way OSHA has been run has the Republican Party adopted a plat der of policy-a bankruptcy of innova resulted in harassment and nitpicking form which states: tive thinking-that most liberals nor to the detriment of real workplace We reaffirm our commitment to the fun mally would not admit to. Perhaps we safety. That this is true is obvious damental principle of fairness in labor rela have reached that point. Perhaps when one reads statistics verifying the tions, including the legal right of unions to nothing else is, in fact, left to do. But increase in industrial accidents in this organize workers and to represent them it is interesting that the economic lib country since OSHA was enacted. As through collective bargaining consistent erals are the first to give up and admit President, Governor Reagan would re with state laws and free from unnecessary that their cupboard of ideas is abso focus on the real objectives of the government involvement. lutely bare. OSHA Act rather than permit a per It was because of Ronald Reagan's Third, many of these economic liber petuation of the badgering and abuses leadership that the 1980 Republican als have prided themselves on being which have been so counterproductive platform's section on "Fairness to the students of history. Yet few Ameri to its intent in recent years. Worker" begins: cans would dispute that the history of The bottom line is Governor Rea The Republican Party is committed to full the mandatory controls that the liber gan's concern for the working men employment without inflation. We will seek als propose is one of failure-that they and women of America. The Demo to provide more jobs, increase the standard don't work but merely create black crats are now divided as to whether of living, and ensure equitable treatment on markets and excessive and costly bu they want to stand for low unemploy the job for all American workers by stimu lating economic growth. reaucracies and when they are lifted, ment and high inflation-Ted Kenne as after World War II and in the dy-or low inflation with high unem This year the working men and Nixon administration-the most ployment-President Carter. Governor women of America will have a real recent examples-prices shoot up even Reagan recognizes that surely the ex choice-a choice between a President higher than they would have without perience of the past decade is that who has brought this Nation to its the controls. It is ironic that these stu such choices are unnecessary. knees and abandoned his commitment dents of history ignore history. The combination of inflation and to labor, and a candidate who knows The final irony, however, is the most progressive tax rates has continuously what it is like to run a union, and to profound. It is the irony that the real widened the gap between what an em fight for the rights of workers. Gover culprit in the raging inflation that we ployer pays and what a worker takes nor Reagan offers a clear opportunity are now experiencing is not the wage home. Inflation and the outdated tax for the working people of America to earner trying to keep up with rising code automatically raise the tax on choose jobs over unemployment, pros costs by asking higher pay, nor is it profits, and at the same time this com perity over recession, and hope over the businessman adjusting his prices bination pushes the worker into despair. to reflect higher costs, both of whom higher tax brackets. Across-the-board It is a choice over America's future. mandatory controls are aimed to re tax rate reduction, such as Governor And the facts bear out that in this strain. Rather, the culprit is the ac Reagan has proposed for both individ election, the true friend of labor is tions of these same economic liberals uals and businesses, can increase the Gov. Ronald Reagan.e in the Congress, voting more and more _ 23758 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 28, 1980 Federal spending year after year, ditional concept of citizen representa sponse which indicated no consensus spending far ·.. ·~yond available rev tion and moving toward full-time, pro opinion, was to the question of mili enues, until after almost 26 years of fessional representation. I am sure tary service. Nearly half of those who this fiscal recklessness the average this is the proper direction and per answered my poll favor keeping the American family faces a double-digit haps a change in the Constitution All-Voluntary Army, but improving inflationary tax on top of all the other would be the only way to correct this. benefits and conditions-20 percent taxes they pay. Those who have On two environmental issues, my or requiring 1 or 2 years of public serv caused the problem-though they constituents overwhelmingly endorsed ice as an alternative, 23 percent. don't even seem to recognize their own the further development of nuclear Twenty-five percent feel the draft complicity-now say they have the so powerplants and the easing of Govern should now be restored, and 18 per lution-mandatory wage and price ment regulations so that we could cent of that number support the draft controls-a bankrupt, end-of-the-line insure a greater use of coal to meet of men only. It is interesting to note policy from those who pride them our energy needs. The use of nuclear that 15 percent agree with the current selves on their intellectual approaches, power received a 68-percent approval, system of registering males, while an a policy that denies individual liberties while a wider use of coal garnered an other 12 percent feel women should be from those who pride themselves on overwhelming 77 -percent support. Per included. The remaining 5 percent in protecting them, a policy that history sonally, I favor continued use of nucle dicated they see no reason to change shows has always been a failure from ar power with a concurrent strong em the current All-Voluntary Military. those who call themselves historians. phasis on safety. I agree with my con These opinions will be of great as And those who promote it are the very stituents and support the greater use sistance to me as I continue my work ones who created the problem it seeks of coal to meet both current and as a legislator, and I commend there to solve in the first place through future energy need. sults to my colleagues for their consid their unending spending and fiscal ir The creation of a national health in eration: responsibility. What ironies.e surance program to help pay the costs QUESTIONS associated with catastrophic illnesses 1. Should Congress set up a national QUESTIONNAIRE only was opposed by 58 percent and health insurance program to help pay for supported by 39 percent of my con catastrophic illnesses only? The President is stituents. I oppose and will continue to advocating a comprehensive national health HON. JAMES T. BROYHILL oppose the administration's compre insurance program to be paid for by govern OF NORTH CAROLINA ment and business. Supporters of the cata hensive, mandatory national health IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strophic approach say this is the only addi insurance proposal because of its ex tional area of health care in which govern Thursday, August 28, 1980 tremely high price tag and resultant ment should become involved because of the e Mr. BROYHILL. Mr. Speaker, each burden to the taxpayers. However, I tremendous hardships which hit a small year, I actively solicit the views of my am a cosponsor of the Medical Ex number of American families. Opponents constituents by sending out a ques pense Protection Act . was literally speechless. The following material is presented DoRNAN. So you gave a 28-yr.-old lad, un However, title 2, United States Code, employed for over a year and a half, loans section 437(g)(a)(4). bank loan to repay Dennis the $13,000. body had). James Dennis has not yet paid the Whe~ he learned of Dennis' legal DoRNAN. I'm sorry, I'm a little slow today. fine-not a penny-levied by the FEC problems, Peck said he took a personal I see, you mean the Gervertz's or someone else co-signed. bank loan and returned the money Thanks, Bram. lect the money, in May of 1980 after see Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif., Jan GoLDSMITH. You're welcome, Bob. heavy Dornan criticism. This would uary 29, 1980, article by Rich Connell. seem to indicate that the conciliation Peck said he had immediately ob FEC law-title 2, United States Code agreement has in fact been violated, tained a personal loan of $9,000(?) in section 434(b)(3)(E), states that all and therefore MUR 970 need not be order to pay back the funds-see Even loans must be reported with the iden closed, unless, of course, someone ing Outlook, Santa Monica, Calif., tity of any endorser or guarantor of wants to continue a probable coverup January 10, 1980, article by Will such loan, the date, and the amount of of violations and omissions by the FEC Thorne. On his father's advice, Carey the value of such loan. and others, including Federal officials PECK CLAIMS A RETURN OF THE ILLEGAL $13,000 in Alabama.e Peck borrowed $13,000 from a local TO DENNIS, YET FEC DOES NOT ASK FOR ANY bank and returned the money Dennis EVIDENCE OF THIS RETURN TO THIS VERY DAY, had given him-see June 21, 1980, Jack IN SPITE OF NATIONAL PRESS STORIES OF RECOGNITION OF HON. MORRIS Anderson column. FELONY "U-TURNING" OF ILLEGAL FUNDS; K. UDALL AS OUTSTANDING Carey Peck, who does not appear to FELON WHO CLEARED PECK AND STEWART "UN LEGISLATOR be working, finds $4,000 from some CLEARS" THEM BEFORE FEDERAL GRAND JURY where and claims to add this to a Fred Eiland, spokesman for the FEC HON. JIM SANTINI $9,000 loan from a bank. Or, Carey in Washington, said that Peck's cam OF NEVADA borrowed $13,000 if the Jack Anderson paign apparently received the money IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES article is correct. On Daddy's advice not knowing it was donated illegally. instead of his own mature judgment. They took the money in good faith Thursday, August 28, 1980 Yet, on his FEC schedule C form for and once they found out it was bad, e Mr. SANTINI: Mr. Speaker, our dis the period April 1, 1979, through June they returned it-see Daily Breeze, tinguished colleague, the Honorable 30, 1979, Peck lists himself as the sole January 29, 1980, by Rich Connell. MORRIS K. UDALL Of Arizona, has just source of a $13,000 loan to the Carey How the hell would he know? been recognized by a bipartisan group Peck for Congress Committee for "ad As to why Mr. Eiland should become of Government professionals as the vance for campaign expenditures from a major apologist for Mr. Peck is still outstanding legislator of the 96th Con personal funds." very unclear. For instance, there is no gress, 2d session. Mo UDALL received FEC regulations then in force did evidence in the FEC files-MUR 970- this Outstanding Legislator Award at allow a candidate to make a loan made of the front and/ or back of a canceled ceremonies held last night in Wash in accordance with applicable banking check from Peck to Dennis. And, Com ington, D.C., from the Congressional laws and regulations, and in the ordi missioner Thomas Harris of the FEC Fellowship Association, an organiza nary course of business-11 CFR told Congressman DoRNAN and Bob tion of professional men and women 100.4(b) teachers, community and business sought out by the Department of Ben Head looked at Mary and grinned. leaders, local officials, lawyers, and re Health, Educatiol), and Welfare, for "You'll be okay," he teased. "After all, sponsible citizens. The committee service on many advisory and policy Austin does have an airport." report makes this point explicitly, and committees at the national level. This moment in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. I want to emphasize that the United Jerome Chapman has been with the Ben T. Head, then of Newport News, Va., States has a severe need for experts in ticked away about two years ago, on the Texas Department of Human Re heels of Ben's announcement he'd been of these fields, but that it also has an in sources since 1950, and after 30 years fered a bank presidency in Austin, Texas. terest in supporting international edu of dedicated service, will retire this Ben's velvet needle was not without its cation programs that can help Ameri year. He has had assignments in every point: Airports are Mary Head's support cans of diverse backgrounds and pro part of the State with varying respon system. Without them, she's a Wyeth with fessions better understand the world sibilities including those of casework out canvas, a muzzled Streisand. in which we live. er, supervisor, regional director, adop Today, Mary is flying in and out of Austin more frequently than Lyndon B. Johnson Again, my sincere appreciation to tion consultant, director of licensing, did when he was shuttling between the the Appropriations Committee for and assistant director of child welfare White House and his ranch, 60 miles west of supporting these programs and for division. the Texas capital. emphasizing the undergraduate lan He is a past president of the Texas Mrs. Head waits for baggage and taxis in guage and area centers and the under Public Employees Association, has dozens of cities but she waits more often in graduate international studies pro twice been a board member and pres Chicago, Washington, Kansas City and grams. I look forward to working to ently is an officer of the American Philadelphia, headquarters towns for six corporations she serves as a director-and gether with the committee in future · Public Welfare Association. He has only woman director. years in support of these needed pro been active in the Child Welfare "She's one of the best directors I've ever grams.e League of America, Texas United seen," says Ralph S. Saul, chairman and August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23767 president of INA Corporation. Mr. Saul is a Mary Head rates 19 lines in Who's Who in early, Federal lands may not contrib director of Sun Company, Inc., to whose America (Oscar-winning costume designer ute significantly-as they could-to board Mrs. Head was elected early this year. Edith Head gets only 12). meet the Nation's need for more coal "Forget man ... woman ... that sort of "My husband is my biggest supporter, my in years to come." thing," Ralph Saul suggests firmly. "She is unofficial public relations man," Mary one of the best directors I've ever seen, claims. "Sometimes I'm asked by young GAO recommends that assumptions period." women, 'How do you do what you do?' and be reviewed in establishing leasing tar Mrs. Head assumed her first directorship my stock answer is, 'Have a husband like gets, that more realistic time frames in 1974 when she was named by President mine.'" be followed, Nixon to the board of Amtrak . level provided under present law. In addi In order to maintain the present level of tion, this sub-section would provide for a by providing a 50-percent tax credit penalties for premature IRA distributions slower rate of phaseout of the EIC-7.86 for all workers and their spouses on while reflecting the change in the level of percent instead of the present 12.5 percent contributions to IRA's of up to $3,000. tax subsidy to be provided IRA contribu rate of phaseout. As a result, the EIC would This proposal is the centerpiece of my tions, Section 2(b) of the bill also modifies not be entirely phased out until AGI or plan for stimulating greater long-term the current rules on the taxability of pre earned income reached $15,000, rather than savings by Americans which in turn mature distributions. If any portion of a dis $10,000 as provided by present law. will increase the capital available to tribution made prior to age 59 112 is attributa Section l would provide that in deter ble to contributions for which the 50 per mining eligibility and benefits under federal U.S. businesses and industries, laying cent credit was received, then such portion assistance programs such as AFDC, SSI and the foundation for a strong economic is not includible in gross income but is taxed foodstamps, the earned income credit re recovery. The bill will be amended fur at a special 50 percent rate to recapture the ceived by a potential beneficiary is to be dis ther in the near future to also allow credit received. The portion of a distribu regarded. This change would reinstate the the credit for voluntary employee con tion attributable to deductible contributions rule in effect prior to the Revenue Act of tributions to their employers' plans, is includible in gross income, as per present 1978. thereby strengthening private pension law. In addition, the present 10 percent pen Section l sets forth several technical plans as well. alty tax is retained for all premature distri and conforming changes necessary to effec butions, whether of creditable or deductible tuate the purposes of the preceding subsec As for the other elements of my contributions. tions, e.g., the advance payment of the EIC plan, H.R. 7871 would liberalize the Section 3.-Increase in Deduction for provided by present law would be calculated earned income tax credit; H.R. 7872 Plans for Self-Employed: This section in based upon the new EIC rates. would reduce taxes on Americans creases the maximum deduction allowed for Section He> provides that the changes working abroad; and H.R. 7935 would employer contributions to a qualified plan made by H.R. 7871 in the computation of eliminate the marriage penalty by al on behalf of self-employed individuals, i.e., the EIC would be effective for taxable years lowing optional separate filing. These for contributions to "Keogh" or ''H.R. 10" beginning after December 31, 1980; the rein measures are necessary in terms of the plans. The maximum deductible amount is statement of the disregard and the change increased from $7,500 to $10,000. This sec in the advance payment would be effective tax relief they will provide and over tion also provides an identical increase in for EIC payments or compensation paid due on the basis of tax equity. the amount that may be excluded from after December 31, 1980. I urge your support of the Gibbons gross income by a shareholder-employee in plan, in whole or in part. the case of a contribution by a Subchapter SUBSECTION-BY-SUBSECTION ANALYSIS OF SECTION·BY·SECTION ANALYSIS OF H.R. 7870 S corporation to a qualified plan on behalf H.R. 7872 RELATING TO THE TAXATION OF RELATING TO EXPANDED INCENTIVES FOR IN· of such shareholder-employee. AMERICANS WORKING ABROAD DIVIDUAL RETIREMENT SAVINGS Section 4.-Revision of Section 219: This section increases from $1,500 to $3.000 the Section l would amend Section 91l Section !.-Short Title: "IRA Work and of the Internal Revenue Code so as to Savings Incentive Act of 1980." maximum annual deduction for contribu tions to an IRA. The IRA deduction is re return to the law in effect prior to the pas Section 2.-Allowance of Credit: This sec· sage of the Foreign Earned Income Act of tion provides a tax credit to replace the tained for those individuals who do not qualify for the 50 percent credit, namely,' 1978. Thus, this subsection reinstates both present law IRA deductions. which are the "bona fide resident" test and the "17 based on a contribution limit of the lesser of IRA owners who have attained age 59 112 before the close of the taxable year. As out of 18 months" test to determine eligibil $1,500 or 15 percent of compensation. ity for the earned income exclusion as com Subsections and of the new Section under present law, contributions to an IRA are no longer deductible by the IRA owner puted under Section 91l. 44F allow any individual to contribute up to Section l(b) would amend Section 91l is satisfied, the on such contribution, for a maximum credit amount eligible for exclusion is computed of $1 ,500. strictions under present law. Thus, active Other rules added by Section 2 of the bill participants in qualified plans, government on a daily basis at the annual rate of · to Section 44F are as follows: plans and Section 403(b) tax-sheltered an $75,000. No credit is allowed for contributions to nuities are permitted to contribute to an Section I would amend Section 911(c) an IRA for any taxable year ending after an IRA, up to the increased contribution limit to add the requirement that in order to be individual has attained age 59 112 . Section duction for employer contributions to tries where the income was earned, if one of 44F. $10,000. In addition the employee is allowed the purposes of the receipt in another coun In the case of a simplified employee pen to contribute an additional $3,000 to the try or countries is the avoidance of any tax sion, the employee is allowed the credit for same or a different IRA and obtain the 50 imposed by the foreign country in which employer contributions to the SEP, but only percent credit with respect to the contribu • the income is earned. to the extent of the employee's contribution tion if the employee is under age 59lfz, or a Section l sets forth several technical· 44F<4>. amount equal to the unused balance are eli amendments to the Internal Revenue Code No credit is permitted for any rollover gible for the 50 percent tax credit in the the most significant of which amends Sec contribution to an IRA. Section 44F<5>. case of an employee under age 59lfz. tion 1034(k) <3>. SUBSECTION-BY-SUBSECTION ANALYSIS OF of H.R. 7872 as taxable years beginning Present law rules are retained which H.R. 7871 To LIBERALIZE THE EARNED after December 31, 1980. permit an individual to establish and make INCOME CREDIT contributions to an IRA for a year up to the Section Ha> would increase the credit rate time for filing the individual's tax return of the Earned Income Credit from the SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF H.R. 7935 for the year, including extensions. Section present level of 10 percent of the first RELATI:NG TO ELI:MI:NATION OF THE MAR 44F<4>. $5,000 of earned income to 11 percent. The RIAGE PENALTY Present rules concerning excess contribu maximum credit would be thus increased Section I.-Short Title: "Marriage Penalty tions are retained; however, the phrasing of from $500 to $550. Relief Act of 1980." August 28, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23769 Section 2.-Combined Return: Adds a new Section 3.-Conforming amendments are fense, government, ethics. philosophy. reli section to the I.R.C., Section 6013A. which specified. gion. and Survival. provides married individuals with the addi Section 4.-Effective Date: Taxable years When we discover how to do this, we will tional option of filing a combined return beginning after December 31, 1980.e usher in a new Renaissance. a new scientific where each spouse determines his/her own age, a better and happier tomorrow that will individual taxable income to which the un help guarantee the future survival of that married tax rates apply. A married couple, which is best and happiest. filing under the provisions of the Act, would TRAGEDY IN BOULDER CITY And so in the weeks ahead I will explore file one combined tax return. in the crosswalk on 8000, which would require States to engineers, strongly favor the new general the lane the vehicle is turning into. allow right turn on red after permissive turn on red legislation." "In addition to these four major types of stopping at at least 70 per centum of In another study done by Hugh McGee, RTOR accidents, there were two others stoplights in the State. that were very infrequent. I would like to catl the following ar for the FHWA, U.S. Department of Trans "1. Two RTOR vehicles sideswipe. Some ticle which appeared in the American portation, he explains the types of accidents times two vehicles collided while making an Transportation Builder, to the atten that could occur due to RTOR. RTOR simultaneously when there were "Several distinct types of accidents appear double right turn lanes. or when one of the tion of my colleagues. This article to be associated with RTOR. Illustrated in points out that RTOR will result in vehicles used the shoulder. Figure 1 are four prominent types of RTOR "2. The RTOR vehicle induces an accident. substantial fuel savings. Also, it re conflicts: rear end, opposing left turn, cross In two cases the RTOR vehicle, although futes the argument that RTOR will street, and pedestrian. "The most common RTOR accident type not involved in the accident. created a situa result in more accidents; studies have tion that resulted in an accident. Once the proved that this is simply not true. occurs when an RTOR vehicle collides with a vehicle moving on green on the cross cross-street vehicle collided with another There is no significant increase in the cross-street vehicle to avoid hitting the street. Sixty-five percent of the reported RTOR vehicle. In another case . the RTOR vehicle apparently in I commend this informative article occurs when a RTOR motorist either fails duced a following vehicle to cross the inter to my colleagues' attention; and, I to see the approaching vehicle or perceives section on red resulting in an accident with urge these legislators to demonstrate a wider gap than is required to make a safe a cross-street vehicle coming from the oppo maneuver. These accidents are usually site direction. This latter accident resulted their support for RTOR by cosponsor caused by driver error, although limited ing H.R. 8000. in a fatality, the only one during the whole sight distance can be a contributing factor. course of study. The article follows: "Another frequent type of RTOR accident "From the results of our accident analysis involves an RTOR vehicle colliding with a and those reported by others. it appears RIGHT TURN ON RED-AFTER STOP vehicle making a left turn from the opposite that RTOR accidents are very infrequent. Since the 1974 Energy crunch, the approach on a left-turn phase. Of all RTOR Shown in Table 1 are the overall RTOR ac demand for energy efficient policies have in accidents, 18 percent were of this type. In cident statistics for 13 different locations creased throughout the country. One such this situation, an RTOR-motorist looking to using data developed in this study and re saving idea is Right Turn on Red . his or her left for oncoming cross-street ported by other researchers. The percentage Practiced in California since 1937, the east traffic may not be aware of a conflict with of RTOR accidents to all acci ern half of the United States was slow in left-turning vehicles moving on a separate dents occurring at the specified number of passing this ruling. The majority of states phase. This conflict can be more serious if signalized intersections for the generally have legislated the permissive rule which there is only one lane to turn into. Where permissive rule range from a low of 0.4 in allows Right Turn On Red at intersections there are multiple departure lanes, the San Francisco to a high of 3.0 for the 78 in where the movement is not prohibited by turning vehicles can avoid collision. The ac tersections in Chicago." signing, and all 50 states have adopted some cident forms, however, indicated that these As demonstrated from these results. the form of RTOR. The District of Columbia fi types of accidents occurred with multiple record of accidents caused because of RTOR nally granted RTOR in December 1979, but lanes as well as with single departure lanes. is insignificant. but what about the energy not without its limitations. Over 80% of all Prohibiting RTOR at all locations with a savings? of the intersections in DC have signs posted left-turn phase should preclude these acci In the 1979 Annual Report by the Depart that do not allow RTOR. The city ·cites dent types from occurring. However, be ment of Energy, the planned 1980 State the opposition based on its rank as 5th in cause of the randomness and infrequency of energy savings for RTOR measures 4.07 tril the Nation for pedestrian fatalities. these accidents, it would not be practical to lion BTUs. The reported 1979 State energy Those doubters in DC and elsewhere prohibit the movement at all such locations. savings estimates for RTOR measures 4.66 "The third type of RTOR accident is the trillion BTUs. Obviously, the fuel savings is against RTOR claim that it jeopardizes rear end. These occur when a vehicle in the safety for the few pennies of fuel saved. But surpassing the target amount! process of making an RTOR stops abruptly It appears from the reports studied, statistics are not in their favor! Based on a and is hit in the rear by the following vehi RTOR is fuel efficient and is not a threat to study done by the Highway and Transporta cle. This type of accident accounted for 5 safety. Areas like the District of Columbia tion Research Council of the Common percent of all identified RTOR accidents. will hopefully change their attitude about wealth of Virginia, entitled "The Impact of Because these typically result from driver RTOR. as the need for fuel, and the statisti Genera~ Permissive Right and Left Turn on error, there does not appear to be any way cal evidence proves RTOR is accomplishing Red Legislation in Virginia" by Martin to eliminate them. - its task! Parker, Jr. Research Engineer, states "RTOR has had a significant impact on im proving traffic flow at intersections and in TABLE 1-RTOR ACCIDENTS AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS saving motorists time and fuel. Accidents and pedestrian problems with RTOR appears RTOR accidents RTOR pedestnan acctdents to be minor, with the benefits of the legisla RTOR rule and locatioo Study year Signalized Intersection Pedestnan tion far outweighing any disadvantages. Be intersectioo accidents Number Percentage accidents Number Pe=!f~:n of Perc~~~Ne of cause there are few signalized intersections accidents aCCidents of one-way streets in Virginia, LTOR has not had the statewide impact of RTOR. Generally permissive: Los Angeles ...... 1973- 74 3.235 41.316 287 0.70 1.487 54 3.6 18.8 However, in the cities of Newport News and Denver ...... 1974 1.059 7.431 50 0.70 125 0 0 0 Richmond, which contain 85% of the LTOR Dallas ...... 1973- 74 1.000 (' ) ( ' ) ( ' ) 18 0 0 0 approaches, L TOR appears to be working as 1974 78 694 21 30 24 6 25.0 28 6 ~~fr~riCi sai :: : : : 1953- 55 75 3.328 12 04 14 4 29 0 33 0 well as RTOR. Portland ...... (') (') 52.677 253 0.5 ( ' ) 20 ( ' ) 7.9 "With the new legislation, RTOR maneu Jacksonville ...... (' ) 405 1.756 13 07 ( ' ) 2 ( ' ) 15 4 Dade County ...... {' ) 29 700 9 1.3 ( ' ) 0 0 0 vers are permitted at 84% of the signalized Omaha ...... 1971 - 72 26 497 11 2.2 ( ' ) 0 0 0 intersection approaches. While there was a Salt Lake City ..... ( ' ) 24 600 8 1.3 (') 0 0 0 trend for localities to remove some prohibi Sign permissive: 1973 95 936 27 2.9 57 8.8 18 5 tive NO TURN ON RED signs during 1977, ~~mts- ::::::::::: 1973 12 415 II 2 7 ( ' ) 0 0 there still is considerable variation and in Virginia ..... 1973 29 478 16 33 I 0 0 consistencies in the manner in which RTOR is implemented. 1 Unknown