672 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 5 o'clock and 10 minutes p.m.) the Sen sitive to the needs of others, understand Mr. PELLY. I am happy to yield to ate took a recess until Wednesday, Jan ing amid our differences, and determined the minority leader. uary 18, 1967, at 12 o'clock meridian. to live in the spirit of good will. May Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, we ever be mindful of the fact that we I thank the gentleman for yielding. &re one family in Thee, and in this one Walt Horan was a very close, and dear NOMINATIONS ness may we do our work and live our friend of mine. We served together for lives. a number of years on the Committee on Executive nominations received by the Our minds and hearts reach out in Appropriations. He was an invaluable Senate January 17 (legislative day of prayer for those in the Armed Forces of Member of the House of Representatives. January 12), 1967: our country. Keep them strong in No one was more gentle, kind, or more FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION temptation, resolute in duty, and faith cooperative than Walt Horan. Gen. William F. McKee, U.S. Air Force, re ful to Thee, who art ever with them and I join the distinguished gentleman from tired, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the with us. Lord God of Hosts, be with us the State of Washington [Mr. PELLY] in Federal Aviation Adininistration (new posi all-lest we forget, lest we forget Thee. extending to his lovely wife, Sally, and tion). David D. Thomas, of Virginia, to be Deputy Amen. to his family our deepest condolences at Adininistrator of the Federal Aviation Ad this time. Ininistration (new position). Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the THE JOURNAL gentleman from Washington yield? DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN SERVICE The Journal of the proceedings of Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Clarence A. Boonstra, of Michigan, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten yesterday was read and approved. the distinguished majority leader. tiary of the United States of America to Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I also join Costa Rica. · the distinguished gentleman from Wash !dar Rimestad, of North Dakota, a Foreign THE LATE HONORABLE WALT ington, and our distinguished minority Service officer of class 1, to be Deputy Under HORAN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN leader in paying tribute to a longtime Secretary of State. CONGRESS FROM THE STATE ·OF friend of mine, Walt Horan. IN THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON If ever in my life I saw a man who was Lt. Gen. Joseph J. Nazzaro, FR1241 (major a friend of mine, it was he. He was kind, general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force, Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I aOklahoma [Mr. What was perhaps Walt's greatest ALBERT], and the majority whip, the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES moment in this Chamber came when he gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. BoGGs], was no longer a Member of Congress, but I wish to add a personal note. TuESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1967 as he sat here on June 21, 1965, and I am, I think, in a special position in heard the opening prayer offered by his the House in relation to Walt Horan. I The House met at 12 o'clock noon. son, Rev. Howard S. Horan, who had have the honor to be his successor, and The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, just been ordained. I am from another party. D.D., offered the following prayer: Mr. Speaker, I will a.sk unanimous con On the day that I wa.s seated as a He that dwelleth in the secret place of sent for all Members who desire to do so Member of this House in January 1965, the Most High shall abide under the to extend their remarks in the RECORD Walt was to my knowledge the only man shadCYW of the Almighty.-Psalm 91: 1. on Walt's life and service. I know my to come from another side of the aisle to 0 God, who art a tower of strength to colleagues will want to join me and Mrs. congratulate a successor who had been all who put their trust in Thee, help us Pelly in extending our heartfelt sympa his opponent in the previous election. to turn from the noise and clamor of thy to his widow, Helen, and to their I know I do not need to assure my Re the world, and to find peace in the as five children. publican friends of the esteem in which surance of Thy presence. Keep us sen- Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, Walt was held by the Democratic Mem will the gentleman from Washington bers of this House. He was a dedicated • Holding an ad interim appointment. yield? Republican, but he could never have Januar y 17, 1967 _CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 673 applied a partisan test to friendship. I join with the distinguished Speaker . Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to There was simply nothing small or nar of the House and the gentleman from my colleague, the gentleman from Wash row in his nature. Washington in extending to his family ington [Mr. MEEDS]. When I was introduced as a new and to his lovely wife our sincere Mr. MEEDS. Mr. Speaker, I wish to Member in the Democratic cloakroom sympathy. join my colleagues in paying tribute to many of my new colleagues could not Walt Horan will be missed by all of us. Walt Horan. While I did not have the conceal their deep regret at Walt's de Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to opportunity to serve in Congress with feat and it was clear that no one found the gentlewoman from Washington him, I am keenly aware of the contribu any pleasure in it. Walt himself was [Mrs. MAY]. tion he. made to his district and to the undaunted and immensely generous to Mrs. MAY. Mr. Speaker, I wish to State of Washington during his 22 years me. He took me through the Capitol join my distinguished colleagues from of service in Congress. He served to introduce me to his colleagues and the State of Washington in the House of through the many difficult years which countless friends. It was m~re tha~ a Representatives in paying tribute to the saw the Second World War and the Ko magnificent gesture of good Will~ I thmk memory of the late Congressman Walt rean conflict. They were not easy years. it was symbolic of the best traditions in Horan. But his sincerity, dedication, and un- · our American political life: That the The news of his death on December 20 failing courtesy set goals toward which responsibility and service can be passed was received by all of us with shock, and all Members of Congress should prop not only without violence but mdeed it was a sad day for all of Walt's former erly strive. without rancor. It was a day that I shall colleagues who were his good friends. He was a respected Congressman. always remember. I, of course, felt a very special kinship Perhaps more importantly, he was a well Not long ago it was said here that to to Walt Horan, Mr. Speaker, because our respected man. be gracious in victory required one to be two congressional districts combined to Mr. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, will the a gentleman, but to be gracious in de form all of the eastern half of the State gentleman yield? feat required one to be a man. Walt of Washington. In a great many re Mr. PELLY. I am happy to yield to Horan was a man as well as a gentleman, my colleague, the gentleman from Wash spects our districts are similar. They ington [Mr. ADAMS]. a warm, kindly, dedicated man who are both rural districts and both produce served his district longer than any other Mr. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, many of an abundance of agricultural crops. us knew Walt Horan for many, many Representative and served it always with Another thing that bound us together honor. years in the State of Washington. Many was the Grand Coulee Dam in the State of us had the privilege of having him His passing brings grief to his wonder of Washington. I mention this only be ful wife and family to whom he was so help us through the years on projects, cause Walt Horan gave such splendid particularly those involving the agricul devoted. Their grief is share~ by .all representation to the diversified interests who had the privilege of knowmg him. and the important interests of these dis tural areas. As has been mentioned be That is a rare testament. tricts and in doing so provided all of us fore, Walt was always distinguished by Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to who have followed him not only in this his kindness and his patience. We all the distinguished Speaker of the House part of the country but in other parts of share in the deep regret that has been of Representatives, the gentleman from the country with guidance and with in expressed here and extend our sympathy Massachusetts [Mr. McCoRMACK]. spiration. to his family. Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I am I only hope that those of us who have deeply grieved to learn of the death of Walt Horan, Mr. Speaker, was a truly entered the House from the State of Walt Horan. He served with distinction fine man who enjoyed a wonderful repu Washington can carry on as well and in this body for so many years. tation among all who had the pleasure of have the respect of our colleagues on I think my good friend, the minority knowing and working with him. both sides of the aisle that was held by leader, the gentleman from ~ichigan He served 22 years in the House of Walt Horan. [Mr. GERALD R. FORD] aptly descnbed my Representatives and when he left the Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent state of mind when he referred to the Congress in 1964, he was one of our eight that the gentlewoman from Washing kindness of Walt Horan; and also the top ranking Members of the House of ton [Mrs. HANSEN] may revise and ex gentleman from Washington [Mr. Representatives in terms of seniority and tend her remarks at this point in the FoLEY] has described the fine and noble the second ranking Republican on the RECORD. outlook on life that Mr. Horan had. Committee on Appropriations. The SPEAKER. Is there objection Walt Horan's personality impressed it As an indication of the esteem in which to the request of the .gentleman from self upon every one of his colleagues that Walt was held by his Republican col Washington? he ever served with. He was a man who leagues, he was selected for several y~ars There was no objection. was honorable and trustworthy in every in a row as treasurer of the Republican Mrs. HANSEN of Washington. Mr. respect. His integrity was outstanding. congressional campaign committee. Speaker, it is with profound sorrow that His personality, his understanding mind I think as many of you know, Walt was I join my colleagues from the State of and his capacity to make friends were seriously ill during his campaign in 1964 Washington this morning to pay tribute outstanding characteristics of his life. and it was an illness from which he to our beloved late colleague, Walt Horan, I join with my colleagues in extend never completely recovered. He was hos from the Fifth District of Washington. ing my deep sympathy to the loved ones pitalized for many, many months be I knew Walt as a friend and neighbor he leaves behind. fore he was able to leave the hospital. All here in Congress and as a fellow citizen Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to four of his sons went to visit him in the of our State. Not once through all the the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. hospital at Wenatchee this summer but it years I have known Walt was there an LAIRD]. was Walt's fondest dream once again occasion when he was petty, sm.all, or Mr. LAIRD. Mr. Speaker, all of us to visit his daughter, Kay, and her hus unkind. who served with Walt Horan on the band and their children who live in I had the privilege of serving with him Committee on Appropriations know that Manila. So Walt and his wonderful wife, on the Appropriations Committee here. Walt was not only a kindly man and a Sally, made the decision and they flew He did a magnificent job not only for conscientious man but a man who had a to Manila. our State, but for the Nation. deep insight into the problems of his I am sure, Mr. Speaker, that Walt To his lovely wife Sally and to his fellow human beings. Walt was a hard knew before his journey that the end was children, I extend my deepes,t and sin worker on the Committee on Appropri near. He recognized the possible con cerest sympathy. ations. I had the opportunity of serv sequences of a trip of this great mag Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I think ing with him on the Agricultural nitude but he knew also that he wanted that the remarks of Walt Horan's friends Appropriations Committee in the 83d and to see' his daughter and grandchildren that have been made here today bear out the 84th Congresses. again, and that dream was fulfilled. It is what I have always felt, and that is that I knew Walt to be an outstanding my hope that his wish w111 prove of com no man who ever served in this body was Christian gentleman and a man that fort to his fine family-Sally, his wife, held in higher esteem or was more be this country and the State of Wash and all his children-who remain, along loved by all of those who served with ington will long remember. with the great memory of his service, him. Those of us who always look for which is an inspiration for all of us. CXIII-43-Part 1 ward to returning to our State, those of 674 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD- ~OUSE January 17, 1967 us from the State of Washington, will Horan very well through our many years GENERAL LEAVE .TO EXTEND certainly regret that we cannot go back of joint service on the House Committee Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan and greet Walt again, but we will carry on Appropriations. I Join with the peo imous consent that all Members may with us the pleasant memories of the ple ,qf his State in adD;liration for his de have 5 legislative days in which to ex many years we have known him in our votion to their betterment. The fact tend their remarks on the life and serv hearts. that Walt spent 22 years in this body ice o{the late Walter Horan. Mr. HICKS. Mr. Speaker, will the representing them is surely a testimonial The SPEAKER. Without objection, it gentleman yield? to his faithfulness and ability. But more is so ordered. Mr. PELLY. I yield to the gentleman than that, Walt Horan was a close friend There was no objection. from Washington. whom I will sorely miss. To his lovely Mr. HICKS. Mr. Speaker, I join my wife and five children I offer my deepest colleagues in mourning the Honorable sympathy and prayers in their great loss. AMENDMENT TO FOREIGN TAX Walt Horan. It was not my privilege Mr. ADAIR. Mr. Speaker, I join my to know Mr. Horan personally, but I colleagues in the sentiments they have CREDIT PROVISION OF THE IN certainly know him by reputation. expressed at the loss of our friend and TERNAL REVENUE .CODE I knew his reputation in our State of former colleague Mr. Walt Horan. Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Washington, of course, years before I Those of us who have served with him unanimous consent to address the House came to Congress. That reputation was knew him to be a dedicated public ser for 1 minute and to revise and extend my of a dedicated, independent, personable, vant, a hard worker, and one motivated remarks. completely honest lawmaker-in short, with a high sense of responsibility. He The SPEAKER. Is there objection a fine. honorable man. was truly a great and dedicated Amer to the request of the gentleman from And I know his reputation in Wash ican, and his passing leaves a great void. South Carolina? ington, D.C. It is no different here than Mrs. Adair and I join with all the others There was no objection. it is in the State he loved and served so who have extended sympathy to his wife Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Speaker, I in well. There is no disagreement any Sally and their fine family. troduced H.R. 823 on Tuesday, the day 'Yhere: Mr. Horan was a fine, honorable Mr. MARSH. Mr. Speaker, it was Congress opened the first session of the man. with sadness that I learned of the pass 90th Congress. This bill has been re That his passing came in the Philip ing of Walter Horan, who for many years ferred to the ·ways and Means Commit pine.Islands, half a world from the State was the distinguished Representative of tee, and I hope every Member will have and the country he loved so well, made the Fifth Congressional District of the an opportunity to read this bill, and espe his death doubly tragic. State of Washington. As other Mem cially members of the Ways and Means -'Mr. ~ Speaker, even without having bers know, he was one of the most Committee, as the numerous industries known .Walt Horan personally, I mourn thoughtful and friendly people in the located in South Carolina and through him. For I feel that I have missed House. Not only was he a dedicated pub out the country are interested in this something important in life by not hav lic servant, but he was a man of unusual proposed amendment. ing known him personally. ability and intellect. I am inserting a full explanation of the · Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I · was There was a community of interest be bill at this point in the RECORD, as moved when one of our former colleagues tween his congressional district and my follows: who is ·present today said .that he would own, and Mr. Horan had a fond associa EXPLANATION OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE FOR like to bave expressed .his feelings at this tion with the Seventh Congressional Dis EIGN TAX CREDIT PROVISION OF THE INTER time. He is one who served on the Ap trict of Virginia. He was an orchard NAL REVENUE CODE, To IMPROVE BALANCE propriations Committee with Walt for so ist, and I recall that one of the first times OF PAYMENTS, BENEFIT DoMESTIC ECONOMY, many years, a good friend from Iowa, that I met him was when he attended AND OUR FOREIGN INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION Ben Jensen. He would have liked to say the annual picnic of the late Senator This bill is introduced not only as an what .those of us who are Members are Harry Byrd, where were invited the independent b1ll but also with the objective able to say. friends and associates of the apple indus of having the Ways and Means Committee try of the .former senior Senator from adopt this provision as an amendment to the :Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, I want first tax bill that might come up before the to join with my colleagues here today in Virginia. Walt Horan was a regular and Committee for its consideration under the exp.ressing my sorrow at the passing of welcome guest at that annual occasion. able chairmanship of Mr. M1lls, should this Walt Horan. . I would like to thank the gentleman from bill not be enacted as an independent Through the years of our close asso Washington [Mr. PELLY] for this op measure. ciation in the House of Representatives portunity to pay tribute to this distin The purpose of this bill is to amend sec he. was always my friend, as I was always guished son of his State. tion 902(b) and section 902(c) of the In his. I· wa.S shocked to learn of his un Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, I join with ternal Revenue Code of 1954. These sections my colleagues in eulogizing the late Walt provide that if a U.S. corporation owns 10 timely death. If someone were to ask me percent or more of the voting stock of a to describe Walt Horan in one word it Horan who ably represented the Fifth first-level foreign corporation, and if such would .be "unpretentious." But this Congressional District of the State of foreign corporation owns 50 percent or more would not. do him justice. Maybe a bet Washington for some 20 years. His un of the voting stock of a second-level foreign ter ' word would be "genuine." I knew timely death came as a shock to many of subsidiary, the dom'estic parent corporation Walt Horan as a man of unquestioned us who knew him well and admired him may credit against its U.S. taxes on dividends integrity, _able, and dedicated to his re greatly. He was a man of dedication, received from such subsidiaries· a propor wisdom, and devotion to the loftiest of tionate share of the foreign income taxes sponsibilities here in this body. Cer paid by such subsidiaries. .Under present; tainly there was no malice in his makeup principles. law no credit is allowed to the U.S. corpora toward anyone, and by the very nature Walt Horan was elected to the 78th tion for foreign income taxes paid by a for of }1is openhande.d, congenial willing and succeeding Congresses. He came to eign corporation beyond the second level. ness to be helpful, Walt Horan endeared the House of Representatives at the same To 1llustrate the e1fect of this amend himself to all of us, on both sides of the time I did, in 1943. Affable and articu ment, suppose a U.S. corporation has a aisie. · late, Walt went his way, always well in wholly-owned or majority-owned foreign subsidiary in country X which desires to To his bereaved family I extend my formed and convincing. He was a knowl develop a new activity with local capital heartfelt sympathies. May they take edgeable man, and had a way of impress participation but cannot provide 50 percent consolation in the fact that he served his ing his views on others in a most agree of the required capital without assistance country faithfully and with high distinc able and acceptable manner. Universally' from its American parent; it could, however, tion. · respected and admired, Walt seemed to provide 25 percent, with 75 percent provided Mr. ROONEY of New York. . Mr. number his friends in the Congress by from local capital. Under present law, this Speaker, I was deeply saddened to learn the number who knew him. He was my cannot be done without total loss of foreign friend, and I shall always feel that I was income tax credits. just before Christmas of the passing of The proposed amendment would reduce the Honorable Walt Horan, distinguished enriched by that acquaintance. the 50-percent requirement to 25 percent former Member of this body from the Mr. Speaker, this country needs more between the first and second levels and Fifth Congressional District of the State Walt Horans. This Congress needs more would include third-level foreign corpora q_f Waspington. I came to know Walt men of his caliber. tions in the tax credit structure if the 25- January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE_ ·. 675 percent test is met. Under existing rules enactment of this proposed amendment and regulations, the Treasury Department would permit the additional investment to have expressed it much more eloquently will have no dimculty in verifying the in come from foreign countries. than I could. · direct ownership of the third-level sub I would like to impress on my colleagues ··However, I do want to say that the sldiary by the ·domestic corporation. · the 'fact that I have given this matter careful editorial concerning the Speaker which It will be noted that under .the present study· and can see nothing but good resulting appeared 'this morning in the Washing law the U.S. parent ,corpor~tion does not ob from the enactment of this proposed amend ton Post does not speak for me, do.es not tain the benefit of the foreign income tax ment. credit unless it owns directly or indirectly express my opinions, nor, I know, the not less than 5 percent of the voting stock opinions of many other Members of the in the second-level subsidary, i.e., 10 ·per TRIBUTE TO HON. JOHN W. majority party with whom I have spoken this morning. cent of 50 percent. Accordingly, the pro McCORMACK · posed b111 specifically provides that the. U.S. I commend the Speaker for his leader parent corporation shall not ob~in the ben Mr. HULL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani ship and guidance in the past. Was he efit of the foreign income tax credit unless mous consent to address the House for 1 not the leader in the record-breaking it owns directly or· indirectly not less than 5 minute and to revise and extend my 89th Congress? percent of the voting stock of the particular remarks. second- or third-level foreign subsidiary. I simply want .to say that I hope you, Adoption of this amendment w111 have the The SPEAKER. Is there objection Mr. Speaker, will continue to assume following effects, all in our national inter to the request of the gentleman from the trials and tribulations of leadership est: Missouri? · for many more years, not only for the 1. American business will be able to ex There was no objection. benefit of our party but also for the pand and grow with less use of American Mr. HULL. Mr. Speaker, as we move benefit of our country. capital and increased participation of for into the important and busy workdays of Mr. O'HARA of Ill1nois. Mr. Speaker, eign loca.l nationals in their own economy, the new 90th Congress, I want to pause resulting in a more favorable business at I ask unanimous consent to address the mosphere abroad. · for a moment and express my best wishes House f-or 1 minute and to revise and 2. U.S. economy wm be benefited by in to you as you once again assume the extend my remarks. creased tax revenue, higher employment and heavy burdens of leadership as Speaker The SPEAKER. Is there objection income resulting from demand, where feas of the House of Representatives. to the request of the gentleman from ible, for raw materials, equipment and prod · The House is very fortunate to have a Illinois? ucts supplied from U.S. sources for construc Speaker with the experience, the dedica There was no objection. tion and maintenance of these foreign fa tion, and the enthusiasm for service of cUlties. Mr. O'HARA of Dlinois. Mr. Speaker, the Honorable JoHN W. McCoRMACK. I was amazed to read in the Washington 3. U.S. balance of payments w111 be im No doubt we will have some acrimoni proved. ~ost this morning that in the august With reference to Point #1, furthering our ous days ahead as we debate the great JUdgment of the editorial writer of that efforts to reduce the amount of U.S. dollars arid controversial issues of the present estimable newspaper a young man of 75 in foreign investments, adoption of this and it is propitious that this debate will sho'!]ld forsake the field of statesmanship amendment would enable American industry be overseen by a Speaker so committed and retire to the rocking chair and the to ut111ze local foreign capital rather than to protecting 'the rights of each individ knitting needles. U.S. dollars, without losing foreign tax cred ual Member, defending the prerogatives its, for modernization and expansion in se of the House itself, and a Speaker with America has never produced a more lected areas to meet foreign competition. such a highly developed sense of fairness. virile and masterful American than the The impact of increased participation of for Speaker of this House, and I can assure eign local nationals on the foreign business The Honorable JOHN W. McCoRMACK has served in this body for 40 years, the his good and considerate friend on the atmosphere is illustrated by the experience Post, who in the goodness of his generous in Canada where, under Section 106 ( 1a) last 4 as Speaker. He has made many of the Canadian Income Tax Act, effective in tremendous contributions to sound and heart would put him out to pasture, that 1963, provision is made for a reduction in orderly legislation and all of us who serve when young JoHN McCORMACK has the Canadian withholding tax paid by non here benefit from his counsel. His lead reached the riper age of 85 he will still be resident corporations having a prescribed de here, bossing the job for God and ership and guidance already are monu country. gree of Canadian ownership. ments to responsibility in public office. Also, where local national stock exchanges Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker I ask exist, use of local equity capital could result I know that under Speaker McCoR MACK's leadership, the 90th Congress will unanimous consent to extend my ~emarks in greater distribution of stock of second- or at this point in the RECORD. third-level foreign corporations and increased compile a record which will appeal to all sources of future venture capital abroad. Americans of good purpose. The SPEAKER. Is there objection Loss of foreign tax credits to U.S. parent cor Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the to the request of the gentleman from poration (under the present foreign tax credit gentleman yield? Missouri? structure and regulations governing interest Mr. HULL. I yield to the gentleman There was no objection. in first- and second-level foreign corporations or use of third-level corporations) necessi from Oklahoma. Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, I wel tates investment of U.S. capital for such Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, we can come this opportunity to join with my modernization and expansion. not speak of the achievements of the fellow Missourian, BILL HULL, to add a With reference to Point # 2, increased in 89th Congress without speaking in terms word of praise for our beloved Speaker, come and employment from demand for U.S. of the leadership of JoHN W. McCoR JOHN McCORMAcK. raw materials, plant equipment and other MACK. The achievements of the 89th When we arose this morning, we were supplies required for the construction of Congress are among the greatest of any shocked to read in the local paper the these fac111ties abroad as well as their contin Congress in all the history of the United ued maintenance and repair, directly aids lead editorial which suggested that the U.S. economy through increased tax revenues States. If any proof is needed, they are Speaker should gracefully step down and higher employment level and indirectly proof of his legislative leadership. because of some recent reverses. benefits the economy of the particular for Beyond that, all of us know that he is My first reaction was to ignore the edi eign country for this modernization' and a kind man, a Christian, a gentleman, torial and thereby not dignify an article expansion. and a personal friend who loves us all which was not factually accurate, but Last, and of vital importance-Point #3- and whom we all love from the bottom full of faulty reasoning which resulted improved balance of payments. Increased of our hearts. income from foreign investments of Ameri in a fallacious conclusion. can industry reduces or eliminates the net Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask When I learned some Members would outtlow of U.S. dollars, thus contributing to unani,mous consent to address the House not remain silent after this attack upon an improved U.S. balance of payments posi,;, for 1 minute and to revise and extend my our leader, it seemed to me silence might tion. As you well know, factors that improve remarks. imply agreement. Nothing could be our balance or payments are tremendously The S~EAKER. Is there objection farther from the truth. important to our financial picture and our to the request of the gentleman from The conclusion of the editorial is that economy. This measure, if enacted, would Connecticut? make a great contribution to this end. The the Speaker's leadership. is inadequate. protection of our marketing position abroad There was no objection. They proceed to base such a conclusion requires additional investments in our for Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I may on one or two events that have happened eign subsidiaries from either U.S. or foreign say that the previous speakers have an since we convened on January 10. Such countries to meet foreign competition. The ticipated what I had in mind to say and a charge completely ignores the long rec- 676 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE January 17, 1967 ord of fine leadership of our Speaker "If" for reading. JoHN McCoRMACK has UNITY AND WISDOM NEEDED TO over the many years since he assumed held his head and what is more "JOHN W. ACCOMPLISH OUR GOALS leadership after the passing of Speaker McCoRMACK is a man, my son." Sam Rayburn. Those were large shoes Mr. GALLAGHER. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. KLUCZYNSKI. Mr. Speaker, I to fill, but during the second session of unanimous consent 1to extend my remarks ask unanimous consent to extend my re the 87th Congress the new Speaker ex at this point in the RECORD and include marks at this point in 1the RECORD and hibited brilliant leadership that has con extraneous matter. include extraneous matter. tinued on during all of the past 5 years. The SPEAKER. Is there objection The SPEAKER. Is there objection Some of us may not have agreed com to the request of the gentleman from to the request of the gentleman from pletely with the Speaker on several dif New Jersey? Illinois? ferent issues. We have not always voted There was no objection. as he would have preferred. But he is There was no objection. Mr: KLUCZYNSKI. Mr. Speaker, in not a man that becomes angry or vin Mr. GALLAGHER. Mr. Speaker, what my 16 years' service in the Congress, I dicative. All of us recognize in JoHN is the Speaker's role in the House of have seldom risen to address the House a man who in every instance is kindly, Representatives? I would venture to say on any matter other than the legislation understanding, and concerned for his that few men in America would be able before us. I do so today, however, be fellow Members. He is always willing to answer this question, for each man, cause I believe we are endangering our to listen to the problems of a Member, as Speaker, makes his own mark and sets capacity to act for the good of the coun whether he is a new or old Member, on his own course. The Speaker of the try by allowing ourselves to become em either side of the political aisle. JoHN House of Representatives is a man whose broiled in procedural dissension that is McCoRMACK has not only been very responsibilities can never be defined and both unbecoming and extremely unwise. patient with his fellow Members, he is never be categorized. Each man is his We have immediately behind us the a man who has always been fair with his own best judge of what he can do, and work of one of the most productive and colleagues, whether they happened to only history can tell us whether he has progressive Congresses in the history of agree with him or not. done this job well. the Nation. Much remains to be done It is for this reason, Mr. Speaker, many In the history of the U.S. Congress here if the country is to know the full of us resent the suggestion in the local few will disagree that the 89th Congress potential benefit of the vital and for Washington paper that you relinquish will rank among those which brought ward-looking programs we have enacted your leadership. You have just been about great accomplishment and great into law. And much labor is ahead of elected Speaker. The membership on achievement. And let no man think that us if we are to bring into being needed your side of the aisle has just expressed this Congress created its greatness by new programs and improvement of ex its confidence that in the 90th Congress, itself because a ship with no captain isting ones. you w111 exhibit the same high level of :flounders on the shore. The giant of To accomplish our work, we will need excellent, and if you please, quite ade that Congress was Speaker JoHN Mc all the good will, all the unity of spirit quate leadership that you have shown CoRMACK. It was he who lent both out and determination, and all the accumu in the 87th, 88th, and 89th Congresses. standing · leadership combined with a lated wisdom of the years, that we can Mr. Speaker, the membership of this new wealth of experience and the assurance bring forth. We necessarily look to our Congress has confidence in you. We do of purpose to those of us-and there leadership for these qualities, and they not intend to let one editorial lessen were many of us--who wanted great are there for us in full measure if we or undermine the high esteem we all things but knew not how to get them. will take care not to obscure them by have for our Speaker. On many a close vote it was JoHN Mc dealing in personalities. Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. CoRMACK's personal prestige that could The leadership has a responsibility to Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad find a needed vote, or turn a vote against its party, of course, but in the last analy dress the House for 1 minute and 'to revise into a vote for. sis its basic function is to insure that and extend my remarks. For this, and for all he has done in his the will of the majority will prevail here. The SPEAKER. Is there objection many years as a Member of Congress, Each of us must bear in mind that, what to the request of ·the gentleman from let no man say that he has not lent dig ever the pressures of a given day may Massachusetts? nity and wisdom to the Speakership. be, we have an overriding obligation to There was no objection. Few in history have had the affection work for the good of the House over the Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. and loyalty from the House membership long haul, for upon the strength of this Speaker, I rise to join with my colleagues as has Speaker McCoRMACK. And few body rests the well-being of our country. in the House in expressing my complete have met criticism with as much dignity, Each of us has his problems, and each confidence in your leadership as the grace, and courage. of us has his ambitions, whatever our Speaker of the House of Representatives. I am sure that the 90th Congress will age, our experience, or our party. But It is regrettable that the editorial that make a mark on history and once again, beyond any considerations involved in appeared in the Washington Post in to we will be privileged and fortunate our own political destinies, we have an day's morning edition contained so many enough to have as Speaker one who ranks unchanging responsibility to act first in inaccurate statements. It does not repre among the foremost alltime legislators the national interest. sent the facts. It failed to point out the of this country in its 187 years of history. If we are to meet that responsibility long hours you spend in the Speaker's of And let us not forget the heavy burden in the weeks and months ahead-if we fice from early morning every day until of responsibility he carried upon the are to make wise choices among the dUD late in the evening. It did not reveal death of President Kennedy, with the cult alternatives in both programs and your excellent record in guiding through double duty as next in line of presidential financing that confront us--then as the 89th Congress legislation that bene succession and the heavy responsibility Democrats, and Republicans, we must fited all of our people. When the history of leading the legislative branch of our put aside this internal turmoil, avail of the many Speakers of the U.S. House Government. There are few men in all ourselves of all the ability, dedication, of Representatives is written, the name the world who could have endured the and experience that we have in such of JOHN W. MCCORMACK, like that Of burden he carried during those days and abundance, and get on with the legisla Abou ben Adhem, will lead all the rest. maintain his calm certainty and un tive work before us. Yes, Mr. Speaker, you are the hardest daunted wisdom. We have problems aplenty to deal working Member of the House; your pace And, finally, let every American recog with in performing that task. Let us not would put many younger Members to nize the debt of gratitude it owes to compound our problems by encouraging shame. You are loved, honored, andre Speaker McCoRMACK for his fine work disunity, either directly by our own spected by every Member of this body. and wise leadership. He has helped to words and actions or indirectly by trying The Democratic Party is certainly steer this greatest and richest of all coun to capitalize on the words and actions proud of you; the Republican Party rec tries on a path of achievement and prog of others. Let us, I urge each of you, ognizes your fairness. ress, and he is one of the few men who settle down and pull together. No good I would commend to the editorial could do this. Speaker McCoRMACK, can come of pursuing a negative atti writer, Rudyard Kipling's immortal poem thank you. tude. We are in a difficult and serious January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 677 period for our country, and we can hope the Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, signed to attract a majority vote within the to meet its demands only by construc he was awarded the State championship, $100 House for all legislative measures important tive effort and genuine respect for the and a trip to Kansas City for the semifinals. to the country. He is in constant touch Again he emerged victorious, with first place with important legislation in every phase of qualities each has to offer toward the and a three month tour of Europe. its development, and is responsible for an- common good. After graduating from McAlester High as nouncing the weekly programs under which president of the student body and class vale- the proposals are brought up for considera dictorian, Carl went on to tlie University of tion. McALESTER NEWSPAPER SALUTES Oklahoma, where he was elected president of Albert brings to his position an idealism CARL ALBERT the student body and a member of Phi Beta tempered, but not diminished by the prag Kappa, and became National Oratorical matism he has gained during his two decades Mr. EDMONDSON. Mr. Speaker, I Champion, for which he received a $1,500 as a member of Congress. He is widely ask unanimous consent rto extend my cash prize and a trip to Honolulu. known as the most careful nose-counter in remarks at this point in the RECORD and He graduated from O.U. in 1931 and was the House, and at the same time is admired include extraneous matter. awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study at for his deep sense of history and political The SPEAKER. Is there objection Oxford University in England, where he philosophy. As President Johnson, put it, earned a B.A. and a B.C.L. in law. During "Carl Albert is one of the true intellectuals to ·the request of the gentleman from his three year stay at Oxford, he was able in Washington." Okla;homa? to visit most of the countries in Europe and But despite the great burdens of his of- There was no objection. North Africa. flee, Albert's first loyalty is still to the pea- Mr. EDMONDSON. Mr. Speaker, Upon his return to the United 'States, AI- pie he works for, his neighbors in southeast CARL ALBERT, our outstanding majority bert worked as a law clerk with the Federal ern Oklahoma. Although he is involved with leader, is Oklahoma's favorite son. Our Housing Administration in Oklahoma City, great issues which affect the entire nation pride in CARL is honest pride, based on before entering the Armed Services in 1941 and the world, he is always eager to help his widely recognized ability, his achieve as a private assigned to the Third Armored an elderly couple in obtaining Social Be Division. After serving with distinction in curity payments, or to assist a community in ments in Government, and his warmth the Pacific Theater during the War, for funding a new sewer system. In fact, as his as a person. which he received the Bronze Star, Lieu- responsib111ties have multiplied, so have his The reasons for our pride are well-ex tenant Colonel Albert was discharged in 1946, opportunities to help his people. pressed in a story in the McAlester Dem and shortly thereafter announced for Con- In recognition of his efforts on their be- ocrat, a newspaper in the majority gress. half, the people of his district and of his leader's hometown, of Sunday, January Locked in a five-man Democratic primary state have seen fit to honor Carl Albert in 8, 1967. The story was written by How race, he managed to win the nomination many ways. Lake carl Albert, nestled in the ard Yourman, a brilliant young high with a 328-vote margain out of more than foothills of the Bu1falo Mountains north- 60,000 votes cast. Later that year, Congress- west of Talihina, assures the surrounding school senior who has been associated for man-elect Albert crossed the Red River to area of water even in prolonged droughts. more than a year with the Albert staff visit House Speaker Sam Rayburn at his carl Albert High School, in Midwest City, and knows Mr. ALBERT's work and per home in Bonham, Texas, thus beginning a stands as a living monument to the Majority sonal qualities first hand. warm friendship which lasted right up until Leader's everlasting interest in education. Mr. Speaker, I would like this story to the revered Speaker's death. / Even the main thoroughfare in McAlester appear in the RECORD as an eloquent "Mr. Rayburn," as President Johnson re- his hometown, is dedicated in his name. ' testimonial to the outstanding job Mr. marked at a dinner honoring Albert in Wash- But perhaps the greatest gesture of ap ALBERT does as a leader of this body, and ington last July, "was a wise judge of men. preciation for his diligent efforts on their H~ liked Carl Albert and respected him as a behalf has been the continued support he as a representative of the people of Okla br1lliant lawyer. He saw in him the com- has received from his constituents during the homa. It follows: man sense and good judgment that rounds past twenty years, and which he will strive CARL ALBERT STARTS 21ST YEAR ON HILL out an educated man, and he really must to maintain in the promising future. JOINED HOUSE 1946 have seen a lot of himself in Carl, because they were cut from the same pattern." (By Howard Yourman) These qualities, his years of service on When the bell sounds to mark the open the House Committee on Agriculture, Admin STRATTON BILL PUTS A REASON ing of the Ninetieth Congress Tuesday, it istration, and Post Office and Civil Service, ABLE CEILING ON COSTS OF also will mark the beginning of Congress plus his knowledge of House procedure and a man Carl Albert's twenty-first year of serv long-standing record of support for the Dem STATE MEDICAID PROGRAMS UN ice to the people of Oklahoma's Third Con ocratic Party, made Albert a natural choice DER TITLE 19 OF SOCIAL SECU gressional District. to succeed James Percy Priest as Party Whip, As a member of every Congress since his or assistant Leader, in 1955. RITY AMENDMENTS OF 1965 first election to the U.S. House of Repre The appointment, announced to Demo Mr. STRATTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask sentatives in 1946, Albert has served more cratic members by Majority Leader (later unanimous consent to ex,tend my remarks years in the House than any previous Okla Speaker) John W. McCormack, gave Albert homa representative. the number three position in the House at this point in the RECORD. From his first days as a freshman mem Democratic structure and the highest office The SPEAKER. Is there objection ber-in an entering class that included ever held by an Oklahoman in Congress. to the request of the gentleman from John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon-Al His new job carried with it heavy re New York? bert has worked his way up through the sponsib111ties and few material rewards, but There was no objection. ranks of the Democratic Party to occupy the Albert attacked it with sedulity, attending Mr. STRATTON. Mr. Speaker, the powerful post of Majority Leader, and in the policy conferences and briefings, keeping process has become one of the most influen abreast of legislation, and rounding up votes experience of a number of our States in tial men on Capitol Hill. for important b1lls. These additional duties implementing the provisions of title 19 But working his way up is nothing new for however, were always subordinate to his pri of the Social Security Amendments of Carl Albert. The oldest of five children born mary task-that of representing his con 1965, the so-called medicaid program, to Earnest Homer Albert, a coal miner, and stituents in the Congress of the United has demonstrated clearly the necessity Leona Ann Scott, Carl is a fourth generation States. for clarifying and sharpening the lan Oklahoman. His maternal great-grand After five hectic months, Albert was stm guage of the 1965 statute in order to father, Stacey R. Scott, settled in Krebs in able to speak of his job with enthusiasm: make the original intention of Congress 1887. His paternal great-grandfather, Ell "Although it has meant longer hours and Albert, came to Oklahoma in 1889, and lived harder work for me, I have derived a great more clear and explicit. Under that the last few years of his life in Wilburton. deal of personal satisfaction out of the re original law we left a good deal of free Both ancestors were Civil War veterans. sults we have been able to obtain. It has dom to the individual States, assuming When Carl was three, his father bought a been an 1lluminating experience." that they would exercise a measure of farm seven miles northeast of McAlester in Albert's low pressure technique, compas caution and discretion in i~plementing the community known as Flowery Mound, sionate yet effective, earned him the respect this program within their own bound but commonly called Bug Tussle. It was of both members and the leadership, and aries. But the experience of a number there that he grew up and received his first made him their easy choice for the Majority of States, most particularly my own eight years of schooling. Leader's spot when Sam Rayburn died in State of New York, has demonstrated As a student at McAlester High School, 1961. Carl took an interest in public speaking As Majority Leader, the Speaker's right that we need to be more explicit our which eventually resulted in his winning a hand man, Albert's job is to lead the Demo selves in determining guidelines for State district championship in the Midwest Ora crats in the day-to-day partisan struggles medicaid programs if the ultimate costs torical Contest and the right to compete for which occur oh the Floor of the House. With of this title are to remain within reason State honors. For his performance before the Speaker, he formulates the strategies de- able limits of the kind which we had as- 678 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 sumed would develop when Congress to be helping people to become self-sup [In the 89th Cong., second sess.] passed the initial legislation. porting, not encouraging them to go on H.R. 18225 As it is now, the cost of the program in welfare. And when the health commis A bill to amend title XIX of the Social New York State, for example, is estimated sioner in New York City publicly tells Security Act to run on an annual basis almost twice older people to give up their doctor's ben Be it enacted by the Senate and House of the amount which we had originally an efits under medicare and get it all free Representatives of the United States of ticipated and set aside for title 19 pro under medicaid, as he actually did last America in Congress assembled, grams in all 50 States. Clearly this is year, it is obvious that if 49 other States LIMITATION ON FEDERAL PARTICIPATION IN MED out of line with what we had in mind, followed suit medicare itself would be ICAL ASSISTANCE FURNISHED TO RELATIVES OF even if our own original legislation may ruined. This clearly was not our original DEPENDENT CHILDREN have been at fault in not defining our intent. SECTION 1. (a) Section 1905(a) (U) of the purposes more exactly. If all 50 States The bill reported out of the Ways and Social Security Act is amended to read as were to follow the lead of the New York follows: Means Committee l·ast fall but never con "(11) relatives specified ln section 406(b) (1) program without any further guidelines sidered on the floor put two somewhat with whom a child is living if money pay from us, therefore, we would certainly milder limits on State medicaid pro ments with respect to such child are being find the overall costs of implementing grams. One would provide that no medi made under the State plan approved under medicaid far exceeding the costs of the cal benefits could be given to parents of title IV, or if such money payments would basic program of medicare, and I think "dependent children" except where those upon application be made, or (in the case of we might even find that it would be oper families are already receiving Federal a child who resides in the State) if such ating in such a way as even to under welfare payments. This eliminates the money payments would upon application be mine the original medicare legislation. made except for failure to satisfy additional ,situation which now exists under the residence requirements imposed by the State Last year, therefore, disturbed by the New York State law where parents of plan approved under title IV,". implications of the New York interpreta any child can become eligible for help (b) The amendment made by subsection tion of title 19, I introduced legislation for hospital bills simply by going into the (a) shall apply with respect to calendar to put some definite limits on State pro hospital, since the children then auto quarters beginning after March 31, 1967. grams under this title, and I spoke out on matically become members of a family in COORDINATION OF TITLE XIX AND THE SUPPLE- several occasions in the House to urge which one parent is "disabled." MENTARY MEDICAL INSURANCE PROGRAM the Members of the great committee on The bill's other provision would outlaw SEC. 2. (a) Section 1843 of the Social Ways and Means to examine this prob the dodge encouraged by the New York Security Act is amended by adding at the lem and develop some clarifying legisla City commissioner, by denying all doc end thereof the following new subsection: tion of their own. As Members will re tors benefits under medicaid to persons "(h) (1) The Secretary shall, at the re call, in the closing days of the 1966 ses over 65 who have not previously signed quest of a State made before January 1, sion the Ways and Means Committee did 1968, enter into a modification of an agree up for the $3-a-month doctor's program ment entered into with such State pursuant report out a bill that would have put on under medicare. to subsection (a) under which the coverage certain limitations and would have kept Mr. Speaker, I believe that this matter group described in subsection (b) and speci down some of the excessive costs involved. is one of considerable urgency in this fied in such agreement is broadened to in Because of the lateness of the session, Congress. We must act promptly so that clude individuals who are age sixty-five or however, neither the House nor the Sen individual States and counties will know over and are eligible to receive medical assist ate ever considered this bill. exactly how much in Federal funds they ance under the plan of such State approved Because the matter is still as urgent can anticipate from this Congress. Al under title XIX. today as it was last year, in fact even ready a number of counties in New York "(2) For purposes of this section, an indi vidual shall be treated as eligible to receive more urgent, I have reintroduced my State are finding it necessary to go into medical assistance under the plan of the own bill in this Congress as H.R. 1291. debt to meet even their projected share State approved under title XIX if, for the This is a new Congress after all and a of the overall costs of the New York month in which the modification is entered far more cautious and cost-conscious one. State program, assuming that Congress into under this subsection or for any month I feel sure the committee will want to will pick up 50 percent of all costs in thereafter, he has been determined to be go at least as far as they were prepared curred, regardless of whether those costs eligible to receive medical assistance under to go last year and I would be inclined are in line or not in line with original such plan. In the case of any individual to think perhaps they might want to who would (but for this subsection) be estimates by the State. But if this cost excluded from the agreement, subsections consider proposals which would go even conscious Congress decides this year, as (c) and (d) (2) shall be applied as if they further. For that reason I have rein I believe it is likely to decide, that it is referred to the modification under this sub troduced my bill so that the committee not going to appropriate for local medic section (in lieu of the agreement under members, including the new members aid programs sums far in excess of those subsection (a)), and subsection (d) (2) (C) who are going on that committee, can which it was originally thought would be shall be applied by substituting 'third month have my proposals before them when this required for these programs, then the following the first month' for 'first month'." matter comes up for consideration. costs already being incurred in individual (b) (1) Section 1843(d) (3) (A) of such Act Under my bill no State medicaid pro is amended by striking out "ineligible for States, including New York, w111 have to money payments of a kind specified in the gram could be approved if it made free be borne in much larger measure by the agreement" and inserting in lieu thereof medical care available to persons whose States themselves or by the individual the following: "ineligible both for money income was more than 90 percent of the counties. And since individual counties payments of a kind specified in the agree national average, or if the total number are having difficulty meeting the pro ment and (if there is in effect a modification of persons in a State eligible to get such jected costs on the basis of the original entered into under subsection (h)) for medi help exceeded 20 percent of the State's interpretation, they will find themselves cal assistance". total population. My bill also provides even harder pressed if they are required (2) Section 1843(f) of such Act is that before a State program can be ap to pick up a larger percentage of the total amended- ( A) by inserting after "or XVI" the follow proved the State must demonstrate that bill. ing: "or eligible to receive medical assistance it will not discourage the growth of pub It is important, therefore, that we put under the plan of such State approved under lic or private p.Tograms of self-contribu limits on this program now so that the title XIX"; and tory medical insurance, such as medicare States and counties may know clearly, (B) by inserting after "and XVI" the fol itself. and without further delay, what to ex lowing: "and individuals eligible to receive As it now stands, the New York medic pect in terms of Federal assistance in this medical assistance under the plan of the aid program makes about 40 percent of increasingly costly program. State approved under title XIX". the State's overall population eligible for In order to assist Members in under (3) The heading of section 1843 of such this basic welfare aid program. In soi_lle standing the issues presented here, I am Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(OR ARE ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAL counties, including my own county of including with my remarks a copy of the ASSISTANCE) ". Montgomery, the figure is as high as 79 legislation reported favorably by the (c) Section 1903(b) of such Act is amended percent. Obviously something is rad Ways and Means Committee last fall, by inserting " ( 1)" after "(b) ", and by add ically wrong when 21 percent of the H.R. 18225 of the 89th Congress, and ing at the end thereof the following new people are asked to pay the medical bills also a copy of my own bill, H.R. 1291 of paragraph: of the remaining 79 percent of the popu this Congress. "(2) Notwithstanding the preceding pro lation. The Federal Government ought The two bills are as follows: vislons of this section, the amount deter- January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 679 mined under subsection (a) ( 1) for any State 'assistance under any other such State plan, [In the 90th Cong., first sess.] for any quarter beginning after 1966 shall and · ' ·H.R. 1291 "(II) shall not be less in amount, duration, not take into account any amounts ex A bill to amend title XIX of the Social se.. pended as medical assistance with respect or scope than the medical or remedial care curity Act to impose certain limitations to individuals aged sixty-five or over which and services made available to such individ with respect to eligibility requirements would not have been so expended if the indi uals not receiving aid or assistance under any such plan; and under State plans for medical assistance, viduals involved had been enrolled in the and to require that State medical assistance insurance program established by part B "(11) if medical or ·remedial care and serv ices are included for any group of such in programs. be designed not to discourage of title XVIII." the gro.wth and development of private (d) Effective with · respect to calendar dividuals who are not receiving aid or assist quarters beginning after 1966, section 1903 (a) ance under any such State plan and who and group medical insurance ( 1) of such Act is amended by striking out do not meet the income and resources re Be it enacted by the Senate and House of "and other insurance premiums" and insert quirements of the one of such State plans .Representatives of the United States of Amer ing_in lieu thereof "and, except in the case which is appropriate, as determined in ac ica in Congress assembled, That section 1902 of individuals sixty-five years of age or older cordance with s·tandards pr~cribed by the of the Social Security Act is amended by who are not enrolled under part B of title Secretary, provide- adding at the end thereof the following new XVIII, other insurance premiums". "(I) for making medical or remedial care subsection: ~ (e) ( 1) Section 1843 (c) of such Act is and services available to all such individuals "(d) · Notwithstanding subsection (b), the amended-- · who would, if needy, be eligible for aid or Secretary shall not approve any State plan (A) by striking out "and before .January assistance under any such State plan and for medical assistance if the eligibility stand 1, 1968"; and who have insufficient (as determined in ac ards for assistance under the plan ( 1) are (B) by striking out "thereafter before Jan cordance with comparable standards) income such that the number of individuals who are uary 1968" and inserting in lieu thereof and resources to meet the oosts of necessary determined to be eligible for such assistance, "thereafter". medical or remedial care and services, and when added to the number of other indi (2) Section 1843(d) (2) (D) of such Act is "(II) that the medical or remedial care viduals who are eligible under any State amended by striking out "(not later than and services made available to all such in financed noncontributory medical assistance January 1, 1968) ". dividuals not receiving aid or assistance un program for which Federal funds are not pro vided, will exceed 20 per centum of the popu MODIFICATION OF COMPARABILITY PROVISION der any such state plan shall be equal in amount, duration, and scope;". lation of the State, or (2) permit the furnish SEC. 3 (a) Section 1902(a) {10) of the So (b) The amendment made by subsection ing of assistance to persons whose individual cial Security Act is amended to read as (a) shall apply with respect to calendar or family income exc.eeds 90 per centum of follows: quarters beginning after the date of the the average individual income or · average "(10) (A) provide for making medical as enactment of this Act. family income (as the case may be) in the sistance available to all individuals receiving State." aid or assistance under State plans approved ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF DETERMINING MAINTE SEC. 3. Section 1903(e) of the. Social Se under titles I, IV, X, XIV, and XVI; NANCE OF STATE EFFORT curity Act is amended by adding at the end "(B) with respect to individuals under age SEc. 4. (a) Section 1117 (a) of the Social thereof the following new sentence: "To sixty-five- Security Act is amended by adding at the insure that medical assistance programs will " ( i) provide that the medical assistance end thereof the following new sentences: enable individuals to attain or retain inde made available to such individuals receiving "For any fiscal year ending on or after June pendence or self care with respect to medical aid or assistance under any such State plan- 30, 1966, and before July 1, 1969, in lieu of or remedial care and services, the Secretary " (I) shall not be less in amount, duration, the substitution provided by paragraph (3) shall not make such payments to any State or scope than the medical assistance made or (4), at the option of the State (1) para unless such State has xnade a satisfactory available to such individ~als receiving aid or graphs (1) and (2) of this subsection shall showing that such plan will not impair or assistance under any other such State .plan, be applied on a fiscal year basis (rather than discourage the growth and development of and on a quarterly basis), and (ii) the base pe private or group medical insurance programs "(II) shall not be less in amount, dura riod fiscal year shall be either the :flscal year within such State." tion, or scope than the medical or remedial ending June 30, 1965, or the fiscal year ending care and services made available to such in June 30, 1964 (whichever is chosen by the dividuals not receiving aid or assistance un State). In applying the preceding sentence der any such plan; and to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, there ELECTION TO COMMITTEE ON WAYS " ( 11) if medical or remedial care and serv shall be taken into account, as a fiscal year, AND MEANS ices are included fo~ any group of auch indi only the last two quarters of such year and viduals who are not receiving aid or assist of the appropriate base period fiscal year." Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, ance under any such State plari and who do (b) Section 1117 of such Act is amended I offer a resolution the gentleman from quirement prescribed therein shall not, by IN CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES reason of this subparagraph (B), require the SEC. 5. (a) Section 1903{a) (2) of the Social Montana? making available of any such services, or the Security Act is amended by striking out "of There was no objeotion. making available of such services of the same the State agency (or of the local agency ad Mr. OLSEN. Mr. Speaker, I have amount, duration, and scope, to individuals ministering the State plan in the political introduced a concurrent resolution ex of any other ages; and subdivision)" and inserting in lieu thereof pressing the sense of the Congress that " (C) with respect to individuals sixty-:flve "of the State agency or any other public the Federal-aid highway program years of age or older- agency". should proceed as rapidly as available " {i) provide that the medical assistance (b) The amendment made by subsection revenues in the Highway Trust Fund made available to such individuals receiving (a) shall apply with respect to expenditures aid or assistance under any such State plan- made in or after the calendar quarter in permit. " (I) shall not be less in amount, duration, which this Act is enacted for administration Last November the Bureau of Public or scope than the medical assistance made of State plans approved under title XIX of Roads announced a substantial reduc available to such individuals receiving aid or the Social Security Act. tion in Federal funds for highways be- 680 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE January 17, 1967 cause of increased costs associated with Credib111ty gap or not, he meant what he small-farmer's son become President has our involvement in Vietnam. said. Civil rights, of course. A Southerner, plotted out in his Great Society the contours I think this was an unwise decision. he took the Negro side, converting ideas into and trace-lines of the next major social de measures. Abolition of poverty, plainly pos velopment in America. We need excellent highways not only to sible in a country providing an average in Be the outcome triumph or tragedy, as an reduce injuries and fatalities and to im come of nearly $3,000 for each American. old New Dealer I am clear that to underesti prove normal domestic transportation, But that means taking poverty out of people mate him is a historical mistake of the first but as an important part of our Nation's as well as people out of poverty. order. defense. The state of our transporta A society of beauty, wiping out ghettos, tion system could spell success or fail redeveloping cities, cleansing air and streams, TRIBUTE TO SPEAKER JOHN W. ure for us in any national emergency. cleaning foul highway borders. But that requires liberating and canalizing reservoirs McCORMACK Surely the war in Vietnam is a reminder of local energy. A society in which no stu that improved highways should be high dent must forgo education for want of funds. Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I ask on the priority list of necessary expendi But that calls for vast increase in schools unanimous .consent to address the House tures. and universities. A society whose business for 1 minute. and labor understand economic planning well The SPEAKER. Is there objection APPRAISAL OF L.B.J. BY AN OLD enough to cooperate in handling prices, to the request of the gentleman from profits and wages. But that calls for a Louisiana? NEW DEALER changed conception of business. Translation of American capacity to give There was no objection. Mr. RESNICK. Mr. Speaker, I ask full bank accounts into ability to cause civil Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I was unanimous consent to address the House ized cultural achievement. But that requires momentarily absent from the floor when for 1 minute, to revise and extend my re intellectuals and artists to conceive, propose, the majority leader made some remarks marks, and ~to include an article. execute. As in the case of the New Deal, with respect to an editorial which ap The SPEAKER. Is there objection criticism of the Great Society is bitter-but peared in one of the local newspapers to the request of the gentleman from perhaps headed for similar oblivion. here this morning. New York? Battle is joined on all fronts. President Johnson should, and does not, have support I should like to associate myself with There was no objection. of many intellectuals who would seem to be those remarks. I should like also to say Mr. RESNICK. Mr. Speaker, many his natural allies. Perhaps because of his that when the history of this era is writ great American Presidents have voiced proletarian experience, he dealt in realities, ten no name will loom larger than the deep concern with the problems of rather than in unassailable abstractions. name of JoHN McCoRMACK. I say this American life and have instituted sig After the Dallas tragedy, he met coolness after many years of close, intimate as nificant programs to help us turn the from some who identified their finest hours sociation with the Speaker of this House. American dream into a reality but few, exclusively with President Kennedy. In fact, As a Democrat, I believe that no rec President Johnson did more than continue if any, Presidents have moved as fast, the Kennedy direction. He opened the gates ord is comparable to the record of the as far, and as decisively as President to a new vista; and these cannot be shut by 89th Congress, and that just did not hap Johnson. It is an ironic fact of American friend or foe. Already his ablest competitors pen accidentally. As my colleagues on political life today that President John pay him the compliment of imitation-as the other side can attest, many of those son, for a variety of reasons, is being de did Gov. Nelson Rockefeller on Jan. 2 in bills, if not most of them, were fought prived of his just share of credit for the proposing the "Just Society." paragraph by paragraph, in committee, great changes he has effected in Amer THE WAR IN VIETNAM out of committee, in the Committee of ican society--changes which will have a In fiscal policy-to tax or to abandon Great the Whole, on the floor of the House, and permanent and profound effect-and I Society spending-the issue comes to this: in conference. hasten to add a pronounced uplifting Will the prosperous insist on saving today at I sat not once but many times, hour effect-on all generations to come. cost of a drab and dangerous tomorrow, or after hour, day after day, in the Office of Therefore, I am pleased at this time to will they-as they can without hardship the Speaker of the House, working on assume the costs for tomorrow's America as these programs so that they ultimately introduce into the RECORD an ·article by well as the far from crushing costs of Viet Adolph A. Berle, a renowned and re nam? The President is saying they must. became the law of the land-medicare; spected lawyer, professor, author, diplo Johnson's really controversial decision-his aid to education, across the board, in mat, and noted New Dealer, which helps handling of the Vietnamese war-was that of every element of education; pollution put into historical perspective the accom a big man. At time of involvement, Moscow control; all of the great programs that plishments of the Johnson administra and Peking were working together. Indo are now part of the law of the land and tion, and clearly establishes this admin nesia was in the Chinese orbit. War was which are accepted, by and large, by istration as one of the most liberal and making in Malaysia. To enter Indochina was people everywhere. dangerous; to stand aside meant risking truly effective administrations in Ameri world balance at Incalculable peril. Today, It is very easy, Mr. Speaker, to criti can history. The article was published the Soviet Union is at odds with China, In cize. It is very easy to be destructive. in the New York Times on Saturday, donesia is back in the United Nations, the It is very easy to tear down. January 14, and is as follows: Malaysian war is liquidated. It is very hard to be constructive, to be APPRAISAL OF L.B.J. BY AN OLD NEW DEALER Johnson's decisive Dominican action seems affirmative, to be for something. (By Adolph A. Berle) to have reduced to minor scale Russian in I, for one, as the majority whip of this Though President Lyndon B. Johnson may, trigues in the Caribbean. Balance is again House, have been proud to serve under emerging, and the Vietnam problem seems the able, dedicated leadership of JoHN as pundits say, be in for a spell of stormy moving toward manageable dimensions, of political weather, conclusions from the 1966 fering possibility of peace and disinvolve McCORMACK, and may it continue for Congressional elections can be overdone. In ment without tossing Southeast Asia over many years to come. 1964 Republicans bolted from Goldwater to board. Johnson by millions. In 1964 they returned to the fold, perhaps restoring hairline party Dissident Democratic Governors and re balance by which President Kennedy de puted rivals are realizing that in 1968 any THE HONORABLE JOHN McCOR feated Mr. Nixon. Democrat will have to run on the record, MACK, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE · But, since the Camelot era, President achievements and conceptions of Lyndon Johnson introduced a new element. He Johnson's Great Society. They cannot do Mr. RIVERS. Mr. Speaker, I have a launched an irreversible tide in American otherwise. These _will be the stuff of the parliamentary inquiry. politics inescapably bearing his stamp. Ir next campaign. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will respective of press popularity, or opinions of Winning or losing, the President emerges state it. his "style" or the barring of camelot castles as a towering figure. He is not a great poli Mr. RIVERS. The majority whip has to him, his conception of the Great Society tician; his local connections are absurdly weak. He is not a romantic image. The referred to one of the local morning must dominate the political scene for years papers, one of the local morning papers, to come. brilliant court and flashing pennons of MEANT WHAT HE SAID Camelot are not his. in which the Speaker is needlessly but Johnson was one of a very few to realize TRACE-LINES OF THE FUTURE very lavishly and gratuitously libeled and that the impulses of Franklln Roosevelt's But neither is he an Andrew Johnson, vul slandered. Mr. Speaker, my parliamen- New Deal had achieved themselves. A new nerable to h.ttack by misguided idealists. tary inquiry is this: Since this uncalled phase transcending mere economics was over Rather, with dogged determination, using for editorial reflects on every single Mem due. Christening it "The Great Society," what tools he has, and denied the help of ber of the House, my parliamentary in Johnson blocked out it.6 goals. some who should have been with him, the quiry is I request that I be permitted to January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 681 rise and be recognized for an hour on a and written extensively on U.S. foreign Ho, a. minister in the government here ex point of personal privilege. policy and other international actions plained to this reporter : "You must remember that we have been at The SPEAKER. The Chair will state and events. He has been called upon to war for 25 years. We were at war with the that the matter is not one of personal counsel with Presidents of our country. Japanese after they occupied our country privilege. Does the gentleman seek fur His reporting from Hanoi merits a care during World War II. Then the French re ther recognition? ful review by the Foreign Affairs Com turned and tried to reestablish their rule in Mr. RIVERS. Yes. I positively do. mittee and the Foreign Relations Com our country. We fought and defeated the Have you overruled me? mittee and Members of this body, as well French. And now the Americans. The SPEAKER. There is a difference as the State Department, and the Ameri "So, we have fought too many wars for too between overruling and ruling. can people. many years to compromise our independence now." Mr. RIVERS. Mr. Speaker, I most re Accordingly I shall place in the RECORD Ho Chi Minh is a legend in Asia. He ap spectfully ask to be recognized for a long the entire series of Bill Baggs' reports. peared half a century ago as a Nationalist, in minute. The Miami News said on Monday, Jan· Europe and particularly in Paris, arguing for The SPEAKER. Without objection, uary 16, 1967: the independence of his country. He once the gentleman is recognized for 1 minute. Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic worked in New York City, in a menial job, There was no objection. Republic of Vietnam, had not talked with and he exhibited a respect for America in the Mr. RIVERS. Mr. Speaker, Grantland an American newspaperman for several years conversation. He said: Rice, I guess, was the highest educated until he met on Jan. 12 with Bill Baggs, "We respeot the American people. The editor of The Miami News. The following American people are an intelligent people man who ever wrote a sports column. He and they love peace and democracy. was a graduate of the great Vanderbilt report was written by Baggs in Hanoi. The journey to the capital of North Viet "The American soldiers are sent here to kill University and a Latin scholar. He is nam began two days after Christmas, and and get killed. Most of them have an edu purported to have written these words: Baggs spent eight days in the city, which cation, but if they came here to help, as tech For when the one great Scorer comes to only one other American newspaperman, Har nicians, then we would welcome them as write against your name, He writes not that rison Salisbury, of the New York Times, has friends, as brothers. you won or lost but how you played the visited in recent years. "But now they are coming to kill and get game. Baggs was accompanied by Harry S. Ash killed. This is a shameful thing. more, chairman of the executive committee "This may be difficult for you to believe. Mr. Speaker, you embody those lines; of The Center for the Study of Democratic I am grieved not only when the Vietnamese you have played according to the highest Institutions, and by Ambassador Luis Quin people are killed. I am also grieved when of ideals. tanilla, of Mexico, who formerly was presi American soldiers are killed. I sympathize Mr. Speaker, as a great leader of this dent of the Organization of American States. with their parents." Baggs is a director of the center. The three Gossip that Ho, who will be 77 this year, House, every Member knows you are the is in fa111ng health appeared unfounded. most humane, you are the most kindly, men traveled to Asia to invite various coun tries, including North Vietnam, to a convoca He is keen in conversation and vigorous in you are the most understanding, you are tion, scheduled for May in Geneva, which his arguments. He rises at 5 each morning, the most qualified, you are the most con will examine the requirements for world exercises, and begins work at 6. Often he cerned man who has ever presided over peace. The convocation is being sponsored meets with his ministers and with the infre this House in our long history. No hu by the Center for the Study of Democratic quent visitors to Hanoi at the beginning of man being has been more human than Institutions. During his stay in Hanoi, Baggs his early day. However, this interview began have you. You have listened to the great, had this talk with Ho Chi Minh. in the late afternoon. This is the first of a series by Baggs. At the end of the talks, he repeated, slowly the mighty, the weak, the young, the un and deliberately, the sentiment you hear, not informed, regardless of their political The article referred to follows: only from government people in this country, persuasion. Your fault, Mr. Speaker, has WE'LL NEVER SURRENDER, SAYS Ho but also from almost anyone you talk to: been that you have taken time with us "As I said, we do cherish peace. But never all. (By Bill Baggs) will we surrender our independence and free· With reference to the slanderous edito HANox-(delayed) .-President Ho Chi dom for the sake of peace in our country." Minh said today the people of North Vietnam rial about you this morning, someone said cherished peace, but that they would never he was surprised to read it, but I am not surrender their independence to purchase THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF surprised to read anything in this paper, peace for their country. and neither is anyone else in this House. He described the presence of American REPRESENTATIVES ECLIPSES EDI Out in the stadium here there is this soldiers in the South, "sent here to kill and TORIAL STAFF OF THE WASIDNG quotation on a big billboard advertising be killed," as "a shameful thing." TONPOST one of the morning papers known as the A visitor got the impression that Ho con Washington Post. It says, "Quoted, con sidered the bombings of his country an atroc Mr. JONES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, ity by the United States. He mentioned I -ask unanimous consent to address the sulted, and honored." They should add the bombings several times. this: "By whom and since when?" House for 1 minute, to revise and extend In a conversation which coursed easily into my remarks, and to include extraneous Mr. Speaker, when they undertake to the neighborhoods of many issues, Ho talked vilify the Speaker of the House of the of the wars which have preoccupied Vietnam matter. House of Repre$entatives of the United for the last 25 years, the intense determina The SPEAKER. Is there objection States, they undermine the war effort of tion of the people in this country and of to ~the request of the gentleman from America, they undermine the fighting his interest in events in the United States. Missouri? He obviously is well informed about the There was no objection. man on the battlefront and the most political and economic events in America. anti-Communist man in America, and Mr. JONES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, This was the first interview given by Ho to I am sorry that I do not have the elo they offend the dignity and the sen an American newspaperman in several years. sibilities of each one of us. He was cordial, even friendly, but he was quence of my good friend and colleague, Mr. Speaker, you should have recog politely firm in expressing the policy of his the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. nized me on a point of personal privilege. country. At times he became impatient with RIVERS], but I wish to join with the the translator, and he turned and addressed gentleman in his comments with refer his American visitor in faultless English. ence to the editorial that appeared in The central policy of his government, in the Washington Post this morning. BILL BAGGS REPORTS the confiict with the Americans, appeared Mr. Speaker, I cannot help but re to be a resolution against any intimidation Mr. F.A!SCELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask of the "independence and freedom" of the member that period during the first ses unanimous consent to address ·the House Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He said: sion that I was here in this House of for 1 minute, to revise and extend my re "The people of Vietnam cherish peace very Representatives. At that time our late marks, and to include extraneous maJtter. much. But peace is peace only if you have colleague from the State of Mississippi, The SPEAKER. ts there objection independence and freedom. the Honorable John Rankin, usually re to the request of the gentleman from "We will never surrender our independence ferred to the Washington Post as "the Florida? for the sake of peace. We have battled too uptown edition of the Daily Worker." long for our independence and freedom." There WSIS no objection. The words, "independence and freedom," Mr. Speaker, I have observed thil Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, Bill are words you hea.r often in Hanoi and in newspaper over the years and find that Baggs is editor of the Miami News. He the countryside of North Vietnam. Indeed, it deserves to be referred to and entitled has long been a keen student of interna these words are a kind of motto among the to wear that description and this has tion affairs. He has traveled the world people. A few days before the meeting with been true upon more than one occasion. oxrrr 44 Part 1 682 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 including this article which appeared appeared in the Washington Post on this Legislative Reorganization Act of 1967. therein this morning. morning. But to illustrate to the Mem For 2 years this matter was given intense Mr. Speaker, this is true, particularly, bers of the House of Representatives how study by 'the joint committee, of which I when they are advocating the very thing easy it is for some faceless editorialist to had the honor to be chairman. We held that the Speaker of the House of Repre attempt to arrange the affairs of state 41 days of public hearings, heard some sentatives has •stood for all these years and to attempt to do it without really 200 witnesses, and met in 60 executive but then turn d.t to misrepresent the true knowing what he is talking about, let me sessions. situation. just take one paragraph from this edi Out of these meetings emerged a final In other words, Mr. Speaker, what they torial. He says: report that included over 100 individual are trying to do is to say th&t we should But even this 1s offset in large measure by recommendations. Our committee, both not have a democratic process in this acceptance of an ultra-conservative chair House and Senate members, gave full House of Representatives, that we should man under the seniority rule, Rep. WHliam support to these proposals. Some of us not have the right to differ and debate M. Colmer of Mississippi. wished to go further. Although there our problems, which right we have under Well, now, no one had any choice but were some differences of opinion on de the present Speaker of the House of Rep to accept the gentleman from Mississippi tail, I think I speak for all the members resentatives. [Mr. COLMER], because there are not the when I say we are enthusiastic about the Then, Mr. Speaker, to say "the truth votes in this House of Representatives to possibilities for genuine improvement in is that Speaker McCoRMACK has never displace him. And, if there had seemed congressional organization contained in been a vigorous, farsighted or magnetic to be, I would have been one of those who these recommendations. We are united leader," is to say something that could would have been in the forefront in op on the recommendations the joint com not be farther from the truth. Both as position. mittee produced. We are united, too, in a majority leader and as Speaker he has Mr. ·speaker, on many occasions I have urging this House to consider and act on displayed a vigor and a leadership that not agreed with the gentleman from those recommendations as expeditiously has been most effective. The fact that Mississippi [Mr. CoLMER], but if we are as possible. his views have not always prevailed, is going to start replacing chairmen be We have omitted from this bill certain in my opinion, a tribute to his fairness. cause they do not vo-te the way some of us provisions dealing solely with the other But, Mr. Speaker, when the editorial believe and feel they ought to vote all body. As a matter of comity, as we cus- writer says that the great Speaker of the the time, then, by the same token, we -tomarily do with respect to such meas House of Representatives, the Honorable should shut down the Washin'gton Post, ures as the legislative appropriations JoHN McCoRMACK "has not perpetuated because it does not write editorials with bills, we will leave those provisions relat the traditions· of the office associated which we agree all of the time. ing exclusively to the Senate for the other with the names of Clay, Polk, Reed, Can Mr. Speaker, I do not know what kind body to decide upon. non, Clark, Gillett, Longworth and Ray of legislating this would represent, which Mr. Speaker, we are all aware of the burn"-all Speakers about whom I have states that we have to have a chairman many problems of congressional opera read-! would like to state that I did who agrees with the balance of us who tions that have beset us over the years. serve with the late great Sam Rayburn serve in the House of Representatives all This bill offers concrete solutions to many and it is my opinion that the Honorable of the time, any more than you have to of those problems, solutions which, in our JoHN McCoRMACK, the present Speaker have a newspaper that agrees with the judgment, · are based on a realistic view of the House of Representatives, has per sentiments of this House of Representa of what can be done and what must be petuated most of those ideals that made tives all of the time. done. Sam Rayburn great, and that he has Mr. Speaker, I believe that when the I know that every Member recognizes given those of us who at times differ people stop to think about that one sen the need for maintaining a vital and ef with him an opportunity to express tence in thls editorial, that the entire fective Congress. I urge every Member those differences. Do we want a dicta editorial falls on this kind of fuzzy-well, to study the joint committee's final re tor, as the Post suggests? The Lord I shall not say "stupid," because I do not port and the bill and to help us bring forbid. History, in my opinion, will rate know who wrote it, and although it might this measure to an early consideration. our illustrious S'peaker as one who is un have been written by a friend of mine, I excelled in his fairness. doubt if I have any down there-but, Mr. Speaker, I say, as the gentleman anyway, fuzzy, idiotic-type of approach THE LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZA from South Carolina has stated, that this to a political problem. TION ACT OF 1967 is a libelous article and editorial and one which should not trouble the great · Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani Speaker of this House of Representa LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION mous consent that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. CURTis] may extend his tives in the least, because I know that ACT OF 1967 the esteem and stature in which he is remarks at this point in ~the RECORD and held was indicated by the vote the other Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask include ex·traneous matter. day and the remarks which were made unanimous consent to address the House The SPEAKER. Is~. there objection by the distinguished gentleman from for 1 minute and to revise and extend my to the request of the ·gentleman from Michigan, the distinguished minority remarks. Missouri? leader [Mr. GERALD R. FORD], and The SPEAKER. Is there objection There was no objection. others, and that we stand behind the dis to the request of the gentleman from Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, I am tinguished Speaker in this process and Indiana? happy to join my colleague, the gentle are proud that he has carried out the There was no objection. man from Indiana, the Honorable RAY best traditions of the Democratic Party. Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I am . MADDEN, cochairman of our Joint Com introducing today a bill embodying the mittee on the Organization of Congress, final recommendations of the Joint Com in sponsoring legislation which we hope THE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER OF mittee on the Organization of the Con will result in the Legislative Reorganiza THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA gress. My colleague, Mr. CuRTIS of Mis tion Act of 1967. TIVES AND THE WASHINGTON souri, is introducing a similar bill. I sub Mr. Speaker, the bill I have introduced mitted two versions of such an omnibus today is essentially similar to the bill POST EDITORIAL bill last year in H.R. 17138 and H.R. 17963. introduced by the gentleman from Indi Mr. HAYS. M·r. Speaker, I ask unan Unfortunately, the 89th Congress was ana [Mr. MADDEN] with one exception imous consent to address the House for 1 unable to deal with them before ad which I shall discuss later. My bill is minute, to revise and extend my remarks, journment. Yesterday Senator A. . S. also essentially the same as the bills Mr. and to include extraneous matter. MIKE MONRONEY introduced a similar bill MADDEN and I introduced in the last Con.: The SPEAKER. Is there objection in the Senate, which was reported to the gress-his bill being H.R. 17963 and my to the request of the gentleman from Senate by the Special Senate Committee bill being H.R. 17873, introduced on Sep Ohio? on the Organization of Congress. tember 21, 1966. They were also similar ':Dhere was no objection. It is my strong hope and belief, Mr. to the bill introduced in the Senate, Mr. HAYS. Mr. Speaker, needless to Speaker, that this Congress will give S. 3848, and reported by the Special say, I disagree with the editorial which early consideration to the passage of the Committee of the Senate on the Organi- January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 6'83 zation of the Congress and placed on the and the procedures of the Congress dur complete investigation, the minority Senate Calendar before the adjournment ing this first session of the 90th Congress. party would be given the chairmanship of the 89th Congress. It is likewise sim Strengthening, modernizing, and en and control of these committees. There ilar to the bill reported yesterday by hancing the Congress and its. role as the is parliamentary tradition for this com Senator MONRONEY and other Members people's instrument in our tripartite Fed mittee of review, oversight, or sur of the Senate special committee; namely, eral Government should be a matter of veillance. S. 355, Report No. 1. top priority. Therefore, I am pleased Second. Strengthening the existing Mr. Speaker, it is not my intention to join with my colleague from Indiana, law making it a crime to lobby with today to discuss in detail the recommen cochairman of the Joint Committee on money appropriated by Congress--sec dations for congressional reform which the Organization of the Congress, in tion 1913, title 18, United States Code. are contained in the omnibus bills that I pressing for prompt action by the 90th Much has been said and done to remedy have just described. For those who are Congress to achieve congressional re the excesses of private organizational interested, however, I refer to my obser form. lobbying; however, aibsolutely nothing vations at the time of introducing my bill has been accomplished to eliminate the in the last Congress which appear in the BILL ON REORGANIZATION OF THE use of appropriated funds by the execu CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, VOlume 112, part tive branch, to influence Members of 17, pages 23450-23454. In these remarks CONGRESS Congress. I was joined by my minority House col Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani Third. The undertaking of a study of leagues on the joint committee, the gen mous consent to address the House for 1 the foreign and military activities of the tleman . from Missouri, the Honorable minute and to revise and extend my Federal Government with special atten DURWARD HALL, and the gentleman from remarks. tion focusing on the "warmaking pow New Hampshire, the Honorable JAMES The SPEAKER. Is there objection ers." The confusion in this area is quite CLEVELAND. to the request of the gentleman from apparent, with American boys dying in I would also like to refer Members to Missouri? Vietnam, in a nondeclared and no-win the final report of the Joint Committee There was no objection. "action." on the Organization of the Congress, filed Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, the purposes Besides the more important previously on July 28, 1966, as Senate Report No. of my remarks are to first, emphasize my mentioned minority views, I shall at 1414 of the 89th Congress, second session. general support of the bills introduced the appropriate time propose my own This report, together with the 16 volumes by my colleagues on the Joint Committee legislation in this vitally important area. of hearings, comprising 2,435 pages of on the Organization of the Congress and Contained within this legislation shall testimony, are available at the offices of Related Agencies; second, reiterate the be a commission of the Congress com the Joint Committee on the Organization supplemental views of the minority posed of the leadership of both Houses of Congress, room S-146 of the Capitol, house Members, Messrs. CURTIS, CLEVE and aided by a staff headed by a coun telephone extension 2245. LAND, and myself; third, express my own sel for the Congress. This Commission My Republican colleagues may wish supplemental views; and fourth, reserve would have the prime responsibility for also to familiarize themselves with the the right to introduce these supplemen service to, protecting, and promoting vigorous support given congressional re tal views, either by separate legislation Congress as an institution. form legislation by the Republican policy or amendment, at the appropriate time. The Commission of the Congress committee of the House of Representa The members of the joint committee would have jurisdiction over matters af tives. I refer them to the CONGRESSIONAL have worked long and hard in exhaustive fecting Congress as a whole, including REcoRD, volume 112, part 19, pages 26145- hearings and in forging a piece of leg the powers and prerogatives of the Con 26146. islation for introduction in this the first gress; the continuous study of the orga As I said earlier, I do not intend to session of the 90th Congress. Not only nization and procedures of Congress with discuss the details of these bills because have the committee members performed authority to report recommendations for it would take too long. There are over yeomen's duty, but the committee staff improvement and reform from time to 100 recommendations and to discuss has labored equally as hard. The bill time; relations between Congress and them at this time would be inappropri introduced here today is legislation that the executive and judicial branches of ate. I do believe, however, that I should all House committee members can srPn the Government, and general supervision call attention to the one major difference erally agree upon. At this point, Mr. over agencies and elected and appointed between my bill and the bill introduced Speaker, I do wish to reemphasize the officers of the Congress and its business by the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. unity among these House committee operations. Its primary objective would· MADDEN] and the bill reported by the members, both Republican and Demo be to augment the principle of separa crat, in their enthusiastic support of this tion of powers-checks and balances. Senate special committee under the bill. chairmanship of Senator MoNRONEY. However, like most, the proposed bill Under this Commission would be the The differences relate to the Stand is far from perfect and certain additions counsel for the Congress. We are all ing Committee of the House of Repre and corrections are required before a aware of how the Attorney General acts sentatives on Standards and Conduct. truly effective, strengthened, and reor as the "counsel" for the executive All three bills create such a standing ganized Congress can emerge as a branch, but who do we have to represent committee. The language in my bill, reality. ·Thus, the House must work its us as "counSel'' for the legislative however, gives that committee broader will. branch? The answer is quite obvious jurisdiction, including the power to in In the dying days of the last Congress, no one. vestigate individual instances of alleged my distinguished colleague, the gentle In the past Congress, its committees wrongdoing on the part of Members, man from Missouri [Mr. CuRTIS], with and its Members, in their ofiicial capac omcials, or employees of the House of all minority Members concurring, dis ity, have been involved in litigation. Representatives and, in my judgment, cussed at length the supplemental views In these cases representation has been provides a clearer description of author of the minority House Members. These by private counsel, sometimes not paid ity and procedures for that committee. vitalizing suggestions are not included for by the Congress; or by the Depart My bill also provides for the staffing of in the present bill. ment of Justice, likewise not paid by the the House Committee on Standards and Among the more important provisions Congress for these services. Conduct with respect to minority pro of the minority proposals were: Not only have occasions arisen in the fessional and clerical staff, precisely the First. The creation of a new commit past where counsel was required, but our same as provisions which are applicable tee in both the House and the Senate action relating to the Powell seating to all other standing committees of the known as the Committee on Procedure could lead to litigation, as did the Bond House. and Policies. These committees would case in Georgia. Has any Member of It is my hope that all Members of the have the power to examine into andre this Chamber contemplated as to who House of Representatives on both sides port back to the Congress on the ex would act as the House's counsel? By of the aisle who desire to strengthen the penditure of Federal funds by the execu having a counsel for the Congress, much institution of which they are a part will tive branch so as to insure that funds anxiety could be eliminated, much pre give their attention and also their sup are spent efficiently and in accordance rogative regained, and much apprehen port to the improvement of the structure with law. To insure a thorough and sion allayed. It would serve the Con- 684 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 gress and enhance that which the people The SPEAKER. Is .there objection income during the year more in line with demanded; namely, an independent, to the request of the gentlewoman from his final tax liability at the end of the burt responsibly prog,ressive, legislative Washington? year, thus insuring that an individual branch of our Government. There was no objection. would not be required to pay a large sum So, Mr. Speaker, much has been said Mrs. MAY. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased of money when he filed his final return. and much more will be said about the to say that I have today introduced to In developing the graduated income reorganization of the Congress. It is the House of Representatives a resolu tax rate tables contained in the law, it now time that something be done so tion designed to amend the U.S. Con was assumed that an individual would that this great institution does not find stitution so as to provide equal rights for take the standard deduction of 10 per its end as have so many other deliberat women. I would also like to commend cent of his gross income. However, for ing bodies: on the ash heap of history. the National Woman's Party for taking many taxpayers, particularly living in the lead again in urging the adoption of States like Wisconsin with income taxes, this equal rights for women amendment. deductions approximate 20 percent or MEMBERS OF JOINT COMMITTEE While women were provided with the more of income. Recognizing that a ON ATOMIC ENERGY right to vote under the 19th amendment graduated income tax would result in The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro to the U.S. Constitution, and while title a substantial amount of overwithholding visions of 42 U.S.C. 2251, the Chair ap VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave for these individuals, I recommended a points as members of the Joint Commit women fair employment privileges, noth provision that was included in the final tee on Atomic Energy the following ing has been done either by the Congress law to preclude overwithholding. members on the part of the House: Mr. through the enactment of law or by the Beginning the first of this month HOLIFIELD, Of California; Mr. PRICE, of U.S. Supreme Court through interpreta January 1, 1967-an individual with sub Illinois; Mr. ASPINALL, of Colorado; Mr. tion of the law to extend women full stantial overwithholding may claim addi MORRIS, of New Mexico; Mr. YOUNG, of equality of rights, both civil and political. tional exemptions to avoid having too Texas; Mr. HosMER, of California; Mr. I would like to say, however, that I am much tax withheld from his pay. In BATES, of Massachusetts; Mr. ANDERSON, indeed proud that my State of Washing dividuals who may be subjected to over of Illinois; and Mr. McCULLOCH, of Ohio. ton has fair laws whi·ch, by and large, withholding should determine whether extend protection both to men and or not they can claim additional exemp women on an equal basis. I am dis tions under this provision. An individ OEO NOT MAKING BEST POSSmLE tressed, however, with the realization ual should first compute his estimated USE OF TAXPAYERS' FUNDS EN that in some areas of the country women wage income and his estimated itemized TRUSTED TO THEM are prohibited from serving on juries, are deductions for 1967. However, estimated denied the right to own property, and itemized deductions may not exceed the Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota. Mr. are prevented from making important deductions actually itemized in 1966, Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad legal decisions with respect to their own and the individual's estimate of wage in dress .the House for 1 minute. children. come cannot be less than the wage in The SPEAKER. Is ,there objection It was some 43 years ago that the first come he received in 1966. For each $700 to the request of the gentleman from equal rights amendment was introduced of estimated itemized deductions in ex North Dakota? to the Congress, and still the legislation cess of 10 percent of $7,500 of estimated There was no objection. awaits enactment-this is, indeed, a long wage income, plus 17 percent of wages Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota. Mr. time to keep the concept of equality in above $7,500, an individual may claim Speaker, it has been revealed that 8,546 suspension. one additional withholding allowance. Job Corps enrollees were flown to their Mr. Speaker, the time is long overdue An example will serve to illustrate. In homes for Christmas at Government ex when something should be done to cor 1966 an individual has a salary of $8,500 pense last month and it cost taxpayers rect what poses as a gross inequity. and claimed itemized deductions totaling more than $1 million. Simply put, the facts of the matter are $1,700. He expects to have similar salary About a year ago I lodged a protest these: Women are first-class citizens and deductions in 1967. The excess of with the OEO when it was announced they should, therefore, under the law, be $1, 700-total deductions-over $920-10 that- 13,602 Job Corps men and women extended first-class privileges, as pro percent of $7,500 plus 17 percent of $1,~ were flown home for Christmas in 1965 vided in my resolution. Let us not keep 000-is $780. Since this is at least $700 at a cost of $1.8 million. · justice in suspension any longer. but not $1,400, he may claim one addi Military men and women, lucky enough The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. tional withholding allowance for 1967. to be stationed in the States and to get PRICE). The time of the gentlewoman Had his itemized deductions in 1966- leave at Christmastime, had to buy their has expired. and his estimated deductions for 1967- own plane, train, and bus tickets out of been $2,320, he could claim two addi already meager paychecks-pay very tional withholding allowances. often less than that received by Job GRADUATED WITHHOLDING Any individual wishing to claim addi Corps enrollees. Little wonder Gl's and tional withholding allowances under all Americans are incensed at the con Mr. MIZE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani these provisions should file another W-4 tinued coddling of these Job Corps mous consent that the gentleman from form with his employer, filling in the people. Wisconsin [Mr. BYRNES] may extend his necessary information in schedule A of It has also been revealed that Job remarks at this point in the RECORD and this form. In order to avoid overwith Corps enrollees did not have to stand in include extraneous matter. holding, taxpayers should avail them- line as other Americans did since they The SPEAKER. I·s there objection selves of this opportunity at an early were transported home on chartered to the request of the gentleman from date. airplanes. Kansas? Some worthwhile poverty programs are There was no objection. being curtailed or canceled because of Mr. BYRNES of Wisconsin. Mr. LAW APPRECIATION WEEK PRO- lack of funds. These examples of fia Speaker, about 1 year ago, in the Tax POSED BY WICHITA, KANS., grant waste, however, are certainly not Adjustment Assistance Act of 1966, the TOWN CLUB BUSINESS & PROFES- consistent with the earnest sounding Congress enacted graduated withhold- SIONAL WOMEN pledges we have heard from Office of ing provisions as part of our income tax Economic Opportunity officials promis laws. Under these provisions, the grad Mr. MIZE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani ing to make the best possible use of tax uated or progressive rates of the income mous consent that rthe gentleman from payers' funds entrusted to them. tax law are used not only to compute Kansas [Mr. SHRIVER] may extend his an individual's final income tax liability, remarks at this point in the RECORD and but to determine the amount that should include extraneous matter. EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN be withheld from his pay check peri The 'SPEA~ER. Is there objection Mrs. MAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani odically. to the request of ·the gentleman from mous consent to address the House for 1 These laws were designed to bring the Kansas? minute. amount withheld from an 1ndlv1dual's There was no objection. January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 685 Mr. SHRIVER. Mr. Speaker, the ever ADDITIONALJUDGEFORSOUTHERN the combined Southern and Central Districts increasing crime rate across the Nation DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA the average was 91 trial days per judge. is causing concern among many local, Thus the 321 trial days in San Diego would Mr. MIZE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani justify four full-time judges based on the State and national organizations as well figures for the nation as a whole. as private citizens. mous consent that the gentleman from Significantly, the President took note California [Mr. BoB WILSON] may extend Actually we must consider more than of this concern in his state of the Union his remarks at this poin·t in the RECORD just "trial days" in measuring the work message last week. The Congress has and include enraneous matter. load of a district judge. He must also supported and enacted legislation to as The SPEAKER. Is there objection spend time hearing motions, reviewing sist local and State authorities in the to the request of the gentleman from bankruptcy matters, holding naturaliza war on crime. We should give serious Kansas? tion hearings and impaneling juries. consideration to new anticrime measures There was no objection. In view of the above facts, Mr. Speak which will be introduced in the 90th Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, I er, I respectfully urge the Congress to Congress. am today introducing legislation to pro give prompt consideration of the critical However, I agree with President John vide for the appointment of an addi need for one additional judgeship in San son that this is not a war which Wash tional judge for the southern district of Diego's Federal court system, which is so ington alone can win. We must begin California. weighted down by cases, its wheels of at the local level. Local citizens and The district is comprised of San Diego justice are barely turning. organizations can assume important and Imperial Counties. Two full-time roles in supporting their law enforce judges, assisted on a part-time basis by ment agencies. a retired district judge, now serve the ADMINISTRATION'S EAST-WEST For example, the Town Club Business district. But .their task would, indeed, TRADE PROPOSALS MUST BE discourage most men. and Professional Women of Wichita, STUDIED BY CONGRESS Kans., has informed me of a resolution For many years these three jurists passed by its membership recommending have had to handle a caseload almost as The SPEAKER. Under previous or "an educational program to teach the large as that handled by 13 judges in der of the House, the gentleman from younger generation the importance of the central district about Los Angeles. California [Mr. LIPSCOMB] is recognized law enforcement agencies and the proper As a result, a huge backlog of cases has for 60 minutes. respect and attitudes toward them." The developed, and many litigants will have Mr. LIPSCOMB. Mr. Speaker, the resolution also recommends that a week to wait months, perhaps even years, be President's state of the Union message be set aside each year to "express our fore their cases can be decided. As of emphasized once again the administra appreciation to our law enforcement June 1966, there were 499 criminal cases tion's heavy commitment to increasing agencies." and 247 civil cases waiting to be heard in trade with Communist countries. Mr. Speaker, the action of the Town the district. As the President pointed out in the Club Business and Professional Women As San Diego and Imperial Counties message, the administration has removed appears to me to be a step in the right continue to grow, the situation will be more than 400 so-called nonstrategic direction. It is worthy of our commen come even worse. An additional judge, items from export control; it has deter dation and consideration as we weigh which my bill would provide, is desper mined that the Export-Import Bank can proposals in this Congress aimed at the ately needed to begin work on this back allow commercial credits to Poland, Hun problem of crime. Following is the text log of cases so that the southern district gary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia, as of the resolution: will be able to operate at an efficient well as Rumania and Yugoslavia; and In accordance with the resolution passed level. the President urged the Congress to pass by Zonta Club of Wichita, Kansas, Town Club For many years the Los Angeles Fed an East-West trade bill. Business and Professional Women's Club of eral court system handled more criminal This is a course of action that I believe Wichita, Kansas, passed the following reso cases each year than San Diego's. In is detrimental to the welfare of the lution on November 1, 1966: 1964 the situation changed. That year United States. Far-reaching and sig Whereas we fear for the safety of our gov 1,402 criminal cases were filed in San nificant proposals are involved. It is for ernment and our way of life if the prevalent disrespect and disregard for law and order Diego, compared to 1,034 in Los Angeles. this reason that I feel it necessary to presently displayed in recent demonstrations In 1965 there were 2,070 criminal cases bring this matter to the attention of the of all kinds persists, and commenced in San Diego and only 1,212 House of Representatives at this time, at Whereas we do not approve of the lack of started in Los Angeles. the opening of the 90th Congress. This public respect for ofticers acting in the line of San Diego's extraordinary caseload re is a subject that requires constant, close duty, and sults from a combination of factors. One appraisal and study and action by the Whereas we feel that there is national is the city's proximity to the Mexican Congress in the national interest. That concern as well as local concern, that a is why I have introduced a resolution, breakdown in our law enforcement agencies border which generates numerous im will be the inevitable result if the public as migration and narcotics cases each year. House Resolution 67, to establish a House a whole does not speak out and support them, Other factors include the huge concen Select Committee on Export Control. and tration of military installations in San The steps enumerated by President Whereas we believe that our entire police Diego, increasing foreign commerce Johnson, in his state of the Union speech, organizations should be censored because through the port of San Diego, and the include agreements, actions, and deter· of a few incidents which do not represent area's rapid growth in population and minations which he had first publicly the true purpose nor actions of our law en announced in a speech of October 7, forcement agencies, and industrial and agricultural development. Whereas we are proud of our local police The San Diego County Bar Associa 1966. In that speech he also said the department and by this action are expressing tion, which endorses the bill, recently Export-Import Bank would finance our complete support, made an in-depth study of the southern American exports of automotive manu Therefore be it resolved: That Town Club district's caseload. Here are some of its facturing machinery to equip a huge Business and Professional Women's Club of findings: automotive plant that the Fiat Co. of Wichita, Kansas does fully support our po Italy is going to build in the U.S.S.R. lice department, sheriff's department and Total cases filed increased from 975 in 1960 When the President made his an all other law enforcement agencies. to 2,299 in 1965-a 140 per cent rise in five That we recommenct to the parents and years. Total cases tried were 177 in 1965, a nouncement on October 7, he and every to the schools that they promote an educa 101 per cent increase over the 88 trials in responsible official in the administration tional program to teach the younger genera 1960. knew that the Soviet Union and other tion the importance of our law enforcement While civil cases pending increased by 23.2 Communist countries of Eastern Europe agencies and the proper respect and attitudes per cent from 1962 to 1965, criminal cases were continuing to supply military and toward them. more than tripled. The requirements of due economic aid to the Communists with That a week be set aside each year to ex• process make it mandatory that criminal whom we and allies are at war in south prese our appreciation to our law enforce cases be disposed of as expiditiously as pos ment agencies. sible even, if necessary, at the expense of east Asia. RUBY E. DtJTTON. the civil calendar. The administration has clamped a President, Town Club Business & Profes In 1964 over the country at large the aver tight lld on information showing just sional Women's Club. age trial days per judge were 78, while in how much and wha.t type of aid is being 686 CONGRESSIONAt -RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 sent to Hanoi by the Communist bloc. cable and paper, medical preparations, Hungarian Premier Kallai speaking on However, on the basis of information and canned food, flour, gasoline, diesel oil, the Budapest Hungarian domestic radio commentaries available from various grease, and powerplants mentioned in November 30, 1966: · sources, it is obvious that the Commu the articles, everyone knows about the The U.S. administration has recently em nists are sending shipload after shipload Mig-21 aircraft, the surface-to-air mis phasized on several occasions that it desires and carload after carload and planeload siles, the antiaircraft guns, the radars, to improve its relations with the socialist after planeload of supplies and equip the computers, and the many other im countries in Europe. The American admin ment to North -Vietnam. plements of war being supplied to Hanoi istration knows very well, however, that it will be unable to normalize relations with In a letter addressed to the President by the Communist community of Social the European socialist countries as long as dated October 13, 1966, I posed the fol- ist nations. it is conducting aggression against a socialist lowing question: · Another administration declaration on country in Southeast Asia. When you speak to the relatives of Ameri this subject was' supplied on October 11, cans who have been killed or maimed by 1966, at Syracuse, N.Y., by Joseph A. Janos Kadar, ruler of Hungary, on weapons, equipment, and ammunition which Greenwald, Deputy Assistant Secretary Budapest Domestic Radio in Hungarian was supplied by the Communists to whom we of State for International Trade Policy language, December 3, 1966: export our products and technology, how do and Economic Defense. Here is what We are fighting against U.S. aggression in you explain the Administration's trade-with Mr. Greenwald said on October 11: Vietnam and will go on helping our Viet Communists policy? namese brothers until their cause is crowned The obvious question is: Why should we by ultimate victory. My letter was not answered by the trade with any of the Communist nations White House but instead was sent over to when they are supporting the forces shooting Prague, Czechoslovakia, radio, Decem the Department of State. The response at Americans, South Vietnamese, Australians ber 4, 1966: from the Acting Assistant Secretary for and others? President Johnson answered on Friday. Speaking of the need to work with The entire socialist world has joined forces Congressional Relations was a carefully the East to bulld a lasting peace, he said: to provide Vietnam with an conceivable as phrased rehashing of earlier pronounce "We do not intend to let our differences on sistance-economic, financial, and technical, ments on the subject, on about how this Viet-Nam or elsewhere prevent us from ex as well as political, including the Soviet offer involves a so-called peaceful venture, ploring all opportunities." to allow volunteers from Czechoslovakia, the that this is supposed to transcend differ Another answer to this question lies in Soviet Union, and other socialist countries ences we might have in Vietnam, and the nature of the Communist world as we to go to Vietnam. that we seek mutual understanding and see it today. What we once knew as the Sino Soviet bloc is no longer the monolith of Andrey Kirilenko, member of the Com constructive agreements. Stalin's time. We know that today there munist Party Central Committee of the This all sounds noble, but for an idea are deep and bitter differences among these Soviet Union, on Moscow radio Decem as to how it is working let me quote from countries. It is no longer axiomatic that ber 1, 1966: an article in the December 27, 1966, issue Moecow's word will be followed blindly by The Soviet Union is rendering and will of Izvestiya, the official Soviet Govern all of the faithful followers throughout the continue to render ever-growing, an-around ment newspaper. The article states, in world. On the contrary, we find daily evi assistance to the people of Vietnam in their part: dence that each of the Communist countries courageous struggle against U.S. aggression. increasingly pursues its own national inter Every month tens of thousands of tons of ests. It is to our advantage in this situation Bulgarian Premier Zhivoky, Sofia technical equipment and food are shipped to deal with these countres in accordance Bulgarian radio on December 1, 1966: from Black Sea and Far East Soviet ports to with our own national interests-and not in the DRV. Ship communication between our All peace-loving and progressive forces in accordance with an outdated concept of a the world should support the Vietnamese countries has become regular, with the Soviet Sino-Soviet bloc of a decade ago. maritime fleet following a line service sched people. Because of this the Bulgarian Gov Finally, we do not ignore the commercial ernment has extended and will continue to ule. These vessels carry mineral fert111zers benefits from expanding trade. and rolled ferrous metal, automobiles and extend moral-political support and material tractors, cables and paper, medical equip From this we see that the Department aid to the Vietnamese people to bolster their ment and canned goods, flour, and oll, part puts fourth roughly a three-part argu economic and defense capability, of the aid rendered by the Soviet people to ment that might be described as follows: These declarations underscore the fact fraternal Vietnam in its heroic struggle First. Ignore the differences we have against the U.S. mmtarists. that if you look for evidence of mean with the · U.S.S.R. and East European ingfUl differences among the East Euro A UPI news report out of Moscow Jan Communists over Communist aggression pean Communists, you look-in vain. . uary 12, 1967, 2 days after the state of in Vietnam; In spite of everything that Communist the Union message, states: Second. Dollar profits from sales to leaders have told us, in spite of all of the Russia has indicated it will increase aid Communists are at least as important as evidence, administration spokesmen ap shipments to Communist North Vietnam this lives lost; parently are proud of what they wish year to help Hanoi fight "American im Third. Look for evidence of differ fully hope to accomplish. Poland is perialism." ences between East-European Com always cited as a good example by the Foreign Aid Minister Nikolai Patolichev munists and the Soviet Communists. told Soviet newspapers Wednesday that Mos administration. Anthony M. Solomon, cow "intends to give special attention to the The first and second parts of that posi Assistant Secretary of State for Eco development of trade" with Hanoi in 1967. tion ate incredible. As for the claim that nomic Affairs, on October 21, 1965, said "The deliveries of Soviet goods to this the Communist nations are going their this about Poland: heroic country is part of the great contribu separate ways and that there are deep We encouraged the trend toward greater tion which our people are making to the just and bitter differences between them, here independence through our Food for Peace struggle of the fraternal Vietnamese people as a few quotes by spokesmen for bloc program, our Export-Import Bank credits, against the aggression of American imperial countries which shows that this is spe and our trade policy. ism," he said. cious, hollow argument. When the chips Although Patolichev made no predictions Even as these words were sp6ken, Pol of the amount of aid for 1967, he did note are down the Communists think and act ish ships made their way to southeast that Soviet exports to North Vietnam last as one in advancing the Communist Asia. A dispatch last fall from Stettin, year jumped 50%. cause. Bear in mind that these state Poland, reported in a Hamburg news The increase in Russia's exports last year ments were made after the President's paper, October 1, 1966, states: included greater supplies of gasoline, diesel October 7, 1966, announcement. oil and grease--necessary for the shipment of Communist Party Leader Brezhnev Weapons of the Polish armed forces are be goods from China into Vietnam-and port speaking on the Sofia, Bulgaria, domestic ing shipped from the Stettin harbor in ever able power plants which could be thrown increasing quanti·tles to . . . North Vietnam into action when major generating stations radio November 15, 1966: ese harbors . . . Whlle on one side of the were hit by American bombs. The all-around aid being rendered by the Stettln harbor American wheat 1s being un Soviet Union and other socialist countries to loaded from freighters, on the other side of Certainly this does not represent the fighting Vietnam is of concrete effective the same harbor weapons are loaded which position of a government genuinely in nature, and let everyone know that it will are being used against American soldiers. ·continue.... The Bulgarian People's Re terested in seeking mutual understand public, just as other socialist states, is And Polish ships today continue to ing with the United States. And, of rendering the people of Vietnam fraternal supply our enemies in Vietnam. course, in addition to the mineral fer aid in their struggle against th,e imperialist Communist nations come to America tilizers, rolled steel, trucks and tractors, aggressor. with shopping lists to purchase technical January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 687 data and commodities which incorporate ministration did not consult with our of Commerce Current Export Bulletin Num advanced technology. Under the pro military intelligence experts. ber 941 and interest of Assistant Chief of visions of the Export Control Act many The Director of Naval Intelligence Staff for Intell1gence, United States Army (ACSI-DA), in selection of commodities ap such items have been placed on a con states: proved for export to Communist Bloc coun:. trol list because it was determined that The omce of Naval Intelligence,. definitely tries. their export, to quote from the law, a member of the "Intelltgence Community," The ACSI-DA was not consulted regarding "makes a significant contribution to the had no part in the. consultations which pre the commodities listed, since the scope of military or economic potential of such ceded the revision of the Commodity Con interest does not include the intelllgence nation or nations which would prove det trol List. aspects of strategic materials. rimental to the national security and I regret I a.m not able to assist you in this The Air Force says: matter. welfare of the United States." No intelligence ofllce of the U.S. Air Force Sincerely, Before an item is removed from the participated in the revision of the CUrrent RAYMOND T. REID, control list it is only reasonable to ex Commodity Control List. • I LTC,GS. pect that the administration would un The Army says that the Assistant Chief For J. L. BLACKWELL, dertake a thorough research to deter Colonel, GS, ~ Office, Chief of Legis mine that the item no longer does make of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Army, "was lative Liaison. a significant contribution to the military not consulted regarding the commodities listed." OFFICE OF THE or economic potential of the Commu The Department of Defense says that SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, nists. And since this Nation is at war the Defense Intelligence Agency "was Washington, D.C., October 27, 1966. with Communists in Vietnam who are not requested to supply intelligence on Hon. GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, receiving military and economic aid from the 400 commodities that are covered in House of Representatives, the Communists of Eastern Europe, it Current Export Control Bulletin No. Washington, D.C. would seem not only prudent but man DEAR MR. LIPSCOMB: This letter is in re datory that our military intelligence ex 941." sponse to your letter to General Carroll, perts be consulted before an item could For the information of the House, I dated October 18, 1966, which requests a am setting forth here the full text of the description of the consultations of the De be removed safely from export controls. letters from the chiefs of the service partment of Commerce with the Defense The chiefs of the military intelligence intelligence organizations and from the Intelligence Agency (DIA) concerning CUr organizations are members of the intel Director of the Defense Intelligence rent Export Bulletin Number 941. ligence community. Agency. DIA does not participate in decisions on Following President Johnson's an commodities to be deleted from or added to nouncement, the Department of Com DmECTOR OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, the Commodity Control List issued by the Washington, D.C., October 26,1966. Department of Commerce. Intel11gence con merce on October 12, 1966, removed hun Hon. GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, cerning such items is provided by DIA, but dreds of commodities from the list of Congress of the United States, not directly to the Department of Commerce. items requiring specific validated licenses House of Representatives, Upon request of the Ofllce of the Assistant to be shipped to other countries. The Washington, D.C. Secretary of Defense for International Se Department published a 68-page bulletin DEAR MR. LIPSCOMB: The interim reply curity A1fa1rs which represents the Depart which provides a detailed listing of the from my Deputy, to your letter of 18 October ment of Defense on these matters, DIA pro items which now may be more freely ex 19£6, concerning Current Export Bulletin vides intelligence on the m111tary applica Number 941 indicated that my Staff would tion of commodities that might be of a ported including the 400 items referred research the matter in which you have ex strategic nature. However, DIA was not re to by the President in the state of the pressed an interest. quested to supply intell1gence on the 400 Union message that can be freely ex I can report that the om.ce of Naval In commodities that are covered in Current Ex ported to the Soviet Union and East Eu tell1gence, definitely a member of the "In port Bulletin Number 941. ropean Communist countries. telligence Community," had no part in the Sincerely, And the Department of Commerce at consultations which preceded the revision C. R. RODERICK, that time issued a press release declaring of the Commodity Control List. It can be Major General, USAF, further stated that ONI did not give its au Director, Office of Legislative Liaison. to the American people that the items thorization for the removal of specific licens removed from the control list "fall into ing requirements for the categories of com From these responses there seems no the category of peaceful goods, which modities listed in Bulletin Number 941. other conclusions but that the Commerce may be freely exported without any risk I trust that this information satisfactorily Department did not consult important to the United States national interests." answers your questions with respect to the elements of the intelligence community omce of Naval Intell1gence. Also, the Department of Commerce as Sincerely yours, and that it misled the public in implying serted that the Department had "con E. B. F'LUCKEY, that the entire intelligence community sulted with other interested depart Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy. concurred in the action of the Depart ments, including Defense, State, Agri ment in removing hundreds of items culture, Interior, and the Intelligence DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE, from the control list. Community, in taking this step." HEADQUARTERS U.S. Am FORCE, The failure to consult the military in Something immediately seemed wrong, Washington, D.C., October 28, 1966. telligence agencies is obviously a very for though press references concerning Hon. GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, serious matter. Before any item with the action seemed to stress only that de House of Representatives. military significance can be determined controls on cereals and other food prep DEAR MR. LIPSCOMB: Thank you for your letter of 18 October 1966, and your inquiry as nonstrategic, certainly some intelli arations were involved, it was obvious into the recent revision of the Commodity gence office of the Military Establish from a mere glance at the 68-page bul Control List. ment should be consulted to learn if the letin that many vitally important items In response to your specific questions, I item is not superior to ones currently in were listed, including such items as diesel take this opportunity to inform you that no use by or available to the Communists. engines, jet aircraft engines, machine intelligence om.ce of the United States Air There have been prolonged discussions tools, rifle cleaning compounds and other Force participated in the revision of the with our a111es over NATO forces and chemicals, and scientific and controlling CUrrent Commodity Control List. I have no evidence to indicate that any other United strategy. Much of that strat~gy, I be instruments. States Air Force agencies· participated in lieve, hinges on the capability of the This raised the question: Could the this revision. Communists to reinforce westward. Do Intelligence Community really have been Sincerely, any of our exports now contribute to a consulted before these items were re JACK E. THOMAS, buildup of that capability? moved from export controls, particularly MajCYr General, USAF, Can the administration assure us that those who should be most concerned·, the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence. the commodities and technology which military intelligence agencies? the Communists are obtaining from us I therefore by letter requested each of DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, OFFICE are not useful to the Communists in their the chiefs of the military intelligence or OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, ballistic-missile and anti-ballistic-missile De Washington, D.C., October 25,1966. ganizations to describe whether the Hon. GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, programs? For example, are we not pro partment of Commerce had consulted House of Representatives. viding items which are useful to harden with his organization and to describe DEAR MR. LIPSCOMB: This is in response to Soviet missile sites or to otherwise im such consultations. your inquiry addressed to Major General prove their forces? Each of the replies state that the ad- John J. Davis pertaining to the Department Clearly the administration leaders .
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 should not fail to see the close relation order to supply Cuba with a $28 million When the supplemental appropria ship between the Communist military fertilizer plant. tions bill, 1967, came before the House potential and the commodities and tech The possibility of militarily valuable on October 18, 1966, an additional $600 nology which is being sent from America American-made products going to China million in the limitation on operating to the Communists. U.S. intelligence and North Vietnam via Hong Kong is of expenses was requested for the Export organizations cost millions of dollars and concern also. Import Bank and it was pointed out that they can provide millions of dollars Questions also are raised concerning the Export-Import Bank had just initi worth of expert technical advice. Why the Aerofiot agreement which is a part ated a new program of loans to commer are the U.S. intelligence organizations of the administration's new overture to cial banks for export financing. No not being properly used in making deter the Communists. The President on hearings had been held concerning what minations about controls on trade? October 7 said: new programs were being set up by the Many other serious, far-reaching ques We are negotiating a civil air agreement Bank nor why the Bank was going into tions arise due to administration failure with the SOviet Union. This will facil1tate a higher level of lending activity. and action in the area of export control. tourism in both directions. It was generally recognized that the Can anyone doubt, for example, that Twenty-four days later the Soviet President's announcement several days computers do make a signlftcant con civil airline, Aerofiot, was the means by earlier, on October 7, accounted for the tribution to the military and economic which an American citizen was kid new programs and lending activity. As potential of a nation? In 1966 on naped and transported to Czechoslo I noted earlier, the President had signed numerous instances Communist nations, vakia for imprisonment and possibly a determination to allow the Export including the regimes of East Germany, worse. Administration authorities Import Bank to guarantee commercial Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet learned of this act almost immediately credit to four Communist countries and Union have been granted licenses to buy and were officially notified by the Czech also that the Export-Import Bank is pre computers and computer components oslovaks on November 3. That affair pared to finance exports for an automo and computer replacement parts. notwithstanding, on November 4 the ad tive factory to be constructed in the So Incidentally, France, in at least seven ministration went ahead and signed the viet Union by the Fiat Co. of Italy. instances in 1966, was denied shipment civil air agreement with the Aerofiot In the ensuing discussions those points of such items ranging in value from officials. This spring we may expect ad were not refuted although it was brought $35,000 to over $5 million. According to ditional tourist dollars to flow to the out that the Soviet factory loan would news stories, in November 19·66, a license Communists via Aerofiot jets. be made to an Italian financial institu finally was granted to ship one large size Fifteen years ago, when the Czecho tion for the benefit of Fiat, the Italian computer to France. Is it possible that slovaks imprisoned an American citizen, firm which will build the Soviet auto Communist countries have been author the U.S. Government within 6 weeks im motive factory. ized to obtain our technology while at the posed a ban on travel by Americans to On October 18 the House approved a same time computer technology has been Czechoslovakia. And, within 14 weeks, motion calling for an amendment to pro denied to more friendly countries If so, we virtually ended all trade relations hibit the Export-Import Bank from guar could this account in part for the with Czechoslovakia until the American anteeing the credit of Communist na estrangement which has developed be was released from prison. Today many tions for purchase of American goods. Americans, even those who do not plan However, 3 days later, on October 21, the tween ourselves and France? House reversed itself by approving a Rhodesia is a small place inhabited by to go abroad on an Aerofiot aircraft, less than 5 million people. Americans do anxiously compare the procedures fol watered-down version of the amendment not necessarily agree with the policies lowed by this administration in the cur after what some newspapers describe as rent case with the procedures used in "arm twisting" tactics by the admin that govern the Rhodesians. But Amer istration. icans do not necessarily believe that the 1951. On November 29, 1966, the adminis Since this debate of October in the last rulers of Rhodesia are more despicable Congress, I have obtained a news article than the Communists who directly con tration raised our diplomatic relations with Hungary to the ambassadorial printed in the official Communist news trol over 200 million Soviet citizens; paper Pravda which further clarifies the Communists, who, in the wording of the level. The post in Budapest had been downgraded for good and sufficient rea manner in which American tax dollars Baltic States resolution which was ap would be used to finance the Soviet fac proved by the 89th Congress have "forci sons in 1956; a gesture which showed our distaste over the bloody suppression tory via the Export-Import Bank. Here bly deprived" fundamental human rights is a quotation from the Pravda story of to people who live in that Communist of the Hungarian peoples' fight for free dom. Has this administration now ex August 6, 1966, titled "Agreement With society. And it is the Communist gov Fiat Signed": ernments of the Soviet Union and East tracted some sort of policy concession ern Europe who are supplying the weap from the Hungarian Communists? Or, Vittorio Valletta [Honorary President of did the administration grant a conces Fiat] noted that his firm is furnishing the ons which are killing Americans and our Soviet Union a total of $300,000,000 in credits allies in southeaset Asia. It is not the sion to the Hungarian Communists? over a ten-year period. Many Italian firms Rhodesians. Here is what Hungarian Premier Kallai will take part in the delivery of equipment reported to the Hungarians on November for the [automotive] plant. And yet this administration promotes 30, 1966: and propagandizes Americans to sell Apparently, therefore, the Export-Im goods to the Communists while it denies We have concluded an agreement with the United States to [raise d·iplomatic missions port Bank would lend the money to the many of the same goods to the people of to embassy status] within the last day or Italian financial institution which would Rhodesia because this administration has two. I may say that even when the status lend it to the Fiat firm in Italy. Fiat in determined that those goods would "con of these diplomatic missions was raised it turn will loan the money to the Soviet stitute a significant contribution to the was not due to a change in our policy, it was Government. Southern Rhodesian economy." they who were compelled to review their own So it would seem that the Soviet Com The administration endorses and car policy. munist Party members learned of one ries out trade sanctions against Rhodesia The administration has announced it asp~ct of this Fiat deal well before the fully cooperating with the desires of Bri will seek action on the consular agree American people and the Members of tain. But why is this cooperation not ment with the Soviets even though, for this House did. reciprocated in the case of trade with example, it is known that most Soviet I am convinced that should the loan Cuba? The United States instituted an personnel in the United States have be made to help equip the Fiat plant in embargo on all commerce with Cuba from espionage or at least some intelligence the U.S.S.R., and should credits to other the standpoint of its significance to the gathering assignments. Communist nations be guaranteed, the security of our country. But Britain goes The administration's determination to administration will be playing a dan its merry way with Cuba. In 1964 and assist the Communists, through loans, to gerously deceptive travesty on the Ameri 1965 the British Government's Board of purchase free world machinery and can people. Trade provided credits to Cuba in order technology, is another matter which has Everyone knows that an automotive that over $25 million of automotive concerned many Americans. It will be factory, for example, can turn out many products could be shipped to Cuba. And, recalled that one aspect of this subject products which are military or have a just within the last 2 weeks Britain again was discussed and voted upon twice in military potential. Yet the administra provided credit guarantees to CUba in the final week of the·89th C~ngress. tion apparently has accepted the words January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 689 of the Communists that the Communists on commercial credits. But Pravda went going on? On November 23, 1966, Am only want to improve the well-being of on to say: bassador at Large Averell Harriman the people who live under communism. But Washington does not seem to under spoke on a nationwide television pro Here is the rationale used by Alexander stand that there is no basis for depicting gram. After admitting that an increase B. Trowbridge, Assistant Secretary of these renunciations as a magnificent good of our trade with a Communist regime Commerce for Domestic and Interna deal. would not make that regime a better tional Business, on November 2, 1966: One reported outcome of that Moscow one Ambassador at Large Harriman The President's decision to provide for Ex meeting was the pledge of an additional said: port-Import bank financing of American $1 billion in goods and cash to North A lot of bigoted, pigheaded people, who machine tools and other products for the Vietnam. don't know what's going on in the world Fiat automobile plant in the U.S.S.R. is a The very fact that the President's ad have prevented us from helping our balance good example of how we wlll offer our co of payments, you know, extending, our operation on projects designed to improve dress appears not to have been brought exports. the well-being of their people. We support to the attention of the Soviet people in their allocation of resources to expand con any meaningful way is significant. The People who do know what is going on sumer-oriented industries. We would rather claim is that we are building bridges to in the world do not look for the Com see them create traffic jams with passenger the Communist people. But if they hear munists to help us solve our balance automobiles than with tanks. nothing about such actions from their of-payments problems. Even a prepara Administration spokesmen have not yet rigidly controlled news media, how can tory schoolboy should know that Com disclosed upon what they base their as bridges be built to them? munists trade policies are dominated by surances that the Soviet Communists If the administration really wished to political motivations. actually will not produce tanks or com work for the exchange of ideas, one place The operation and policies of the U.S. ponents for tanks. But if the adminis it might begin would be with the use of Government are properly the concern of tration wishes to believe the words of the printed word. It is well known that all our people. The trade policies of the Communists, indications are that the Communists do not permit any Amer America &re not the province for a select Soviet citizens still have a long wait be ican non-Communist newspaper or pub few. The differences we have with Com fore they get the car they have been de lication to reach Soviet citizens. On munists are not small, they are funda prived of for so long. The Telegraph October 31, 1966, in a letter, I asked the mental differences. The lives of Ameri Agency of the Soviet Union in a foreign Secretary of State questions pertaining to can servicemen are not to be ignored broadcast on December 7, 1966, reported: such matters. Here, in part, is what the for the sake of profits. The Soviet Union for the first time wlll Department said in reply regarding the We soon will have to appropriate addi deliver to the German Federal Republic a possibilities of a Soviet citizen subscrib tional billions of American tax dollars major consignment of Moskvich and Volga ing to an American newspaper: to help defend this Nation against Com passenger cars. This was announced at a Such a subscription would be impossible munists. Just the money required to buy press conference in Moscow on 7 December as a result of the Soviet policy of restricting replacement attack aircraft for those de in connection with the lOth anniversary of the flow of information into the USSR. In stroyed this current fiscal year by weap Avtoexport now sells cars to 60 countries. In fact, it is highly unlikely that the average ons built by the Communists of the 10 years the number of cars it sells has almost member of the CPSU [Communist Party Soviet Union and Eastern Europe could doubled, increasing from 35,000 to 63,000 cars Soviet Union) could subscri,be to a non-Com sold last year. The export of automobiles munist foreign newspaper. be at least five times the dollar value of will be increasing with a sharp increase in There are no restrictions on subscriptions the entire export trade which the ad automobile manufacturing in the Soviet by American citizens to Pravda or other ministration has been able to effect with Union. In 1970, the Soviet Union will man Soviet newspapers. the Communists in 1966. The lives lost ufacture 1.5 million automobiles. However, this disparity springs from the cannot be replaced. Where does our The selling or dumping of goods in difference between our open society and the sense of values lie? closed society of the USSR and is not in any Many questions must be answered be other countries, even if in short supply way susceptible to negotiations. and very much wanted by their own fore this House can discharge its respon people, is, of course, a ·maneuver the It is of interest to note that the reply sibilities intelligently. Today I have Communist leaders engage in at any states not only that such a subscription asked only a few such questions. time they see fit to do so for political would be impossible because of restric Throughout this 90th Congress we reasons. tions on the flow of information into the must take every opportunity to exercise On the subject of loans to Communists Soviet Union but also that this is our constitutional responsibilities to via third countries, Czechoslovak not in any way susceptible to negotia question and, where necessary, to balance sources report that a joint Czechoslo tions. But why should negotiations not and to check on administration trade vak-Italian company was to begin be possible? Such sterile thinking shows policies. To do so, the Members of the functioning on January 1, 1967. A main no apparent progress along these lines House must be correctly and fully in task of this firm, which is called Sigma from where we were a third of a century formed. Italiana, and which is headquartered in ago when diplomatic relations were first The subject of trade with Communists Italy, will be to acquire technical knowl established with the Bolshevik regime. concerns itself with many facets of many edge from abroad. And there are new Have we proffered any such agreement fields of interest. It cuts across the reports of additional Communist joint to the Communists? It is high time for areas of interest and responsibilities of arrangements in Belgium and other us to do so. And, if this administration various existing committees under our places. American dollars should not be is anxious to get ideas across to the citi present organizational setup; therefore, used to finance Communist economies zens of the Communist world, all of our we do not have a body which can be re via the subterfuge of Communist ar publishers and broadcasters of every sponsible for, and equipped to study and rangements such as this in third coun political hue will be happy to tap that to do justice to, the various problems tries. market which is so starving for ideas. which arise in the area of trade control. So far as I have been able to determine, It should be noted that a large number For this reason I have introduced a reso the President's October 7 address has not of people living in the countries under lution, House Resolution 67, calling for been published in any Communist pub stand English-it is widely taught in the reestablishment of the House Select their schools. Moreover, Russian lan Committee on Export Control, such as lication, though a few commentaries did guage editions of American publications was created in the 87th Congress. appear in Communist newspapers in can be provided. Following is the full text of the resolu mid-October. At that time all of the Why could it not be required of the tion: Communist policy planners, representing Communists that American newspapers, H. RES. 67 all of the Eastern European countries magazines, recordings, and television Resolved, That there is hereby created a who are beneficiaries of the administra tapes flow along with the flow of Ameri select committee to be composed of five Mem tion's "peaceful engagement," were meet can goods? bers of the House of Representatives to be ing in Moscow to chart a unified strategy appointed by the Speaker, one of whom he What rational explanation for this shall designate as chairman. Any vacancy on world tasks. Pravda readers were in trade-with-Communists policy does the occurring in the membership of the com formed that the U.S. President had re administration provide for the millions mittee shall be filled in the same manner nounced export controls and restrictions of Americans who wonder just what is 1n which the original appointment wal:l made. 690 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD -HOUSE January 17, 1967. The committee is authorized and directed Mr. LAffiD. Mr. Speaker, I rise to as centrate even more heavily on develop to conduct a full and complete investigation sociate myself with the persuasive and ing weapons of war. and study of the administration, operation, and enforcement of the Export Control Act compelling remar~s of the distinguished Nonstrategic items supplied to the of 1949 (63 Stat. 7), as amended, with a view gentleman from California [Mr. LIPS Soviet Union by the United States per to assessing th~ accomplishments under that coMB]. mits that Communist country to reallo Act, determining whether improvements can Let me say at the outset that I have cate its manpower and resources to other be made in the administration, operation, today introduced a companion resolu pursuits. The simple process of produc or enforcement thereof, and improving ~n tion to that offered by the gentleman ing toothbrushes is not as simple in the gressional oversight and guidance over the from California-House Resolution 67- Soviet Union as it is in the United States. formation of United States policies involved in such Act. In carrying out such investiga calling for the reestablishment of a The cost to the Soviet Union of producing tion and study, the committee shall give House Select Committee on Export Con toothbrushes is at least three times the particular attention to the following mat trol. cost of producing the same items in our ters: The need for such a committee was country. (1) The problems involved in the control never more clear than it is today in light Mr. Speaker, trade is truly a weapon of trade between _the United States and of the Johnson administration's declared and there are those of us who feel that foreign countries, particularly the .foreign i:p.terition to substantially increase trade the proper utilization of economic weap countries comprising the Sino-Soviet bloc. · with Communist nations and especially ons such as trade in prosecuting the (2) Methods and procedures followed in the formulation of policy under the Export in light of the Communist bloc's brazen cold war could avert the eruption of hot Control Act with respect to the determina- · and repeated admission of how extensive wars such as that which is presently bog tion of how the export of articles, mate their logistic and weapons supJ)ort is to ging us down in Vietnam. rials, supplies, and technical data shall be Communist Vietnam. Who can say whether the proper utili controlled, and the· extent; of such control. Mr. Speaker, the 90th Congress cannot zation of the economic tools of war 5 (3) Procedures followed under such Act afford to ignore the many ramifications years ago and 4 years ago might have in obtaining information, advice, and opin of increased trade with Communist averted the necessity of sustained bomb ions with respect to determinations of which ing in North Vietnam? At the same time, articles, materials, supplies, and technical countries. It must certainly be obvious data shall be controlled under such Act, from that trade with the Soviet Union and the who can deny it? depMtments and agencies of the United eastern satellite countries is clearly more Who would deny that if war must be States which are concerned with aspects of advantageous to communism's goals than waged, a naval quarantine of the princi our domestic or foreign policies and opera to those of the United States or the free pal ports that supply the enemy would tions which have a bearing on exports. world. in the long run reduce the casualties on ( 4) The extent to which decisions made Certainly, any student of past history· both sides for the denial of logistics must and policies formulated under such Act con knows that trade can at times be a more necessarily reduce a nation's capacity to cerning the control of exports adversely af sustain the fighting. fect the security of the United States. important weapon than bombing. (5) The interrelationship between such Surely a strong case can be made for the Mr. Speaker, East-West trade con Act and related Acts (such as the Mutual proposition that the use of trade today ceivably might be a useful tool in our re Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951, and in our dealings especially with the Soviet peated attempts to bring peace to the the Trading With the Enemy Act) and other Union and her satellites could conceiv world. discussions or agreements entered into by ably have a more profound effect on the But let us, if we must use it, use it as the United States (such as the coordinating course of the Vietnam war than our re a tool of peace and not as an expedient, committee ( COCOM) discussions and agree one of whose byproducts is to permit the ments) which affect or relate to the control liance on limited bombing has had so far. of trade between the United States and for Can anyone doubt that the Soviet enemy to continue war. eign countries. Union together with her Eastern Euro If trade we must, let us use it intelli For the purpose of cMrying out this resolu pean satellites is the chief supplier and gently in pursuit of peace by at the very tion the committee or subcommittee is au therefore the chief "sustainer" of the least demanding and obtaining meaning thorized to sit and act during the present Communist prosecution of the war in ful concessions that will bring the world Congress at such times and places within Vietnam? a step closer to peace. the United States, including any territory, Let us demand of the Soviet Union and Commonwealth, or possession thereof, or Practically every American plane that elsewhere, whether the House is in session, has been shot down over North Vietnam the Eastern satellites that the price of has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such has fallen victim to Soviet-made and trade is a clear demonstration that peace hearings, and to require, by subpena or Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missiles or not war is their intention. Certainly an otherwise, the attendance and testimony of antiaircraft batteries; American planes acceptable demonstration of this inten such witnesses and the production of such have been tracked by Soviet radars; tion would be elimination of their con· books, records, correspondence, memoran American ground forces have been sub sistent role as the major supplier of the dums, papers, and documents, as it deems jected to substantial casualties caused weapons of war to Communist North necessary; except that neither the committee Vietnam. nor any subcommittee thereof may sit while by Soviet and East European military the House is meeting unless special leave to equipment; and the Vietcong and North Mr. Speaker, I commend the distin sit shall have been obtained from the House. Vietnamese regulars have been supplied guished gentleman from California [Mr. Subpenas may be issued under the signature in the south by trucks made in these LIPSCOMB]. my able colleague and leader of the chairman of the committee or any countries. on the Defense Appropriations Commit member of the committee designated by him, Mr. Speaker, approximately 80 percent tee, for bringing this most important and and may be served by any person designated vital matter to the attention of the House. by such chairman or member. of the weapons and strategic materials .of The committee shall report to the House war have been supplied to the Commu I commend his remarks to all my col as soon as practicable during the present nists in Vietnam not by the Red Chinese leagues and urge all Members to support Congress the results of its investigation and but· by the Soviet Union and her East his eminently sound request that a House study, together with such recommendations European satellites. Select Committee on Export Control be as it deems advisable. Any such report which Nor is Vietnam the only beneficiary of reestablished in this 90th Congress. is made when the .House is not in session United States and free world trade with Mr. POFF. Mr. Speaker, will the gen shall be filed with the Clerk of the House. Communist countries. At long last, the tleman yield? I respectfully request full support by President and the Secretary of Defense Mr. LIPSCOMB. I am pleased to yield the House of Representatives for this have admitted publicly what many of us to the gentleman from Virginia. resolution. The need for a Select Com in Congress have tried to elicit for 2 and Mr. POFF. Mr. Speaker. I rise to com mittee on Export Control is great. The 3 and 4 ' years; namely, that· the Soviet mend and to congratulate the distin committee is necessary if Congress is to Union has not quit the arms race either. guished gentleman from California. He carry out its resp-onsibilities. I have re in offensive or defensive strategic. is known to all o·f his colleagues as a most quested hearings oil House Resolution weapon systems. An antiballistic missile diligent scholar. On this particular sub 67 and sincerely hope that action will be system is being deployed in the Soviet ject he is particularly well informed; in taken very soon. · Union today; work continues full pace deed, he is more knowledgeable than any Mr. LAIRO. ¥r. ,Speaker. Will the on major offensive strategic systems. other Member of either House. gentleman from California yield? And make no mistake about it. Trade The speech the gentleman has just Mr. LIPSCOMB. I yield to the gentle-· with Communist countries aids them in made I regard as a signal contribution to man from Wisconsin. these efforts· and permitS them to con- the future welfare of this Nation. I com- January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 691 mend this to the earnest study of every tion of military hardware, I pointed out hospi.tals or prisons without due process Member of both Houses. that the industrial complex necessary to and without observing all the basic rights Mr. Speaker, having known the gentle manufacture automobiles can certainly of humans. I submit it simply because man from California since we were both be used for other purposes. He very of past experience, being one of the three first elected to Congress in 19·52, I can quickly replied, "If we do not buy these dootors in the House, Mr. Speaker, and assure the House that every statement he tools in the United States, we can get because the U.S. Department of Justice has made and every statistic he has cited them from Italy, the United Kingdom, Federal Hospi-tal for Defective Delin has been carefully and fully documented. France, West Germany and elsewhere.'' quents happens to be in my home town. America is safer because the gentle Now, I merely point this out because In essence, the bill would amend chap man from California sits in the House of if they do not get them from us, they ter 313 of title 18,. United States Code, Representatives. will get them from our so-called friends. with respect to the constitutional rights Mr. LIPSCOMB. I thank the gentle The plant is going to be built. of mentally incompetent or suspect per man from Virginia very much for his In that connection, of course, here we sons to be committed thereunder. The kind comments. are being asked to support Great Britain proposed amendments of 18 U.S.C. 4244, Mr. YOUNGER. Mr. Speaker, will the in its squabble with Rhodesia, and she contained in the bill, would: gentleman yield? ·continues to trade with Cuba-but Great First. Require that a preliminl:l.rY mo Mr. LIPSCOMB. I yield to the gentle Britain is not doing a thing to help us tion for a judicial determin&tion of the man from California [Mr. YoUNGER]. in the conflict we have out in southeast mental competency of the accused to Mr. YOUNGER. Mr. Speaker, I too, Asia. They will be mighty happy to sell stand trial be supported by a sworn, want to join in congratulating the gen Fiat these machine tools and ship them written statement based on personal ob tleman from California on bringing this over to the Soviet Union for them. Also, servation by a responsible adult as to matter to the attention of the House. France, has been anything but cooper the mental condition of the accused; To me there are two very vital subjects ative in some respects lately-yet her Second. Require a hearing on the pre. that are involved here. One is that the machine tool builders would be happy to liminary motion at which the accused Constitution places in the hands of the furnish these -items. and his attorney should be present; Congress of the United States the control This entire matter deserves thorough Third. Authorize a psychiatric exami of international trade. I think we have attention by the Congress. nation on temporary commitment for failed in our duty in allowing the ad Mr. LIPSCOMB. I thank the gentle such examination, only upon an initial ministration to take such control and man, and I would like to add in my opin determination by the court "that there have the ability, lawful or otherwise, to ion the administration has lacked ag is reasonable cause to doubt the mental issue such a paper as they have issued. gressiveness in getting our allies to rec competency of the accused"; Secondly, there is this question of ognize the threat occasioned by their Fourth. Limit the commitment, if credibility. I think that stands out all sales to Eastern European countries and commitment is ordered, for a "reasona through your paper. I am glad you also to Cuba and North Vietnam. I be ble period, not to exceed 30 days, as the lieve it would be well if the Department court may determine." brought it to our attention in this case, of State with the support of the Presi One of the additions in the 1967 edi because certainly they have not carried tion, Mr. Speaker, is that the court could out what should be expected of an in dent would aggressively influence our allies to stop the sale of these strategic for 'SUfficient cause extend for not more telligent administration in consulting all than an additional 30 days the period of of their own people. If they had not items which build up the economic and military capability of our potential observation to give due process to the consulted the Congress, there might have enemies. psychiatrist, because one of the basic been ._some excuse for that, but intelli problems of all persons skilled in deter gence is under their control. It is under mining whether or not another being is the control of the President, and he has BILL TO PROTECT THE CONSTITU of sound mind is to protect those on the not even taken the trouble to consult TIONAL RIGHTS OF THE ALLEGED outside and yet not incarcerate or hold with the important people who should be for observation too long those on the consulted before he ever issued such an MENTALLY INCOMPETENT inside. order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Fifth. It would require a further hear Mr. LIPSCOMB. I thank the gentle previous order of the House, the gentle ing on the issue of mental competency man. man from Missouri [Mr. HALL] is recog to stand trial if the initial report of the Mr. MIZE. Mr. Speaker, will the gen nized for 40 minutes. physician-the one skilled in determi tleman yield? Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, today I will nation of unsoundness of mind or nor Mr. LIPSCOMB. I am glad to yield to introduce a bill, for the third time, de-, malcy-"indicates a state of present the gentleman. signed to protect the constitutional rights mental incompetence"; Mr. MIZE. I want to commend the of individuals to be committed to Fed Sixth. Guarantee to an accused found gentleman for the observations that he eral institutions on a charge of mental mentally incompetent, and committed has just made. In the early part of De incompetency or so-called insanity. The pursuant to the provisions of the statuta, cember a group of us from the Interna bill is similar to the one which I submit the right to a periodic reexamination, tional Trade Subcommittee of the Com ted in the 88th Congress, and it is identi not more frequently than every 6 mittee on Banking and Currency went to cal to the one I submitted in the 89th months, on the application of his at Italy, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hun Congress, except for two additional cor torney, legal guardian, spouse, parent, or gary, and the Soviet Union because we rections suggested by the U.S. Judicial nearest adult relative. anticipated that the President was going Conference in 1964. Mr. Speaker, I have submitted this to make this proposal to relax restric There has been much correspondence bill in' the two prior Congresses. There tions on trade with the East and we concerning this bill. There has been have been long hours of study and re wanted to familiarize ourselves with some almost universal acceptance and much search and deliberation which have gone of the problems. We discussed this Fiat enthusiasm. Yet nothing has happened. into its preparation. This study and de matter that you mentioned with Senator It has drawn favorable recommendation liberation has been augmented by con Valetta who is head of the Fiat company, from the Judicial Conference of the sultation with many national legal and and with members of the IMI, the Insti United States and its major provisions medical experts in this particular field. tuto Mobilieri Italiano. I pointed out to have been supported by the New York Not· only have consultation and con Senator Valetta that while there may ap City Bar Association and by my own currence been obtained from national pear to be certain advantages to the Greene County, Mo., Bar Association. legal experts, but valuable counsel and promotion of trade with the eastern I claim no pride in authorship. As I advice have been received from the European nations, many Americans con said in an original remark on the floor members of the Greene County Bar As sider such trade as trading with the at the rtime it was first introduced in the sociation of Missouri, located in the dis enemy. While the President contends CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Volume 109, part trict which I am privileged to represent, automobiles are a consumer goods item, 12, .page 16922, I would ask anyone to and where is located the U.S. Federal and any production of consumer goods take it :for his own and simply plug ·the Medical Center for Defective Delin in the Soviet Union will reduce that loopholes in the present law, which pro (lllents; and also from alienists or psy amount of energy, manpower, and so vide_opportunities fo.r persons to be com chiatris~, hospital authorities, and men forth that can be put into the produc- mitted to Federal menrtal institutions or tal· hospital superintendents. 692 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 It would affect the Department of Jus off in one's car from New York City on a Transportation Act of 1964 is grossly tice, Federal Medical Center, St. Eliza Friday evening for a soft spot on the inadequate. For fiscal year 1968, Con beths Hospital here in the District of New Jersey coast, in the middle of sum gress approved an increase in the author Columbia, and others. mer, is already a losing proposition. ization from $150 to $175 million. I might say that we have accurately Inadequate access is causing downtown Mr. Speaker, I have introduced three and at some time and expense analyzed areas to lose business. Parking diffi bills to assist urban communities, par other prior remarks, such as those of our culties, traffic congestion, and public ticularly the largest metropolitan areas, colleague from Missouri, the distin transport inconveniences are crippling meet their transportation needs. The guished TOM CURTIS, who, in the CoN mobility upon which individual com first measure is intended to rectify the GRESSIONAL ·RECORD, VOlume 112, part 9, muters and businesses depend. present imbalance by permitting the page 11670, under the title of "A Pro The Federal Government, during the States to earmark moneys from the high posed Civil Rights Act of 1966: The past several years, has poured millions of way trust fund toward improving urban Mentally Incompetent," submitted al dollars into constructing urban highway mass transportation. This bill, originally most identical information and made systems. These become flooded as soon introduced by Senator TYDINGS, was not extensive remarks a;bout it. as the dignitaries cut the ribbon and acted upon during the 89th Congress. I would also call your attention to the conduct their smooth inaugural ride. Second, I have introduced legislation daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, page A5397, By not earmarking sufficient funds to authorizing appropriations to help the in the 89th Congress, entitled "Our Invis ward the modernization of rapid, public States or local public bodies defray ible Prisoners," wherein I comment and transport, the Government has generated operating deficits incurred in maintain submit documentation from the New an imbalance in favor of the private ing commuter services. No grant may house chain of newspapers an article automobile and ironically, it is the driver, exceed two-thirds of the annual net written by Miss Judith Coburn, subtitled for whom all this concrete splendor has operating deficit of a transit company. ''They Live in a Curious Medical-Legal been created, who suffers most in the Moreover, assistance is contingent upon Limbo!' end as untold thousands of vehicles are whether the State agency or company In addition to that, we have updated attracted to the highways. submits to the Secretary of Housing and the recommendation of the Judicial I am not suggesting that the Federal Urban Development an approved pro Conference in this new bill. highway program is a mistake and should gram of capital improvements ''for the And concluding, Mr. Speaker, I would be dismantled. Rather, we must con purpose of providing more efficient, eco say that both the 88th and 89th Con tinually seek to expand the system. But, nomical, and convenient commuter serv gresses enacted far-reaching civil rights particularly in the great cities, it would ice in an urban area." The bill is similar legislation. However, these prior Con be a catastrophic error to undertake to legislation first introduced in the Sen gresses completely forgot the greater costly and massive road improvements, ate by Senator HARRISON WILLIAMS, of sphere of civil rights, perhaps due to the including tunnel and bridge additions, New Jersey. emotionalism present at that time. without simultaneously planning for Third, I have resubmitted my bill to Such lack of action has provided no re new and more efficient means of public repeal the existing State limitation on lief to the suspect mental incompetent commuter service. grants under the Urban Mass Trans or to the alleged insane, yet pleas of "in Local and State governments, as well portation Act. I am substituting for this sanity" accumulate as our judiciary as the National Government, must rec 12%-percent limit a general guidance backs up our constabulary less and less. ognize that in order to ease the trans clause, authorizing the Secretary of Therefore, Mr. Speaker, let this Con portation snarl, for this and future gen Housing and Urban Development to give gress be known as the one that restored erations, it is necessary to attract com priority to the urgency of need prevailing civil rights and due process to a class of muters and intercity travelers to mass in the Nation's largest metropolitan citizens long neglected by the law. Let transportation, diverting them from our areas. this bill be known as the Personal Rights already congested roads. Last year, when the House was de Protective Act of 1967. Over the past several years, the trend bating the mass transit amendments, I away from public carriers is clearly dis offered an amendment, adopted first in cernible. Between 1956 and 1963, ex the Senate at the instigation of the THE URBAN TRANSIT CRJSIS penditures for local public carriers de senior Senator from New York, establish clined from $2 to $1.5 million nationally, ing a pool of $12.5 million for allocation The SPEAKER pro tempore 706 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 The idea was to gl.Ve our poor children on a population basis than wealthy commu no psychologists, and no psychiatrists to help "the full benefits of education" and thus nities like Newton and Wellesley. But Title this teacher and her schools had no special break the cycle. Ironically, by giving just 'a I officials who are quick to point this out programs for anyone. In fact, Stray Branch little bit of money to both the rich and poor neglect to emphasize the disparity that ex had no bathroom, no history course, and schools, Title I is not eliminating educational ists among these communities in the all precious few books. After teaching for 40 inequities, it is reinforcing them. And by important area of average per pupil expend years, this highly dedicated teacher received reinforcing them, it is making the rich richer iture. a maximum of $5,500. and the poor poorer. In four subsequent edi Wellesley spends $700 per pupil, Newton Why the gap between the two school sys torials, we will document exactly how this spends $760 and Brookline spends $778, ex tems? Simple enough. Money. A small is happening. clusive of federal aid, building construction percentage of New Rochelle's citizens are on and debt service. Fall River, which seems welfare but most them earn high salaries [From the Boston Herald, Jan. 3, 1967] to be in the clutches of a permanent depres as scientists, engineers, lawyers, doctors, and THE RICH GET RICHER-II sion, can afford to spend only $400 per child. corporate executives. Their median family The $515,000 Fall River received in Title I income is $8,600 per year and because they As indicated by President Johnson, the funds seems to be a great deal of money and original purpose of the Elementary and Sec want the best schools for their children, they it is. But in terms of the enormous educa spent $896 per pupil in 1966 (exclusive of ondary Education Act of 1965, and especially tional problems that exist in Fall River, it is Title I of that Act, was to eliminate the edu building construction and debt service), of relatively little value. Because even with which is just about $400 above the national cational inequalities existing in America be Title I funds Fall River is still spending only tween the wealthy suburbs, on the one hand, average. $439 per pupil and that is not enough to Breathitt County doesn't have a small per and the urban ghettos and desolate rural break the cycle of poverty. areas, on the other. Title I is not accom centage of poor persons in its community. It is certainly not enough for a young, Practically everyone is poor and since the plishing this goal. In fact, as we pointed out bushy-haired boy in Fall River named Danny. in Monday's editorial, it is reinforcing the coal mines have closed, 77 per cent of the Danny is poor. He is suffering from mal people are on welfare. Their median family inequalities--to such an extent that some nutrition. Thanks to Title I funds, he is now schools in Newton, where the per pupil ex income is $1,324, and much of the $285 they getting one good meal a day. Unfortunately, spend to educate a child is already supplied penditure is $760, and New Rochelle, New lack of food is not Danny's only problem. He York, where the expenditure is $896, are re by the federal government, but it is still also has trouble reading. about $215 below the national average. ceiving Title I aid while some schools in Fall Although Danny is in the sixth grade, he River, where the per pupil expenditure is This sort of situa.tion is what led to enact reads at a third grade achievement level and ment of the Elementary and Secondary Edu $400, are not. And all of this is taking place the only help he receives is several hours a at a cost to the American taxpayer of more cation Act of 1965, and especially Title I of week with a "reading coach" in a class with tha;t Act. But instead of starting Breathitt than $1 billion. 13 other children. The "coach" has no degree Title I werut astray because of a basic County up the ladder toward the level of New and no training in remedial reading. She is Rochelle, Title I distributed about as much change in philosophy as the Act made its way impatient when Danny falters as he recites, through the committee rooms of Congress. money to New Rochelle ($321,000) as it did and apparently she does not notice that to Brea•thitt County ($340,000). The slight When he first proposed the idea in his edu Danny holds his book a few inches from his cation message to Congress in 1965, President edge Breathitt Oounty enjoys over New Ro face, indicating both a need for glasses and chelle disappears under close examination. Johnson strongly implied that the wealthy better lighting in the antiquated classroom. suburban communities would be expeoted to The way in which the two districts spent the Fall River would like to do more for money tells the story. continue to take care of their own and at the Danny. The school would at least like to hire same time help out the urban and rural areas trained remedial reading teachers. But as Since New Rochelle had almost everything that no longer had the financial resources tp the administrator of Title I funds in Fall a modern school system could want before support gOOd schools. In other words, the River said, "How can we spend money on it received Title I funds, the school admin President seemed to be calling for massive academics when these kids don't have enough istrators-well-trained in the art of spending injections of federal aid into hard-core pov to eat?" So Newton and Brookline continue money--developed "communications skills" erty districts. Hopefully, this technique to improve while Fall River, already far be classes to supplement the normal elementary would break the vicious cycle wherein poverty hind, struggles against overwhelming odds school program. In the Daniel Webster breeds ignorance and ignorance, in turn, to avoid falling further behind. School, one of the New Rochelle schools re ceiving Title I aid, an students in the school breeds more poverty. It is interesting to speculate what Fall But Congress did not interpret the Presi (rich and poor) watch rented movie strips, River could do with the millions of dollars paint image pictures on slides illuminated by dent's message in this way. Congress took now being allocated in Newton, Wellesley, the President's phrase, "low-income districts," and the thousands of communities like them overhead projectors, and then describe their and changed it to "children of low-income across the country. But it will always be pictures into tape recorders and hear them families." This change in emphasis from dis speculation unless Congress changes the dis selves talk. In another school, children tricts to individual children seems innocuous. tribution clause that governs Title I. That learn to take pictures with a Polaroid pur But not when considered in context with the clause, and the ·restrictions within it that ac chased with Title I money. And so all of amazing eligibility formula Congress estab tually discriminate against poor school sys the money went towards improving the Ushed. Congress ruled that any county con academic standards of this already first-rate tems in rural states, will be closely examined school system. taining 100 or more children aged 7 through in Wednesday's editorial. 17 from fam111es with an annual income of Breathitt County officials wanted to im prove their curriculum, too. And out of less than $2,000 is ellgible to receive Title I [From the Boston Herald, Jan. 4, 1967] funds. It further ruled that any local school their $340,000, they did manage to hire their system within that county is also eligible. THE RICH GET RICHER-III first nutritionist, their first art teacher, their Because almost every community in the New Rochelle is a New York City suburb first drama instructor, and their first social United States, no matter how wealthy, still where it is not uncommon to live in a man worker. But the Breathitt County admin has a number of poor families, rthis meant sion. Breathitt County is a Kentucky Ap istrators knew where most of the money had that approximately 25,000 of the 27,000 local palachian community where it is all too to go. They knew that the main diet of school districts in rthis country immedia..tely common to live in a shack. But the two most children in the county was potatoes became eligible for TitLe I poverty funds. In communities do have one thing in common. and beans. They knew that 80 per cent of effect, Congress substituted a shortgun for a They both received slightly more than the children had trouble paying attention in rifie and decided to scatter money all over $300,000 last year in Title I funds from the school because they were suffering from in the place. Elementary and Secondary Education Act of testinal parasites. They spent their money This change in emphasis is what enabled 1965. wisely. They spent it for food. Belmont, Brookline, Lexington, Marblehead, Even before Title I went into effect, New Trying to decide which school system has Milton, Newton, Wellesley and Winchester to Rochelle had one of the most advanced been helped more by Title I is not easy. But receive a total of roughly $300,000 in Title I school systems in the country. It had a one thing is clear. All of New Rochelle's fUnds this year. The eligibility clause com staff of remedial reading teachers, social money went into the improvement of its cur pletely ignores the fact that the lowest me workers, psychologists, psychiatrists. It had riculum. Very little of Breathitt County's dian family income in this group is $8,295. special programs for the gifted and special did. Therefore it is probably safe to assume The eligibility clause completely ignores the programs for the not-so-gifted. To run that in academic terms, the gap between New fact that the small number of poor children these programs, New Rochelle recruited the Rochelle and Breathitt County is wider than in these communities were already attend finest teachers in the country with maxi ever before. In ·terms of the original pur ing some of the best schools in the country. mum salaries of $11,750 for an M.A. and pose of the Act-which was to give the The eligib111ty clause completely ignores the $12,000 with a Ph.D. children of Breathitt County "the full fact that Title I funds enabled these com Before Title I went into effect, Breathitt benefits of education" so that they could munities to better their already excellent County had 16 schools, most of them un break the poverty cycle-well, that is simply schools and thus widen the educational gap approachable except by foot. Inside one of out of the question. that Title I was theoretically supposed to these schools, a one-room wooden building What in the Title I law accounts for such a close. called the Stray Branch School, a woman poor distribution of funds? In yesterday's And the gap is widening. Hard-core pov teacher instructed 16 children in grades one editorial, we explained how the Title I ellgi erty areas like Fall River are, to be sure, re through six. Breathitt County had no re b111ty clause scatters the money all over the ceiving a larger percentage of Title I funds medial reading teachers, no social workers, place, thus discriminating against poor dis- January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 707 tricts in favor of the wealthy suburbs in any icized, both 1n this column and elsewhere, novate, to develop the proper attitudes to given state. But on a broader scale, there is and most of that criticism is deserved. ward culturally deprived children, and to another clause that discriminates even more But in a major program funded by Title discard the rigid thinking too often prevalent in terms of state against state. I of the Elementary and Secondary Educa in the rest of the Boston schools. Children To determine how much money it wm be tion Act, the Boston schools have created in many Boston schools must sit with their allocated under Title I, every school district some of the most original and exciting proj hands folded during most of the day, and in the country first figures out as best it can ects we have seen in visits to Title I programs they are not permitted to talk during cafe how many poor children it has. But then in 10 school systems throughout the coun teria periods. it multiplies this figure times one-half the try. The Boston program is a good example In contrast, a fifth grade clasa at the average per pupil expenditure in that par of what Title I funds can do to help chil Boardman School recently brought in popu ticular state. This sounds reasonable dren from hard-core poverty areas. It shows lar records from home and when they wanted enough but when you stop to consider the what Title I can do when the money is not to dance (and even twist) to release some of great financial gulf that separates the rural scattered around, but is applied in a con their energy, nobody objected. states from the industrial states it is not centrated effort to bring the full benefits of This, then, is education in the sub-system, very fair at all. education to children and thereby give them paid for by Title I funds. We believe it is Kentucky's average per pupil expenditure the opportunity to break the poverty cycle. what President Johnson meant when he is only $320. New York's in contrast, is $786. The program is called the sub-system, a originally proposed to bring "the full bene Although Breathitt County has nearly three nearly autonomous experimental unit con fits of education" to children in poor school times as many poor children as New Rochelle, sisting of four school divisions from pre districts. It is not just receiving a solid its Title I allocation in 1966 exceeded New primary to high school levels within the academic background, although that is a Rochelle's by only $19,000 because Kentucky's larger school system. The elementary level great part of it. It involves the child's so average per pupil expenditure is so low com is conducted in the Boardman School in Rox cial and cultural life and his family as well. pared to New York's. bury, a school with a nearly 100 per cent The child develops imagination, he develops And ironically, another clause in the Title Negro enrollment. Visitors to the Boardman enthusiasm, and if he can get enough of all I law prevented Breathitt County from using School can feel the excitement and enthu of this, he will have a good chance to break $100,000 of its meager allocation. This siasm in the air. the poverty cycle. clause says, "The amount of a maximum In one un-graded class with fourth, fifth, There is, of course, a catch to the Boston basic grant may not exceed 30 per cent of and sixth grade youngsters, a hose-thin boy sub-system. Only 700 children are enjoy the amount budgeted by the local educa peering into a microscope suddenly screamed, ing its benefits and Boston has 23,000 chll tional agency for current expenditures." "I got it! I got it!" dren who need this kind of help. Even if all Because Breathitt County couldn't afford The class had taken a field trip and col of Boston's $3.5 m1llion Title I grant were to spend much money on its schools in the lected samples of water from ponds, puddles, devoted to sub-systems of similar compre first place, its original $440,000 Title I alloca and water faucets in a program developed by hensive programs, the city could accommo tion exceeded 30 per cent of its budget. Educational Services, Inc., of Cambridge. date only 4,500 of the 23.000 children. Congress, to its credit, has raised this restric Each child had been given a 100-power Boston's Office of Program Development, tion to 50 per cent for next year. But desper microscope built by Bausch & Lomb. The which directs the sub-system, would like to ately poor Breathitt County has already pupils were left alone to figure out for them expand the program into other schools, but watched $100,000 go off to wealthier school selves how to use them. it needs more money. Like many large Amer districts with bigger budgets and it might Now the classmates of the boy who had ican cities, Boston has almost taxed itself out stm lose money under the new formula. finally succeeded in focusing his microscope of existence in recent years but it can stlll A third restrictive clause in the Title I crowded around him. Some of them looked spend only $530 per pupil, exclusive of Title distribution formula requires that the money through the eye-piece and saw what he had I funds, compared to $760 in Newton and be used only in schools with a proportion seen: one-celled protozoa, tiny water beatles $1,239 in Scarsdale, N.Y. The city cannot of children on Aid to Families with De flitting through the water, baby snails, and be expected to do much more. The Federal pendent Children greater than the average algae. The children rushed back to their government will have to help. proportion for the entire town. In other microscopes, one by one learned to focus But under the Title I distribution formula words, the money goes to the poorest schools them, and then started asking questions: enacted into law by Congress, that cannot in the town. Once again, this sounds reason "Are these these things alive?" "Is it good to happen. Under the formula, in fact, New able, but it ignores the fact that a poor drink this water?" "How come they can ton receives $69,000, Scarsdale receives $18,- school in one town may be a wealthy school move?" "What are these things called?" 000, and Westchester County-the sixth in another town. Coming back to Massa The rtiea.cher did not answer ·them. In wealthiest county in the country-is allo chusetts to mustrate this point, we find that stead, he suggested how the answers could cated $2.8 m1llion, nearly as much as the city in Newton, the two schools receiving Title I be obtained by consulting reference books, of Boston. money have only a six per cent AFDC enroll and several of the children became so inter ment. Yet three schools in impoverished ested in the phenomena they had found that [From the Boston Herald, Jan. 6, 1967] New Bedford with a 10 per cent AFDC enroll they went to the public library to find out THE RICH GET RICHER-V ment are denied Title I funds. more about them. The American people and their repre There are more questionable clauses in the "We believe the children learn best by dis sentatives in Congress must ask themselves law but we think the main point is clear. covery," said School Director Bernard H. Shul just what they want to do with the bil Title I is not achieving its original goal. man as he described several dozen similar lion dollars in Title I funds now being scat Instead of giving massive injection of Fed programs instituted by sub-system director tered all over the country. For Title I of eral money into hard-core poverty districts, Evans Clinchy. Children in the first grade the Elementary and Secondary Education Congress decided to sea tter the taxpayers' are taught about banking, the stock market, Act of 1965 is not moving towards its orig b1llion dollars over a wide area. In the one and writing checks even before they can read. inal goal as defined by President John room schoolhouse of Breathitt County and They discover relationships between num son. the drafty classrooms of Fall River, Title I bers with colored blocks and rods. Children Title I is not bringing "the full benefits money is used for food. In the wealthy i:q. the upper grades experiment with batteries of education" to children in the depressed suburbs, Title I funds are used for the latest and light bulbs, ice cubes, seeds, pendulums, urban ghettoes and rural areas so that they model projectors, tape recorders, and even balances, and butterflies-all Educational can break the poverty cycle. Instead, our $48 of pencils (Belmont), a $200 typewriter Services, Inc. courses. Fifth and sixth grade investigation has disclosed that Title I: (Lexington), and $500 of a custodian's salary children learn about animals from live guinea Discriminates against poor school sys (Newton). pigs, rabbits, and gerbils (similar to ham tems by allocating more money to states As a result of this scattering of funds, the sters) kept caged in the classrooms. Chil with the highest average per pupil expendi hardcore poverty. districts do not have enough dren in kindergarten and classes for slow ture. School systems in New York state re money to give their children "the full bene learners discover musical concepts by taking ceive three times as much money as school fits of education" which President Johnson off their shoes and socks and responding to systems in Mississippi for the same number proposed. They receive only piecemeal bene music through their bodies in a eurythmics of poor children because New York's aver fits, while the educational inequalities which course. age per pupil expenditure is $786 as com Title I was supposed to correct are reinforced Afternoon activity programs offer a pot pared to Mississippi's $259. and the poverty cycle is unbroken. pourri of cultural enrichment projects in Penalizes the most impoverished school This is a terrible waste, because where Title cluding creative writing, ceramics, field trips systems by restricting grants to no more I money has been concentrated to do the to supermarkets and swimming. Parents are than 50 per cent (previously 30 per cent) of most good, it has shown what can be done kept informed of the latest developments in a school system's budget. The schools of to help the children who most need it, the school through newsletters and monthly Breathitt County, Ky., where 77 per cent subject of tomorrow's editorial. meetings with teachers. of the people are on welfare, were last year Teachers' horizons are constantly broad denied more than $100,000 because of this [From the Boston Herald, Jan. 5, 1967] ened with lectures a·t the school by psychia clause, and this year they will st111 be denied trists, educational consultants, and profes part of their allocation. THE RICH GET RICHER-IV sors. Allocates money to wealthy schools with The Boston schools are not noted for their Even more important, the funds from Title low proportions of poor children while poor excellence. They have been strongly crtt- I have provided teachers the fiex1b111ty to in- schools with higher percentages of poor ch11- ·7()8 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 dren are denied mqney. Two schools ln great majority of America's poor children How many of you have ever heard of Wellesley with two percent of the ·students now living in depressed areas and at the Boston? the students were · asked. No o~e on Aid to Families with Dependent Children same time cut off aid to children in wealthy raised his hand. are receiving Title I funds, while three suburbs where the school systems are already How many have been outside Breathitt schools in New Bedford with 10 per cent providing each child with a superior educa County? Four children raised their hands. on AFDC are not entitled to receive l'itle tion. Would you like to hear about airplanes or I funds. As in the present Act, any school system Washington or how newspapers are made? Fails to accomplish its goal of providing which reduces its budget would be denied They all shook their heads up and down. equal educational opportunities by ignoring Title I money. And perhaps other provisions Many of the children had blank ex the main cause of educational inequalities: could determine whether a. school system's pressions on their faces, and others bore the vast differences in per pupil expenditures present per pupil expenditure bears a reason obvious signs of malnutrition. In the back among America's school systems. A poor able relationship to the median income or room, a pretty 16-year-old girl Drusie Ann child attending the Fall River schools, where tax base of the town. But we believe this is Kinniard, was preparing a lunch of beef stew the per pupil expenditure is $400, or a. minor consideration since most communi provided by the government. Breathitt County schools, where the expendi ties are already spending as much as they She had been in her second year of high ture is $285, will receive an inferior edu can afford for education. school, learning history for the first time, cation; while the same poor child attend Figuring out the details of the new dis when her father said he didn't want her ing the Newton schools (expenditure $760), tribution formula. will naturally be the job going to school any more. She never knew or New Rochelle schools ($896), will get the of Congress, and the Senate and House have why. So Drusie was working mornings at best education this country can offer. the talent to do the job. The important the Stray Branch School, preparing meals for This does not imply-that Title I has been thing is that they act this year. Because children who only had beans and potatoes a waste of time. In its one year of existence with so much money going to Vietnam, we at home. it has provided valuable intelligence with must use what domestic money is available But food is not the only problem at school. which to make future plans. For one thing, to the greatest possible effect. Seven-year-old Stephen Cockerhn, a blond T1 tle I has proved that the warning cry, We do •not underestimate the difficulties haired boy with a hopeless expression on his "Federal control of education!" is the reddest involved. Changing Title I so that it benefits face, came to school the week before wearing of red hel'!rings. There are almost as many those who need it most will be a politically old women's shoes. A school official finally different programs being developed with Title unpopular move for many Congressmen. It succeeded in getting him some old men's I funds as there are school districts using will mean taking money that is now going boots from the precious supply of old clothes the funds and Title I is, in a sense, the to their own districts and transferring it to donated by people in apartment houses in largest laboratory in the world. Wellesley, others. But we believe Congress will act. New York. for example, is experimenting with the use We believe Congress wants to help a little Stephen walks a mile every day to school of printing presses and new approaches to boy named Danny who is three years behind in the old boots, but some Breathitt County teaching while Newton seems to be getting in reading because the Fall River schools children are transported 45 miles by bus results with its program of special reading cannot afford remedial reading teachers. every day, and other Breathitt children can and speech therapy training on an indi We believe Congress wants to help a seven not go to school because they are retarded or vidual basis. These programs are good and year-old boy named Stephen in Breathitt handicapped and there are no facilities for should be continued. The question is, by County who now gets enough food to con them at school. The incidence of mental re whom? centra;te on ·his reading, but doesn't have tardation is high in Breathitt County, since We believe that Wellesley, with its median the books to read. the county's 15,000 peopl~nly 10 of them family income of $11,428, and Newton, with We believe Congress agrees with what Pres Negro--have been inbreeding for generations, its median family income of $9,080, should ident Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of and incest is not uncommon, which is true not receive poverty funds. We would also the Union Message of 1965: "Every child of many rural areas. like to believe that. the citizens of Wellesley, must have the best education our nation can But Stephen Cockerhn is a normal boy Newton and the thousands of suburbs like provide." them do not really want to receive poverty We believe Congress will no longer tolerate with a typical home environment for the funds. And finally, we would like to believe spending one billion dollars a year for an act Appalachias. He lives in a splintery shack that these affluent communities will want in the middle of the mud with his five which reinforces the educational inequali brothers and sisters and his mother, Mrs. to continue their worthwhile Title I pro ties which it was supposed to correct, and grams--using their own financial resources. makes the rich richer at the expense of the Delvena Cockerhn. Her husband had gone Only in this way will hard-pressed commu poor. to Michigan a month before to try to find nities like Fall River and Breathitt County a job, a common occurrence in Breathitt since 7~ per cent of the people are on wel get the money needed to raise their average [From the Boston Herald, Jan. 4, 1967] per pupil expenditure to the productive level fare. TITLE I FuNDS SPENT FOR FOOD: BREATHITT, Ever since the coal mining companies of the suburbs. KY., SCHOOLS FIGHT HUNGER, FILTH, We realize that the concept of wealthy closed up before the Depression "the main FUTILITY occupation here is sitting around and breath communities reaching into their pockets to (By Ronald Kessler) help the schools of poor communities is a ing the fresh air," according to School Supt. radical break with American tradition. But BREATHITT COUNTY, KY.-Dusk Was setting Mrs. Marie R. Turner. And since 95 per the structural change of American commu on this Appalachian community as the cent of the land is mountainous (even the nity life during recent years has also been visitor drove into the county seat of Jackson cemeteries are hatcheted out of the hills), radical. The wealthy are congregating more and stopped at the best hotel, the Jefferson. farming cannot support the needs of the and more in the suburbs. The poor are be A swarthy man pulled out the key to the population. coming increasingly isolated in the ghettos most expensive suite in the hotel, a $6 room Inside the Cockerhn shack, a pot-belly and rural areas. The old concept of each with no telephone, and, after contracting a stove was burning soft coal, blackening the community looking out for the education of stiff neck from the drafty accommodation faces of the children. But there was no way its children is a fine thing-if the commu the visitor set out the next morning to see for them to take a bath or shower and no nity is wealthy. some schools and homes in this typical Ap:. outhouse. The windows were made of dirty In less fortunate communities, we find palachian county. rags, and the shack smelled of urine. children whose fam111es cannot pay for good The nearest elementary school, the Stray Mrs. Cockerhn had not paid ~ her rent of schools, whose schools cannot give them a Branch, was approachable only over a steep $10 a . month since the summer, and she · good education, whose education cannot get mountain road which proved to be too stopped paying her $12-a-month electric bill them good jobs so that they can pay for muddy to be climbed by car. A school de a year ago. The refrigerator is now used better schools. That, of course, is the pov partment truck finally succeeded in climb only to store food, but there is not much erty cycle and that is what must be broken. ing the' mountain, and it stopped beside an need for refrigeration since the children have The hard-pressed school districts need an unpainted wooden structure suspended over pota't9es and dried beans· for breakfast, lunch, all-out, comprehensive program to break the the ground on cinder blocks. and dinner, and only once every two weeks cycle. Boston's sub-system has shown what An outhouse stood at the rear of the are they lucky enough to have "hogs' meat." can be done. But this type of comprehensive school, since only three of Breathitt's 16 However, often the family goes for two to program will not be possible for most poor schools have indoor plumbing. Inside, one three days without any food and the baby districts under the present law which scat instructor was teaching 16 children from sleeping in filth in a corner of the shack is ters Title I money to nearly all school dis grades one through six. The two 60-watt then deprived even of milk. tricts in the country. bulbs in the ceiling provided only dim Like 80 per cent of the Breathitt County If Title I is to distribute money to those illumination, and the children had to bend children, Stephen Cockerhn has worms and who really need it, the distribution formula over their papers to see. A pot-belly stove other intestinal parasites. One of his broth should give primary consideration to the per stood in the center of the room. There were ers has tuberculosis, a disease with a 50 per pupil expenditure of each school system on f~w books in sight. On the wall was a color cent higher i~cidence in the Appalachias a. district, not a state-wide, basis. The sys picture of President Johnson. than throughout the country. tems with the lowest expenditures should get The teacher, Mrs. Dertha Watts, asked if Stephen never has heard of toothpaste, the most aid. The systems with the highest the visitor would speak to the class. "They and when he gets a toothache, he suffers expenditures should get none. never see anyone from the outside; just a until the nerve dies and the tooth falls out, Equalization of per pupil expenditures--or few words f.rom you would mean so much," since he has no way of getting to a dentist, a. start in that direction-would benefit the she said. and even if he did, his mother has no money. January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD__._ HOUSE 709 Like most children in Breathitt County, of the duties they perform. Their lives of Eastern Europe. Nobody asks for any Stephen already has lost many of his teeth. are fraught with danger, strain, and Stephen has never been to Jackson, the immediate change in our present ar county seat of 2,000 persons. But even if he often with injury. We must not penalize rangements for trading with any coun had, he could not have known what a movie these civil servants by less retirement try of Eastern Europe. The President is, since Jackson has no movie theater, and pay after their long and faithful serv asks only for authority to see if changes, one of the few forms of entertainment open ice in protecting American citizens by to our benefit, can be negotiated with to Breathitt residents is going on wild sprees enforcing our Federal laws. them. in the hills with homemade gin. I urge the Congress to devote early Why can the President not see, with The school superintendent says, "We need attention in this session of the 90th Con remedial reading teachers terribly bad." But out any action from us, what changes much of the $340,000 allocated to the Breat gress to the present inequity in the Fed he might be able to negotiate? The hitt schools last year from Title I of the eral retirement system. I believe it is answer is simple. You cannot play poker Elementary and Secondary Education Act crucial that the Congress act quickly to with chips you do not have, with chips went to feed youngsters. There was little remove the defect in the retirement sys you only might be able to get. You have left over for remedial reading. tem for our hazardous duty Federal em- to have the chips on the table, where Despite Title I's intention, as stated by ployees. · they can be seen. And there is one bar President Johnson, to balance educational gaining counter which experience has inequalities, New Rochelle, N.Y., was also ------THE NEED FOR INCREASED EAST shown the President must have, if he is , given more than $300,000 from Title I. The to negotiate anything with the countries money was used to buy tape recorders, slide WEST TRADE projectors, and Polaroid cameras, since the of Eastern Europe. It is the same coun schools already had remedial reading teach Mr. BLAN"'r.ON. M·r. Speaker, I ask ter which Presidents have used for more ers, psychiatrists, social workers, and psy unanimous consent thBit the gentleman than 30 years-the right to cut our tariffs chologists. from Ohio [Mr. AsHLEY] may extend hi·s to the level imposed on the products of But Mrs. Cockerhn and many of the 15.3 remarks at this point in the RECORD and other countries. No more than that and million people who live as she does in the include extraneous matter. no less than that. Appalachias have never heard of Title I or New Rochelle or even New York City. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Let there be no misunderstanding. Not But she had heard of President Johnson. objection to the request of the gentleman one figure in the Tariff Schedules of the "I was hearing him on a radio once," she said from Tennessee? United States would be altered by pass through missing teeth. There was no objection. ing an East-West trade bill. Only when "He talked about having war. They al Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, of all the the President had completed his bargain ready killed seven people and they're going questions before this House for consid ing, only when the other country had to kill some more. He said the people across eration, of all the proposals which Presi specified what it could offer, would a the water need help." dent Johnson in his state of the Union tariff be reduced, and then only to the message presented to us for deliberation level applied to other countries. And RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR HAZ and decision, few will deserve more at when it did, that country would still be tention from the historians, few will have subject to the condition that unless the ARDOUS DUTY FEDERAL EM more consequences for our children, than bargain were carried out as agreed, the PLOYEES the question of how we handle our re agreement could be terminated. Mr. BI1ANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask lations with the Communist countries of The proposed legislation, then, would unanimous consent that the gentleman Europe in the coming months and years. not dent in any way the bulwark we have from Texas [Mr. WHITE] may ex:tend The President has proposed the enact built against the export of strategic his remarks at this point in the RECORD ment of legislation in the field of East commodities. It would not give financial and include extraneous matter. West trade. We must understand both aid to the countries of Eastern Europe. The SPEA~ER pro tempore. Is .there what this legislation would do and what AH it would do is give us the advantage objection to the request of the gentleman it would not do. of being able-as we now are not-to ne from Tennessee. The President proposes simply that we gotiate with any country of Eastern There was no objection? remove some unnecessary and unwar Europe which promised benefits to us at Mr. WHITE. Mr. Speaker, with the ranted trade barriers that block the de least equal to the benefits we offer. growing concern over lawlessness in our velopment of closer ties between this Why should we seek, why should we Nation, the Congress must take all ap country and the peoples of Eastern Eu have any interest in an arrangement of propriate steps to insure the finest cali rope, including the Soviet Union. this kind? What can we get out of it? ber of men to enforce our Federal laws. He does not suggest giving anything Why is it in our interest? In my hometown of El Paso, Tex., and away. He does not suggest any measure These are questions which the Con in other border communities in my dis which would leBid to the increase of the gress will examine with great care in the trict, I have seen able and dedicated military power of the countries of East coming months. I cannot give you all border patrolmen in action. We must ern Europe. He does not suggest tam the answers today. Nobody can. But I provide equitable compensation to keep pering in any way with our carefully can suggest a few, and I can point to these top-level men and women and en constructed legislative barriers to the ex some hard historical facts which per courage others to come into those Fed port of strategic commodities. The con suBide me that there can be great, lasting eral positions classified as hazardous trol system we have built would not be benefits-to America and the free duty occupations. This classification in touched by anything the President pro world-from enabling the President to cludes primarily our border patrolmen, poses. explore the opportunities now within our FBI officials, and secret servicemen. Nobody suggests that we give aid to the grasp. Therefore, I am introducing today leg countries of Eastern Europe. Many years For one thing, there will undoubtedly islation that will remove an inequity ago we offered-through the Marshall be commercial benefits. They will not be from the retirement system for our plan-to help Eastern Europe and the large, perhaps, considered in the overall hazardous duty Federal employees. If Soviet Union to recover from the de context of the whole of American foreign enacted, my bill will revise the formula struction of war, in the same·spirit that trade. But our free world allies are now for computing retirement annuities, so ·We extended that offer to our friends in benefiting by trBide with Eastern Europe, that 2% percent of the average salary Western Europe. There were countries under the controls we have jointly erect multiplied by the total service would then in Eastern Europe which accepted ed to make sure that no strategic com equal retirement pay. At the present our offer-and were forced to withdraw modities are sold. And the market of time the formula used in computing haz that acceptance. What might have hap Eastern Europe is potentially quite sig ardous duty retirement annuities is pened, if Stalin had not cut the line to nificant. identical to the formula used for all America, we cannot guess. Hundreds of millions of people in other civil servants-the retirement But nobody now suggests that we give Eastern Europe have sacrificed greatly multiplication factor is 2 percent. anything away. All anyone has ever sug going without comforts and conven This more generous annuity formula gested-and all the President now sug iences, and even necessities-to build is necessary in the case of these Federal gests-is that we furnish him the power heavy industry. And now they would law enforcement officers who must re to negotiate limited commercial agree like to see some results. They would like tire at an earlier age due to the nature ments with one or more of the countries the same kind of results that a market 710 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 17, 1967 economy has brought to us and to our sorb, one may hope, not only their tech ments in the direction we hope they will fellow citizens of the developed countries niques but something of their spirit. go. of the free world. They want cars and Increased experience will also lead to Some people understandably find it homes and consumer durables and increased questioning of the now rather hard to imagine promoting closer rela clothes that fit and look attractive; they tired system of operating an economy tions with people who denounce our want all the trappings of the 20th cen by command. And that questioning will defense of freedom in southeast Asia. tury that you and I, and, in an increasing bring results which, while they will not Some people seem to fear that by hav degree, others who live in market econ be an imitation of our system, will ing any dealings with the peoples of omies take for granted. nevertheless signify a profound depar Eastern Europe we are somehow letting Increasingly, and in varying degrees, ture from the orthodox Communist way down our fighting men in Vietnam. Yet their governments are yielding to these of doing business. as I have said, the East-West trade bill desires. Increasingly, and in varying de Finally, the very process of negotiat will not contribute in any way to in grees, too, their governments are learn ing these agreements will enable us to creasing the capacity of the countries of ing that a state planning commission differentiate between the different coun Eastern Europe to help the forces of ag makes expensive mistakes, that the at tries of Eastern Europe. More direct, gression in Vietnam. No one wants- tempt to control everything ties a personal contacts will lead to changes and no one proposes-to permit trade modern economy into knots. Increas all over Eastern Europe; but negotiating which would increase the capacity of the ingly, and in varying degrees, the wishes, with one country at a time will enable us Communist countries to supply war ma the desires, the needs of consumers are to differentiate among them, cooperating terials to Vietnam. We want only to being allowed to take the shape, so well more where cooperation pays off, hold show them that while we stand firm known to us, of effective consumer de ing back where the chances do not look against aggression, we offer them the mand. This development could mean a so good. Eastern Europe is not the solid advantages of peace. And the President new market for our businessmen and structure it seemed to be in Stalin's time. asks only for the authority he needs for farmers and a new source of jobs for our These countries, which had to reject the whatever negotiations may be possible workers-but only if the East Europeans Marshall plan on command, now are with all or any of the countries of East are allowed to earn the dollars that will tempted by the good things they see in em Europe. This request, I submit, is enable them to buy from us. the West. Thus they can be influenced in the interest of the permanent peace But the export business we can do is to move in new directions. which is the fundamental and basic goal not the only reason we should try to And I think we should be in a position of American foreign policy. facilitate trade in peaceful goods with to influence those moves. the countries of Eastern Europe. I said there was evidence in history The real reason why increased trade that this kind of policy can work. CATV-COMMUNITY OR CABLE with Eastern Europe is in our interest is Yugoslavia offers the best example of it TELEVISION that, in several ways, it will encourage I know. Since the Yugoslav break with Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask greater differentiation in Eastern Europe. Cominform, economic ties with the unanimous consent that the gentleman "Differentiation" is a $2 word for change, United States and other Western coun from Pennsylvania [Mr. RooNEY] may and surely change in Eastern Europe is tries have certainly influenced the extend his remarks at this point in the one thing we are all in favor of. course of events in that country. I said RECORD and include extraneous matter The growth of a strong consuming "influenced," not "determined"; the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there public, aware of its power, is surely one Yugoslavs have made their own deci objection oo the request of the gentleman of the best guarantees possible against sions, and some of them we do not like. from Tennessee? the reduction of people to faceless masses, They have certainly not become Ameri There was no objection. concerned only with scrounging food or can satellites. But they showed that a Mr. ROONEY of Pennsylvania. Mr. join!ng a line for shoes or shirts. The country can be both Communist and in Speaker, 17 years ago in my home State more the consumers have, the fussier, the dependent of the Soviet Union, can call of Pennsylvania, a new industry was more individual, they become. When itself Communist and still introduce born through man's characteristic re things are short, nobody argues with the market principles; that it can profit sponse to a new challenge of public need. storekeeper; when people 'have the ne from dealing on equal terms with the This industry is community, or cable .cessities, they can get very choosy indeed. West . television, better known as CATV. And people in that frame of mind are They are showing that a country can Through this medium, entire commu much harder to interest in politica! ad call itself Communist and still tolerate a nities-not only in Pennsylvania but ventures than people with nothing to good deal of free expression of opinion, throughout this Nation and abroad lose. that it can begin to build up an effective have gained access to the full treasury Increased trade can do more than parliamentary life, that it can keep of television riches. This industry was stimulate and satisfy the desires of con- living standards on the rise and indus born in Lansford, Pa., within the bound • sumers. It offers an opportunity for trialize while allowing private peasants aries of my former congressional dis American businessmen to change the to till five-sixths of the soil. Life in trict. And I can say authoritatively that outlook and the ways of doing business Yugoslavia today, despite the losses of without this industry some of my present of up-and-coming traders, manufactur war and the ravages of nature, shows and former constituents would not have ers, and administrators of Communist what growing ties with Western societies today the advantages of clear reception businesses. The results of a period of can lead to. of television. prolonged and increasingly close contact Mr. Speaker, passing the East-West Instead, more than 2 million American between Eastern European and American trade bill. is not going to work any mir homes today depend upon CATV for in businessmen will not be instantly visible; acles. It is not going to convert the formation, education, and entertain an increase in contacts is not going to countries of Eastern Europe into hotbeds ment. convert Eastern Europe to capitalism of capitalism. It is not going to lead to In addition to the improved and overnight. vast increases in trade. It is not going broader reception CATV provides, this But increased contacts can, over time, to settle all our differences with those fledgling industry is now developing its be one important catalyst for change. countries. It is not going to make them unique ability to provide truly local tele Seeing America and seeing Americans agree with us about everything. vision features. There are over 4,000 has an impact; but understanding Amer But it does offer our Government a communities in the United States with ica ar d understanding Americans has a chance to influence their governments 2,500 or more inhabitants. Less than much deeper effect. And businessmen and their policies, to bargain hardhead 3.00 of these communities have local tele know that you have to understand your edly for things we want. It would make vision stations, and it is doubtful that customers and your suppliers. Ameri possible freer, increasing trade. And it many of the cities not served now could can methods in business administration will let us use our most valuable weapon, support a successful commercial televi are already the subject of much curios our ability to run an economy in the sion station. ity in Eastern Europe, and as East Eu interest of all the people, to fan the But through CATV each of these com ropeans have more and more direct ex winds of change in Eastern Europe. It munities-and more--will be able to perience of those methods, they will ab- will give us a chance to push develop- enjoy programs created by and for their January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 711 local people. In a dramatic departure BOOK MAILING RATE factually off base, but where the editor uses the prestige of his office and his pub from established practice, CATV can Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask offer programing to a limited audience unanimous consent that the gentleman lication to express views which find no without depriving the larger audience of from New York [Mr. DuLsKI] may ex ju,stification in the true facts of the case, the programs it normally prefers to tend his remarks at this point in the 'this is tantamount to an abuse of public watch. RECORD and include extraneous matter. trust. As one Member who voted to re During the period of January 30 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there elect JoHN W. McCoRMACK as Speaker of through February 4, CATV systems obJection Ito the request of the gentleman the House for the 90th Congress, I con throughout the United States will be ob from Tennessee? sider the unfortunate editorial an attack serving National Cable TV Week, and it There was no objection. on my judgment and integrity, as well as is my distinct pleasure to salute this Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I have upon that of other Members of the young and growing industry for the pub introduced a bill, H.R. 2071, which would House. lic service it provides and the traditions include books issued to supplement other Mr. Speaker, if a poll were taken of ingenuity and free enterprise that it books within the provisions of law estab among Members of Congress today a,s to typifies. lishing special postal rates for mailing who is the most beloved Member, JoHN books through the U.S. mail. The pro W. McCoRMACK would without any posal will eliminate a gross inequity that doubt outpoll all others. He is not only REPRODUCTION OF POSTAGE may be created inadvertently by a 1966 beloved, he is the most highly respected STAMPS IN COLOR amendment to the book rate provision of all. Certainly, he would not h.ave been reelected Speaker had it not been Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask which will go into effect on January 15, 1967. for the fact that the Members of the unanimous consent that the gentleman House believed that he, more than any from New York [Mr. DuLsKI] may ex Books permanently bound for preser vation, including bound book supple body else, could best lead the 90th Con tend his remarks at this point in :the gress to meet the great challenges faced RECORD and include extraneous matter. ments, have been entitled to the special book rate-39 U.S.C. 4554(a) (1)-since by this country in the next 2 years. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Great to-do is made of the Speaker's objection to the request of the gentleman it was first established in 1938. The 1966 amendment-added by the Senate age. We who know the Speaker inti from Tennessee? mately know that he has the vitality and There was no objection. to the Parcel Post Act, Public Law 89- 593, section 2(d)-changed the descrip sharpness of intellect to challenge any Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, a few man 30 years his junior. The history weeks ago there appeared in a national tion of the books entitled to the special book rate. making record of the 88th and 89th Con magazine reproductions of 56 postage gresses, in which I w.as so proud to .serve, stamps that various nations throughout The Senate amendment was intended to permit complete looseleaf books to be is irrefutable evidence that the Wash the world have issued in tribute to the ington Post editorial is a cruel, false in memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. mailed at the book rate, and to exclude subsequent mailings of replacement dictment of a dedicated American who Fifty-five of these stamps were repro will undoubtedly go down in history as duced in color. One was not. The Ken pages which were to replace or add to material in the complete book. one of our truly beloved leaders, and nedy stamp reproduced in drab black what is more impo;rtant, a great .and and white was the stamp that his own Literal application of the 1966 amend ment could deny the book rate to many good man. Whatever motivation the United States had issued. publications which have utilized it editor may have had, he owes a public An outmoded law prohibits newspapers, apology not only to the Speaker, but to magazines, and other publications from through the years since 1938. Single volumes of multivolume sets of books his readers for having insulted their in reproducing our postage stamps in color. such as encyclopedias, law or medical telligence through abuse of .a public At one time it was believed that this pro books issued serially, or lawbooks up trust. hibition served as a deterrent to counter dating "complete" lawbooks of statutes feiting. This is hardly the case today. or court cases, if mailed separately could, Only the most naive counterfeiter would by literal application, be denied the book VETERANS HOSPITAL FOR CLARK attempt to duplicate a color picture of a rate since they are not a "complete COUNTY, NEV. stamp. Instead he would go to his near book." Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask est post office, buy a sheet of stamps and With regard to the 1966 amendment, photo copy these, thus preparing an en unanimous consent rthat the gentleman this is not intended to exclude the book from Nevada [Mr. BARING] may extend tire printing plate with more faithful supplements. The new proposal rede reproductions. And may I say paren his remarks at this point in the RECORD fines the description of books entitled to and include extl"laneous matter. thetically that counterfeiting of U.S. the book mailing rate to remove any pos stamps is virtually nonexistent today. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there sibility of an unintended interpretation. objection to the request of the gentleman The penalties for getting caught are too Book supplements will continue to be great; the rewards are too small. from Tennessee? mailed at the book rate under this There w.as no obje.ction. Revision of this outmoded law to per proposal. mit reproduction in color of our postage Mr. BARING. Mr. Speaker, I am to stamps would provide a healthy stimulus day introducing legislation to establish a to philately, an avocation that attracts EDITORIAL ABUSE OF A PUBLIC veterans' hospital in Clark County, Nev. millions of Americans in all walks of life. TRUST There is a tremendous need for a vet- It woud also improve our world image. Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask erans' hospital in southern Nevada. Not The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, unanimous consent that the gentleman only is Clark County one. of the fastest which prints our postage stamps, is now from Hawaii [Mr. MATSUNAGA] may ex- growing counties in the Nation but the preparing for operation a new nine-color tend his remarks at thi·s point in the nearest veterans' hospital is 325 miles press. This has the potential to print RECORD and include extraneous matter. away 'in Los Angeles, Calif. A facility the finest and most colorful stamps in the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there -which already suffers from overcrowding. world. objection rto the request of the gentleman · The only other veterans facility avail- As a matter of national pride, I would from Tennessee? able is located in Reno and is nearly 500 like for the rest of the world to see what There was no objection. miles away. These distances present a magnificent stamps we will then produce. Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, the problem which is self-apparent in regard But the world will never know if the re editorial entitled "Speaker on the Spot,'' to the utilization of remote facilities productions in newspapers and maga which appeared in the Washington Post which service the Las Vegas area. zines are in lackluster black and white. this morning, strikes me as one of the Furthermore, southern Nevada's eli I am, therefore, today introducing worst forms of abuse of the public trust. mate is ideal for rehabilitation and a vet legislation which will permit us to pro It is forgivable where a newspaper of erans' hospital in this area would be a duce U.S. stamps in color as the rest of some respectability permits the printing tremendous asset to the Veterans' Ad the world does. of the views of a columnist even if he is ministration hospital facilities. 712 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE January 17, 1967 APPOINTMENT OF THE DIRECTOR able JoHN W. McCoRMACK, of Massa The motion was agreed to; accord OF FBI chusetts. ingly Baseball, Inc., Williams from Tennessee? port, Pa., transmitting the Annual Report of sence was granted to Mr. SMITH of Cali Little League Baseball, Inc., for the year There was no objection. fornia Chief Justice of the United States and Oklahoma dying without heirs; to the Com Health Service Act to provide assistance to of the Associate Justices of the Supreme mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. certain non-Federal institutions, agencies, Court of the United States; to the Committee H.R. 2532. A bill to provide for the disposi and organizations for the establishment and on the Judiciary. tion of funds appropriated to pay a judg operation of community programs for pa H.R. 2516. A blll to prescribe penalties for ment in favor of the Ottawa Tribe of Okla tients with kidney disease and for conduct of certain acts of violence or intimidation, and homa in docket No. 303 of the Indian Claims training related to such programs, and other for other purposes; to the Committee on the Commission, and for other purposes; to the purposes; to the Committee on Interstate and Judiciary. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Foreign Commerce. By Mr. CELLER (by request) : By Mr. EDWARDS of California: H.R. 2548. A bill to provide compensation H.R. 2517. A bill to amend sections 64a, 238, H.R. 2533. A bill to amend section 104 . of to survivors of local law enforcement ofilcers 378, and 483 of the Bankruptcy Act and to the Revised Statutes, with respect to con killed while apprehending persons for com repeal sections 354 and 459 of the act; to the tempt citations in the case of witnesses be mitting Federal crimes; to the Committee on fore congressional committees, and for other the Judiciary. Committee on the Judiciary. purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2518. A bill to amend sections 337 and H.R. 2549. A bill to amend title II of the 338 of the Bankruptcy Act and to add new By Mr. EDWARDS of Louisiana: H.R. 2534. A blll to amend title V of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to create an in section 339; to the Committee on the Judi dependent Federal Maritime Administration, ciary. Social Security Act so as to extend and im prove the Federal-State program of child and for other purposes; to the Committee on H.R. 2519. A bill to amend sections 334, 355, welfare services; to the Committee on Ways Merchant-Marine and Fisheries. 367, and 369 of the Bankruptcy Act; to the H.R. 2550. A bill to amend title 23 of the Committee on the Judiciary. and Means. By Mr. FINO: United States Code to increase the total mile H.R. 2520. A bill to amend chapter XIII of H.R. 2535. A bill to amend title 18 of the age of the National System of Interstate and the Bankruptcy Act; to the Committee on United States Code to prohibit travel or use Defense Highways; to the Committee on Pub- the Judiciary. of any facility in interstate or foreign com lic Works. · H.R. 2521. A bill to amend sections 1 ( 19), mer~ with intent to incite a riot or other H.R. 2551. A bill · to amend the Internal 5, 32a, 64a(1}, and 67d(4) of the Bankruptcy violent civil disturbance, and for other pur Revenue Code of 1954 to allow teachers to Act; to the Committee on the Judiciary. poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. deduct from gross income the expenses in By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: By Mr. HALEY: curred in pursuing courses for academic H.R. 2522. A bill to amend title 18 of the H.R. 253u. A bill to terminate the Indian credit and degrees at institutions of higher United States Code to prohibit travel or use Claims Commission, and for other purposes; education and including certain travel; to of any facility in interstate or foreign com to the Committee on Interior and Insular the Committee on Ways and Means. merce with intent to incite a riot or other Affairs. By Mr. JOELSON: violent civil disturbance, and for other pur By Mr. HALL: H.R. 2552. A bill to amend title II of the poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2537. A bill to amend title 18 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to create an inde By Mr. CORMAN: United States Code to protect the consti pendent Federal Maritime Administration, H.R. 2523. A bill to amend title 39, United tutional rights of mentally incompetent per and for other purposes; to the Committee on States Code, to revise the rates of postage on sons committed thereunder, and for other Merchant Marine and Fisheries. third-class mail; to the Committee on Post purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2553. A bill to reclassify certain posi Office and Civil Service. By Mr. HARVEY: tions in the postal field service, and for other By Mr. CRAMER: H.R. 2538. A bill to amend the Flood Con purposes; to the Committee on Post Ofilce H.R. 2524. A bill to provide for the designa trol Act of 1958 to authorize reimbursement and Civil Service. tion of a highway between Montgomery, Ala., to Frankenmuth, Mich., for certain work on H.R. 2554. A bill to amend the Internal and Ocala, Fla., as a part of the National Sys the flood control project on the Saginaw Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the in tem of Interstate and Defense Highways; to River, Mich.; to the Committee on Public come tax exemption of certain voluntary em the Committee on Public Works. Works. ployees' beneficiary associations shall be de By Mr. DANIELS: H.R. 2539. A b111 to amend the Federal Un termined on the basis of their net income; to H.R. 2525. A bill creating a commission to employment Tax Act to provide an exemp the Committee on Ways and Means. 'be known as the Commission on Obsc.enity tion for certain short-term employment at By Mr. McCARTHY: and Pornography; to the Committee on Edu agricultural or horticultural fairs; to the H.R. 2555. A bill to amend title 32, United cation and Labor. Committee on Ways and Means. States Code, to clarify the status of National By Mr. DENT: H.R. 2540. A bill to amend title II of the Guard technicians, and for other purposes; to H.R. 2526. A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for cost-of- the Committee on Armed Services. CXIII-46-Part 1 714 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-~ HOUSE January 17, 1967 By Mr. McMILLAN: conduct of interstate business; to the Com mittee on Ethics in the legislative branch of H.R. 2556. A b111 to amend the provisions of mittee on Banking and Currency. the Federal Government, and for other pur law relating to the planting of crops on By Mr. PEPPER: poses; to the Committee on Rules. acreage diverted under the cotton, wheat, and H.R. 2572. A b111 to amend title II of the By Mr. THOMSON of Wisconsin: feed grains program; to the Committee on Social Security Act to provide a 20-percent, H.R. 2586. A bill to amend title 38 of the Agriculture. across-the-board increase in the benefits United States Code so as to extend to vet H.R. 2557. A b111 to amend the AgricUltural payable thereunder, with subsequent cost erans of Mexican border hostilities the same Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to au of-living increases in such benefits, and to benefits enjoyed by veterans of periods of thorize the transfer of peanut acreage allot provide that any such increases .shall not be war; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. ments; to the Committee on Agriculture. considered as income for purposes of de H.R. 2587. A b111 to amend title XVIII of H.R. 2558. A b111 to amend the act of Sep termining eligibility for pension under title the Social Security Act to provide payment tember 8, 1960, relating to the Washington 38 of the United States Code (veterans' bene for optometrists' services under the program Channel waterfront; to the Committee on the fits); to the Committee on Ways and Means. of supplementary medical insurance benefits District of Columbia. By Mr. PETTIS: for the aged; to the Committee on Ways and By Mr. MAcGREGOR: H.R. 2573. A bill to provide for the con Means. H.R. 2559. A bill to amend title II of the struction of a Veterans' Administration hos H.R. 2588. A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide an 8-percent, pital of 1,000 beds in the Riverside-San Social Security Act to provide an 8-percent, across-the-board benefit increase, and subse Bernadino area of the State of california; across-the-board benefit increase, and subse quent increases based on rises in the cost of to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. quent increases based on rises in the cost living; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. RESNICK: of living; to the Committee on Ways and By Mr. MATSUNAGA: H.R. 2574. A bill relating to the appoint Means. H.R. 2560. A bill to amend the Immigra ment of postmasters and rural carriers from H.R. 2589. A 'bill to amend the tariff sched tion and Nationality Act, and for other pur civil service registers; to the Committee on ules of the United States with respect to the poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Post Otllce and Civil Service. determination of American selling price in H.R. 2561. A bill to amend title 5, ·united By Mr. RHODES of Pennsylvania: the case of certain footwear of rubber or States Code, to authorize the payment of an H.R. 2575. A bUl to provide for improved plastics; to the Committe.e on Ways and nuities to secretaries of justices and judges employee-management relations in the Means. of the United States on the same basis as Federal service, and for other purposes; to By Mr. ULLMAN: annuities to congressional employees, and for the Committee on Post Office and Civil Serv H.R. 2590. A bill to exclude from income other purposes; to the Committee on Post ice. certain reimbursed moving expenses; to the Office and Civil Service. By Mr. RODINO: Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 2562. A bill to amend title II of the H.R. 2576. A b111 to amend the Older Amer By Mr. WHITE: Social Security Act to provide that an aged icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older H.R. 2591. A bill to amend the Civil Service survivor beneficiary shall not lose his or her Americans community service program; to Retirement Act to incr.ease from 2 to 2Y2 per entitlement to benefits, or suffer any reduc the Committee on Education and Labor. cent the retirement multiplication factor tion in the amount of such benefits, by rea H.R. 2577. A bill to amend title 18 of the used in computing annuities of certain em son of marriage or remarriage; to the Com United States Code in order to provide that ployees engaged in hazardous duties; to the mittee on Ways and Means. committing acts dangerous to persons on Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. By Mr. MIZE: board trains shall be a criminal offense; to By Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON: H.R. 2563. A bill to amend title 18 of the the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2592. A bill to amend titles 10, 14, 32, United States Code to prohibit travel or use By Mr. RYAN: and 37, United States Code, to strengthen the of any facility in interstate or foreign com H.R. 2578. A b111 to curb monopolistic con Reserve components of the Armed Forces, merce with intent to incite a riot or other trol of professional boxing, to establish and clarify the status of National Guard violent civll disturbance, and for other pur within the Department of Justice the Office technicians, and for other purposes; to the poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of the National Boxing Commissioner, and Committee on Armed Services. By Mr. NEDZI: for other purposes; to the Committee on the By Mr. WYATT: H.R. 2564. A bill to amend title 10, United Judiciary. H.R. 2593. A b1ll to amend title 38 of the States Code, relating to the membership of By Mr. TEAGUE of California: United States Code to provide that monthly Members of Congress in the Reserve compo H.R. 2579. A bill to amend the Rural Elec social security benefit payments shall not be nents of the Armed Forces; to the Committee trification Act of 1936, as amended, to make considered as income in determining eligibll on Armed Services. more specific the purposes for which loans ity for pensions under that title; to the Com H.R. 2565. A bill to amend title 18 of the may be made under sections 2 and 4 of such mittee on Veterans' Affairs. United States Code to prohibit the use of act, and to modify .the provisions relating to By Mr. MADDEN: contributions made to Members of Congress interest rates on loans made under such act; H.R. 2594. A bill to improve the operation for personal purposes; to the Committee on to the Committee on Agriculture. of the legislative branch of the Federal Gov the Judiciary. H.R. 2580. A bill to prohibit the Secretary ernment, and for other purposes; to the Com H.R. 2566. A bill to amend the Internal of the Interior from authorizing the devel mittee on Rules. Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that a gift opment or removal of certain oil or gas de By Mr. CURTIS: of more than $25 which is made to an elected posits underlying the Pacific Ocean; to the H.R. 2595. A bill to improve the operation public official shall be included in his gross Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. of the legislative branch of the Federal Gov income for purposes of the Federal income H.R. 2581. A b111 to designate the author ernment, and for other purposes; to the tax; to the Committee ·on Ways and Means. ized Port Hueneme Small Craft Harbor, Committee on Rules. By Mr. O'HARA of Michigan: California, as the Channel Islands Harbor; to By Mr. BINGHAM: H.R. 2567. A bill to promote health and the Committee on Public Works. H.R. 2596. A bill to amend the Older Amer safety in the building trades and construc H.R. 2582. A b111 to amend the Merchant icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older tion industry in all Federal and federally Marine Act, 1920, to prohibit transportation Americans community service program; to financed or federally assisted construction of articles to or from the United States the Committee on Education and Labor. projects; to the Committee on Education and aboard certain foreign vessels, and for other By Mr. JOELSON: Labor. purposes; to the Committee on Merchant H.R. 2597. A bill to amend the Older Amer By Mr. O'NEILL of Massachusetts: Marine and Fisheries. icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older H.R. 2568. A blll to incorporate the Town By Mr. TEAGUE of Texas (by re Americans community service program; to Amliation Association of the United States; quest): the Committee on Education and Labor. to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2583. A b111 to amend title 38 of the By Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON: H.R. 2569. A bill to reclassify certain posi United States · Code to provide increases in H.R. 2598. A bill to amend the Older Amer tions in the postal field service, and for the rates of disab111ty compensation, and for icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older other purposes; to the Committee on Post other purposes; to the Committee on Vet Americans community service program; to Otllce and Civil Service. erans' Affairs. the Committee on Education and Labor. H.R. 2570. A bill to amend title V of the H.R. 2584. A bill to amend title 38, United By Mr. ROONEY of Pennsylvania: Social Security Act so as to extend and tm States Code, to define service in the Armed H.R. 2599. A bill to amend the Older Amer Forces since August 5, 1964, as service during prove the Federal-State program of child icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older the Vietnam era and to provide that veterans Americans community service program; to welfare services; to the Committee on Ways of such service be eligible for those benefits and Means. the Committee on Education and Labor. restricted to veterans of wartime service, and By Mr. KYROS: By Mr. OTTINGER: for other purposes; to the Committee on H.R. 2600. A bill to amend the Older Amer H.R. 2571. A bUl to eliminate certain in Veterans' Affairs. icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older equities between State chartered and fed By Mr. TENZER: Americans community service program; to erally chartered financial institutions in the H.R. 2585. A b111 to establish a Joint Com- the Committee on Education and Labor. January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 715 By Mr. HALPERN: By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: section 109(c) of title 32; to the Committee H.R. 2601. A bill to amend the Older Amer H.R. 2618. A bill to provide a residence for on Armed Services. icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older pages; to the Committee on House Admin H.R. 2634. A b111 to amend title 10, United Americans community service program; to istration. States Code, to provide for the investigation the Committee on Education and Labor. By Mr. DOW: by a military department of certain air By Mr. WILLIAM D. FORD: H.R. 2619. A bill to amend the Small Busi craft accidents and for the use of reports re H.R. 2602. A b111 to amend the Older Amer ness Act to increase the maximum maturity sulting from those investigations in actions icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older of regular business loans to 20 years where for damages; to the Committee on Armed Americans community service program; to such loans are made for the construction of Services. the Committee on Education and Labor. facilities; to the Committee on Banking and H.R. 2635. A bill to provide for leave of ab By Mr. ST. ONGE: Currency. sence for members of the National Guard H.R. 2603. A bill to amend the Older Amer H.R. 2620. A bill to amend title VI of the who are officers or employees of the United icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older Public Health Service Act (the Hill-Burton States when called or ordered to Federal or Americans community service program; to Act) so as to double the amount authorized State m111tary service and aid of civil au the Committee on Education and Labor. for assisting the construction of nursing thority; to the Committee on Armed Services. By Mr. GILBERT: homes and other long-term-care fac111ties, H.R. 2636. A b111 to amend title 32, United H.R. 2604. A bill to amend the Older Amer and for other purposes; to the Committee on States Code, with respect to the system of icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older Interstate and Foreign Commerce. courts-martial for the National Guard not Americans community service program; to H.R. 2621. A b111 to amend the Internal in Federal service; to the Committee on the Committee on Education and Labor. Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the in Armed Services. By Mr. MOSS: come tax treatment of business development H.R. 2637. A b111 to provide pecuniary lia H.R. 2605. A bill to amend the Older Amer corporations; to the Committee on Ways and bility by the States or members of the Na icans Act of 1965 to provide for an older Means. tional Guard if loss or damage to Federal Americans community service program; to By Mr. DULSKI: property resulted from gross negligence or the Committee on Education and Labor. H.R. 2622. A bill to permit black and white willful misconduct; to the Committee on By Mr. SCHEUER: or color reproductions of U.S. and foreign Armed Services. - H.R. 2606. A b111 to amend the Older postage stamps under certain circumstances H.R. 2638. A bill to extend servicemen's Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an and for other purposes; to the Committee on group life insurance to Reserves of the older Americans community service program; the Judiciary. Armed Forces and members of the National to the Committee on Education and Labor. By Mr. DUNCAN: Guard when engaged in federally prescribed· By Mr. RYAN: H.R. 2623. A bill to provide for the erection full-time training or duty; to the Committee H.R. 2607. A b111 to amend the Older of a memorial on Guam to the memory of the on Veterans' Atfa-irs. Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an valiant U.S. servicemen who gave their lives By Mr. HOWARD: older Americans community service program; there in World War II in order to protect the H.R. 2639. A bill to assist in the promotion to the Committee on Education and Labor. United States and to advance the cause of of economic stabilization by requiring the By Mr. FARBSTEIN: freedom; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. disclosure of finance charges in connection H.R. 2608. A b111 to amend the Older By Mr. HEBERT: with extension of credit; to the Committee Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an H.R. 2624. A bill to amend titles 10 and 32, on Banking and Currency. older Americans community service program; United States Code, to provide certain bene H.R. 2640. A bill to amend the act of July to the Committee on Education and Labor. fits for Reserves of the Army, Navy, Air Force, 2, 1954, relating to office space in the dis By Mr. ROGERS of Colorado: and Marine Corps, and members of the Na tricts of Members of the House o:f Represent H.R. 2609. A b111 to amend the Older tional Guard, who are injured in connection atives; to the COmmi-ttee on House Admin Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an with inactive duty training, and for other istration. older Americans community service program; purposes; to the Committee on Armed Serv H.R. 2641. A b111 to revise the Federal Cor to the Committee on Education and Labor. ices. rupt Practices Act, 1925, and for other pur By Mr. CORMAN: H.R. 2625. A bill to provide travel and poses; to the Committee on House Admin H.R. 2610. A b111 to amend the Older transportation expenses for members of the istration. Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an Reserve Forces authorized medical or surgi H.R. 2642. A bill to authorize the prepara older Americans community service program; cal care, hospitalization, or rehospitalization tion of plans for a memorial to Woodrow to the Committee on Education and Labor. at Federal expense; to the Committee on Wilson; to the Committee on House Admin By Mr. WOLFF: Armed Services. istration. H.R. 2611. A b111 to amend the Older By Mr. JOELSON: H.R. 2626. A bill to provide medicare for H.R. 2643. A bill to provide an independ Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an dependents of reservists who die in a train older Americans community service program; ent appraisal o:f certain land acquired in ing status; to the Committee on Armed federally assisted programs; to the Commit to the Committee on Education and Labor. Services. By Mr. WALKER: tee on Public Works. H.R. 2612. A bill to amend the Older H.R. 2627. A b111 to amend title 37, United By Mr. McMILLAN: Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an States Code, to provide an incentive plan H.R. 2644. A b111 to amend the provisions older Americans community service program; for participation in the Ready Reserve; to o:f law relating to the planting of crops on to the Committee on Education and Labor. the Committee on Armed Services: acreage diverted under the cotton, wheat, By Mr. EDWARDS of California: H.R. 2628. A bill to amend section 1333 and feed grains programs; to the Committee H.R. 2613. A bill to amend the Older (3) of title 10, United States Code, to provide on Agriculture. Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an retirement credit for attendance at each By Mr. MATSUNAGA: older Americans community service program; prescribed training assembly or period of H.R. 2645. A bill to provide for a Pacific to the Committee on Education and Labor. equivalent instruction; to the Committee on medical center in Hawaii; to the Committee ByMr.DIGGS: - Armed Services. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H.R. 2614. A bill to amend the Older H.R. 2629. A bill to amend titles 10, 14, and By Mr. MICHEL: Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an 32, United States Code, with respect to the H.R. 2646. A bill to repeal the authorization older Americans community service program; remission or cancellation of indebtedness of for the purchase, maintenance, operation, to the Committee on Education and Labor. enlisted members of the Armed Forces and and driving of an automobile for any Member By Mr. ROSENTHAL: the National Guard of the United States; to of the House of Representatives who has H.R. 2615. A b111 to amend the Older the Committee on Armed Services. previously served as Speaker of the House of Americans Act of 1965 to provide for an H.R. 2630. A b111 to provide for the fur Representatives; to the Committee on House older Americans community service program; nishing of a uniform and the presentation of Administratlon. to the Committee on Education and Labor. a flag of the United States for deceased mem By Mr. MOSS: By Mr. BARING: bers of the National Guard; to the Commit H.R. 2647. A bill to authorize the Legisla H.R. 2616. A bill to amend the Internal tee on Armed Services. tive Reference Service to m.ake use of auto Revenue Code of 1954 to allow teachers to H.R. 2631. A bill to provide authority for matic data processing techniques and equip deduct from gross income the expenses in the payment of proficiency pay to enlisted ment in the performance of its functions; to curred in pursuing courses for academic members of the Reserve components of the the Committee on House Administration. credit and degrees at institutions of higher Armed Forces; to the Committee on Armed By Mr. NEDZI: education and including certain travel; to Services. H.R. 2648. A bill to prohibit the payment the Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 2632. A b111 to permit National Guard of compensation to a spouse or child of a By Mr. BINGHAM: officers to act as inspecting officers under Senator or Member of the House of Repre H.R. 2617. A bill to provide for reimburse section 710(f) of title 32, United States sentatives employed in certain positions; to ment of U.S. cities for a portion of expenses Code; to the Committee on Armed Services. the Committee on House Administration. incurred in connection with the entertain H.R. 2633. A b111 to amend titles 10 and By Mr. RODINO: ment of foreign officials; to the Committee 32, United States Code, to provide Federal H.R. 2649. A bill to establish a National on Foreign Affairs. support for defense forces established under Economic Conversion Commission, and for 716 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE January 17, 1967 other purposes; to the Committee on Inter express the sense of Congress against the H.R. 2655. A bill for the 'relief of Lei-May state and Foreign Commerce. persecution of persons by Soviet Russia be Ling; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. ROGERS of Colorado: cause of their religion; to the Committee on By Mr. COHELAN: H.R. 2650. A blll relating to national, ob Foreign Affairs. H.R. 2656. A blll for the relief of Col~ servances and holidays, and for other ·pur H. Con. Res. 69. Concurrent resolution to Thomas F. McCarthy; to the Committee on poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. provide for a permanent United Nations the Judiciary. ' By Mr. CELLER: peacekeeping force; to the Committee on By Mr. CONTE: H.J. Res. 153. Joint resolution to authorize Foreign Affairs. H.R. 2657. A blll for the relief of Fllomena the Attorney General to establish an institute By Mr. HOWARD: Quaranta; to the Committee on the Judi of corrections for the training and instruc H. Con. Res. 70. Concurrent resolution au ciary. tion of. corrections personnel selected by thorizing the Joint Committee on the Library By Mr. CURTIS: States and their municipal subdivisions in to procure a marble bust of Constantino H.R. 2658. A bllr for the relief or Dr. the field of correctional methods and tech Brumidi; to the Committee on House Ad Masashi Kawasaki; to the Committee on the niques; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ministration. Judiciary. By Mr. DOWDY: H. Con. Res. 71. Concurrent resolution to H.R. 2659. A bili for the relief of Dr. Peter H.J. Res. 154. Joint resolution proposing an express the sense of Congress that the State K. Lekkas; to the Committee on the Judi amendment to the Constitution of the United of New York should raise its legal drinking ciary. States relative to equal rights for men and age to 21; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2660. A blll for the relief of Dr. women; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. OLSEN: Manuel Mendez; to the Committee on the H.J. Res. 155. Joint resolution to amend H. Oon. Res. 72. Concurrent resolution ex Judiciary. the Constitution of the United States to pressing the sense of Congress that the Fed By Mr. DOWDY: guarantee the right of any State to apportion eral-aid highway program should continue H.R. 2661. A blll for the relief of E. F. Fort, one house of its legislature on factors other without interruption; to the COmmittee on Cora Lee Fort Corbett, and W. R. Fort; to the than population; to the Committee on the Ways and Means. Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. By Mr. RODINO: By Mr. DUNCAN: . By Mr. DOW: H. Con. Res. 73. Concurrent resolution ex H.R. 2662. A bill for the relief of Kareem H.J. Res. 156. Joint resolution proposing pressing the sense of the Congress with re Joseph Dughman; to the Committee on the an amendment to the Constitution of the s~ct to the incorporation of Latvia, Lithu Judiciary. United States relative to equal rights for ania, and Estonia into the Union of Soviet By Mr. EDMONDSON: men and women; to the Committee on the Socialist Republics; to the Committee on H.R. 2663. A blll for the relief of Jack Judiciary. Foreign Affairs. Brown; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. DOWDY: By Mr. DINGELL: By Mr. FARBSTEIN: H.J. Res. 157. Joint resolution proposing H. Res. 136. Resolution to amend rules X, H.R. 2664. A bill for the relief of Cornelia an amendment to the Constitution of the XI, and XIII of the Rules of the House of De Hart; to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States providing for the election of Representatives; to the COmmittee on Rules. H.R. 2665. A b111 for the relief of Abraham President and Vice President; to the Com By Mr. HOWARD: Grobard; to the Committee on the Judiciary. mittee on the Jud1o1ary. H. Res. 137. Resolution concern for mili H.R. 2666. A b111 for the relief of Sebasti By Mr. FLYNT: tary personnel held captive in Vietnam; to ana Renda; to the Committee on the Judi H.J. Res. 158. Joint resolution proposing an the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ciary. amendment to the Constitution of the United By Mr. LAIRD: H.R. 2667. A bill to authorize the transfer States to permit voluntary participation in H. Res.138. Resolution creating a select of a vessel to the Lower Manhattan Anti prayer in public schools; to the Committee on committee to conduct an investigation and poverty Board, Inc., for educational purposes; the Judiciary. study CYf the administration, operation, and to the COmmittee on Merchant Marine and By Mr. GROSS: enforcement of the Export Control Act of Fisheries. H.J. Res. 159. Joint resolution to provide 1949, and related acts; to the Committee on By Mr. GALLAGHER: for the resumption of trade with Rhodesia; Rules. H.R. 2668. A b111 for the relief of Sevasti to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. LENNON: Diakides; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. HOWARD: H. Res. 139. Resolution amending rule H.R. 2669. A b111 for the relief of Fajwel H.J. Res. 160. Joint resolution creating a XXIII of the Rules of the' House to permit a Zaczepinski; to the Committee on the Judi .Joint Committee To Investigate crime; to yea-and-nay vote while the Hou~e 1s in a ciary. the Committee on Rules. Committee of the Whole; to the Committee By Mr. GIAIMO: By Mr. MACHEN: on Rules. H.R. 2670. A bill for the relief of Irene H.J. Res. 161. Joint resolution to direct the By Mr. PffiNIE: Calderone; to the Committee on the Ju Librarian of Congress to transfer certain H. Res. 140. Resolution creating a Select diciary. documents to the Hall of Records Commis Committee on Standards and Conduct; to the H.R. 2671. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Jane sion of the State of Maryland; to the Com Committee on Rules. Feitelberg; to the Committee on the Judi mittee on House Administration. By Mr. POAGE: ciary. By Mr. MATHIAS of California: H. Res. 141. Resolution to provide funds H.R. 2672. A bill for the relief of Manuel H.J. Res. 162. Joint resolution to designate for the Committee on Agriculture; to the Lee Sanchez; to the Committee on the Ju April 3 of each year as Pony Express Day; Committee on House Administration. diciary. to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. RODINO: By Mr. HALPERN: By Mrs. MAY: H. Res.142. Resolution amending the H.R. 2673. A bill for the relief of Hascal H.J. Res. 163. Joint resolution proposing Rules of the House in order to transfer juris Reizemberg; to the Committee on Foreign an amendment to the Constitution of the diction over military and national cemeteries Affairs. United States relative to equal rights for from the Committee on Interior and Insular H.R. 2674. A bill for the relief of Garabet men and women; to the Committee on the Affairs to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs; Civelekyan; to the Committee on the Ju Judiciary. to the Committee on Rules. diciary. By Mr. PATMAN: H.R. 2675. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ade H.J. Res.164. Joint resolution extending laide Hoffman; to the Committee on the the dates for transmission of the economic PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Judiciary. report and the report of the Joint Economic H.R. 2676. A bill for the relief of Hee Soak Committee; to the Committee on Govern Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private Kim; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ment Operations. bills and resolutions were introduced and H.R. 2677. A bill for the relief of Salvatore By Mr. TEAGUE of California: severally referred as follows: Miceli and Santa Maria Rita Miceli; to the H.J. Res. 165. Joint resolution proposing an Committee on the Judiciary. amendment to the Constitution of the By Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota: United States relative to equal rights for H.R. 2651. A bill for the relief of the Swan H.R. 2678. A bill for the relief of Pel-Chi men and women; to the Committee on the ston Equipment Co.; to the Committee on Pan; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. the Judiciary. H.R. 2679. A bill for the relief of Evaruthia By Mr. BARING: By Mr. ASHMORE: Psichopedas; to the Committee on the H. Con. Res. 67. Concurrent resolution ex H.R. 2652. A b111 for the relief of Corbie F. Judiciary. pressing the sense of the Congress with re Cochran; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2680. A bill for the relief of Mary sp~t to certain proposed regulations of the H.R. 2653. A bill for the relief of the Amer Seferian; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Food and Drug Administration relating to ican Journal of Nursing; to the Committee H.R. 2681. A bill for the relief of Djam the labeling and content of diet foods and on the Judiciary. chid Shams and Homa Shams; to the Com diet supplements; to the Committee on In By Mr. BOLAND: mittee on the Judiciary. terstate and Foreign Commerce. H.R. 2654. A blll for the relief of Frank H.R. 2682. A bill for the relief of Rosa By Mr. BARRETT: Kleinerman; to the Committee on the Judi Vexelman; to the Committee on the H. Con. Res. 68. Concurrent resolution to ciary. Judiciary. January 17, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE 717 H.R. 2683. A bill for the relief of Amado H.R. 2712. A bill for the relief of Conrado H.R. 2738. A b111 for the relief of Wallace Manuel Vina; to the Committee on the A. Deloon; to the Committee on the Ju- Ohevez and Tensie Chevez; to the Committee Judiciary. diciary. · on the Judiciary. By Mr. HARVEY: By Mr. MAYNE: H.R. 2739. A bill for the relief of Vlada H.R. 2684. A bill for the relief of Voyislav H.R. 2713. A b111 for the relief of Tita Cizerlin; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bobic; to the Committee on the Judiciary. L. Calleja; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2740. A bill for the relief of Alexander H.R. 2685. A blll for the relief of Louis H. H.R. 2714. A bill for the relief of Remedios Drucker; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Costa; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. Sevillano; to the Committee on the Ju H.R. 2741. A bill for the relief of Obert By Mr. JOELSON: diciary. Henry; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2686. A bill for the relief of Wynter By Mr. MICHEL: H.R. 2742. A bill for the relief of Sedley Harper; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2715. A bill ;for the relief of Dr. Alleyne Greenidge Haugland; to the Com H.R. 2687. A bill for the relief of Precilla Bhagawandas P. Lath!; to the Committee on mittee on the Judiciary. Valino; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Judiciary. , H.R. 2743. A bill for the relief of Fotios By Mr. KARSTEN: By Mr. MOORE: Kougemitros; to the Committee on the Judi H.R. 2688. A bill for the relief of Charles H.R. 2716. A bill for the relief of Dr. Este ciary. C. Beaury; to the Committee on the Judi ban G. Friera; to the Committee on the Ju H.R. 2744. A bill for the relief of Aleko ciary. diciary. Papakozma; to the Committee on the Judi By Mr. K~STENMEIER: H.R. 2717. A bill for the relief of Niko ciary. H.R. 2689. A bill for the relief of Dr. Sei Lencek; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2745. A bill for the relief of Dina Byung Yoon and his wife, Sook Ihn Saw; By Mr. NEDZI: Simhony, Nadi Simhony, and David Simhony; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2718. A bill for the relief of Antonina to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. KEITH: Dudzinski; to the Committee on the Ju By Mr. SMITH of New York: H.R. 2690. A bill for the relief of Lucilia diciary. H.R. 2746. A bill for the relief of Francesco Da Silva Afonso; to the Committee on the H.R. 2719. A bill for the relief of Christina Raqusa; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. Kazub (also known as Krystyna Kazub) ; to By Mr. VAN DEERLIN: H.R. 2691. A bill for the relief of Rosa the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2747. A bill for the relief of Erman Cabral; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2720. A bill for the relief of Maria Donald; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2692. A bill for the relief of Jeremias Grazia Lo Piccolo; to the Committee on the H.R. 2748. A bill for the relief of the family Rebelo Carreiro; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of Percy Lawrence, Jr.; to the Committee on Judiciary. H.R. 2721. A bill for the relief of Mrs. the Judiciary. H.R. 2693. A bill for the relief of Regina Wanda Stempniewicz; to the Committee on By Mr. WIDNALL: Costa Feleciano; to the Committee on the the Judiciary. H.R. 2749. A bill for the relief of Marika Judiciary. · H.R. 2722. A bill for the relief of Bronislaw Emiliyu; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2694. A bill for the relief of Branca da Turek; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2750. A bill for the relief of Giacomo Gloria Freitas; to the Committee on the By Mr. PELLY: Famularo; to the Committee on the Judi Judiciary. H.R. 2723. A b111 for the relief of the late ciary. H.R. 2695. A bill for the relief of Donald Jacob DeHaven; to the Committee on the H.R. 2751. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Wil D. Lambert; to the Committee on the Judi Judiciary. helmina Franken; to the Committee on the ciary. H.R. 2724. A bill for the relief of Miss Judiciary. H.R. 2696. A bill for the relief of the estate Belen T. Guerrero; to the Committee on the H.R. 2752. A bill for the relief of George of Bradford Smith; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Yussef Karma, his Wife, Angele Karma, and Judiciary. · H.R. 2725. A bill for the relief of Same Iny; their minor son Frederick Karma; to the By Mr. KUPFERMAN: . to the Comiillttee on the Judiciary. Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2697. A bill for the relief of Sheng H.R. 2726. A b111 for the relief of Looncio H.R. 2753. A bill for the relief of Barbara Ming Cheng; to the Committee on the Judi and Agapita Poblete Punzal; to the Commit Polly Lane; to the Committee on the Judi ciary. tee on the Judiciary. ciary. H.R. 2698. A bill for the relief of Hedva H.R. 2727. A b111 for the relief of Miss H.R. 2754. A bill for the relief of Sorin Haimson; to the Committee on the Judi Mercedes B. Yumang; to the Committee on Papovichi; to the Committee on the Judi ciary. the Judiciary. ci~ry. H.R. 2699. A blll for the relief of Mrs. By Mr. PETTIS_: By Mr. BOB WILSON: Mitsuko Kiuchi Kawai; to the Committee on H.R. 2728. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Edith H.R. 2755. A bill for the relief of Harry F. the Judiciary. H. Amos; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Armstrong; to the Committee on the Judi H.R. 2700. A b1ll for the relief of Corazon H.R. 2729. A bill for the relief of Alfred ciary. H. Lomotan; to the Committee on the Judi- Coleman; to the Committee on Interior and H.R. 2756. A bill for the relief of Arley L. ciary. · Insular Affairs. Beem, aviation electrician's mate chief, H.R. 2701. A b111 for the relief of Jacque By Mr. POAGE: United States Navy; to the Committee on the line Mevs; to the Committee on the Judi H.R. 2730. A bill authorizing the Adminis Judiciary. ciary. trator of Veterans' Affairs to convey certain H .. R 2757. A bill for the relief of Comdr. H.R. 2702. A blll for the relief of Barbara property to Temple Junior College, Temple, Albert G. Berry, Jr.; to the Committee on Elizabeth Ella Stadler; to the Committee on Tex.; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. the Judiciary. the Judiciary. ByMr.REES: H.R. 2758. A bill for the relief of Horace H.R. 2703. A blll for the relief of Dr. Con H.R. 2731. A bill for the relief of Moham H. Easterday; to the Committee on the cepcion L. Yap; to the Committee on the Ju med Aslam A. R. Munjee; to the Committee Judiciary. diciary. on the Judiciary. H.R. 2759. A bi:ll for the relief of Mrs. Jean H.R. 2'704. A b111 for the relief of Lourdes By Mr. REINECKE: M. Koppang; to the COmmittee on the Ysit; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2732. A bill for the relief of Eugenio Judiciary. By Mr. KUPFERMAN (by request): Loza Bedoya; to the Committee on the Judi H.R.2760. A bill for the relief of Sondra D. H.R. 2705. A b1ll for the relief of Christine ciary. Shaw; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Johnson (also known as Christine Cayenne); H.R. 2733. A bill for the relief of Shalmon H.R. 2761. A bill for the relief of John E. to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Shafiiq) Kassab and Evelin Kassab; to the Tucker; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. McMILLAN (by request) : Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2762. A bill for the relief of CWO H.R. 2706. A bill for the relief of W1lliam H.R. 2734. A b111 for the relief of Angelina Bernhard Vollmer, U.S. Navy (retired}; to Ternes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Cametti de Vignale; to the Committee on the the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MATHIAS of California: Judiciary. By Mr. YATES (by request) : H.R. 2707. A b111 for the relief of Mrs. By Mr. RESNICK: H.R. 2763. A bill for the relief of Juan Patricia Ann O'Leary and Michael Alexander H.R. 2735. A bill for the relief of Miss Isil Maldonado-Velasquez; to the Committee on O'Leary; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Feride Engin; to the Committee on the Judi- the Judiciary. H.R. 2708. A b111 for the relief of Ivor ciary. · W1lliam Perkins and Kathleen Perkins; to By Mr. RHODES of Pennsylvania: the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2736. A b111 for the relief of Dr. Ibra PETITIONS, ETC. H.R. 2709. A b111 for the relief of Suh Yoon him Faruk Sarac, his Wife, Fatma Nukhet Sup and Suh Ok Sun; to the Committee Sarac, and their two daughters, Ayes Hulya Under clause 1 of rule XXll, on the Judiciary. Sarac and Fatma Nil Sarac; to the Committee 11. The SPEAKER presented a petition of By Mr. MATSUNAGA: on the Judiciary. the faculty and student body of Livingstone H.R. 2710. A bill for the relief of Robert By Mr. SCHEUER: College, Salisbury, N.C., relative to the chair Cheng; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2737. A bill for the relief of George manship of the House Committee on Educa H.R. 2711. A bill for the relief of Marla Andreopoulos; to the Committee on the Judi tion and Labor, which was referred to the Cabbab; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ciary. COmmittee on House Administration.