November 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27673 EXTENSION OF REMARKS PROMINENT NATIONAL MEDI­ tion of the National Blood Policy should ue to serve a useful purpose they should be CAL LEADER IN VIRGINIA'S build on existing strengths in the present continued and strengthened. We should also lOTH DISTRICT system to assure continuity of essential carefully monitor them to see if they need services, this intent is not to be interpreted to be modified, phased illlto others, or closed as a mandate to maintain the status quo. It when they complete their objectives. And HON. FRANK R. WOLF is to allow gradual evolution to the most ef­ we should identify other initiatives that are OF VIRGINIA fective organization and operation of the appropriate to coordinate the development blood service complex."·The National Blood IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of a comprehensive framework that will Policy goes on to say in the very next para­ support improvement of the management of Monday, November 16, 1981 graph that "if the private sector is unable to blood services and resources. Time is run­ e Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, William D. provide satisfactory progress, a legislative or ning out for the private sector, as represent­ Dolan, M.D., director of pathology at regulatory approach would have to be con­ ed by the American Blood Commission. sidered." During this coining year we can accomplish Arlington Hospital, serves as president That is exactly what Senator Hatch and much, but how? of the American Blood Commission, a his predecessor, Senator Schweiker, have private sector umbrella group of 40 of said about resource sharing. From the Con­ First, by the members of this Commission gressional Record of January 15, 1981, Sena­ truthfully saying what they think and not the Nation's leading medical, business, just paying lip service to this effort. Second, and consumer agencies. Through this tor Hatch's remarks pertaining to the Blood Assurance Act of 1981 were these: "It is if you don't like an idea, I have to ask you constituency, the commission repre­ clearly preferable that the existing blood or­ to come up with a better one. Third, while sents the interests of millions of Amer­ ganizations meet the goal" of a blood re­ representing your organization and its pro­ icans and their families for a safe, effi­ source sharing agreement "without federal grams don't blindly protect your turf, thus cient national blood supply system. I legislation." He continued, "The proposal overlooking the common good. To quote one ask that Dr. Dolan's remarks to the incorporated in the Blood Assurance Act of famous American: "A rising tide lifts all the 1981 annual meeting of the ,American 1981 is more a prod than an intervention. boats." Blood Commission be printed at this On that basis I am prepared to have this bill This concept is vital to the well-being of and other proposals considered by the Com­ the entire system we are attempting to im­ point in the RECORD. mittee on Labor and Human Resources if prove for the benefit of all Americans. The REMARKS BY WILLIAM D. DOLAN, M.D., current private initiatives fail." strong, active support of the members of PRESIDENT, TO THE AMERICAN BLOOD COM­ Of course, the National Blood Policy's call this organization will set the Commission on MISSION'S SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING for private sector implementation, building the right track and reinvigorate its efforts The essential aim of the National Blood on the strengths of the existing pluralistic to demonstrate the private sector's capabil­ Policy is to improve the "quality and supply system but not maintaining the unaccept­ ity in bringing the promise of the National of blood and blood products." It seems that able status quo, called for a change-agent. Blood Policy to life. implementing a national resource sharing That is why we, the original incorporators, References: National Blood Policy. Feder­ plan now being developed by the major established the American Blood Commis­ al Register 39 <47>: 9326-9330, and 39 <716); blood service agencies would go a long way sion. You will recall that we carefully select­ 32701-32711, 1974. toward meeting this goal. Indeed, the Na­ ed words in our Articles if Incorporation Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. tional Blood Policy states that one of its key and ByLaws such as "monitor," "promote," American Blood Commission, 1901 N. Ft. policy goals is "to enhance resource sharing and "coordinate" to describe the Commis­ Myer Drive, Suite 300, Arlington, VA and areawide cooperation in the collection, sion's method of carrying out this mandate. 22209 .• processing, distribution and utilization of The atmosphere was charged and no one blood in order to make the most effective wanted to alienate or be alienated. At the use of the national blood supply." same time we had a public trust. We went The National Blood Policy indicates that on record as saying the American Blood CLEAN AIR ACT the problem of often inadequate blood sup­ Commission was organized in order "to im­ plies is clearly a managment problem. The plement the National Blood Policy" and problems identified by the National Blood that "it will operate to promote the public HON. JOHN D. DINGELL Policy pertaining to the supply and quality welfare" to "develop an adequate voluntary OF MICHIGAN of blood resources, and the efficiency and supply of blood to meet the health needs of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES accessibility of blood services "cannot be the Nation." solved without coordination of the now That is a broad responsibility, and its Monday, November 16, 1981 fragmented elements which comprise the broadness may have served to shield those present system." The National Blood Policy whose commitment wavered. I am con­ e Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, as further holds that achieving the necessary cerned that this Commission should, as the House hearings continue on the Clean coordination involves building "a compre­ National Blood Policy stated, work to evolve Air Act in connection with our urgent hensive framework for improving the blood a well-managed blood supply system and need to reauthorize the law, a Detroit service system by taking advantage of exist­ that the Commission not devolve into News editorial, dated October 16, 1981, ing strengths in the present system in an or­ simply a debating society incapable of derly and constructive way." taking sustained and effective action to ac­ discusses the need for changes in the Thus, the National Blood Policy calls for­ complish its mission. law to reflect air quality gains "a pluralistic and evolutionary approach to Now is the time to stand up and be count­ achieved. the solution of blood collection and distribu­ ed. Those who support this organization We are working toward prompt con­ tion problems." The private sector was must demonstrate their commitment sideration of the law by the Energy charged with the responsibility to improve through leadership and action. It is time to and Commerce Committee yet this the "organization of the blood service com­ reassert our mission and to add to the head­ year. Legislative action on this impor­ plex and the operational aspects of blood way we already have made. I would like to collection, processing and utilization to im­ see thoroughly explored, both on a regional tant law should not become lost in the plement the National policy." and national basis, the matter of merging a morass of next year's budget process. The National Blood Policy implementa­ resource sharing plan and the current re­ That process was tedious and time tion strategy thus is based on the good faith gionalization effort. The key to success lies consuming earlier this year, and there of private sector agencies to work with each within resource sharing. Other initiatives is no reason to believe that next year other for the common goal of positive and programs are important, as seen by the will be different. change. It indicates that while acting plural­ Commission's contribution in the area of istically, the agencies involved should be uniform labeling, p'ublic information and I am hopeful we can process this law prepared to adapt to new ways for the communication and the National Blood as expeditiously as possible. common good. "Although the implementa- Data Center. Where these programs contin- The Detroit News article follows:

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 27674 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 FIXING THE CLEAN AIR ACT my generation. I hope he is with us Ninety percent reduction standards for People often ignore past accomplishments another 90 years.e HC and CO would require costly New York Times-, Oct. 31, 1981) The requirement that all cars beginning meet 2.0 g/m in model years 1981-82. Under THE EMPEROR'S NEW TAX CUT present law. beginning with model year 1985 in model year 1984 meet standards regard­ Though the occasion attracted little at­ less of altitude is needed for air quality and all diesel-powered cars will have to meet 1.0 g/m. tention. the Reagan Administration last health protection. week unveiled the final, and most miracu­ COMMENT ASSERTION lous, phase of its economic plan for the Motor vehicle manufacturers support re­ The cost savings that would result from country. tention of the concept of "proportional" these proposals are inconsequential and Phase One, it will be recalled, followed the high altitude standards implemented by would be offset by diminished fuel economy supply-side prescription for economic recov­ EPA under the Act for 1982-83 model years. performance. ery: tax less so people save and invest more, Proportional standards provide for the same COMMENT thus stimulating growth. Phase Two was get percentage reduction in emissions at high The cost impact of emission requirements the Federal Government off people's backs altitude that is required at low altitude, al­ is not uniform among motor vehicle manu­ and let states and local governments look though the high altitude numerical stand­ facturers, or even among particular engine after domestic needs. The next step was to ards would be somewhat higher. families of the same manufacture. For ex­ answer the question, where would they get At high altitudes, vehicles tend to emit ample. since these are "performance" rather the money? What revenue stream would more HC and CO and less NOx emissions. than "design" standards manufacturers may Washington relinquish for them to tap in­ Since ozone and NO. attainment is not con­ select different systems to meet the require­ stead? sidered a special problem at high altitudes. ments according to the needs of their re­ Now Norman Ture, a Treasury Under Sec­ HC and NOx standards more stringent than spective products and engineering decisions. retary, has revealed the answer. The cut in those at low altitude are not needed. In recent public statements, individual Federal income taxes. he noted, makes new Of the 192 counties designated as high al­ manufacturers have estimated that the av­ billions available to state and local tax­ titude, only 19 are presently classified by erage added cost of meeting 1981 auto ation-available; that is. if governors and EPA as non-attainment for CO. standards compared to 1980 standards was mayors have the nerve to try to tap it. An 11.0 standard for CO at high altitude as high as $480 per car. While retention of That is a puzzle and a contradiction, but would provide the same proportional reduc­ not an answer. Either the tax Cl:lt is intend­ tion as a 7.0 standard at sea level-the level the 1980 standards would not permit all emission-related costs added in 1981 to be ed to leave more money in private pockets. presently permitted under waiver by EPA in recouped, manufacturers have estimated, and thus stimulate the economy; or it model year 1982. It can be demonstrated however, potential consumer cost savings in means there is more money for state and that a high altitude CO standard of 11.0 a range of $80 to $360 per car, depending local governments to take out of private would provide for attainment of the nation­ upon the type of control technology used. pockets, to pay for public services. Unless it al health standard. Nonproportional high altitude standards In a 10-million-car sales year, this translates wishes to be regarded as cynical and insin­ to a potential savings impact on the econo­ cere, the Administration cannot have it could once again raise the prospect of fewer both ways. model offerings being available in high alti­ my that could range between $800 million tude areas which account for only 3 percent and $3.6 billion. Last spring President Reagan told some of the vehicle population. Individual auto manufacturers have pub­ county officials that. like Martin Luther Permitting vehicles to be designed to meet licly estimated that the retention of 1980 King, he had a dream. To compensate them standards at sea level or high altitude de­ standards would allow them to improve fuel for assuming prime responsibility for wel­ pending on their area of use is essential, to efficiency in a range of from 2 to 5 percent. fare and other programs, he contemplated avoid the unnecessary cost. performance, Again, as in the case of cost estimates, the turning back tax sources that Washington and fuel economy penalties the present law situation is different for each manufacturer had preempted. Now. Mr. Ture says, the would impose on the 97 percent of the fleet according to the type of emissions control mission is substantially accomplished. the not sold at high altitude. system used and other engineering consider­ three-year. 25 per cent· cut in Federal per­ ations. Nevertheless, the proposed emission sonal income taxes will by 1984 provide ASSERTION changes would lead to increases, not de­ states with an average of $2.24 billion in Emissions averaging would lead to an in­ creases, in fuel economy.• new taxing room. crease in automobile pollution by allowing Does the President really want states to some vehicles to exceed emissions limits as pursue this source? Obviously not. if that long as the average emissions for the fleet PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC would torpedo his recovery plan. No matter met the standards. RECOVERY PROGRAM what one thinks of other aspects of the COMMENT Reagan programs. his brand of federalism An emissions averaging approach would HON. BRUCE F. VENTO looks suspiciously like a shell game, whose not change the total amount of vehicle only sure losers are the poor. emissions entering the atmosphere. It is the OF MINNESOTA The Administration's concept of federal­ total amount of pollutants emitted that af­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ism turns on Mr. Reagan's conviction that fects air quality, not the contribution of any Monday, November 16, 1981 the units of government that spend taxpay­ particular vehicle. In any case, current emis­ ers' money should answer directly to those sion regulations-both Federal and in Cali­ • Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, the New who pay taxes. He also says he knows that fornia-to a large extent are based on the York Times published an editorial states cannot cope with added social welfare averaging approach. taking to task the President's econom- responsibilities unaided. But last summer's 27676 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 cuts were deeper than expected, and they Commerce's 1981 Man of the Year Mario J. CLEAN AIR ACT aren't the last. Instead of absorbing welfare, Nuzzi, this coming Saturday evening, No­ REAUTHORIZATION Medicaid and food stamps, White House vember 14, at his gala testimonial dinner planners talk of dumping more of the dance in the New Hyde Park Inn Grand burden on state. Ballroom. HON. EDWARD R. MADIGAN What chance, realistically, have states to Both Congressmen John LeBoutillier and OF ILLINOIS finance mounting social welfare obligations Raymond J. McGrath are expected to grace IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with higher taxes? A beleaguered state like the gala with their presence as well as Su­ Michigan, its automotive industry in trou­ preme Court, Appellate Division, Judges Monday, November 16, 1981 ble, finds ever more people dependent on Thomas Gulotta and Sal Wachtier, County, e Mr. MADIGAN. Mr. Speaker, Mr. unemployment, welfare and other social Court Judge, Paul Lawrence, State Senator Jerry J. Jasinowski, a senior vice presi­ programs; just at the time it needs more Ralph Marino, Oyster Bay Town Republi­ help it is getting less. can Committee Chairman: Assemblyman dent and economist for the National What should a resident of Detroit, say, do Dean G. Skelos and Nassau County Repub­ Association of Manufacturers, recently as a result? For Mr. Ture, that's easy: move. lican Committee Chairman and Mrs. Joseph was a guest contributor to the editori­ "You decide where you want to live," he M. Bargiotta with his law partner Michael al page of the New York Times. I hope says. That means Americans who don't have and Mrs. Ricigiano. Mr. Jasinowski's efforts to reconcile much choice about where to live are left TOWN OFFICIALS TO ATTEND competing arguments in the Clean Air stranded. Washington, able to help, has Act debate will make a positive contri­ become unwilling. The states, willing for the Prominent town officials who will be most part, are not able. Mr. Reagan may among the over 250 distinguished guests ex­ bution to the reauthorization of this consider his vision of federalism a dream; to pected to attend the event will be Hemp­ law. I am inserting Mr. Jasinowski's America's needy people and communities, stead Town Presiding Supervisor and Mrs. comments with this purpose in mind. it's a hoax.e Thomas S. Gulotta, and Councilman Joseph The article follows: N. Mondello, North Hempstead Town Clerk WASHINGTON.-The Clean Air Act has and Mrs. John S. Davanzo and Councilman become a double-edged sword. One edge is NEW HYDE PARK'S GREAT and Mrs. Charles J. Fuschillo. the act's laudable objective of protecting ACHIEVER: MARIO NUZZI MAYOR GILL TO BE PRESENT public health from the effects of excessive New Hyde Park Village's top public offi­ air pollution. Unhappily, the other is the HON. JOHN LeBOUTILLIER cial, Mayor William T. and Mrs. Gill will use, at times, of the incredible complexity of OF NEW YORK also attend the Chamber Man of the Year the 185-page law to impose Federal controls gala, traditionally considered Greater New that retard economic development, industri­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hyde Park's most significant social event of al productivity, and the achievement of Monday, November 16, 1981 the year. clean air. Our best bet to improve air quality fur­ PROFILE OF A WINNER e Mr. LEBOUTILLIER. Mr. Speaker, ther is to encourage the expansion and mod­ in communities throughout this great Mario J. Nuzzi was born October, 1923 in ernization of our industrial plant and equip­ Nation, there are individuals who have Jamaica, Long Island. He came to New Hyde ment. This process would phase out older dedicated their life's energies to the Park at the age of five, where he has been manufacturing plants equipped with less-ef­ betterment of others and their com­ residing for the last 53 years. ficient air-pollution controls and replace munities. WORLD WAR II HERO them with plants with modern pollution Within the Sixth Congressional Dis­ During the depression, Mario helped his controls and processes designed right into trict, which I so proudly represent, father. Nuzzi clan partiarch John J. Nuzzi, them. there is such a person who fills that support the family of 12 children. At the The Clean Air Act is written in such a way age of 18, he was drafted into the United as to make it exceedingly difficult to build role in the community of New Hyde new plants or modernize existing ones. This Park, Long Island, N.Y. States Army and spent 44 months overseas. He served in the Battle of Normandy, Battle puts a premium on maintaining existing On November 14, 1981, New Hyde of Cherbrough, Battle of the Rhine, Battle economically inefficient and polluting Park, Nassau County, New York State, of Antwerp and the Battle of the Bulge. He plants. and the U.S. Congress, saw fit to par­ was decorated with nine citations, one of As a result of two requirements-"preven­ ticipate in a special tribute to Mr. which was the French Croix De Garre and tion of significant deterioration" and "non­ Mario Nuzzi as the people of New also the Belgium Forge De Garre. attainment"-the act creates a Catch-22 sit­ Hyde Park designated Mario Nuzzi to uation in which a manufacturer cannot NUZZI BROS. ENTERPRISES FOUNDER build his new plant is one location because receive their "Man of the Year Upon his return from the service, Mario the air is too clean cannot build it in an­ Award." . helped set up a successful fuel business other because the air is too dirty. As a Leaders from all walks of life gath­ manship for humanity. these studies, he winds up installing the Nassau County Executive Francis T. Pur­ The American Heart Association recently "best available control technology," which cell, two United States Congressmen, two honored him with the Man of the Year he could have done anyway without going New York State Supreme Court Judges, Award for Nassau County, 1980. He person­ through expensive, time-consuming guess­ both a State Senator and Assemblyman, a ally raised $40,000 for this worthy cause. work. County Court Judge and Nassau County Re­ Mario has always been very generous to all To comply with the "nonattainment" publican Committee Chairman Joseph M. fraternal and charitable organizations, and rules, which govern emission sources-facto­ Margiotta are expected to be among the the Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of ry smokestacks, for example-in geograph­ glittering galaxy of luminaries who will Commerce feels at this time, that he is most ical areas that do not meet national air­ honor Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of deserving of the Man of the Year Award.• cleanliness standards, the manufacturer November 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27677 must, be upgrading or closing existing facili­ In June 1977, Efim, his wife Rozalia, ty of achieving peace between Israel, the ties, establish an "offset" to any emissions and his son Rostislav applied to emi­ Palestinians and its Arab neighbors. that will be produced by the new construc­ grate together to Israel. At that time, Looking back, anyone who expected the tion. In some industrialized regions, off­ Soviet officials recommended that Camp David accords to be accepted by all sets-for example, buying small polluting the states in the Middle East was unaware companies and shutting them down-are Efim and Rozalia get a divorce, so that of the sensitivities that were either ignored difficult or impossible. In far too many Rosalia and Rostislav could apply sep­ or purposely shelved for later consideration. cases, this provision prevents the construc­ arately. Efim was told to postpone ap­ Likewise, anyone who now expects the tion of plants that could be more produc­ plying for an exit visa until 3 years Saudis' eight points to be universally ap­ tive, less energy-intensive, and less pollut­ after his 1976 retirement from the plauded is remiss in not appreciating the ing. Klimov mechanical plant where he real facts of life in the region-both in These provisions of the Clean Air Act was a mechanical engineer. Israel and among parties less thoughtful delay or prevent the installation of modern The Krupniks complied with this than the Saudis. and clean plants, equipment, and processes, advice, and Rosalia and Rostislav left However, the acceptance by Jordon, the and this pushes up costs. The experience of PLO and others of the overall approach em­ the Hampton Roads Energy Company, in the Soviet Union in October 1979. bodied in the Saudi eight-point "peace Virginia, is a case in point. The company However, all of Efim's recent applica­ plan" may be a crucial turning point. For was formed in 1973 to construct a much­ tions to emigrate have been refused. the first time, even if indirectly, important needed oil refinery at a projected cost of The Soviet Union still claims that Arab parties have turned away from "out­ $300 million. The facility was expected to Efim cannot leave for security reasons, lawing" Israel as an illegitimate entity and begin operations by 1979. Today, largely as even though 5 years have now passed have looked to negotiations with recognition a result of permit delays, the refinery still since Efim's retirement. and "coexistence" as the eventual goal. has not been built; because of inflation and Efim is 66 years old. He has already Many have forgotten the extreme differ­ the increased cost of capital, the latest cost suffered a heart attack and recently ence between the speeches Anwar Sadat and estimate for the facility is $1 billion. became diabetic. He is only asking to Menachem Begin made to the Knesset-dif­ These and other provisions of the act ferences that thoughtful negotiations have made this regulatory mechanism un­ be permitted to rejoin his family. helped resolve. necessarily burdensome and expensive. The I am asking my colleagues to join I feel somewhat the same about the cur­ total cost imposed by the law for the last with me in urging the Soviet Union to rent situation. The Saudis have taken a sig­ decade have been $118 billion, or $2,100 for reaffirm its commitment to the princi­ nificant lead and will be attempting at the every four-person household. By 1987, in­ ple of reunification outlined in the Arab summit in Fez later this month to dustry will have spent at least $300 billion Helsinki accord by permitting Efim achieve an Arab consensus. The importance trying to comply with the act. With costs at Krupnik to rejoin his family.e of these developments must not be missed. this level, in addition to other adverse ef­ My visit in August to a number of Arab fects, we cannot afford to extend the act countries, including Saudi Arabia, convinced without major changes. LET'S LISTEN TO THE SAUDIS me that with very few exceptions there was Those changes should modify the provi­ a general feeling at the highest levels that sions of the act that impede the moderniza­ Israel was here to stay, that it had devel­ tion of industry. The debate over the law is HON. PAUL FINDLEY oped into a military superpower, that often described-wrongly, I believe-as a OF ILLINOIS Jewish nationalism was accepted as fact if choice between clean air and economic de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not understood, and that the time had final­ velopment. In fact, the law works against Monday, November 16, 1981 ly come to find an answer to the basic prob­ both, impairing the achievement of clean lem that stood in the way of a comprehen­ air as much as it saps our economic vitality. e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, Philip sive peace. By modifying the act to encourage industri­ M. Klutznik, a former Cabinet Secre­ Over and over, the Palestinian issue domi­ al modernization, we can have both clean tary in the Carter administration and nated conversation and viewpoints. The Pal­ air and economic growth. a former president of the World estinians have become a special people in In seeking amendments to the act, manu­ Jewish Congress, this weekend wrote the Arab world, in some ways like the Jews facturers are not arguing for the right to in the Washington Post that the Saudi were in the West following World War II. build plants without air-pollution controls. peace proposals "are not incompatible The next most significant conclusion was We are arguing for the right to build them with the [Camp David] peace process" that the PLO was the only party qualified with better controls. We are totally commit­ to speak for the Palestinians. There will be ted to continued progress toward cleaner and that "if the autonomy talks fail to those who will say that such a conclusion is air. deal adequately with the Palestinian naive or ill-founded. Perhaps so; but it re­ The House Subcommittee on Health and issue, there is no dishonor in supple­ mains a fact that the PLO has sufficient the Environment is continuing hearings on menting them with the suggestions of strength in an increasing number of capitals the act, and the Senate Environment Com­ others.'' to either accelerate or abort the peace proc­ mittee is debating possible amendments as Following a visit to the Middle East ess that was begun four years ago with well. If the Congress would soon enact legis­ in August, Mr. Klutznik likened the Sadat's Jerusalem visit. lation eliminating the counterproductive Palestinians to "modern-day Jews of The PLO members are trying to create, features of the law, the nation could enter the Arab world" and concluded that and with some success, an organization that 1982 with a modern Clean Air Act that handles many social and economic prob­ would raise industrial productivity, provide the PLO is "the only party qualifed to lems, even as they continue to build a more more jobs, and achieve better air quality for speak for the Palestinians.'' sophisticated military potential. They are an.e For such a prominent American spoken of as "the modern-day Jews of the spokesman for the Jewish community Arab world." to speak out so candidly and forth­ I found that the Camp David accords were A REFUSENIK'S PLIGHT rightly is yet another sign of modera­ rejected not so much because of unwilling­ tion on the basic issues that have for ness to contemplate peace with Israel as be­ so long blocked peace in the Middle cause they failed to link properly the Egyp­ HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY tian-Israeli treaty with resolution of the OF MASSACHUSETTS East. Mr. Klutznik is a man with ex­ Palestinian issue. Many condemn Camp IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ceptional credentials and his state­ David for this, forgetting that without this ment may prove to be a crucial devel­ beginning there probably would not be Monday, November 16, 1981 opment in Middle East policy by today's Saudi initiative. Others feel that e Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise giving President Reagan the political Camp David has served its function and to bring to the attention of my col­ running room he needs to move should now be supplemented or transcend­ leagues in the House the plight of toward a more realistic policy that can ed. Efim Krupnik, a Soviet Jew who, for 2 lead to a lasting peace. It would be tragic and unthinkable to lose the momentum begun at Camp David. The years, has been separated from his The article follows: autonomy discussions should now be accel­ wife and son because of the Soviet LET'S LISTEN TO THE SAUDIS erated in an attempt to draw Palestinian Union's refusal to approve his applica­ Not since Israel's creation in 1948, in my representation into the negotiations. But if tions for an exit visa. judgment, has there been a greater possibili- the autonomy talks fail to deal adequately 27678 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 with the Palestinian issue, there is no dis­ dangers inherent in a Communist Whereas the Communist rule of terror, honor in supplementing them with the sug­ form of government. based on the ruthless suppression of any in­ gestions of others. I commend this proclamation, and ternal opposition and on the total exploita­ Here the Saudi approach may prove an accompanying news release, to my tion of all human and economic resources, useful. As President Hosni Mubarak in has cost the people of the Soviet Union mil­ Egypt has suggested, and as the Reagan ad­ colleagues as follows: lions of lives; and ministration has implied, the Saudi ideas CONGRESS OF RUSSIAN-AMERICANS, INC., Whereas while the Soviet constitution are not incompatible with the peace process. NEWS RELEASE purports to guarantee basic human rights Enlarging participation in the process was, On November 7th the rulers of the Soviet and freedoms; it nonetheless qualifies these in fact, envisioned at Camp David. Union will celebrate the 64th anniversary of rights in such a manner that their intended I knew the representatives of Saudi the "Great October Socialist Revolution". purposes are perverted and made meaning­ Arabia in the United Nations in the mid- On this tragic anniversary of the Bolshevik less; and 1950s and 1960s. They were in the main takeover in Russia, the Congress of Russian Whereas the Soviet constitution is so mercenaries who were not always native Americans reiterates its continued concern worded that Soviet citizens are deprived of Saudis or polished diplomats. Energy eco­ for the condition and destiny of all people the right to appeal to it for the protection nomics and 20 years have transformed the living under Communist rule. Sixty four of their constitutional rights; and Saudi situation. Yet the ruling family, it ap­ years ago a tragedy occurred which scarred Whereas the specter of Communism, re­ pears to me, senses that many more changes not 1mly the Russian nation but also the gardless of where it has set root, has simi­ need to be made. In my contacts outside the entire free world: Lenin and his minority larly resulted in the loss of millions of kingdom with representatives of the Saudi party overthrew the democratic Provisional human lives as is this day clearly evident in monarchy and with Saudi private business­ Government of Russia. Two months later the case of Afghanistan; and men, I have not found the alleged arrogance the Bolsheviks dissolved the freely elected Whereas the number of victims of Com­ of which some others complain. There actu­ Constituent Assembly, in which they had munist aggression continues to rise and ally seems to be a kind of modesty accompa­ polled only 25 percent of the vote and re­ there are many residing among us who are nied by serious anxiety about the unknown named the nation the Union of Soviet So­ living reminders of the ruthless nature of future. Comparing Saudi Arabia with Iran cialist Republics. the Communist system; under the shah is unrealistic. In fact, there Despite the bitter struggle waged in the Therefore, I Cuba soon will dwarf any not Israeli intransigence that is block­ Washington Metropolitan Area is in out­ army south of the Rio Grande and drive a ing a full peace settlement, but PLO standing shape. Obviously, we have prob­ Soviet strategic wedge between North and refusal to give up a basic element in lems. Some of them-the high cost of hous­ South America. · their charter, namely the destruction ing, for example-may be related to our af­ Little Costa Rica, once a model democra­ of Israel. fluence. Others, such as our serious regional cy, has been destabilized and intimidated by The complete Washington Post transportation problems, can be related to the Nicaraguan buildup and internal subver­ story of November 14 follows: the fact that historically the region's largest sion. The territory of Honduras is being employer was concentrated in a small cen­ used with impunity to funnel arms from [From the Washington Post, Nov. 14, 19811 tral area, and regional approaches to solving Nicaragua to the Communist guerrilla army PLO LEADERS FAIL TO REACH ACCORD ON the problem were begun rather late. But on in El Salvador. An active terrorism cam­ SAUDI PLAN FOR MIDEAST PEACE balance, this is a healthy, fortunate region. paign is under way in Guatemala, drawing Yasser Arafat has praised A. I expect that there will be some level­ some aspects of the plan, but radical Pales­ ing off of population growth, due both to Monday, November 16, 1981 tinian groups have denounced it because it demographics and to a slowing of the e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, appears to suggest giving up the struggle to growth of the Federal Government and its amid all the hoopla surrounding the recover the entire area that was formerly budget. I expect also that there will be more Palestine. growth of employment centers in the sub­ Saudi eight-point Middle East peace A vaguely worded statement after a meet­ urbs and more concern on the part of the plan, the supporters of the Saudi initi­ ing of the PLO's executive committee did individual for shortening work trips. As our ative have failed to mention that the not directly mention the Saudi proposals demographics change, I think we can look beneficiaries of the plan, the PLO, but said the session discussed "political ini­ for some changes in the patterns of local have refused to endorse it. Daily we tiatives and moves in the region." government spending-perhaps relatively hear that if the United States, Israel, "It was agreed to follow up contacts in more emphasis on social programs for and Egypt would renounce Camp this connection with the aim of achieving a adults and the aged, less on schools, for ex­ David and support the Saudi plan, unified Arab stand serving the Palestinian ample. that peace would be at hand. Al­ struggle and the just cause of our people," Q. Have some changes already taken though I find it commendable that the said the statement, according to a report by place? the Palestinian news agency W AFA.e A. Yes. We already have seen changes in Saudis have proposed a solution that building patterns-more townhouses and they believe will eventually lead to a apartments, fewer large-lot single-family comprehensive peace settlement in the FAIRFAX COUNTY EXECUTIVE J. homes-and this pattern probably will con­ Middle East, I disagree that their plan HAMILTON LAMBERT ASSESS­ tinue. should take precedence over Camp ES STATE OF METROPOLITAN I hope we will see a continuing and David. The important question is, are WASHINGTON REGION strengthening of the gains in regional co­ all the parties in the Arab camp uni­ operation that have occurred in recent fied in their support of the Saudi solu­ years. Many of our most urgent problems­ HON. FRANK R. WOLF water supply, sewage conveyance and treat­ tion? The answer is no. OF VIRGINIA ment, sludge and other solid waste disposal, Not only is Egypt still willing to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Metro and other transportation problems­ pursue the Camp David accords, but can be solved only through regional ap­ the PLO, as reported in the Washing­ Monday, November 16, 1981 proaches. ton Post on November 14, 1981, page • Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, J. Hamil­ Q. What significance will the policies of Al8, has failed to support the Saudi ton Lambert is a lifelong resident of the Reagan Administration hold for Metro­ plan. I found it strange that such an the Washington area and a member of politan Washington as a region and for our important item as the PLO rejection the Fairfax County government staff local governments individually? of the Saudi plan did not receive front A. When the Federal Government cuts for the past 20 years. For the past 2 back on programs in which Federal funds page coverage. But the article, at least, years, he has been county executive, pass through to the state and local govern­ revealed the true desires of key ac­ the top administrative ·position in the ments, there has got to be a profound effect tions within the PLO. Let me quote county government. He has won wide on those luLal governments. People have one part of the article: acclaim not only for his performance become accustomed to these programs and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat has praised in that position but as leader in pro­ are reluctant to see them cut or dropped. At some aspects of the plan, but radical Pales­ moting cooperation among · the re­ the same time, people support the concept tinian groups have denounced it because it gion's local governments. He is chair­ of cutting both Federal programs and Fed­ appears to suggest giving up the struggle to man of council of governments' com­ eral taxes. recover the entire area that was formerly mittee of the area's chief administra­ Now, the benefits of lower Federal income Palestine. taxes can be pretty illusory if local govern­ tive officers. ments pick up all the lost Federal program In other words, powerful segments of I ask that an interview which ap­ funding and fund these programs out of the the PLO still envisage driving Israel peared in the fall 1981 edition of "The property tax, sales tax and other local reve- 27680 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 nues. Local governments are going to have MX MISSILE PLAN of the strategic triad is virtually im­ to pick up some of these programs, but they possible. Further, the United States are going to have to do so selectively. Other­ HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER has many thousands of independently wise, the taxpayer is going to be no better targeted strategic nuclear weapons, off. Local administrators, and particularly OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES about 50 percent more than the local governing bodies, are going to face U.S.S.R., by far enough to target any some very difficult choices. Monday, November 16, 1981 f orseeable increase in the number of Q. Figures from last year's census show e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, when strategic targets in the Soviet Union. that jobs and households in the area are growing much faster than the population. President Reagan announced his deci­ Additionally, the superhardened What does this tell us about our present sion regarding the MX missile system, silos will be as vulnerable to Soviet and future? Caspar Weinberger proudly stood at attack. as our present Minuteman and A. The fact that job opportunities are his side and entertained the technical Titan silos. According to the Depart­ growing faster than the population is a good questions concerning the new design. ment of Defense brief, "Soviet Mili­ sign, except that we run a serious danger of Three days later, the Secretary of De­ tary Power." "The SS-18 is capable of imbalance if the kinds of jobs offered don't fense appeared before the Senate destroying any known fixed-target match the kinds of skills our population Armed Services Committee in staunch with high probability." Senator John possesses. We really don't need to attract support of the President's plan to Tower elaborated on this fact: "Intelli­ more skilled workers to this area as much as build 100 MX missiles, placing 36 in gence officials tell us that improved we need to improve the job skills of our own existing Titan silos which have been Soviet missile accuracies will enable unemployed and underemployed, and to hardened to withstand pressure up to Moscow to destroy even the 'hardened' provide a transportation network that will 5,000 p.s.i., and deferring the deploy­ silos. Pouring in more concrete and connect the potential worker to the job lo­ ment of the others until further steel will not reduce danger for any cation. basing research can be completed. The appreciable length of time. It could be The growth of households suggests that administrations embrace of this pro­ measured in terms of months rather household sizes are continuing to shrink, posal is disturbing, not to mention in­ than years. Beyond that, Pentagon of­ which is not a new trend. It may presage consistent. ficials have no idea how they will actu­ more construction of relatively small, multi­ Back in February, just 7 months ago, ally harden these Titan silos. There is unit housing as opposed to the traditional, at his confirmation hearings, Mr. no plan, no design. They don't even suburban house on a half-acre lot. Weinberger stated: Q. Paying for the completion of Metro know if it's possible." comes in for a lot of discussion in Fairfax. Is Simply putting it Egyptian army wanted 200 working eight years in Seattle for Boeing. trailers to carry tanks, he picked up that A CONTINUING FANTASY credit card. contract, too. "We opened the old Lehigh And many of the old factories aren't ex­ Valley Railroad repair shop in Sayre MARIO BIAGGI cial, far outweighs the Consulate operating OF NEW YORK under both Democratic and Republi­ budget. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES can administrations. It is a depart­ ment without a constituency of ready A decision to reopen the Consulate would Monday, November 16, 1981 defenders. provide a tremendous boost to pro-American e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, today I Unfortunately, the cost savings feeling, which runs strong in west Sweden. am introducing legislation which is through budget reductions at the With best wishes. aimed at keeping bulletproof vests off State Department are often exceeded Sincerely, of criminals in the United States. by the detrimental effects of those re­ JAMES L. 0BERSTAR, Under my bill, a bulletproof vest ductions on American interests world­ Member of Congress.• would be redefined as a firearm. This wide. In 1980, President Carter closed would mean that those wllo sell bullet­ seven consulates and achieved an proof vests must obtain proper li­ annual cost savings of under $2 mil­ censes. lion. I believe then, as I do now, that November 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27685 TECHNICAL CLARIFICATION RE­ TORTURE REPORTED OF whom he helped during the coup against QUIRED TO HELP U.S. OLYM­ ETHIOPIAN JEWS Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. The Ethiopian Jews are believed to PIC TEAM number about 28,000, according to estimates HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ made five years ago; about 85 percent live in HON. GUY VANDERJAGT OF NEW YORK Gondar Province. The term Falasha is not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their own but is the Amharic word for OF MICHIGAN Monday, November 16, 1981 exiles. The Ethiopian Jews call themselves IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the House of Israel and believe they are de­ e Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, I would scended from nobles close to Menelik, son of Monday, November 16, 1981 like to call to the attention of my col­ King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. e Mr. V ANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, leagues a most compelling article that DEAL BY BEGIN CONFIRMED together with my colleague from New appeared in the New York Times on Although for years Israel showed no inter­ Jersey Zionism, historical con­ has several bones broken. He can't move tempt for the Jews and current apprehen­ from the stretcher." nue impact. sion about links they are said to have to Mr. Bauman said that an international I strongly urge all my colleagues on Israel. Major Melaku is said to derive his au­ conference on Ethiopian Jews was being both sides of the aisle to support this thority from his loyalty to Ethiopia's Marx­ planned for next May in Jerusalem to focus ist ruler, Lieut. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, attention on their plight.e ~/ure.e 27686 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 THE STATE OF OUR TAX THE GREAT AMERICAN about 43 percent among women-more COLLECTION SYSTEM SMOKEOUT than 75 percent overall. In recent years, however, the pro­ HON. LOUIS STOKES portion of adult smokers in the U.S. HON. AL SWIFT population has been declining. From OF OHIO OF WASHINGTON 1970 to 1978 adult male smokers de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES clined from 43.5 percent of the popula­ Monday, November 16, 1981 tion to 36.9, while women smokers de­ Monday, November 16, 1981 e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I wish creased from 31.1 percent to 28.2 after e Mr. SWIFT. Mr. Speaker, we have to bring to the attention of my col­ a meteoric increase during the last been so concerned lately about tax leagues and annual event that has had decade. Teenage smoking increased policies-as to how much or how little great impact on the lifestyles and significantly in the late 1960's and can be cut from the budget-that I health of millions of Americans. It is early 1970's, and still concerns medical fear we are overlooking a very impor­ the Great American Smokeout, spon­ authorities, although smoking among tant aspect of our tax system which is, sored by the American Cancer Society, this group has also shown a slight de­ quite simply, the collection of the and scheduled this year for November cline. taxes themselves. There are now over 30 million ex­ 19. smokers in the United States, but 54 The methods in which taxes are col­ It is a special day for cigarette smok­ million others collectively smoke more lected by the Internal Revenue Service ers, a day on which they prove to than 620 billion cigarettes a year. were very clearly depicted on CBS themselves that quitting the habit is I believe this has grave potentialities television's Sunday evening program­ possible, and not as difficult as many for the health of the American people. "60 Minutes." The fact that it was in­ might fear. The Great American The Great American Smokeout, how­ vestigated by CBS was not the first Smokeout is a lively and fun event. It ever, provides smokers with a chal­ notice of this issue. I first became emphasizes the benefits and tech­ lenge that, if met, will mean great ben­ aware of it in meetings with my niques of quitting rather than the haz­ efits for better health and less risks of constituents. ards of smoking. It is an upbeat and lung cancer and other diseases.e That CBS would report it only leads good-natured effort to encourage more credence to something which has smokers to quit for just a day-24 become a growing concern to most hours-to prove to themselves that U.S. VISA POLICY-ONLY SOME they can. Lots of them have ended up IRISH NEED APPLY Americans. What I am talking about quitting for good. are the arbitrary and often autocratic Mr. Speaker, the first mass move­ HON. MARIO BIAGGI methods used by the IRS in carrying ment of smokers was led by Lynn R. out its duties. Smith, editor of the Monticello OF NEW YORK Our Federal tax system has always July 1980. In other instances, we found party was a factor. My office advised With kindest regards, I am no grounds of ineligibility preventing visa is­ State that Sinn Fein is a legally sanc­ Sincerely, suance to the family members of the de­ tioned political party in Northern Ire­ MARIO BIAGGI, ceased hunger strikers including the broth­ land, as well as the Republic of Ire­ Member of Congress. er of Bobby Sands. land. This reason was dropped in the I hope this information has been helpful official letter which I received last DEPARTMENT OF STATE, in explaining the decisions made on the visa week from State-further weakening Washington, D.C., November 9, 1981. applications of Mr. Carron and Mr. Paisley. the argument for their decision. Hon. MARIO BIAGGI, Yours sincerely, The Department of State in this House of Representatives, RICHARD FAIRBANKS, same letter said that they have in fact Washington, D. C. Assistant Secretary for DEAR MR. BIAGGI: I am replying to your Congressional Relations.• granted a multiple entry visa good for letters of October 22 concerning the visa 3 years to the Reverend Ian Paisley. denial to Mr. Owen Carron and the issuance Mr. Paisley has gained international of a visa to Mr. Ian Paisley. CALL TO CONSCIENCE 1981: attention through his public state­ Mr. Carron, an elected member of the NAUM TSELESCIN ments of bigotry and hatred against British Parliament, had stated his intent to Catholics in Northern Ireland and has visit the United States to "conduct a publici­ openly advocated the use of violence. ty tour on the political situation in Ireland." HON. BILL FRENZEL Yet according to State, "after careful On October 16, Mr. Carron's visa was re­ OF MINNESOTA consideration of his application it was fused under section 212(a) (27) of the Immi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gration and Nationality Act. This section of determined there were no grounds of the law, in part, prohibits the issuance of a Monday, November 16, 1981 ineligibility which would prevent the visa to any foreign national who seeks to e Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, again issuance of a visa and accordingly, a enter the United States to engage in activi­ visa was issued." Yet on the other ties prejudicial to the American public in­ this year the congressional vigil for hand, a duly elected Member of the terest. Soviet Jewry will try to focus world at­ British Parliament is denied because Among the fac.tors that led to Mr. Car­ tention on the plight of all Soviet re­ he was "seeking to enter the United ron's refusal were Mr. Carron's public state­ fuseniks. We are interested in every States to engage in activities prejudi­ ments in support of the legitimacy of vio­ one of them, but the one I shall dis­ lence and para-military efforts in Northern cuss today is Naum Tselescin. cial to the American public interest" Ireland and the strong likelihood that he by "conducting a publicity tour on the Mr. Tselescin and his parents, both would be engaged in fund-raising activities of whom are elderly and in poor political situation in Ireland." on behalf of the Provisional Irish Republi­ I intend to seek a reversal of State's can Army. It was the Department's opinion health, wish to go to Israel to be re­ ruling in this matter and hope those that Mr. Carron's entry would have had se­ united with Naum Tselescin's mother's of my colleagues who feel as I do will rious and adverse effects on American for­ sister. They have repeatedly requested join me in this effort. The State De­ eign policy interests vis-a-vis both the permission to emigrate. partment professes a policy of neutral­ United Kindgom and Ireland, in addition to Over the past several years I have ity on the Irish issue yet their visa running counter to the worldwide U.S. attempted unsuccessfully to help Mr. policy of opposition to terrorism. For these Tselescin in his efforts to obtain per­ policies are as much an example of po­ reasons the issuance of a visa to Mr. Carron litical meddling as one could imagine. would therefore have been prejudicial to mission to emigrate from the Soviet The method by which we issue visas to the public interest. The Department's deter­ Union. I was again saddened to learn citizens of Northern Ireland should mination was made despite Mr. Carron's po­ that he was recently denied this per­ not smack of the kind of selective mo­ sition as an elected Member of Parliament. mission for the fifth time since 1977. rality that we have seen in the Carron Mr. Ian Paisley applied for a visa in late Mr. Naum Tselescin holds a doctor­ case. 1980. After careful consideration of his ap­ ate in powder metallurgy. Until heap­ I wish to share with my colleagues, plication, it was determined there were no plied for an exit permit in 1977, he grounds of ineligibility which would prevent had been the Chief of the Department the letter I recently sent to State seek­ the issuance of visa and accordingly a visa ing an explanation of their actions in was issued. of New Materials in Leningrad. He denying Mr. Carron's visa and the De­ I wish to emphasize, however, that the now has been transferred to a menial partment's response. visa applications of Mr. Carron and Mr. factory job. OCTOBER 22, 1981. Paisley are individual and separate cases. I am told that the reason given for Mr. RICHARD FAIRBANKS, Both decisions represent application of U.S. refusing permission for emigration is Assistant Secretary for Congressional Af­ immigration law in specific cases. All visa that Mr. Tselescin has knowledge of fairs, Department of State, Washington, applications are adjudicated on an individ­ military secrets. However, Mr. Tseles­ D.C. ual basis at our overseas missions and re­ cin completed a 2-year military obliga­ DEAR MR. FAIRBANKS: I am writing to in­ f erred, as appropriate, to the Department tion over 9 years ago, was not an offi­ quire about the State Department's denial for supplementary information and opinion. of Owen Carron's application for a visitor Although the decisions on the applications cer, and would probably not have been visa. Mr. Carron, who is a member of the of Mr. Carron and Mr. Paisley were made at privy to any classified information. British Parliament, was recently denied a our Consulate General in Belfast, both deci­ Once more, I request that Soviet au­ visa for visiting the United States. sions were made on the bases of advisory thorities allow Mr. Tselescin, his par­ I am interested in knowing the State De­ opinions from the Department which were ents, and all other Soviet refuseniks partment's reasons for denying Mr. Carron's provided to the Consulate General after like them, to exercise their right to application. He is not a member of a pro­ careful consideration by the Department. free emigration as agreed to under the scribed organization and he was scheduled You should 'be aware that visas are being to address several well-respected Irish­ issued in significant numbers to residents in Helsinki accords.e American groups as well as to meet with Northern Ireland. For example, in fiscal local Massachusetts public officials and year 1979, 17,522 nonimmigrant visas were ANOTHER TROJAN HORSE? Members of the U.S. Congress. Who makes issued by the Consulate General in Belfast. the final decision to award to deny an appli­ In fiscal 1980, 24,847 nonimmigrant visas cation for a visitor visa to the United were issued-an increase of approximately HON. ROBERT GARCIA 40 percent over fiscal year 1979. The politi­ States? Who made the final decision in Mr. OF NEW YORK Carron's case? Is a special consideration cal beliefs of applicants are not criteria for usually given to elected public officials of issuance or refusal. The key issue is wheth­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES foreign countries when they apply for per­ er there are grounds of ineligibility-such as Monday, November 16, 1981 mission to enter the United States? advocacy of violence or terrorism-as pre­ As I was to meet with Mr. Carron during scribed under U.S. law. It was under such e Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, last his visit to the U.S., I am very much inter- grounds, for example, that Andy Tyrie, Tuesday the Subcommittee on Census 27688 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 and Population, which I chair, held a tary thought well of our labors. Unfortu­ 1. State and local data must be improved. hearing on the proposed changes in nately, though, he didn't think that he A major tenet of the Reagan administration could carry out a great many of our recom­ is the desirability of generally reducing the the Government's statistical indicators mendations. The controlling factor, as one powers of government and assigning tasks for inflation and unemployment. I am might have guessed, was that it costs money to the lowest possible levels of government concerned that this aspect of the ad­ to collect, analyze, and report solid statis­ where government intervention is deemed ministration's prescription for eco­ tics. The Secretary reiterated about a dozen necessary. Realizing, however, that the fed­ nomic recovery may have a detrimen­ times in his comments that he couldn't in eral government cannot give up all its re­ tal effect on wage earners, social secu­ good conscience implement recommenda­ sponsibility of aid to states and localities, rity recipients, and Federal retirees tions that would involve additional outlays. the Reagan administration has favored the whose pay and benefits are linked to A check of the commission operations, disbursement of federal funds to states the Consumer Price Index be for economic reform. their recommendations. They recognized, doubled. The current CPS can't even come Dr. Sar Levitan, of the Center for however, that there is no free lunch. If close to accomplishing the job that it is in­ Social Policy Studies at George Wash­ public policy is to be exercised intelligently tended to do. Both efficiency and equity ington University, gave significant tes­ and based on data rather than on gut reac­ considerations led the majority of the com­ timony before the subcommittee tions and ideologies, we should recognize mission to make this recommendation. pointing out the need to improve the that running a $3 trillion economy cannot According to Secretary Donovan, to Government's data-gathering system be done without appropriate data. And double the sample of the CPS would cost to accurately reflect the real economic labor force data are a cornerstone of eco­ so.me $20 million. This is still, even in these conditions that affect the population. nomic intelligence. inflationary days, a considerable chunk of To insure maximum exposure to Dr. There are several ways in which trust in money. Since Secretary Donovan agrees our labor force data system could be lost. that it is a good idea to increase the CPS . Levitan's testimony, I include the text The system was designed in the Great De­ sample, I had hoped that he would at least of his testimony in the RECORD. pression and little has been done to adapt suggest that when the budget is balanced TESTIMONY BY SAR A. LEVITAN, CENTER FOR the concepts and definitions to evolving and inflation is reduced to tolerable levels, SOCIAL POLI<:!Y STUDIES, GEORGE WASHINGTON labor force structure and our·ever-changing he would favor the government investing in UNIVERSITY economy. The data system is being called on an enlarged CPS sample. There is no such The disturbing sharp rise in unemploy­ to do tasks that it was not constructed to promise in the Secretary's report. It is, ment rates during recent months has moved perform, and federal, state and local policy­ then, quite clear that anything that would labor force statistics once again to center makers are recognizing that the numbers in cost money is out, which means not only stage, vying with inflation for the attention their current form often cannot help them that there will be no improvement in the of the public and Congress. It is important in some of their most important decisions. quality of labor force statistics; indeed some that the public regard for-and trust in­ For example, we have been told to expect erosion is inevitable. There will also be no our labor force data system remains high. more decisions to be made on the state and improvement in data on minorities if the However, there are signs that a growing local level, but the information to make CPS is not expanded. number of policymakers and citizens have these decisions often does not exist. There is 2. Establishment data must be improved serious doubts about the concepts and defi­ ample justification for concern that our since productivity information is derived nitions and operation of the data system. labor force data system may become a from these numbers. A second tenet of the It has taken many years of hard work and victim of penny wise but pound foolish deci­ Reagan administration is that budget cuts nonpartisan dedication to build up the sions. and tax reductions are needed as new incen­ public goodwill which is required for the tives to increase the American propensity to data system to work. The entire system op­ CHANGES FOR THE 1980'S save and invest. It is hoped that these ef­ erates on a voluntary basis. If this trust is When the commission conducted its re­ forts will bolster our country's sagging pro­ lost-by either the general public or policy­ search and deliberations, there were many ductivity. makers-it will not be easily regained. advocates who urged the panel to make Given the administration's rightful con­ WHAT HAS BEEN DONE? value Judgments about the data system. For cern about slower growth rates and even de­ Five years ago Congress mandated the es­ example, some asked us to come up with one clines in our· output per work hour, Secre­ tablishment of a ·commission charged with official standard of full employment. While tary Donovan might have been expected to the responsibility of reviewing the federal each commission member had his or her be more flexible in approving the commis­ employment and unemployment statistics own opinion of what is full employment, we sion's recommendations to improve the es­ and making recommendations for strength­ confined our mission to help establish a tablishment data which serve as the basis ening and updating the nation's labor force data system that could be used by various for measuring the nation's productivity. But counts. It took Presidents Ford and Carter groups-who have different sets of values in this case, as in others, he feels that and the U.S. Senate nearly two years to and objectives-in their formulation of what budget constraints will preclude taking any nominate and approve the membership of they considered full employment. The goal real steps to improve the estimates. It is the commission. The nine citizens appointed is to have a labor force system which can re­ particularly ironic that the Secretary ex­ reported their recommendations on Labor spond to the different needs and concerns pects the Employment and Training Admin­ Day 1979. The law that established the com­ of various policymakers and administra­ istration to upgrade these data after notify­ mission also required the Secretary of Labor tions. The concept of full employment is ing the employees of the agency that they to corunent on the disposition of the com­ just as much a political and moral question are all subject to a reduction in force. mission's recommendations within two years as it is an economic and statistical issue. The statistical base for these productivity after its report was filed. By the end of Oc­ Our goal was to provide accurate and rele­ numbers is deteriorating sharply because tober, again a little belatedly, Secretary of vant numbers that would serve any adminis­ the establishment sample is becoming in­ Labor Raymond Donovan announced his tration, whatever its political coloration, creasingly eroded. For example, in the grow­ views on the report of the National Commis­ and the public at large. Given the new ad­ ing service industry sectors, the commission sion on Employment and Unemployment ministration's outlook and policy goals, it is founq the sample is very poorly represent­ Statistics and his intentions for implement­ rather surprising to me that Secretary ed. ing its recommendations. Donovan rejected so many of the commis­ 3. Changing technology calls for improve­ Having been associated with that commis­ sion recommendations. I will single out only ments in occupational data. If the adminis­ sion, I was delighted to find that the Secre- seven items: tration's tax cuts are going to generate November 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27689 major investments in new technology, then with the administration's faith in the grow­ ers, telling me that business activity we will have vast occupational changes. ing role of volunteers and their potential for has never been worse. Experienced Some skills that are now being practiced by carrying out responsibilities now undertak­ builders and their construction crews many people will become obsolescent, and en by government, I fully expected the Sec­ have been completely idled, and I fear these individuals will have to change their retary of Labor to have supported this rec­ occupations. Also, we could face production ommendation. Surprisingly, he rejects it that in many cases they will never be bottlenecks due to shortages in other skills. without any explanation. able to completely recover. The commission report contained changes 7. Decisions must be made on mid-decenni­ In light of this very severe crisis in in the occupational data system which al report. The law now mandates a mid-de­ the Nation's housing industry, caused should be made in an effort to avoid these cennial census in 1985. There is a long lead­ not by lack of demand but by the scar­ inflationary wage pressures and to help time to conduct a census, and the adminis­ city of affordable mortgage credit, I tration has not asked for any funds to carry people find jobs in new and needed occupa­ have been literally bombarded with tions. it out. I am sympathetic that a mid-decenni­ 4. Unemployment insurance data can be al census would cost a lot of money and questiom; on why the mortgage subsi­ put to better use. Administration represent­ some bother to the citizenry. But because of dy bond program has been unable to atives have indicated interest in allowing the lack of funds, a great many of the de­ operate at all to provide at least some states to use UI for providing occupational tailed 1980 census statistics will not be pub­ lower cost mortgages to targeted home training to laid off workers. The current lished until 1984 or 1985. This means we will buyers. The mortgage subsidy bond condition of the UI system must be factored have to run the economy with 1969 data. It program will provide only limited help into the equation when any proposals are is ironic that this administration wants to to the overall homebuilding industry, made. But if we are going to have rapid run this economy with Great Society statis­ of course, but in such a depressed changes in the labor force and skill composi­ tics. tion of this nation, then we will require ef­ TOUGH TIMES period an·y· help at all is sorely needed. fective training systems. Secretary Donovan's endorsement of the . The abill~Y. of Stat~ and local hous­ A number of years ago the Labor Depart­ commission's confidence in the professional · mg auth~rities to . issu~ tax-exempt ment funded the continuous wage and bene­ excellence objectivity and integrity of the bonds to fmance residential mortgages fit history sample which studies the charac­ Bureau of' Labor Statistics and Census per- was limited by the passage last year of teristics of UI beneficiaries in about 15 sonnel is welcome. He has also pledged that the Mortgage Subsidy Bond Tax of states. As we are moving in the direction of the administr~tion will do all that it can to 1980 as part of the Omnibus Reconcili­ block grants, should we leave the sample at ensure that the "B~reau's work will contin- ation Act we passed last session. The 15 only states? This would provide a flimsy u.e to be ~onducted m a thoroughly nonpar- act was generally to direct the subsidy and inadequate basis for making decisions tisan environment." But the challenge re- t th · d. · · that might involve the spending of billions mains to obtain rsources to maintain the 0 ose m iv.id1:1als with the greatest for training. The Secretary, of course, would "professionalism with which the Bureau of need and to ll?tit the overall revenue not expand this survey to all states. Labor Statistics operates." Dedicated as loss from this type of tax-exempt 5. The data system cannot ignore econom­ these professionals are to their mission, we bond. ic hardship. Our numbers focus on counting can't rely upon them to work as volunteers. But, while the congressional intent the number of employed and unemployed It was another Republican President who of the 1980 act was to target and re­ persons, but virtually ignoring the linking believed that one could not fool the public strict the use of mortgage subsidy of these numbers with facts about house­ forever. By refusing to implement the com- hold income. Some employed people are still mission recommendations, which he consid- bonds, the actual result has been to subject to economic hardship while some ers meritorious, Secretary Donovan places bring to a halt any activity whatsoever unemployed individuals are in families with public trust in labor force statistics in jeop- under the program. Part of the prob­ incomes well above the national median. ardy and denies policymakers basic tools to lem appears to be in the nature of the Another important tenet of the adminis­ help them formulate these decisions. restrictions originally included in the tration is that the generation of jobs Our labor force data system appears to be 1980 act, which were considered some­ through supply side economics would create in for some tough times. There is a major what frantically during the closing many new employment slots for the needy difference between rational budget con- f and help them on the road to economic in­ straints and the starvation diet offered by days 0 the 96th Congress along with a dependence and prosperity. It might be ex­ secretary Donovan. The taxpayer may be multitude of other major issues in the pected, therefore, that the Secretary would appreciative today of the Secretary's "sav- budget reconciliation bill. be willing to encourage the analysis of the ings," but the results may be costly because The regulations issued by the De­ March CPS data which make it possible to needed data will not be available for deci- partment of the Treasury did not clar­ link employment with earnings and income. sionmaking either by government officials ify all issues and may have even fur­ This would require negligible costs involving only a part-time programmer, an analyst or private employers.• ther clouded certain technical areas. and some computer time. The data are al­ The final result is that no housing au­ ready collected as part of the CPS. Instead LET US REVISE THE MORTGAGE thority has been able to put together of enthusiastically embracing the commis­ SUBSIDY BOND TAX ACT TO an issue that bond counsel will ap­ sion's recommendation of linking employ­ HELP HOUSING INDUSTRY prove as definitely meeting all the re­ ment with earnings, however, the Secretary strictions in statute and regulation. acts in the best fashion of the Delphic HON. GUY VANDER JAGT So, no homes are being financed Oracle. He leaves in great doubt whether through the program despite the his department will ever work on hardship OF MICHIGAN abundance of willing sellers and will­ measures that would show the progress that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Reaganomics brings to the lowest quintile ing and qualified buyers. of the population. Indeed, the Secretary ob­ Monday, November 16, 1981 As amazed as I am by the problems jects outright to the commission's recom­ e Mr. V ANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, with the 1980 act bringing the pro­ mendations to collect data on income by there is little question that the cur­ gram to a halt, I am even more dis­ source, thereby leaving out the basic piece rent economic conditions have fallen turbed that the issue has not been ex­ of intelligence needed for evaluating the Reagan welfare program. heavily on the Nation's housing indus­ amined by the Ways and Means Com­ 6. Voluntarism must be included in the try. With interest rates at continued mittee, which has jurisdiction. When data system. The Secretary's recommenda­ high levels, few home buyers can members of the committee did at­ tion to scuttle the commission's recommen­ afford the ·tremendous burden of a tempt to discuss the problems with dation of collecting triennial data on volun­ new home mortgage. And, as disap­ the Mortgage Subsidy Bond Tax Act, teers is even more puzzling. The cost, again, pointing as it is for millions of young during consideration of the tax bills would be minimal because it could be added Americans who cannot afford to buy a this past summer, they were persuad­ as a supplement to the CPS. The commis­ home, it is devastating to the hun­ ed that the situation would be re­ sion found that there is a great deal of interchange between volunteer work and dreds of thousands of Americans in viewed in the Oversight Subcommittee work performed by persons counted in the the Nation's housing industry. I am and withdrew their amendments on labor force. Moreover, volunteers contribute hearing from business after business, that basis. Unfortunately, no action to the GNP just as paid workers do. In line builders, subcontractors, and suppli- has been taken in the committee to re- 27690 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 solve problems created by the restric­ Anwar Sadat suffered the ultimate violence the smaller ones-dump their spinach, pour tions in the 1980 act. Nevertheless, I themselves. out part of their milk and discard part of Anwar Sadat must have prepared himself their meat. have urged both the chairmen of the for the possibility of personal destruction When I was a school administrator before full committee and the Oversight Sub­ when he renounced traditional hatreds and coming to Congress, I ate in school cafete­ committee to schedule consideration sought peace with Israel. His assassination rias for 23 years. I sat next to first graders of the matter, and I retain some hope must not stamp out the spirit of his acts. who hated cooked spinach as much as I do that we might be able to at least ex­ What's needed now is more leaders pre­ but were trying to force it down because amine the situation before the end of pared, like Sadat, to defy the forces of vio­ otherwise the teacher would go after them. the year. lence. Some of these kids tried to get me to eat The price they may have to pay makes their spinach for them, and I responded Two legislative proposals to amend their emergence almost too much to hope in with the same silly statement people made the 1980 act have been introduced for. But KNX calls on all the world's citi­ to me when I was a kid: "Eat it. It's good for the House and should be examined by zens to support that kind of courage by re­ you." the committee. H.R. 3614 has been in­ jecting calls for vengeance, no matter how I have watched youngsters get sick be­ troduced by Mr. DUNCAN and has at­ stirring. No other tribute to Anwar Sadat cause teachers felt they had to force them tracted over 100 cosponsors. H.R. 4843 would mean more.e to clean their plate and drink all their milk. was more recently introduced by Mr. You're now required to serve little chil­ FRENZEL and makes somewhat more CUTBACKS IN SCHOOL LUNCH? dren 8 ounces of milk with the lunch. Some limited changes in the most trouble­ teachers who are also pig farmers love that some provisions. I have joined as a co­ requirement because half of that milk is HON.JOHNM.ASHBROOK dumped by the children and fed to the local sponsor of both bills with the hope pigs. But I deplore such waste. that greater support will help win an OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Question. What remedy do you propose? examination of the issues in the Ways Answer. First, I favor a reduction by about and Means Committee. I should add Monday, November 16, 1981 one fourth in the minimum size of meals re­ that the Senate Finance Committee e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, quired. But remember: We are talking about reviewed these bills in its Subcommit­ when my good friend and respected minimum, not maximum, guidelines. In tee on Taxation in a hearing last other words, nothing would prevent a school colleague, Congressman BILL GooD­ from serving more-copious meals than month. LING, speaks out on the complex issues spelled out in the guidelines if it had the Mr. Chairman, while this matter of involving the child nutrition and na­ desire and the means to do so. tax-exempt mortgage bonds may seem tional school lunch programs, he has Second, food-service people have testified a complex and technical issue to many done his homework and provides us before Congress that they need greater of us, it is very important to millions with thoughtful insights and solid, flexibility to offer substitutions. That would of individuals struggling in the home commonsense recommendations. make meals more varied and attractive and industry, as well as those thousands of I wish to commend the gentleman reduce waste, while, cutting down on costs families who will otherwise have their from Pennsylvania for this leadership at the same time. For instance, one nutritionist testified dream of home ownership denied. I in the area of child nutrition. Let me that youngsters would be much better off fail to understand why we cannot at take this opportunity to share with with a good protein substitute, such as pea­ least examine why the mortgage subsi­ my colleagues an interview with Con­ nuts, for that piece of meat on their plate. dy bond program has been crippled gressman GOODLING entitled "Cut Under present rules, we ship schools a lot of and consider what action should be Back in School Lunches? Yes-Looser peanuts, but they cannot be counted as a taken.e Rules Would Make Meals More At­ protein substitute or in any other way tractive, Reduce Waste, and Cut unless you turn them into peanut butter. That makes no sense. It's certainly more nu­ STATESMANSHIP OF SADAT Costs" which appeared in the October tritious to go with roasted peanuts as a 19, 1981, issue of U.S. News & World meat substitute-if that is what the young­ Report: sters want-than to add sugar and other in­ HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN [Interview with Representative William F. gredients to the peanuts to make peanut OF CALIFORNIA Goodling, Republican, of Pennsylvania] butter. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CUT BACK ON SCHOOL LUNCHES? Question. Would you allow ketchup to be counted as a vegetable, as the Agriculture Monday, November 16, 1981 Yes-Looser rules would "make meals more attractive, reduce waste and cut Department's draft regulation would have? e Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. costs." Answer. No. Now, I'm not advocating silly Speaker, numerous eloquent state­ Question. Representative Goodling, why substitutions like that or the substitution of ments have been made in tribute to do you favor easing the present federal nu­ cakes for bread. That proposal was seized Anwar Sadat by Members of this trition guidelines for school lunches, as the upon and ridiculed by the media before it House. I add to these statements, a Department of Agriculture is preparing to was withdrawn, but the whole fuss was do? needless: What school can afford to serve most thoughtful and moving editorial Answer. First, the present guidelines, half a cup of ketchup or pickle relish in­ by KNX Radio, Los Angeles: through their rigidity, encourage waste of stead of vegetables for lunch, or to substi­ Where have all the statesmen gone? KNX food. tute expensive cupcakes for cheap bread? mourns this generation's answer: to a Second, given the current cut in the feder­ Question. Why do you say that an easing bloody grave. al school-lunch subsidy, easing the guide­ of the guidelines is the only way to save the Not so many years ago, political observers lines is the only way to save the whole pro­ school-lunch program? looked at world leadership and shrugged. gram. Answer. Congress has reduced the school­ They bemoaned the passing of the mid-cen­ Question. How is waste of food being en­ lunch subsidy by nearly a billion dollars in tury giants: Churchill, Roosevelt, de Gaulle. couraged? the new fiscal year. If the school districts And they predicted that the new . genera­ Answer. The present guidelines require are not given the option of serving smaller tion's leaders would achieve far fess stature the school, in order to get federal reim­ portions and making sensible substitutes, by comparison. But they failed to reckon bursement, to offer certain quantities of the cost of a ...school lunch will go up by so with a strange new kind of Statesmanship­ food from all the major food groups-milk, much that· the paying customers-the chil­ by-martyrdom practiced by giants like meat, bread and two kinds of vegetable or dren required to pay the full cost of a Anwar Sadat. fruit-with limited substitutions, such as lunch-will simply stay out of the school The Churchills, de Gaulles and Roosevelts cheese for meat and rice for bread, allowed cafeteria. This will kill the school-lunch pro­ distinguished themselves by mobilizing in all but the milk group. gram altogether, and the big losers will be great forces to war. But the giants who suc­ The children must pick items from at the needy children who now get a free or re­ ceeded them have been dedicated to the pre­ least three of these four groups. Until re­ duced-price lunch. Remember: There is no vention of conflict in an era of potential cently, elementary-school children had to law in most states mandating a free or re­ global suicide. The irony is that by working pick from all four. duced-price lunch for needy youngsters to prevent mass destruction, men like John So there is some choice, but it is quite lim­ unless you have a school-lunch program in Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and ited. As a result, the children-especially the first place. November 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27691 Question. If reduced portions and substi­ gotiations, our message to all should And public interest is what elections are all tutes are permitted, by how much do you be clear: America will not stand by and about, isn't it? · think school districts can raise the price of a pretend that the Soviet nuclear threat GOING THE CANADIAN WAY lunch and still keep the program going? in Europe is a passive one. Concurrent­ Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau Answer. I would estimate by a maximum demonstrated considerable political skill, as of 15 cents. ly, we should send a similarly strong Question. Aren't you concerned that eased message to those in Europe who have well as tenacity, in coaxing nine of Canada's guidelines might lead to children getting been protesting the American nuclear 10 provincial leaders into supporting his less nutritious meals? presence there. plan for "repatriation" of the nation's con­ Answer. No. You've got to remember that As the following editorial from the stitution. the guidelines would be minimum-not max­ Trudeau made concessions on the method New York Daily News indicates, the for amending the constitution. But he won imum-requirements and that we have American nuclear weapons are not the people in the schools who have dedicated acceptance of a bill of rights to be incorpo­ their lives to trying to serve nutritious ones they should fear. I commend this rated in the document before it comes meals. These people will continue to · give article to my colleagues. home, so to speak, from Britain. Consider­ seconds to youngsters who are hungry and SOBERING LESSON FROM THE U .S.S.R. ing that the prime minister had only two ask for them and heap more food on the The Russian submarine that came to grief provincial chiefs behind him when negotia­ plate of those who they know need extra snooping around a Swedish naval base tions began, it was an impressive job of per­ nurishment. All they ask is not to have should awaken West Europe's antinuclear suasion. their hands tied by rigid federal regulations. protesters to the facts of life about atomic The only dissatisfied province is Quebec. Question. Wouldn't easing the guidelines weaponry. But it is to be hoped that the differences be hardest on kids who are needy, since the Pacifists and leftists demonstrating with the French-speaking province will be school lunch is often their only substantial against stationing nuclear arms in Europe resolved as time goes on, and Canada will meal of the day? have singled out the United States and emerge not only with its own constitution at Answer. On the contrary. As I pointed NATO as targets of their wrath. The Soviet last, but as one nation, indivisible. out, easing the guidelines is the only way to Union showed them that it not only has nu­ THE TATTOED SOCIETY save the lunch program altogether-with clear weapons of its own, but is willing to One of the toughest jobs for the modern needy children as the chief beneficiaries. deploy them in an almost reckless manner. journalist is spotting new fads. They come We only cut the "free" lunch reimburse­ Sending a submarine armed with nuclear­ and go so fast that news hounds have to be ment by 3-plus cents.e tipped torpedoes on a spying mission into darned quick on their feet to keep track. So the territorial waters of a neutral country congrats to Daily News reporter Daniel was arrogant, ruthless and-above all-ex­ O'Grady for being the first to identify what SOVIET AGGRESSION NEEDS TO tremely dangerous. What would have hap­ appears to be the latest hot item-the tem­ BE ADDRESSED IN SALT pened if the sub, instead of running porary accounts. The Depository In­ ditional revenue would have been sizable cost savings without additional stitutions Deregulation and Monetary available to our States and localities. cost to the Federal Government. Control Act of 1980 extends eligibility While these measures would be ben­ The legislation I am now introducing for NOW accounts to nonprofit orga­ eficial to all local governments, they is similar in purpose to the revenue nizations "operated primarily for reli­ would be particularly advantageous to bond proposal. It provides the poten­ gious, philanthropic, charitable, edu­ small cities and towns. As a former tial of additional revenue and in­ cational, or other similar purposes." mayor of a small city in western New creased fiscal control for local officials While the meaning of this provision is York, I am well aware of the limited by eliminating unnecessary restric­ subject to dispute, it has generally cash management options available to tions on public financing activities. It been interpreted to exclude general­ most local officials. Most small cities seeks to promote improved cash man­ purpose governmental units. Current­ do not have the staff to engage in any agement opportunities for States and ly, only special-purpose units of gov­ kind of sophisticated cash manage­ localities without additional cost to ernment can maintain NOW accounts, ment programs. They also lack suffi­ the Federal budget. and only if the funds are used for cient funds to make the high-interest H.R. 494 7 is a companion measure to schools, colleges, libraries, or health investments routinely made by larger S. 1686, introduced recently in the care facilities. governmental units. The two measures Senate by Senator RICHARD LUGAR Jimmy Carter with new baseline pro­ who really didn't believe in the game Monday, November 16, 1981 jections from the Congressional Budget Office in a way that, fundamnetally, did not plan. e Mr. ST GERMAIN. Mr. Speaker, add up. The budget politics of 1981, which Last I<,ebruary, Mr. Speaker, I said the need for the Congress to carefully produced such clear and dramatic rhetoric that the President and his administra­ scrutinize the details of the adminis­ on both sides was, in fact, based upon a be­ tion will find many of us willing to co­ tration's economic game plan is dra­ wildering set of numbers that confused even operate if we can be assured that matically demonstrated by the Dave those, like Stockman, who produced them. there are indeed "scalpels," and not Stockman interviews in the December All the while, Mr. Speaker, Dave meat axes, in the medicine closet. And edition of Atlantic Monthly. Stockman was telling the world, with most importantly, if we can be assured What this Congress accepted as eco­ the assistance of an essentially un­ that there are qualified surgeons on nomic gospel, as a thoroughly worked questioning Washington press corps, the job that truly want the patient to out, soundly based plan is now re­ that he had arrived at the calculations live. vealed as so much puffery by the ar­ in the new game plan with great preci­ Mr. Speaker, after reading the At­ chitect of the plan. A cynical bit of sion. That certainly was the impres­ lantic Monthly article I am not con­ economic hocus pocus which unfortu­ sion of his testimony before the Bank­ vinced that we have "qualified eco­ nately the Congress swallowed and ing, Finance and Urban Affairs Com­ nomic surgeons" on the job or that helped sell to the American people. mittee last spring as he defended ef­ the wielders of the budget knives have Concerned that the administration's forts to cut the heart out of housing any desire to keep the patient alive. proposals had not given consideration and community development pro­ For those who demanded last spring to the needs of housing and the cities, grams. · that the Congress accept in toto, with­ I urged the House on February 17 to Nothing in that testimony suggested out question, the administration's eco­ stop, look, and listen before buying that Mr. Stockman didn't understand nomic program, I hope the December the Stockman rhetoric. the numbers or that, as Atlantic edition of Atlantic Monthly becomes I was sincerely concerned that OMB Monthly tells us, the calculations were required reading.e and the White House had simply knowingly concocted on "shaky prem­ pulled numbers from the air to justify ises." the dismantling of programs I felt It was just the opposite. Continually, BEWARE THE "FAHD PLAN" were essential to the future of the we ran into the claims that the "ad­ Nation. In hopes of pushing the ad­ ministration knows best," that OMB HON. JACK F. KEMP ministration to come up with specific had the data to back up its most com­ OF NEW YORK data to justify the budget cuts, I plex numbers. Those claims, in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES charged last February: face of the Stockman assurances, were Monday, November 16, 1981 Numbers have filled the Washington air difficult-and ultimately impossible­ like so much confetti. A billion here, a bil­ to overcome for those of us who ques­ • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, many of lion there ... every edition of the newspa­ tioned the rationale for dismantling us who opposed the sale of AWACS pers brings news of bigger and better cuts. essential areas of the economy. aircraft to Saudi Arabia have not been At times, we had to question whether we Mr. Speaker, it is true that OMB di­ surprised by the events that have fol­ were running a giant butcher shop or a gov­ lowed. We were not surprised to hear ernment ... rectors are ·political appointees and we The numbers-and the competition for expect any OMB chief to defend his that, the day after the sale, the Saudi bigger and bigger headlines-have sub­ administration's proposals. Arabians decided to raise the price of merged the programs themselves. My suspi­ However, OMB is an extremely vital oil $2 per barrel. Nor were we sur­ cion is that we are at the mercy of some part of the Federal Government, the prised that they decided to curtail giant computer in the basement at the repository of basic data, the keeper of their production from 9.5 to 8.5 mil­ Office of Management and Budget, pouring many of the projections on· which lion barrels per day, a reduction as forth endless printouts designed to reach many in this economy calculate their helpful to Libya as it is harmful to the some preconceived notion of what looks good as a multi-billion dollar prime cut. actions. The public and the Congress United States. For that matter, we Budget and Economic reports have been should be able to depend on the mate­ weren't surprised that the Saudi For­ great public relations and political tools of rial flowing from that office, the polit­ eign Minister Prince Saud recently Presidents-Democrats and Republicans ical affiliation of the director notwith­ chastised Oman for-Heaven forbid!­ alike. President Reagan and his Administra­ standing. OMB is not, after all, a sub­ participating in American military ex­ tion certainly have the right to play the sidiary of the Republican National ercises. These events have merely fur­ same game. The Congress, the public, and Committee and its obligations must go ther substantiated our already well­ the press, however, have the distinct respon­ sibility to question the quality and rational­ beyond simply running up numbers buttressed view that Saudi Arabia does ity of the cuts, the glories of IBM wizardry and "shaky premises" to support pre­ little to support the interests of the notwithstanding. conceived political decisions. United States. Now the Atlantic Monthly tells us Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, much Considering their track record, then, that, indeed, the OMB wizards were of the press corps has presented the we ought to be especially wary of the simply playing with numbers with Stockman episode in terms so familiar Saudis latest undertaking, the Fahd little or no concept of where all of this to Washington political parlor games, plan. This "peace plan," which is led. in terms of who wins and who loses in­ really a "peace offensive," makes a Atlantic Monthly quotes Stockman fluence, not unlike a rundown of the sham of the Camp David process. Its directly: college football ratings. eight points which, among other None of us really understands what's Mr. Speaker, the decisions of the ad­ things, require Israel to return to pre- going on with all these numbers ... People ministration and the Congress last 1967 borders and provide for the es­ are getting from A to B and it's not clear spring and summer affect the lives of tablishment of a Palestinian state with how they are getting there ... We didn't millions and millions of Americans. To East Jerusalem as its capital, pose a make all the thorough, comprehensive cal- them it is not a Saturday afternoon direct and grave threat to Israel's se- November 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27695 curity and violate the terms of the very little that the U.S. would be wise to Union-he may not have adequate control Camp David accords to which the support. It called, in essence, for a PLO of other Palestinian terrorist groups. A PLO state with its capital in East Jerusalem. And state would be a danger not only to Israel United States is committed. as usual, it was ambiguous on whether there but perhaps even more so to its Arab neigh­ Our State Department officials are would be any Arab recognition of Israel's bors. The Saudi plan, with its guaranteed making a mistake if they think they right to exist. place for the PLO, is not likely to entice the can advance Camp David while at the But what with the Awacs deal cooking, leaders of Jordan, the key to any lasting same time expressing approval of cer­ and a big push to make the Saudis look like West Bank settlement. tain aspects of the Fahd plan. The great statesmen, State exhibited the plan as By attaching new importance to the Saudi Saudis, after all, have never concealed some new Magna Carta. Before you could peace plan, the State Department simply their opposition to Camp David; why say Yasser Arafat, every Arabist in Europe reawakened pressures on the U.S. and Israel should other Arab nations even con­ had responded to what they saw as a new that Camp David had for a time laid to rest. U.S. tack. Britain's Lord Carrington grabbed It is likely to prove a mistake hard to sider joining the Camp David process a plane for Riyadh and soon Secretary Haig repair.e when we are sending out signals that found himself having to chastise the foreign the Saudi approach is not entirely un­ secretary for saying the same things some acceptable? of Mr. Haig's underlings had just said. SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Those who are so pleased by the Over this last weekend, the PLO and the Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Saudis' seeming willingness to accept Saudis turned up the heat. A report from agreed to by the Senate on February Israel's right to exist should examine Beirut said that Mr. Arafat, on his own 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a the Saudi's statements a little more recent visit to Riyadh, had carried a mes­ sage from Moscow promising Soviet support system for a computerized schedule of closely. Clarifying point 6 of his plan, for the peace plan in return for Saudi recog­ all meetings and hearings of Senate Prince Fahd has declared, "There is nition of the Soviet Union. The Saudis had committees, subcommittees, joint com­ no Palestinian ·state without the already said that the Soviets had an "impor­ mittees, and committees of conference. PLO." The PLO has not renounced its tant role" to play in the Saudi peace plan. This title requires all such committees commitment to liquidate Israel and, in If the Israelis are exasperated by the U.S. to notify the Office of the Senate fact, has been actively violating the performance, they have every right to be. Daily Digest-designated by the Rules terms of the cease-fire in Lebanon. This on top of the Awacs deal is a bit much, Committee-of the time, place, and The establishment of a state run by particularly coming as it does when the Is­ raelis are complying with the Camp David purpose of the meetings, when sched­ this terrorist group, which rejoiced at deal and pulling out of the Sinai. It also uled, and any cancellations or changes the death of Anwar Sadat, would comes when the PLO, with Soviet encour­ in the meetings as they occur. clearly be a setback to peace in the agement no doubt, is brazenly violating the As an additional procedure along Middle East. It indicates that while ceasefire the U.S. arranged in Lebanon, fun­ with the computerization of this infor­ the Saudi Arabians may be deferring neling more heavy weapons to South Leba­ mation, the Office of the Senate Daily their immediate goal of the destruc­ non to use in threatening Israel. Digest will prepare this information tion of Israel, they are still angling, as There is simply nothing to indicate that for printing in the Extensions of Re­ Menachem Begin has said, "to liqui­ the PLO is ready to live at peace with Israel, and until there is, it would be highly irre­ marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL date Israel in stages." sponsible for the U.S. to entertain even a RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of Americans have as much to fear whisper of a PLO state. The Israelis have each week. from the Fahd plan as Israel does. Our good cause to fear that such a state would Any changes in committee schedul­ goal of a "strategic consensus" against be a grave threat. ing will be indicated by placement of Soviet adventurism in the Middle East In May 1980, for example, a resolution an asterisk to the left of the name of is hardly well-served by establishing a before Mr. Arafat's Fatah group, often re­ the unit conducting such meetings. militant Soviet client-state on Israel's ferred to as the "moderate" wing of the Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, No­ borders. Nor is there any evidence PLO ("Fatah" is Arabic for "conquest"), called for "the liequidation of the Zionist vember 17, 1981, may be found in the that the Saudis share our desire to entity-politically, economically, militarily, Daily Digest of today's RECORD. form such a consensus. They have culturally and ideologically." Mr. Arafat been flirting with the Soviet Union claims he opposed this ·resolution, but he MEETINGS SCHEDULED and have continued to work with has consistently declared that aspirations Soviet clients such as Libya and the for a Palestinian state wouldn't stop with NOVEMBER 18 PLO. How much longer will the Saudis the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Last Dec. 7, he told an open meeting in Beirut, or 9:00 a.m. continue to oppose our interests and •select on Indian Affairs consort with our enemies before we all so PLO radio reported, that "the victorious march will continue until the flag of Pales­ To hold hearings on S. 1613, requiring recognize this? tine is raised above Jerusalem and above the the U.S. Court of Claims to consider American support for the Fahd plan, whole area of Palestine from the river to the merits of certain claims filed by however qualified, is a dangerous in­ the sea, and from the Ras al-Nazzura to the Navaho Indian Tribe, alleging U.S. dulgence in escapism and wishful Eilat." That is, from the Jordan to the Med­ breach of legal and treaty obligations thinking. I recommend the following iterranean and from the Lebanese border to and S. 1468, designating a portion of Wall Street Journal editorial, "Eight­ Israel's southermost city. land in Harney County, Oreg., to be Pointed Confusion," to my colleagues Such rhetoric is hard to dismiss, given held in trust for the Burns Paiute that the PLO seems to have wiped out or in­ Indian Tribe. to dispel the false hopes and miscon­ 1318 Dirksen Building ceptions that are being entertained in timidated almost every Palestinian Arab leader who has urged peace or cooperation 9:30 a.m. this country and abroad. with the Israelis. In February 1978, a promi­ Governmental Affairs The article follows: nent West Bank businessman who support­ Permanent ·Subcommittee on Investiga­ EIGHT-POINTED CONFUSION ed Sadat's peace initiative was shot dead. In tions President Reagan has lately tried to reas­ June 1979, Sheikh Hashem Khuzendar, the To continue hearings on international sure Israel and the' world that the Camp religious leader of Gaza and a Sadat sup­ narcotics trafficking. David process lives, but we suspect U.S. porter, was assassinated; three weeks later, 3302 Dirksen Building credibility has suffered some permanent PLO spokesman Farouk Kaddoumi said •veterans' Affairs damage from the State Department's mud­ "Our people ... are capable of taking the To hold oversight. hearings on the ef­ dled handling of Saudi Arabia's eight-point necessary disciplinary measures against fects of the use of agent orange. . peace pJar.. It seems to be another one of those who try to leave the right path." 1224 Dirksen Building those increasingly troublesome cases of Similarly, the PLO leaders openly rejoiced 10:00 a.m. people in this administration sounding off over the assa.Ssination of Anwar Sadat. Armed Services about policy before there is a policy. They have been involved in bloody wars in To hold hearings on the nominations of In this case, the initial sounding off at Jordan and Lebanon. Even if Mr. Arafat Robert N. Smith, of Ohio, to be Assist­ State gave importance to a Saudi plan that should himself turn peacemaker-not likely ant Secretary of Defense for Health in fact contained nothing new, and certainly given his heavy dependence on the Soviet Affairs, and Melvyn R. Paisley, of 27696 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 16, 1981 Washington, to be Assistant Secretary California, to be a member of the Na­ 9:30 a.m. of the Navy for Research, Engineer­ tional Labor Relations Board. Rules and Administration ing, and Systems, and routine military 4232 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the appli­ nominations; and, in closed session, to 10:00 a.m. cation and administration of the Fed­ receive a report of the Manpower and Armed Services eral Election Campaign Act CP.L. 96- Personnel Subcommittee on flag and Manpower and Personnel Subcommittee 187). general officer strengths. To hold hearings on bonus and special 301 Russell Building 212 Russell Building pay provisions for members of the 10:00 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources armed services. Judiciary Business meeting to resume markup of 212 Russell Building Energy and Natural Resources ••Juvenile Justice Subcommittee S. 1484, promoting the development of To resume hearings on S. 1688, making oil shale resources by revising the au­ To hold hearings on the nominations of Pedro San Juan, of the District of Co­ it a Federal offense when a convicted thority to lease lands containing oil criminal commits a series of crimes in­ shale deposits, and other pending cal­ lumbia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Territorial and Inter­ volving firearms, and S. 1689, provid­ endar business. ing that a convicted criminal sen­ 3110 Dirksen Building national Affairs; Vernon R. Wiggins, of Alaska, to be Federal Cochairman tenced to life imprisonment under Environment and Public Works of the Alaska Land Use Council; and State habitual criminal statutes be in­ Water Resources Subcommittee Janet J. McCoy, of Oregon, to be High carcerated in a Federal penitentiary. Business meeting, to resume markup of 2228 Dirksen Building S. 1692, providing for the operation, Commissioner of the Trust Territory maintenance, and construction of of the Pacific Islands. Conferees deep-draft channels and national har­ 3110 Dirksen Building Closed, on H.R. 3455, authorizing funds bors. Environment and Public Works for fiscal year 1982 for military con­ 4200 Dirksen Building Water Resources Subcommittee struction programs of the Department Judiciary Business meeting, to continue markup of Defense. Business meeting, to mark up S. 1630, of S. 1692, providing for the operation, S-407, Capitol reforming the Federal criminal laws maintenance, and construction of 2:00 p.m. and streamlining the administration of deep-draft channels and national har­ Judiciary criminal justice. bors. To hold hearings on pending nomina­ 2228 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building tions. Joint Economic Governmental Affairs 2228 Dirksen Building Monetary and Fiscal Policy Subcommittee Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Gov­ To hold hearings on Government policy ernment Processes Subcommittee NOVEMBER23 as it relates to the defense industrial To hold hearings on nuclear prolifera­ 9:30 a.m. base. tion policy and the implication of new •Judiciary 6226 Dirksen Building technology. •Immigration and Refugee Policy Sub­ 2:00 p.m. 6226 Dirksen Building committee •Environment and Public Works Judiciary To hold hearings on certain preference Business meeting to consider pending Criminal Law Subcommittee system provisions of the Immigration calendar business. To resume hearings on S. 186, authoriz­ ing funds through fiscal year 1988 for and Nationality Act . Finance the Department of Justice, to provide Estate and Gift Taxation Subcommittee assistance to State and local govern­ 5110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 1430, prqviding ments for the improvement of the Select on Indian Affairs that the election to use the alternate State criminal justice system. To hold hearings on S. 1370, authorizing valuation date for the estate tax may 2228 Dirksen Building the Secr~tary of the Army to acquire be made on a return that is filed late, Judiciary such oil, gas, coal, or other mineral in­ and ' S. 1487, allowing independent Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcom­ terest owned by the Osage Tribe of In­ local newspapers to contribute corpo­ mittee dians necessary for the construction of rate earnings into a trust to provide To hold hearings on S. 312, a private the Skiatook Lake, Osage County, for prepayment of estate taxes. relief bill. Okla. 2221 Dirksen Building 357 Russell Building 5302 Dirksen Building Select on Intelligence 10:00 a.m. NOVEMBER 19 Closed briefing on intelligence matters. Judiciary 9:30 a.m. . S-407, Capitol S~curity and Terrorism Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10:15 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the pres­ Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation ence of Cuban intelligence operations To hold hearings on S. 1702, broadening To hold hearings on the nomination of within the United States. FHA authority to provide additional F. Keith Adkinson, of West Virginia, 2228 Dirksen Building mortgage and loan insurance programs to be a Federal Trade Commissioner. and policies. 235 Russell Building NOVEMBER24 5302 Dirksen Building 1:30 p.m. •Judiciary 9:00 a.m. •commerce, Science, and Transportation To resume oversight hearings on govern­ Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on the nomination of ment merger policies. Energy and Mineral Resources Subcom­ James E. Burnett, Jr., of Arkansas, to 2228 Dirksen Building mittee be a member of the National Trans­ 3:30 p.m. To hold hearings on S. 1660, to validate portation Safety Board. Foreign Relations certain oil placer mining claims in Hot 235 Russell Building Closed briefing by officials of the De­ Springs County, Wyo. Finance 3110 Dirksen Building International Trade Subcommittee partment of State on China-Taiwan To hold hearings on S. 958, requiring policy. Governmental Affairs the administering authority to impose S-116 Capitol Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ an additional duty upon imported arti­ tee cles which are products of a nonmar­ NOVEMBER20 To hold hearings on State implementa­ ket economy country. 9:00 a.m. tion of Federal regulations, focusing 2221 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation on standards of the Resource, Conser­ Governmental Affairs To hold hearings on the nominations of vation and Recovery Act. Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga­ Bobby Jack Thompson, of New York, 3302 Dirksen Building tions to be Administrator of the U.S. Fire 9:30 a.m. To continue hearings on international Administration, and Robert M. Gar­ Finance narcotics trafficking. rick, of California, to be a member of Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ 3302 Dirksen Building the Board of Directors of the Commu­ mittee and International Trade Sub­ •Labor and Human Resources nications Satellite Corporation committee Business meeting, to consider the nomi­ . To hold Joint hearings on S. 1824, in­ nation of John R. Van de Water, of 235 Russell Building creasing the limit on reforestation am- .

November 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27697 ortization and changing the funding the H-2 temporary worker programs DECEMBERS source for the reforestation tax incen­ and nonimmigrant programs. 9:00 a.m. tives trust fund from certain forest 2228 Dirksen Building Governmental Affairs products tariffs to cutting fees from DECEMBER 1 To hold hearings on debt collection pro­ Federal timber sales; and to review cedures in the health professions stu­ several trade and tax issues relating to 9:30 a.m. dent loan program, focusing on high the forest products industry. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry . 2221 Dirksen Building delinquency rates. To hold joint hearings with the Commit­ 5110 Dirksen Building Governmental Affairs tee on Labor and Human Resources on S. 1442, revising and updating Ameri­ 9:30 a.m. Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Gov­ Environment and Public Works ernment Processes Subcommittee can food safety laws. To hold hearings on Federal regulatory 4232 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the En­ enforcement policy. Energy and Natural Resources dangered Species Act DECEMBER 10 424 Russell Building Business meeting, to consider pending 9:00 a.m. calendar business. 2228 Dirksen Building DECEMBER2 Judiciary •criminal Law Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources 9:30 a.m. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry To hold hearings on S. 613, amending Education Subcommittee and Employ­ the Federal Criminal Code to revise ment and Productivity Subcommittee To continue joint hearings with the Committee on Labor and Human Re­ the scope of, and penalties under the To hold joint oversight hearings on the Hobbs, Act, prohibiting interference implementation of vocational educa­ sources on S. 1442, revising and updat­ tion programs and the Comprehensive ing American food safety laws. with commerce by threat or violence. Employment and Training Act 4232 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m.