June 16, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13881 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS AGNES KJORLIE GEELAN, days around the writer's discipline that, she state of North Dakota.

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 13882 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1986 Agnes almost did not graduate. "When I They dated for five years. The Irishman, ments . That she'd won the city confidence didn't think Hatton could get along without road as well as helped his family farm near was clear: After Agnes decided not to run me. I quit school to take the best one, head Enderlin and, since jobs were shaky then, again in 1954, they elected a second woman operator of the local telephone exchange," the young couple wanted to wait until he mayor in her place. she chuckles. was sure his employment was secure. They Labor and the Farmers Union urged "Our superintendent, Oscar Erickson, were married in 1926, a marriage Agnes re­ Agnes to become involved in politics in 1947. begged me to come back to school," she calls as "so happy that I am almost embar­ ("It's nonsense that women can't get sup­ says. "Back then, being on the debating rassed to say so." port in politics," she observes. "Win an elec­ team was like being on the first string of the She adds, "Elric encouraged me in every­ tion, and the politicians beat a path to your Minnesota Vikings; he promised me that, if thing I've done. He'd ask, 'Is it what you door.'') The revitalized Nonpartisan League I came back to school, I could be a debater really want, Ma? Then do it.'" reacted to the anti-labor and Farmers Union when I was a junior." Agnes taught for nearly ten years after trend then seen in state politics by nominat­ She couldn't resist, though she did sched­ they were married. She chaired the elemen­ ing Agnes as one of their candidates for the ule the operator job on afternoons and eve­ tary division of the North Dakota Education U.S. House of Representatives. She ran as nings. At Erickson's suggestion, she'd saddle Association in the 1920s, meanwhile delving the NPL candidate facing Republican Orga­ a horse from her father's livery stable into every activity Enderlin had to offer. nizing Committee favorites in the during her free time and, on long solitary ("Elric always told me, 'You speak Norwe­ primary, and was defeated. At that time the rides in the country, practice pronouncing gian and you speak English, but you never NPL still ran in the Republican column; to words minus her thick Norwegian accent. learned to say no in either language.' " win the Republican primary was tanta­ "Ben Eielson had the same problem; he Agnes remembers.> mount to succeeding in the general election practiced while he was milking the family She headed the local American Legion in the fall. cow," she recalls. "Finally the cow wouldn't Auxiliary in 1934 and the state auxiliary the In 1950 she became a candidate for state give milk unless you talked to her." next year, and was national committeewom­ senator from Ransom County, opposing an Their practice paid off. As juniors, their an in 1936. In the early 1930s, as American­ incumbent who'd made derogatory com­ team was runner-up in the state debating ism chairman, she took part in an in-depth ments a year earlier when several Bismarck contest; as seniors, they were champions. investigation of Communist activity across women had testified before his legislative The issues on which they debated so suc­ the state; her report concluded that, while committee. "All the ladies got out of this cessfully were "Should the Post Office es­ their goals were antithetical to everything was a morning's housework," he told the tablish parcel post," and "Should North the Legion stood for, no official action press, adding that women should keep their Dakota establish its own terminal elevator?" needed to be taken because the Communists noses out of politics and let the Legislature The latter was a hot issue in the populist would lose support as soon as times im­ go about its work. atmosphere of the state, and bitter debates proved for farmers and working men. That fall she defeated him by 66 votes. centered around it at the Kjorlie home. She became a member of the nation's Agnes served in the 1951 and 1953 ses­ Agnes' father was a dedicated Republican largest fraternal order of that day, the sions, with her faithful supporter Elric conservative, her uncle a Leaguer. Agnes Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of seated behind her desk in the senate cham­ soaked up the arguments. Railroad Trainmen, through Elric's position bers. "He never told me how to vote, but After a year taking the teaching course at with the Soo Line. Soon Agnes became afterward he'd say whether he agreed or Mayville Normal School ahead of its time. Today, with the changed "I was outraged and refused to vote at all. I In 1946 her membership in the trainmen's attitude toward smoking, we'd all be regret that now" she concedes.> auxiliary prompted Agnes to run, unknown heroes." Erickson rescued his protege with an offer to her, for mayor of Enderlin. "The ladies She was defeated in 1954 by Don Holand, to teach for him, now in Mayville. Two had sponsored a Thanksgiving Eve Dance who she concedes was "the better man." years later she accepted a position in Ender­ for several years in the town hall that was a But in the meantime her deep involvement lin that was to change the course of her life, great success-so successful that, the fire­ in the Nonpartisan League, which like so she says, for the better. men decided it shouldn't be run by the many things had grown out of her marriage It was in Enderlin where the young teach­ ladies anymore. The city council gave them to Elric, led to service on the NPL executive er, already known as a superb public speak­ 'our' building instead," she explains. committee. er and community livewire, met her hus­ Agnes herself was away on Grand Lodge Agnes was among the "insurgents," the band Elric through a blind date-not her business. "When I got back, Elric met the liberal wing of the Nonpartisan League own, but one she fixed up for a friend. train grinning from ear to ear," she says. which was to lead it in the late 1950s into a "One of my friends had very few dates, "He said, 'What would you say to a move to merger with the Democratic Party and, as a and we thought it would be great if we elect you mayor?' result, create the first true two-party system could fix her up for a dance that was "I said, 'They must be crazy. I can't do in North Dakota history. coming up," she says. She thought of the that.' " Agnes recalls. In 1956 she was again nominated for the young "red-faced Irish farmer" whom she'd "Elric said, 'The hell you can't.' " U.S. Congress, this time on the Democratic­ seen driving his team past town; that day She was elected. NPL rather than the Republican side of the she flagged him down and set up the date. The men of Enderlin lined the curb out­ ballot. Despite a strong showing, she lost, at "It was love at first sight. It truly was," side the council room when Agnes presided least in part due to the opposition of Wil­ Agnes recalls. "He did take my friend to the over her first meeting, sure she'd emerge in liam Langer and sentiment that had dubbed dance and I went with another fellow, but tears. Instead, biding her time, she succeed­ the Democrats "the war party." Langer's that night Elric took me home while I left ed in making her points and leading Ender­ opposition, like so many of his actions, was Ruth with my date." lin into a period of dramatic city improve- ironic; four years earlier, his future bio- June 16, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13883 grapher and Elric has spent the entire "When I was elected mayor in Enderlin, In short, the filing of a complaint against a summer campaigning for his reelection to all the men were going to resign, of course," Member before the Standards Committee is a the Senate. she says. "It started a bit rough, but we got very serious matter for both the Member and After the merger of the NPL and the along beautifully. Democrats, Agnes continued her role as a "When I was in the Senate, it was much the House. Proceedings following the filing of leader-state vice chairman in 1958-1961, the same." Agnes asserts, "When you do a complaint sometimes turn on a fine point of delegate to national conventions in 1956 and your best and stand up for what you believe a particular law or standard of conduct appli­ 1960, a member of the powerful platform in, men quickly forget that you're female cable solely because the individual is a committee in 1960, and various leadership and treat you like a person, as a rule." Member of the U.S. Congress. Moreover, positions in North Dakota campaigns Looking back on her career, Agnes readily once a complaint is filed, the committee not throughout that period. points out mistakes, but voices no regrets. only has a substantial staff to pursue the After Elric retired from the railroad in "Not everything I've done has been politi­ 1961, Agnes became a member of Bill Guy's cally wise, or politically successful, but I've matter, but is frequently authorized to hire ad­ transition team and his first appointment­ always done what I believed in. I've never ditional staff to investigate and prosecute the as workmen's · compensation commissioner, been untruthful." She adds, "Unpopular, complaint. Faced with such formidable forces the second-most-highly-paid appointee in maybe ..." against him, only a naive or foolish Member state government. In the past 20 years, Agnes has collected a would fail to sense the need to retain legal In 1964, with Elric's health deteriorating, wide variety of awards and tokens of appre­ counsel when called before the committee to Agnes retired for the first time. "We spent ciation, some for her landmark achieve­ ments as a woman, others for her landmark answer a complaint. If he does so, however, two wonderful years, wintering in Arizona the first thing he will discover is that lawyers and spending summers in our cabin on the achievements, period. Ash River Trail," she reminisces. The cot­ She maintains close ties to friends in are expensive. tage, near Lake Kabetogama in Voyageurs many fields as well as to her adopted home­ The next thing he will discover is that there National Park, allowed them to pursue their town of Enderlin. is no set procedure to provide for counsel for love of fishing and boating. In fall, they "Everything I am, I owe to the small Members of the House called before the com­ hunted ducks and pheasant together, as North Dakota towns in which I've lived, mittee. It is true that Members may, in certain they had for a lifetime. where I was raised and married and worked and was trusted with responsibilities," circumstances, pay for the cost of counsel Elric died in 1966. "We had 40 years to­ from "excess" campaign contributions, or may gether. He was a tremendous human being," Agnes says. "That's why I dedicated my new Agnes says. "Without his support, I'd have book 'to the small towns I've known and establish a special legal defense fund empow­ done none of these things." loved.'" ered to accept contributions for the cost of Governor Guy called Agnes back to Bis­ That those towns are better for her resi­ legal fees. Clearly these are far from satisfac­ marck after her husband's death to resume dence there is indisputable ... as is the evi­ tory solutions, if indeed they are solutions at her work with the workmen's compensation dence that, among many of the North Dako­ tans with whom she has struggled and all. The right to counsel should not depend board, which reviews payments for workers served over a lifetime in the state, a not-in­ either on whether a Member is a person of fi­ injured or killed on the job across the state. nancial means or can persuade others to fi­ She accepted provided that she could chair considerable number love Agnes Geelan the group, and served from 1966 until 1971. right back. nance his or her defense. "I always told the governor I wouldn't Curiously, Members of Congress appear to serve beyond my 75th birthday because I LEGISLATION TO AUTHORIZE be the only officials of the Government who wanted no one to be able to say he had a PAYMENT OF REASONABLE AT­ are not provided with legal counsel when senile old lady in his administration," she called upon to answer charges relating to their says firmly. "I made him promise that if I TORNEY'S FEES FOR MEM­ BERS, OFFICERS, OR EMPLOY­ official duties. Under procedures laid out by started slipping, he'd tell me so that I could the Department of Justice (28 CFR, chapter 1, quit." EES OF THE HOUSE AGAINST A national officer, too, of the Association WHOM A COMPLAINT IS FILED section 50.15), "a Federal employee . . . may of Workmen's Compensation Administra­ WITH THE COMMITTEE ON be provided representation in civil and congres­ tors during that period, Agnes chaired STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CON­ sional proceedings and in State criminal pro­ Guy's newly formed Commission on the DUCT ceedings in which he is sued, subpoenaed, or Status of Women in 1963-64. She was a charged in his individual capacity . . . when the state director of COPE, the AFL-CIO's actions for which representation is requested Committee on Political Education, in the HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING reasonably appear to have been performed OF OHIO early 1960s. within the .~cope of the employee's employ­ After her second retirement, in 1972 she IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment. ... served as an elected delegate to the consti­ tutional convention, one of her fondest Monday, June 16, 1986 The Department will, under certain circum­ memories. Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, rule X, stances, also authorize reimbursement for the Always renowned for her inimitable, clause 4(e)(1) of the Rules of the House of retention of private counsel by Federal em­ moving style as a speaker, Agnes had retired Representatives authorizes the Committee on ployees. According to a Congressional Re­ from the platform as well as the Guy ad­ Standards of Official Conduct to take adminis­ search Service study, under the current policy, ministration in 1971 ... she thought. But DOJ will provide private counsel "to present when a young friend virtually begged her a trative actions to "establish or enforce stand­ year later to address the first meeting of the ards of official conduct for Members, officers, or former Government employees who are Women's Coalition, a group of state sup­ and employees of the House," and to investi­ being sued for acts alleged to have been per­ porters of the Equal Rights Amendment, gate any alleged violation by Members, offi­ formed within the scope of their employment she accepted-and initated a new round of cers, or employees of the House "of the Code when (1) the Department . . . finds that con­ speaking on women in politics that culmi­ of Official Conduct or of any law, rule, regula­ sideration of professional ethics prohibit direct nated in the International Women's Year tion, or other standard applicable to the con­ review of the facts by attorneys of the litigat­ meeting in 1975, followed by her election as duct of such Member, officer, or employee in ing division . . . (2) the employee is the target a delegate to the national forum in Hous­ ton. the performance of his duties or the discharge of a Federal criminal investigation concerning Yet despite her active participation in of his responsibilities. . . " the act or acts for which he seeks representa­ women's groups, she believes that women The consequences of an affirmative finding tion but no decision to seek an indictment . . . belong in the mainstream of political par­ by the committee of improper conduct by a has been made . . . (3) a conflict exists be­ ties, not in organizations limited to their Member, officer, or employee of the House tween the legal or factual positions of various sex. can be severe. Even if the consequences of employees in the same case which makes it "Until women exert an influence as part an affirmative finding are limited to a public inappropriate for a single attorney to represent of the general membership of their political rebuke in the House, a Member's reputation them all ... or (4) adequate representation of parties instead of through women's groups and career can be irreparably damaged. More­ on the side, they will never be very success­ the employee requires the making of an argu­ ful," she believes. over, the mere filing of a complaint can have ment which conflicts with a governmental po­ "I've been asked so many times if being a dire consequences for those of us who live sition." woman has been a handicap in my political our public and private lives in a fishbowl, thus Of course, Members of Congress accept career. I say, 'Absolutely not!'" she adds. subject to rumor, innuendo, and speculation. the specifics of the Code of Conduct of the 13884 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1986 House when they take office, and I do not anniversary itself is front page news around eager to help it make it through another 1o suggest that there is any inherent lack of fair­ the world, despite the fact that reporters are years. ness in the procedures followed by the Stand­ operating under severe restrictions and the But we should not delude ourselves. If Pre­ ards Committee when it conducts investiga­ ironically named South African Bureau of In­ toria's rulers make it through today, it does tions or recommends disciplinary action formation is the only source of news from the not confer any more legitimacy on them. If against a Member. On the other hand, ele­ townships. they make it through today, it can not alter the mentary fairness, indeed the Constitution's Ten years ago, Nelson Mandela was in fact that apartheid is doomed. guarantee of due process of law, is not met prison, his fate largely ignored by the world In the past 2 years, we have seen an unpre­ unless every accused person has reasonable outside Africa. Today, Nelson Mandela re­ cedentedly sustained protest against apart­ assurance of professional legal counsel, and mains in prison, but he has become a world­ without having to impoverish himself in order wide symbol of black South Africa's aspira­ heid, here in the United States, but more sig­ to retain counsel. Officers and employees of tions. nificantly, in South Africa. the House likewise should have such assur­ What happened 1O years ago in Soweto, Tragically, this protest has been costly in ance if a complaint is filed against them in the Mr. Speaker? The youth of South Africa's terms of human lives. More than 1,600 people Standards Committee. black townships took to the streets and revi­ have died in South Africa. South Africa's It is worth recalling that the Supreme Court, talized the struggle for black liberation. They rulers have declared war on the 23 million Af­ in the famous decision of Gideon versus set in motion a massive confrontation be­ ricans which is rules but refuses to allow to Wainwright, has ruled that the Government tween the white government and the black participate in the civic life of the nation. must, if necessary, pay for a defendant's people of South Africa. This week, we here in the House will begin counsel in a criminal case, if the defendant is This was not an isolated event, a sudden, consideration of legislation to move the United unable to pay. More recently, the Federal unpredictable flareup of violence. It was the States more forcefully into the camp of those Government paid several hundred thousand result of long pentup frustrations within the Af­ who oppose apartheid. It is tragic that the ad­ dollars in legal fees incurred by Edwin Meese rican community, of empty promises of reform, ministration has equivocated so much in its in connection with the investigation arising out of economic collapse, of events in neighbor­ opposition to this racist system. President ing countries. of proceedings on his nomination to the office Reagan refused to condemn last week's an­ In September 1974, the South African Am­ of Attorney General, although there was a nouncement of a nationwide state of emer­ controversy over the size of the fee. bassador to the United Nations delivered a long-awaited speech in which he promised gency by the South African Government. He With these considerations in mind, I have refused to condemn the middle of the night today introduced a resolution which will that the South African Government was about to embark on a series of reforms that would roundups of black trade union, church, stu­ amend the Rules of the House of Representa­ dent, and civic leaders. Once again, President tives to authorize the Standards Committee to soften the effects of apartheid on the nation's Reagan blamed the victim. All he could do is provide for the payment of reasonable attor­ African majority. But then, as now, the prom­ express regret and remind us of black on ney's fees when a complaint if filed against a ise of reform rang hollow. Member, officer, or employee of the House. In Apartheid South Africa was in crisis by black violence. Incredibly he told us that there order to ensure that we do not have a repeat 1976, Mr. Speaker. Its troops, which had in­ is a civil war going on and that it is tribal in of the Meese case, the resolution also author­ vaded Angola in a vain attempt to install their origin. Who briefs the President on South izes the Committee on House Administration puppet, Jonas Savimbi, had been defeated. Africa? The South African Ambassador? No, to promulgate regulations governing the pay­ The economy was in sharp decline. In the Mr. President, the civil war is not tribal in ment of such fees. I would expect that com­ black townships that surround the white cities, origin. The South African Government is at mittee to take what ever steps are necessary unemployment was at an all time high. For­ war with the majority of South Africans. And to ensure that such fees are held within rea­ eign investment was declining. once again, you have aligned yourself with sonable grounds. The resolution would apply Perhaps most ominous for the future of this terrorist regime. How much longer will you only to complaints or independent investiga­ apartheid, young black men and women were march with Pretoria? tions launched by the Standards Committee, beginning to organize and to state their oppo­ Mr. Speaker, when the House consider H.R. not to any civil or criminal actions taken sition to apartheid more forcefully. 4868 later this week, we will have the chance against Members, officers, or employees of The educational system became the focal to move the administration toward a more re­ the House. point for young people's disaffection. Faced alistic policy on South Africa. I hope that we with ridiculously inadequate facilities, a short­ remember Hector Peterson and the countless age of teachers, and too few textbooks for Af­ other South Africans who have died in the SOWETO: AN ANNIVERSARY OF rican students, the rulers of apartheid decided hope of creating a better society in South SHAME that educational reform was needed. What did· they do, Mr. Speaker? They issued a decree Africa and pass this legislation overwhelming­ ly. HON.THOMASJ.DOWNEY that said that African students should learn Af­ OF NEW YORK rikaans-the language of apartheid. This co­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lossal blunder would have been laughable, had its immediate consequences not been so RUGBY COMES TO CONGRESS Monday, June 16, 1986 tragic. Mr. DOWNEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, African students began a school boycott HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER today, we stop to reflect on the events that and on June 16, 1976, organized a demon­ OF COLORADO occurred in Soweto in 1976. stration against the Afrikaans language Ten years ago, a student demonstration in decree. The police attacked the school chil­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an unknown black township outside Johan­ dren and Soweto became the watchword of Monday, June 16, 1986 nesburg was set upon by the police of the the liberation struggle. The young people of racist South African regime. A 13-year-old, the black townships moved apartheid back Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, immigra­ Hector Peterson, was the first casualty. But in into the consciousness of the world. tion legislation is at yet another impasse, a the long run, the greatest casualty was the Mr. Speaker, I have taken the time to go parliamentary scrummage, because we have credibility of the South African Government back over the events of 1976 because it is no clear purpose in mind. which lost all claims to moral authority in the clear that there are some in this administration The words "reform," "control," and "am­ eyes of all but its most die-hard supporters. who still do not see apartheid and the inept nesty" are pitched around like rugby balls. Ten years ago, none of us had heard of and futile attempts of South Africa's rulers to But the real name of the game is farm Soweto. Today, its name has become a reform an incorrigibly racist system as the labor. symbol of the moral, political-and possibly cause of the present violence in South Africa. Set out below is my statement, filed last economic-bankruptcy of apartheid. It is now 1O years later. Thousands of week during Judiciary Committee consider­ Ten years ago, there were few reporters people ha\le died. Apartheid still hangs on in ation of H.R. 3810, the Immigration Control from the Western media present. Today, the Pretoria and this administration still seems and Legalization Amendments Act of 1985: June 16, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13885 STATEMENT OF U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PAT A TRIBUTE TO THE CITY OF preferential treatment. The United States ex­ SCHROEDER GRAND LEDGE ON ITS SESQUI­ tends the MFN treatment in foreign trade to HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION CENTENNIAL all countries except to most Communist coun­ OF H.R. 3810 tries. MFN status can be granted by the A member of congress once argued that a HON. HOWARD WOLPE United States to a Communist country only if liberal U.S. immigration policy was fine OF MICHIGAN the latter's emigration policy is substantially when the country was new and unsettled, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nonrestrictive and the Congress concurs in but now that we had reached maturity and such grant. Under this procedure, in effect full population, immigration should cease. Monday, June 16, 1986 since 1975, MFN status has been extended to That argument was made in 1797 and has Mr. WOLPE. Mr. Speaker, I want to pay Romania. been repeated ever since. special tribute to the city of Grand Ledge, Ml, The United States has granted MFN to Ro­ Sometimes the rhetoric gets so heated, on the occasion of its sesquicentennial cele­ mania for 11 years now, in hopes that it would the statistics go off the charts. In The Im­ bration. increase "leverage" to move the Romanians migration Time Bomb: The Fragmenting of Grand Ledge, Ml-the only Grand Ledge in America, by Richard D. Lamm and Gary away from the Soviet Union and reduce the Imhoff, the authors gloomily note that the the world-has adopted as its sesquicenten­ number of human rights violations. U.S. ex­ population density in the United States is nial slogan "A Proud Past, A Promising pectations have never been fully met, and in now 64 people per acre. That works out to Future." The city is indeed rich in history and fact, evidence displays the blatant failures of 145 billion people. Quite a bomb. At ease ev­ its residents are understandably confident MFN waiver approval. It is time for us to stop eryone. The correct figure is 64 people per about the city's future. deceiving ourselves about the nature of the square mile. The Ojibwa Indians of Chief Okemos once Romanian Government. We must not be so Today's debate is not much different than lived where Grand Ledge is now located and naive as to accept their promises as truths. the one in 1797-with one major difference. before it was carved out of the wilderness a MFN status should be reserved to those na­ The most significant immigration develop­ century and a half ago. During the early tions that share our belief in basic economic ment in the past 45 years has been the im­ 1900's the Seven Islands Resort, where as and personal freedoms. Such nations are, by portation of labor into the U.S. to service many as 15,000 tourists would spend a holi­ definition, not Communist. Romania is a re­ the agriculture industry-the one domestic day weekend, was known throughout the industry that operates inside the United pressive regime and the granting of MFN and Nation. The picturesque sandstone ledges, for other special trade considerations only legiti­ States but outside the labor market. which the city was named, remain a mecca for In any other industry, if there is a labor mize this repression. shortage they raise wages to attract work­ geologists and botanists and for the training of The President once again granted Romania ers, they mechanize or they do both. mountain climbers. The city's clay pits contain the MFN waiver on June 3, 1986. This step Could you imagine the row if Ford Motor some of the finest layers of preserved fossil only enhances the problem with MFN treat­ Company demanded guest workers to make plants in North America. ment in Communist countries. The President cars in Michigan; if Martin Marietta de­ Modern-day Grand Ledge boasts a 30,000- stated concern "regarding the Romanian Gov­ manded guest workers to make missiles in volume public library, 15 church denomina­ ernment's restrictions on religious liberties" Colorado; if Smith Barney demanded guest tions, 30 civic groups, numerous recreational and other human rights violations. Let me add workers to sell stocks in New York? facilities and a rich blend of agriculture and that concern is not enough; it is time for us to But that is exactly what the agriculture light manufacturing industries. I would also industry is demanding and has been de­ take a firm stand in favor of the principles on note that the Grand Ledge High School band which the amendment was established. manding since World War II. program was recently recognized by the John One way or another, bracero program, There are four main areas of utmost discon­ guest worker program, or illegal alien "pro­ Philip Sousa Foundation as one of America's tent: repression of religion, oppression of dis­ gram," major segments of the agricultural outstanding high school band programs; like­ sidents, support of terrorism, and trade imbal­ industry have been living outside our do­ wise its Wacousta elementary school was se­ ances. Let me cite some examples of Roma­ mestic labor economy for decades. lected as one of the outstanding elementary nia's gross violations of human rights. Roma­ schools in Michigan. In spite of what the doomsayers may nia is supposed to be making progress in Mr. Speaker, the people of Grand Ledge preach, illegal immigration is neither a new human rights, thanks to our generous trade know that they reside in a very special phenomenon nor at record levels. policy. However, repression of any religious Relatively more illegal aliens were appre­ place-where the city's slogan, "Grand activity is outrageous. Regardless of your reli­ hended by the INS in 1954 than in 1985. Ledge, where people are still important," is gious beliefs, it is appalling that possession of, Almost 1.1 million illegal aliens were cap­ lived out each and every day. I am honored to or transfer of, Bibles is punishable by beating tured in 1954, when the populations of represent Grand Ledge and to work with con­ and incarceration for years. A regime that bull­ Mexico and the U.S. were 25 and 150 mil­ stituents who use the celebration of their his­ lion, then in 1985, when their respective dozes numerous churches and refuses appli­ populations were 80 and 240 million, and 1.2 tory as a means of rededicating themselves to the future of their community. cations for church building permits is not million aliens were apprehended. making progress in human rights. Religious In fact, illegal immigration is not out of activist Geza Palffi, a Catholic priest who was control-it is very much a supply and ON DISAPPROVING THE beaten and murdered for wanting Christmas to demand system. But it is illegal. PRESIDENTIAL MFN WAIVER be a public holiday, is an example of the ex­ Congress for some time has been strug­ gling to balance immigration enforcement treme religious repression in Romania. with civil rights protections and amnesty HON. PHILIP M. CRANE Other Christian prisoners, such as Catarama provisions. OF ILLINOIS and Sfatcu, were released after emotional and One proposal before us today rejects that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES physical tortures. Unfortunately, however, both approach. It legitimizes barte1·ing citizen­ prisoners were released on the condition that ship for agricultural labor. It is a wholesale Monday, June 16, 1986 they leave Romania. This, therefore, indicates elimination of immigration law. I would not Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ no substantive change in the Romanian Gov­ be surprised if entrepreneurs don't immedi­ ducing a resolution to disapprove the Presi­ ernment's attitude toward religious freedom ately run out and buy farms so they can sell dential request for a waiver under section 402 inside the country. Many other Christians were agricultural jobs to aliens. of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended. The not so fortunate as to be released; instead Why not make the law universal? Anyone purpose of this resolution is to deny renewal they died under mysterious circumstances who agrees to come to the U.S. to work-at McDonald's, Pan Am, Budweiser, wherev­ of most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status to shortly after police interrogations. Rev. Peter er-can become a U.S. citizen. And while the Socialist Republic of Romania. Dugulescu was smashed by a car, and Rev. we're at it, we can abolish INS because we MFN status entitles a U.S. trade partner to Vasile Talos was hit head-on by a public truck. won't need it. the lowest allowable tariff rates. MFN treat­ Both assassination attempts were covered up The sad fact is that we cannot honestly ment, means in fact, nondiscriminatory, equal by the federal police. deal with immigration issues until we decide treatment, but in the case of Communist or Romanian freedom to emigrate is also a what our goal is. nonmarket economy countries, amounts to facade to appeal to U.S. interests. According 13886 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1986 to the latest (February 1986) State Depart­ United States, and only imported 206.5 million tion attempt reports are growing. Trade be­ ment "Country Reports on Human Rights dollars' worth of goods from the United tween the United States and Romania is Practices," the Romanian Government con­ States, leaving a deficit of $7 43.3 million. grossly imbalanced in favor of the Eastern Eu­ tinues to harass and oppress those who wish Also, some Romanian products imported into ropean needs. The political reality is that the to emigrate. Demotion or dismissal from jobs, the United States are duty-free due to the government of this country is a totalitarian dic­ dismissal from universities, and denial of "generalized system of preferences." Last tatorship run by the Communist regime of Ni­ ration cards all result from application to emi­ year alone, Romania shipped 134 million dol­ colae Ceausescu. grate. Dissidents lose citizenship and other lars' worth of goods duty-free. Information regarding the MFN trade status forms of oppression make some emigrant The Department of Commerce June 1986 for Romania in relation to its emigration and hopeful truly exiles within their own country. report shows that the mineral fuel trade be­ human rights practices strongly suggests that The Trif family applied for emigration in tween Romania and the United States is 4:1 the trade concessions and guarantees being 1976 and are still denied, to date. Mrs. in their favor. In 1985, Romania exported provided by the United States are being used Grommes' 23 requests to meet her family in $458 million in mineral fuel to the United as a ran·som for their own citizens-plain and West Germany have continually been denied. States, while United States mineral fuel ex­ simple. Mrs. Muller tried to emigrate for 25 years, and ports were only $36 million. Nevertheless, Ro­ Why should we support Romania in their when a petition was finally granted, she was mania turned off its heat in the severe winter complicity? Why should we indicate approval beaten in her factory immediately thereafter. to conserver energy, causing many people to of their failure to comply to our trade agree­ All property of emigrants is sold at low, fixed freeze to death. Another contradictory report ment policies? Why should we hold our own governmental rates. Any relatives who may be shows that while Romania traded $7 million law in such disrespect that we would waive its left behind are harassed and persecuted. worth of food to the United States in 1985, simple provisions year after year? Mr. Speak­ Why should this continue? For 11 years, we and the United States, in turn, traded only er, we should not. I call upon all who support have accepted their assurances of change, 60,000 dollars' worth of food, Romanians still simple and basic human rights for all-includ­ and for 11 years, these assurances have suffer from severe malnutrition. ing those who live under Communist re­ turned out to be tragically empty promises. In regards to transfers of technology, Mr. gimes-to deny MFN and not taint our posi­ Romanian President Ceauseascu permitted Pacepa writes, "Mr. Ceausescu serves as a tion with support of their repression. We, as a the emigration of Jews and Germans, in order conduit for the transmission of embargoed country, deplore the inhumane activity of Ro­ to ease President Reagan's doubts. However, Western technology to Moscow." (Wall Street mania. Our government is, in most cases, a Gen. Ion Pacepa, former Deputy Director of Journal op-ed by Pacepa, January 13, 1986). reflection of those collective beliefs and its Romania's Department of Foreign Intelligence The USTR lists Romania as one of the most policies should reflect that. But here is a clas­ and former personal adviser to Nicolae Ceau­ frequently subject to anti-dumping actions, as sic case where our governmental policy is seascu, discredits Mr. Ceauseacu's motives well. The December 1985 Washington excerpt clearly out of step with the heritage, principles, when he quotes Mr. Ceausescu as saying, from Mr. Pacepa's book discusses some of and commonsense of the people. In 11 years, "We should make as much money as possible Romania's industrial espionage. The Roma­ Romanian human rights have improved little. on our vanishing natural resources-oil, Jews, nian Ministry of Agriculture estimated that it To follow this logic, we should grant MFN to and Germans." Mr. Ceausescu, with sharp saved over $300 billion by stealing the entire Cuba and Vietnam; both crave trade and posi­ calculation, sold Romanians as an export United States national hybrid-corn collection, tive bilateral relations with the United States. I commodity. containing more than 14,000 assortments and ask you all to stand in support of this resolu­ Mr. Speaker, you will agree that our emigra­ species, which became the basis for further tion to disapprove the Presidential request for tion requirements are very simple and repre­ research in Romania. Romania has recently a waiver for Romania. Now is the time to take sent only the bare minimum in human rights been noted by the Department of Agriculture action. This charade has gone on too long. considerations. It minimizes and depreciates as the largest producer of corn in Eastern Eu­ our sincerity when we allow these simple re­ ropean countries. quirements to be waived in order to grant Mr. Speaker, we should not conduct this THE lOTH ANNIVERSARY OF MFN to a Communist country which does not process of review as business as usual. We THE SOWETO UPRISING even respect these simple basic requirements. must move ahead, with or without Romania. We mock ourselves, Mr. Speaker, and we Romanian conduct in regard to U.S. policies is HON. ROBERT GARCIA allow the Communist countries to mock us an affront to our heritage, principles, and com­ also, when they see how readily we grant a monsense. Many tout the alleged leverage OF NEW YORK waiver year after year. MFN gives us to soften their harsh Commu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES During the same years as the MFN waiver, nisi, totalitarian system. But since 1975, little Monday, June 16, 1986 the Romanian Government has been actively has improved. Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, today is the 10th involved in international terrorist activities, as It is time for Congress to examine the rea­ anniversary of the Soweto uprising. It is a well. In July 1978, Mr. Pacepa was instructed sonableness of what we are doing when we highly symbolic event, symbolic of the repres­ personally by Mr. Ceausescu to conduct consider whether we will grant special trade sion of South Africa's majority community. I secret assassinations; Mr. Pacepa refused benefits and guarantees to Communist coun­ am submitting for the RECORD three articles and defected. Moreover, Romania is closely tries. In the past 11 years, the granting of on South Africa from today's Washington Post tied with the PLO and has used this organiza­ MFN has not produced reforms in the Roma­ and New York Times. One of those articles is tion to perform terrorists acts, such as the nian governmental system. As a policy goal­ by the Nobel Prize winner and the Anglican PLO's brutal attack in 1976 on Monica Lo­ as a policy lever-it has clearly failed. We Archbishop-elect of Cape Town, Desmond vinescu, a Romanian emigre working for must ask ourselves what exactly the United Tutu. In his essay, Bishop Tutu makes a Radio Free Europe. Romania also organized States gets in exchange for granting MFN. strong case for imposing sanctions against paramilitary training schools for terrorist and Emigration problems still exist. Although this South Africa. He makes a strong and clear guerrilla-type operations. Romania is not year 1,000 more people were allowed to emi­ case for sanctions, by saying that it is not a showing independence from communism, on grate, we must note that the concession was political or economic decision but a moral de­ the contrary. Support of terrorism and terrorist made the day before President Reagan's deci­ cision. He is right. The United States must un­ organizations completely oppose U.S. restric­ sion on MFN waiver. Emigration was not used equivocally come down on the side of morality as leverage, but as ransom for the United tions. when dealing with South Africa. That is, we States to legitimize MFN status in Romania. Administration after administration continues must support sanctions. Jeri Labor of the U.S. Helsinki Committee to support MFN for Romania, yet it is notably The articles follow: more valuable to Romania than to the United argues that ploys such as this merely "distract States. The United States is doing Romania attention from other impediments of emigra­ [From the New York Times, June 16, 1986] an unwarranted favor by trading . with them, tion. * * *." Moreover, religious persecution SANCTIONS VS. APARTHEID and they show no appreciation by supporting remains a constant threat to Christian activ­

71-059 0-87-23 CPt. lOJ 13890 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1986 Mr. Speaker, while the purpose of the Vice Health and Long-Term Care and the Subcom­ A TRIBUTE TO THE U.S. COAST President's trip was to review a wide range of mittee on Health and the Environment. GUARD AUXILIARY policy issues between our two countries, the The cost in economic terms is staggering. threat of severe and widespread damages on While figures vary widely, we are told that $20 HON. HOWARD WOLPE the Great Lakes is one of the most urgent. billion per year is spent caring for Alzheimer's OF MICHIGAN We lost millions of dollars' worth of property in victims. That figure includes the $30,000 to the last year. Now, we must do all we possibly $50,000 a year families must spend to care IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES can to make sure that any further losses are for their Alzheimer's victim. We have not yet Monday, June 16, 1986 kept to a minimum or are avoided altogether. arrived at a time when private insurance com­ Mr. WOLPE. Mr. Speaker, I want to pay panies or the Medicare Program are equipped special tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard Auxilia­ ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE to deal with the custodial care necessitated by ry. DESERVES OUR ATTENTION Alzheimer's disease. Since its founding by an act of Congress on And Alzheimer's does not inflict itself pri­ June 23, 1938, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary HON.THOMASJ.DOWNEY marily on the rich, middle class, or poor. It is has provided voluntary assistance worth OF NEW YORK truly a democratic disease, striking all seg­ countless millions of dollars and has saved IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments of our society with equal horror. thousands of lives of recreational boaters. But, it must be said, there is progress­ Currently, the auxiliary provides boating edu­ Monday, June 16, 1986 however slow-being made. Research is pro­ cation, courtesy marine examinations, and Mr. DOWNEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, if, viding clues to the cause. Family support search and rescue services as well as volun­ as Hubert Humphrey once said, the test of groups have grown exponentially in the past tary support and services to its parent organi­ how just a nation is lies in how it helps those few years. Thanks to the efforts of some of zation, the U.S. Coast Guard. It does so at unable to help themselves, then our Govern­ our colleagues here in the House and in the very little cost to the taxpayers. In recognition ment has much soul searching, and more other body, Federal funds are increasing for of its outstanding record of accomplishments, hard work, to do. research. Health and Human Services Secre­ Gov. James Blanchard-our former col­ More than 2 million Americans suffer from league-has declared June 21, 1986, to be tary Bowen now has it in his power to assist Alzheimer's disease, a "neurological disorder Coast Guard Auxiliary Day in the State of these family support groups with Federal dol­ * * * characterized by a deterioration of cog­ Michigan. lars. nitive functions such as memory, attention and Mr. Speaker, I am certain that my col­ These family support groups provide a vital judgment." These 2 million-that's roughly leagues will want to join me in recognizing the 100 percent more than the number of Ameri­ service. They counsel families on how to deal members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary for the cans who have fallen in battle since the first with the financial, legal, and emotional strains commitment and dedication they have demon­ shots rang out at Lexington and Concord­ of caring for an Alzheimer's victim. They pro­ strated so consistently during the past 4 7 suffer from a disease that is degenerative and vide assistance on the emotional side of deal­ years, and in wishing them a most successful irreversible. ing with the guilt that family members feel. future. What does Alzheimer's disease do to its They are certainly worthy of our support. victims? It starts slowly. Perhaps family mem­ As our population grows older the problems bers notice that their father or mother does associated with Alzheimer's will also grow. It "SAVING" SOCIAL SECURITY not remember as they once did. As Alzhei­ is an urgent national problem worthy of further mer's progresses constant supervision be­ attention and scrutiny. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE comes necessary. As the Alzheimer's victim Mr. Speaker, at the request of my col­ OF ILLINOIS wanders, the risk of accidents become greater league, Mr. MRAZEK, I will be chairing a field IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and greater. The victim may not recognize hearing of the Select Committee on Aging on family or friends. The average life expec.tancy June 21 on Long Island. This hearing will Monday, June 16, 1986 of an Alzheimer"s victim is 7 years, although in focus on the effects of Alzheimer's on the Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, it appears that some cases, its victims live much longer. victim and the victim's family. We will hear the issue of the future of the Social Security The dimensions of the sorrow caused by from families, psychologists, nursing home System has once again receded to the back this insidious disease are almost incompre­ providers, social workers, attorneys and of the collective mind of Congress. Back in hensible: capable, vibrant people are reduced others with concrete expertise in this area. I 1983, many in Congress congratulated them­ to a state of near vegetation, families are will report the results of the hearing to the selves for having " saved" Social Security. Yet broken to pieces as their finances are strained House next week. the system wasn't "saved" then, it isn't beyond repair and their psychological de­ " saved" today, and conveniently forgetting fenses against more natural human tragedies about it will not serve either the Nation or our are ripped to pieces. PERSONAL EXPLANATION constituents well. The victims of Alzheimer's are not limited to We have repeatedly enacted measures that the unfortunate souls who contract this dis­ were billed at the time as permanent fix for ease. They include, most certainly, the fami­ HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER the system, only to be faced several years lies of the primary victims. Wives, husbands, OF COLORADO later with another Social Security crisis. I be­ sons and daughters lose control of their own lieve that our latest effort will prove no differ­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lives because they must provide the around­ ent, for it neither addressed the problems in­ the-clock care to the feebled-and sometimes Mondciy, June 16, 1986 herent in a pay-as-you-go system nor account­ violent-victims. Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I was ed for the demographics involved in a declin­ Can someone who has not experienced the absent Thursday, June 12, 1986, for two ing labor pool facing the necessity of support­ horror of Alzheimer's effect on the family ing a system paying an ever-increasing votes. Had I been present, I would have voted structure truly understand its consequences? number of beneficiaries. It is probably that by as follows: "One finds family members to be spouses the turn of the century, there will be only two Rollcall No. 166, the Wylie amendment, who are themselves elderly and suffering from people paying taxes to support each ben8fici­ "nay." chronic illnesses * * * one finds sons and ary. daughters themselves in their sixties who may Rollcall No. 167, passage of H.R. 1, "yea." It is time for Congress to give serious con­ also have responsibility for an aging spouse, sideration to true Social Security reform and adult children and grandchildren * * * when deal with the faulty underpinnings of the Alzheimer's disease strikes its victims early, system. In the past, Congress has too often one finds adolescents struggling to accept this succumbed to the temptation to tack on new devastating illness in a parent," says a report and always increasing benefits to the Social cited in joint hearings of the Subcommittee on Security System, without thought to how these June 16, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13891 would be paid for into the next century, or Such a gradual shift from the present ··when he cites fictitious titles, imaginary even today. We need to consider returning the shaky system to a fully funded, private cross-references, folios and writers that system is the only way to prevent collapse have never existed, Borges is simply re­ system to its intended role as a basic floor of of Social Security. grouping counters of reality into the shape protection to support other retirement savings. of possible oLher worlds. When he moves, by One possible long-term solution is the grad­ wordplay and echo, from language to lan­ ual privatization of a large part of the Social DEATH OF A WRITER guage, he is turning the kaleidoscope, Security System. This could be done through throwing the light on another patch of the thoughtful legislation that would restore sanity wan.·· to the current system while insuring a safety HON. ROBERT GARCIA One of his earliest short stories, "Pierre net for those who require it, which was the OF NEW YORK Menard, Author of the Quixote," com­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pressed this embrace of language and illu­ original intent of the Social Security System. sion fore. hadowing the tenor of his later We owe it to our sons and daughters to Monday, June 16, 1986 work. In the story, written in 1938, Mr. have the courage and foresight to enact seri­ Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, this past Satur­ Borges proposed, in short, an extreme ex­ ous, qualitative, and long-lasting reform. The day, one of the world's greatest writers amination of T.S. Eliot's dictum that each days of the quick-fix have passed. I have in­ new work of art alters the perception of pre­ passed away, Jorge Luis Borges. Born in Ar­ cluded an article by Peter Young that ap­ viously existing works of art. gentina, his work helped usher in a Renais­ peared in the March 3, 1986 issue of US For Mr. Borges, the short story-a literary sance in Latin American literature. News and World Report, in which he opines form .. whose indispensable elements are But he was more than a writer of essays on the need for reform in the Social Security economy and a clearly stated beginning, and stories, he was a great thinker. The world middle. and end"-was the most compelling System and the shape that that reform might will mourn the loss of this great Latin Ameri­ form. Once he wrote: "In the course of a take. I commend the article to my colleagues' can man of letters. I am submitting for the lifetime devoted chiefly to books, I have serious consideration. RECORD an obituary on Mr. Borges from Sun­ read but few novels. and, in most cases, only SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY day's New York Times. a sense of duty has enabled me to find my way to their last page. I have always been a (By Peter Young) [From the New York Times, June 15, 1986) reader and rereader of short stories. The Social Security system was a great JORGE LUIS BORGES, A MASTER OF FANTASY Beginning in 1927, when he had a series of deal for Ida Mae Fuller of Brattleboro, Vt., AND FABLES, Is DEAD operations on his eyes, Mr. Borges was in­ the first recipient. She paid a total of $44 in creasingly afflicted by blindness, which ran Social Security taxes, yet received full bene­ in his family. While he called it a "slow, fits for the rest of her lifetime-$20,884.52 Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine short­ summer twilight," it did not impede his in all. story writer, poet and essayist who was con­ work. It will prove a very bad deal, however, for sidered one of Latin America's greatest writ­ those who retire around the middle of the ers, died yesterday in Geneva. where he had BEGAN WRITING AT 6 OR 7 next century, when the whole system will been living for three months. He was 86 Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos collapse as the number of beneficiaries rises years old. Aires, in the house of his maternal grand­ substantially and the number of contribu­ Mr. Borges died of liver cancer. the execu­ parents, on Aug. 24, 1899. His father. of Ital­ tors falls. tor of his estate, Osvaldo Luis Vidaurre, said ian, J ewish and English heritage, professed The weakness of the system is its "pay as in Buenos Aires. the law but. as Mr. Borges once wrote, "was you go" nature. Payments into the system While almost unknown outside Argentina a philosophical anarchist-a disciple of are immediately paid out as current bene­ before 1961, his stories, punctilious in their Spencer-and also a teacher of psychology." fits. Vote-hungry politicians like to keep language and mysterious in their opaque His mother, of Argentine and Uruguayan these benefits high and forget about the ap­ paradoxes, later attained a rr.odest following stock, lived far into her 90's and translated proaching disaster. steadily to international proportions. Virginia Woolf and Herman Melville into But fundamental reform is possible and is His writings explored the crannies of the Spanii;h. currently being attempted in Britain, where human psyche, the fantastic within the ap­ While he was very young, his parents the government has proposed to privatize parently mundane, imaginary bestiaries and moved to the northern suburbs of the cap­ the upper section of its social-security fables of obscure libraries ar,d arcane schol­ ital, to Palermo, a place he later described system. As an incentive, those who switch to arship. as a slum. But it was not, he wrote, a slum private pensions will pay lower social-securi­ His prose provoked the literary imagina­ in the American sense. It was, rather, a dis­ ty taxes and receive tax relief on their pri­ tions of general readers, scholars and critics, trict where "shabby-genteel people as well vate-pension contributions. and many of the latter hailed him as the as more undesirable sorts" lived. At the same time, benefits will be cut, but most important Latin American writer of At the age of 6 or 7, the young Borges only for those retiring in the next century. this century. began to write. "I was expected to be a All existing government-pension entitle­ Among his works of fiction that have ap­ writer," he recalled much later in life. He ments will be honored. peared in the United Statf's are "Ficciones,'· confessed that his writings of extreme This shift to private pensions will avert a "The Aleph and Other Stories.·· and "Laby­ youth were modeled on the those of classic financial crisis in the next century and rinths," all published in 1962, and "A Uni­ Spanish writers, mostly Cervantes. The greatly increase personal wealth, since a versal History of Infamy," in 1971. young man's first effort, titled, "The Fatal worker·s pension will become one of his ·'His fables are written from a height of Helmet," was avowedly romantic-'· nonsen­ largest assets. intelligence less rare in philosophy and sica1.·· he later called it-and very much a The lessons of the British reforms for physics than in fiction," Mr. Updike said. stylistic derivative of Cervantes. America are clear: ··Furthermore, he is, at least for anyone In 1914 the family moved to Europe so Reducing the benefits of current retirees whose taste runs to puzzles or pure specula­ that Jorge and his sister could attend school or those about to retire is political suicide. tion, delightfully entertaining." in Geneva. Jorge enrolled at the College of Honor promised benefits but privatize for Moreover, Mr. Updike insisted, "For all Geneva. In school, the young man was im­ the future. his modesty and reasonableness of tone, he mersed in Latin, and outside it he tackled Workers should be encouraged first to opt proposes some sort of essential revision in German. He learned to love the language out of survivor's, disability-and-hospital in­ literature itself." through Heine and found his way to Scho­ surance-and then parts of basic Social Se­ It is, the historian and philosopher Imagi­ penhauer, who was to be his favorite. curity. Future Social Security benefits nary Beings" <1969) and "An Introduction should be reduced to the extent these pri­ to American Literature" 0971), "Selected FIRST POEM PUBLISHED IN SPAIN vate options are utilized. Poems, 1923-1967'. was published in 1972 "Were I to choose a single philosopher, I Creating a private alternative builds its and "In Praise of Darkness," which consists would choose him," Mr. Borges wrote. "If own political constituency, which can be of poetry and short pieces, in 1974. the riddle of the universe can be stated in harnessed to the cause of privatization-in­ In 1975 John Updike wrote that Mr. words, I think these words would be in his cluding further tax incentives for private George Steiner wrote, perhaps something writings." pensions and IRA's. even more: "Borges's universalism is a After Mr. Borges received his degree in Gradual, piece-by-piece reform is more deeply felt imaginative strategy, a maneuver Geneva, his family moved to Spain for a likely to succeed than any attempt to solve to be in touch with the great winds that year, and it was there that his first poem the whole problem at once. blow from the heart of things. was published. Callf'd "Hymn to the Sea," it 13892 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1986 was deliberately fashioned in the style of With Adolfo Blay-Casares, whom he met heart, Elsa Astete Millan, the widow of a Walt Whitman. in the 1940's, he collaborated in writing a friend. It proved to be an unhappy episode, In 1921, he returned; with his family to collection of short stories under the name and they divorced three years later. Buenos Aires, where he continued to write, H. Bustos Domecq. He married Maria Kodama, his 41-year­ experimenting with styles of prose that Mr. Borges once described the "Chron­ old secretary and longtime traveling com­ were either artificially Latinate or sodden icles" of Bustos in 1967: "These are articles panion, a few weeks ago. with Argentine colloquialisms. Of his early written on imaginary, extravagantly modern works, he was relentlessly scornful. artists-architects, sculptors, painters chefs, BUENOS AIRES " DREARY" The "real beginning" of his career came, poets, novelists, couturiers-by a devotedly In later life, Mr. Borges was not so happy Mr. Borges wrote, in the early 1930's with modern critic. But both the author and his as he had once been with Argentina and its the publication of a series of sketches called subjects are fools, and it is hard to tell who capital. "Buenos Aires is a dreary city now," "A Universal History of Infamy." is taking in whom." he told an interviewer during the war with In these, which "were in the nature of Britain over the Falkland Islands in the hoaxes and pseudo-essays," Mr. Borges BLINDNESS AND POETRY spring of 1982, a war he termed "atrocious." chronicled the lives of Lazarus Morell, who By the late 1950's, Mr. Borges was com­ "I don't understand my own country. But at once freed and imprisoned slaves; of Tom pletely blind, "One salient consequence of the world is not meant to be understood by Castro, an implausible prodigal son; of the my blindness was my gradual abandoment men. Every night, I dream. I have night­ widow Ching, a pirate who terrorized the of free verse in favor of classical metrics," mares-of being lost, of being in an un­ seas of Asia; of Monk Eastman, a New York he wrote later. "In fact, blindness made me known city. I don't remember the name of gunman and "purveyor of iniquities"; of take up the writing of poetry again. Since the hotel, or I can't find my way home in Kotsuke no Suke, who refused to commit rough drafts were denied me, I had to fall Buenos Aires. Maybe I feel very lost because hara-kiri, "which as a nobleman was his back on memory. It is obviously easier to re­ the world is meaningless." duty." member verse than prose and to remember Yet Mr. Borges found meaning in his own STORIES' SHAPE ESTABLISHED regular verse forms rather than free ones." work. At the end of his published conversa­ After he shared the Formentor Prize with With his next story, "The Approach t o al­ tions with the literary scholar Richard Samuel Beckett in 1961, Mr. Borges's books Burgin, Mr. Borges wrote: Mu'tasim," written in 1935, the shape of began to sell increasingly well international­ many of his lat er stories was established. '"Through the years, a man peoples a ly, and he was invited abroad to lecture and space with images of provinces, kingdoms, The story is a fictive review of a book pur­ to take up visiting professorships. portedly published in Bombay. Mr. Borges mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, invests the mythical volume with a genuine Over the following years he traveled ex­ rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. publisher and reviewer but, as he wrote tensively in the United States and Europe, Shortly before his death he discovers that later, "the author and the book are entirely lecturing and receiving bouquets of literary the patient labyrinth of lines traces the my own invention." awards. image of his own face." In this early story, many of the basic liter­ And though he was perennially a candi­ ary elements that came to characterize Mr. date for the Nobel Prize in Literature, it was Borges's style were apparent: a concern for denied him. It was perhaps less a concern to WE NEED PROTECTION AGAINST history and ident ity; t he central role of an him than to ot h ers. After winning the prize SOVIET MISSILES NOW obscure scholarly work; a maze of discourse in 1982, t he Colombian novelist Gabriel laden with elaborate and Byzantine detail; Garcia Marquez said of Mr. Borges, ·· r hope HON. JACK F. KEMP footnotes; meticulous references to remote he receives it, and I still don't understand academic journals. and the presence of de- why they haven't given it to him." OF NEW YORK liberately translucent paradox. - Some have insisted that it was Mr. Bor­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ges's aversion to politics, his unwillingness For a sum equivalent to about $70 or $80 a Monday, June 16, 1986 month. Mr. Borges took his first full-time to criticize the repression of post-Peronist job in 1937 as the first assistant in the regimes-··r suppose they are a necessary Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, protection against Miguel Cane branch of the Buenos Aires evil, for the next 50 years, or so," he said­ Soviet missiles is not just something that Municipal Library. He was to remain t here t hat kept him from becoming a Nobel Lau­ reate. would be " nice to have," something that we for nine years, completing his work each can afford to speculate about and at our lei­ day in an hour or so and devoting the rest He was, however, sympat hetic to the of his time to reading and writing. plight of mothers whose children were vic­ sure, figure out the very best way of obtaining. In this period, he wrote ·'Pierre Menard, tims of death squads that were tacitly or ac­ Protection is something America needs so Author of the Quixote"-a ·· halfway house tively supported by Argentina's military badly that we ought to try to get it any reason­ between the essay and true tale." he wrote. Government. able way we can, as fast as we can. ·'Pierre Menard" led to a story of a ·· 1 had my say about the disappeared,'. he When the Soviet Union acquired the means strange world that displaces our planet­ told an interviewer. ··But what can I do? I'm to largely disarm the United States by using an old man. What can they do to me? Tor­ "Tilon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"-and then only a small fraction of its missile forces, it put quickly to another and then the next, sto­ ture me, eh?" ries concerned with labyrinths and mirrors us all in a terrible bind. Nothing, in our current or projected military budgets is designed to and encyclopedias that came to form the AN UNWORLDLY LIFE undo this momentous Soviet achievement and founrl.ation of Mr. Borges's oeuvre. "The Mr. Borges led a hermetic, unworldly life. Garden of Forking Paths," an anthology of Seemingly fragile in his last years. as he to get the United States out of this terrible short stories, was published in 1941, and leaned on a vertebral wooden cane, he was predicament. three years later "Ficciones," perhaps his gentlemanly in manner and locution. With Even if we built 500 MX missiles, instead of most celebrated collection of short stories, blindness he relied increasingly on assist­ the 50 the administration and Senator NUNN went into print. ants to read to him and to write what he agreed on, we could not count on enough sur­ BAFFLING APPOINTMENT BY PERON dictated. Always Mr. Borges wrote and read, viving a Soviet first strike to put Soviet reserve In 1946, Juan Domingo Peron-" a Presi­ and perhaps it was, in the end, the later forces at risk. dent," Mr. Borges wrote, "whose name I do that was paramount. Without that capacity, our ability to deter a not want to remember"-came to power. "To me, reading has been a way of living,'' Not long afterward, Mr. Borges was named he once said. "I think the only possible fate serious Soviet attack has deteriorated. This is inspector of poultry and rabbits in the for me was a literary life. I can't think of especially true since the Soviets are building public markets. He found his selection for myself in a bookless world, I need books. antimissile defenses to protect themselves the new position baffling, and he resigned. They mean everything to me." against the few American missiles that would By then, his reputation as a writer was During his lecture tours. he had a particu­ be left for us to use. Given that Soviet anti­ secure, and he was asked to lecture on Eng­ lar fondness for New Orleans. When he was missile defenses would be working against a lish literature at the Fre~ College of Higher not writing in his hotel room there, he was much-depleted American force, those Soviet Studi'es and the Argentine Association of listening to jazz, invariably distinguished in antimissile defenses would not have to be English Culture. his suit and tie from other jazz club patrons. technically excellent to do a credible job. That After the Peron Govenment was over­ ·'My father told me a gentleman never thrown in September 1955, Mr. Borges was goes in public in his shirt sleeves," he said, is why American ability to deter is deteriorat­ appointed director of the National Library "but I think these people are right to dress ing with every passing year. in Buenos Aires. The next year he became a comfortably when it is hot." Under these circumstances, it is the height professor of English and American litera­ At the age of 68, Mr. Borges was married of self-indulgence for Americans to treat SDI tute at the University of Buenos Aires. for the first time, to a childhood Sweet- as merely a " research" project. Is defense June 16, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13893 against ballistic missiles possible? Well, of church's facilities began to diminish and soon tisti has contributed his energy, judgment and course it is. it was only being used in the summer months. excellent management skills to developing We see the proof of this in the Soviet Union By 1959, the stone building was forced to long term residential care for U.S. veterans. today: The six Pechona-class radars, full close due to its worsening condition. The Veterans Home of California has flour­ Soviet production of the Flat-twin radar, the The proud, unfaltering faith of the members ished under Mr. Battisti's direction and SH-4 and SH-8 interceptors, and the SA-12 of Saint Luke's and the drive to preserve a reached an enviable status as the largest and mobile ABM, as well as the forthcoming piece of America's past, changed the fate of most unique facility in the country for veteran Soviet high energy laser in space-all of the church. With their efforts, in 1972, Saint care. This home and medical center, located these could knock out American missiles. Luke's became a National Historic Place. in Yountville in the Napa Valley, is the "home­ The truth is, the United States could do After renovations and much hard work, the port" to 1,400 men and women wartime veter­ better than these Soviet systems right now. In church was able to reopen in 1975, again ans who are advanced in age. This facility is fact, we could have done better some years serving as a structure for worship during the certainly a national model for gerontological ago. But we have not, because we have summer months. care. Under Mr. Battisti's administration, it has tended to treat ballistic missile defense as a Today the old stone church stands as a gained needed plant improvements, a facility­ theoretical question rather than as a vital task symbol of strength and a symbol of religious wide Employment Training Program, a new we must perform. endurance. The history of this fine structure is data processing system, quality assurance Protecting American lives from the dreaded an encouraging story of pride and concern. programs consistent with standards of the threat of Soviet missiles must be a top nation­ After serving the needs of its congregation for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospi­ al priority. We cannot afford to wait until the 150 years, I am proud to have Saint Luke's a tals, and expanded and refined medical serv­ best possible defense system emerges from National Historical Place in my First Congres­ ices. the research laboratories. We cannot afford to sional District. Mr. Battisti is credited with many improve­ let "the best" become the worst enemy of ments during his tenure at the Veterans "the good." We must begin to build strategic THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF Home, yet the change he is proudest of is the defense now. GARDEN GROVE, CA least visible. From the beginning, he has fos­ tered a sense of pride and dignity in the mem­ bers of the Home and has taken a variety of THE SESQUICENTENNIAL ANNI­ HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN measures to encourage more of their imvolve­ VERSARY OF THE SAINT OF CALIFORNIA ment in the policies and operations which LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES affect them. OF LANESBORO, MA Monday, June 16, 1986 Mr. Speaker, I am positive Mr. Battisti's co­ Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, the workers are going to miss his humor, warmth HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE beautiful city of Garden Grove, Orange County and strong dedication to the Veterans Home. I OF MASSACHUSETTS CA; the city I am proud to call home, will cele­ know that my colleagues will want to join me IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES brate its 30th anniversary on June 18, 1986. in commending Paul Battisti and in wishing Monday, June 16, 1986 The good people of Garden Grove have wit­ him the best of luck in the future. Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, on June 22 the nessed many changes during the past 30 Saint Luke's Episcopal Church of Lanesboro, years. The once rolling farms of orange and GOSPEL MUSIC WEEK MA will mark its sesquicentennial with a spe­ strawberry groves have been transformed into cial service of Festive Evensong. I address a thriving community of homes, businesses, HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. you today in praise of this, the oldest surviving and schools. OF NEW JERSEY stone church in Berkshire County, and a Under the leadership of Mayor Jonathan strong symbol of religious perseverance and Cannon and the city council, and with the sup­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dedication. port and guidance of its citizens, Garden Monday, June 16, 1986 Grove has achieved its "quest for quality. " We Along with the old North Church in Boston, Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, June 14-21, the the stone church in Lanesboro is one of the are proud of the excellent educational facili­ ties available to our children, our city's accom­ city of Newark will ring with the sweet sounds original 13 colonial congregations and struc­ of gospel music during Gospel Music Week. plishments in developing a strong and flour­ tures of the Protestant Episcopal Church in The celebrations will be kicked off on June ishing business community providing jobs and the United States. By 1835 the existing wood 16 with a special presentation at the Newark structure, which began construction in 1800 important services for our citizens, and our government's ability to meet the many and di­ City Hall, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. The hosts with the generous donation of land by area are Prof. Albert Lewis, Bro. Donny Harper and verse needs of our community. farmers, could no longer house the rapidly Rev. Archie Mitchell. Featured performers in­ Much of the richness of our city comes from growing congregation. Church leaders soon clude: the diverse backgrounds and heritages of its established provisions for a larger, stone The Newark Boys Choir, Randall Sname, structure which opened on Christmas Day of people. As we look to the future, we remem­ ber our past and the strong community values director. 1836. Evang. Sharon Dodd & The Y.T.E. Chris­ The new church meant a great deal to its upon which our city was built. And with great tian Theatrical Assoc. of Newark. members, allowing for increased access to re­ joy and excitement we look forward to the Evang. Matte Moultree Wilson & the ligious thought and thereby helping to en­ next 30 years. Original Halos of Newark, N.J. hance the already strong faith of its evergrow­ Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the entire U.S. Miss Shanty Hardy <5 years old) of Congress, I salute the city of Garden Grove Newark, N.J. ing congregation. Even natural disasters could Ms. Connie Pitts of Newark, N.J. not waver the spirit and the drive of these and congratuate them for 30 years of excel­ lence. Evang. Gail Squire & Company of people. In 1858 lightning struck the church's Newark, N.J. tower. It was quickly repaired. Again, in 1870, Min. Harry Johnson of Newark, N.J. strong winds destroyed the upper portion of TRIBUTE TO PAUL BATTISTI Master Shaun Miles of Newark, N.J. the tower, ruining the 2,400 pound bell pur­ Ms. Verna Rue-Law of Irvington, N.J. chased merely 3 years earlier to celebrate the HON. GENE CHAPPIE The Rawls Family of Newark, N.J. 1OOth anniversary of the founding of the OF CALIFORNIA This year's event is being covered by Mr. parish. These hardships only acted to unify IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Kelvin Johnson, local origination access coor­ the congregation. A new bell was quickly pur­ dinator, Storer Cable, in Plainfield, N.J. Mr. chased. Monday, June 16, 1986 Johnson's video project will be distributed to However, a turn of events, primarily the Mr. CHAPPIE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in various cable companies throughout the State move of Lanesboro's business center south­ honor of Paul Battisti, a health care profes­ of New Jersey for airing at a later date. ward, lead to the establishment of a new sional in my district who is retiring in August This is not a rare phenomenon-many of parish structure. Hence, need of the old stone after a 40 year career in health care. Mr. Bat- the greatest performers in the world got their 13894 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1986 start by singing gospel music. As a musical DUTY SUSPENSION ON 1988 for national security programs of style, it has influenced all other forms of CYCLOSPORINE the Department of Energy, and S. music while still enduring as an important 2132, authorizing funds for fiscal year genre all its own. Gospel music has been HON. BILL FRENZEL 1987 for military construction pro- called the first truly American form of music, grams. OF MINNESOTA having as its origins the spirituals that ex­ SR-222 pressed the hope for a better life during the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs days of slavery. To the millions of people who Monday, June 16, 1986 Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee enjoy the beauty and appreciate the history of Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, today I have in­ To hold oversight hearings on imple­ gospel music, this celebration is an event that mentation of the fair housing initia- troduced H.R. 5034, which would eliminate the tives program. ought not be missed. duty on cyclosporine until January 1, 1991. SD-538 This bill was introduced at the request of the University of Minnesota Medical School. Commerce, Science, and Transportation A TRIBUTE TO THE MARGARET Aviation Subcommittee However, I assume it will benefit other medi­ BRENT BUSINESS AND PROFES­ To hold. hearings on the effects of the SIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB cal schools and institutions as well. high cost and unavailability of product Cyclosporine is an FDA-approved immuno­ liability insurance on the general avia­ HON. ROY DYSON suppressive agent which is used in research tion industry. conducted to improve organ transplantation OF MARYLAND SR-253 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES techniques. The drug, to my knowledge, is 9:30 a.m. manufactured by only one company in Swit­ Governmental Affairs Monday, June 16, 1986 zerland. To hold hearings on the nomination of Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Even though the column I tariff is low at 1.5 Evelyn E. Crawford Queen, to be an pay tribute to an organization which will be percent currently, the tariff combined with a Associate Judge of the Superior Court celebrating on June 18, 1986, 20 years of pro­ customs broker fee can make the price of of the District of Columbia. tecting, promoting, and procuring the civil entry very high for a research facility with SR-301 Select on Intelligence rights of women in the workplace. I speak of scarce resources. Often, an experimental drug will be donated to a research facility, yet that To hold closed hearings on intelligence the Margaret Brent Business and Professional matters. facility will still have to pay for the drug Women's Club of St. Mary's County, MD. SH-219 Proudly continuing the legacy of Margaret through the tariff and broker fee. 10:00 a.m. Brent, the great 17th-century crusader for My bill would enable the users of this drug Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry women's suffrage, the St. Mary's branch of to enter the drug themselves to avoid unwant­ To hold hearings on the nominations of this venerated national organization has been ed expenses and delays. Kala A. Hineman, of Kansas, to be a a leader in ensuring women that they are The column II duty would not be changed. Commissioner of the Commodity Fu­ guaranteed equality in the job market. By tures Trading Commission, Kathleen serving the needs of the working women W. Lawrence, of Virginia, to be Under through educational and job training supports, SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Secretary of Agriculture for Small the Margaret Brent Business and Professional Community and Rural Development, Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Kenneth A. Gilles, of Virginia, to be Women's Club of St. Mary's County has pro­ agreed to by the Senate on February foundly affected the lives of countless per­ Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a Marketing and Inspection Services, sons. system for a computerized schedule of and Robert W. Beuley, of Virginia, to Indeed, we all owe a special debt of grati­ all meetings and hearings of Senate be Inspector General, Department of tude to this distinguished organization which committees, subcommittees, joint com­ Agriculture. has played a large role in the burgeoning mittees, and committees of conference. SR-332 economy of Maryland's Eastern Shore. So, This title requires all such committees Energy and Natural Resources Mr. Speaker, I applaud the Margaret Brent to notify the Office of the Senate Business meeting, to consider pending Business and Professional Women's Club of Daily Digest-designated by the Rules calendar business. St. Mary's County on their 20th anniversary Committee-of the time, place, and SD-366 for work which stands as a great source of purpose of the meetings, when sched­ Environment and Public Works pride to their community and all of Maryland's uled, and any cancellations or changes Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee First Congressional District. To continue hearings on S. 1235 and S. in the meetings as they occur. 2291, bills to promote more effective As an additional procedure along and efficient nuclear licensing and reg­ RULE ON H.R. 4868, THE ANTI­ with the computerization of this infor­ ulation, and to begin hearings on sec­ APARTHEID ACT OF 1986 mation, the Office of the Senate Daily tion 2 of S. 2471, to establish an Office Digest will prepare this information of Inspector General in the Nuclear HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI for printing in the Extensions of Re­ Regulatory Commission. marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL SD-406 OF ILLINOIS RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of Governmental Affairs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES each week. Civil Service, Post Office, and General Monday, June 16, 1986 Any changes in committee schedul­ Services Subcommittee ing will be indicated by placement of To hold joint hearings with the House Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, I take Committee on Post Office and Civil this opportunity to inform my colleagues that an asterisk to the left of the name of Service on a Postal Rate Commission the Committee on Ways and Means today fa­ the unit conducting such meetings. report on the use and abuse of the vorably reported to the House of Representa­ Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, preferred mail rate. tives as amended H.R. 4868, to prohibit loans June 17, 1986, may be found in the SD-342 to, other investments in, and certain other ac­ Daily Digest of today's RECORD. Judiciary tivities with respect to, South Africa, and for MEETINGS SCHEDULED To resume hearings on S. 2334, to re­ other purposes. strict all Federal employees from lob­ I wish to serve notice, pursuant to the rules JUNE 18 bying the Federal Government and of the Democratic Caucus, that I intend to 9:00 a.m. from working for a foreign entity after seek less than an open rule for the consider­ Armed Services they leave Government service. Closed business meeting, to continue SD-226 ation of this legislation by the House of Rep­ consideration of S. 2199, authorizing Labor and Human Resources resentatives of those provisions under the ju­ funds for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ Business meeting, to consider pending risdiction of the Committee on Ways and partment of Defense, S. 2218, author­ calendar business. Means. izing funds for fiscal years 1987 and SD-430 June 16, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13895 11:00 a.m. nuclear powerplant at Chernobyl on 2287, s. 2320, s. 2351, s. 2466, s. 1019 Foreign Relations the domestic nuclear industry. and H.R. 2182, S. 2483, and S. 2532. To hold hearings on the nominations of SD-366 SD-366 Robert B. Keating, of the District of Finance 10:00 a.m. Columbia, to be United States Execu­ To hold hearings on the nominations of Finance tive Director of the International Robert B. Helms, of Maryland, and Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service Bank for Reconstruction and Develop­ Ronald F. Docksai, of Virginia, each to Subcommittee ment, Jonathan Moore, of Massachu­ be an Assistant Secretary of Health To continue oversight hearings to setts, to be United States Coordinator and Human Services. review activities of the Internal Reve­ for Refugee Affairs and Ambassador­ SD-215 nue Service and the Department of at-Large while serving in this position, Special on Aging Justice relating to the investigation Robie M.H. Palmer, of Vermont, to be To hold hearings on equality in the and posecution of certain tax cases. Ambassador to Hungary, Harry W. work force regardless of age. SD-215 Shlaudeman, of California, to be Am­ SD-106 Judiciary bassador to the Federative Republic of 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 2323, to exempt Brazil, and Frank G. Wisner, of the Finance from the antitrust laws any joint District of Columbia, to be Ambassa­ Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service agreement or action by persons in the dor to the Arab Republic of Egypt. Subcommittee television broadcast industry to allevi­ SD-419 To hold oversight hearings to review ac­ tivities of the Internal Revenue Serv­ ate the negative impact of violence in 1:00 p.m. tele\ ision broadcast material. Judiciary ice and the Department of Justice re­ lating to the investigation and pros­ SD-628 Security and Terrorism Subcommittee Judiciary To resume hearings in closed session on ecution of certain tax cases. legal mechanisms to combat terrorism. SD-215 Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcom­ S-407, Capitol Foreign Relations mittee To hold hearings to review the progress 2:00 p.m. To resume hearings on proposals relat­ Armed Services ing to nuclear testing issues. including of this year's Administration refugee Closed business meeting, to continue S.J. Res. 252, S. 2220, H.J. Res. 3, S. policies. consideration of S. 2199, authorizing Con. Res. 7, and S. Con. Res. 135. SD-226 funds for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ SD-419 partment of Defense, S. 2218, author­ Judiciary JUNE 23 izing funds for fiscal years 1987 and Business meeting, to consider pending 10:00 a.m. 1988 for national security programs of calendar business. Finance the ·1epartment of Energy, and S. SD-226 Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service 2132, Alaska Natural Gas Employment and Productivity Subcom­ legislative and administrative business. Transportation System, and Richard mittee SR-301 H. Francis, of Virginia, to be Presi­ To resume·joint hearings with the Com­ Select on Intelligence dent, Solar Energy and Energy Con­ servation Bank. mittee on Finance's Subcommittee on To hold closed hearings on intelligence Social Security and Income Mainte­ matters. SD-366 nance Programs on work and welfare SH-219 issues. 10:00 a.m. JULY 16 Energy and Natural Resources SD-430 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending Energy and Natural Resources calendar business. Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to consider pending Water and Power Subcommittee SD-366 calendar business. To hold hearings on S. 230, to relieve Environment and Public Works SD-366 Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources the city of Dickinson, North Dakota of Business meeting, to consider S. 1225, to To hold oversight hearings on barriers all obligations incurred in a contract revise certain provisions of the Atomic to children's health care. entered into with the Secretary of the Energy Act of 1954 regarding liability SD-430 Interior concerning construction of of nuclear accidents. certain facilities under the Reclama­ SD-406 JULY 17 tion Authorization Act of 1975, S. 252, Labor and Human Resources 9:20 a.m. to provide for the construction, oper­ To hold hearings on the administration Commerce, Science, and Transportation ation, and maintenance of the Lake of the Mine Safety and Health Review Aviation Subcommittee Andes-Wagner Unit, South Dakota Commission. To hold hearings on S. 2417, to provide Pumping Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri SD-430 for the establishment of an independ­ River basin program, South Dakota, Select on Indian Affairs ent commission to study and make rec­ and S. 1704, to increase the authoriza­ To hold hearings on H.R. 1344, to pro­ ommendations regarding the manage­ tion of appropriations for the North vide for the restoration of Federal rec­ ment of aviation safety. Loup Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri ognition to the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo SD-562 Basin Program, Nebraska. and the Alabama and Coushatta 9:30 a.m. SD-366 Indian Tribes of Texas. Finance 2:00 p.m. SR-385 Social Security and Income Maintenance Labor and Human Resources Programs Subcommittee JUNE 26 To resume hearings on S. 1804, to estab­ To hold joint hearings with the Commit­ lish a program to provide development 9:30 a.m. tee on Labor and Human Resources' and incentive grants to States for en­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Employment and acting medical malpractice liability re­ Surface Transportation Subcommittee Productivity on work and welfare forms. To hold hearings on the establishment issues. SD-430 of new short-line and regional rail­ SD-430 roads. Labor and Human Resources SR-253 Employment and Productivity Subcom­ JULY 23 Governmental Affairs mittee 9:30 a.m. Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ To hold joint hearings with the Commit­ Rules and Administration tee tee on Finance's Subcommittee on To hold hearings on S. Res. 330, to es­ To hold hearings on certain provisions Social Security and Income Mainte­ tablish within the U.S. Senate a Spe­ of S. 2403, to improve access to health nance Programs on work and welfare cial Committee on Families, Youth, insurance coverage for Americans. issues. and Children. SD-342 SD-430 SR-301 June 16, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13897 10:00 a.m. JULY 30 AUGUST 13 Energy and Natural Resources 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources calendar business. Business meeting, to consider pending Business meeting, to consider pending SD-366 calendar business. calendar business. SD-366 SD-366 JULY 24 Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending To hold hearings to review the private Energy and Natural Resources calendar business. sector initiatives in human services. Natural Resources Development and Pro­ SD-430 SD-430 duction Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 1026, to imple­ ment the policies of the proposed Con­ JULY 31 SEPTEMBER 10 tinental Scientific Drilling Program of 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. the United States relating to earth sci­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation Labor and Human Resources ence research and technological devel­ To hold hearings on scrambling of satel­ To hold hearings to review the human opment. lite delivered video programming. resources impact on drug research and SD-366 SR-253 space technology. SD-430 JULY 29 9:30 a.m. AUGUST 5 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 9:30 a.m. SEPTEMBER 16 Foreign Agricultural Policy Subcommittee Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 10:00 a.m. To resume hearings to review agricultur­ Foreign Agricultural Policy Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources al trade issues, focusing on the impact To resume hearings to review agricultur­ To hold hearings on pending nomina- of the 1985 farm bill