3210 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, March 2, 1989 The House met at 9:30 a.m. The honored guests entered the door eousness like a mighty stream. This we The Chaplain, Rev. James David to the right of the Speaker and took pray. Amen. Ford, D.D., offered the following the positions assigned to them. The Doorkeeper announced the prayer: The Doorkeeper, Hon. James P. House and Senate Journals of the Speak to Your people, 0 loving God, Molloy, announced the President pro First Federal Congress, and they were of Your presence and hear the peti tempore and Members of the U.S. carried by the Clerk of the House and tions and needs of each one. Minister Senate, who entered the Hall of the the Secretary of the Senate and to us, 0 God, in the depths of our House of Representatives, the Presi placed in the well. hearts and hear the aspirations and dent pro tempore taking the chair at The Doorkeeper announced the hopes of each of us. We place before the right of the Speaker, and the mace of the House and the gavel of You the innermost feelings that we Members of the Senate the seats re the Senate, and they were carried by withhold from all else and pray that served for them. the House and Senate Sergeants at Your spirit will guide us each new day. The U.S. Army Band, under the di Arms and placed in the well. Amen. rection of Col. Eugene W. Allen, leader The SPEAKER. The Chair recog and conductor, and Maj. C. Benjamin nizes the gentlewoman from Louisi DuBose, presented a prelude concert. THE JOURNAL ana, the Honorable LINDY BOGGS, The SPEAKER. The joint meeting Chairman of the Commission on the The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex to commemorate the Bicentennial of Bicentenary of the House of Repre amined the Journal of the last day's the U.S. Congress will come to order. sentatives. [Applause.] proceedings and announces to the The Doorkeeper announced the flag Mrs. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice House his approval thereof. of the United States. Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the The flag was carried into the Cham President, leaders of the House and Journal stands approved. ber by the joint Armed Forces color Senate, Members of the House and guard accompanied by the 3d U.S. In Senate, distinguished guests, ladies fantry Fife and Drum Corps. and gentlemen, it is my great honor to PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The national anthem was presented welcome you to this joint meeting in commemoration of the 200th anniver The SPEAKER. Would the gentle by the U.S. Army Band. man from Rhode Island [Mr. MACHT The color guard saluted the Speaker, sary of Congress. This occasion is a LEY] please come forward and lead our faced about, and saluted the House. very special part of the celebration of colleagues in the Pledge of Allegiance? The SPEAKER. The color guard will the Bicentennial of Congress, which Mr. MACHTLEY led the Pledge of now post the colors. will be marked by historical publica Allegiance as follows: The flag was posted, and the Mem tions, ceremonies, exhibits, a special film, and other activities during 1989. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the bers were seated. United States of America, and to the Repub The SPEAKER. The invocation will All three branches of the Federal lic for which it stands, one nation, under be given by the Reverend James David Government trace their beginnings to God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for Ford, Chaplain of the House of Repre 1789, but it was Congress which assem all. sentatives. bled first, and successfully launched The Chaplain, Rev. James David the United States of America. So, it is RECESS Ford, D.D., offered the following invo fitting that the first branch assemble on this day in recognition of the noble The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the cation: With appreciation for Your provi work of our predecessors and in antici order of the House of Thursday, Feb pation of the events yet to come that ruary 23, 1989, the Chair declares the dence, with gratitude and praise, we thank You, Almighty God, for the will celebrate the executive and judi House in recess subject to the call of cial branches. the Chair, which will be at 10 a.m. blessings given to us and to our Nation in all the time before us. As today's ceremony began, officers Accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 32 min of the House and Senate brought into utes a.m.), the House stood in recess You have nurtured us and breathed into our souls the very breath of life; the Chamber some special objects that subject to the call of the Chair at 10 are dear to Congress. The two J our a.m. You have given direction in the dark days when hope was weak and spirits nals, one for the House and one for confused; You have shown the path of the Senate, contain the record of the 0 1158 truth as a beacon of light; You have beginning of Congress in 1789. Each redeemed us in forgiveness and point legislative day for the past two centur JOINT MEETING OF THE 101ST ed the way to righteousness. Gracious ies the House and Senate have record CONGRESS IN COMMEMORA God, continue to touch the heart, the ed their actions and formally approved TION OF THE BICENTENNIAL mind, the spirit of our Nation that we their Journals. They represent our be OF THE U.S. CONGRESS will be faithful to the high calling You ginnings as a legislature, and they are During the recess, the following pro have given, to be the people You symbols of the unbroken record of two ceedings took place in commemoration would have us be and to do those centuries of representative govern of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Con things that honor You and serve the ment under the U.S. Constitution. gress. common good. These two particular copies of the The U.S. Army Band, under the di Accept our gratitude, 0 God of Journals were George Washington's rection of Col. Eugene W. Allen, leader wisdom, for the gifts of life and hope personal copies and they are kept at and conductor, Maj. C. Benjamin that have been the heritage of our the National Archives. DuBose, conducting, entered the door Nation. May we continue to know the The mace of the House of Repre to the left of the Speaker, took the po blessings of order, harmony, and peace sentatives, a silver eagle atop a silver sitions assigned to them, and present and continue in Your way that justice globe of the world, supported by 13 ed a prelude concert. will flow down as waters and right- ebony rods, each representing one of
0 This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., 0 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3211 the Original Thirteen States, is a government that would forge the citi States exploded the first atomic bomb, symbol of authority of the House. zens of these States into one people, a signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty This particular mace has been used government that would preserve do and recently agreed to abolish an since 1841, and is always in the Cham mestic tranquility and defend against entire class of nuclear weapons. We ber when the House is in session. foreign aggression, a government that built our first Interstate Highway The ivory gavel is one of the great would divide power into three System, made tremendous strides in treasures of the Senate. According to branches, with checks and balances national health care and landed men tradition, John Adams, the Nation's among them to prevent any part of it on the Moon and brought them back first Vice President, used the gavel at from becoming tyrannical. Moreover, safely again to their home on Earth. the first session of the Senate in 1789. it was a government and a nation that It is remarkable that one congres Thomas Jefferson may have used this could grow. sional career could encompass so much same gavel to call the Senate to order In 1791 Congress voted to admit Ver of our Nation's history, and certainly when he was Vice President of the mont as the first new State outside CLAUDE PEPPER is a remarkable man. United States and President of the the original 13. Over the course of the Many of the rest of us can look back Senate from 1797 to 1801. Jefferson next two centuries, the Nation ex over our own careers in this Congress compiled his Manual of Parliamentary panded across the continent and to and similarly marvel at the momen Practice to guide him as he presided the Pacific and into the Pacific. Today tous events that we have witnessed, over the Senate. Those rules are still a majority of us represent States that the many Presidents with whom we consulted almost 200 years later. not only did not exist in 1789 but also have worked, the significant legisla Behind me on the Speaker's desk sits whose areas at that time lay under tion that we have helped enact. We an old silver inkwell that has been in foreign control. A map of 1789 would are all part of the history of this great the House for at least 168 years. It ap show my own State of West Virginia pears in a portrait of Henry Clay of as simply the western region of Virgin institution, even those of us who en Kentucky painted in 1821. Clay was ia, still 74 years and a bloody Civil tered Congress for the first time the first great Speaker of the House, War away from separate statehood. during the lOlst Congress and who are and went on to a distinguished career Whether those of us in this lOlst still learning their way about the cor as one of the greatest U.S. Senators in Congress represent one of the Original ridors of this magnificent Capitol. history. Thirteen States or one of the addition These Members, too, will have the op We have gathered these volumes al 37 States, the Commonwealth of portunity to make history. Perhaps and these special artifacts to remind Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, among these Members will be as tena us of the past and to show the conti and American Samoa, Guam or the cious a one as CLAUDE PEPPER, who will nuity of the traditions of Congress, Virgin Islands, we share a commonal still be serving in the 126th Congress, traditions which are as strong today as ity to our predecessors in the First 50 years from now. they were in the past. Congress, and we are here today as a If one Member among us eventually It is my great pleasure to introduce result of the work done by them and celebrates the 250th anniversary of to you Senator ROBERT c. BYRD, the by succeeding generations of Senators the Congress, I ask that member on President pro tempore of the Senate and Representatives. We have inherit behalf of all of my colleagues and on and the Chairman of the Senate Bi ed from them the responsibility for behalf of all of our predecessors give centennial Commission, who has con making the laws of this Nation, for de our successors this salute: May the tributed so much to our understanding termining the course today, and into Congress of the United States endure of the history and traditions of the the future centuries. We celebrate 200 forever, may here the people always Senate. His recently published history years of history, a proud accomplish govern. [Applause.] of the U.S. Senate is testimony to the ment of the democratic government The PRESIDENT pro tempore (pre great love he has for its traditions and and a representative national legisla siding). The Chair recognizes the for this great experiment in freedom ture. Speaker of the U.S. House of Repre the United States of America. Senator But 200 years is not so long a time. sentatives, Mr. JIM WRIGHT. [Ap ROBERT c. BYRD. [Applause.] Consider that one Member of the plause.] Senator BYRD. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. lOlst Congress first took his oath Mr. WRIGHT. Two hundred years BOGGS, Members of the lOlst Congress, during the 74th Congress. CLAUDE ago the First Congress came to New fellow citizens, as Chairman of the PEPPER became a U.S. Senator in No York to breathe life into the new Con Senate Commission on the Bicenten vember 1936 and served in the Senate stitution and to make a reality of the nial, it is a privilege and an honor for until 1952. He became a Member of dream and promise of representative me to address this joint meeting com the House of Representatives in Janu self-government. memorating the beginning of the First ary 1963 and he continues ably and Members of the new Congress arriv Congress on March 4, 1789. faithfully to represent his district. ing in New York were greeted by flags, The ink had only barely dried on the [Applause.] musical salutes, church bells, and the new Constitution which two of the Think about his service which began roar of cannon. They, as well as the Original Thirteen States had not yet over 50 years ago, fully one-quarter of crowds that greeted them, were keenly ratified. The newly elected President, the two centuries that Congress has aware that they were plowing new George Washington, waited to be existed. CLAUDE PEPPER first took his ground. They were attempting to sworn into office; nor had the Vice oath of office as a Senator when create something unique in history. President taken his oath. Neither of Franklin D. Roosevelt was President Madison said, "We are in a wilderness the two constitutional officers of Con of the United States, when this Nation without a single footprint to guide us." gress, the Speaker of the House and was emerging from a devastating de There were 59 Representatives and the President pro tempore of the pression, and before it had faced 22 Senators representing those 11 Senate, had been elected. The Cabinet, global conflict in the Second World States which had ratified the new gov the Supreme Court, and the entire War. CLAUDE PEPPER first took his oath ernment at that point. Eight of them Federal judiciary remained mere of office as a Representative during had served as delegates to the Consti phrases in the Constitution, as yet un the Presidency of John F. Kenndy and tutional Convention. All but two of formed by legislation. a far more prosperous Nation was be them had served at some point in Members of the First Congress set ginning seriously to address problems public office. about to mold t he aspiration of t he of poverty and racial inequality and After reviewing the roster of the Constitutional Convention into t he re before it faced another terrible war in new Congress, an optimistic George ality of a government that would unite Southeast Asia. During h is span of Washington proudly proclaimed th at the separate States into a Nation, a years in the Congress the United "it will not be inferior to any assembly 3212 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 on Earth." A somewhat less enthusias In all of this the U.S. Congress is mortal imperfections, still is-just as it tic James Madison, on the other hand, probably the most fascinatingly was in Lincoln's time, and may it for seemed to discern in the very distinc human institution in the world. It is ever remain-the last best hope of the tions that adorned the names of the beyond question the most criticized Earth. [Applause.] Members of the new House a cause for legislative assembly on Earth, and still The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The concern because he said, "I see on the the most honored. It can rise to Chair recognizes the Senator from list of Representatives a very scanty heights of sparkling statesmanship, Maine, the Honorable GEORGE MITCH proportion who will share in the and it can sink to levels of crass medi ELL, the majority leader of the U.S. drudgery of business." ocrity. In both postures it is supremely Senate. [Applause.] The new House did not exactly get interesting precisely because it is Senator MITCHELL. Mr. Speaker, off to a running start. Only five States human. The story of Congress is the Mr. President, Members of Congress, were represented on that first day, story of people. and distinguished guests, this is a new March 4, 1789, and it took 25 false at We were visited in 1831 by a distin experience for me which I think I am tempts over a period of 29 days just to guished French aristocrat named enjoying. When we leave here, the establish a quorum, without which Alexis de Tocqueville who later wrote Senate will commence debate on the they were unable to elect a Speaker about American democracy. De Toc Tower nomination. A month ago, and get down to business. queville was grandly impressed by the when the pay raise controversey was But get down to business they final intellectual caliber of people in the at its height, a Republican colleague ly did. Even before George Washing Senate who at that time were not di of mine in the Senate came over to ton could be inaugurated the new rectly elected by the public, but rather me, put his arm on my shoulder and chosen by State legislatures. But he House had taken up the tariff bill to was negatively impressed by the qual said, "Look at it this way. It can't get provide the needed revenue to run the ity that he discerned in the House. He any worse." new government and to pay off some spoke of our "vulgarity and poverty of In 1830, John Quincy Adams was of the debts that they had accumulat talent." These characteristics which elected to the House of Representa ed during the Revolutionary War. Oh he thought created a general worth tives. He had previously served as an yes, they already had a national debt. lessness to the House of Representa ambassador, as Secretary of State, and It was so severe in relative terms that tives, de Tocqueville attributed to the as President, yet he wrote of his elec Spain, which then owned Florida, was fact that its Members were directly tion to the House, "My election as offering to help bail out the new gov elected, democratically, by the people. President of the United States was not ernment with cash payments to buy That French nobleman boldly proph half so gratifying." His sentiments the Carolinas. esied that, unless the method of were understood by the people of his That First Congress to its credit and choosing Representatives was time, but they would not be under to our lasting benefit accumulated a changed, this American Republic stood by the people of our time. very impressive legislative record. It stood under the doom of "perishing In the 20th century, and especially gave form to the executive branch of miserably among the shoals of democ in the age of television, many, if not Government by creating the Depart racy." Well, that was 158 years ago. most, Americans have come to view ments of State, Treasury, War and the In 1925, the House Speaker, Nicho the executive as the primary branch Office of the Attorney General. It las Longworth, philosophically opined of government. That was not intended gave substance to the judicial branch that "from the beginning of the Re by the Members who wrote the Consti of government by establishing the Su public it has been the duty of every tution. The Constitution's first article preme Court, a system of lesser Feder freeborn voter to look down upon us which describes the powers of Con al courts and establishing a criminal and the duty of every freeborn humor gress is longer than the other seven code for the United States. ist to make jokes about us." He may articles combined, and that is why It began to tie together the thin have had in mind Mark Twain who, a Congress is called the first branch of sprinkling of pioneer settlements scat quarter Century earlier, commented Government. I do not claim that Con tered along this eastern seaboard into that America had no distinctive indige gress is the primary branch, but I do one cohesive Nation by authorizing a nous criminal class-"except, of course remind all that it is a coequal branch system of roads and bridges, trails and for the Congress." of Government. navigable streams. Even so, the Congress-called by Indeed an independent legislature is But surely its most celebrated and Thomas Jefferson "the great com a distinguishing feature of democracy. most enduring contribution to the manding theater of the Nation," by All forms of government have execu future was the writing by the First another historian, the grand reposi tives. In totalitarian societies that is Congress of that lasting testament to tory of the democratic principle, the usually all there is. Where legislatures individual human liberty, the Ameri butt of cartoonists, crusaders, and co exist in those societies they are merely can Bill of Rights. medians alike-has endured for 200 tokens, wholly subservient to the exec Now for 200 years Congress has been years as the fulcrum of our system of utive. a mirror of the Nation-a distillate of representative self-government. This 101st Congress is part of the our national strengths and weakness In this tripartite system, Congress most successful effort at self-govern es. Hale Boggs described it as a collec sometimes has been overshadowed by ment in all of human history. The bril tion of ordinary men and women grap a charismatic executive. Yet the Con liant success of the Founding Fathers pling with extraordinary problems. gress has managed in all circum is evidenced in the fact that in our two William Redfield said Congress was stances to muddle through, sometimes centuries of history we have had 41 "a fair cross-section of the people, leading and sometimes lagging, some presidents and no kings. No institution showing us very much as we are and times leaping and sometimes limping. has contributed more to that happy throwing our faults and virtues into Toward the end of his career Sam result than the Congress. high relief." Samuel Johnson, speak Rayburn once was asked, "How many Together the two Houses of Con ing for the ratification of the Consti Presidents have you served under?" gress enact all legislation. Together tution before the North Carolina Con The crusty old Texan snorted and they can override Presidential vetoes. vention, sought to describe the quality replied, "Huh, I haven't served under The House originates revenue bills. and character of those Representa any. I've served with eight." The Senate's advice and consent is tives whose election had been mandat And that system of representative necessary for the ratification of trea ed by the Constitution. He said, "They self-government, of which Congress is ties. The Constitution entrusts Con are to be bone of our bone, flesh of an integral and indispensable part, gress with the power to tax, to provide our flesh." with all its faults, and flaws and for the common defense and general March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE 3213 welfare. The Congress has the author most of us it has been the greatest by some to be making a "deal" or trad ity to regulate commerce, to establish pride and honor of our lives. ing away principles, it is, when done a judicial system, to declare war, to As Senator MITCHELL indicated, with principle, the most compelling raise and support the Army and the John Quincy Adams returned to serve and important of public business. Navy. in the House of Representatives after "The Congress," Woodrow Wilson With that broad authority comes being President of the United States said, "has been both extravagantly great responsibility. It is our responsi considering it a great honor to do so. praised and unreasonably disparaged, bility to use the power with which we According to the 63-year-old Mr. according to the predisposition and have been entrusted for the common Adams, "No election or appointment temper of its various critics. The truth good. conferred upon me ever gave me so is," he said, "in this case as in so many As we enter the third century of our much pleasure." Yet, in addition to others, something quite commonplace institution, we can do no better than being President, he had, before he and practical. The Congress is just to recall the words of one of the great came to the House of Representatives, past Members of Congress to whom been at the age of 14 a diplomatic sec what the mode of its election and the the Speaker has already alluded, his retary in the court of Russia's Cather conditions of public life in this coun predecessor, Sam Rayburn, who in his ine II, at 28 a minister to The Hague, try make it." first speech in the House said: and minister plenipotentiary to Russia When the First Congress completed its work in 1789, it had, as the Speaker It is now my sole purpose here to help at the time of Czar Alexander I. He enact such wise and just laws that our saw Napoleon return to Paris from indicated, a brilliant, almost une common country will by virtue of those laws Elba, served as Secretary of State qualled results, to the point that jour be a happier and more prosperous country. I under President Monroe, then a U.S. nalists and other observers of the day have always dreamed of a country which I Senator, President, and finally in commenting on its achievements, believe this will and could be. That is one in Member of the House. decided that they had been truly phe which the citizenship is an educated and pa nomenal. triotic people, not swayed by passion or In this body, we have had over prejudice, a country that shall know no 10,000 Members. While many of them A friend wrote to Vice President East, no West, no North, no South, but in have gone from the House to the Adams that "In no nation, by no legis habited by a people, liberty-loving, patriotic, Senate, I would note that some of our lature, was ever so much done in so happy and prosperous, with its lawmakers greatest Members, John Quincy short a period for the establishment of having no other purpose than to write such Adams and CLAUDE PEPPER, have done government, order and public credit just laws as shall in years to come be of it the other way around. [Applause.] and generally tranquillity." service to humankind yet unborn. With the great honor of being a At the end of my first session of To some, Sam Rayburn's objective Member of Congress has come Congress, the 89th Congress, our late may sound naive and so idealistic as to throughout the years of our history great colleague, Hale Boggs, quoted be impossible of attaining. To me, even close scrutiny and criticism, both indi Fisher Ames and concluded that he recognizing the failings from which we vidually and as an institution. That is believed that his was a very apt de as humans suffer, they are noble ob appropriate, because the great pride of scription of Congress because "we jectives for which we should always our service is that unlike great Cabi come from the people, and we are of strive. net officers or judges, we are here not the people, and, thank God, we have a Thank you very much. [Applause.] by the appointment of the President, system that makes that possible." The SPEAKER. The Chair recog but by the election of the people. We can all echo that prayer of grati nizes the gentleman from Washington, The Congress has changed dramati tude today. [Applause.] the Honorable THOMAS s. FOLEY, ma cally over the years with the coming The SPEAKER. The U.S. Army jority leader of the U.S. House of Rep of radio and television. It is perhaps Band will now perform America the resentatives. [Applause.] the most closely followed branch of Beautiful. Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Presi our Government, clearly the most ob The U.S. Army Band presented a dent pro tempore, Members of the served and commented upon. We are musical interlude. Congress, distinguished guests, ladies the only branch of Government that The SPEAKER. The Chair recog and gentlemen, when the crowds conducts its day-to-day business not nizes the distinguished gentleman cheered and cannons roared, as Speak only under the scrutiny of television, er WRIGHT has said, on the First Con but in an almost verbatim RECORD. from Illinois, the Honorable ROBERT gress' meeting in New York on March While the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD will H. MICHEL, minority leader of the U.S. 4, 1789, the quarters which they were perhaps never appear on the best House of Representatives. [Applause.] to inhabit were not yet finished, caus seller list, it does lay open to the Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, Mr. ing them to convene in makeshift cir American people, as does television President pro tempore, Mr. Chief Jus cumstances. The first Members were coverage, the business that goes on tice, my distinguished colleagues, planters and merchants and, as today, here, their business. ladies and gentlemen, that spirited about a third of them were lawyers. We have perhaps the longest-stand rendition of "America the Beautiful" There were, Chaplain Ford, a few cler ing continuous assembly in the world, speaks of our national natural won gymen as Members as well. Despite a along with that of Great Britain and ders of this great land, its spacious slow and rather disappointing start to its Commonwealth. But it is perhaps skies, its waving fields of grain and their work, they obtained a brilliant only here that Members have an op purple mountains' majesties, but I conclusion. Allowing Fisher Ames, a portunity from the very first day of guess equally as beautiful is our legacy Member of the First Congress, to say their service to participate directly in of self-government because it is a of his colleagues that they were "on the affairs of the institution and to beauty we have created for ourselves. the whole, very good men, not shining, have the opportunity to actively serve With God's help and our own help we but honest and reasonably well in the people of their State or their dis have drafted a way of living together formed." trict in an immediate way. in community guided by the ideals of Congressional terms overlap; individ We are, unfortunately, sometimes justice and equality before the law. uals come and go-sometimes without victims of the perception that the Nothing beneath the spacious skies is much fanfare. Influences change, business of the Congress is somewhat more beautiful than human beings recede. I believe, however, I speak for disorderly and confused. This is be working out their destiny in freedom. the more than 10,000 of us who have cause the business of making legisla In that sense our country has for 200 served in the House of Representa tion is also the business of compromise years indeed been America the beauti tives and over 11,000 who have served and adjustment. That is not always ful, and Congress is a major part of in the Congress, in saying that for understood. Although it is considered that creation. 3214 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 One of the most gratifying events in al prose, but the fiery, living truth of Honorable Boa DoLE, minority leader each session of Congress is the return great poetry. of the U.S. Senate. [Applause.] of former Members to this Chamber. We are very fortunate indeed to Senator DOLE. Mr. President pro It is a special day for all of us filled have with us today the Poet Laureate tempore, Mr. Speaker, my colleagues with memories. The continuity and Howard Nemerov. His work has been in the House and Senate, this morning the tradition of this great institution described as modern sensibility with we have all paused from our normal are embodied in our welcome of old classic elegance. He has been the re legislative pressing business, which is friends and colleagues, and today in a cipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Na not too pressing these days, to com similar spirit we are gathered in honor tional Book Award, the National memorate the 200th anniversary of of our former Members of Congress, Medal of Arts and, among other recog the U.S. Congress, and this is a rare, the 65 Representatives and the 26 Sen nitions, the prestigious Bollingen Prize special occasion because as an institu ators who made up that very first Con for poetry in 1981. He is also a novel tion we focus so much on today and gress. ist, essayist, critic and teacher, a con tomorrow that sometimes it is difficult It is difficult for us to think of them sultant to the Library of Congress, to find time to reflect on yesterday. So as colleagues. We are, after all, sepa and a distinguished professor of Eng today for a few moments we are doing rated by 200 years. We can no longer lish at Washington University in St. that, and that is a shame because, as see them as they are. They have Louis. Members of Congress, we are sur become a legend, and it is the legend Now, if these achievements were his rounded by reminders of men and we see. only contribution to our civilization, women who preceded us. We sit at In one sense it is good that we have he could be content, but he made an their desks, we occupy their offices, we this legend. A nation needs its legends other kind of commitment. During carry on their traditions, and we have as much as it needs its heroes, but it is World War II he flew more than 100 much to learn from them. good for us to recall today that the combat missions with the Royal Air During the last Congress I delivered Congressmen with discern across the Force and later with the U.S. Air a series of Bicentennial minutes offer chasm of years were also creatures of Force. ing vignettes on important or colorful flesh and blood, not the demagogues Howard N emerov was once asked of legend. They had to make the same about the problem of poetic inspira or unusual events that happened in kinds of decisions that we have to tion, and he said, "The impulse comes the Senate's history. While putting make, they had to answer the same from unexpected oddities." Unexpect these together, I was repeatedly sur questions: ed oddities sounds much like what prised to find Members of Congress Will it be yea or nay on this vote? goes on in some of our debates, so he wrestling with issues 100 and even 200 Shall I compromise or shall I fight? should feel right at home here on this years ago that were as current as the How can I balance the desires of my floor of the House. headlines in today's newspapers. As constituents with the harsh necessities Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, the Speaker said, we were confronting of governing? it is my pleasure to introduce the Poet Federal deficits. They were struggling And like us and like all those who Laureate of the United States, Howard with pay raises or helping a President came after them, they had to work for Nemerov. [Applause.] get his nominees confirmed, and I find ideal political goals with rather imper Mr. NEMEROV. Well, this is going examples demonstrating that we have fect human abilities. to be an anticlimax; isn't it, after an been doing it for 200 years. I can remember when I first came to introduction like that? Take today's joint gathering. In a this House, I looked with awe at TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES sense it has been stated previously Speaker Sam Rayburn and Joe Martin ENTERING ITS THIRD CENTURY, WITH PREFACE that this really commemorates today and Senators Everett Dirksen and Because reverence has never been Ameri the first absence of the quorum be Dick Russell over on the other side, ca's thing, this verse in your honor will not cause, although we officially began on and so many others, and now I find begin "O thou." But the great respect our March 4, 1789, they could not get a myself a veteran of the legislative country has to give may you all continue to quorum, and we did not have the first wars. I might tend to think I have deserve, and have. real joint meeting until April 6, 1789. become all too sophisticated, not Here at the fulcrum of us all, On that first occasion Members of the easily impressed, but today once again The feather of truth against the soul House walked up to the Senate Cham Is weighed, and had better be found to bal- ber in New York Federal Hall to count I feel that sense of awe and humility ance as we commemorate the giants of the the electoral votes confirming George Lest our enterprise collapse in silence. Washington's election as President. First Congress. For here the million varying wills In this ceremony we stretch forth Get melted down, get hammered out The last joint session, prior to our hand to them as colleagues across Until the movie's reduced to stills today's joint meeting, took place a the centuries, and we say to them, "If That tell us what the law's about. month ago when Members of the we have not matched your record of Conflict's endemic in the mind: Senate walked through the Capitol of accomplishment, we hope at least we Your job's to hear it in the wind the House Chamber to hear President have been worthy of your trust. And And compass it in opposites, George Bush. During the two centur separated by time, but united in duty, And bring the antagonists by your wits. ies in between joint meetings, we have we say to Daniel Carroll, of Maryland, To being one, and that the law heard Presidents, kings, prime minis to George Thatcher, of Massachusetts, Thenceforth, until you change your minds ters, admirals, and astronauts. In the and to Speaker Frederick Muhlenberg Against and with the shifting winds past here stood Winston Churchill, of Pennsylvania and all the rest, hon That this and that way blow the straw. Chester Nimitz, Carl Sandburg, ored congressional colleagues:" thank So it's a republic, as Franklin said, Charles deGaulle, Neil Armstrong, you for your sacrifices and your If you can keep it; and we did Anwar Sadat, and Margaret Thatcher. Thus far, and hope to keep our quarrel achievements. Because of you our Funny and just, though with this moral: Here Gen. Douglas MacArthur told a country is truly America the beautiful. joint meeting in Congress that "old Praise without end for the go-ahead zeal Now I have an introduction to make. Of whoever it was invented the wheel; soldiers never die, they just fade If I may paraphrase one of our former But never a word for the poor soul's sake away." Those were memorable mo congressisonal colleagues, the Mem That thought ahead, and invented the ments in our history. bers of the First Congress left us a brake. Beyond such out-of-the-ordinary legacy far above our power to add or -26 ii 89. events as joint meetings, 1989 will detract by our record, and at this [Applause.] mark the 200th anniversary of many point in our celebration, therefore, The SPEAKER. The Chair recog of Congress' everyday routines. It was what we need is not more congression- nizes the Senator from Kansas, the in 1789 that the House and Senate ap- March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3215 pointed their first committees, con I am honored and proud to present John Quincy Adams is a reminder vened their first conference commit David McCullough. [Applause.] that giants come in all shapes and tees, elected their first officers, adopt Mr. McCULLOUGH. Mr. Speaker, sizes and that, at times, they have ed their first rules, wrote and took Mr. Vice President, Senator DOLE, walked these halls, their voices have their first oaths of office and enacted Members of the lOlst Congress, ladies been heard, their spirit felt here. their first legislation, confirmed their and gentlemen. For a private citizen to Listen, please, to this from his diary, first nomination, and established the be asked to speak before Congress is a from March 29, 1841: first Cabinet officers thereby begin rare and very high honor and I thank The world, the flesh, and all the devils in ning their first oversight of executive you. hell are arrayed against any man who now agencies. Simon Willard was never a Member in this North American Union shall dare to Today, if you wonder why the clerks of Congress in the usual sense. Simon join the standard of Almighty God to put of the Senate and the House bow Willard of Roxbury, MA, was a clock down the African slave trade; and what can when they deliver bills and messages maker early in the 19th century and I, upon the verge of my seventy-fourth in each House, that was prescribed by birthday, with a shaking hand, a darkening he did it all by hand and by eye. eye, a drowsy brain, and with all my facul the First Congress. If you ever wonder "In cutting his wheel teeth," reads ties dropping from me one by one, as the why we formally address our Chief Ex an old account, "he did not mark out teeth are dropping from my head-what can ecutive as the President of the United the spaces on the blank [brass] wheel I do for the cause of God and man. • • • States of America, the First Congress and cut the teeth to measure, but he Yet my conscience presses me on; let me but decided that. cut, rounded up and finished the teeth die upon the breach. The first choice, by the way, of a as he went along, using his eye only in And how he loved the House of Rep special Senate Committee on Titles spacing, and always came out resentatives: was: His Highness, President of the even. • • • The forms and proceedings of the House United States of America and Protec [he writes], this call of the State for peti tor of the Rights of the Same. That is "It is doubtful," the old account con tinues, "if such a feat in mechanics tions, the colossal emblem of the Union over the title I was leaning to until New the Speaker's chair, this historic Muse at Hampshire. was ever done before, and certainly the clock, the echoing pillars of the hall, The House Chaplain who opened never since." the tripping Mercuries who bear the resolu this session with a prayer and the The exact date is uncertain, but tions and amendments between the mem Senate Chaplain who will close it are about 1837, when he was in his eight bers and the chair, the calls of ayes and the successors of Chaplains chosen by ies, Simon Willard made a most impor noes, with the different intonations of the the First Congress. So, too, are the tant clock. I will come back to that. answers, from different voices, the gobbling On a June afternoon in 1775, before manner of the clerk in reading over the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk names, the tone of the Speaker in announc of the House who presented the first there was a Congress of the United ing the vote, and the varied shades of pleas Journals of Congress, Journals which States, a small boy stood with his ure and pain in the countenances of the are still being recorded by our clerks mother on a distant knoll, watching members on hearing it, would form a fine today. the battle of Bunker Hill. That was subject for a descriptive poem. About the only job you would not Adams, John Quincy Adams, diplomat, Some nights he returned to his lodg have found in that First Congress was Senator, Secretary of State, and Presi ings so exhausted he could barely mine, or GEORGE MITCHELL'S or BOB dent, who in his lifetime had seen crawl up the stairs. In the winter of MICHEL'S or TOM FOLEY'S. There were more, contributed more to the history 1848, at age 80, after 17 years in Con no party leaders in the First Congress of his time than almost anyone and gress, Adams collapsed at his desk. A because there were no political parties. who, as no former President ever had, brass plate in the floor of Statutory With parties and party offices coming returned here to the Hill to take a seat Hall marks the place. later, it reminds us that we are con in the House of Representatives, in He was carried to the Speaker's stantly adding to the history of this the 22d Congress, and thrilled at the office and there, 2 days later he died. institution. We build on foundations prospect. And it was here that this ex At the end Henry Clay in tears was laid before us as others will build upon traordinary American had his finest holding his hand. Congressman Lin what we leave behind. hours. coln helped with the funeral arrange Perhaps the best that can come out Adams took his seat in the old ments. Daniel Webster wrote the in of our celebrations of Congress' yester House-in what is now Statuary Hall scription for the casket. days is a greater awareness of how in 1831. Small, fragile, fearing no one, Many splendid books have been writ much the past has shaped us and how he spoke his mind and his conscience. ten about Congress: Harry McPher much we can help shape America's to He championed mechanical "improve son's "A Political Education," Allen morrow. ments" and scientific inquiry. To no Drury's "A Senate Journal," Alvin Jo Now I have the pleasure of introduc one in Congress are we so indebted for sephy's "On the Hill" and "Kings of ing an outstanding American, a very the establishment of the Smithsonian the Hill" by Representative RICHARD special guest speaker, David McCul Institution. With Congressman Lin CHENEY and Lynne V. Cheney; "Ray lough. David is well known to us in the coln of Illinois and Corwin of Ohio, he burn," a fine recent biography by D.B. Senate, who debated the Panama cried out against the Mexican War, Hardeman and Donald Bacon, and Canal, the Panama Canal treaties of and for 8 long years, almost alone, he "the Great Triumvirate," about Clay, 1978. A dog-eared copy of his book on battled the infamous gag rule imposed Webster, and Calhoun, by Merrill Pe the creation of the Panama Canal, by southerners to prevent any discus terson. Now, in this Bicentennial year, "The Path Between the Seas," rested sion of petitions against slavery. comes volume one of Senator RoBERT on the table in the well of the Senate Adams halted slavery, but was fight BYRD'S monumental history of the and was consulted extensively by ing, he said, more for the unlimited Senate. those on both sides of that heated right of all citizens to have their peti But a book that does justice to the issue. That book won the National tions heard, whatever their cause. It story of Adams' years in the House, Book Award for history. His most was a gallant fight and he won. The one of the vivid chapters in our politi recent book, a biography of Theodore gag rule was permanently removed. cal history, is still waiting to be writ Roosevelt entitled "Mornings on Earlier this year, at the time of the ten, as are so many others. Horseback" won the American Book inaugural ceremonies, I heard a televi Our knowledge, our appreciation, of Award. He is a narrator of the forth sion commentator broadcasting from the history of Congress and those who coming CBS documentary produced in Statuary Hall complain of the reso have made history here are curiously, honor of the congressional bicenten nance and echoes in the room. What regrettably deficient. The plain truth nial. resonance. What echoes. is historians and biographers have 3216 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 largely neglected the subject. Two right out west and around Danville," rumpus go on and on. And there is hundred years after the creation of he would say. "The country don't need such a lot of humbug and so much Congress, we have only begun to tell any legislation." that has been so overwhelmingly the story of Congress-which, of When a bill came up to add a new boring. course, means the opportunity for function to the U.S. Commission of But let no one misunderstand, and those who write and who teach could Fish and Fisheries, making it the U.S. least of all you who serve here, we not be greater. Commission of Fish and Fisheries and have as much reason to take pride in There are no substantial, up-to-date Birds, Cannon protested. He didn't Congress as in any institution in our biographies of Justin Morrill of Ver like adding "and Birds" * * * "and system. A history abundantly shows, mont, author of the Land Grant Col Birds" was new and different and Congress, for all its faults, has not lege Act; or Jimmy Byrnes, considered therefore unacceptable. been the unbroken parade of clowns the most skillful politician of his day; The insurrection that ended Can and thieves and posturing windbags so or Joe Robinson, the tenacious Demo non's iron rule, a revolt here in this often portrayed. We make sport of cratic majority leader whose sudden Chamber in 1910, was led by George Congress, belittle it, bewail its inepti death in an apartment not far from Norris, of Red Willow County, NE. tudes and inefficiency. We have from here meant defeat for Franklin Roose There have been few better men in the beginning, and probably we always velt's court-packing scheme; or Carl public life than George Norris and few will. You do it yourselves, particularly Hayden of Arizona, who served longer more important turning points in our at election time. But what should be in the Senate than anybody, 41 years. political history. Yet today it is hardly spoken of more often, and more widely We have John Garraty's life of known. understood, are the great victories Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., but none of How much more we need to know that have been won here, the decisions Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Search the li about the First Congress when every of courage and vision achieved, the brary shelves for a good biography of thing was new and untried. men and women of high purpose and Alben Barkley or Speaker Joe Martin . How much we could learn from a integrity, and, yes, at times genius, and you won't find one. They don't history of the Foreign Relations Com exist. The only biography of Senator mittee. who have served here. Arthur Vandenberg ends in 1945, Imagine the book that could be writ It was Congress after all that provid when his career was just taking off. ten about the Senate in the momen ed the Homestead Act, ended slavery, The 20th century Senator who has tous years of the New Deal. Think of ended child labor, built the railroads, been written about most is Joe McCar the changes brought about then. built the Panama Canal, the Inter thy. There are a dozen books about Think of who was in the Senate state Highway System. It was Con McCarthy. Yet there is no biography Robert Wagner, Burton K. Wheeler, gress that paid for Lewis and Clark of the Senator who had the backbone Hugo Black, CLAUDE PEPPER, Barkley, and for our own travels to the Moon. to stand up to him first-Margaret Huey Long, Tom Connally, Vanden It was Congress that changed the Chase Smith. berg, Taft, George Norris, Borah of course of history with lend lease and "I speak as a Republican," she said Idaho, and J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illi the Marshall plan, that created Social on that memorable day in the Senate. nois, a politician of the old school who Security, TVA, the GI bill, the Voting "I speak as a woman. I speak as a still wore wing collars and spats and a Rights Act, and the incomparable Li United States Senator. I speak as an pink toupee to match his pink Van brary of Congress. American. I don't want to see the Re dyke whiskers. It is not by chance that we Ameri publican Party ride to political victory It was "Ham" Lewis who advised a cans have built here on our Capitol on the four horsemen of calumny newly arrived freshman Senator Hill, side-by-side with the center of fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear." named Truman from Missouri, Government, our greatest library, a We have books on people like Bilbo "Harry, don't start out with an inferi free and open repository of books and and Huey Long, but no real biogra ority complex. For the first 6 months without limit on viewpoint, in every phies of George Aiken or Frank you'll wonder how the hell you got language, from every part of the Church. here, and after that you'll wonder how world. Richard Russell of Georgia, one of the hell the rest of us got here." In 200 years, 11,220 men and women the most highly regarded, influential For some unaccountable reason, have served in the House and Senate, figures to serve in the Senate in this there is not even a first-rate history of and while the proportions of black century, used to take home old bound the Capitol, nothing comparable say, Americans, of women, of Hispanic and copies of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, to William Seale's history of the Asian Americans, and native Ameri to read in the evenings for pleasure. White House. This magnificent build cans have not, and do not now, reflect He loved the extended debates and ing grew in stages, as America grew. It the country at large, it is nonetheless orations of older times and would is really an assembly of different the place where all our voices are remark to his staff how strange it buildings, representative of different heard. Here, as they say-here as per made him feel to realize that those times, different aspirations, and the haps we cannot say too often-the who had once counted for so much story should be told that way. people rule. and so effected the course of American We are all so accustomed to seeing We need to know more about Con life, were entirely forgotten. our history measured and defined by gress. We need to know more about You wonder how many who pour in the Presidency that we forget how Congress because we need to know and out of the Russell Building each much of the story of the country hap more about leadership. And about day, or the Cannon Building, have any pened here. human nature. notion who Richard Russell was? Or Beside Congress, the Presidency We may also pick up some ideas. Joseph Gurney Cannon? There is no seems clear, orderly, easy to under Considering the way defense spend adequate biography of either man. stand. The protagonists are relatively ing has been handled in recent years, As Speaker of the House and head of few in number and take their turns on we might, for example, think of rein the Rules Committee, Uncle Joe stage one at a time. stating an investigating committee like Cannon, of Danville, IL, once wielded Congress, by contrast, seems to roll the Truman Committee of World War power here of a kind unimaginable on like a river. Someone said you can II, which saved billions of dollars and today. He was tough, shrewd, profane, never cross the same river twice. Con thousands of lives. picturesque, and a terrible stumbling gress is like that-always there and If we are unwilling to vote the taxes block. It was the new 20th century. always changing. Individuals come and to pay for the war on drugs, to save The country wanted change, reform. go, terms overlap. The stage is con our country, why not sell bonds as we Uncle Joe did not. "Everything is all stantly crowded. The talk and the did in two world wars? It is hard to March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3217 imagine anyone not wanting to buy a Band, Sfc. Will Shead and Sfc. Evelyn It is a special privilege for me, bond to win the war on drugs. Yount, who will perform a patriotic having been a Member of Congress, to Above all we need to know more note. return on such a wonderful moment in about Congress because we are Ameri Sfc. Will Shead · and Sfc. Evelyn history. I am here this morning to in cans. We believe in governing our Yount presented a musical interlude. troduce the designs that will appear selves. The SPEAKER, The Chair at this on the coins commemorating the Bi The boy should read history, the time would like to recognize Mr. An centennial of the Congress. These first John Adams wrote to his wife thony Frank, the Postmaster General coins will celebrate 200 years of the Abigail about the education of their of the United States, who will intro great American experiment in democ son, John Quincy. History. History. duce to Members the special congres racy. The coins will honor the Con History. We must all read history, and sional postage stamps that will be gress and at the same time provide write and publish and teach history issued in commemoration of the Bicen funds to be utilized by the U.S. Capitol better. tennial of Congress. [Applause.] Preservation Commission for improve How can we know who we are and Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, good ments to the restoration of the Cap where we are headed if we don't know morning, women and men of the Con itol. Designs for the three coins were where we have come from? How can gress. It is appropriate that the Postal chosen from among the designs sub we call ourselves patriots if we know Service pay tribute to the Congress mitted by 18 sculpture engravers who little of our country's past? and the legacy of leadership, not just provided 110 designs for us to choose Who were those people in the old because my last name is "Frank." from. The designs embody the tradi bound volumes of the CONGRESSIONAL Both our organizations hold the tions and the symbols cherished by RECORD? What moved them? What did public trust. We deliver America's our forefathers. The U.S. Capitol is they know that we do not? mail, 500 million pieces a day, 6 days a recognized throughout the world as a Our past is not only prolog, it can be week. You deliver the promise of the symbol of democracy and freedom. bracing. In Emerson's words, "The Constitution. You have been chosen world is young: the former great men by and you speak for the people. For The $5 gold coin depicts the Capitol [and women] call to us affectionate 200 years, you have represented our dome on the obverse, and the gilded ly." interests, defended our rights protect eagle in the old Senate Chamber on I have decided that the digital watch ed our freedoms. the reverse. The silver dollar portrays is the perfect symbol of an imbalance Today we will have a preview of the the statue of freedom which reigns in outlook in our day. It tells us only two new commemorative stamps deal atop the Capitol dome on the obverse, what time it is now, at this instant, as ing with this bicentennial which will and with the House mace the reverse if that were all anyone would wish or be issued commencing in April. Inter side of the coin is designated. The clad need to know. Which brings me back estingly, the subject for the House of half dollar includes the head of free to Simon Willard. Representatives stamp features the dom on the obverse and the full Cap In the years when the House of Rep 1890 marble structure which Dr. itol on the reverse. resentatives met in Statuary Hall, all McCullough just described to us, re These designs are the artists' render deliberations were watched over by f erred to as the "car of History." It is ings that will be transferred in sculp the muse of history, Clio. She is there on display in Statuary Hall. Clio the turings that will be used to mint the still over the north doorway. She is muse stands in the winged chariot of coins. I would like to send to each of riding the winged "Car of History," as time recording events as they occur. the Members an invitation to partici it is called, keeping note in her book. I would like Mrs. BOGGS to help me pate in the first ceremony which will The idea was that those who sat below in unveiling the U.S. House of Repre take place later in the spring of the would take inspiration from her. They sentatives stamp. striking of these coins. The U.S. De would be reminded that they too were agreements would that any shortfall would be allocated. Any bill repeals the 1995 termination date apply to the total value of textile products quota shortfalls, including shortfalls of CBI on duty-free treatment of imports entering from the Caribbean under GAL beneficiary countries, would be reallocated from the region. agreements, not merely the value of the proportionally to CBI countries. The exist Mr. Speaker, in closing, our purpose U.S. fabric currently exempt from duty ing quota suspension for Panama and any in introducing this legislation now is under item 807.00. Products receiving duty future country quota suspension or termina to address concerns that the current free GAL treatment must be assembled in tion under existing authorities, such as for program has not achieved the positive the Caribbean from either fabric formed national security or foreign policy reasons, results that were intended. We need to and cut in the United States or (b) foreign would also be reallocated proportionally to fabric cut in the United States that is not CBI countries. build confidence in the region, create made in the United States or is made in the Compensation authority is provided if greater business certainty, and provide United States but is in critical shortage. The these CBI quota provisions are found to be a long-term positive investment cli Secretary of Commerce will determine, after inconsistent with U.S. international obliga mate. I believe this is a good bill that consultation with an advisory committee of tions under the GATT. The Administration will foster economic development of domestic textile and apparel industry repre must consult with the House Ways and the Caribbean and thereby promote sentatives, the foreign fabrics that will qual Means and Senate Finance Committees political stability in the region. I urge ify for GAL duty-free treatment. The initial prior to proposing a compensation offer. list will be revised annually based on indus my colleagues to review this legisla try petitions to add or delete fabrics and SEPARATE INJURY CUMULATION DETERMINATION tion and I seek your support. their review by the advisory committee. FOR CBI BENEFICIARY COUNTRIES IN COUN A section-by-section summary of the 2. A "tariff rate quota" allowing a specific TERVAILING DUTY AND ANTIDUMPING CASES bill is set forth below: volume of goods in each product category (SECTION 81 SUMMARY OF PROPOSED CARIBBEAN BASIN currently dutiable under CBI to enter duty In countervailing duty and antidumping INITIATIVE (CB!) LEGISLATION free, except textiles and apparel.-Imports cases under current law, imports into the United States from CBI beneficiary coun SHORT TITLE Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, SPACE COUNCIL-MESSAGE eral public that relies on Eastern Air FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE line's services. I rise to call on President Bush to act to avert a national disaster. I call on UNITED STATES the President to appoint an emergency The SPEAKER pro tempore laid SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS SUP mediation board to fashion a settle before the House the following mes PORT APPOINTMENT OF ment in the Eastern Airlines conflict. sage from the President of the United BOARD TO INVESTIGATE DIS A March 4 strike could potentially States; which was read and, together PUTE BETWEEN EASTERN AIR cripple our Nation's transportation with the accompanying papers, with LINES AND MACHINISTS system. It would cripple a once great out objection, referred to the Commit Joint resolution to designate rural hospitals are losing money and recommend to Congress either a new February 2, 1989, as "National Women and closing their doors at an alarming rate. payment system for rural hospitals Girls in Sports Day"; These small hospitals, of 60 beds or which have opted out of the prospec S.J. Res. 34. Joint resolution designating less, have an average profit margin of tive payment system, or maintainance the week of April 16, 1989 through April 22, minus 1 percent. Some are losing even 1989, as "National Minority Cancer Aware more money which is limiting their of the cost-based system. ness Week"; ability to deliver health care services. Third, severity of illness: Payments S.J. Res. 37. Joint resolution designating Since 1983, when the cost plus reim to hospitals continuing to be reim the week beginning May 14, 1989, as "Na bursement system for Medicare reim bursed under the Prospective Payment tional Osteoporosis Prevention Week of System will be the greater of either 1989"; bursement and replaced with the pro spective payment system, 453 hospitals the DRG applicable to admission or S.J. Res. 40. Joint resolution to authorize post-admission diagnosis. the President to proclaim the last Friday of have closed nationwide; 188 of those April 1989 as "National Arbor Day"; hospitals were located in rural commu Fourth, physicians: Require that S.J. Res. 45. Joint resolution designating nities. HCFA publish the top 100 volume pro May 1989 as "Older Americans Month"; Unless unfair discrepencies in pay cedures under Medicare part B-which S.J. Res. 52. Joint resolution to express ments to urban and rural hospitals are account for approximately 70 percent gratitude for law enforcement personnel; eliminated, more rural hospitals will of part B spending. Following publica S.J. Res. 56. Joint resolution designating be forced to shut down and the resi tion, differences in prevailing rates for April 23 through April 29, 1989, and the last physician specialty groups within car week of April of each subsequent year as dents of small towns throughout our "National Organ Tissue Donor Awareness country will be forced to live without rier areas will be eliminated and one Week"; local hospital care. median prevailing rate will be estab S.J. Res. 58. Joint resolution to designate These small hospitals are often the lished for each identified procedure. May 17, 1989, as "High School Reserve Offi on}y well-equipped medical facilities Upon submission of each carrier's 100 cer Training Corps Recognition Day"; within miles of rural communities like median prevailing rates, HCFA would S.J. Res. 60. Joint resolution to designate Clay Center, KS in my home district. be required to calculate national the period commencing on May 1, 1989, and median rates. ending on May 7, 1989, as "National Drink Mr. Speaker, quality health care is ing Water Week"; and essential to the economic well-being of Carrier median prevailing rates S.J. Res. 63. Joint resolution designating rural communities everywhere. which are above the national median June 14, 1989, as "Baltic Freedom Day", and Congress must recognize its responsi prevailing rates for any of the 100 for other purposes. bilities to alleviate the glaring pres identified procedures would be The message also announced that sure which inadequate Medicare pay frozen-those falling below would re pursuant to Public Law 93-618, the ments place on the viability of rural ceive the full MEI increase. Chair on behalf of the President pro hospitals. Mr. Speaker, I realize that some tempore and upon the recommenda The Medicare physician reimburse changes in physician reimbursements tion of the chairman of the Commit ment system is also having a negative are being developed, but those changes tee on Finance, appoints Mr. BENTSEN, effect on the ability of rural communi will not be available for at least one Mr. MATSUNAGA, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. ties to attract and retain physicians' year. PACKWOOD, and Mr. DOLE, as official services. The crisis in rural health care advisers to the U.S. delegations to Doctors can earn more money in big cannot wait. international conferences, meetings, cities than they can in many rural We must seize this opportunity to in and negotiation sessions relating to communities. stitute a more equitable physician re trade agreements; and Mr. MOYNIHAN, For example, physicians in New imbursement system. Geographic dis Mr. BOREN, Mr. BRADLEY, Mr. MITCH York have received $7,500 for triple crepancies in today's reimbursement ELL, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. RIEGLE, Mr. bypass surgery. A Kansas physician system must be reduced and physi ROCKEFELLER, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. ROTH, has received $3,300 for the same oper cians should be reimbursed under one Mr. DANFORTH, Mr. CHAFEE, Mr. HEINZ, ation. payment rate. Mr. DURENBERGER, Mr. ARMSTRONG, and This is contributing to the problem Mr. Speaker, we are at a critical Mr. SYMMS, as alternates to the above rural hospitals have in recruiting and turning point in the health care indus conferences, meetings, and negotiation retaining doctors. Congress must act try. The health care industry has ex sessions. to correct these discrepancies between perienced dramatic changes since the The message also announced that urban and rural fees. early 1980's. Certainly, portions of the the Chair announces on behalf of the For these reasons, today I am intro industry have become more efficient. majority leader, the appointment of ducing the Medicare Reform Act-a Yet not all providers have come out Mr. BYRD, as chairman of the Senate two-part package which I believe will winners-the changes of the past have delegation to the British-American help stabilize the situation confront placed a tremendous strain on the ca Parliamentary Group during the lOlst ing our rural hospitals, and begin the pacity of some facilities, especially in Congress. reform of the Medicare physician pay rural areas, to provide quality health The message also announced that ment policy. services. pursuant to section 276, title 22 of the OUTLINE OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS The legislation I have introduced United States Code, the Chair on This legislation has four major pro above will provide a period of stability behalf of the Vice President, appoints visions: for the small rural hospitals which Mr. SANFORD, as chairman of the First, remove from the prospective have suffered greatly under the pro Senate delegation to the Interparlia- payment system and return to a cost- spective payment system. March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3223 I realize that changes in Medicare created a government free from the domina of a violent backlash led by the Russian will be difficult in light of President tion and tyranny imposed on them for centur chauvinist organization "International Bush's proposed $5.5 billion cut in ies by the Russians. Front," Estonians still push peacefully for Medicare, but the effort must be After the formation of this free state, Esto further reforms and democratization. made. nians and their allies successfully defended Counting on continued moral and real sup port from the free world. Estonians are pro I look forward to participating in the their country from attacks by the Red army. ceeding with careful, measured steps to movement to save our rural hospitals About 2 years later, on February 2, 1920, a move away from Moscow's control and and establishing equity in the Medi peace treaty was signed between the new Re toward true sovereignty. care physician payment system. public of Estonia and the Soviet Union, where The goals of free Estonians and of the And I encourage my colleagues to Russia "agreed to renounce voluntarily for international Estonian resistance movement join me in this effort. ever all rights over Estonian territory and remain: people." 1. That the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact This peace treaty lasted only 20 years, along with its secret protocols be declared APPOINTMENT OF A PRESIDEN before the Soviet Union in 1940 again at null and void from the moment of its incep TIAL EMERGENCY BOARD TO tacked and invaded Estonia, and incorporated tion. 2. That Estonian-Soviet relations be gov AVOID AN IMPENDING EAST it into the Soviet empire. The United States erned by the 1920 Peace Treaty of Tartu, in ERN AIRLINES STRIKE IS has never recognized this brutal seizure by GOOD ADVICE which the USSR promised to respect Esto the Communists, and the people of Estonia nian sovereignty "forever". Capitol Hill, I have pieces of legislation passed in recent standing member of the Alabama loved and admired this person. years. I am always proud when wit Senate in 1965. Throughout his life, BILL NICHOLS In Washington, BILL NICHOLS never was always a leader. He played foot nesses before the committee mention put aside the compassion and good ball at Auburn University and was cap the Goldwater-Nichols Act. common values that he was so well tain of the team. He had a close rela When BILL was chairman of the In known for back home. As chairman of tionship with his alma mater. I had vestigations Subcommittee, that panel the Military Personnel and Compensa the privilege of attending a ceremony wrote a critical report on the loss of tion Subcommittee of the House a few years ago on the Auburn our marines in the bombing in Beirut. Armed Services Committee, BILL was campus, where BILL was honored by Some people in the military didn't like dubbed the "friend of the serviceman" having the ROTC building named the report, but BILL never backed off, for ensuring that America's service after him. Naturally, he was very and he was right. members received compensation and proud of this. BILL NICHOLS was dedicated to his benefits comparable to civilian pay. In BILL NICHOLS was a highly decorated work, just as he was to his family. 1984, BILL NICHOLS chaired the House veteran of World War II. He was se They know, just as we know, that he Investigations Subcommittee probe of verely wounded in the war, but he and was a very special person. We are for Pentagon procurement waste, in his wife, Carolyn, worked hard to over tunate to have had the chance to serve which the Defense Department re come that handicap and they did it with such a great American. We miss portedly paid outrageous prices for with dignity. him, but BILL is with the good Lord hammers and for toilet seats. I try to talk to Carolyn about every today. Our thoughts are with Carolyn, This was only a small portion of it, month to see how she is doing. The his three children, Memorie, Marga though, because the waste and fraud loss of BILL, of course, is very hard on ret, Flynt, and their families. was not in hundreds of dollars but in her, but she is carrying on life and millions of dollars. doing the things BILL wanted her to D 1245 Many regard the hallmark of his do. Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, I career to be the passage of the Gold BILL was a leader in our House yield to our good friend and colleague water-Nichols Defense Reorganization prayer breakfast group. At one time, from the adjoining district in Florida, Act. Labelled as the most far-reaching he was president of the group and I the gentleman from Florida, Mr. EARL piece of defense legislation to pass know he looked forward to those HUTTO. Congress in over 40 years, it called for Thursday morning sessions. He would Mr. HUTTO. Mr. Speaker, I thank the reorganization of the upper ranks often write down quotes or prayers of the gentleman very much for yielding. of the military services. After the fered by others on the program. Mr. Speaker, I first heard the name failed rescue attempt of the American During my eulogy in Alabama, I of our departed friend BILL NICHOLS, hostages in Iran, and the bombing of failed to tell the story about BILL and back in the early 1960's when I worked the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon, former Congressman Jack Brinkley of with television station WSFA in Mont BILL NICHOLS fought hard for the Pen Georgia and how they took on Presi gomery, AL. At that time, BILL NICH tagon reorganization, laying the blame dent Jimmy Carter and won. We were OLS was a member of the Alabama for these tragic events on the lack of putting a national veterans cemetery Legislature, and his name was fre authority given to officers placed in in the Southeastern part of the United quently in the newspaper and on our responsible positions. That has been States. The administration had picked television station as well as other changed, thanks to BILL. a spot very near the Atlanta Interna media throughout the State of Ala Mr. Speaker, BILL was the recipient tional Airport and right below the bama because even then BILL NICHOLS' of a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. glide path into one of the runways. ability as a leader was being recog Before coming to Congress he was a Jack Brinkley and BILL didn't like nized. county farm agent, a local school the site at all. They found a suitable I did not have the honor of really board member, a successful business location near the Alabama-Georgia meeting BILL NICHOLS until I was man and after coming to Congress State line and went to work on me and elected to Congress in 1978 although I here, he was certainly an outstanding others who had jurisdiction over veter had known his first administrative as and capable Member of Congress. BILL ans cemeteries. sistant, Jack Venable, who had worked NICHOLS was all of these things. But By sheer determination, BILL and with me at the television station. for those of us who are privileged to Jack convinced the Carter administra When I came to Washington, BILL know him, he will above all be remem tion to agree to the new site. As a NICHOLS was one of those who helped bered as a good friend and a good result, veterans and their dependents take me in tow and was very helpful in American. are being buried at this more conven my getting the kind of orientation to Mr. Speaker, at this time I yield to ient location. this body which has been of much the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. BILL and I served together on the benefit through the years. BILL NICH MONTGOMERY]. Armed Service Committee. He was OLS and I had a lot in common. We March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3227 both came from a rural Alabama back were very helpful in getting our girls Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, I ground and we were interested in off to a good start and we delighted in yield to the distinguished gentleman many of the same things. BILL remem attending several Auburn football from Alabama [Mr. FLIPPO]. bered fondly that I had narrated the games together. Mr. FLIPPO. Mr. Speaker, I thank Auburn University statewide football Although, BILL had had some health the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. telecast with Coach Ralph "Shug" problems in recent years, including DICKINSON] and the gentleman from Jordan. Since BILL was a former heart bypass surgery, he appeared to Alabama [Mr. BEVILL] for arranging Auburn football player and captain of feel better and apparently was doing these special orders. the team back when Coach Jordan was extremely well the last couple of years Mr. Speaker, with the passing of playing in the early thirties this was a before his fatal heart attack. It was a Congressman BILL NICHOLS, his wife natural point of mutual interest for source of pride to me and I am sure Carolyn, his family, his friends, and both of us, and we talked about that with our other Members to see that his colleagues have suffered a unique considerably. Of course, I don't think some of BILL NICHOLS' best work was loss. We have lost a great American, a there is anyone in this body that did done during his last few years in Con great Alabaman, and a great human not know that BILL NICHOLS was "Auburn University" through and gress. I had the pleasure of serving being. through. BILL was one of that institu with BILL as a conferee on the defense BILL NICHOLS was a patriot in the tion's most distinguished alumni, and authorization bill for a few years when purest sense of the terms, and he led a he savored every minute of anything we were both fighting to preserve the very useful life. BILL'S courage was the that had to do with Auburn. jobs of our civilian employees at mili courage that was tested by war, and Perhaps the cry of "war eagle" was tary bases and to keep them from his strength was the strength of char uttered by him just about more than being contracted out. BILL commanded acter that comes from deep inside that any other two words in his vocabulary. the respect of everyone and it was allowed BILL to overcome the serious His support of Auburn and his leader good for me to be in his presence when injuries that he sustained during that ship throughout the years were recog both of us were going head to head on war and to go on to become one of Ala nized by his alma mater on a number this issue with some Members of the bama's greatest statesmen. of occasions. I remember going with a Senate. As you know, BILL was coau BILL NICHOLS, as we all know, was a number of members to attend the thor of the Goldwater-Nichols defense native of Sylacauga, AL, and we know dedication of the William F. Nichols reorganization bill that provided for that he served as an outstanding cap ROTC Building on October 2, 1986, the reorganization of the Defense De tain of the Auburn University football and, indeed, this was a proud moment partment. It was not an easy task but team, and later in life he enjoyed the for BILL, Carolyn, and their family. Congressman NICHOLS, as chairman of distinction of coming back for further This is a beautiful building on Au the HASC Investigations Subcommit service as one of the members of the burn's campus that accommodates all tee, was right in the thick of it and board of trustees of Auburn Universi of the ROTC units there, and it is a never waivered in the face of stiff op ty. He was then in fact the chairman fitting tribute to one who has given so position from some of those in high of of the board and played a very impor much of himself for America and the fices in the Pentagon. This legislation tant role in the development of cause of freedom. And in 1988, Nancy will be a monument to BILL NICHOLS Auburn University as a world-class in and I attended the homecoming foot for years to come and has already stitution of higher learning. ball game at Auburn University where been hailed as an outstanding piece of We know that during World War II at halftime BILL received the Walter legislation even by those who had op BILL distinguished himself in battle. Gilbert Award. posed it. He was awarded, as we know, the BILL NICHOLS had a distinguished Since we have similar constituencies Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for record in the U.S. Army during World it was not unusual for me, as well as his bravery in action. Then after the War II and was severely wounded. He other Members, to sit next to BILL war BILL came back and distinguished was a natural for the House Armed NICHOLS here in the Chamber and to himself in agribusiness, and in 1965 he Services Committee, and his member discuss how we were going to vote on was named Man of the Year by Pro ship on the committee for over 20 upcoming legislation. He always was gressive Farmer magazine. years was a platform that highlighted well attuned to the desires of the folks BILL served in both the Alabama his many qualities of leadership. back home, and that was the thing BILL'S cool demeanor, his pleasant per House and the Alabama Senate, where sonality and his knowledge of the that mattered most to him. He often he was named Outstanding Senator by issues endeared him to all of us mem had words of wisdom on the right posi the capitol press corps. bers of the committee and indeed to tions to take on the various bills. So BILL NICHOLS' life really exempli his other colleagues here in the House. BILL NICHOLS was a great American fied public service at its very best. Nancy and I counted BILL and Carolyn patriot. As for me personally, when I was Nichols among our best friends in BILL NICHOLS is gone from our first elected to Congress, BILL was Congress, and we enjoyed the compa midst, but he will not be forgotten. He always there to offer his help and his ny of the Nichols on many occasions. was loved by his family, by his many guidance. Through his example, we Early in my service in Congress we friends here in Congress, and by many learned a great deal about what it were priviledged to travel with the thousands of people in the Third Dis takes to be a good representative of Nichols on an overseas trip. This was trict of Alabama and throughout the the people. We all know that BILL rose indeed a good time of fellowship with State. I believe we all are the better through the ranks here in Congress to this wonderful couple as we experi for having a little bit of BILL NICHOLS become one of America's leading ex enced the culture as well as the politi rub off on us during his sojourn here perts on defense matters. We have al cal situations in a number of coun on Earth. Knowing of his Christian ready heard it said that the passage of tries. commitment, it is good to know that the Goldwater-Nichols bill reorganiz Earlier I mentioned BILL's close ties he has transitioned from this life into ing the combat decisionmaking process with Auburn University and in the last Heaven. My entire family, all of whom at the Pentagon is a lasting testament 3 years my family and I have been were fond of BILL NICHOLS, would like to his work here. He has other testa closer to the Nichols than ever since to take this opportunity to again ments to his work. our oldest daughter, Lori, began her extend our deepest sympathy and best This Goldwater-Nichols bill was im freshman year in 1986 and then this wishes to Carolyn and all of the NICH portant, but it was no more important past fall our youngest daughter, Amy, OLS family. May God richly bless each than the legislation that he helped to also entered Auburn. The Nichols one of you. get passed as a State senator to help 3228 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 the schoolchildren of Alabama to always have a chance to read them all. young people 15 or 20 years younger become competitive in the world. We rely on some people to give us than he was. Our Nation has really lost a great their advice and suggestions, a very I learned a lot in long conversations man, but we are comforted by the last common practice that is done in this with BILL NICHOLS of what this body is ing contribution that he made during Congress. In his field when you talked all about, what America's defense his service to America and his service to BILL NICHOLS, he would tell you ex should do and where it should not be to his fell ow man. BILL NICHOLS made actly what his position was and why involved. a difference, and we will truly miss without trying to influence you or Talking about that artificial limb, him. trying to coerce you or moving you in there is a great story that we enjoy, Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman one direction, just gave you the facts, the people who know BILL and know for yielding. and based on that you could make his sense of humor well. One time he Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, I your decision perhaps and know that was down at Fort Hood when they thank my colleague for his contribu you had the facts. were trying to get Congress to learn tion. Well, I appreciate a man like that. I more about the M-1 tank. After they Mr. Speaker, I yield to the distin think the Members of this Congress had been given a description, shown guished gentleman from Texas [Mr. do. I do not believe anybody ever how to drive it and the tank was being PICKLE]. served here who was not more genu fired, it came time for BILL to climb up Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, I thank inely respected as a man of the people, in the turret. There was a young sol the gentleman for yielding. a good fierce American who believed dier there to explain what the sched Mr. Speaker, I would simply like to in this country and believed in doing ule was going to be, to assist the take this time to pay my respects to right and who exhibited all those Member and to teach him a little bit BILL NICHOLS as an individual and a traits as long as he was here in this about the tank. With that tremendous strong American. BILL came to us as a House. I will tell you, we have lost a good strength BILL had in his upper body, very popular man from Alabama, not he started climbing up on the side of alone because he was an outstanding man, a great American, and we will re athlete or an outstanding war hero, member him a long time. the turrent when his foot struck the but because he was more like people Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, I track. To the chagrin and amazement than anybody else. I think in this body thank my colleague, the gentleman of the young trooper, the leg came of 435 people, BILL NICHOLS was more from Texas. tumbling down and the poor young like us than anybody else. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the distin fellow did not know what to do about He was simply a man of the people. guished gentleman from New York it. He looked up and he said, "Con We praise him for his contributions in [Mr. MARTIN]. gressman, what should I do?" the military field, and it is appropriate Mr. MARTIN of New York. Mr. BILL looked down at him and he that we do, and we praise him also for Speaker, I thank the gentleman from said, "I have already lost one leg in de his contributions in the agricultural Alabama for yielding to me. I appreci fense of my country. I don't want to field, because he was an expert on that ate the gentleman taking this special lose another. Would you hand me that subject. order so we can pay tribute to a dear leg and we will get on with the pro friend and indeed a hero of mine. gram." Whereupon he strapped it on 0 1300 I would also like to be associated and the tank took off. I think there is something perhaps with the previous remarks made by We have the opportunity to serve we might mention today that might be the gentleman from Texas [Mr. with some wonderful people here. BILL overlooked by some, and that is that PICKLE]. was one man I will never, never forget. BILL NICHOLS was a very religious BILL NICHOLS was someone very, I also appreciate the responsibility person. Quite often the case is that very special. When he was chairman of that he gave to me as a Republican those men who go forward in battle the Investigations Subcommittee of member, both on the Investigations and become a national hero in the the Armed Services Committee, on Committee and as a member of the field of combat also have become some which I was lucky enough to serve in MRW panel. He taught us all a great of the most religious leaders we have my first term in that committee, he deal. ever had. BILL NICHOLS never missed a was a kind and decent religious man. To Carolyn and the family, what a Thursday Morning Prayer Breakfast. I No one in this body that we served lovely lady she is and a tower of do not believe in all the years that he with is more respected on both side of strength, I wish them well. I want came did he ever miss one, except per the aisle than BILL NICHOLS. them to know that they are a part of haps when he was ill. He came not be He was also very, very important to this family, notwithstanding BILL'S cause he had any office to hold, he each and every serviceman and woman passing. We are indebted to her and just came because he thought there who serves this Nation in the large the family as well. was solace and help to be found in the part he played on the Morale, Welfare Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, I discussion by his fell ow colleagues and Recreation Panel, where I served thank the distinguished gentleman about things that affect our Maker with him, as well as on the Investiga from New York. and our own services. He was a regular tions Committee. Mr. Speaker, in concluding, let me attender and he was a contributor. Traveling with BILL was quite an ex wind up by saying that two of the clos Those of us who know him as the perience. It seemed to me that any est friends that BILL had in the House expert in the military field or the time I was traveling with BILL NICH were ToM BEVILL and myself, because expert in agriculture also know that OLS, I found myself in some garden we have known him as long or longer he was a man of high principle, high spot like downtown Beirut or Panama. than any and have served so closely character. If we wanted to know some Of course, BILL had lost a leg in with him. For that reason TOM and I thing about a particular bill in his World War II. Of all the places that have taken this opportunity to share field, I as one would go to BILL NICH we trekked through the dust and mud special orders. He will follow me with OLS and say, "What is our position? and up and down the stairs, at no time his own remarks and such remarks as What is a good position on this par did BILL NICHOLS ever ask for any spe other Members might wish to make. ticular bill that is pending before the cial attention. You know, after a long, In winding up, let me share with all Congress?'' long day and a lot of walking, he of you a couple vignettes about BILL. If it was in his field, he would tell would get an opportunity to take that Two or three remarks have been made me, and I would believe him. artificial limb off and relax for a few about his artificial leg. BILL never let Now, you may say perhaps we ought minutes and then it was time to strap it slow him down. He was a horse. He to read all these bills, but we do not it back on and go with the best of was a charger. A lot of times it was not March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3229 comfortable, a lot of times he felt bad, "That's BILL'S district." Bill's commitment to the domestic but he never said a word. He just kept The same thing would happen to and national security of this country on going. him. We got confused by names quite set a high standard for every Member BILL was a great hunter. That was often, but I was always very proud of this body. His devotion to his family his passion. He loved to hunt. I have when that was the case. is equally praiseworthy. been on many hunts with him, sat in a My wife and Carolyn are very close All of us who knew him were better cold, cold duck blind or goose blind friends. They really are very fond of off because of it. His wisdom and with him, sat on a cold stool in a dove each other. It is with particular sad friendship will be greatly missed. We field. I learned early on not to stand ness that we mark the passing of our would all do well to remember BILL too close to him, because he would not good friend, BILL NICHOLS, and wish NICHOLS is looking over our shoulders. let many come through. He was a our very best and God's mercies on Mr. Speaker, this Nation has lost crack shot. He was good. I have to Carolyn and the family in the travail one of its finest citizens, and I have hand that to him. and in the heartache that they have lost one of my greatest friends. We were sitting in a goose blind one endured as a result of BILL'S passing. time on the Eastern Shore of Mary So Mr. Speaker, at this time I yield D 1315 land. It was a terrible snow, ice, and back the balance of my time in order Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, I yield to about 2 inches of water in the bottom that my good friend and colleague, the my distinguished colleague, the gentle of the goose blind. I mean, it was cold. gentleman from Alabama [Mr. BEVILL] man from Alabama [Mr. HARRIS]. One person in the blind looked over can continue with this tribute to our Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I thank and noticed BILL just had on a pair of good friend, BILL NICHOLS. the gentleman for yielding. rough shoes, instead of boots. We all Mr. Speaker, today we honor the were wearing insulated boots. So his memory of our colleague, BILL NICH friend looked at BILL and said, "BILL, TRIBUTE TO THE LATE OLS. Many of my colleagues in this my gosh, aren't your feet freezing?" HONORABLE BILL NICHOLS And he said, "Only one of them." House have served longer through the Well, I have been on many a hunt The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under years with Mr. NICHOLS than I have, with BILL. I can only say that I have a previous order of the House, the gen but I can say as the newest Member of never known a man as popular as BILL, tleman from Alabama [Mr. BEVILL] is the Alabama delegation that in my that so far as I know has not one recognized for 60 minutes. short tenure, BILL NICHOLS was a good enemy in the world. GENERAL LEAVE friend, and a great help to me, both The night before BILL died we were Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, I ask personally and professionally. at a Christmas party at the White unanimous consent that all Members When I took the oath of office in House. As has been commented on, he may have 5 legislative days in which to January 1987, it was BILL NICHOLS had open heart surgery about 3 or 4 revise and extend their remarks and to who furnished the Bible, which he years ago. He lost a lot of weight. He include therein extraneous material then inscribed and gave to me. No mo was taking care of himself. He was on the subject of my special order menta of my congressional career will watching his diet. He was exercising today. ever mean more, no gesture of friend daily and he was really in good shape. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is ship will be more fondly remembered. We were sitting there at the White there objection to the request of the As one new to Congress and to the House at the Christmas party. I gentleman from Alabama? Alabama delegation, I had, and still walked by and saw him and Carolyn There was no objection. have for that matter, much to learn. sitting there. My wife and I went over Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, I yield to BILL NICHOLS was a counselor who was and sat with them. In a little while I the distinguished gentleman from Vir always available, always willing to turned to my wife and I said, "You ginia [Mr. SISISKY]. share from his own experience and know, I have come, I have seen and Mr. SISISKY. Mr. Speaker, I thank wisdom. been seen, and I'm ready to go." my friend, the gentleman from Ala Perhaps the greatest lesson I Carolyn said, "BILL is, too. BILL has bama, for yielding to me. learned from BILL NICHOLS came been up since before 4 o'clock. He Mr. Speaker, I feel fortunate to have simply from watching him. At a time went on a goose shoot this morning. served with BILL NICHOLS, both as a when many question the motivations He just got back and now he is here. Member of the House of Representa and lack of comity in Government He doesn't stay up until 9:30 very tives and on the House Armed Services today, and point to rhetoric which re often at night." Committee. places rationality, or political postur That was the last time I saw BILL. All of us can point to ladies and gen ing which takes the place of sound He went home. His wife took him to tlemen with whom we have served public policy, the career of my col work the next morning very early who stand out as leaders and mentors league, BILL NICHOLS, shines forth as about 6:30, which he often did. He was for newer Members. the example of a legislator who was ef found slumped over his desk from a They are people who have been here fective in a quiet and gentlemanly heart attack. The White House party for a long time, people who know the way. BILL NICHOLS had the unique was the last time I had seen him. ropes, people who take a genuine in ability to be both loyal to his friends I have known BILL and worked with terest in their colleagues. and to maintain total independence of him for 25 years. We had adjacent dis BILL NICHOLS was such a man. He judgment and action. Some may be tricts in Alabama. We had adjacent of helped me understand the committee, lieve that loyalty always means blind fices up here. We shared constituents. helped me understand Congress, and loyalty, and others believe that inde I cannot tell you how many times I gave me a better idea of what kind of pendence in politics requires a critical have had people from his district, a Congressman I wanted to be. stand toward all issues and individuals. river separated us from one another as He epitomizes high standards of BILL NICHOLS showed the true quali far as districts are concerned, Pratt service to this country. With an envia ties of a statesman in his ability to bal ville was in his district, Montgomery is ble war record in the European thea ance and reconcile these potentially my hometown. So many times people ter, he had a unique understanding of conflicting qualities. His work on the from Prattville I would run into would the military. Armed Services Committee exempli say, "Congressman, I just want you to He also had the business sense that fies this trait, especially the reorgani know, I voted for you every time." came from running a company, and zation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I would say, "That's fine. Where do tried to apply his experience, common the delegation of greater power to you live?" sense, and good judgment to congres area military commanders. BILL NICH They would say, "Prattville." sional decisions. OLS was concerned with how instruc- 3230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 tions worked, even when his friends A man of immense courage and impos yielding and my good friend on the opposed changes he had come to ing presence, he was kind and patient other side of the aisle, too. regard as necessary. As chairman of almost to a fault. He was the living Mr. Speaker, I came to know BILL, I the Investigations Subcommittee, he definition of the word genteel. suppose, during our relationship at again demonstrated his loyalty to In an era of heros he was the genu the Thursday morning prayer break those who serve in our Armed Forces, ine article. He wore his wounds from fast, since we sat next to each other, and demonstrated that loyalty by in World War II as badges of courage and and I learned a lot about him then, sisting on rendering an independent fortitude. That same indomitable the kind of person that he was. In judgment on the effectiveness of our spirit which made him a great athletic fact, I thought I kind of had an in policies and the actions of those figure at Auburn also made him a with the Committee on Armed Serv placed in positions of authority. leader in the halls of leaders. ices, since he was chairman of the Mr. Speaker, I'd like also to speak His 30 years of public service both in Oversight Investigation Committee, about the qualities of BILL NICHOLS the Alabama legislature and up here and all of the ruckus was going on the private citizen. As a man, he also in Congress were characterized by un about overcharging and things of this demonstrated loyalty, loyalty to his matched devotion to duty. I always nature. BILL was really looking after family, to his church, and to his alma marveled at how fresh and ready he that, and I would get a lot of informa mater. All of us in the House know was when we got together very early tion from him about that. that a special effort must be made to in the morning for some recreation in BILL has always impressed me as a balance the demands of our public po the fields. fell ow who would not quit trying no sitions with the needs of our families. It was certainly understandable I think BILL NICHOLS was exemplary when one realizes that he was in his matter what the odds seemed to be. As in this regard. His wife, Carolyn, and congressional office for work at the we all know, he was at the Normandy his children, were always at the center break of dawn every day. He was not a invasion, and he lost a leg there, but of his concerns. workaholic but no one had more devo that did not slow him down at all. Throughout his years in Washing tion to his public service than BILL. He I recall, and maybe it was 3 or 4 ton, BILL NICHOLS remained a member was always available for his constitu years ago, when we were out of session of the First Methodist Church in his ents as well as his colleagues. and then came back, that during that home town of Sylacauga. In fact, he Whether he supported your position period BILL had a serious illness. I continued to serve as a teacher in the or not, his demeanor was the same. He recall his hair turned white, and I men's Sunday school class, and faith was as tough as the chew of tobacco heard that he almost died, but he fully attended services there. I know he treasured, but he was so smooth came back, and with the determina that his religious conviction was deep, that when he won his point, his adver tion that he had, he regained his stam and that it was a source of strength sary in the discussion would always ina. I know I would see him in the and inspiration to him. come away thinking he hadn't lost morning. We would exercise together Mr. Speaker, as I thought about the anything. in an area where I really saw him put remarks to make today about Mr. You know the measure of a man in ting forth a great effort to do all that NICHOLS, I took out the Bible which he the duck blind or along a stream. BILL he could, and he would often come up had furnished for my swearing-in cere had no equal in the love of the out to me while he was exercising and he mony and read the inscription in it doors. It came naturally from his roots would say, "Doc, check my pulse and and just opened it up and it turned to on the farm and it came instinctively see if everything is going all right." a verse of Scripture that I would like from his ease in the wild. I've walked Mr. Speaker, we developed a real to share with the Members and the many a path with BILL. He was an close relationship during that period American people, and it is from Mat expert shot. He operated outdoors as of time, the time that we spent sitting thew 25, verse 40. Mr. NICHOLS had he did indoors-he seldom got excited next to each other at Thursday morn this marked, and maybe it was marked and he seldom missed. Yet as much as ing prayer breakfasts. He was a true for me. The verse reads: "And the king he cherished birds on the wing, he patriot in my opinion, a great Ameri shall answer and say unto them, always deferred to whomever was with can, and as so many other people here Verily, I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye him to take the first shot. have said, he is going to be sorely have done it unto one of the least of He loved his home district. Whether missed by all of us. these my brethren, ye have done it he was fishing in the Coosa or inspect Just this morning at prayer break unto me." · ing the tank rehab lines at Anniston, fast, I was sitting there and someone A graduate of Auburn University, it was a joy to him. The third district else had taken that seat, and some of BILL NICHOLS was a star athlete, play of Alabama is blessed with beauty and us sitting around talked about BILL ing on the varsity football team. He the finest of our educational institu and how we missed him, and we will continued his interest in his alma tions, such as Tuskegee and Auburn. miss him sorely. mater throughout his life, ultimately The district represents the grace, Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, I yield to serving on its board of trustees. beauty, patriotism, and devotion to our distinguished friend and colleague, Mr. Speaker, BILL NICHOLS was a which we all aspire in this great land. the gentleman from Texas [Mr. friend, he was an adviser, he was an It is no wonder that the citizens of LEATH]. example of the qualities to which we east-central Alabama sent this gra Mr. LEATH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I all aspire, and I know my colleagues cious, beautiful, patriotic man, who de want to join with the Members in join me when I say he will be missed, voted his every waking thought to showing my sympathy and my affec and also that this world is a better them, back to Congress again and tion for our dear friend BILL NICHOLS. place for BILL NICHOLS having walked again. He was a beacon of honesty, in I know that a lot of people in our insti among us. tegrity, and friendship to all of us and tutions know the devotion that BILL Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, I yield to we will miss him dearly. NICHOLS had to the Department of De our distinguished colleague, the gen Mr. Speaker, I wish to extend my fense, to the defense of this country, tleman from Massachusetts [Mr. deepest sympathy to his lovely and and things of that nature. CONTE]. beautiful wife, Carolyn, and his lovely What they do not or did not know, a Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, BILL three children. lot of them, is the devotion that BILL NICHOLS has left us a legacy of compe Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, I yield to NICHOLS had to the men and women tence, diligence and grace that makes my distinguished colleague, the gentle who served in the Armed Forces. I had every Member of this body feel good man from Georgia [Mr. ROWLAND]. the privilege not only to serve with even in the face of the bitter loss his Mr. ROWLAND of Georgia. Mr. BILL on the Committee on Armed passing has brought to this institution. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for Services for 8 years, but I had the March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3231 privilege of serving with him on what they reenforced in him an abiding love BILL NICHOLS remained a kind, we call the morale, welfare, and recre of our land and a deep and lasting rev down-to-Earth, humble man all of his ation panel, which not even many erence for libery. life. I deeply miss my friend from Ala Members of Congress know exists. BILL dearly loved his family, his bama. That panel has to do with the over church, and the people of Alabama's sight jurisdiction of the PX's, the com Third Congressional District. He rep 0 1330 missaries, the recreation facilities, and resented them with the greatest Mrs. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, will the the qualify-of-life facilities for soldiers energy, commitment and integrity. I gentleman yield? and airmen and sailors all over the remember many times that BILL would Mr. BEVILL. I yield to the gentle world and their familes. leave this Chamber after a late night woman from Maryland. BILL NICHOLS spent hours every day session, having worked all day, and Mrs. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, let me working to make sure that that was then drive all night to his district so say first of all that for many of us in what it should be, that the quality of that he could fulfill a breakfast meet this body, today has been very diffi life the troops and their families have, ing commitment with his constituents. cult. regardless of whether they were serv I would find wise counsel in talking When one stands and talks about a ing in Texas, Alabama, or Korea, with BILL about important pieces of good friend a colleague, someone they Japan, or the Philippines or whatever, legislation on which the House was have looked up to over the years, it is was better than it should be. BILL de about to vote. Without fail, he would always difficult. voted really a lifetime to it. We would give good, solid advice. His first and At the same time, many of us as go to a military installation some overriding concern with any legisla freshman, and each of us has had that where on a trip, and when everybody tion was: Was it good for America. first day when we have stood in this else, of course, would obviously want And BILL'S most significant piece of Chamber and put up our hand and to go look at the troops and tanks and legislation was a perfect example of sworn allegiance to our country, our so forth, BILL NICHOLS would gently how he viewed his responsibility as a drift off and go look at the PX, look at district, and our fell ow Members of the commissaries to see if the food was Representative and one of the senior Congress, there is always some as it should be. Members of the House Armed Services Member that sort of takes you under Mr. Speaker, as I said, when my dear Committee. The Goldwater-Nichols the wing and makes sure that you are friend, Bob Polk, died, whom the gen Act has been hailed as among the given the right guidance. Ten years tleman knew so well, in my lifetime, I most significant laws passed by Con ago I had the opportunity to have have been privileged to know a gress, dealing with the defense of BILL NICHOLS take me under his wing. number of outstanding people, but in America. BILL worked for 5 years de I do not think there could have been a that lifetime of knowing a number of veloping this legislation which better person to do that. I was new. I outstanding people, I have known only strengthened the chain of command of was inexperienced. I was naive. He a few remarkable people. I classify our Armed Forces. It made our mili trained me well, I think. I looked at Bob Polk in that category, Mr. Speak tary and its leadership more efficient the views and the values that he had er, and I classify BILL NICHOLS in that and effective. toward his country, toward his family, category. Today, this country is more secure and toward his colleagues in this body, I just want to say to Carolyn and the because of BILL NICHOLS. and there is no one who had higher family that not only does my feeling BILL'S success in Congress, and the esteem for this institution. for BILL NICHOLS go much deeper than love and admiration which his con His war record was one that he was affection, it does to love. That is the stituents felt for him, never changed so proud of. Many of us journeyed to only term that I known to describe his humble character. I am confident Europe, to Normandy to visit for the him, and I think that is not only true he could have been reelected to repre 40th anniversary. BILL was very much from me, I know it is true from the sent his District as long as he wanted a part of that delegation. But he had gentleman and the Alabama delega to continue to serve. another mission on that trip. He very tion. I know it is true from this House. I remember when I was inspecting a quietly slipped off and went up into Mr. Speaker, no matter how long we water project in Maryland, at the re France and into Belgium and into serve here, I do not think there are quest of the local Member of Con some of the areas that he had trod as many of us who can leave and have gress, and I met one of the citizens of a young man in 1940 through 1944. that said about us. We are going to Maryland involved in the project. We all look back on issues and miss BILL NICHOLS more than we When he learned I was from Alabama, things that make a man. As many of know. he asked if I'd ever heard of a friend us know, BILL NICHOLS had a wooden Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, today's of his from Alabama, by the name of leg. But he was not encumbered by tribute in honor of our good friend, BILL NICHOLS. He and BILL had gone that. BILL NICHOLS, is, for me, one of the duckhunting together in Maryland for We went to investigate Lebanon saddest experiences I have had as a a number of years. I told him that during the altercation in the early Member of the House. BILL and I had been elected to Con 1980's. There was a deuce and half I have never known a better man on gress together and were close friends. that we were to ride into the airport. I this Earth than BILL NICHOLS. He and He was shocked to learn that BILL, his made a comment to one of the gentle I worked together, side by side, for 30 duckhunting buddy, was a senior men standing there, one of our mili years. We were elected together to the Member of the U.S. House of Repre tary Marine Corps escorts and I said, Alabama Legislature in 1958, and since sentatives. In all those years, BILL had "You know, I think it would be better that time, I looked upon BILL as a never mentioned that he was a Con if Mr. NICHOLS could ride in the cab; it brother. He represented the best that gressman. That's typical of how might be a little difficult for him to is in our country. His loss has left a modest a man he was. get up in the back of the truck." great emptiness in this chamber and My wife, Lou, my entire family, and The gentleman said, "Oh, I didn't re within me, personally. I extend our deepest, heartfelt sympa alize." And I said, "Well, yes, he has a I am confident that there never has thy to BILL'S lovely wife, Carolyn, and wooden leg." been a more patriotic person to serve to his three children. BILL'S family By the time I had turned around, in Congress. BILL proved his love of gave him love, strength, and happi BILL NICHOLS was the first one on the this country on the battlefields of ness. I know how proud he was of back of that truck. World War II. He nearly died there, them, and how proud they are of his One of the things he liked to do, at fighting for freedom. The wounds he many accomplishments, and in the life least he told me so, was to see what suffered were deep and lasting, but that he lived. our young men and young women do 3232 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 in their jobs out on the front lines. was being organized. The Democrats We lost a great friend and the Con Last summer I had an opportunity get together and elect who will be the gress a valuable Member. with Admiral McKay, the head of our chairmen of the various committees, BILL NICHOLS' record of service to nuclear Navy, to accompany BILL on and BILL was fourth in the seniority, the people of his district, State, and his first ride on a nuclear submarine. and it normally goes by seniority. To Nation will benefit all for years to They had figured and rigged a cage to the surprise of many people, there was come. get BILL on because of his leg, and be an upset in the election, a coup if you To his family we extend our sincer cause the other one had a very heavy care to call it that, when Mel Price, est sorrow at his passing. Truly, he brace. We got down into the subma who had been the chairman for many leaves a great record. rine and we were out at sea, and he years, but was advancing in age, was Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, I want to join looked at me with those wonderful, not reelected. That left a seat open. my colleagues who are paying special tribute kind eyes, and that big smile, and he The number two man asked BILL to today to the Honorable BILL NICHOLS, who said, "BEVERLY,," and I said, "Yes, make his nominating speech then served in this august body for 22 years before BILL?" He said, "I really could have since he was next in line, and BILL a massive heart attack ended his life in De come down that tower, couldn't I?" agreed to do it. Then before it was cember. I thought for a moment, and there is over, many, many people came to BILL It is a privilege to say that I served in the no way that I could have told him that and urged him to run, telling BILL U.S. House of Representatives with BILL he would have had difficulty, because that he was the most popular, and he NICHOLS. He set a standard of representation I know that had BILL NICHOLS made was, in line of seniority, and knowing of the people which we should follow. The his mind up to go down that tower he what I know after 24 years on the people of the Third District of Alabama were would have gone down inside of that Armed Services Committee, I am con served well on this floor and in these Halls. tower. I watched him relate to the young vinced it is true, and I think most of He looked after his local people from the Tus people that we had on board that sub my Democratic colleagues would agree kegee Institute and Auburn University to the marine. He would talk about their mis that it is true that if BILL had been bedroom counties bordering Montgomery and sion, talk about how far away they elected to be chairman of the Armed Birmingham, and they showed their approval were from home, many of them from Services Committee, if he had allowed by continuing to reelect him for the 12th time areas that were inland, a lot of them his name to be put in nomination, and shortly before he died. never having been to sea before, but the gentlewoman from Maryland was He served those of us in this institution well they had chosen the Navy and had there, I believe, he would have won, he by paying close attention to his committee chosen the nuclear Navy, and had would have been chairman. I think he duties. He was a solid rock in the foundation chosen a mission and a role that was knew that. of the Armed Services Committee, not failing very difficult. But he identified with He said, "No, I have agreed to nomi to question when the need arose, but a strong them, he talked to them. He told them nate and support someone else. I have supporter of the military. He voiced his con his philosophy. I know that each and given my word. That is what I am cerns about the defenses of the Marine bar every one of those young men, as is going to do, and I will not agree for racks near Beirut before the truck loaded with true of all of the military families that my name to be placed in nomination." explosives crashed the gates and killed 241 his life had touched, were saddened, As a consequence, BILL was not servicemen. and this country is a sadder nation for elected chairman. And again, getting As a veteran and staunch defense ally, he the loss of BILL. back to what has been said repeatedly took the helm of the Subcommittee on Investi In the last year I do not think any here, his word was his bond. If he told gations and reformed the procurement proc thing gave him more pleasure than to you he would do something, he would ess. talk about his new Greek grandson. do it. If he gave his word, you could As we look back today over his distin What pride he had to talk about that take it to the bank. guished career of public service, we all can young child that was coming along, BILL, having given his word, stepped say that BILL NICHOLS could be a formidable and the joy and the happiness of his aside and did not compete for the posi foe, a committed ally, but always a gentleman family and what that meant to him. tion when I am absolutely convinced in Alabamian and southern sense of the word. So I want to join with the gentleman that he would have been made the Mr. DE LA GARZA. Mr. Speaker, we have in the well and to thank him as well as chairman of the Armed Services Com lost a colleague whose record of service to the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. mittee had he sought it. But true to this Chamber is long and distinguished. DICKINSON] for taking this special his word, he supported another candi Representative BILL NICHOLS is gone and order today to really address what I date, and so BILL wound up as the today this Congressman proudly remembers think is a great loss to this Nation of a chairman of the subcommittee on the great friendship we developed over the very fine American. which he served when he died. many years. Such friendship makes our loss Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, will That is just one more measure of the hard to bear, but the memories are great and the gentleman yield? man that I think it behooves us all to everlasting. Mr. BEVILL. I yield to the gentle think about when we talk about serv Both of us were artillery officers during our man from Alabama. ice, integrity. He was always a very Army careers. We shared a love of country Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, I great believer in the system, and this I and patriotism. We had jointly attended the thank the gentleman for yielding. think is just one more reason to salute 1OOth anniversary of the Army post at Fort I was sitting here reminiscing and the memory of a great and a true Sill, OK, and we both felt very strongly about ruminating over the many things that American. service to the Nation. come to mind when I think of BILL I thank the gentleman from Ala In his capacity as a high ranking member of NICHOLS. As the gentleman comment bama. the Armed Services Committee and chairman ed, he served with him 30 years, and I Mr. WHITTEN. Mr. Speaker, I join of its Subcommittee on Investigations, BILL have served with and been very closely with my colleagues in expressing my NICHOLS worked tirelessly in the Congress to associated with him for at least 25 or sorrow at the passing of our friend and make military policy work for America in the more. There are so many little vi colleague, BILL NICHOLS of Alabama. best possible way. gnettes and so many stories that come I have served with many Members, He put his talents and energy to work on to mind. but none have stood better with his behalf of the enlisted men and women who But I think the story of BILL would colleagues than BILL. All of this was so made the military work. The everyday men not be complete if I did not put it in evident at the funeral services where and women who provide the fuel for the great the RECORD, because it is a true story, so many who worked with him were engine of our armed services. These people an event that took place about 6 years there, including what seemed to be the were the focus of BILL N1CHOLS's great com ago as the new Congress at that time whole town. passion and efforts. March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3233 Now and then a Member of Congress will or so. Of course, as the ranking minority preciation for sharing with us their husband come our way who shows us the true color of member of the House Committee on Stand and father who was an inspiration to us all. public service through hard work and dili ards of Official Conduct for a number of years, Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, there are a few gence. Chairman NICHOLS brought that color I had to deal with these problems on a first rare individuals who because of their charac to its brightest in his support of the U.S. hand basis. ter, standards, behavior, and physical pres armed services. He was always ready at an There is no question that Congress is con ence indelibly influence the actions of others. instant to help any colleague on any matter stantly under a microscope, and in a free and They are the type of individuals by whom you and his energy was without end. open society this is to be expected. However, and I judge our own actions. BILL NICHOLS To his family we extend our heartfelt sym as a famous radio and television commentator was one such individual. pathies and we want you to know that we pointed out, there is always another side of If I were asked to name an example of an valued above all our friendship with this great the story. And, our late friend and colleague, American hero, it would be BILL NICHOLS. As man. He will not be forgotten by us. We have BILL NICHOLS, represented the other side of a young man he excelled as a student leader 1,000 different remembrances and recollec the story. BILL NICHOLS' political career was and athlete. He was the captain of the 1940 tions over the years to keep us company. And symbolic of what people expect in their elect Auburn University football team. His physical those are the memories that outlast us all. ed officials. He was the model, the very ideal courage and bravery were demonstrated on Mr. SCHULZE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay of what Plato and Thomas More had in mind the European battlefields of World War II tribute and remember a good frined and great when they described what a public servant where, like so many others of his generation, man, the late Congressman BILL NICHOLS, of should strive to attain. he was called upon to sacrifice himself in the Alabama's Third District. I served with BILL NICHOLS for the better service of his country. Sacrifice he did. Se For 22 years, this body had the privilege to part of 18 years, and I can say without rserva verely wounded, he lost one leg and the use tion or equivocation that he was one of the know BILL's dedication to public service and of the other was severely limited. love of country. It is only appropriate that most outstanding public servants it has ever Because he never talked about his injuries today we honor those contributions and com been my privilege to know. His honesty and and learned to walk and carry on a normal mitment he held so dear. integrity set a standard that should be emulat life, many people who knew him later were BILL was a hero and leader many times ed by every young person who strives for unaware of the extent of his disability. But in over, even before he came to the U.S. House public office. He set a role model, and when of Representatives. He showed his courage he was taken away from us in such an un remembering him we should reflect on the first on the football team of Auburn University, timely way, our consolation was that his ex lasting physical courage that his very pres where he captained the 1940 squad. Passing ample will live on in the hearts and minds of ence represented. As chairman of the Investi up a professional football career, he chose to everyone who works to perfect the democratic gations Subcommittee he traveled a number utilize his education in agriculture and agrono process. of times to Central America during the midst my by advising Autauga County farmers and There were so many fine traits of BILL NICH of the hostilities-to El Salvador, Nicaragua, counseling 4-H Clubs. OLS to admire that I hardly know where to and Honduras. He visited the Marines in When his country needed him to serve in begin in enumerating them. First and fore Beirut during the 1983 crisis and the Persian World War II, BILL was prepared, having most, he was a gentleman of the highest Gulf in 1987 at the outset of the recent inci trained for military service in Auburn Universi order and a true American patriot. He loved dents there. Despite his physical impairment, ty's ROTC program. BILL entered the Army in the institution of Congress, and he always he rode in aircraft, helicopters, submarines, 1942 as a second lieutenant, quickly distin placed the institution above his own personal tanks, and even on flatbed trucks. Many Mem guishing himself in combat. As a result of his interests. As a valued member and leader for bers will recall seeing him completely exhaust heroics at the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, years of the House Armed Services Commit ed at the end of the day on one of these Germany, BILL earned the Bronze Star and tee, he fought a long, hard, and successful always-hurried trips, but somehow refreshed the Purple Heart. battle to reform Pentagon procedures and so and ready to proceed the next morning. His After retiring from the Army as a captain, he lidity the chain of command. He understood leadership of the Defense Department reorga returned to Alabama, where it did not take the military establishment, and he worked tire nization effort in 1986 was interrupted by a BILL long to find himself giving to the commu lessly to help our Armed Forces meet the quintuple heart bypass operation. He was nity again. He distinguished himself in the Ala global challenges of the latter half of the 20th back on the job in less than 8 weeks. BILL bama Legislature with his efforts to improve century. NICHOLS, throughout his life, courageously Alabam's education system, to help the handi BILL NICHOLS was proud of his native State sacrificed his personal well-being for others. capped, and to create better roads in the of Alabama. He was a civic, business, and po But he exemplified much more than physical State. Understandably, BILL received the cap litical leader in Alabama for years before courage. He was a serious person-not hu itol press corps "Most Outstanding Member of taking his House seat in 1967. He was known morless, but sincerely committed to making a the Alabama Senate" award. throughout Alabama, and indeed, the entire contribution. A man of character, of strong Elected to the U.S. Congress in 1966, BILL South for his advocacy of agriculture and the conviction, he was also open to reasoned dis took his expertise in agriculture and the need to expand the Nation's food and fiber sent. He had a presence that commanded re Armed Forces to Washington. Frankly, I am production. Also, while working on his degree spect-quiet, humble, extremely polite, sensi certain all of us here today would agree that in agriculture at Auburn University, he excelled tive to the feelings of others, and very digni we benefited from his understanding and lead on the football team and was named team fied. He was a religious person with rigorous ership on the most important issue facing captain. What a lot of folks may not know is standards of conduct. He cared deeply for the America-protecting the Union. BILL could that he was actually offered a professional people of Alabama and the members of the always be counted on in the Armed Services football contract. Of course, as most of us Armed Forces. Common sense, natural talent, Committee to define the proper defensive know, his football playing days ended for good hard work, and diligence combined to make posture the United States must pursue. For when his left leg was shattered during World him one of the best judges of defense issues one, I am grateful BILL NICHOLS was watching War II during the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. any of us have known. It would be difficult to out for all of us. Certainly, the United States is BILL NICHOLS was a genuine American look back with the advantage of hindsight and better for it. hero. The product of the strong values of rural fault his judgment on any major national secu There is no question BILL will be missed in America, he possessed the true grit, determi rity issue. Many have commented that it is dif this body, friends and patriots always are. nation, and courage that our great Nation ficult to think of the Committee on Armed Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, as we are all must always have in its leaders. You cannot Services without the presence of BILL NICH painfully aware, in the past few years there replace the BILL NICHOLS' of this world: you OLS. has been a barrage of criticism in the news can only hope that such men will come to the Above all, BILL NICHOLS was a hero be media about the lifestyles of certain Members forefront during times of crisis. cause he had the moral courage to take a of Congress. In fact, in today's edition of the Mr. Speaker, I will miss the friendship, stand on the major issues. Despite his princi Washingtion Times there was an article which wisdom, and counsel of BILL NICHOLS. To his pled, career-long support of a strong national capsulized some of the well-known newspaper dear wife, Carolyn, and their three children I defense, he took on the entire Pentagon, and stories about Members over the past 15 years extend my heartfelt sympathy and deepest ap- the President, when he became convinced 3234 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 that change was necessary. The result was I recall on one occasion calling upon BILL to Mr. MYERS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, it is the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense assist with a problem one of my constituents with heartfelt deep sadness that I join the Reorganization Act of 1986. It was my privi had in Alabama. He was immediately recep many friends of BILL NICHOLS in remembering lege to propose the amendment naming that tive to the problem and worked on the case his life and service to the U.S. House of Rep Act for BILL It is his ultimate legacy to the as if the constituent were his own. The matter resentatives and to his country. American people-the legacy of one who was favorably resolved because of the per BILL always distinguished himself whatever made heroic efforts on their behalf. It ranks in sonal attention BILL gave to the case. he did or wherever he was. He served in importance with all previous national security Mr. Speaker, I am proud to have counted Europe during WW II as an artillery officer, legislation, fittingly establishing BILL NICHOLS' among my friends and colleagues a man such losing his leg by stepping on a land mine. proper place in the history of our country. as BILL NICHOLS. I will miss him greatly and I After a long hospital stay he came back to his Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, it is a sad hope that it is some comfort to his wife, Caro home in Alabama. lyn, and his many friends, that so many others occasion for me to take note of the recent After serving in the Alabama House and in this Chamber share that emotion. passing of my colleague and friend, BILL Senate he was elected to the 90th Congress NICHOLS, with whom I served in Congress for Mr. BATEMAN. Mr. Speaker, BILL NICHOLS' and my friendship with BILL began. We were over 20 years. Congressman NICHOLS was a passing was a loss not just to his family and freshman among 69 new Members. Now there fine and decent man whose concerns for the friends and his Alabama constituents, but interest of his constituents in the Third District surely to this institution, the House of Repre are only seven of us still serving in the House in Alabama were reflected in all of his activi sentatives, in which he served so tirelessly for from that group. ties. 22 years. Remembering BILL and his many years in As chairman of the Subcommittee on Mili It should be no surprise to anyone who is this body, two things continue to come up. His tary Personnel and Compensation he earned familiar with BILL NICHOLS record prior to his loyalty and his integrity. It didn't really make a reputation as the "Friend of the Service congressional service that he became such a any difference to BILL whether a colleague man" for his dedication at making the quality distinguished member of the House, BILL was a Democrat or Republican, he would of life for military personnel the best it could NICHOLS excelled in virtually all aspects of his share his time and suggestions with all. be. BILL did a great deal for the military, but extraordinary career, from Auburn University This House, his beloved State of Alabama, his concern for the less fortunate and his where he received a masters in agronomy and the Nation are better today because BILL fellow man were well known and is a memori was captain of the football team to his military lived, he cared, and he shared. al in itself. service where he received a Bronze Star and It has been an honor for me to have known I join with you in commemorating his life Purple Heart after losing a leg in the Battle of BILL and to have had the privilege of serving and mourning his passing. Hurtgren Forest to the Alabama legislature with him here in the House for 22 years. Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank where the capitol press corps named him the My wife Carol joins us in extending our our colleague, the distinguished gentleman most outstanding member of the Alabama prayers to his wife Carolyn and their family. from Alabama [Mr. BEVILL] for reserving this Senate. Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, it is with great time for us to pay tribute to our good friend, I, came to know him late in his career as a sadness that I rise today to pay my last and the late BILL NICHOLS. With his passing, the colleague on the Armed Services Committee. I most sincere tribute to BILL NICHOLS. I know Congress and our Nation lost a dedicated and gained a quick admiration for his tireless sup every Member of this House was shocked and committed individual. port of the rebuilding of this Nation's de saddened by the sudden death of BILL His BILL NICHOLS was well loved by the Third fenses. steadfastness and unswerving loyalty were Congressional District of Alabama. He won re At the same time, as chairman of the Inves traits that we all tried to emulate. election time again with ease, and he never tigations Subcommittee, BILL was determined BILL'S career in this body was remarkable. had any serious opposition. He worked well to see our military run more efficiently. He led He always voted his conscience and fought with his colleagues in the House, earning their the inquiry into the bombing of the Marine for what he felt was right. BILL was a staunch respect, and he worked diligently and tireless compound in Beirut and a probe into the Pen defender of a strong and ready America and ly for the Third Congressional District. tagon procurement program. he did all that was in his power to ensure that Mr. Speaker, BILL's energy in the House His expertise came to the fore in 1986 with America was strong, was ready. was spent mostly on matters dealing with the the passage of what is known as the Gold BILL was always proud of the faith and trust military. BILL NICHOLS fought valiantly for his water-Nichols Department of Defense Reorga emplaced upon him by his constituents. Their country during World War II, losing a leg nization Act, the most sweeping military faith, as we all know, was not misplaced. BILL during a land mine explosion. It was fitting and reform in 40 years and one which BILL called always had the members of his district in appropriate for BILL NICHOLS to begin and end his "proudest achievement." mind, arguing for a healthy steel and textile in a career spanning two decades as the fifth Mr. Speaker, Thoreau once wrote, dustry, providing for rural Americans, and ex ranking member of the House Armed Services Even the death of friends will inspire us as tolling the joys and beauty of the South. Committee. much as their lives.• • • Their memories Mr. Speaker, this House has lost a true BILL NICHOLS career on the committee en will be incrusted over with sublime and friend. There are many of us who looked to abled him to assume several leadership posi pleasing thoughts, as their monuments are tions. His first chairmanship was of the sub overgrown with moss. BILL for leadership and counsel. He never committee that handles personnel matters, I know that, in life, BILL NICHOLS inspired us failed us. I offer my most sincere condolences pay and benefits. Although he never served in this House. I hope that his passing will also to BILL'S wife Carolyn and his children. Their as chairman of the full committee, the accom inspire us to live up to the high standard of grief is greatest but they had the joy of know plishments of this southern Democrat on the public service he set and also to continue to ing BILL so closely for so many years and this Armed Services Committee were significant. fight for those beliefs he held so dear-among hopefully will be of great comfort to them. I After the 1982 election, BILL became chair which was his belief that a strong and efficient salute BILL NICHOLS for his selfless life and I man of the Investigations Subcommittee. As a military is vital to deterrence of war and the salute his family for they all carry BILL in their result of BILL'S probe of procurement prac defense of freedom at home and abroad. spirits. tices, a desire to change the basic structure of Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, our late col Mr. MILLER of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I want to the Pentagon led to the passage of a substan league BILL NICHOLS was a Congressman's join my House colleagues today in paying ap tial reform package in the House. BILL NICH Congressman, a person therefore who was a propriate tribute to the late BILL NICHOLS-our OLS leaves a legacy of intelligent and compas fountain of good judgment for each of us who good friend and distinguished colleague from sionate leadership. His absence will surely served with him. the great State of Alabama. It is difficult for leave a void. He was also a spiritual leader, whose contri me to add to the words already expressed Mr. Speaker, I have many fond memories of bution to good fellowship in the House was here today about BILL He has been fondly re BILL He was soft-spoken, courteous, and a well illustrated by his leadership in the House membered by Members from both sides of the real southern gentleman. He always conduct Prayer Breakfast group. aisle, and I want to endorse their fitting com ed himself with dignity and was highly respect He was a magnificent man-we all miss ments and wonderful stories about a terrific ed by his colleagues for his legislative skills. him. man. March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3235 BILL NICHOLS will be missed greatly in the Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to join position on the House Armed Services Com Chamber. We have just celebrated the 200th with my colleagues in the House of Repre mittee and serving with distinction as a com anniversary of the Congress and, with all the sentatives in paying tribute to Congressman mittee member, he rose to the position of bicentennial attention, I find it regretful that BILL NICHOLS, whose sudden death on De chairman of the Subcommittee on Investiga our friend BILL NICHOLS-who really reflected cember 13 was a tremendous loss to the tions and headed it through the end of the the very best that this House stands for and people of this Nation. 1OOth Congress. The subcommittee examina has stood for over 200 years-is not here to Congressman NICHOLS dedicated his life to tions he initiated into defense issues led him share this moment with us. public service, and I was privileged to have to join Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater in in As we recall those who have labored long served with him during the entire 22 years he troducing the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganiza and hard for the good of their districts, the served as a Member of the House of Repre tion Act of 1986, which many have called the benefits of their respective States and for the sentatives. most far-reaching piece of military-related leg best of the Nation, at large, we must remem Before coming to Congress, BILL NICHOLS islation to be approved by Congress in over ber BILL among those who provided the lead served our country with distinction during 40 years. ership America needs and deserves. He was World War II. He received both the Bronze During his 22 years in the House of Repre a hero of World War II, and defender of the Star and the Purple Heart for his heroic ac sentatives, BILL served with a sense of fair very principles of democracy that we are tions during this war. Also, he served in the ness, always taking into account the concerns sworn to uphold daily, and the champion of Alabama State House from 1959 to 1963, and of the people he served in the Third District what's right and proper about this Nation. then was elected to the Alabama State and entire State of Alabama. He was a good Senate in 1963. I came to Congress with BILL and I can friend to all of us, and our State, and we have Elected to the 90th Congress in 1966, Con assure his family that he had my deepest ad all benefited from his wise counsel. Our gressman NICHOLS ably represented his con miration and respect by any measure of the Nation is better off because of his leadership stituents from the Third Congressional District man. I extend my sympathy to his lovely wife and we will all miss him tremendously. of Alabama. His exemplary service as chair Carolyn, and the Nichols family. Mr. QUILLEN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to join my man of the Subcommittee on Investigations of Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to the House Armed Services Committee helped colleagues in remembering our friend BILL share for a few moments some thoughts on to uncover faulty procurement procedures in NICHOLS who suffered a fatal heart attack and our colleague BILL NICHOLS who passed away the Defense Department. He also served as a passed away last December 13. last year. I also want to relay the thoughts of member of the Subcommittee on Military Per Congressman NICHOLS represented the the members of the 108th Infantry, 2d Battal sonnel and Compensation and the Subcom people of Alabama's Third Congressional Dis ion Association. mittee on Readiness, and was highly respect trict in the House for 11 terms with genuine BILL NICHOLS will best be remembered for ed by his colleagues for his expertise on de distinction. It was an honor to serve with BILL his dedicated and outstanding service as a fense matters. NICHOLS during those 22 years and his pass member of the Armed Services Committee. Congressman NICHOLS was a fine legislator, ing is a great loss to all of us. Throughout his career, BILL made sure that and a man of great compassion and courage, Congressman NICHOLS is probably best re our fighting forces were equipped for their who will be sorely missed by all of us in the membered as a hard-working, straightforward missions. He was always a friend of Gl's and House of Representatives who had the oppor Member who was devoted to the armed serv worked to ensure that they and their families tunity to work with him. ices and the national security of the United could lead comfortable lives. Mrs. Annunzio and I extend our deepest States. He was a World War II veteran who BILL will also be remembered for his efforts sympathy to his widow, Carolyn, and to the lost a leg in combat and it was on the House to improve the efficiency and competitiveness other members of his family who survive him. Committee on Armed Services that Congress of the Pentagon's procurement process. As Mr. ERDREICH. Mr. Speaker, the death of man NICHOLS made his mark during his long the 101 st Congress looks into the current my friend and colleague, BILL NICHOLS, has and distinguished congressional career. problems with procurement, we should look to left a tremendous void in the lives of all those Although he was without peer in his dedica BILL'S legacy for guidance on how to improve who knew him. His death was a great blow to tion to our armed services and their mission, the current situation. his family and loved ones, but it has also had Congressman NICHOLS was responsible for BILL'S commitment to our Nation's defense a tremendous impact on so many others. I leading the effort which reformed the procure started long before he came to the Congress certainly will miss his friendship, advice, and ment system at the Pentagon and he also in 1967. As many of us know, he was a deco counsel, as will the rest of the Alabama con played a crucial role in the 1986 Defense De rated combat veteran who lost his left leg as gressional delegation. partment Reorganization Act. a result of a land mine explosion in the Hurt His excellent and wise representation of the I will miss BILL NICHOLS. He was a fine and gen Forest. Despite this setback, BILL led a Third District of Alabama will most certainly be decent man, he was a patriot, and he was an fulfilling life. missed by those he so faithfully served, as will outstanding Member of Congress. In this time Mr. Speaker, I also want to take a moment his honesty and integrity be missed by the of sorrow, I want to extend my condolences to to share the thoughts of the men of the 108th entire Nation. BILL'S lovely wife, Carolyn, and their children. Infantry 2d Battalion Association. These veter BILL NICHOLS always put the best interests Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, the passing away ans developed a special relationship with BILL of his State and country at the forefront of his of BILL NICHOLS leaves this Chamber with a since they trained for the Second World War political agenda. He was assigned to the 8th loss it will long suffer. at Fort McClellan which is in the Third District Infantry Division as an artillery officer during BILL NICHOLS was a fine gentleman, a great of Alabama. In October of last year, the asso World War II, and distinguished himself in patriot and an outstanding Member of Con ciation recognized BILL's contributions to our combat. He was critically wounded in 1944 gress. He served as an Alabama Congress Nation's defense with their "Award of Appre and removed from action. For the bravery he man for over two decades after his first elec ciation." BILL was also granted an honorary displayed while risking his life on behalf of his tion to the House of Representatives in 1966. membership in the 108th Infantry 2d Battalion country, he was awarded the Bronze Star and Almost all of those years were particularly de Association. My good friend Joe Taddeo, who the Purple Heart. voted to the workings of the House Armed is the association's president, asked me to Following his return to private life, and at Services Committee. He used his military pass along the group's condolences to BILL'S the urging of his friends, BILL entered the po background well in seeing that the Nation's lovely wife Carolyn. litical arena, and was elected to the Alabama defenses were built up to preserve our free My wife Nancy and I want to join in that House of Representatives in 1959 and the dom from outside violence. He trained for mili sentiment when we express to Carolyn our Alabama Senate in 1963. Again, his outstand tary service in Auburn University's ROTC pro most heartfelt thoughts and prayers. Mr. ing service won him many honors; in 1965, he gram prior to his graduation from that fine Speaker, the 101 st Congress suffered a tre was voted "Most Outstanding Member of the scholastic institution. Called to active duty fol mendous loss even before it began. It is my Alabama Senate" by the Capitol Press Corps. lowing this country's entry into World War II, hope that the memory of BILL's dedication to BILL moved on to the national political he served with the 8th Infantry Division and this Nation will guide the new Congress arena in 1966, and was elected to the U.S. distinguished himself in combat in France and toward excellence. House of Representatives. After securing a Germany until critically wounded in the Hurt- 3236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 gen Forest. His courage under enemy fire won memory of our late friend and colleague, BILL er. At age 70, and with a history of heart him the Bronze Star and Purple Heart decora NICHOLS. trouble, you might have expected him to tions. It somehow seems fitting that BILL'S last take it easy while Congress was out of ses Not only did he strive to make our defenses moments were spent in his office, at his desk, sion. But he had gone to his Washington office before sunrise to begin getting ready strong, but he did his utmost to improve the working at the job to which he devoted so for the lOlst Congress, and it was there that quality of life for military personnel. Because much of his time and energy. For 22 years he a fatal heart attack struck. of his endeavors, enlisted volunteers in Ameri served the people of Alabama, and his Nation, Just the night before, Bill and his wife ca's armed services receive compensation with honor and distinction. The BILL NICHOLS I Carolyn attended the annual White House and benefits more realistic to their worth than came to know personally was not only a quiet Christmas party; Lillian and I had an enjoy before BILL NICHOLS took up the task. but effective legislator, but also a man of rare able time discussing with them our plans for We were privileged to call BILL NICHOLS a courage and conviction. the coming year. President Reagan took special friend. He was a witty, intelligent As one of the ranking members of the Com time to greet Bill and thank him for his Southern gentleman with whom we spent mittee on Armed Services, and as chairman of strong support of the President's defense many pleasant moments. budget. the Investigations Subcommittee, BILL came Bill's credentials as a proponent of a BILL NICHOLS will long be remembered for to be widely regarded as a leader in defense strong natioqal defense were unassailable, the great service he gave to his country both policy issues. His tenure in the Congress was and that reputation served to his-and the in peace and in war. marked by a resolute commitment to strength nation's-advantage in recent years as he Mr. WATKINS. Mr. Speaker, Representative en and improve the readiness of our defense demanded reform of the Pentagon's man BILL NICHOLS was not only a colleague but a forces. agement structure and procurement system. good friend. We all share in the sorrow at the Mr. Speaker, for over two decades, from the He knew that only a strong America could passing of this great man. He was one of the depths of the cold war to the promise of glas survive Military challenges; he also knew most beloved Members with which I have had nost, BILL NICHOLS was a central figure in that strength could not be maintained if inter-service rivalries took precedence over the honor to serve. He was a devoted hus shaping America's response to events in a band, father and spoke often of his family. He well-coordinated military operations, or if dangerous world. We are a stronger nation as public support for the armed forces was un was a very devout man who without question a result of his dedication, and I know I speak dermined by reports of outlandishly high was prepared to meet his God. He was a for all of us when I say that this House will costs for weapons and other supplies. source of inspiration each Thursday morning sorely miss his expertise and his wisdom. I Through his leadership of the Investiga when I looked across the table and saw him want to join with my colleagues in extending tions Subcommittee, he pressed the Penta at the weekly Member's Prayer Breakfast. It our deepest sympathies to his family and his gon to pay more attention to program and was a comfort and a joy to know that he was many friends. weapons costs. He became the primary always there. Not only did we look forward to House sponsor of legislation to streamline Mr. DARDEN. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the military chain of command and give the this time of inspiration and breaking bread but the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. DICKINSON], we also shared a love for rural America and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff more the ranking member of the Armed Services power to impose unity among the service agriculture. Perhaps BILL is best described in Committee, for sponsoring the special orders branches. That reorganization measure this poem by Ben Burroughs: for BILL NICHOLS. came to be known as the Goldwater-Nichols IT SHOWS IN YOUR FACE No other Member of this body exemplified Act, honoring Bill Nichols and its leading You don't have to tell how you live each the dedication to fair play and justice than did proponent on the other side of Capitol Hill, day; Chairman NICHOLS. He was always known for then-Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. You don't have to say if you work or play, Bill Nichols was always courteous and con A tried true barometer serves in the place, his ability to calm the storm and reach a bipar siderate of all his colleagues, whether they However you live, it shows in your face. tisan solution, which was always in the best were senior or junior to him. I consider him The false, the deceit that you wear in your interest of the Nation. a positive example for all members of Con heart Mr. Speaker, I write a weekly newspaper gress to follow, because he had that admira Will not stay inside where it got its start; column for the news media in Georgia's Sev ble ability to disagree without being dis For sinew and blood is a thin veil of lace, enth District. Following Chairman NICHOLS' agreeable. He was a true gentleman, but he However you live, it shows in your face. death I believed it fitting to express my feel never failed to express or vote his convic If you have battled and won in the game of ings about BILL to my constituents, and more tions. life, importantly, point out the impact he had on Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I thank my distin If you feel you've conquered the sorrow and the military strength of our great Nation. I ask guished colleague, the ranking member of the strife; to insert a copy of this column in the RECORD: Armed Services Committee for offering me If you've played the game square and you this opportunity to remember a true American stand on first base, [A report to the Seventh District, week of February 13, 1989] patriot, BILL NICHOLS. I again extend my sym You don't have to tell it, it shows in your pathy to his wife, Carolyn, his family, his many face. BILL NICHOLS LEFT LEGACY OF NEW STRUC TURE FOR THE NATION'S ARMED SERVICES friends, and the people of his district whom he If your life's been unselfish; for o t~rs you live; New York City. man." years. I learned to my surprise the hospi I believe that is just the way that the thou I am proud and honored to have served tals in New York City are among the sands of people who met BILL NICHOLS in his with BILL NICHOLS these past 6 years. We most efficient hospitals in the coun career felt as well. BILL NICHOLS will always worked closely on behalf of the people of the try. be remembered for his outstanding leadership Third District of Georgia and the Third District We are not happy with our hospital and work in the reorganization of the Depart of Alabama, and I always found BILL to be service, but it seems that in terms of ment of Defense, an accomplishment which hard working and dedicated to his constitu the cost of service per patient our hos will forever be remembered as the Goldwater I ents. He was more than a colleague, he was pitals are doing a good job. But they Nichols bill. In addition to his many legislative a friend. cannot continue as they are, and they achievements, he will be remembered by most Mr. BEVILL. I thank my colleagues cannot certainly continue to survive if as a man who cared. He cared about his for their kind remarks and I yield back they have to take a huge Federal cut. country and he cared about the people he the balance of my time. In addition to health care we have served. the problem of education. I serve on It was a privilege to serve with BILL NICH OLS. He was a leader among leaders and his THE SAVINGS AND LOAN the Committee on Education and SCANDAL Labor. I was looking forward to the service in this great body of government has proposals to be presented by the in permitted our country to become a stronger The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under and safer nation. a previous order of the House, the gen coming President, Mr. Bush. He said Mr. REGULA. Mr. Speaker, BILL NICHOLS tleman from New York [Mr. OWENS] is he wanted to be known as an educa tion President. I looked forward to his 'Aas a patriot, a good family man, a cherished recognized for 60 minutes. friend to many of us, a respected colleague Mr. OWENS of New York. Mr. proposals. Surely we would go for dedicated to the well-being of our Nation and Speaker, today is the day we celebrate ward, I thought, and tackle the tre his constituents, and a believer who lived by the 200th anniversary of the Congress, mendous problems we face in educa the golden rule. and I think that it is a day when we tion in this country. We miss his wise counsel and the warmth should not speak about negative mat Because I serve on the Committee of his friendship. ters on this floor. I rise to speak again on Education and Labor and because I Mr. RAY. Mr. Speaker, BILL NICHOLS is re about the savings and loan association am the chairman of the Subcommittee membered as a farmer, scholar, athlete, sol scandal because I think it is not a neg on Select Education of that commit dier, businessman, church-member, State leg ative matter. I think it is a very impor tee, I am very much aware of the mag islator, U.S. Representative, and House sub tant matter for this Congress at its nitude of the problems in our schools. committee chairman. However, in my opinion, 200th anniversary to confront this We have two very serious problems. the best description of BILL NICHOLS is that of major problem, a problem unlike any On the one hand the very best schools patriot. other we have ever seen before, and in America are not good enough in BILL NICHOLS was born on a small farm in confront it openly and with a maxi terms of world competition. When our Mississippi. Soon afterward, his family moved mum amount of discussion. young people are matched in tests, the to Sylacauga, AL, where he grew up. BILL My great fear, my concern is that we very best are matched in tests for sci graduated from Sylacauga High School and are going to be presented with a bill ence and math with youngsters in attended Auburn University. At Auburn, he on the floor and be asked to act upon other parts of the world, they come in was the captain of the 1940 football team and it very speedily, and there will be a either at the very bottom or near the was accepted to three honorary fraternities: minimum of discussion instead of a bottom. The Blue Key, Gamma Sigma Delta, and the maximum discussion needed among That is one problem, that our very Scabbard and Blade. BILL received a B.S. ourselves. best schools are not good enough and degree in agriculture and a master's degree in In addition to discussing the savings we need to tend to that. Agronomy. and loan association swindle among The other problem is at the other BILL NICHOLS entered the army in 1942 as a ourselves, there is a need to have a end of the scale our worst schools are second lieutenant and was assigned to the maximum dialog with the American totally collapsing. The school systems 8th Infantry Division. During the battle of the people, because the American taxpay of Chicago and New York, the inner Hurtgen Forest, Germany, BILL was critically ers are being asked to pay a bill of city school systems are collapsing. wounded. He was awarded the Bronze Star enormous magnitude. It is still climb They are not able to come to grips and the Purple Heart, and was retired at the ing; is $154 billion now, and estimates with the problems with which they grade of captain. are that it may go as high as $357 bil are faced. No matter how they doctor After the war, BILL returned to Sylacauga lion before it is over. the statistics, how much lack of truth and entered private business. He became there is in reporting, you still see the active in community affairs by serving on the D 1345 tremendous surge in the number of Sylacauga School Board and on the board of That is a tremendous amount of young people who are dropping out of stewards of the First Methodist Church of Sy money and the taxpayers will have to school. lacauga. pay a greater share of that. For that Then ever worse than that is that BILL NICHOLS was elected to the Alabama reason we need to maximize the dialog the number who stay in school; with House of Representatives in 1959 and to the with our constituents. the kind of education they get, it Alabama Senate in 1963. The Capitol Press I am not particularly interested in places them educationally at the same Corps voted him the "most outstanding banking. I am not on the Banking spot as the persons who dropped out. member of the Alabama Senate" in 1965. Committee, but I am interested in the When they come out of the 12th BILL NICHOLS was first elected to the U.S. budget as a whole because in order for grade, they cannot read nor write any House of Representatives in 1966. Through- me to honestly have a dialog with my better th an those who dropped out at
29-059 0-90-15 (Pt. 3) 3238 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 the 9th or 10th grade. It is a very seri That means that education in the competent and have managed the ous problem. first year of the reign of the education money badly. Articles have appeared, studies have President, education will be taking a The line between incompetence and been made which indicate that schools larger cut than anybody else. And the mismanagement and thievery is very are collapsing in the inner cities to the public out there would be the last to thin, especially in a business like bank extent that they do not have enough understand this, because though they ing. chalk or erasers. heard the President's speech as we did, Anything related to banks you Now, we know about the large class they do not have the details. assume that anybody who is in the sizes, we know about the deteriorating Now that all the analyses have been business is not allowed to even put his infrastructure, the buildings falling made, this is where we are: education foot in the door unless he has a cer apart, we know that; but it has gotten faces worse cuts, health care faces tain degree of competence. He has to down to the fact where teachers do worse cuts. There is no chance we are know arithmetic, know how to keep not have chalk, they do not have eras going to be able to bring relief to the books, basic things which cannot go ers. Libraries in most inner-city senior citizens out there who are con wrong in a banking setup, especially schools are completely obsolete. They cerned about the surtax and the cata since the Government, the Federal are libraries with geography books strophic program. On and on it goes. Government steps in and says we are that do not show the nations which I have to face my constituents and going to guarantee $100,000 deposit; have become independent in Africa tell them that I do not really think everybody who has deposits up to over the last 10 years because the ge they are going to appropriate enough $100,000 knows that the Federal Gov ography books are more than 10 years money to make the war on drugs rea ernment would pay up to $100,000. old. sonable. The Federal Government is involved On and on it goes. I could go on with I have to face my constituents and the horror stories. and I do not see them allowing incom I am not here to make the case for tell them that I do not think that petent people to come in to run banks. education. I think it is pretty much ac there will be any relief from the Fed So I do not buy the line that there is a cepted that we have to make up for a eral Government in terms of low lot of incompetence and mismanage tremendous deficit, a loss in education, income housing. ment that has generated this crisis. I a deficit in education over the last 8 I have to face my constituents and say thievery. Thieves, thieves steal years when our schools fell behind in tell them all this because we say we do ing-with middle-class people they terms of the effort being made by the not have the money. That is what I usually call it embezzlement-but Federal Government to assist in the have been doing for 7 years. This is my these are thieves who are stealing and improvement of the schools. seventh year and I have been going they have generated the present crisis. We are all disappointed that our back and saying we have a deficit, we We have to go back and tell our President, who says he wants to be the do not have the money, we do not folks that no, there will be no relief, education President, has come forth have the money for job training pro we have nothing to look forward to. with some proposals that looked good grams, the money for education, the The American education system will when we first heard them, when the money for women, infants, and child depend on the Federal Government President stood there and presented care; we do not have the money and for no help because we have to take his budget message. I like most of the we are in a deficit. We are trying to care of the savings and loan associa other Members of Congress was get rid of a deficit. tion scandal, swindle, bailout. pleased that here at last we do not I have told them these things while The savings and loan association have a President who is boasting about at the same time, of course, I have had scandal is probably the worst of its the fact that he has made tremendous to watch while we found money for kind that this Nation has ever faced; cuts in education or other domestic other things we wanted to find, money the worst ripoff, the worst raid on the programs. for. We wanted to bail out the million Treasury. Lo and behold when the euphoria aire farmers with a drought relief bill. I said this a few days ago and since wore off, and we looked at his propos We brought a $4 billion to the floor then I have noticed there are some al, or the great things he proposed, at and we gave drought relief to every other people who have come forward the same time he proposed that we cut body including farmers who were with documentation that makes it all of the domestic programs by $11.4 making $2 million gross per year. quite clear that a number of the billion; all the nondefense programs The patterns of finding the money things I said a few days ago make are going to be cut by $11.4 billion. for defense, the Star Wars, for million sense. You have to spread the cut out. aire farmers, that pattern of finding One of the things I said a few days The great deception of the Presi the money for those who are powerful ago was we should get to the heart of dent's message was that while he pro while you tell those who have no this matter by emphasizing prosecu posed increases, he did not say that in power that there is no money, that tion. Instead of being soft on white order to get these increases in certain pattern is a pattern that I am thor collar crime as this Congress always is, areas you are going to have to have de oughly fed up with. we scream and yell about other kinds creases in other areas. Now I see it again in the S&L scan of crimes, but when it comes to white Education, in order to get the bene dal which is shaping up here where we collar crimes Congress is generally fits of the increases proposed in educa are saying we are going to have to find quite soft. tion alone, you have to decrease and the $157 billion to take care of the Let us take about up to 25 years in cut off other programs in education. bankers, the financiers, people who jail for anybody who has committed Education will take a hit there. are the least desirable ones in terms of economic crimes on the magnitude Education will take another hit be subsidies from the Government; the and scale that will help to wreck the cause education is the largest of do least deserving recipients of Govern economy of the Nation. That is what mestic programs that does not have ment subsidies, financiers and bank has happened. This savings and loan entitlement programs. ers. scandal can really set in motion a Many of the other domestic pro Yet that is what it amounts to when process, a domino process which will grams have entitlement programs you look at the savings and loan situa do serious harm to the economy. where people must be given service. So tion. So people who have been involved in only the programs which do not have They have failed, they have a prob creating this situation should be con entitlement programs, such as educa lem because people have stolen the sidered criminals; they should be tried tion, are the ones that could be cut in money. In most cases they have stolen and they should face many years in order to get the $11.4 billion cut. the money or they have been too in- prison. March 2, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3239 I say if they are faced with a situa "Court ordered restitution is one of the uses the word, "steal," but he wants to tion where they are being prosecuted key prongs in the FDIC's efforts to stop a make it clear that what he is describ and properly treated as the criminals bank fraud," said Christopher A. Byrne, senior attorney with the FDIC. We are ac ing is really not criminal activity. And that they are, then you will find more tively engaged in a program to sensitize I agree with him. I have shifted now. answers will be found in places where local prosecutors and the courts to the im Anymore when I talk about criminal they do not seem to have the answers; portance of restitution. activity, I want to take just a moment that many will come forward, and the Now I say this, not reading the to say that I am talking about the tradeoff could be that. Instead of whole article, but my point is that in magnitude of the giveaway and how prison you pay back everything that stead of Mr. Bush tacking on $50 mil all taxpayers had better be alarmed has been taken out. Instead of the tax lion at the end of his plan to bail out and informed about what is happen payers being asked to pay back what the savings and loan associations, as ing, and they should also be very the thieves have stolen, let those an afterthought almost, the money for angry at the Government regulators thieves go back to their Swiss bank ac the prosecution should be up front. who have done this, because Mr. Stein counts and their hidden assets and That should probably be much more. describes how three large legitimate come forward with the money. If prosecution goes forward, taxpayers firms-one headed by William Simon, In American Banker of February 28, will probably have to be asked to bail one by Robert Perelman, and one by not too long ago, the date is February out or to pay a much smaller share of Robert Bass-legitimately bought out 28, American Banker has this account the money that has been stolen from some S&L's that were failing, and of a felon who was convicted in a the S&L's. they did nothing wrong. They legiti fraud case related to the savings and Also, I would like to call attention to mately bought them out, but the deal loan association. And the felon is an article of the New York Times of made by the Government, by Chair going to make restitution up to $20 February 20 where they are discussing man Danny Wall, head of the FSLIC, million, which they found that he has an S&L that has failed and the regula and his gang gave away so much that that he can pay back. tors made a statement at that time. I this article has been written as a pro The man's name is Mr. Renda. take exception to the statement. test against how all this taxpayers' Mr. Speaker, I read from the Ameri And I quote: money was given away. can Banker article: Regulators found no evidence that fraud How was it given away? In two ways. Restitution is a key element of the settle had been committed. They attributed the First, as tax losses. They allowed these ment reached last weekend in the suit institution's failure to "loan-underwriting against Mario Renda by the Federal Deposit people to assume tax losses of a tre deficiencies, a failure to maintain appraisal mendous magnitude for doing nothing. f:::~::.: urance Corporation and Federal Savings reports, poor maintenance of books and and Loan Insurance Corporation. Mr. Renda records, and insufficient internal routes and A moment after the deal was conclud was President of First United Fund Ltd., a controls." In short, laxity in the approval ed, those companies were richer be now-defunct money brokerage firm in process for real estate loans during the cause they could write off all the tax Garden City, New York. Mr. Renda, 47, al boom years of the Texas economy ultimate losses of the failed S&L's they bought. ready pleaded guilty to two criminal charges ly produced huge losses when the economy The second way the taxpayers lost stemming from S&L fraud. At the sentenc turned down. ing on March 10 in Federal Court in Kansas was this: They guaranteed them City, he faces up to two years in prison. 0 1400 against future losses so that in the companies they bought, if something I think he should be facing more That paragraph is the kind of thing that the Federal officials have been went wrong in the future and they did than 2 years in prison. That is just one not get their money back, they had a more indication of how we are soft on saying for much too long. They found white-collar crime. no evidence of fraud, but they found guarantee that the taxpayers are But anyway, to go back to the article great evidence of poor bookkeeping, going to bail them out. and I quote again: laxity of controls, and insufficient I am going to quote directly from Mr. Stein's article. He is talking about The civil suit relates to Mr. Renda's ad checking of loans. I say that if there mitted role in defrauding Indian Springs was a red flag which goes up that lets what it all adds up to when you do State Bank and Coronado Federal Savings us know stealing is taking place, it is that: and Loan Association. Both institutions, when people begin to keep the books By my humble calculations, just the for based in Kansas City, Kansas, were declared carelessly; it is when the procedures gone tax cost to the Treasury from the insolvent as a result of the fraud scheme. get loose. All that is a setup to steal. It Bass-American Savings deal would have Now listen to this quote: does not happen when people do not paid for several thousand regulators and in vestigators for about 5 years. It is relatively rare for courts to require want to steal. Everybody knows how to forfeiture of personal assets by individuals keep books; everybody knows the rou This is just the tax losses from one who plead guilty or are convicted of fraud. tine. If there is actually poor book of these three deals that would have Why is it relatively rare? In our judi keeping, then I take exception to the paid for several thousand regulators cial system obviously we are also soft fact that regulators will say there is and investigators for a 5-year period. on white-collar crime. That is a basic no evidence of fraud or no criminal ac I quote again: correction that is needed which Con tivity went on, but we have all this in The forgone tax collections from all of the gress should take a look at. competence. Whenever there is incom S&L deals would have paid to hire a thor petence, I think some representation oughly competent staff of regulators for the But, again, to quote from the article: balance of the century. But it will become more common as gov should be made by the Government ernment focuses on prosecuting fraud at fi that there is fraud. Instead of asking I continue the quote as follows: nancial institutions, according to officials of the taxpayers to pay this money back, One of the tragedies associated with these the FDIC and the FSLIC. The agencies also they ought to assume there is fraud transactions is that they display such as hope the threat of restitution will prove to and go after the people with prosecu tounding inequity between hundreds of mil be a powerful deterrent to fraud. tions, and then much more of the lions of ordinary citizens and a few billion In a weekend speech to Iowa bankers, money would come back. aires. But the tragedy that should make FDIC Chairman L. William Seidman said taxpayers truly gnash their teeth is that the his agency will push for court ordered resti I would also like to take note of an giveaways do not ultimately save a dime tution in cases involving fraud at banks and article that appeared in the Barron's and in the long run will be far more expen S&L's placed under FDIC supervision. of February 20, 1989. That article is sive than just paying off the depositors We think such orders should be requested entitled, "Steal of the Century?" This would have been. and granted as a matter of course to mini article, entitled "Steal of the Centu Continuing with the quote: mize the cost of criminal acts to the appro ry?" is written by an economist, Benja Over time, the net worth deficit of the priate insurance funds. min J. Stein, who is an economist and S&L.s-that is, the gap between the value of The article continues: writer based in Los Angeles. Mr. Stein their assets and the value of their liabil- 3240 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 ities-will still have to be paid off by the I disagree with Mr. Nader. I think to local persons who need to get loans taxpayers. The mergers, acquisitions and we should not place the burden on any to buy homes. They are the ones who bailouts will not improve that situation by taxpayers. I think a way should be are guilty of racial discrimination most one iota. The bailouts, in fact, make it found to guarantee that the banks, worse, in that the taxpayers now have to often. and recent studies have shown make up the tax subsidy as well as the port the S&L's, the people who have stolen that redlining on the basis of race con folio losses. Further, to add to the govern the money, will be forced to pay back tinues en masse in our big cities. ment's losses, which is the taxpayer's losses, the money and retrieve the money. If There is one section of Mr. GONZA the bailouts are so cumbersome and atten we are going to tax corporations and if LEZ' statement which is called "Financ tion-getting that they divert the govern we are going to tax the people who ing the Plan, the Need for the Full ment from closing down the hundreds of earn $200,000 or more a year, that Truth," and I quote from that section: other S&Ls still open. Those S&Ls, like money ought to go into education, it The bailout of the savings-and-loan indus their fallen comrades before them, are still ought to go into health care, and we try is massive and requires the understand offering huge rates on government insured ought to use the money for women, ing and support of the American public. deposits. That skews the whole rate struc children, and infants. There are many That support depends on the public's per ture of the financial sector. As the dying ways to use new tax money other than ception that they are being told the full S&Ls bid up the cost of capital to keep truth, and that the day of smoke-and-mir themselves afloat day by day and meet mini to pay for a bailout of the S&L's, which in essence is paying for the sub rors projections has ended. It is essential mum asset requirements, the healthy, well that cost estimates be based on solid as managed S&Ls are forced to compete and to sidization of thieves. We are subsidiz ing those who deserve to be subsidized sumptions, not on calculations that have no pay irrationally high rates. In turn, this chance of becoming reality. drags other S&Ls into financial trouble, and the least. starts again the whole cycle of return on My final document is one that I And to do that, Mr. GONZALEZ fur assets not keeping pace with cost of liabil hope will become a part of every Con ther, in support of all that, offers a ities. As it is, the present cost is high gressman's reading material over the table and two simple charts in the enough: $100 billion or more. In the whole next few weeks. I hope they will pay back of his statement which say in es history of the United States; there is no due tribute to the new chairman of sence that the cost to the taxpayer at precedent for a loss of that magnitude in a this point of bailing out the savings single episode of mismanagement and the Banking, Finance and Urban Af idiocy. One hundred billion dollars is more fairs Committee, Mr. HENRY B. GONZA and loan associations, if we take the than the total wage of all the public school LEZ. I hope they will read Mr. GONZA $100 billion figure, is likely to be $45 teachers in America. It is about the total LEZ' little statement called "Making billion. If we get premiums from the income of all the active-duty soldiers, sailors the Bailout Workable." It is an analy savings and loan association accounts and airmen in the U.S. armed forces. sis of the administration's plan to and we sell off some assets, whatever I might point out, Mr. Speaker that solve the current crisis. In the days we do, under his estimates, we are still at the time this article was written, and weeks since I have been searching going to have to have $45 billion of the acceptable figure, referring to the for information which throws light on taxpayers' money concerned, and that $100 billion, was $150 billion. I specifi this very difficult and frigthening sub will be the case only if we are honest, cally want to emphasize the last part ject, I have found that this is a most only if the President is honest and of the foregoing article. useful and most thorough piece of in says that we need $45 billion now. If I have been quoting, of course, from formation. we buy them out right now, it will cost Barron's February 20, 1989, an article Mr. GONZALEZ lays out the facts $45 billion, but if we do what the written by Benjamin S. Stein. here. Although he is the chairman of President is proposing to do, the same I have two other items I wish to the Banking Committee, Mr. GONZALEZ $45 billion expenditure will go up to bring out, and I will close. An article in states that he has received the Bush $183 billion. "In These Times" of March 1 of this proposal and the bill has been intro He is proposing to set up a separate year, just released yesterday, talks duced in the Senate, but as chairman corporation to sell bonds and use about the possibility of another solu of the Banking Committee he will not those bonds to pay off, pay interest on tion. This is offered instead of Mr. introduce the bill; he is only going to those bonds, and when they get Bush's solution, which is basically to offer amendments when the bill comes through with that deal, the same sack the taxpayers, that is, the man to his full committee. Those amend people who ripped us off before will be who said, "Read my lips, no new ments will seek to ensure the long richer than they were before, and they taxes," the man who is going to find a term viability of the Federal Deposit will be involved in that procedure also deceptive way to make the taxpayers Insurance; second, that the Federal in and take the profit from that, too. pay through the nose for what they surance depositer institutions will be have taken. That is the only way we kept free of fraud, insider dealing, and 0 1415 can describe what has happened. gross mismanagement to improve reg But Mr. GONZALEZ, the chairman of "In These Times" says this, and I ulation; point 3, institute, quick, cer the Banking Committee, says: quote: tain, and severe penalities for those Pay it now. Face the music. Do something Meanwhile, consumer groups are begin who abuse, misuse, or defraud federal to get $45 billion and you will save $138 bil ning to attack the notion that taxpayers ly insured institutions; point 4, a flow lion, because the total cost if you don't do it must foot the bill. On February 15 Ralph of mortgage moneys that meets real that way, if you do what Mr. Bush proposes Nader proposed $40 billion in new taxes to housing and community needs; point to do, will be $183 billion. shift the bailout burden from average tax 5, that the greater burden of the cost I close, Mr. Speaker, by saying that I payers to the wealthy and corporations. An of the bailout will be borne by the in am angry, I am outraged, I hope the other plan will be proposed by the Associa tion of Community Organizations for dustry and the affluent and not by the whole Congress will understand the Reform Now the Speaker's table referred as follows: 31 U.S.C. 1110; to the Committee on Ways Mr. RICHARDSON. 683. A letter from the Acting President and Means. Mr. DARDEN in two instances. and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the 694. A letter from the Acting Secretary of Mr. BATES. United States, transmitting a statement Health and Human Services, transmitting a Mr. KENNELLY. with respect to a proposed transaction in draft of proposed legislation to reduce costs Mr. FASCELL. volving U.S. export to Algeria in excess of in the Medicare program, and for other pur Mr. LELAND. $100, pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 635(b)(3)(i}; to poses; jointly, to the Committees on Ways the Committee on Banking, Finance and and Means and Energy and Commerce. Mr. PENNY. Urban Affairs. 695. A letter from the Co-Chairmen, Na Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. 684. A letter from the President of the tional Economic Commission, transmitting Mr. ATKINS. United States, transmitting the bimonthly the Commission's report of recommenda report on progress toward a negotiated solu tions which address the federal budget defi tion of the Cyprus problem; including a re cit and at the same time do not impair eco SENATE BILLS REFERRED levent report by the Secretary General of nomic growth, pursuant to Public Law 100- Resolutions of the Senate of the fol the United Nations for the period June 1 to 203, section 2103(b)(l) 001 Stat. 1330-35); lowing titles were taken from the November 30, 1988, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. jointly, to the Committee on Appropria- 3242 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 2, 1989 tions, Ways and Means, Government Oper SKEEN, Mr. OBEY, Mr. MARLENEE, Mr. By Mr. JONTZ Concurrent resolution H.R. 1264. A bill to amend title XVIII of and training necessary for conservation and concerning relations between the United the Social Security Act to include mechani sustainable use of biotic natural resources; States and Sudan; to the Committee on For cal ventilators under the definition of pros to establish mechanisms for carrying out eign Affairs. thetic devices; jointly, to the Committees on the national policy and for coordinating re By Mr. LEACH of Iowa SMITH, Mr. MARTIN of MEMORIALS H.R. 768: Mr. PosHARD and Mrs. MARTIN of New York, Mr. DYMALLY, Mr. RHODES, Mr. Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memo Illinois. THOMAS of California, Mr. MORRISON of H.R. 950 Mr. DE LUGO and Mr. EVANS. Connecticut, Mrs. MEYERS of Kansas, Mr. rials were presented and referred as H.R. 971: Mr. SLATTERY, Mr. BOUCHER, FRENZEL, Mr. OLIN, Mr. DANNEMEYER, Mr. follows: Mrs. COLLINS, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. DONALD E. GUNDERSON, Mr. HILER, Mr. SHUMWAY, Mr. 25. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the LUKENS, Mr. OWENS of New York, Mr. DONALD E. LUKENS, Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT, Legislature of the State of Idaho, relative to GORDON, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mrs. PATTERSON, Mr. Mr. LENT, Mr. RAVENEL, Mr. BATEMAN, Mr. an investigation by the ICC on the abandon LAFALCE, Mr. SKEEN, and Mr. ATKINS. CRANE, Mr. KYL, Mr. BROWN of Colorado, ment of the Teton Valley Branch line; to H.R. 987: Mr. FLORIO, Mr. ECKART, Mr. Mr. COBLE, Mr. COMBEST, Mr. IRELAND, Mr. the Committee on Energy and Commerce. GUARINI, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. SCHEUER, Mr. DENNY SMITH, Mr. FAWELL, Mr. SOLOMON, 26. Also, memorial of the Legislature of HAYES of Louisiana, Mr. DIXON, Mr. TORRI Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut, Mr. SUND the State of Idaho, relative to revising the CELLI, and Mr. SYNAR. QUIST, Mr. HENRY, Mr. HASTERT, Mr. LIGHT Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 H.R. 995: Mr. PACKARD, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. FOOT, Mr. PORTER, Mr. FIELDS, Mr. BENNETT, to modify the impact upon individual senior GRANT, and Mr. BENNETT. Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. WHITTAKER, Mrs. MOR citizens; jointly, to the Committees on Ways H .R. 996: Mr. PERKINS, Mr. SCHEUER, Mr. ELLA, Mr. QUILLEN, Mr. GALLEGLY, and Mr. and Means and Energy and Commerce. FAUNTROY, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. NEAL of Mas- BOEHLERT.