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Col. Don M. Hartung, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Reg- Col. Richard G. Rumney, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, The following officers for appointment in ular Air Force. Regular Air Force. the Reserve of the Air Force to the grade Col. Charles C. Irions, xxx-xx-xxxx FR (lieu- Col. George L. Schulstad, xxx-xx-xxxx FR indicated, under the provisions of chapters tenant colonel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air (lieutenant colonel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. 3 5 , 83 1 , an d 83 7, title 1 0 , U n ited g rates Force. Air Force. Code: Col. Thomas E. Lacy, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Reg- Col. Eugene D. Scott, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Regu- To be brigadier general ular Air Force. lar Air Force. Col. Harry L. Cochran, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx FG, Col. Chris C. Mann, xxx-xx-xxxx FR (lieu- Col. Robert Scurlock, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Reg- tenant colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air ular Air Force. Air National Guard. Force. Col. Richard L. Frymire, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx FG, Col. James W. Stansberry, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Col. James B. McCarthy, xxx-xx-xxxx FR Regular Air Force. Air National Guard. (lieutenant colonel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Col. Leroy W. Svendsen, Jr., - Col. Grady L. Patterson, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx - Air Force. xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Regular Air Force. FG, Air National Guard. Col. Edward J. Nash, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Re- Col. Richard A. Rann, xxx-xx-xxxx FG, Air Col. Herbert V. Swindell, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, gular Air Force. National Guard. Col. George K. Patterson, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Regular Air Force, Medical. Col. Hal C. Tyree, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx FG, Air Regular Air Force. Col. Daryle E. Tripp, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Regu- National Guard. Col. John R. Paulk, xxx-xx-xxxx FR (lieu- lar Air Force. Col. Bobby E. Walls, xxx-xx-xxxx FG, Air tenant colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Col. Everett L. True, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Regu- Force. lar Air Force. National Guard. Col. Thomas C. Pinckney, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx Col. Ewell D. Wainwright, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx - IN THE NAVY FR, Regular Air Force. FR, (lieutenant colonel, Regular Air Force) Rear Adm . Edward C . W aller, III, U.S. Col. Andrew Pringle, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx FR, U.S. Air Force. Navy, having been designated for commands Regular Air Force. Col. Joseph E. Wesp, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Regu- and other duties determ ined by the Presi- Col. Walter B. Ratliff, xxx-xx-xxxx FR (lieu- tenant colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air lar Air Force, Medical. dent to be within the contemplation of title Force. Col. Robert F. C. Winger, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, 10, United States C ode, section 5231, for Col. Irving B. Reed, xxx-xx-xxxx FR, Regular (lieutenant colonel, Regular Air Force) U.S. appointm ent to the grade of vice adm iral Air Force. Air Force. while so serving.
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AN ECONOMIC CRISIS But words like recession and inflation do not bureaucracies have been the outgrowth of refer to textbook problem s; they refer to our need to deal with the myriad problems real flesh and blood human problems. The that beset a society of two hundred million HON. VANCE HARTKE economy is people. It is the vast and complex people. They are rational, they are egalitari- OF INDIANA interrelationships between two hundred mil- an. But the result is the reduction of individ- lion people working in a com plem entary ual identity to a few slots on a computer card. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES fashion to produce a reasonably comfortable Our humanity lies in our diversity and our Friday, January 17, 1975 and satisfying life. uniqueness-our feelings, our needs and our Because the econom y is people and not dreams are different. It is that difference that Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, I ask some lifeless abstraction, our actions in that modern society is trying to erase. unanimous consent to have printed in area have an im m ediate and direct im pact The giant bureaucracies have become pre- the RECORD remarks I made last Satur- o n co u n tless in div idu al liv es. W h en w e dominant forces in each of our lives. They day, January 11, at the Henry Morrison tinker with the economy, we tinker with the are powerful beyond our capacity to change Flagler Museum. hopes and dreams of our fellow citizens. This or influence them . Most people-and I in- There being no objection, the remarks should make us not only cautious, but com- clude myself-feel a sense of impotence when were ordered to be printed in the REC- passionate. This should m ake us continu- confronted with the countless logical regu- ously aware that what we in Washington do latio n s created an d adm in istered by th e ORD, as follows: may irrevocably ruin or enhance individual countless sincere, capable and unbending AN ECONOMIC CRISIS lives. This should make us keenly and pro- men and women whose inevitable response The week began with news that 7.1 percent foundly aware of the extent of our respon- to our com plaints and problem s is-"that is of the nation's work force was unemployed. sibilities. not my responsibility." Diffuse responsibility This is the highest level of unemployment I am deeply concerned about the present is the greatest of modern man's self-inflicted in fourteen years. Our top economists assure state of our economy. W e must act quickly punishments. us that the present recession will easily top to halt the deterioration and to reverse the W hat concerns and alarms me is that in- that of the waning years of the Eisenhower downward spiral. However, the sickness in creasing numbers of our fellow citizens are administration. We have been warned to gird o u r eco n o m y is o n ly o n e p art o f a m o re experiencing a sense of estrangem ent be- ourselves for further increases in the unem- general sickness in our society. And before cause of this im personality and dehum an- ployment rate to at least 8 percent. W e are I address m yself to the specific econom ic ization. There is a sense that our institu- faced with the very real possibility that dou- p roblem s and suggest a few solutions, I tions-and especially our gov ernm ent-are ble digit inflation will become double digit want to comment on the broader question. not responsive to human needs: a sense that unemployment. I hardly need to tell you that Our Country was founded in the belief that the institutions have a life and direction of we are in the midst of an economic crisis of individual human beings count, that the in- their own. A sense that there is no way to major and extraordinary proportions. dividual and his welfare represent the ulti- turn things around. Unemployment figures are statistics-cold mate value. The act of creating America was Congress is the one institution that should and technical. They tell us nothing about the personal act of a handful of people who be responsive to the needs of the people. It the human tragedy which they reflect. It is wanted to live in a new community where ought to serve to humanize and personalize frightening to contem plate that an 8 per- their views and attitudes would not only be the relationship between the people and the cent unem ploym ent rate m eans that seven tolerated, but would be legitimate. They left governm ent. It ought to be the m ain arena and one-half million of our fellow citizens their old world to establish a new one be- for dialogue and for change. It ought to do are out of work; it m eans that sev en and cause they felt them selves estranged from all these things, but it does not. one-half million Americans have been de- their mother country. In too many instances Congress has con- priv ed, through no fault of their own, of I fear that we have drifted too far from tributed to the emerging sense of alienation the m eans to prov ide for them selv es and that original conception. I fear that modern and dissatisfaction by deceiving itself into their families; it means that seven and one- America is estranging too many of its people. believing that for every problem there is a half m illion once proud, independent, and The hallmark of contemporary American legislative solution. Because we are legisla- secure individuals have been reduced by cir- society seems to be impersonality. A member tors, we understandably think in term s of cum stances to a state of perpetual anxiety of m y own staff-a political scientist-is al- laws. But only a passing knowledge of sociol- and insecurity; it means that seven and one- ways speaking to me about the "political sys- ogy is needed to know that there are nar- half million workers who a few weeks ago tem." What a cold, impersonal name for such row limits within which legislation can be or a few months ago were looking forward an eminently human activity as politics. But effective. Law m ust reflect the prevailing to the future are now experiencing the des- the malaise of impersonality reaches deep consensus and the prevailing values of the peration of unem ploym ent lines and even into our institutions and into our thought com m unity. But, m ore to the point, there welfare lines. patterns. are quite sim p ly a h ost of p roblem s th at It is too easy to talk about the econom y Dehumanization has been the ironic out- should not and cannot be dealt with by leg- in the abstract jargon of the technocrats. g ro w th o f o u r qu est fo r equ ality . G ian t islative action. W e must place greater reli- January 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 787 ance on other institutions, and we must en It is because of the intimate relationship create a "do nothing" attitude. We have had courage them. If not, we wlll create a society between economic crisis and poll tical crisis too many years of "do nothing." The result in which all other institutions-the family, that the situation today is so critical; it is has been unmitigated economic disaster. It the community, the church-have become because of this relationship-as well as is now time to act; to act quickly and mas atrophied or moribund. simple humanity-that we must act to meet sively. The Government cannot simply stand The impact of Congress has been further the crisis forcefully and without delay. around shaking its head while the economy diluted by its excessive dependence upon The causes of today's economic crisis are falls to pieces. We must be realistic about the executive branch. The last century of deeply rooted in the history of the last dec potential dangers; but we must also respond American history has witnessed the steady ade. Of the many contributing factors, four to the real and present danger. accretion of presidential power, most of it stand out: the Vietnam tragedy; the quad The most effective \Veapon in the Govern by default. Congress has been too quick to rupled price of oil at the hands of the OPEC ment's economic arsenal is fiscal policy-tax shirk responsibility, too prepared to pass countries, the capricious effects of weather policy. You know, and I know, that in 1975 the buck to the president. The net result on food production; and the inability of the there will be a major tax cut. That is the of this process was neatly summarized in the Nixon administration to fashion policies to fastest and surest way we know of to stimu title of a recent book-the imperial presi bring the economy under control. late production. Cutting taxes gives the in dency. The economy has been subjected to hyper dividual consumer more money to spend on Mr. Nixon did not create the circumstances inflation for approximately four years; little refrigerators, clothing, or automobiles. It by which we managed to re-establish an in the way of purposeful Government action will create repercussions that will be felt American monarchy. Mr. Nixon's folly was was forthcoming during that period. The throughout all sectors of the economy. This to act like a monarch-he did not bother to economy, for all practical purposes, was left will be in conjunction with the long-awaited maintain the illusion of the constitutional to its own inadequate devices. The Nixon change in the Federal Reserve Board's policy separation of powers. He made it painfully administration was engaged during much of to lower interest rates which will stimulate obvious by his administration's arrogance that time in a desperate struggle for political the housing industry-until recently the and paranoia, that the delicate balance of survival. With all its energies and resources hardest hit sector of the economy. It will also powers and responsibllities that to men like thrown into the battle to shore-up the crum bolster the sagging stock market by making Madison were the very essence of democracy, bling walls of the Watergate cover-up, the the purchase of equity shares more appeal simply no longer applied. economy was left to deteriorate. ing in comparison to bonds. I hope our grandchildren will look upon When Mr. Ford succeeded to the Presi That there will be a tax cut is a fore the second half of the 1970s as the beginning dency, we all hoped for immediate and force gone conclusion. The extent of the tax cut, of a revitalization of American democracy. ful action. But Mr. Ford, like his prede the precise groups who wlll benefit most, I hope they will be able to say there was a cessor-but for different reasons-was im whether or not it will be retroactive, and redressing of the balance between Congress mobilized. He treated the Nation to encomi compensatory revenues all will be important and the Executive. But for Congress to re ums about consumer restraint while the questions. The Senate, according to the Con assert itself, it must do more than engage White House passed out WIN buttons. stitution, cannot take the initiative in tax in rhetoric; it must be willing to shoulder Part of his difficulty was an inability to matters. We in the Finance Committee will substantive responsibilities. understand what was happening. In fairness have to walt until the House of Representa There are no easy solutions to widespread it must be granted that the Nation was ex tives and specifically the Ways and Means disenchantment and alienation. The only periencing a new phenomenon-inflation and Committee, considers the various alterna solutions are the simple and obvious ones; recession. President Ford was more fearful tives. the ones that are so easy to talk about but of the inflation than the recession, and what It is also too early to estimate how large so tremendously difficult to put into practice. action his administration took was in that a tax cut will be needed to stimulate with We must reassert the central role of the direction. Unfortunately, he made this judg out over-stimulating. But one thing is sure: individual in our society. His rights must be ment at a time when it was increasingly To be effective, the cuts must benefit pri assured. He must be moved back to center clear that the recession was the more dan marily the low and middle income groups. stage. He must be made to feel important; gerous of the two. To see this took no magic Not only have they been most hurt by the he must be made to feel that he counts, that or special wisdom. Last spring I was already inflation, they spend most of their income his opinions count, and that his needs and calling for an immediate decrease in the and save very little. I am also in agreement feelings are accounted for. We must somehow interest rate, and argued that a tax cut to with those who have argued that an im develop structures within our political stimulate consumer purchasing was essential. mediate tax cut of at least ten percent retro framework that give him a greater role. We When I declared that if we did not move active to 1974 is essential. I would, however, must arrest drift towards the abdication of quickly we would find ourselves in a major modify this by suggesting that the cut be personal responsibility, dehumanization, and recession, a Republican Member of Congress smaller the greater the income level. The impersonality. publicly suggested I be shot for treason! greater an individual's income, the less like I question the present direction of Ameri Today, the unemployment rate stands at ly they are to spend that income. There can society. We are not bein~ sufficiently re 7.1 percent and is increasing daily. New ap fore, it would serve no real purpose to allow flective of the implications of our actions. plications for unemployment insurance have Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Kennedy a tax cut. We are heading, I fear, towards disaster. Po not been as great since the 1930s. Over the We may have to resort to measures des litical history has important lessons to teach last five month period, industrial production igned specifically to stimulate particular that we are ignoring. A population alienated dropped by three percent. Between Novem sectors of the economy. This might be done from itself and its institutions; a population ber and December the decline was an in by offering individuals what I call a "per beset with an overwhelming sense of frus credible 2.3 percent. When we remember sonal investment tax credit," just as the trating powerlessness; a population that loses that our economy has been growing at the Government provides an incentive to busi its feeling of internal cohesion and kinship, rate of 3 to 4 percent annually over the last ness to make capital investments-an in is ripe for tyranny and totalitarianism. couple of decades, these figures appear even centive, by the way, which I think should We are, as Aristotle observed, political and more dire. be strengthened by increasing the tax cred social animals. We have a deep-seated need We are in a recession. The most severe it from seven to ten percent-we should to feel ourselves part of a wider social fabric since the great depression. The question is take the same approach with individuals. A than the nuclear family. If individuals no now, what to do. tax credit might be given for the purchase of longer gain a sense of identity and feel a Mr. Alan Greenspan, the President's main homes and automobiles since these are the sense of fulfillment from participation in economic advisor, has told us that things most important expenditures for most peo the life of the society, they will lose their will get worse before they get better. In ple. This would enable us to stimulate only commitment to its values. The tendency to other words, the economy has not yet reached certain specific sectors of the economy. It float towards political extremism will become its lowest point. Even after we "bottom-out" would be the difference between using a meat more pronounced. The appeal of the Nazi there will be a lengthy time lag before there cleaver and a surgical scalpel. Party in Germany was not ideological or in is any appreciable drop in the unemployment There is substantial a.greement in Con tellectual for most people. It provided them rate, and before industry wlll be able to gress that the immediate response to the re with individual identity; it linked the lonely, produce at pre-recession levels. cession will be a tax cut. The details have the isolated, and the alienated to what was I respect Mr. Greenspan for his candor, a yet to be worked out. I am confident that perceived as a transcendent cause. quality that has been conspicuously absent we will be able to put a halt to the reces I am not suggesting that the cituation in from administration pronouncements in the sion. But this is also a time when we should America today duplicates that of pre-Nazi last six years. But other aspects of Mr. fix our gaze upon more distant shores; we Germany. I am suggesting, however, that Greenspan's approach to economic problems should not be satisfied just to solve the there are certain symptoms of a widespread disturbs me. He has stated hls reluctance to short-term crises. It is a time when we and deeply rooted sickness that are becom move forcefully against recession because he should reflect upon the nature of our econ ing obvious. Frustration, hopelessness, pow fears it might ultimately rekindle the now omy and attempt to develop bro~d and, hopefully, far-ranging policies that will pre erlessnes-these are the great enemies of abating inflation. -I share hls concern that serve and enhance the best in our economic democracy. Economic cries and dislocations anti-recession policies might have unwanted have historically served to exacerbate these relations and prune the worst. side-effects. But that is where we part com Most Americans accept and believe 1n the feelings and to narrow the base upon which pany. free-enterprise economy. They believe 1n a democratic policy can rest. The administration is letting its fears personal initiative and individual incentive. 788 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 17, 1975 They believe that decisions made in the rational basis. The bank would coordinate- accountable. Under present law, multination marketplace about price, allocation of mate and, where necessary, recommend-national al corporations headquartered in America pay rials and resources, the level of production, policies for unemployment compensation. It no federal ta~es until and when their foreign profit, and distribution of income wlll be would establish a core of public service jobs-- earnings are repatriated. The United States efficient and socially acceptable. We are com not makeshift employment but socially valu- which made these earnings possible by pro fortable with free enterprise. It seems to able work based upon the real need of our viding the capital for overseas expansion and combine our American penchant towards local communities. This core of jobs must be the technology necessary to exploit it, re pragmatism and our adherence to judea capable of relatively quick expansion or con- ceives nothing in return. I propose that these Christian morality. traction as the situation dictates. This could tax deferrals be eliminated. Foreign earnings But we are faced with a contradiction: be accomplished by prior planning which should be taxed during the year when they a contradiction between belief and commit would anticipate our needs. · are earned-regardless of whether they are ment to free enterprise on one side and eco The Human Resources Bank would incor- returned to the United States. nomic realities on the other. If the crisis of porate two additional features. First, it would Under present law, the multinational cor the seventies has had any I'Jenefit, it has establish p·rocedures for retraining when poration receives a tax advantage-and, been to point this out. that was a warranted alternative to either therefore, an incentive-for doing business The most obvious contradiction is between temporary employment or unemployment abroad. For example, a company operating in the laws of supply and demand that are compensation. We have had sufficient expe- Florida or Indiana pays corporate taxes to the supposed to rule a free market economy rience--much of it negative-in this field to state government. When it comes time to pay and the abllity of our major industries to be able to create a logical retraining program. federal corporate taxes, the state taxes are disregard these forces. We have found that Second, the bank would serve as a national treated as a business expense. However, the manufacturing has become so concentrated employment coordination center, matching taxes a multinational pays to a foreign gov that prices no longer refiect the market, but of people and employment opportunities. Be- ernment are treated as a tax credit--that is, that they are artificially established by ad cause this would often involve individuals they are deducted directly from the com ministrative fiat. More significant, they can moving from one locale to another at pre- pany's tax bUl. maintain those prices-at times even raising cisely the moment when their financial re- I see no reason why taxes paid to the Gov them--during a period of decreasing demand. sources are weakest, the bank would be au- ernment of Hong Kong should receive prefer In a free enterprise economy this should thorized to either provide or guarantee loans entia! treatment as compared to taxes paid be impossible. at the lowest possible interest mtes for relo- to the State of Indiana. I propose that we The United States is rapidly being trans cation and resettlement. end this discrimination. Because foreign cor- formed into something quite unrecognizable In recent weeks there has been an upsurge porate taxes tend to be higher than American to those of us committed to free enterprise. in sentiment for a revival of the Recon- State taxes, my amendment to the Internal We are moving towards some form of bureau struction Finance Corporation. Throughout Revenue Code provides that foreign corporate cratic-administrative capitalism that will the depression, the war years, and into the earnings be taxed at a rate of twenty-four eventually l'.>e barely distinguishable from early 1950's when it was disbanded, this percent rather than the normal forty-eight the State capitalism practiced by Germany agency provided substantial financial assist- percent, but it also provides that the foreign and Italy in the wake of the great depres ance to business. Recognizing all its fiaws taxes be treated as a regular business ex sion. and the potential dangers inherent in Gov- pense and not as a credit. This is more than If the free enterprise system is to be more than a memory, we must institute some ernment assistance, I nonetheless believe equitable. fundamental reforms. It is a principle of that it is necessary to re-establish a revised There is a broad spectrum of reforms that long standing that the Government must and modified RFC. Too many well-run, effi- must be instituted to revitalize the free mar watch over the economy to insure that these cient businesses are being ruined by the re- ket economy and dispose of the present eco transformations do not occur. Our anti cession and inflation. This, in turn only adds nomic crisis. The ones 1 have discussed rep trust laws were originally conceived for that to the unemployment problem which further resent what I believe to be a creative begin end. Today, those laws are no longer ade depresses the economy, and so on, in a vicious ning to a fundamental problem. We can no quate. The scope of the problem has increased circle. A restructured R.F.C. must guard longed afford ad hoc solutions. We must pro immensely, and so has its complexity. The against subsidizing the inefficient. It must vide for contingencies before they happen. solution embodied in our law-namely, the contain a review board that is insulated from We must not .be afraid to reform old struc simple break-up of large companies--and the political pressure, but not beyond political tures and to create new ones. criteria that bring the law into effect need accountab111ty. It must be sufficiently well- • I believe deeply and sincerely in democ drastic revision in light of contemporary funded to accomplish its objectives, but its racy and free enterprise. Both are threatened. technology, economic practice and efficiency. operations must be related to the state of Adding to the growing sense of individual A further diffi.:culty with anti-trust legis the economy. irrelevance in the face of a massive and lation is enforcement. The procedures are A reconstituted R.F.C. would help business unresponsive government, we have a funda extremely complicated and time-consum like the Human Resources Bank would help mentally disruptive economic crisis. We must ing-to the point almost of being self-de individuals. Both of these structural changes cure both. But we cannot afford merely to feating. in our economy would contribute to smooth.J defeat the immediate crisis. Our entire free Furthermore, recent administrations have ing out the rough spots, and insuring no enterprise system stands in danger. Without simply been unwilling to devote the resources serious damage were done to deserving indi- fundamental reforms, I predict that within and energies necessary to the task. The Re viduals and deserving businesses. It is part a decade-at most, two--America wlll have publican Party, in particular, has repeatedly of the recognition that free enterprise is good state capitalism, and little will be left of espoused the cause of these monolithic mon but fiawed. Part of the appeal of free enter- the basic values and attitudes upon which sters to the detriment of the public and na prise is that it requires little in the way our Nation was founded. But these reforms tional interest. of planning compared to other systems; are possible, and they are within our reach. Revising and revitallzing anti-trust laws but this should not blind us to the fact that Now is the time to act. and enforcement procedures are the essential it is still a human institution which needs precondition for rejuvenating the frEle enter some supervision. prise system. Domestically, the bloated corporate struc I speak to you as an advocate of free enter ture is undermining the concept of free en THE PRE·SIDENT'S PROPOSALS RE terprise. Internationally, the multinational prise. I believe in it. I trust it. I do not QUffiE CAREFUL ATTENTION ldollze it, however. It ls a human, social corporation is doing the same to free trade. invention that works better than most but The multinational corporation is a phenom is still fiawed. It is because of these fiaws enon of the post-war era. It has not yet that government must play an active role been fully integrated into our legal systems HON. W. S. (BILL) STUCKEY in the economy. And it is because of these national or international. In some respects, OF GEORGIA the multinational corporation acts like an fiaws that some structural changes are es IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sential. international outlaw. Because it operates Because our economy is imperfect, we ex simultaneously in a variety of political juris Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 perience shocks and swings from time to dictions and owes allegiance to none, many of these giants serve only themselves. Mr. STUCKEY. Mr. Speaker, I was time. We are in the middle of one right extremely impressed with the prepara now. This erratic behavior has d·isastrous con America has been seriously hurt by the sequences for individual human beings. We multinational corporations. We have been de tion and delivery of President Ford's have long accepted the idea that government prived of jobs; we have had our technology major addresses to the Nation this week. has certain responsib111ties in this respect. and our know-how pirated; and our capital Fully realizing that our economy is in has been used to finance plants abroad whose the midst of serious and potentially But the approach has been haphazard, often profits are neither used here for productive ineffective, short-term in conception, waste ruinous financial disruption because of purposes nor are they ta~ed by our govern ful of human resources, and generally de ment. These things, if we are to create true the outflow of U.S. dollars for foreign oil, grading. free enterprise and true free trade, must be I believe we must take drastic action. I propose that we establtsh a human re changed. Moreover, we face the complex economic sources bank to deal with the human dimen I am proposing a series of reforms to our peril of having to deal with inflation and sion swings on a humane, permanent, and tax laws designed to make the multinationals recession at the same time. January 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 789 President Ford's · comprehensive plan tion on Federal income tax returns from people experienced hardship together during to deal with these three problems must $750 to $1,000. I urge you to join myself the "great Depression." be studied carefully and all economic and 17 colleagues in supporting this im Of course, conditions now are nowhere consequences considered quickly and near what they were then and experts main portant legislation to relieve those hard tain that a depression is not in the foresee fairly without endless partisan haggling est hit by inflation, the low- and middle a'f>le future. before I can support or reject these meas income earners. In my youthful ignorance and foolishness, ures. My initial reaction is one of favor Today I am also introducing a piece of I find myself wishing for one of the effects for tax relief, especially coupled with legislation to prohibit travel at Govern experienced by my parents during that crisis. restraints on Federal spending-which ment expense outside the United States I wish people would take the time to share are needed in any case-to insure that by former Members of Congress. Instead of themselves with others. It needn't cost we do not launch another crippling in of simply talking of cutting wasteful anything, but it could do much to increase the value of a fellow human being's self flationary spiral. I strongly favor an Government spending, Congress must esteem and help spirtual depression, and energy conservation program which will take immediate action in this crucial besides, a friendly hello or remark makes you spare us the bureacratic nightmare of area. For too long now, former Members feel better too. · gasoline rationing. of Congress have abused the public trust Try it some time and see if two people We all realize that this Nation is facing by using the taxpayers' money for per paddling together can't make things easier its greatest economic challenge since the sonal excursions which have no bearing for each other. Great Depression. Something must be on foreign or domestic policy. I ask my Then, perhaps, 1975 could be bright for everyone, no matter what the economy done. But we must act prudently to insure colleagues in the House to join me in brings. that our response is not one which would drawing a firm halt to this unfair produce an ever greater economic calam practice. ity in the years ahead. UTICA PAYS TRIBUTE TO VICTOR PERRETTA CURRENT ECONOMIC PROBLEM MRS. SCHROEDER REINTRODUCES HON. DONALD J. MITCHELL LEGISLATION HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI OF NEW YORK OJ' n.LINOIS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER Friday, Jan'IJ)ary 17, 1975 OF COLORADO Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 Mr. MITCHELL of New York. Mr. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, there Speaker, on Friday, January 24, I will Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 is a definite tendency for prophets of be privileged to join the people of Utica, gloom to paint only a negative picture N.Y., in a well-deserved tribute to Victor Mrs. SCHROEDER: Mr. Speaker, I of present economic complications. How would like to take this opportunity today Perretta. ever, I do not believe it is inconsistent to Mr. Perretta has for years been af to reintroduce five bills which I previous maintain a positive attitude during our ly introduced in the 93d session. fectionately and respectfully known in current economic dislocation. the Utica area as Mr. Housing. He just First, I am reintroducing a bill to A similar point is taken in an article amend title 39, the United States Code recently retired as executive director of by Julie LaDouceur, which appeared in the city's municipal housing authority. to provide additional standards to regu the December 26 edition of Suburban late the proper use of the penalty mail There is so much that can be said about Life Publications, serving West Cook Victor Perretta both as a public official privilege by Government officials. Con County, Ill. The article follows: gress already enacted comprehensive with skill, dedica;tion, determinS!tion, and controls against the political abuse of its DEPRESSION CAN BE HELPED as a sensitive human being with com franking privilege, with special provi (By Julie LaDouceur) passion, understanding, and sincerity. sions to control members' abuse. It is A new year w111 soon be here. On a professional basis, Mr. Perretta's If you are optimistic, chances are the new accomplishments in the public housing high time we institute similar controls year is seen as a light in the window for the in the executive branch of Govern economy stumbling around in the darkness field are known and highly regarded not ment. I am happy to add that 17 co of uncertainty. only in the Utica area and New York sponsors have committed themselves to Perhaps a new year will bring new ideas State but throughout the Nation. On a the passage of this legislation. that can put the fears of people who have personal basis, he is viewed by one and The threat of environmental waste has already suffered through one depression at all as a true friend always there to help. prompted me to reintroduce legislation ease, new ideas that would halt the possi The Observer-Dispatch of Utica, sum bility of those who have only heard and marized the man and the feeling toward to prohibit the unnecessary dumping of read of the Depression to experience the spent oil shale upon Federal lands. The evils of a depression. him in the following editorial which I bill I am reintroducing is designed to~ I am one of those lucky enough to have am pleased to share with my colleagues: meet oil shale problems head on by de never lived through a depression. I am far A well-run, non-political public housing claring it illegal to dump spent shale on enough removed from its effects to wonder program is a plus for any community. Utica land other than that leased under the what it was like compared to life as I experi has had such a program for nearly a quarter original prototype leasing program. ence it. century thanks to the man called "Mr. I am taking this opportunity to rein Now as I look at life around me, I see peo Housing." ple not only unwilling to share material Victor Perretta has retired as executive troduce a House concurrent resolution things, but people who are unWilling to share director of the Municipal Housing Author to authorize the printing as a House of themselves. ity, but he has left a solid base of ac document, a Spanish translation of . the Members within families are even unWill complishments upon which his successors U.S. Constitution. I and 58 cosponsors ing to sit down and just talk with one an can build. agree that Congress must encourage the other. If this is so within the unit of the Mr. Perretta, in many ways, was a pioneer. active participation of all Spanish family, how much more must this be true He instituted community contact and social speaking Americans in the legislative among the members of the human race. services programs in housing projects long I must say, though, that since the econ before this was state and federal poUcy. He process. Let me, simply, reiterate my con omy has become rather frightening I have put boys' club extensions in Humphrey viction to end the years of overlooking been told by complete strangers that I can Gardens and Gilmore Village. He encouraged the positive contribution of Spanish get such and such an item in another store formation of tenant organizations. He kept Americans to a better life in this that is· not only made better than the item the MHA financially sound. country. I'm considering, but cheaper, or if I reach He did this and more while keepinng a low Consistent with all efforts to curb the back on the shelf I can get a can of peaches profile (something a ·few of our political recessionary trend of the economy and that has been on the shelf two days longer leaders should note) . in line with recommendations imposed for four cents cheaper than the can 1n my In short, Mr. Perretta was a capable, pro hand. gressive, sen&itive housing administrator by the Steering and Policy Committee Why would they bother to do this for me? whose prime concern was the people he earlier this week, I am reintroducing leg Simply because we are all in the same served. islation to increase the personal exemp- boat, paddling up the same stream, just as The community Will have an opportunity 790 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 17, 197.5 to honor Mr. Perretta on Friday, January 24 clothes dryers, water heaters, furnaces, this country. A substantial reduction in at a testimonial dinner at Twin Ponds Golf and air-conditioners. these areas of energy usage is possible and Country Club. Our bHI would require that estimates through the program envisioned by this He deserves a spirited and grateful tribute. of the annual operating cost of such legislation. products and systems be provided to con sumers at time of sale so that, particu MEMBERS INTRODUCE THE larly in this time of higher and higher HARRINGTON OFFERS RESOLU ENERGY CONSERVATION ACT energy prices, individuals can consider TION CREATING A SELECT COM operating costs together with purchase MITTEE TO INVESTIGATE INTEL price before reaching a decision. LIGENCE HON. JOHN E. MOSS This bill alsn focuses on achieving the OF CALIFORNIA most ecologically and economically feas IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ible improvements in fuel economy for HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON automobiles. Automobiles account for 13 Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 OF MASSACHUSETTS percent of all the energy used in this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. MOSS. Mr. Speaker, today I am country. While it is true that the energy introducing on behalf of myself, Mr. crisis has finally made the automobile Fridq-y, Janwary 17, 1975 DINGELL, and Mr. ECKHARDT, the Energy manufacturers in this country aware of Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the Conservation Act, a bill which is de the need to pay attention to fuel econ current controversy centering around al signed to provide for improvements in omy, the seriousness of the crisis and the legations of illegal Central Intelligence ·the energy efficiency of major consumer importance of the automobile industry Agency activities raises much broader products. to the country's economy commands us questions about this Nation's huge intel When the recent Arab oil embargo to establish a national goal for major ligence community, of which the CIA is impacted upon this country, American advances in fuel eocnomy of automo only a part. Several billion dollars an consumers responded to the call for con biles. nually are appropriated for the "intelli serving energy by changing long stand Several authoritative reports by Gov gence" operations of the CIA, the Na ing habits and modifying lifestyles. ernment and private groups indicate tional Security Agency, the Defense In Lowering of thermostats, switching to that significant improvement in fuel telligence Agency, and the Federal Bu carpools and mass transit, and cancel through the use of existing and develop reau of Investigation, despite the fact ing of trips were among the many ways ing technology. This is quite apart from that very few people in Congress and individual Americans responded to the the improvement achieved by switching the general public have any idea how call for reducing energy consumption. from large cars to small cars as major these funds are spent. Allegations of il The reaction of the American public domestic manufacturers have been doing legal CIA domestic surveillance and to the energy crisis has indeed been recently. covert foreign operations, serious matters heartening. It demonstrates clearly the However, the current poor earnings sit in themselves, highlight the congres American people are serious about con uation of the American automobile sional abdication of any real knowledge, serving energy. manufacturers, coupled with their enor control, or responsibility in these areas. Last year in the midst of the energy mous capital outlays for converting their Consequently, I offered a resolution yes crisis, we introduced this legislation. assembly lines to produce more compact terday which would create a Select Com Last winter's energy crisis dramatically cars, provide doubts as to whether they mittee of the House to Investigate intel brought to the attention of all Amer will be willing to consider major tech ligence. icans the fact that supplies of our prin nological changes in the near future. The CIA was created in 1947, to serve cipal energy sources-petroleum, coal, This bill calls for a major Federal ef a still important national need for the and natural gas-are not infinite. Fur fort to develop advanced technology collection and analysis of foreign intel ther, we have also learned firsthand this automobile prototypes, integrating the ligence. Similarly, many of the other past year just how damaging to our econ best available concepts for optimizing agencies in the intelligence community omy high energy prices can be. Accord fuel economy, low emissions, safety and undoubtedly provide essential informa ingly, the need to conserve energy will performance. tion gathering services under necessary remain with us for a long time to come. In the past the Federal Government security precautions. My concern stems We cannot afford to revert back to the has funded research and development from these activities, but from secret op wasteful energy consumption practices activities to develop a safe car; Congress erations of these agencies beyond the of the past. mandated the development of low-emis legal limits imposed by law and our con Major savings in energy with minimal sion automobiles; and Federal standards stitutional system. In our zeal to pre inconvenience to individuals can be have also been devised covering automo serve the secrecy of intelligence, we have made through improvements in energy bile bumpers. The time is long overdue removed traditional controls and given consuming products and systems. In par now for us to integrate all of these efforts these agencies the opportunity to tread ticular, significant gains can be made in and consider the automobile as a total far beyond their charters. Evidence of the energy efficiency of automobiles, transportation system. illegal CIA operations can be found in heating and air-conditioning systems, In conjunction with the automotive re the Agency's involvement in Watergate, and other major household products. search and development program envi its participation in the activities of the The bill which we have introduced to sioned by this bill, the bill establishes a "plumbers," its apparent domestic sur day is designed to spur such improve national goal of improving the industry veillance program, and its free-wheel ments by creating consumer awareness wide automobile fuel economy 75 percent ing covert operations abroad. The FBI~ of energy consumption characteristics, in the next 10 years. The Secretary of particularly under former Director Hoo and by Federal incentives for the adop Transportation is directed to promulgate ver,· was admittedly engraged in illegal tion of advanced technology to improve minimum standards for fuel economy in counterintelligence programs. While energy efficiency. order to achieve this goal. The bill would less is publicly known about the NSA There are many examples of how also require that all advertisements of and DIA, evidence made available by the household appliances can be made more fuel economy be based on a standard Watergate Committee indicates their efficient. Pilot lights can burn up to 40 test, eliminating all of the confusion that planned participation in the "Huston percent of the energy required in gas has resulted recently with each company Plan,'' a coordinated, intelligence com ranges. Installation of electric ignitors munity domestic surveillance operation on ranges would eliminate this wasteful devising its own tests for fuel economy use without affecting the performance of and then advertising results which are that anticipated the use of illegal wire the range. Further inadequate insulation extremely misleading to the public. tapping, mail tampering, and break-ins. in ovens and refrigerator doors is re Mr. Speaker, heating and cooling our The common thread in this history of sponsible for significant wasteage of en homes, driving our automobiles, and run secret abuse of power has been the ab ergy. Similarly, there are opportunities ning our appliances accounts for 40 per sence of any substantial congressional fnr fmproving the energy effi·ciency of cent of the total energy requirements for inquiry into the intelligence community. January 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 791 No systematic review of agency func That same subcommittee spent more an iron curtain of executive secrecy and tions, purposes, or acti.vities has been time this year in hearings concerned congressional blinders. attempted. The intelligence community with the unauthorized disclosures of New questions have been raised about has been allowed to expand into a secret classified information than with the the extent of illegal domestic surveil arm of Government unaccountable to the questionable domestic and foreign CIA lance by the CIA; but illegal break-ins, Congress and the American people. operations of which its chairman was mail tampering, and the maintenance of The response within the executive aware. dossiers by the CIA and FBI; about the branch to the exposure of illegal opera Oversight committees are seriously largely unknown activities of the NSA tions has been defined, as in the case of understaffed and ill equipped to keep and DIA; about clandestine interference the present CIA domestic surveillance watch over the everyday operations of a in the internal affairs of another demo controversy, to blindly protect rather multibillion-dollar intelligence com cratic nation; and about the potentially than objectively reform the intelligence munity, let alone keep it within legal dangerous effects on our democratic in community. The initial investigation of bounds. The House Subcommittee on stitutions of an uncontrolled secret in the CIA entrusted fact finding to Secre Intelligence, for example, does not have telligence establishment. I urge support tary of State Kissinger and CIA Di a single, full-time staff member. for the creation of a new committee to rector William Colby, men with an obvi The committee met irregularly, pursu investigate these matters, so that we ous self-interest in preserving intact ing a fragmented approach to the com may meet our responsibilities to the Con the secret apparatus they head. Members plex intelligence issues with which they stitution and the expections of the of the new Presidential Commission like must deal. When I sought to determine American people. wise bring to their jobs a firmly en the adequacy of committee procedures trenched establishment outlook in which and organization in a questionnaire sent deference to the intelligence community last July to all oversight chairmen, not weighs heavily. In light of his well-known one offered a substantive reply, despite THE GHOST OF LOCKE views on security matters, and his past oral assurances by both House chairmen service on the President's Foreign Intelli that they would do so. HON. RICHARD BOLLING gence Advisory Board, Vice President More significantly, the members of OF MISSOURI RocKEFELLER is but one example of the those committees have illustrated a dis Commission's predisposition to coddle the inclination to even inquire into many IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CIA. This pattern has occurred in con facets of our intelligence activities. Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 nection with eight previous executive Rather than seeking out information Mr. BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, I call to branch studies of the CIA since 1949, all about possible illegal or unwise agency the attention of my colleagues the follow of which have failed to prevent recurring operations, they have conspired by ing timely column by William Satire, illegal activities. Operating in secret and silence and disinterest to shield the in "The Ghost of Locke", appearing in the issuing classified recommendations, these telligence community from any congres New York Times of January 13: "investigations" have successfully di sional examination. The oversight com THE GHOST OF LOCKE verted public attention from such ill mittees have willingly allowed the execu (By William Safire) conceived CIA operations as the Bay of tive branch to keep them in the dark Pigs invasion and the subsidization of WASHINGTON.-John Locke, an English about matters supposedly under their philosopher, stirred controversy three cen domestic cultural organizations. The supervision. The pattern of acquiescence turies ago with the notion that societies were self-defeating and ineffective nature of and deference to the intelligence com organized and ruled not by divine right, but internal review is illustrated by the fail munity is clear. Oversight by Congress by what he called "the consent of the gov ure of the President's Foreign Intelli has been an illusion. To entrust further erned." gence Advisory Board, itself the product investigations to the existing committee Choosing his words carefully so as not to of a study recommendation, to keep structure would merely perpetuate the offend the King, Locke held that men left the watch over the intelligence community. wild state of nature by their own volition, myth. making a social contract in order to protect The President's Commission has merely The creation of a new House Select "life, liberty and property." spawned a new series of self-serving in Committee on Intelligence would meet When tyrants snatched away the protection vestigations inadequate in scope and the requirements of a thorough and in of a citizen's natural rights, the government suspect in its determination to provide dependent investigation. Such a commit was breaking the contract, and the time came any meaningful reform. tee would have the independence to pur for men to "appeal to Heaven." Locke's rever Within Congress, control of the massive sue current allegations of illegal CIA ent phrase was taken from the practice of intelligence agencies has been left to Biblical generals of praying before battle, and operations, both foreign and domestic, actually were code words-widely understood small subcommittees of very senior mem and would have the subpena power and at the time-for armed rebellion against bers who have repeatedly demonstrated staff necessary to do the job. It would tyranny. little commitment to do the job. Hindered also be equipped to study the many ele Such ideas fired up young Thomas Jefferson from the start by inadequate staffing and ments of the intelligence community a century later, and he filled the Declaration funds, the oversight committees have that have previously eluded congres of Independence with Lockeian ideas and consciously steered clear of the agen sional scrutiny. Finally, it could recom phrases, even to "the pursuit of happiness." cies whose operations they are charged mend directly to the House whatever · How do I know this? Because I took a course on Locke's second treatise on govern with monitoring. Although these sub legislation is necessary to keep intelli ment just a couple of years ago, conducted committees argue, from behind the gence agencies within legal bounds and by a professor at St. John's College. The cloak of secrecy, that their work has been under the watchful oversight of an effec seminar was a skullcracker and the hand adequate, the record reveals a purpose tive congressional structure, instead of ful of students included Allen Otten, David ful abdication of their constitutional sidetracking reform measures through a Broder, and Robert Novak, columnists; responsibility to oversee the intelligence labyrinth of dead end committees. Herman Wouk, author, and David Ginsberg, community: Unlike its predecessor, the 94th Con lawyer; Marilyn Berger, reporter, and Kath gress has already been aggressive in ful erine Graham, newspaper publisher. The Senate Armed Services Oversight The teacher who guided this high-powered Subcommittee repeatedly failed to meet filling its constitutional responsibilities. agglomeration of opinion molders through even once during 1973, despite since The expectations of the American peo the sources of political freedom-expertly acknowledged CIA activities in Chile and ple have been awakened, and they are shaming class-cutters and homework involvement in Watergate that year. demanding more openness, and greater skippers into line-was Robert Goldwin, 52, accountability, from their representa who popped up in the news recently as a The chairman of the House Armed tives. It is inconsistent with those ex special consultant to the Pres ident. Services Subcommittee on Intelligence pectations for us to tum away from our Dr. Goldwin, who served with Donald apparently was informed of some CIA constitutional mandate to keep all agen Rumsfeld at NATO, was the m an be:':lind the domestic surveillance some time in late widely acclaimed session of academics with cies of Government within the law. The President Ford last month. His job is to "as 1973, but announced an investigation need for forthright action is even more sure the flow of information, ideas and sug only after massive newspaper publicity acute when dealing with agencies that gestions" to the President from outside gov made it necessary to do so. have been operating for so long behind ernment: Such salutary sessions with men 792 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 17, 197.5 who live the life of the mind were described education courses at the secondary level Without his leadership and courage by departing Len Garment as a "coup de and are being trained in vocational and and legislative skill as committee chair tete." That play on "coup d'etat" may be the occupational oriented skills. man, we would have had no Consumer only pun in French of the Ford Administra tion, but it felicitously praises the new green Recent projections of the national Credit Protection Act, no Fair Credit light on a necessary two-way street. economy indicates an increased demand Reporting Act, no Credit COntrol Act The new White House adviser resists the for vocationally skilled manpower, which the instrument by which interest rates title of "Intellectual-in-Residence" or "the supports my belief that vocational educa can be regulated and reduced-and no new Garment center," preferring to act as tion deserves our attention and support. Real Est·ate Settlement Reform or a kind of free safety in the Ford secondary: It has been the practice in high schools antimonopoly Bank Holding Company one day lending a hand on speeches, the next around the country in the past decade to Act wort.h the paper they are written day sitting in on Domestic Council discus encourage young people to enter the sions, soliciting unorthodox ideas like those on, to name only a few of the major of Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, academic curriculum while ignoring the consumer laws he has skillfully steered watching over the interests of the arts and vocational and industrial trade programs. through to enactment as chairman, and humanities, setting up more skull sessions I am happy to note that this trend is over bitter opposition. He is not satis with the man in the Oval Office. now reversing as our Nation's need for fied to pass weak bills; he fights for Locke's treatises, of course, are close at diversity is recognized. Our country was strong consumer legislation until it hand: the occasional ghost of Mr. Ford 1s built by people who performed all types passes. inspired by the pervasive ghost of Mr. Locke. of work and we continue to need this The first-term Members may or may For the pressure is on-led by those who were variety in order to prosper. so recently decrying Caesarism-for the Pres nat know this background about WRIGHT ident to seize control of a free economy, or I urge all Members to support this res PATMAN. But 218 of the 291 members of to do something dramatic to gain the illu olution to honor these young people the Democratic Caucus do know it. Some sion of le·adership. whose future goals are an important part of them may have reasons which to them What the President and all his advisers are of helping America grow. are good and sufficient reasons for want learning is that the public must be pandered ing to remove WRIGHT PATMAN as chair to, at least to a certain extent, even when man of the committee. But as I told the wrong: Locke's "consent of the governed" has its drawbacks. Dr. Goldwin is working on oaucus yesterday, let us not pretend that an equation: "Action in a democratic society THE IRONY OF MAKING WRIGHT deposing WRIGHT PATMAN from his chair equals wisdom divided by consent." PATMAN A TARGET OF "CON manship could be regarded as part of How best can consent be won? Often b~ GRESSIONAL REFORM" some movement for "congressional re indirection, by muting the arguments that form." appeal most to yourself and appealing in NO AUTOCRAT--A THOROUGHLY HONORABLE stead to the self-interest of others. For ex ample: HON. LEONOR K. SULLIVAN CHAIRMAN Englishmen of the seventeenth century OF MISSOURI Charges of autocratic behavior against who believed in freedom of expression sought IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Chairman PATMAN are demonstrably the removal of the llcensing of printing. To Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 false. He was the first chairman to open advance this cause, John Milton, the epic up executive sessions to the public, and poet, wrote "Areopagitica," which stands Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, the he was the first to assure absolute parity today as the greatest prose work in denuncia vote in the Democratic Caucus yester tion of censorship. But the licensing of print in committee procedUTes for junior ing stayed in effect. day afternoon on the nomination by the members of the committee, down to the Later in that century, John Locke ad steering commiWilliam Proxmire, D-Wis. Over and til such time as he is completely cleared WRIGHT PATMAN-'both in economic mat over again in the past, the wily bank nemesis of any wrongdoing. would be stymied either because bills he got ters and in the operations of Congress through the House, such as the one last year The allegations of illegal procedures and of Government. to have the Federal Reserve audited by the during the time Mr. Helms served as The loudest cheers for the removal of General Accounting Office, would never get head of the CIA were so substantial that WRIGHT PATMAN as chairman of the through the Senate or because a majority President Ford ordered an investigation Committee on Banking, Currency, and of his own bank-indentured committee by a commission headed by Vice Presi Housing would come not from those who members blocked him. dent RocKEFELLER. In addition, several favor reform in the political systems of In September 1972, Patman wanted to congressional committees will make this country, but from the giant eco launch an investigation into the Watergate If matter by issuing · subpoenas to suspected their own examination. the facts war nomic monopolies which he has fought contributors, campaign committees and rant it, prosecutions may follow. so hard and so successfully for so many banks to trace the money. All the Republi The American Embassy at Teheran years. cans and five Democrats on his committee should be served by a diplomat of highest ARTICLE BY RALPH NADER joined to block the inquiry. As he has shown competence, in whom everyone can have Mr. Speaker, under unanimous con so often in his career, Patman was right absolute confidence. By any standard, sent I submit a letter I sent on Janu too soon. the post at Iran can be rated one of the ary 13 to every Democratic Member of At the mere age of 78, Patman stood on most demanding in the world. Iran is an the House floor that memorable day in 1972 the House along with a copy of Ralph to deny Wilbur Mills, for the first time, a important ally of the United States. The Nader's eloquent article in Sunday's request for unanimous consent to ram Shah is a close friend of this country. Washington Star-News in praise of through that session's outrageous "Christ he is also one of the truly effective WRIGHT PATMAN'S remarkable record in mas tree" of tax-loophole bills. leaders in today's world, a man who will Congress and as chairman of the Com Only Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., had the cour exert a considerable influence on the fu mittee on Banking and Currency, as fol age to stand with Patman in a move that be ture course of events in the Middle East. lows: gan the downfall of Mills' power in the Certainly, our representative there must CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, House. be able to concentrate his full atten Washington, D.C., January 13, 1975. Whether the issue deals with consumer tion and energies on the economic, dip DEAR COLLEAGUE; I am enclosing a copy credit, credit unions, bank mergers, the of Ralph Nader's syndicated column of Sun secret power of the Federal Reserve, the lomatic, and military interests which day January 12, which analyzes Chairman bank holding company movement or ade converge so menacingly in that part of Wright Patman's leadership of the Banking quate credit for housing, Patman remains the world. He must be able to deal on and Currency Committee. the youngest populist of them all. a full-time basis with the Shah and the Nader, who must be rated as the nation's With a more consumer minded committee, people of Iran. Number One consumer interest advocate, re following the retirement or defeat of several To help guarantee thorough investiga iterates the Patman record of action for the big banking allies last November, Patman will tions of the CIA by the Presidential people's interest--a record which those of be permitted more leeway to push for fup.da us who have served with him know so well. mental changes in the nation's financial in panel and the congressional committees, It should dispel the rumors and false state stitutions and the reduction of taxpayer sub Mr. Helms should remain in Washing ments which have been so freely and un sidies to the banks, which have totaled many ton. To help guarantee quality repre fairly spread about Representative Wright billions of dollars. sentation of U.S. interests, the manage Patman. For decades, the hard-working chairman o1 ment of our Embassy in Teheran should It is significant that many of the issues the House Banking Committee has warned be placed in other hands until his name which we have heard Wright Patman talk Americans about the close interlocks between is cleared. about through the years are at last gaining banks and other corporations, and between Widespread support and are today integral banks and the federal banking agencies that parts of the Democratic economic programs. are supposed to regulate them. With the kind of majorities which we en He has made concrete and understandable SALUTE TO SGT. ALONZO M. WIL joy in this Congress, it appears likely that what he means when he says that the peo SON OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO xnany of these proposals which have been ple's money must be used for the· people's pushed by Chairman Patman will come to interests. His audiences understand what fruition. banking concentration is, when he says that HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY But more than anything else, the Nader the nation has just over 14,000 commercial OF OHIO column reminds us how badly the Congress banks, but the 50 largest have more assets needs the courage and the willingness to and deposits than all the rest. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES take on tough issues. I don't think anyone Ten years ago, Patman arranged for the Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 in the House can deny that Wright Patman publication of a "Primer on Money" to edu has this kind of courage and I think it is cate citizens about money and the banking Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, on Sun gratifying that this was recognized in the system in e:ear language. It was distributed day, January 5, the American Negro Ralph Nader column. in the tens of thousands· and is still avail Police Association honored retired Sincerely, able free from his office. Youngstown police Sgt. Alonzo M. Wil LEONOR K. SULLIVAN, The new Congress provides Patman with son with a testimonial dinner at the Member of Congress. the best climate in years for the lengthy menu of hearings and legislative proposals Brentford House in Hubbard, Ohio. I had that he and his staff have been preparing. the privilege and the pleasure of joining THE YOUNGEST POPULIST Unlike so many venerable, status quo-type, with more than 450 of Sergeant Wilson's (By Ralph Nader) congressional chairman, Wright Patman can relatives, friends, and well-wishers at The old Texas populist, Wright Patman, be permitted to view the current session this affair. has been in Congress for 46 years-longer as possibly his finest hour. Sergeant Wilson received a diamond than anyone else in both Houses. He came and ruby studded gold badge from the to Washington in March 1929-a few months American Negro Police Association and before the stock market cr,ash that launched the Youngstown police department for the depression. HELMS SHOULD STAY IN his 32 years of distinguis,hed service to Unlike other progressives of that period, UNITED STATES Patman concentrated on money and banks the police department, the community, as his specialty in the House of Rep• and youth. He was also the reci!)icnt of resentatives. HON. PAUL FINDLEY resolutions adopted by the city of He angered the banks and their power OF ILLINOIS Youngstown and the State of Ohio, a ful congressional supporters almost from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES silver cup from the North Side Old Timers, a plaque from Remus Post for day he was first elected. Imagine a fresh Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 man congressman taking on Treasury Sec his sponsorship of the old time football retary Andrew Mellon for practicing like a Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the seri team in the 1920's, and a presentation on big banker Instead of a public official. The ous charges concerning the conduct of b~h a l f of the Buckeye Elks Lodge. 794 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 17, 1975 Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this Publicity: William Campanizzi, Isadore for rejecting the potentially lucrative aspects opportunity to express my personal Blakle1. of private practice to dedicate his time and Tickets: Herb Allison, Charles Street. medical training to helping the war-torn thanks and appreciation to Sergeant Banquet:Lt. Dan Murphy, Milton Cobbins, nations of southeast Asia as executive direc Wilson for the outstanding work he has Jacci Flemings, James Johnson. tor of Project Con-cern. done over the years to make the city of Floral: Catherine Allison, Mary Wilson, Albert John Hofstede, 34, mayor of Min Youngstown a better place in which to Pamela Snipes, Barbara Snipes. neapolis, Minn. One of the nation's youngest live. In these troubled times, our country mayors, Hofstede was cited for establishing needs more people like Sergeant Wilson. major programs in housing, transportation We are most fortunate to have Sergeant and governmental reform "while at the same COHEN AMONG JAYCEES' TOP 10 time achieving a strong reputation as an able Wilson, his wife, Mary, and his children administrator.'' and grandchildren as members of our Donald Edward Messer, 33, president of community. I am proud to call him my Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.D. friend. HON. DAVID F. EMERY Messer, a theologian and one of the nation's Mr. Speaker, I insert excerpts from the OF MAINE youngest college presidents, was praised for Sgt. Alonzo M. Wilson testimonial ban IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his work in relation to correcting sooial injus quet program in the REcORD at this tices and "providing new human services." Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 Gerald Lawrence Parsky, 32, Washington, time: D.C., youngest assistant Treasury Secretary AMERICAN NEGRO POLICE ASSOCIATION HONOR Mr. EMERY. Mr. Speaker, it is with a great deal of pride that I ask to include in history, cited for "exceptional achieve ING SGT. ALONZO M. WILSON, 1942-32 ment in tax reform and trade relations" dur YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE-1974 in the appendix of the RECORD, an article ing his government service. Sergeant Alonzo M. Wilson was born in from the Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Donald Blessing Rice Jr., 35, Santa Monica, Birmingham, Alabama, in 1908. Reared in Maine, of January 13, 1975, entitled Calif., Rand Corp. president and a former Donora, Pa., he graduated in 1925 from Do "Cohen Among Jaycees' Top 10." assistant director of the Office of Manage nora. High School where he played varsity The article with a United Press Inter ment and Budget, praised for efforts to "help football. He then attended Northwestern national dateline from Tulsa, Okla., de government serve the people" by working University for two years. From 1943 to 1945 tails a new honor for my distinguished toward solutions to specific problems in he served in the United States Navy. He colleague from the Second District who society. participated in the Okinawa Campaign and The Jaycees have issued a list of ten out attained the rating of First Class Petty Offi joins a very prominent list of Americans. standing young men in America each year cer. The article follows: since 1938. Sergeant Wilson is married to the former COHEN AMONG JAYCEES' TOP 10 Among those previously honored were Elvis Mary Boyd of Kalamazoo, Mich. They have TuLSA, OKLA.-The U.S. Jaycees Saturday Presley (1970), Edward Kennedy (1967), one son, Howard, who is an electrical engi announced their ten outstanqing young men Ralph Nader (1966), Henry Kissinger (1958), neer in Dallas, Texas, and a daughter, Bar for 1975 but an internal dispute and court Robert Kennedy (1954), Gerald R. Ford bara Snipes of Youngstown, Ohio, and five actions left undetermined plans for the offi (1949), Richard Nixon (1947), John F. Ken grandchildren. Sergeant and Mrs. Wilson re cial awards ceremony. nedy (1946), Nelson A. Rockefeller (1944) side at 157 W. Philadelphia Avenue. The three attorneys, two physicians, a uni and Orson Welles ( 1941). Other members of his family include a versity president and four others named to brother, Dr. Wade Wilson, president of Chey the annual list were to have been honored ney State College; and a sister, Mrs. Mack in Kansas City Jan. 18, but the national orga Phillips of Donora, Pa. nization withdrew in a dispute with the local PHARMACEUTICAL CARE AND THE In November of 1942 he was appointed to chapter over admission of women members. the Youngstown Police Department and was The U.S. 8th Court of Appeals in St. Louis PHARMACIST appointed to the rank of Sergeant in Jan ruled Wednesday the Jaycees could hold their uary 1952. During the career with the police convention at a location of their choosing, force he has done investigation which led but no site has yet been announced. HON. ROBERT L. LEGGETT to many arrests and convictions of some of The 1975 honorees: OF CALIFORNIA our city's top crimes. Perry Albert Lambird, 35, Oklahoma City IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sergeant Wilson is very active in civic, physician and pathologist cited for a nation Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 religious and community affairs. He likes wide study of school health services which working with youth, and enjoys seeing young helped shape current federal and local school Mr. LEGGETT. Mr. Speaker, we de people participate in programs that will ben health programs. He also was listed as the voted a great deal of attention to medi efit them and our community. He is Assist youngest president of a major symphony cine and health in the 93d Congress. ant Pastor's Steward of the Steward Board organization in America. We passed the health revenue ·sharing if Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church. Some Morris Thompson, 35, of Washington, D.C., of the organizations of which he is a member youngest commissioner in the 140 year his bill, the health planning bill, and other are: American Negro Police Assn., Buckeye tory of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The such legislation. We were concerned Elks Lodge No. 73, Fraternal Order of the Jaycees termed the Athabascan Indian from about such problems as medical care for Police, Y.M.C.A.'s Business Men's Club, Chair Alaska "one of the nation's most effective the poor, migrant health, the adequacy man of Ways & Means Committee, State of spokesmen for his people." of medical education, and the distribu Ohio I.B.P.O.E. of W., and Office Manager William S. Cohen, 34 Maine congressman tion of doctors both nationally and re of the Security Department of the Grand and attorney who served on the House Judi gionally. Lodge of the I.B.P.O.E. of W. ciary Committee which voted three articles of One of the areas of the health field Sergeant Wilson is also an avid sports fan impeachment against former President Rich and spends much of his spare time going ard Nixon. Cohen was cited as a "defender of thrut perhaps receives less S~ttention than to sporting events. the rights of his constituents" who has most is pharmaceutical care and the PROGRAM "fought opposition when those rights were pharmacist. The importance of this part being encroached upon." of the health picture was brought home Invocation: Rev. Lonnie Simon. Richard Earl Barber, 35, New World Na to me again recently when I read an ar Remarks: Sgt. Mizell Stewart, Anthony tional Bank chairman, Pittsburgh, Pa. The ticle about the responsibility of the "Tony" Vivo Co-Chairmen. Jaycees said Barber rose from "the humblest pharmacist by Glenn Spaulding, who is Welcome address: Dr. Earnest Perry, Master of beginnings to become, not just a leader of director of pharmacy relations for PAID of Ceremonies. the black community, but an important and DINNER influential leader of all the community. Prescriptions, a nationwide, nonprofit Remarks: David Levy, M.D., James "Monk" Barber is living proof that the 'American drug service contractor. Tillman; Ray T. Davis, Mahoning County Dream' can still become a reality for those Mr. Spaulding makes the point that Sheriff; Tho Honorable Charles J. Carney, with the dedication to pursue it." the pharmacist is a highly skilled pro· 19th District Congressman; Dr. Wade Wilson, Jonathan L. Goldstein, 33, U.S. attorney fessional who is the patient's last line President, Cheyney State College; Dr. C. c. for the District of New Jersey, cited for suc of defense before actually obtaining a Davis, Minister, Centenary United Methodist cessful prosecution of corrupt public officials drug. His motto in providing quality Church; Remus Bost. and organized crime figures as well as en pharmaceutical care must be to give the Invocation: Rev. Munford Carter, Assist vironmental activities which led to a 1972 right drug, at the right time, in the right lawsuit halting the dumping of sewage ant Pastor, Price Memorial Church. sludge by 23 municipalities along the place, and in the right quantity. COMMITI'EE Atlantic Coast. He has the responsibility to be sufft Mizell Stewart and Anthony Vivo, Co Larry Gene Griffith, 32, medical doctor ciently aware of the patient's profile and Chairmen. administrator, Dalat, South Vietnam, praised diagnosis to insure that the patient gets January 17, 197.5 EXTEN~IONS OF REMARKS 795 the drug that will do the job and will American Institute of the . History of Phar evaluation complements the pharmacist's macy, and the Academy of General Practice self-evaluation by providing him with a val not have adverse reactions. He must pro of Pharmacy. Spaulding is a former director uable tool for self-evaluation in comparison vide the patient with adequate dosage and president of the Northern California to his peers. instructions for example how many chapter of the APhA. In 1972, he became THE RIGHT TIME times a day and at what time intervals. director of pharmacy relations and communi The pharmacist has a responsibility to pro He must have the right place to com cations for PAID Prescriptions, a nation vide the patient with adequate dosage in municate with the patient to obtain the wide non-profit drug service contractor. structions. Is "four times a day" sufficient information he needs, and he must re THE RIGHT DRUG instructions? At what time intervals? Be spect the privacy of those communica fore or after eating? The pharmacist is the patient's last line of Certainly the physician has the primary tions. His responsibility also includes defense before he actually possesses the responsibility. But the pharmacist also has dispensing the right amount of the med medication. Insuring that the patient has the responsibility to protect his patient and ication, and it should be a full thera the right drug goes far beyond the traditional to reinforce and supplement the physician's peutic quantity sufficient to do the job. role of properly interpreting the prescriber's instructions. Ultimately, we can be sure pharma orders. The pharmacist has the responsibility The information a pharmacist should pro cists will fulfill these responsibilities only to look for, and to identify clinically, signif vide a patient about his prescription has icant potential adverse drug reactions and to reached paramount importance. One state, if we have adequate self-evaluation and bring these to the attention of the prescriber peer evaluation by pharmacists them Washington, has deemed it necessary to de prior to delivering the drug to the patient. fine the required information in legislation. seJves. It is indeed difficult to imagine any effec This indicates that the people not only de I would like to commend to the Mem tive method of accomplishing this purpose sire, but also demand information and pro bers Mr. Spaulding's article at this point without the use of a patient profile system. tection. in the RECORD: Certainly, an increased liability goes hand A drawback of legislating requirements is in-hand with this increased responsibility. that there is a tendency to oomply with the RESPONSIBILITY-YOU CAN'T DODGE IT However, as a New Jersey judge who ruled (By Glenn Spaulding) mechanics of the law without concern with on this matte,r noted, the pharmacist who the intent. Our actions are further reduced Pharmacy is a skilled profession. As such, refuses to accept the full responsibility which to mere mechanical procedures, with the di those who train for Pharmacy tacitly accept the people have charged him with may place minished esteem and respect which the pub the responsibilities inherent in their pro himself in even greater jeopardy. lic views the profession. It is not sufficient to fessional training. The education required for Profiling is the only area of prospective maintain profiles or to "parrot" required in a pharmacy degree is designed to prepare review generally available at the present formation to a patient. The pharmacist must the student to become more than a mere run time. Therefore, profiles must be utilized to have sufficient concern and take the neces of-the-pill counter. The knowledge a phar the utmost extent, not merely maintained. sary steps to assure that his patient is ex macy student assimilates during his schooling The pharmacist must review his patient's periencing the desired response to drug prepares him to be a professional who is able profile prior to dispensing any prescription. therapy. to utilize his hard-earned knqwledge for Adjunct advantages, such as tax records THE RIGHT TIME the benefit of those who entrust their well and "refills without your prescription num being to him. As a student, his study of drugs ber," may be desirable, but are not essential Any discussion of quality pharmaceutical and their effects is designed for a definite for ps.tient protection. These should be con care would be incomplete without consider purpose-to better serve his customers in ::m sidered as promotional tools only. ing confidentiality, or the patient's right to area where they are uninformed and he is One limitation a pharmacist faces with privacy. Health professionals in the oourse of an expert. the profile system is his lack of total infor their practice may share information about However, judgmental interference has been mation. Is the patient receiving drugs from a mutual patient if that information is re imposed on Pharmacy from agencies outside other providers? Do you request past drug quired for that patient's care. Thus, the of the profession because pharmacists have and medical history from your. clients? Are pharmacist has not only the responsibility, refused to accept this responsibility and ac you conducting a patient education pro but also the right to intercede and utilize quiesced to the pressures of th<;>se more con gram to alert them to what you are doing any information to protect his patient. cerned with what they can get than what and why you are doing it? Without an ongo To be effective, we must remain objective they can give. Unless pharmacists are willing ing patient education program, profiling be without losing our humanity. Degrees and to accept their present role as pill counters comes increasingly meaningless. areas of privacy vary greatly between in with its attendant lowering of educational The greatest limitation at present is the dividuals and in different situations involv and wage standards, then we must accept pharmacist's lack of knowledge concern ing the same patient. If a pharmacist eSitab peer evaluation and utilize effective self-eval ing each patient's diagnosis. What is the lishes a symp31thetic personal relationship uation and self-discipline to bring about the patient's condition? A system must be de with his patient, the professional relation required changes. veloped to require that a statement of the ship becomes more productive. There·fore, it How then is the quality of pharmaceutical is incumbent upon the pharmacist to provide diagnosis or the general condition being both the time and the place to privately care to be measured and assessed? treated be included in all drug orders. How For the purposes of this discussion, we ever, we should not let this limitation hinder effect communic-ation with his patient. The will accept the broad general definition of us from our responsibilities. Many valid as rule should be that all our actions are moti quality pharmaceutical care: the right drug, vated for the patient's benefit, and with due sumptions can be made concerning drug regard for the protection of his right to at the right time, in the right place, and therapy without the aid of a diagnosis, e.g., in the right quantity. We will discuss this privacy. how many conditions are treated with The information a pharmacist gleans in in terms of s~lf-evaluation as well as peer nitroglycerin? evaluation. Meaningful review must be pros the course of his practice about a patient We have vast territories to cover with only may be privileged. This privilege, however, pective to have an immedate impact on pa our present capabllities. Self-evaluation of tient care. While the technology is available belongs to the patient, not to the pharma this method only involves asking yourself cist. Only the patient can relinquish his for this kind of review, the practical applica some searching questions. tion, more importantly, the economic feasi privilege. A pharmacist must secure a spe Peer evaluation requires the services of cific release from the patient to provide in bility, are not yet realities. Although we must specialized computer systems such as those limit this discussion to presently applicable formation to billing companies, third-party utilized in PAID Prescriotions' drug pro administrators, insurance companies, etc. methods of providing care, bear in mind that grams. For the evaluation to be valid, it must these methods may undergo only refinements. This not only protects the pharmacist, but be localized and it must consist of local also provides the opportunity to further The basic concerns involving quality care will active practitioners. Jt is desirable to have not change substantially. communicate with the patient concerning prescriber rePresentation for medical input the need for privacy and what it means. A singleness of purpose must be maintained and liaison. Jt must carry out its activities in the delivery of pharmaceutical care. That Ordinarily, no such release is necessary to regularly, and it muRt have the power to share information with another provider of purpose is the charge that the people con act on inaPpropriate oractice habitc:;. ferred when granting us a license to practice. service. Since the currentlv available prog-rams The right place includes not only the A learned profession is licensed by the people are retrospective, they are at bec:;t educa of a state primarily to protect them in an proper route of administration, but also the tional. However. the ongoing acti11ities of physical place for the exchange of medica area in which they lack sufficient knowledge such programs do bring about changes in tion from the pharmacist to the patient. It to protect themselves individually (against the contingencies of their own actions) as practice patterns. Since such programs are is difficult to properly instruct the patient well as collectively (against the actions of regional in nature. activity of a g-iven patient or elicit responses to appropriate questions those practitioners charged with this respon from all providers can be accululated in a via the mail or a delivery man. common profile. The pharmacist has further responsibili sibility). ties in cases where the kind of medication ABOUT THE AUTHOR This method of evaluation and accumula Glenn Spaulding is the co-editor of the tion of data provides for the definition of may be inappropriate in an ambulatory set common practice patterns as well as var ting, e.g., is injectable antineoplastic medica Contra Costa Pharmaceutical Association bul tion appropriate for self-administration? letin. He is a member of CPhA, APhA, the iants from this pattern. The peer review 796 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 17, 1975 Perhaps, but the pharmacist definitely has number of deadly diseases, including nu some factors in the work environment which the responsibility to his patient to insure merous types of cancer. are contributing to the death rate." that he is being properly monitored. A Bethlehem Steel spokesman said, "We I will place each of the four articles haven't seen the study and therefore we can't THE RIGHT QUANTITY in the RECORD, starting today with the comment on it." The appropriate amount of medication ac first installment: The number of steelworker deaths was in tually dispensed on each prescription order CANCER Is HIGH AMONG STEELWORKERS dicated initially by life insurance claims filed is based on a number of variables, including (By Douglas Watson) during the period, and the causes of deaths the intended purpose and type of medica were then determined. tion, the condition being treated, the relia Baltimore area steelworkers die more fre Dr. Radford said that in coming months bility of the patient, the stability of the drug, quently from cancer, respiratory diseases and the study will subdivide the dead steelwork and consideration of the cost. strokes and somewhat ea.rlier than their ers by job classifications, which could give a Most importantly, the pharmacist must neighbors, according to a study being made much better idea of the types of health haz dispense a full therapeutic quantity of med by a Johns Hopkins University professor ards involved in certain kinds of work at ication. Penicillin for a streptococcal infec and a local union. Sparrows Point. tion should be in a full 10-day supply. The mortality study of 316 workers at Beth Most occupational health concern recently Chronically used medication should be in lehem Steel Corp's Sparrows Point complex has resulted from reports of deaths caused at least a 30-day supply. Highly toxic or near Baltimore is incomplete and provides by industrial exposure to vinyl chloride, as unstable drugs may require dispensing in no explanation for possibly high levels of bestos and arsenic. smaller amounts. occupational illness there. At least 26 cases of a rare, long-term but These are judgmental decisions for the However, the study raises serious questions fatal liver cancer has been discovered among pharmacist and require objective self-evalu at a time when the discovery elsewhere of workers in polyvinyl-chloride plants, and ation. However, it is difficult to evaluate one fatal work-related, long-term diseases re federal standards regulating vinyl emissions self without precedents and guidelines. Peer sulting from industrial exposure to suoh have been imposed. evaluation provides a frame of reference by chemicals as vinyl chloride, asbestos and Similarly, new federal regulations have defining the community standard of practice. arsenic is prompting a much closer look been a.dopted for the asbes·tos industry fol The pharmacist can have a profound im throughout the nation at occupational lowing the discovery that asbestos workers pact on patient care by carefully monitoring health. in Texas and New Jersey are dying from patient compliance--or noncompliance. The Bethlehem Steel, the country's second the effects of inhaling asbestoes fibers for effectiveness and quality of our care can be largest steelmaker, has an above-average many years. determined by examining our patients' rec record in avoiding on-the-job accidents. at Inorganic arsenic is another hazardous ords as well as judging the success rate of its 22,000-employee Sparrows Point complex, material that recently received urgent atten drug therapy. Some questions we should ask Maryland's largest private employer and one tion after reports of fatalities among work ourselves each time we dispense a prescrip of the nation's biggest steel mills. ers exposed to arsenic. Recently the National tion are : Is the drug being taken in ade However, it is unclear how well Bethlehem Institute for Occupational Safety and Health quate dosage and at proper intervals? Is the Steel is doing in regard to preventing occupa (NIOSH) recommended a reduction in per patient complying with the dosage regimen? tional illnesses-those work-caused diseases missible arsenic exposure levels because the Is he requesting renewals at the proper in known as "the silent enemy" because their widely used industrial chemical can cause tervals according to the directions? Is the causes often go unrecognized as they quietly respiratory and lymphatic cancer. patient experiencing the desired effect? If sicken and kill unsuspecting workers. Occupational health concerns have focused not, why? Dr. Edward P. Radford, a professor of en lately on industries using new chemicals Who should pay for the pharmacists' serv vironmental medicine at Johns Hopkins Uni whose dangers may not be fully known. The ices? Government, underwriters of prepaid versity, who is conducting the mortality steel industry is much more traditional, plans, and the public are demanding that study in cooperation with United Steelwork many of its processes and materials having pharmacy services be cost-effective inasmuch ers Local 2609, said of the extent of occupa been used for decades. as the patients' demands are unlimited and tional illness~s at Sparrows Point, "There's When health and safety is mentioned. the budgets fixed. When an individual abuses no way you can tell me everything's all right." Bethlehem Steel officials stress that the com a program, he endangers the integrity of the Occupational illness is in part the focus of pany has spent $32 million in the last five total delivery system. We are allowing arti the 1970 Occupational Sa.fety and Health Act, years to meet new federal air and water ficial barriers and regulations to be imposed which aims "to assure so far as possible every quality standards at Sparrows Po.int, and has upon pharmacy practice that punish the working man and woman in the nation safe budgeted $64 million more for environmen whole for the actions of the few, while we and healthier working conditions." tal improvements through 1976. have within our grasp the ability to affect far For years occupational health attracted (The nation's steel companies together had greater and more substantial savings through little attention from industry, labo:r, or even at the beginning of this year budgeted $643.2 developing appropriate patterns of therapy. the medical profession. Even now, four years million for installation of air and water pol Thus, we should not expect payment for after the 1970 act, occupational health is only lution-control equipment in coming years, services not rendered. We have no real choice. starting to emerge as a problem to be dealt up from $335.9 million budgeted the year be We must seize our opportunity to prove with. fore, according to the American Iron and that we are capable of fulfilling our respon The Johns Hopkins study of 361 active and Steel Institute.) sibilities in becoming effective drug control former Sparrows Point steelworkers who died Production-minded Bethlehem Steel ex agents. between September, 1973, and May, 1974, found that 109-74 whites and 35 blacks ecutives often show resentment about the en succumbed to cancer-a rate 43 per cent vironmental investment at Sparrows Point, above the average cancer death mte for Balti which for years was one of the·sta.te•s biggest WORKERS IN PERIL more men. The death figures are 49 per cent polluters. Pointing out one new environ higher for the white steelworkers and 29 per mental facility, a company official said, cent higher for the black steelworkers. "That's $7.1 million that won't make a damn HON. DAVID R. OBEY The study found that 34 of the steelwork bit of steel." OF WISCONSIN ers-18 whites and 16 blacks-died of strokes, David Wilson, president of Steelworkers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which is 47 per cent above the average stroke Local 2609 that is undertaking the mortality study with the help of Dr. Radford, said that Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 death rates for Baltimore men. For whi·te steelworkers the rate was 41 per cent higher; cooperation from Bethlehem Steel "is very Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, the following for blacks 52 per cent higher than average. hard to get" concerning occupational ill article is the first in a series of four Respiratory diseases claimed 15 white steel nesses. published in the Washington Post be workers-nearly the same rate as other Balti "The company obviously doesn't want to more white men-but the 13 black steelwork admit any illness .is job-related because right ginning January 2, and entitled "Work away it sees the specter of increased work ers in Peril." ers who died of respiratory diseases reflected a rate 80 per cent above the average of other men's compensation payments," Wilson said. The author, Douglas Watson, describes Baltimore black men. Union officials also complain that Bethle the poorly funded fight which scientists The study also found that the 361 steel hem Steel has been reluctant to inform them and physicians in this country are carry workers died at an average age of 63.8 years- when present or former workers die and has ing out against worker exposure to lethal 64.5 years for whites and 62.9 years for blacks. refused to allow members of a union's safety chemicals. Watson uses a recent study of In contrast, 65.3 years is the aver·age life and health committee to tour Sparrows expectancy for Baltimore males who reach Point's mills. a Bethlehem steel mill at Sparrows Point, A company spokesman responded by noting Md., a plant with an excellent safety age 20, a.bout the time most of the steelwork ers started working at Sparrows Point, a city that the company is the one providing Local record, to demonstrate the problem of health official said. 2609 with reports of the deaths the union is worker exposure to chemicals which have Dr. Ra.dford said, "There is clearly an ab using in its study. He said a joint manage no apparent ill effects until 20 years or so normal distribution of death by category ment-labor committee concerned with safety after a worker's first exposure. These among these steelworkers." He added, "This and health makes monthly inspections at chemicals may cause any one of a large can serve as an indication that there are Sparrows Point. January 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7.97 Union officials aren't entirely critical of the Dr. Robert J. Brandt, a former company Eat Grass." The article is by William E. company's environmental health efforts. car doctor at Sparrows Point, said it was rare roll Filliaux, chairman of the safety and there for private physicians "to come to us Barksdale and originally appeared in the health committee of United Steelworkers Lo and say, 'I'm treating so-and-so for lung January 2 New York Times. Mr. Barks cal2610, said, "The company is really making problems. Can you tell me where he works?'" dale is a vice president of Cook Indus a genuine effort to clean up the plant com What would happen, Dr. Brandt said, is tries, which is located in Memphis, Tenn., pared with 10 or 15 years ago when things that doctors treating Sparrows Point workers and is currently serving as president of were rough." would send the company routine notes say the American Forage and Grassland Like many companies, Bethlehem Steel has ing, " 'I'm treating so-and-so for asthma or Council. for years placed heavy emphasis on educa pneumonia and he should not be exposed to tional programs to avoid accidents, and that, dust, fumes or excessive heat!" Dr. Brandt Mr. Barksdale suggests in his article plus advancing technology that increasingly added, "If you just drive to Sparrows Point that we must move more closely to an enables men to work safely remote from the you'll be exposed to that." efficient forage-based system in the beef gigantic machinery they are operating, re Some doctors who treat occupational ill industry. In 1952 about 45 percent of sulted in no accident fatalities in 1974 and nesses every day don't like to acknowledge the beef cattle marketed were grain-fed. only two in 1973. the causes. "Even if there is a problem, I'm The practice of feeding U.S. beef cattle While Bethlehem Steel and other com not committing myself to publicly say it," high rates of grain developed during a panies keep all sorts of accident statistics, said Dr. Irving R. Beck, a private physician in Baltimore County. time when grain was in surplus and rela occupational illnesses-Bethlehem officials tively cheap. The beef industry is not on said no figures are available on illnesses at Dr. Frfedlander said, "Many doctors are Sparrows Point. very uncomfortable with the whole situation the verge of converting 100 percent to Dr. Radford said analysis of employees' because they're not famillar with occupa grass. Obviously, some grain will be used causes of death "is a very simple thing that tional health; they're not sure of their diag in beef production in the foreseeable fu any company could do if it had the interest." noses, and they would not want to have to ture. The forage-produced animal, how And Wilson said that Bethlehem Steel, go and testify as to a diagnosis." ever, is brought to market at less cost with the extensive personnel records available Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point complex has the largest industrial dispensary in the than the grain-fed animal. to all companies, knows much more about At this. point, I would like to include occupational illnesses than its executives ac state with a staff of 45, including six doc tors. Sparrows Point also has a 24-employee in the RECORD the text of Mr. Barksdale's knowledge. article: Unions, with a few exceptions, also have safety department and a seven-member en shown little interest in occupational health. vironmental health engineering staff to con LET THEM EAT GRASS Like almost everyone else, labor leaders trol hazards and keep medical records on employees working in potentially dangerous (By WilHam E. Barksdale) haven't appreciated the disease hazards their areas. union members face until recently. MEMPHis.-some Americans, in their con Better pay, fringe benetfis, pensions and A company spokesman said, "Periodic cern about the world food crisis, have elimi job security are the usual union obje.ctives. checkups are given to those exposed to pos nated red meat from their diets. A few have Elimination of occupational health hazards sibly hazardous environments, such as brick begun to suggest that all Americans should often isn't even mentioned in contracts, layers, coke-oven workers and those working discontinue eating meat, and, indeed, that though the United Steelworkers and the na in areas where there is a potential lead haz the U.S. beef industry should be permanently tion's 10 largest steel companies, including ard. All operators of mobile equipment are scrapped. Bethlehem Steel, did agree last April to seek also given periodic examinations." To follow such advice would be agricul healthiel' working conditions for cokeoven However, Dr. Brandt said that when he turally insane, flagrantly wasteful of one of workers. left the company dispensary in 1974, Beth the world's greatest food resources, 'and eco The United Steelworkers' Pittsburgh head lehem Steel's doctors were continuing to nomically chaotic. quarters, which for years had a two-man spend the majority of their time treating Great public attention has been given the safety and health department recently ex accident victims, not practicing preventive charge that beef cattle consume seven or panded from four to five such specialists, medicine. eight pounds of grain per pound of beef and the AFL-CIO has said that federal health And some steelworkers interviewed said produced in the feedlot. (It usually 1s less standards will be the minimum agreed to. they didn't trust the company doctors and than this.) Almost completely ignored is a John F. Sheehan, legislative director for went to prfvate physicians if at all possible. far more significant pair of facts. First, cattle the United Steelworkers, recently told a At a Pennsylvania steel plant, union of· are ruminants. Second, they obtain most of meeting of the Society for Occupational and ficials discovered that the local hospital ra their feed from sources that humans cannot Environmental Health here, "I'm only be diologist checking workers who had com eat. ginning to pronounce the (occupational plained of shortness of breath and excessive The ruminant animal, including the cow, health) terms, as I think most of the labor fatigue was not reporting findings of pneu the sheep, the deer and the elk, has a l,arge, movement is." moconiosis or emphysema. As the company's four-section stomach designed by nature .to The labor spokesman told the assembled medical director later explained, those dis handle great volumes of bulky, fibrous ma safety Mld health experts that with workers' eases were not compensatable under the terial. Bacteria and other micro-organisms lives at stake, "We don't want to determine Workmen's Compensation law and, therefore, thrive inside this unique digestive system, over a long period of time what the problem the company was not interested in them. which is vastly different from that of man is." Rather, he said, unions will press for a Assistant Secretary of Labor John H. Sten and other animals. The cattle ingest forages ban on potentially hazardous materials, der, head of OSHA, said in a Nov. 14 speech containing plant cellulose and other nu "even on the most scanty of data!' "It 1s noteworthy that in a recent case deal~ trients: the micro-organisms convert these Sheehan added that at present, Industrial ing with asbestosis, a California jury awarded to their own bodies consisting of high-quality health and safety issues "are for the most $351,000 in damages to an employee against a proteins. The ruminant, in turn, is nourished part grievance matters" discussed in the ad physician who had examined the employee by digesting the micro-organisms. versa.ry setting of labor-management nego over a period of time and reportedly with Forages, of course, are unusable by man, tiations, hence "the collective bargaining held the findings of such examination from poultry, or swine; they must be converted tool is not amenable to handling the the employee." by a ruminant to be of food value to humans. oproblems." This means the ruminant is a walking protein The medical profession, with some excep Stender continued, "The doctor allegedly contended his duty was only to report to the factory, and therefore, one of the most prom tions, has shown little interest in occupa ising weapons in man's battle against hunger. tional health; many doctors regard it as a man's employer, who retained the doctor. The practice of feeding U.S. beef cattle low-priority area. There are less than 400 This case may turn out to be a turning point high rates of grain developed during the occupational medicine specialists among in industrial medicine." years when grain was in surplus and rela doctors in this country. tively cheap. Beef feeders simply substituted Dr. Barry Friedlander, in charge of over low-cost grain for forages and time. A beef seeing employee health programs for 1 mil animal does reach slaughter condition sllght lion Maryland workers, said that though state LET THE!v.I EAT GRASS ly faster when fed grain. Also, the assembly law requires doctors to report occupational of great numbers of cattle in confinement mnesses, he's only received three such re-. for grain feeding provides for intensification ports 1n six years. of an agricultural practice that usually is ex Many doctors are unaware of the law. HON. ED JONES tensive 1n nature. Others, burdened by too much paperwork, OF TENNESSEE In 1952 some 45 per cent of the cattle mar can't be bothered. The result, Dr. Friedlander IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES keted were grain-fed: in 1972 the figure was said, is that the state health department and up to 78 per cent. It is estimated that cattle medical profession are largely left to guess at Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 going into feedlots during the 1950-55 period the extent of occupational1llnesses. Mr. JONES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, weighed an average of 800 pounds. By the Most forms for patients to list their medi 1970-72 period, cheap grain had become such cal histories don't even provide space for an an article appeared in the Memphis, a widespread sub!Jtltute for grass that the individual to mention the kinds of work he Tenn., Commercial Appeal, on Sunday, average cattle going on feed weighed only has done. January 12, and is entitled "Let Them about 500 pounds. 798 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS January 17, 1975 Availability of cheap grain led to luxurious structive forces of inflation and reces A task force report distributed at the as uses. By 1972 cattle feeders were marketing sion, we must insure that the youth of sociation convention maintained the "funda four times more prime and choice cattle than mental situation for hundreds of private col our Nation are not denied the opportun leges is deteriorating." Colleges face decreased they had sold in 1952. Twice as much energy ity to gain the benefits of higher educa is required to produce a pound of fat as is student applications and enrollments, de needed to make a pound of lean red meat. In tion. pleted endowments, deteriorating buildings 1973, some 2.5 billion pounds of excess fat As private institutions of higher learn and, in some cases, "erosion in the quality of were trimmed from beef carcasses at the re ing are forced to raise tuition and fees instruction." tail level. Most of these trimmings repre in order to continue to provide quality In the last five years, 50 private colleges sented wasted grain. education, lower and middle income fam have closed, but the report of the National The United States land area includes be ilies are increasingly finding that their Council of Independent Colleges and Uni tween 750 million and 1.2 m1llion acres of childrens' further education must be versities said in the next few years, if pres range, pasture, hay and silage, depending on ent trends continue, "all but a. few private whose definition is used. Included is every sacrificed. This regrettable state of af institutions will be in grave peril." thing from arid rangeland of the West to fairs must be reversed immediately. Not Without public subsidies, private colleges the intensively managed Midwes·tern alfalfa only is the welfare of our private col have been forced to increase their tuitions, fields to the high-productive pastures of the leges and universities at stake, but also, weakening their competitive position. They humid, temperate Southeast. Most of this and more importantly, the future wel are "in the position of a thriving business acreage is unsuited for t1llage. It is, for the fare of millions of young people· and our that finds itself confronted with an in most part, too steep, too poorly drained, too Nation itself. I respectfully urge that we trinsically strong and heavily subsidized dry, or of the wrong soil type for t1llage. But provide the relief so desperately needed competitor which can sell its product at forages can be produced on such land. This one-fifth the price," the report said. use keeps most of the land in continuous by lower and middle income families. The council calls for public grants to cover, minimizing erosion and sedimentation, I shall shortly introduce legislation students at private colleges to offset the dif which is both economically and environmen again which would provide income tax ference between the tuition they pay and tally desirable. credits for lower and middle income fam the lower tuition at public institutions. If the Our beef industry is not on thE; threshold ilies to ease the burden of financing the public grants averaged $400 per student, of reverting 100 per cent to grass. It is obvious higher education of their children. Not the total cost to be borne by the states would that some grain wm continue to be used in only would such a measure provide im amount to $840 m1llion annually. beef production in the foreseeable future. mediate assistance to families and in Pleas for added help for private colleges However, in some areas and under certain and universities are coming at a strategic conditions it is economically possible to pro stitutions that are suffering in the pres time. Congress this year is expected to re duce slaughter-ready beef on forages alone, ent economic crisis, but it would also vise existing federal legislation on student without significantly decreasing meat grade have the long-term benefit of producing aid which Pouncey said is not sufficient to and quality. better educated citizens with higher save private colleges. The forage beef required about a month earning capacities. College graduates in Congressional leaders so far have said they longer to reach slaughter condition. Forage their lifetime earn an average of $213,000 doubt any massive increases in federal aid produced carcasses yielded slightly less-mar more than J;ligh school graduates, and to students or institutions will be adopted ketable beef, and thus would have returned earn an average of $371,000 more than in the face of mounting federal budget slightly less to the farmer. The forage-pro deficits and a deteriorating economy. duced animal, however, generally is brought those with 8 years of education or less. to market at less cost than the grain-fed Hence, a positive impact on the economy animal. and tax revenues would result from the When we consider alternatives to hunger educational development of our children. MEMBERS INTRODUCE THE in underfed nations, we commonly think We must insure that the price of solv of giving the people grain. Ironically, while ing today's problems is not the educa CONSUMER ENERGY ACT some Americans suffer a self-imposed burden tion of today's youth. For if we pay that of guilt about eating beef, peasant farmers price, the real cost will be immeasurable. in some lands view the beef animal as their HON. JOHN E. MOSS most promising source of protein. Due to the severe situation 'of our in More complete ut111zation of our forage stitutions of higher learning, I am sure OF CALIFORNIA and grass-land resources will require adap that my colleagues will find the text of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tation at several levels. Many beef producers an article printed in the January 15, will have to accept new practices. Some con 1975 issue of the Washington Star-News Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 sumers w111 have to accept the sometimes most informative: Mr. MOSS. Mr. Speaker, today I am yellowish fat of forage-finished beef instead introducing the Consumer Energy Act of the white fat of grain-fed animals. Public [From the Washington Star-News, and private research funds must be made Jan. 15, 1975] on behalf of myself and 10 other Mem available to provide technological inputs, COSTS KILLING PRIVATE COLLEGES, DEAN FEARS bers of Congress. The following Members such as higher yielding, more digestible, (By John Mathews) are cosponsoring the Consumer Energy longer-lived varieties of grasses and legumes. Act: Mr. DINGELL, Mr. ROONEY of Penn The United States now is experiencing a Without substantial government subsidies, sylvania, Mr. ADAMS, Mr. ECKHARDT, Mr. technological gap resulting from cutbacks America's system of private colleges and uni CARNEY, Mrs. SULLIVAN, Mr. REUSS, Mr. in forage and cattle research in the past versities is doomed to become "fit substance CORMAN, Mr. HARRINGTON, and Ms. ABZUG. decade. If we are to rely more on forages in merely for nostalgic regret and history." beef production, we need a better supply of "I give it 15 years, and that includes Har We will be seeking the support of addi higher quality forage. vard," Peter P. Pouncey, dean of the college tional Members who are concerned with We already have overstated the use of at Columbia University, said here today. the impact of the energy shortage on the grain in beef production. About 75 per cent Pouncey asserted that "new legislation is consumer in the days ahead. of all feed units consumed by beef cattle needed" immediately to save private colleges The Consumer Energy Act is an af today are from forages. Only about 25 per which are losing their competitive warfare firmative congressional program. It is an cent are from grain. A quarter of a. century with publicly supported state and local in alternate to the administration's policy ago, however, forages supplied 83 per cent of stitutions. Tax relief for parents of college the beef industry's feed units. students or increased direct government of inaction at first, then contradictory Clearly, we can and must move more grants to students are needed now to save statements and policies primarily reflect closely to an efficient, forage-based system in private higher education, he told the Colum ing the interests of the major oil pro the beef industry. bia College and Engineering School alumni at ducers and not the American people. a luncheon. Once again the administration has At Columbia, one of the Ivy League asked almost nothing from the giant oil COUGHLIN URGES AID FOR HIGHER schools, an undergraduate bachelor's degree companies and almost everything from EDUCATION costs more than $26,000 over four years, ·the consumer. Pouncey said, "which is considerably more than the cost of two B.A.s from most state The purpose of the Consumer Energy HON. LAWRENCE COUGHLIN universities in the country." Act is to provide a consumer energy pro OF PENNSYLVANIA Pouncey's pessimistic outlook for private gram that is comprehensive, practical, and fair to both the public and the oil IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES colleges and universities has been echoed at meetings here this week of the American industry. It is designed to distribute more Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 Association of Colleges and the Education fairly the burdens of the energy shortage, Mr. COUGHLIN. Mr. Speaker, in our Commission of the States, made up of gov provide essential information on energy determined efforts to overcome ~he de- ernors and state legislators. costs and supplies to the public, infuse January 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 799 new vitality and competition into the oil those sectors of the industry that are not Since the discipline of the free mar industry, and increase supplies to the workably competitive, or in which market ket is not functioning effectively with consumer at reasonable prices. forces are inoperative. The goal of the respect to the major oil companies, the The following is a summary of the Consumer Energy Act is to make the free consumer is faced with two choices: background and major provisions of the enterprise system work. First, tolerate the distortions and mis Consumer Energy Act: THE CONSUMER ENERGY ACT IN BRIEF allocations resulting from oligopolistic or monopolistic supply and pricing pat BACKGROUND The principal thrust of the Consumer Energy Act is to create incentives toward terns; or second, endure the difficul Serious questions were raised concern a gradual and orderly restructuring of ties associated with regulation and ef ing the nature and extent of the energy the natural gas and oil industry by en fective control. shortages. Statistics are not reliable and larging the market share and influence The Consumer Energy Act proposes, the Government is solely dependent upon of the independent producer. for the major companies, a firm, fair data which the oil industry releases. Currently, there are more than 10,000 stream-lined, and workable system of Consumers have been asked to restrict oil and gas producers in the United price controls and incentives to encour their driving, to slow down when they States. Approximately 90 percent of the age maximum efficient levels of produc do drive, to turn down their thermostats, Nation's production, however, is con tion of oil and gas at reasonable prices. and increasing numbers are losing their trolled by a dozen natural gas .and oil This goal would be achieved by a re jobs. At the same time, rising prices have companies. Because of increasing con formed system of Federal Power Com increased petroleum company revenues centration, the ranks of the independent mission oversight and the establishment by almost $25 billion on an annual basis. oilman have until recently, been dwin of a Federal Oil and Gas Corporation as Such large amounts cannot be spent on dling rapidly. a supplier of last resort. new exploration and development, and In 1954, there were about 40,000 oil A synopsis of the Consumer Energy it has been estimated that about $13 bil producers in the United States. Today, Act follows: lion of the major oil companies' $25 bil there are less than one-quarter that SYNOPSIS OF THE CONSUMER ENERGY AcT lion in additional revenues will generate number. These independent producers TITLE I-NATURAL GAS AND OIL REGULATORY windfall profits. are often small entrepreneurs who are REFORM Last year we offered some predictions willing to risk their fortunes on the dis Because natural gas and oil are generally about what would happen as to the result covery of oil. Although they do 80 to produced by the same companies, often from of the administration's policy of excessive 90 percent of the wildcatting in the Na the same wells,' and because both fuels are energy prices and said that it would do tion, many of them cannot afford to en generally end-use substitutes for each other, much more than give excess profits to gage in expensive production drilling, the bill proposes to treat both fuels uniform oil companies. We said: and as a result, most of the oil and gas ly for purposes of well-head price regula production in the United States today tion. For the largest multinational com Such a policy of excessive price increases panies, the ones that remain subject to FPC can have dramatic impact on the economy is not done by the independents, the risk controls, these controls would apply to the in 1974. It is likely that the rate of inflation takers, but by the major oil companies. well-head prices of both natural gas and oil. will be accelerated. The level of unemploy As the cost of drilling increases, as The bill proposes to deregulate small pro ment will be higher. There will be shortages seismic and geological techniques be ducers. Small producers would be any pro resulting in dislocation to many industries. come more sophisticated, as new discov ducer of natural gas or oil solely engaged in The median forecast of some 20 different the business of exploration, development, economic forecasting groups, including the eries are made in more remote areas or and prod~ction of natural gas or oil in the Council of Economic Advisers, predicts an far offshore, as lease bonuses increase and as construction costs soar, the in United States, as well as any one of the fol inflation rate next year of 5.9 percent. The lowing sectors of the oil industry: trans estimates of next year's unemployment level dependent oilman is becoming an endan portation, refining, or marketing. Such pro range from about 6 to 9 percent. The Con gered species. The proposed bill is in ducers are relatively competitively struc sumer Price Index advanced about 9 percent tended to reverse this trend. tured. They do not administer prices. Any in 1973, the highest rise in more than 22 It provides special incentives to inde increase in price to them can be reasonably years. Many of these economic forecasts do pendents-price deregulation, access to expected to result in larger supplies of need not reflect the increases in petroleum prices Federal lands, access to oil pipelines, ed energy sources for the United States. which have already occurred which are likely In order for price controls to operate fairly to accentuate the Nation's economic ills. protection for both independent and franchised dealers. It is hoped tha;t with and effectively, all producers in the same Twelve months have passed since we these incentives the market share of the class should be subject to a · fair system of offered those grave predictions. We now regulation. The Consumer Energy Act pro independent sector of the oil industry poses that the largest companies subject have the benefit of hindsight to see if will increase from the current 10 to 40 to regulation should be subject to controls those estimates were accurate. In fact, percent in a decade. Independents will both in the interstate and intrastate mar they were conservative. then be a viable competitive force in the kets. This approach, however, does not inter As for the future, the impact of higher marketplace; at that time it may be ap fere with traditional State jurisdiction over energy prices are likely to continue to propriate to review the need for price intrastate producers. The bill proposes that accelerate for a long time to come-un controls on major producers. the Federal Power Commission would not less we act soon. Rising energy prices are The Consumer Energy Act also pro exercise such jurisdiction if the producing causing consumer discontent, as most poses new incentives for the major oil State regulatory commission meets certain vividly illustrated by the violence which minimum standards to insure adequate at companies. The premise of the bill is tention to the interests of the Nation as a flared along the Nation's major high that the free market is the best alloca whole. ways as independent truckowners pro tor of scarce resources, but for the free One of the valid objections raised by the tested the rising price of diesel fuel. market system to work properly, multi industry to current Federal Power Com As spring approaches and the demand national oil companies must be struc mission practices is the enormous regula for gasoline and other fuels increases, the tured competitively. tory lag associated with the establishment lines at gasoline stations may reappear Mounting evidence suggests that the of well-head prices. The bill proposes to sim and grow long while tempers become discipline of the marketplace is not op plify this process by providing an annual shorter. erating to establish reasonable oil prices review of rates on a national basis with re Increasingly, critics are suggesting gional adjustments, effective Congressional for products sold by major petroleum oversight, and restriction on judicial review. drastic solutions to the Nation's energy companies. Instead of market forces, the The national area rate would be established shortages: nationalization, complete world oil price is determined by an oil at a rate justified by the costs of explora breakup of the major oil companies, or producing cartel. tion, development, operation, or mainte total regulation and domination of the Oil that is selling on the world market nance, including a fair rate of return. It fur industry by the Government. for $11.60 costs but $0.15 to produce in ther provides the FPC with authority dur The Consumer Energy Act rejects this the Middle East. World oil prices and, ing shortages to equitably allocate petroleum approach. Its focus is on revitalization of consequently, domestic oil prices have supplies among all customers and regions the free enterprise system and encour.: of the Nation. soared not because of the . operation of In order to assure the independence of the agement of competition while providing the free market but because of the mo Federal Power Commission, this section the minimum amount of regulation that nopoly power primarily of a few Middle would require the Commission to concur is needed to protect the consumer from Eastern nations. rently submit its budget estimates and leg- 800 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 17, 1975 islative recommendations to Congress and part of the successful bidder. The effect of which are cast only from time to time. the Executive Branch. It would permi:t the this system is to exclude small and inde The community itself remains a mystery, Commission to undertake civil actions in its pendent oil companies from the opportunity largely ignored by Congress in the past own name and through its own attorneys. to develop natural gas and oil on public and likely to remain so if we insist, like To provide continued Congressional over lands, except in joint ventures with major sight, no authorization shall be for more corporations. By moving toward a royalty the six blind men in the Indian fable, on than 3 years. system of bidding on an experimental basis, inspecting only parts of the elephant. It is proposed here that the Commission such entry barriers could be reduced and Another negative aspect attending undertake an evaluation of proved and the small Independent bidder would have a limited investigations of isolated intelli potential reserves of natural gas and oll in better chance of gaining access to the off gence transgressions is that they may the United States and to undertake an up shore properties which contain a large per reveal wrong doing without putting them dating of such an evaluation each year. The centage of the Nation's future oil and gas supplies. The royalty bidding experiment in perspective. The good work of the CIA, Federal Trade Commission in consultation the FBI, and other intelligence agencies with the Federal Power Commission is also would be combined with a system of per authorized to collect the information needed formance requirements and royalty adjust may, in the search for witches, be for to carry out the purposes of this Act. ments to assure the maximum efficient level gotten and their ability to make positive of production over the life of the reservoir contributions to the country impaired. TITLE n-EMERGENCY INTERIM RELIEF FOR and the maximum return to the U.S. The surest way to comprehensively CONSUMERS OF OIL Treasury. This title would impose a temporary in probe our intelligence apparatus, and at terim price rollback for all domestically pro TITLE V-FAm TREATMENT FOR RETAILERS OP the same time put it in perspective, is a duced crude oil prices to December 1, 1973, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS full, all-encompassing investigation such price levels. Price increases since that time Shortages of fuel have fallen unevenly as proposed in my resolution to create a would also be rolled back, except for actual among the Nation's gasoline retailers, strik Select Committee of the House To Inves nonpetroleum cost increases, such as gaso Ing particularly hard at independent retail outlets which provide slgnifl.cant price com tigate Intelligence. line station overhead that have occurred Certainly this is a propitious time to since then. It is designed to supplement the petition in petroleum marketing. More than rollback under the Energy Emergency Act 3,000 Independent dealers were forced to adopt such a resolution-the public sees of 1973 (now in conference), to reduce the close their doors last year. In addition, the need, our colleagues in the Senate windfall profits earned by petroleum com branded dealers are often faced with a severe are considering a similar step to meet it, panies last year, and to slow the runaway bargaining d1sadvantage when dealing with and the press has given support. This inflation fueled primarily by skyrocketing major oil companies. Therefore, this title last has come from a number of news energy prices. would protect all gasoline dealers from arbi trary termination of their leases or fran papers this week, including the Wash TITLE In-FEDERAL OIL AND GAS CORPORATION chises, and assure that, in the event of ington Post and the Baltimore Sun Title III would establish a Federal Oil and shortages, supplies would be allocated whose editorials I am inserting in to Gas Corporation to explore, develop, and fairly to all classes of retailers. day's RECORD. I encourage my colleagues produce natural gas and oil from publicly TITLE VI-TERMINATION OF WASTEFUL RATE to read the following articles with one owned lands. The Corporation is intended STRUCTURES eye on public opinion and the other on to satisfy national energy needs, stimulate competition in the petroleum business, and When it appeared that the Nation's sup preserving the aspects of intelligence. provide the public with knowledge of the plies of oil and gas were abundant, the Fed [From the Washington Post, Jan. 14, 1975] eral Power Commission provided leadership actual cost of producing oll and gas so that INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND THE CONSTITUTION public policy can be geared to the Nation's for the establlshment of natural gas rate interests. It would give the Nation a yard structures that now encourage waste. As It 1s the Majority Leader's vie·w and my stick against which to judge the perform consumption Increases, the unit price typi view that thei1'e is a need to examine in depth ance and pricing of the private oil com cally declines. This title proposes to revise to what extent, if any, covert activities a.re panies. It could provide a means for effective priorities by shifting in a gradual and required by the United States. There is a exploration of Federal lands, the establish orderly fashion toward rate structures that need to understand not only the require ment of strategic reserves, and provide the encourage conservation rather than waste. ments of the United states for these activi Nation with a supplier of last resort. It is SUMMARY ties, but what systems or procedures or over not the purpose of this title to provide a The intent of the Consumer Energy Act of sight and accountablllty are required to as forerunner for nationalizing the American 1974 is to promote competition and revitalize sure that cons·titutiona.l guarantees and petroleum industry. Its purpose is to develop the free enterprise system by providing spe processes are not abused in the future, as public resources while preserving the free cl.Ja.l incentives to independent producers, they h:a.ve on oooasion been in the past.... enterprise system in the oil and gas industry. and by regulating those sectors of the indus The history of the pa.st twenty-five years It would provide a spur, a yardstick, an in try where market forces in the past have has shown that the crea.tions authorized by the National Security Act have severely centive for competition. The Federal Oil ~nd proven to be inadequate. In this way, the Gas Corporation proposal is modeled after proposed b111 would increase supplies of strained our constitutional system. As a con the highly successful record and structure natural gas and oil while assuring that such sequence, there 1s clea.rly a requirement to of the Tennessee Valley Authority. supplies w111 be provided at reasonable revise the basic authorities for our lntell1- prices to the consumer and without an ex gence agencies. But to wha.t extent and in TITLE IV-EQUAL TREATMENT FOR SMALL what ways, neither Senator Mansfield nor I PRODUCERS OF OIL AND GAS cessive inflationary impact on the Nation's fragile economy. can assert at th1s time. Nor do we believe Title IV requires that petroleum pipelines, that anyone is in an informed position to do which are the highways of the oil industry, so. From a statement by Senator Mathias, be open to all who w1sh to ship their prod urging creation of e. Select Senate Com.mlrti ucts. Currently, these pipelines are owned tee to study government intell1gence aotivi by a few of the largest major oil companies. COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ties. Yet, they are the lifeline upon which inde INTELLIGENCE A.!ccording to Senator Mathias, in the 28 pendent producers, refiners, and marketers years since the crea. tion of the Central In depend. The title would perfect the Inter telligence Agency there have been more than state Commerce Commission's authority to HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON 200 separate resolutions and legislative pro assure that oil pipelines are common carriers OF MASSACHUSETTS posals urging the reform one way or another in fact as well as in name. It provides that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the agency itself. And the amount of re petroleum pipeline owners establish service form that has been achieved by this ad hoc and storage facilities for independent pro Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 approa.cih has been almost nonexistent. Now ducers and refiners who meet reasonable Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the the reformers are having another go; fresh minimum requirements. If the Interstate resolutions a.re being prepared and several Commerce Commission does not substantially opening of the 94th Congress coincides dlfferentt congressional committee hearings respond to complaints of unfair treatment, with tremendous public concern over the are under wa.y on various aspects of the then the Federal Power Commission is given unchecked activities of our intelligence latest cr1sls in CIA's affa.irs. We think Sena authority over oil pipellnes to assure that community. Recent revelations concern tors Mansfield and Mathias, and Rep. Mi appropriate action is taken. ing domestic surveillance, the primary chael J. Harrington, ha.ve a better idea.. The The title also proposes the establishment cause for the current furor, have two sen.a.tors a.re supporting a resolution to of a new system of bidding 'for drllling rights prompted several congressional commit set up a select Senate committee, equally on Federal land under which at least 50 divided between Democrats and Republicans, percent of .the lease sales would be made tees to launch investigations. However, to study not just CIA but all domestic and on the basis of royalty rather than bonus domestic spy.ng and other examples of foreign intelligence activities of the Un1ted bidding. The present bonus bidding system mega! tntell1gence activity, for instance States government. It would review the past, for rights to develop offshore lands requires CIA covert operations in Chile, are but report on the present and make some pro an enormous 1n1t1al capital outlay on the shadows of ·our intelligence dilemma posals for the future. Mr. Harrington would January 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 801 establish a new House Select Committee on been performing "counter-intelligence" op We hope a strong, nonpartisan, nationwide Intelligence, which would also take a broad erations against American citizens and or effort will be made to have 100 million regis view of the intelligence problem, which ad ganizations from 1956 through 19;71, "Abhor tered voters by the Fourth of July, 1976-a dresses itself to the particular allegations rent in a free society" concluded the Justice pointed way to the peak of patriotism, earned which have recently been made against the Department study team that unearthed the participation. CIA. practices. By November, 1976, we would like to see The point of all this, as we understand it, What we have in mind is not-definitely three-fourths of those voters at the polls to is by no means to pre-empt or postpone an not--more of the same old cozy "oversight" insure, at least, that the majority has urgent examination of the ways in which the by the CIA subcommittees of the House and spoken. CIA appears to have gone beyond its legis Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Already a vigorous but small group of lative charter over the years. On the con committees. Their performance has been a senior citizens is supporting a "Bicentennial trary, we think that this matter cannot be disgrace. Only last year the senior members Committee of 100 Million Americans," work left solely to President Ford's "blue ribbon" of those subcommittees prevented Congress ing hard toward this goal. These worried pa commission and that standing committees of and the nation from getting even an idea triots deserve the united strength of the both houses have some responsibility to of how much the CIA spends, much less what nation. make immediate inquiries into charges which it spends it for. For such senators as John Dr. Mark Krug of the University of Chi have raised serious questions in the public Stennis and John McClellan and such rep cago and others, including this writer, have mind about whether assorted intelligence resentatives as Lucien Nedzi now to claim been working with high school and college agencies of the federal government are even jurisdiction in investigating the CIA is to as students and their teachers to develop con now under effective control. But none of sume that Congress will forget and forgive scientious, dedicated citizens. Modern Amer these committees has a sufficiently broad their years of nonfeasance. ica is seemingly as unacquainted with the area of interest to undertake the sort of What is needed, it seems to us, is the crea meaningfulness of its vote as is the citizen full-scale investigation that is sorely needed. tion of special new committees after the who, for the first time, becomes old enough For what is sorely needed is not only to fashion of the Senate Select Committee on to vote. know whether on this or that occasion, or in Presidential Campaign Activities (the Ervin To the new generation, Dr. Krug wrote: this or that particular fashion, the CIA or Committee) in both House and Senate. Sen "Americans will love America the more, not the FBI or other intelligence operations have ators Charles Mathias and Mike Mansfield less, when they gain an insight into the fact violated regulations or the laws in ways proposed a Senate committee of that sort last that generations past have built America that impinge on the rights of private citizens. year, and Mansfield is going to propose it soundly and well. These past generations Rather, it also seems necessary at this point again officially today. Representative Michael have left for new generations the task o! to go back to the drawing board and re Harrington is pushing for such a select com improving and refining our way CYf life and examine in the most searching and pains mittee on the House side. Decision appears to the government which permits it to develop taking way what this country's current re rest in the hands of the Democratic Steer as free citizens want it and not as dictators quirements are in terms of an intelligence ing Committee. desire it ... capability a.nd how that capability can best These committees, if they come into exist "The young in particular, must be deeply be accomplished without undermining con ence, should draw their membership from imbued with and committed to the American stitutional rights of individuals or putting at senators and representatives of diverse back creed ...." risk our legitimate national security interests. grounds and interests. Not only should there Part of the lesson we must learn from the There is no use pretending that these two ob be specialists in military and security affairs coming Bicentennial is that we must intel jectives are not by their nature in conflict but also experts in constitutional law and ligently defend the advantages of our way much of the time. Just as there are risks to gove·rnment operations. Intelligence gather of life, our system of government. rights of privacy in any domestic intelli ing organizations of the sort now in dispute The Bicentennial ought not only entertain gence operation so there would be a risk to may be necessary in a free society, but it but inform mtllions of Americans that politi our national security in ending secret intel they are, elected public om.cials have the re cal competence is essential to the protection ligence activities by the government. Un sponsibility to monitor their activities and and advancement of whatever profession less you are prepared to accept extreme solu to make sure that constitutional rights are the new voter selects or the voter tries to fol tions, one way or the other, it comes down not sacrificed to expediency or to secrecy. low. to a balancing of risks and some very hard Most of us, in school and out, have been choices. taught only the advantages of governmental And it also comes down to the question of processes, but have never been taught the es who does the balancing and to what extent sential steps of selection, nomination, and the decisions are subject to effective super OUR 200TH ANNIVERSARY election, which is the "Fancy Dan" stuff vision and control by both the Congress and gone to work-politics! the Executive Branch. Clearly some of the Many men and women in government are intelligence machinery and some of the prac HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI cynical, frustrated, and dis1llusioned. Those tices have outlived their usefulness. But this OF ILLINOIS conditions have been brought about not by is not necessarily to say that a wholesale IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the processes but tragically marked by the dismantling is indicated. The point is to de apathy, carelessness, and criticism of those cide, first, what the real requirements are. Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 who take our nation for granted. That is why the proposals for broad and We have told students to never become searching congressional inquiries by select Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, as we cynical about politics, that, in a real sense, committees strike us a.13 a good idea. approach the 200th anniversary of our it is the only game in town. country in 1976, we will aga.in have a ma Politics is the life blood of a democracy, of [From the Baltimore Sun, Jan. 14, 1975] jor congressional election campaign. In a republic. It is the fuel that propels the en INVESTIGATING THE CIA terest in the two is of nonparallel con gine of a free society. To profess love for the sideration. democratic form of government but ridicule The Rockefeller Commission began yester It is with this thought that I bring to and disclaim its politics is to pretend to day its investigation into charges that the honor a product while despising the process Central Intelligence Agency illegally spied the attention of the Members an article that creates it. on American citizens and otherwise violated by my good friend and constituent, Jo It is exactly in this area of history book constitutional rights. The commission's seph T. Meek of Western Springs, Til., hypocrisy that the young generation finds the membership was drawn from so narrow a who was the founder of the Illinois Re "double-talk" which it has come to despise range of individuals, and so many of the tail Merchants Association, delegate to and shun. members have previous ties to the intel the illinois Constitutional Convention, The extent to which the political life ot ligence community, that it is unlikely the re and an outstanding civic and political our country becomes corrupted is the result- sults of its work will be widely accepted. At leader in Cook County. The article very almost entirely-of the tendency of sincere, any rate, the burden is definitely on the decent, and unselfish people to wash their commission to prove that it is not in the logically addresses itself to the relation hands of their responsibilities and abdicate whitewash business. ship of the voter to the Bicentennial the field to the special interests, the selfish, Meanwhile, there is a need for something celebration. and the cynical. else. Congress ought--at last--to take a good The article follows: The 1976 Bicentennial w111 be the greatest look into the whole question of inte111gence VOTING Is THE REAL BICENTENNIAL of costly failures in our history if it glosses operations in this country. We don't mean CELEBRATION over what we are trying to celebrate, what just the CIA's surveillance of so called dis we must do to have an even more glorious sidents, we mean the operations of the CIA (By Joseph T. Meek) celebration in 2076. lock, stock and barrel. And we mean the De The Bicentennial observance in 1976 must, Without a representative vote in 1976 our fense Intelligence Agency and the Federal to carry any significance and have any effect Bicentennial may well be a wake in advance Bureau of Investigation and all the rest. It on a new and mistrusting generation, re of our death as a competitive two-party sys is being overlooked these days, but just a few create in the citizens a deep sense of respon tem. Our songs may well be dirges for a citi weeks before this CIA story broke, Attorney sib111ty for and participation in the govern zenry which failed to believe in and support General Saxbe reported that the FBI had ing of their country. its own existence. CXXI--51-Part 1 802 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 20, 1975 PRICES VERSUS WAGE INCREASES Based on those hourly rates and using the sented the other side, I suggest that the coin Parade chart, here's what our hour's pay also has some edges. would buy of each of these items in the Her figures put the situation in perspective three comparable years: so far as the salaried person is concerned, the HON. PAUL FINDLEY Steak-3 lbs. in '54, 4 lbs. in '64 and 4 lbs. one whose hourly pay has steadily increased along with inflation. OF ILLINOIS in '74. Sugar--6 lbs. in '54, 8 lbs. in '64 and 3 lbs. But let's take the guy or gal who retired on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in '74. (This one's a baddie). a fixed dollar pension around 1964. Where Friday, Janwary 17, 1975 Bread-19 loaves in '54, 24 loaves in '64 does this leave that person? Hungry, maybe? and 22 loaves in '74. The list of commodities on the chart has gone Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the editor Coffee-2 lbs. in '54, 6 lbs. in '64 and 6 ll':>s. up 80 percent in 10 years. Social Security and of the lllinois State Journal-Register re in '74. some other pensions have been increased dur cently wrote a perceptive column on the Eggs-5 dozen in '54, 8 dozen in '64 and ing that 10 years, but many have not. And a. relationship between prices and wage in 9 dozen in '74. lot of retirees who thought they had it pretty creases over the past 20 years. The text Milk-3 gallons 1n '54, 5 gallons in '64 well made now find out they don''t. of his comment appears below: and 5 gallons in '74. There's something else the letter writer's Lettuce-15 heads in '54, 20 heads in '64 figures show that affects millions of Ameri~ PRICES VERSUS WAGE INCREASES and 18 heads in '74. cans and is the source of much of the con (By Ed Armstrong) Butter-4 lbs. in '54, 6 lbs. in '64 and cern and pessimism today. 8 lbs. in '74. Between 1954 and 1964, her husband's One of our readers sent me a letter a few Postage Stamps (for ordinary first class wages went up about 62 percent. Of the 10 days ago about what she considered irre letter)-101 in '54, 101 in '64 and 81 1n '74. commodities on the chart, his wages would sponsible or incomplete reporting. It re Gasoline-10 gallons in '54, 16 gallons in buy more of nine of them and the same of ferred to a chart in Parade Magazine, the '64 and 15 gallons in '74. one-stamps-in 1964. He could buy far more newspaper supplement produced by Parade Most people want to go back to 1954 prices coffee, eggs, milk and gasoline with an hour's Publications and distributed as part of the but they would not go back to 1954 wages! pay in 1964 than he could buy 10 years Sunday State Journal-Register. So, when reading charts such as this, take earlier. There was not a single item on the I hope she wm forgive me for using her into consideration the rise in wages during list that he'd have to work longer to buy. letter here instead of in our letter column. the same period. Clearly living standards of people as meas I'm doing so because it includes some things NAME WITHHELD. ured in consumer goods were going up in that that I believe deserve discussion and the She accompanied it with a signed note say decade. making of some points beyond the valid ing, "It always irks me to see only one side of Now, what happened between 1964 and point she makes. the coin," and requesting that her name be 1974? Here is what she wrote: withheld because she thinks it shouldn't be Although her husband's salary went up an EDITOR: We know there 1s inflation but it other 60 percent, almost as much as it did isn't as bad as it is printed by a chart in everyone's business how much her husband earns. the previous decade, his salary would buy your Parade Magazine on Jan. 5, which pur She's right that just telling how much more of only two commodities of the 10 on ported to reflect the purchasing power of prices have gone up in dollar terms without the ohart. It would buy the same amount of the dollar from 1944 to 1974. three and less of five. What the chart left out was the wage in reflecting how many more dollars wage earn ers are receiving is telling only half the story. This is the essence of today's infl!litionary creases people have received during the same economy: more salary 1s buying less goods. period. And she's right that most of us would like to have 20-year-ago prices but we wouldn't set Thus, a people who were accustomed to a We are just an ordinary famtly. My hus tle also for 20-year-ago wages. It's human long period of steadily growing 1affiuence now band works in public utilities. I do not have nature to want more and better than what we find themselves having to fight to stay even. available exact figures for 1944, but based have, and that's what we'd have if we had '54 This is the situation the leaders of our on 1954, 1964 and 1974 figures, his hourly prices and '74 wages. country are trying to turn around, but the wage was $3.13 in 1954, $5.07 1n 1964 and But while the Parade chart showed one question is: Do any of them really know how $8.10 in 1974. side of the coin, and this reader's letter pre- to do it?
HOUSE OF REPRESE.NTATIVES-Monday, January 20, 1975 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. ceedings and announces to the House system, which was most convenient for The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, his approval thereof. the Members, of placing the material in D.D., offered the following prayer: Without objection, the Journal stands the various boxes. Let your light so shine before men, approved. If for some reason that is not feasible, that they may see your good works, and There was no objection. then I would urge that at least we be glorify your Father who is in heaven. given until 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the Matthew 5: 16. afternoon or within 15 minutes after the 0 Lord, our God, as in reverence we PROCEDURE WITH RESPECT TO session ends, whichever is later, to sub bow before Thee, breathe upon us Thy SUBMITTING EXTENSIONS FOR mit our insertions. Spirit that with honor bright, hearts RECORD SHOULD BE CHANGED BACK pure, and hands clean we may face the W. R. "BOB" POAGE MOST COM duties of this demanding day. Send us (Mr. BINGHAM asked and was given PLETELY QUALIFIED MEMBER OF forth into these hours ready to do the permission to address the House for 1 AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE TO right, without fear or favor, firm in the minute, to revise and extend his remarks SERVE AS CHAIRMAN conviction that at the heart of the and include extraneous matter.) universe goodness reigns and truth Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, late last (Mr. SEBELIUS asked and was given will ultimately prevail. summer, because of the most misguided permission to address the House for 1 We pray for our country. May ill will, humor of some unknown individuals, minute and to revise and extend his greed, and all selfish endeavors be swept presumably interns, a very stringent rule remarks.) away by the power of Thy Spirit and was announced with regard to placing Mr. SEBELIUS. Mr. Speaker, the com may honor, justice, cooperation in serv material in the Extensions of Remarks ments I am about to make are based ice, and self-sacrifice for the good of all section Of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. It upon the fact that I have the responsibil flourish abundantly among us. seems to me that this rule should now ity of representing as best I can the cit Make us one in spirit as we give our be reexamined, particularly since we izens within my congressional district selves in deep devotion to the welfare have short sessions in this period of the and our Nation. of our beloved Nation. Congress. We should not be limited to 15 I realize many may think my remarks In the spirit of Christ, we pray. minutes after the session ends within uncalled for as well as an intrusion into Amen. which to place material in the Exten a political matter that I have no business sions of the RECORD. discussing. I can only say I am speaking I would earnestly suggest that, if the from the heart. I would feel negligent if THE JOURNAL Member signs the document that is to I did not speak out. The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex be placed in the Extensions of the REc The best friend that the American amined the Journal of the last day's pro- oRD, we could safely go back to the old consumer-and I want to stress that, the