r18730 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE JJJ-ne 8, 1973 tion that an employee is going to work for from the pension fund after his 8th year, five, or more jobs during his lifetime one company all or most of his career, and would have 100-percent vestment due to the mobility of this country's job and second, that a company will stay in after 15 years of service. market. Often a person will join a pen­ business forever in the same or expanded Many private pension plans lack ade­ sion plan each time he is employed and condition as it was when it installed its quate funding. Some companies put less then forfeits that money when he moves pension plan. money in the fund than they are re­ to a new place of employment. Conse­ We must realize, as the American quired to do by the pension agreement. quently, when he retires, all that money worker has realized, that we are in a mo­ Others switch the money to different ac­ is lost. This is obviously unfair. Thus, bile job market economy, where men and counts for their own purposes. Conse­ this bill creates a fund where deposits women frequently change their jobs. We quently, at times of financial crisis, a will be made by a member plan upon must realize too that our economy is go­ company may not be able to meet its ob­ request of the participant, equal to the ing through constant overhauling, which ligation to pay the participant the money current discounted value of the partici­ affects the security and stability of the he is owed. If a company goes bankrupt pant's vested right under the plan. I can­ Nation's workers. With such mobility and pension plans are at the bottom of the not stress strongly enough the impor­ such change in our economic policies, we list of debts to be paid off. It is the in­ tance of this type of program. If such a must improve the system of private pen­ terest of employers to provide adequate program is not passed with the other sion plans. We need to give to the Ameri­ financing of pension plans. A 65-year-old proposals in this bill, the problems that can worker the security he is entitled to, retiree with 35 years of work credit, on a now confront us in the pension plan sys­ so that when he retires he will be able to pension plan of $300 a month will, on the tem will remain unsolved. A worker may support himself adequately. average, receive $51,840 during the re­ have all the vesting rights he deserves, Last year the Senate Labor Subcom­ mainder of his life. If the company, in the adequate funding necessary to meet mittee released a preliminary report on order to insure this payment, puts away the requirements of his pension agree­ the private pension plan system. The the money at the time of his retirement ment, a federally backed guarantee, but study reviewed 51 plants having a total and not before, the total amount required still not receive one penny of pension of $10 billion in assets. The private pen­ to pay this employee this money would be money because during his lifetime he sion plans at these plants provided for $38,675. But if the company puts the has a number of different jobs. no vesting or 11 or more years of employ­ money into a fund in each of the 35 years CONCLUSION ment before vesting. Over a 20-year per­ this person is employed, it would cost the Our end goal-the spirit of this bill­ iod, only 5 percent of all participants who firm only $16,640 or $475.44 a year. In is to provide the needed security the left their jobs between 1950 and 1970 re­ other words, the funded cost is only 32 retired worker is entitled to have. The ceived benefits from their pension plan. percent of the pay-as-you-go or un­ recent social security benefit increases In contrast, in 36 plants with assets of $6 funded cost. were in this spirit. But more must be billion with 10 years of vesting or less, 16 REINSURANCE PROTECTION done. We must protect the worker from percent of all participants who left since The assets of private pension plans are the policies of some employers who do 1950 have received benefits. Workers who larger than the assets of the federally not adequately fund pension plans. We have participated in pension plans have run social security program, yet no Fed­ must provide the American worker with seen their retirement income go down the eral insurance is available for these the right to receive these payments if he drain due to either layoffs, job switches, plans. We insure the banks of this coun­ desires to retire before the age of 65 or early retirement, or faulty employer try, and require their proper manage­ is laid off prematurely. A few years ago practices. ment, why not the pension plans which Congress passed the Securities Investor THE PENSION REINSURANCE AND PROTECTION ACT cover millions of workers and contain Protection Act establishing a Federal OF 1973 billions of dollars? The bill I am propos­ Insurance corporation to guarantee stock The bill I am introducing today would ing will require sound management and market investors and market speculators help to remedy this problem. It would Federal reinsurance of these pension against losses due to financial difficulties give the participant a vesting right after plans. in brokerage firms. It is time we pass a 8 years of service at 30 percent, with a PORTABILITY Pension Protection Act that will protect the millions of American workers from yearly increase of 10 percent thereafter. Finally we come to one of the most inadequate pension funding and give to Thus a participant in any private pen­ important aspects of this bill-porta­ these many million people the security sion program would receive some money bility. Many a worker has three, four, to which they are entitled.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Friday, June 8, 1973 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. may be in the path of Thy holy will The message also announced that the The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, ministering to the welfare of our coun­ Senate had passed a bill of the following D.D., offered the following prayer: try and meeting the needs of our people; title, in which the concurrence of the I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. House is requested: from whence cometh my help.-Psalms S. 71. An act for the relief of Uhel D. Polly. 121: 1. THE JOURNAL 0 God, our Father, we thank Thee for the morning and for the gift of another The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam­ INFLATION AND PRICES REACH NEW day. Through all its hours help us to ined the Journal of the last day's pro­ HIGHS walk humbly with Thee and to live hap­ ceedings and announces to the House his approval thereof. (Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina asked pily with our fellow men. Give to us Without objection, the Journal stands and was given permission to address the health of body, cleanliness of mind, and approved. House for 1 minute, to revise and extend generosity of spirit that we may do our There wa.s no objection. his remarks and include extraneous mat­ work with all our hearts. We would work ter.) to make our dreams come true and Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. dream to make our work worth doing. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Speaker, news that wholesale prices last Deliver us from fears that frustrate A message from the Senate by Mr. month soared at an annual rate of 24 us, from bitterness that belittles us, and Arrington, one of its clerks, announced percent emphasizes again that infia~ion from worries that weary us and wear us that the Senate had passed without has become our Nation's most pre~ing out. Grant unto us the faith that forti- amendment a bill of the House of the problem. Obviously, there has been no fies, the hope that heartens, and the love following title: break in the inflation spiral. that lifts us up. H.R. 4704. An act for the relief of certain I am informed today by the Economic Let Thy presence live in our hearts former employees of the Securities and Ex­ Research Service of the U.S. Department that our coming 1n and our going out change Commission. of Agriculture that soybean meal has June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 18731 jumped from $93.50 per ton in June 1972 Yet the President still refuses to im­ This conference agreement contains a to a recent high of $450 per ton and No. pose wage-p1ice controls, as the Con­ bare-bones authorization of $430 million 2 yellow corn from $1.25 to $2.59 per gress has authorized him to do, or to deal to continue the economic development bushel during the same pe1iod. Such wild in any way with this major problem. The programs--reduced by more than 60 price increases in feed grain costs spell economy has become a national crisis. percent from the $1.2 billion which the disaster for the farmer producing live­ House approved last March. The $430 stock, milk, and poultry products and for million in the bill now is the absolute the consumer. CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R . minimum required to keep the economic We read that the President is consid­ 2246, EXTENDING PUBLIC WORKS development programs alive while Con­ ering steps to cool the economy, but so AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT gress conducts an in depth review of all far administration policies have been too ACT OF 1965 aspects of our efforts to promote eco­ weak and too late. Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, I call up nomic growth in lagging areas. The President's advisers are clinging the conference report on the bill (H.R. The conference agreement represents to scraps of favorable news and ignoring 2246) to amend the Public Works and our sincere-but final--effort to cooper­ the daily evidence that their economic Economic Development Act of 1965 to ex­ ate with the administration in balancing policies are not working. This is not only tend the authorizations for a 1-year pe­ our shared goal of economy with the wishful thinking, but it is willful denial riod, and ask unanimous consent that need to maintain these absolutely essen­ of obvious facts. the statement of the managers be read tial economic development programs. The President should scrap phase III in lieu of the report. We have worked hard with the Members of his price control program and go back The Clerk read the title of the bill. of the Senate to find some common to wage, price, rent controls, at least as The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ground with the administration on this tough as phase II and broader in scope. the request of the gentleman from Min­ much needed legislation, and we have When Congress extended the Presi­ nesota? lowered authorizations to the absolute dent's power to control prices some 2 Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, reserving minimum possible while still maintain­ months ago, I voted for mandatory p1ice the right to object, may I correctly as­ ing our commitment to economically dis­ controls at the existing levels, and when sume that the gentleman will take some tressed areas throughout the Nation, to that was defeated, I supported a 12- time to explain what transpired in the the regional commissions, and to the month extension of existing authority. conference? nearly 300 communities affected by the Since then, each day has brought bad Mr. BLATNIK. If the gentleman wlll recent closing of defense installations. news in regard to inflation, with food yield, we will have for the RECORD the The drastic reduction in the authori­ prices, feed grain prices, lumber prices, full story and, of course, we will be pres­ zations from the House bill should not and many other prices out of control. ent to answer any questions on the :floor, in any way imply a diminution in the The economy had gained reasonable sta­ and if we do not have the answers, we need for these funds, but rather indi­ bility under phase II, but phase m is will be glad to supply them for the cates our steadfast commitment to work­ a hopeless failure. President Nixon RECORD . ing at achieving a budget level accept­ should admit this and go back to tougher Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, :::: thank the able to all parties. The economic devel­ controls. gentleman and withdraw my reservation opment program has been a great suc­ of objection. cess-communities across the Nation MAJORITY LEADER THOMAS P. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to have created effective development or­ O'NEILL, JR., SAYS WHOLESALE the request of the gentleman from Min­ ganizations at the local level, and it is PRICE INDEX IS ECONOMIC nesota? imperative to maintain funding for these WARNING SIGNAL TO THE NA­ There was no objection. organizations over the coming year even TION The Clerk read the statement. at the cost of lowering authorizations in (For conference report and statement, order to seek compromise with opponents (Mr. O'NEILL asked and was given see proceedings of the House of June 5, of this development strategy. permission to address the House for 1 1973.) It was the sense of the conferees that minute, to revise and extend his remarks Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, we bring these authorizations represent a mini­ and include extraneous matter.) before the House the conference report mum of what is needed for this program Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, may I say on H.R. 2246, which is a bill to extend the and that, with careful division of what­ that I must concur with the remarks of Public Works and Economic Develop­ ever funds are available among the var­ the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. ment Act of 1965 for an additional year, ious titles, it should be possible to con­ TAYLOR). through fiscal year 1974. tinue all the current economic develop­ Mr. Speaker, alarm signals continue First, I wish to express my sincere ap­ ment programs at somewhere near their to go off in all sectors of the economy. preciation to my colleague, 'Bizz, JoHN­ current level of funding. It may require Today it is the wholesale price index •soN of California. BIZZ JOHNSON has careful allocation of funds to assure that which is flashing red. carried much of the burden of this im­ no program under the various titles of The Labor Department reports that portant legislation over the last few years the act receives a disproportionate share the index jumped another 2 percent in and he was :floor manager for our eco­ of the available funds, and that all titles May and is now 13 percent higher than a nomic development legislation in the have sufficient funds to continue both year ago. Over the past 3 months the House last year. I also wish to thank the existing EDA and regional commission wholesale index has risen at an annual other conferees, RoBERT E. JoNES, of Ala­ programs at meaningful levels. The au­ rate of 23 percent. bama, a strong supporter of economic thorizations as agreed to by the confer­ What that is going to mean is higher development legislation who managed ees will themselves provide an indication prices for consumers when those goods H.R. 2246 on the :floor earlier this year, of the approximate emphasis which we and foodstuffs finally get to the stores and who was one of the initiators of the believe should be placed on each of the and supermarkets. Instead of relief from Appalachian Regional Development Act; programs. inflation, as the Nixon administration WILLIAM HARSHA of Ohio, and JOHN PAUL Following is an outline of what the was predicting earlier this year, the HAMMERSCHMIDT Of Arkansas, for their American people have nothing to look conference agreement on H.R. 2246 does. efforts in effecting a prompt resolution The agreement extends the Economic forward to except more inflation. to the differences between the House and I have already pointed out the in­ Senate. I wish particularly to thank the Development Act of 1965 for an addi­ equity in the economy, as Mr. Nixon is Republican Members for their continued tional year, through fiscal year 1974, by managing it. Prices are rising at the fast­ efforts to find common ground with the authorizing a total of $430 million. Au­ est peacetime rate since World War II. administration to insure the continua­ thorizations for the programs under the Corporate profits are up 26 percent in tion of this vitally needed and proven act as recommended in the conference the first quarter of this year. Executive successful program. report are as follows: pay went up 13% percent in 1972. And On June 5, Members of the House and Two hundred million dollars is au­ the working men and women of America Senate Public Works Committees met in thorized for public facility grant pro­ are taking home less today in real wages conference and reached agreement on a grams, far below the amount currently than they were 6 months ago. compromise version of H.R. 2246. authorized by law and close to the \18732 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 8, 1973 amount that could be appropriated while the Congress within 6 months for re­ ments Act, and the Federal Water Pollu­ staying within the limits of the budget; structuring Federal economic programs tion Control Act have been so mentioned. Fifty-five million dollars is authorized into a coordinated plan for assistance. Although the existing programs men­ for business development programs, $1.5 The bill, as reported by the conference, tioned fulfill the purpose for which they million above the amount appropriated also permits the Secretary, att his discre­ were enacted, they cannot substitute for this year; and tion, to pay up to 100 percent of admin­ the current economic development pro­ Thirty-five million dollars is author­ istrative expenses of Indian organiza­ grams. We, therefore, find the admin­ ized for technical assistance under title tions eligible to receive technical assist­ istration proposal far from satisfactory. 3. This amount is $15 million less than ance under the act. The current law au­ One current argument for this pro­ the original house bill, and current law, thorizes the Secretary to pay up to 75 posed substitution is that the Rural De­ and is $3.5 million above the amount ap­ percent of administrative expenses to velopment Act will offer the same dollar propriated in 1973. such organizations. amount as does EDA, that it is rural in It is from this authorization that fund­ This vitally needed program of eco­ nature, and that it allows greater local ing for the relief of areas affected by nomic development assistance has re­ decisionmaking. Any comparison, how­ recent defense installation closings must ceived strong support in both Houses on ever, between these two acts cannot be come. There have been 274 actions to previous occasions. entirely valid. Most fundamentally, EDA consolidate, reduce, realine, or close mili­ The House considered and passed H.R. has gotten people to think about eco­ tary and civilian positions in 32 States, 2246 on March 15 by a vote of 278 to 108. nomics. We cannot say that the Rural the District of Columbia, and Puerto That bill authorized a total of $1,222.5 Development Act will do the same. Rico. This authorization is also neces­ million for the programs I have outlined Through self-assigned goals of develop­ sary to retain funding for the economic above. ment under existing economic develop­ development district program so this On May 8, the Senate took up the ment programs, these communities, structure can be carried over into future House bill, and amended and passed it areas, and regions lagging in the natural legislation. by a vote of 81 to 16, substantially re­ process of growth and development Forty-five million dollars is author­ ducing the total amount authorized by could measure the results. ized for growth centers under title 4. the bill to $362.5 million. Under proposed RDA guidelines, in This is $5 million below the amount In the short life of EDA, since 1965, place of existing substate districts. the authorized in the house bill, in the cur­ evaluations have demonstrated that States' Governors will be asked to desig­ rent law, and appropriated for fiscal these programs have created over half a nate an area or areas within their re­ year 1973. This funding must be con­ million new jobs and there is no other spective states for RDA funds. These rtinued at least at this reduced level existing Federal program that could per­ areas may be multicounty, a county, or because it is the sole source of project form the function carried out by this a small area and may be designated with­ funds for growth centers under the legis­ legislation. out regard to economic distress. On the lation. The transfer of these programs to basis of such designations, allocations Ninety-five million dollars is author­ other agencies, as recommended by the of industrial and municipal 5 percent in­ ized for the title 5 regional commissions. President in his budget, is extremely un­ terest loan money will be made to the This is a minimum level considering the realistic, and can never carry out the Governors who will, in turn, allocate to progress that has been made in regional work now being performed by existing the designated areas. It is not known at planning and the increase in the number programs. I therefore hope you will join this time what the formula for the allo­ of commissions operating under the au­ with me in voting to accept the confer­ cation of the grant money-a mere $10 thority of the act. Two new commissions ence report on H.R. 2246 and for the con­ million-will be. were created recently, at the adminis­ tinuation of our valuable and badly RDA is, in its present form, clearly tration's initiation, and there are now 29 needed economic development effort. not a program designed to replace the State members of the seven existing re­ Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he only Federal program devoted to up­ gional commissions. The five original may consume to the gentleman from grading the lagging economies of areas commissions, which have been in exist­ California

H.R. 2246 TO EXTEND THE PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 1974 [In millions of dollarsJ

Current Compromise of authorization Bill as passed Bill as passed authorizations Actual1973 in act by House by Senate in bill appropriation

800.0 800.0 200.0 200 170.0 170.0 50.0 55 50.0 50.0 25.0 35 50.0 50.0 12.5 •15 152.5 152.5 75.0 95 1, 222.5 1, 222.5 362.5 430

Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, will the Mr. JOHNSON of California. I yield he states that the House made consider- gentleman yield on that point concern­ to the gentleman from Minnesota. able concessions to the conferees of the ing the amount finally agreed upen in the Mr. BLATNIK. The gentleman from Senate and yet also tried to meet the conference? California raises a very good point when wishes of the administration. In short, CXIX--1183-Part 15 18734 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 8, 1973 from the approximately $1.2 billion in grams are brought before the Congress Mr. JOHNSON of California. I yield to the House bill, which received approxi­ and considered by this body. the gentleman from California (Mr. Mc­ mately 70 percent of the vote in the Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the FALL). House when it was considered by the gentleman yield? Mr.McF~.Mr.Speaker,lcongratu­ body on March 15th, we went all the Mr. JOHNSON of California. I yield late the members of the Public Works way down, by two-thirds, by cutting out to the gentleman from Iowa. Committee on both sides of the aisle, es­ 792.5 million and we come in with a bare­ Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I voted pecially my colleague from California, bone, skin and scalp operation of one­ .against the bill when it was before the Mr. JOHNSON, the floor manager of the third of the amount. Is that correct? House, and for the reason that I thought bill, for their exceptionally good work on Mr. JOHNSON of California. The gen­ it was unconscionably high. I want to this important and necessary legislation. tleman is correct. commend the committee for capitulating On March 15 I reintroduced H.R. 2246, Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ and reducing this bill to within some area designed to extend the life of the Eco­ tleman yield? of reason. nomic Development Administration 1 Mr. JOHNSON of California. I yield I thank the gentleman for yielding. year. Over 100 of my colleagues joined to the gentleman from Iowa. Mr. KAZEN. Mr. Speaker, will the with me in cosponsoring this proposal. Mr. GROSS. Do I understand that in gentleman yield? At the time, my statement on the floor all categories, or the titles, or whatever Mr. JOHNSON of California. I yield urged the administration to confer with they are in this bill, that the present to the gentleman from Texas. the Gove1nors of Appalachia, city man­ funding level is $400 million and some Mr. KAZEN. There is an amendment agers in Michigan, county administrators odd dollars? that the Senate put on this bill and that in California, mayors in New England, Mr. JOHNSON of California. $343.2 the House accepted which requires a re­ and EDA regional directors to "tell it million. port to Congress within 30 days after like it is," in order that the adminis­ Mr. GROSS. $434.2 million? That is enactment from the Inter-Agency Eco­ tration would better realize the succ.ess what the conference report calls for? nomic Adjustment Committee, listing de­ of EDA. Mr. JOHNSON of California. No. The tails of utilizing unused defense property Since that time, the House and Senate conference report calls for $430 million and other efforts to assist each com­ have passed this bill and the Senate has in all categories. munity that has lost a military installa­ already acted favorably on the confer­ Mr. GROSS. That is the figure that I tion. My city is one of those that has ence report. I urge my colleagues in the want. The Senate had originally passed a had a base ordered closed. House to give the House conference re­ bill for $250 million; is that correct? My question is this: Our closing be­ port an overwhelming vote of approval Mr. JOHNSON of California. No. The comes effective on Sept. 30. Is there any today. Senate had passed a bill for $362.5 mil­ way that we can slow that process down Mr. Speaker, the Public Works and lion, in all categories. in order to find out what the Federal Economic Development Act of 1965 is Mr. GROSS. But the House was called Government is actually going to do with scheduled to go out of existence on June upon to vote on $1.2 billion; is that that property and how best we may be 30 of this year. The agencies created by correct? able to utilize that property to obtain this act, the Economic Development Ad­ Mr. JOHNSON of California. The bill jobs in my community? ministration, EDA, and the Regional called for $1,222,500,000 as it passed the Mr. JOHNSON of California. We did Economic Development Commissions, House, and 70 percent of the Members adopt the amendment that calls for this :Pave done a fine job in bringing a better of the House voted in favor of it. study to be made, but I do not think economic future to hundreds of commu­ Mr. GROSS. So this is in the neighbor­ there is any way we can slow down the nities across our land. The work of these hood of one-third of the amount that closing of these bases that have been agencies should be continued. the Committee on Public Works submit­ selected. They have been ordered closed, . President Nixon's budget advocates ted to the House and asked the House and they are on phaseout at the present ending the work of EDA and the regional to vote on. time. commissions at the end of this fiscal year. My question is, were the heads of the The bill calls for a study to be made, To accept this proposal would be a very members of the House Committee on and a report submitted to Congress with­ grave error. Public Works in the clouds or were they in 30 days from date of enactment. Unemployment-even during the cur­ in orbit when they submitted the orig­ Mr. KAZEN. I also understand that rent overheated economic boom--con­ inal bill to the House? there will be some money authorized tinues at the level of 5 percent national­ Mr. JOHNSON of California. No. I under this bill in order to assist those ly and is much higher in the distressed would answer the gentleman from Iowa communities in planning the develop­ areas of our Nation, in the central cities, that that figure was the amount author­ ment of these properties that have been and in much of rural America. In my ized by existing law in effect in 1973. The closed in order to best utilize them to home district, Stanislaus and San Joa­ program has never been funded to the alleviate the economic impact which the quin counties have been rated high on extent of its full authorization in any of base closing will have on the community. the Department of Labor's unemploy­ tts categories, but they have carried on Mr. JOHNSON of California. That is ment list. a very active program of assistance right. Under title m, technical assist­ Even now, more than 4.4 million of throughout the United States in the ance, there is $35 million authorized, and our citizens are out of work, and the out­ areas most in need of help. some of this money could be made avail­ look for the next year indicates a rapid­ The amount of money that has been able for this type of thing. ly approaching slowdown in the economy spent in this program has created over Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, will the during which unemployment could be half a million jobs throughout the United gentleman yield? heading back up toward 6 percent once States. The people who testified in sup­ Mr. JOHNSON of California. I yield to again. port of the bill were very much 1n favor the gentleman from Minnesota, the Under these circumstances, it would be of it. The administration people who tes­ chairman of the Committee on Public very unwise to dismantle the one pro­ tified said that they were going to replace Works. gram which can respond to the coming Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, the House economic slowdown, and which can help this particular act with other special insisted on this amount, realizing the alleviate the suffering visited upon fami­ revenue-sharing programs that they were need of the additional communities that lies when work cannot be found. going to bring before the Congress later, do not have industrial development com­ The administration wants to discon­ and that amounted to a good many bil­ mittees and which need technical as­ tinue the work of EDA and the regional lion dollars, probably $4 billion in the sistance. The authorization is closer to commissions in the name of fighting in­ overall, about $3 billion more than the the current appropriation of $31.5 mil­ flation. This is a fallacious argument. EDA bill as it passed in the House. lion and is $10 million more than the Inflation comes from putting too great Since that time these programs have Senate provided. That is why we insisted a strain on existing resources-and the not come up, so in our deliberations with on the additional $10 million. EDA and regional commission programs the Senate in conference we agreed to Mr. KAZEN. I thank the chairman. work in distressed areas of the Nation cut the amounts back to take care of the Mr. McFALL. Mr. Speaker, will the where resources are not strained, where needed programs until these other pro- gentleman yield? there are large pools of idle manpower. June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 18735 Bringing the unemployment rate in a port represents a sound compromise for der the Housing and Urban Development distressed area down from 15 percent the EDA extension. The other body add­ Act's section 701 planning program. This to, say, 6 percent through the EDA pro­ ed two very important study provisions will not work. Current programs provide gram is not going to bid up wages and which the House conferees found de­ more than four times this amount for is not inflationary. sirable. One would require a report to use only in lagging portions of only 29 In fact, if EDA and the regional com­ Congress within 30 days from the Inter­ States. How, therefore, can we cut fund­ missions had been funded at higher levels Agency Economic Adjustment Commit­ ing from $41.7 to $10 million and add over the last 8 years and had been able tee listing details of utilizing unused de­ another 21 States to the program? This to build up more of our distressed areas, fense property and other efforts to assist would dilute the regional commission perhaps we would not now be facing the each community with plans for its eco­ program as well as leave it powerless by prospect of rapid inflation. We would nomic development. The other would re­ removing the ability to make grants to have built up our productive capacity quire the President to instruct the Sec­ carry out their approved planning. through EDA and regional commission retary of Commerce and OMB to examine I am a strong supporter of the Small projects to such an extent that current current and past Federal efforts to secure Business Administration, as well as EDA. production levels would not be bump­ balanced national economic development However, they have two different sets of ing against overall capacity. In short, and submit a proposal to Congress within criteria aimed at meeting different needs. the EDA and regional commission pro­ 6 months for restructuring Federal eco­ The administration's proposal to increase grams are just about the opposite of nomic programs into a coordinated plan funding under the Small Business Act inflationary. for assistance. would not compensate for loss of the bus­ Instead of continuing these proven The authorization agreed to by con­ iness development loan authority under existing programs, the administration ferees for H.R. 2246 totals $430 million EDA. While EDA loans are aimed at has proposed replacing them with a for fiscal year 1974. This reduces by creating jobs in economically depressed number of unproven alternative pro­ $792.5 millicn the initial authorization areas, SBA loans do not have a job cre­ grams given the concern we all have approved by the House on March 15. The ation requirement and they are notre­ over the current high rate of inflation. report before us today would authorize stricted to distressed areas of the coun­ Under these circumstances, it appears $200 million for title I public facility try. While the SBA loan is restricted by much the wiser course for the Congress grants, $55 million for title n business law to $350,000, the average effective to continue the EDA regional commis­ development, $35 million for title m job-creating EDA loan has been for an sion programs, rather than to trust our technical assistance, $45 million for title amount in excess of $1 million. By any future to the uncertain alternatives be­ IV growth centers and $95 million for definition, a workable program to create ing proposed by the administration. For title V regional commissions. employment is not small business. this reason, I hope you will join me in This total of $430 million will provide Many highly distressed urban areas voting to accept the conference report for a viable economic development pro­ have benefited from the public facility on H.R. 2246. gram in the coming fiscal year. The grant program under the Economic De~ Mr. HARSHA. Mr. Speaker, I yield to amount of EDA funding actually appro­ velopment Act. The proposal to fund the distinguished gentleman from Ar­ priated for fiscal year 1973 substantiates public facility assistance under the Rural kansas, the ranking minority member of this fact. The current fiscal year appro­ Development Act would not compensate the subcommittee and the minority :fioor priation includes: $166.5 million for title for EDA in urban areas, because the manager on this bill, who has done an I, including $30 million for disaster as­ rural development program is a rural outstanding job on this legislation and sistance, $53.5 million for title II; $31.5 loan program. who has given us his great assistance million for title m; $50 million for title Grants for correcting pollution prob­ on this. I yield to the gentleman from IV; and $41.7 million for title V. There­ lems under the Federal Water Pollution Arkansas (Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT) SUCh fore, if the total authorization in H.R. Control Act cannot adequately replace time as he may consume. 2246 is appropriated, we would have an EDA assistance. Construction of new Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, increase of $86.8 million in EDA funds sewage treatment facilities necessary to I rise in support of the conference report in fiscal year 197 4. job creation has a low priority in this to H.R. 2246. The Public Works and The extension of EDA into 1974 and program. In addition, the budget author­ Economic Development Act has been the expenditure of $430 million is justi­ ity for 1974 and 1975 under the 1972 Wa­ highly effective in creating jobs in eco­ fied by its superior record of accomplish­ ter Pollution Control Act represents a nomically distressed areas of the Nation. ment. I strongly disagree with the ad­ decrease of more than one-half the Evidence presented to the Congress in­ ministration's proposal to abolish the ex­ amount authorized by Congress. dicates that the agencies established un­ isting EDA programs as of June 30 of The administration has stated that the der this legislation have been responsible this year. Although there are reasons to Public Works and Economic Develop­ for the creation of more than half a mil­ examine the effectiveness of the exist­ ment Act programs are in:fiationary. lion jobs in lagging areas since they be­ ing programs and make selective im­ With a 1974 authorization of less than gan work in 1965. provements, there is no justification for half a billion dollars, I do not agree. Ad­ The conferees have reached agreement wholesale abandonment of our efforts to ditionally. EDA funds are not fed into on a 1-year extension measure which stimulate the creation of jobs in lagging the general economy of the Nation. They recognizes the importance of carrying on areas of the Nation. are funneled into areas with severe eco­ this work and acknowledges the need for The administration has suggested that nomic depression. All Federal funds un­ fiscal responsibility in congressional au­ various other programs be substituted for der EDA programs are focused specifi­ thorizations. EDA assistance. In effect, we are asked cally upon lagging areas where there On March 15 of this year, the House to discard a tested and successful pro­ exists a large pool of unused manpower passed by a margin of over 2 to 1 the gram for other untried and even not yet and other resources. Inflation is not 1-year extension of the Public Works and existent programs. For example, the Bet­ stimulated by the EDA approach. It is Economic Development Act of 1965, as ter Communities Act, the Responsive stimulated by competition for scarce re­ amended. This extension was designed Government Act, the Rw·al Development sources and allocating Federal funds to to allow time for the committee to con­ Act, and Small Business Administration areas with full employment and a spiral­ duct investigations and hearings on the Act have been mentioned. The Better ing wage scale. EDA directs its assist­ issue of domestic development and to Communities Act is currently a proposal ance to communities wth high unem­ make subsequent recommendations for before Congress, and the Responsive ployment and a declining wage and price any changes, if the necessity is indi­ Governments Act has not even been structure. cated. H.R. 2246 extended the act at cur­ written yet. By abolishing EDA on June The Economic Development Adminis­ rent authorization levels of over $1.2 bil­ 30, we would be faced with a gap of at tration and its programs exemplify the lion. least a year before the beginning of new administration's concept of "new federal­ The Senate amended the bill and re­ programs. ism." EDA has proven itself as a respon­ duced authorizations to $362.5 million. The administration has further rec­ sible vehicle for delivering the Federal H.R. 2246, as amended, passed the Sen­ ommended replacing existing regional dollar to meet the local need. It allows ate on May 8 by an overwhelming vote. commission programs with an additional the greatest :flexibility of any Federal In my judgment, the conference re- $10 million for use by all 50 States un- program in local decisionmaking. 18736 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 8, 1973 In conclusion, the transition to a Works Committee has great faith in this EDA's efforts in past years, unemploy­ peacetime economy is increasingly more act. ment would now be running well above evident. We still have severely depressed Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, will the 6 percent. areas in America and the increasing re­ gentleman yield? When one considers that EDA's job­ moval of military activities from other Mr. HARSHA. I yield to the gentleman producing efforts have been limited to areas promises to create new threats to from Minnesota. the most depressed areas of our Nation, those areas which have been economi­ Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, I want to the agency's achievement appears even cally sound. Certainly, this is no time express my appreciation of, and indebt­ more remarkable. to abandon the sole Federal program edness to, the gentleman from Ohio for EDA is confined by legislation to work­ devoted to job creation and economic clarifying the bill in detail and very ing in communities which have severe growth. I strongly urge my colleagues, in logically, we feel, and for emphasizing economic problems; for example, unem­ the best interests of the Nation, to vote this very important aspect of the need ployment well in excess of the national in favor of the conference report on for a transition period, which this bill average, very low median family income, H.R. 2246. will permit. or sudden drastic rise in unemployment, Mr. HARSHA. Mr. Speaker, I rise in We have conducted a most careful as caused by the recent severe flooding support of this conference report. consideration, scrutiny, and evaluation of in Mississippi, or by close-down of a fac­ As it has been indicated, it is a bare those bills. They will not come up for tory or a military installation. The com­ bones authorization. We have cut the another year. In the meantime, the EDA munities in which EDA works are among original House version down by prac­ program will be studied to see where it the very hardest in the Nation in which tically two-thirds, recognizing of course can be improved and strengthened, so we to stimulate economic growth. the economic situation of the Nation are not lagging behind in economic devel­ Nevertheless, EDA and the regional and the budgetary impact this program opment. commission have done their job and done would have upon the administration's Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman it well. People who were previously un­ budget. from Ohio for giving me the time to employed and who were taking more For several months the gentleman explain this at this point. from our society in the form of unem­ from Arkansas (Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT) Mr. HARSHA. Mr. Speaker, the gentle­ ployment compensation payments and and I have been negotiating with the ad­ man is particularly correct in saying that welfare than they were giving back have ministration in trying to determine a po­ we hope to improve what we think is been made into productive members of sition they would accept so we could already a very workable program. society who are able to contribute to proceed with enacting this legislation Mr. Speaker, one other point I would the well-being of all. and proceed with the very vital work and like to make is that, while the adminis­ In essence, the EDA and regional com­ accomplishments that have been ren­ tration will ask for an appropriation of mission programs offer us the opportu­ dered by the Economic Development Ad­ $200 million and intends to spend that nity to convert unproductive expendi­ ministration. I am advised that the ap­ much money, we do not know what the tures, such as welfare and unemploy­ propriate officials of the administration title or program breakdown of that ap­ ment compensation into investments in will recommend to the President that he propriation will be. Here again, that is productive jobs. The same funds which sign this measure into law. the work of the Committee on Appropria­ are now used to keep a man on the dole I am also advised, and the members tions. We in the legislative committee can be used to put him to work on a job of the conference committee were ad­ cannot mandate where that money is producing the goods we all need. vised by me, that the administration placed, but we fully expect that the ad­ The real intent and purpose in forming would seek an appropriation of $200 mil­ ministration will prorate that $200 mil­ the regional commission on a multistate lion and that they would commit them­ lion to a great degree throughout the basis is to establish the Federal-State selves to spend that $200 million. Of entire bill. partnership closer to the people. They course, we here cannot write that limi­ Again, we leave that possibility up to are patterned after the Appalachian tation into the legislation because that therr£. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues Regional Development Act that estab­ is a matter for the Appropriations Com­ to approve this conference report. lished the Appalachian Regional Com­ mittee and a matter for the adminis­ Mr. JONES of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, mission. tration to justify before that committee, the Public Works and Economic Develop­ Like the Appalachian Regional De­ but I mention it here so that all Mem­ ment Act of 1965 has served us well for velopment Act, the economic develop­ bers are put on notice that the admin­ almost a decade. This act and its prede­ ment programs are widely supported by istration does intend to request an ap­ cessors, the area redevelopment and ac­ the State Governors, by mayors of large propriation of $200 million, and it will, celerated public works legislation, have and small cities, and by the citizenry at as I understand it, fully expect to spend created jobs for literally hundreds of the local level. The existing legislation that $200 million. thousands of Americans at a cost that must be continued until adequate im­ There is one other caveat which is is almost insignificant in view of the tre­ proved legislation can be enacted to fill this: the administration expects to im­ mendous results that have been accom­ the vital job now being performed by plement this legislation through the plished. this act in assisting communities to im­ transition period until such time as it I am not sure that the suffering of a prove their economic environment. gets its own programs of special revenue work can be measw·ed in dollars and In the long run, if the jobs that these sharing, of assistance under the 701 cents. But if it could be, the sum of money agencies have created last long enough­ HUD planning procedures, and addi­ requested for authorizations for H.R. and the record shows that these jobs do tional funding under the Small Business 2246 would seem unimportant indeed last-the individual so employed will Administration Act and the Rural De­ when compared with the great good pay back the cost of creating their jobs velopment Act. Particularly, the special achieved by relieving the anguish of the several times over through Federal, revenue sharing has not been enacted jobless families helped by this program. State, and local taxes. and we do not know whether it will be The Public Works and Economic De­ The EDA and regional commission pro­ enacted. The Rural Development Act is velopment Act has produced more than grams are really investment programs­ not functioning as yet. Until those pro­ half a million jobs in the few short years investment of otherwise unproductive grams are written into the law and func­ since its creation. funds in the creation of useful jobs which tioning properly I think it is only proper More than 500,000 jobs have been cre­ will repay their cost many times over. that we have a transition period and ated in less than 8 years-a tremendous There are not many Federal programs proceed with this act until such time as achievement. which offer this kind of bargain. The some other procedure can take its place. To put this accomplishment into per­ EDA and regional commission programs, But while that is the intention of the spective, consider that our cun·ent na­ however, truly are a bargain, a bargain administration, Mr. Speaker, I would like tional unemployment is about 4.4 million we should take advantage of by passing to point out that I believe the Public persons. Without EDA's job creation ef­ H.R. 2246 now. Works Committee chooses to treat this as forts, that number would be above 5 Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, unless we a transition period until such time as we million persons. Our current unemploy­ pass H.R. 2246 today, we are threatened can write a more effective and productive ment rate is 5 percent, a figure which is with imminent loss of one of the most Economic Development Act. The Public already too high. But, if it were not for valuable programs in Government to- June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 18737 day-the job-creating program of the sponsor of this legislation. Our people in full funding, for only with enough money Economic Development Administration, the formerly less-developed areas can to really do the job will EDA reach its and the regional economic development now hope to find good employment close full potential. commissions. to home. EDA, the Regional Commissions To pass the conference report now The Economic Development Adminis­ and the Appalachia program are helping before us is the least we should do with tration is empowered to cooperate with to stop the great out-migrations of our respect to EDA, and I urge your affirma­ the local leadership of any community people to the crowded metropolitan area-s. tive vote this afternoon. in the Nation which is suffering from Today, people who had left our area in Mr. GINN. Mr. Speaker, my purpose excessive unemployment to work to bring search of better jobs have been able to today is to speak on behalf of H.R. 2246 new jobs to the area. Whether EDA takes return home and find beneficial employ­ which extends the life of two vital and action in any particular community is ment. essential economic development pro­ based on various realistic measures of Mr. Speaker, when our Public Works grams: EDA and the Title V Regional need, such as high unemployment, low Committee considered this legislation last Commissions. I studied the report of the family income, and threatened sudden year one of the most eloquent witnesses conferees very carefully and find myself rise in unemployment. to appear before the committee in sup­ in total agreement with their recom­ This last criteria-sudden rise in un­ port of the bill was our own great Gov.. mendations to this distinguished body. employment--is particularly important John West. Our Governor has firsthand I am very familiar with the agencies at this point in time. knowledge of the tremendous accom­ provided for in this piece of legislation. As we are all well a ware, the Depart­ plishments of the EDA and of the Re­ I am convinced their work is essential ment of Defense has recently announced gional Commissions. and must be carried on if we are to 274 separate actions in 32 States con­ EDA grants have greatly assisted the alleviate economic inequities facing many cerning realinement of Defense facili­ development of technical education of the underdeveloped regions of our ties. These actions will result in the centers all over the Nation. For example, Nation. The projects funded by both elimination of more than 42,000 jobs and in our hometown of Greenwood, an EDA EDA and the Title V Regional Commis­ the transfer of thousands more out of "growth center," EDA assistance has sions have attracted thousands of jobs communities in which they are presently been instrumental in the development of and provided economic benefits for many located. a tremendously successful technical edu­ of our citizens which may not have hap­ It goes without saying that loss of a cation program. In South Carolina we pened had it not been for the existence substantial number of jobs deals a se­ are proud of the Nation's leading techni­ of these agencies. vere blow to any community. cal education program, a program that Especially valuable has been the dem­ To my knowledge, the Economic De­ has received important EDA assistance. onstration grant authority invested in velopment Administration is the only Employees can be trained to accept good­ the Title V Commissions which has per­ program in Government available to paying positions with industry even be­ mitted funding of a variety of worth­ counteract this sudden employment loss fore the plant's construction is completed while projects. In my district in Georgia, in many communities. EDA is empowered Time and again in South Carolina we for example, this demonstration grant to move into action quickly to develop have seen that technical education authority made possible the construction new jobs in these areas which have been quickly leads to industrial jobs with high of a marine resources extension center severely affected by defense realinements. pay. Other eligible EDA counties in our which seeks to make optimum use of one It would be ironic indeed if, at the very area have recently received tremendously of our greatest natural resources--the time that many communities are newly important public facility grants for con­ Atlantic Ocean and nearby estuary in need of the assistance that EDA can tinued economic progress. waters. At the same time, we have been offer, we allowed this valuable program Mr. Speaker, the conference report now able to secure much needed scheduled to expire. before the House authorizes a total of air service to connect many of our The heart of the matter is that the $430 million for next year, including $200 smaller growth centers with major met­ Federal Government has created an eco­ million for public facility grants such as ropolitan centers in and adjacent to the nomic crisis in hundreds of communities municipal water treatment plants and coastal plains region. Without this au­ across the Nation, and it is the Federal $95 million for the several regional com­ thority, these projects would never have Government's responsibiilty-a respon­ missions. come to pass. sibility in which it must not fail-to help This is good legislation and a wise in­ I urge my fellow Members of Congress solve the severe problems it has created. vestment in continued economic progress, to join with me in supporting these vital There is little doubt but that EDA can Mr. Speaker, and we urge its passage. programs. The economic benefits derived do the job. When similar problems have Ms. ABZUG. Mr. Speaker, as a mem­ far outweigh the dollars we will invest to arisen in the past, for example in Seattle, ber of the Subcommittee on Economic continue these programs for another EDA has been ready and able to give the Development of the Public Works Com­ year. In addition, I want to urge the affected community technical assistance mittee and as a representative from an President, upon passage of this bill, to in planning for new economic activity area which ha-s had some good experi­ not only sign it and make the extension to replace that which has been lost. And ence with the economic development of these programs a reality but to care­ then, when the planning is done, EDA has program and looks forward to having fully consider the appropriation of these the tools to -see to it that the planning much more in the future, I rise in sup­ funds authorized to assure fair and can be translated into action. Through port of the conference report. equitable distribution of the moneys to the public works grant and business loan The Nixon administration is out to all the agencies provided for in each title programs, EDA can bring new economic kill the EDA program, claiming that it of the act. It is essential that each of life to these communities. lacks local control and does not suffi­ these programs receive their fair share With continuing high unemployment ciently coordinate projects. Both of these of the funds authorized so that they may and Government dislocation of existing claims are false. EDA is an excellent continue to work in the best interests job patterns, there is little question but example of a program which coordinates of the citizens of the Nation. that a program of economic readjusment numerous projects being conducted Mr. PRICE of lllinois. Mr. Speaker, to­ assistance continues to be strongly within a given target area, including day we are called upon to act on the con­ needed in this Nation. We can best as­ public works and facilities construction, ference report on H.R. 2246, extension sure that such a program will continue loans and loan guarantees to small busi­ of the Public Works and Economic De­ by passing H.R. 2246 without further nesses, and the creation of employment. velopment Act of 1965. This legislation delay. As for local control, the local economic would authorize $430 million for eco­ Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, EDA and the development agencies have ample say nomic development assistance to de­ Regional Commissions such as Coastal in how the Federal funds are to be spent. pressed areas. In addition, a provision Plains have helped to bring good jobs, It is tragic that we must be here today is included to require the Secretary of steady income, and more economic secu­ trying to keep EDA alive, when what we Commerce and the Office of Management rity than ever before to thousands of should be doing if we really care about and Budget to report to the Congress on families in South Carolina and through­ our people is expanding it, especially in Federal efforts to achieve balanced eco­ out the Nation. I am proud to be a co- urban areas. We also should be giving it nomic development, including the pro- 18738 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 8, 19t3 posed restructuring of certain economic point of order that a quorum is not White Wolff Young,m. Whitehurst Wright Young, S.C. development programs. present. Widnall Wylie Zablocki The purpose o: the Economic Develop­ The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum is Williams Yates Zwach ment Act is to provide Federal assistance not present. Wilson, Bob Young, Alaska Wilson, Young, Fla. to State and local governments so that The Sergeant at Arms will notify ab­ Charles, Tex. Young, Ga. they may more easily develop the plan­ sent Members. ning and financing for solid and last­ The vote was taken by electronic de­ NAYS-2 ing economic improvement and the cre­ vice, and there were-yeas 276, nays 2, Gross Landgrebe ation of permanent jobs. The employ­ not voting 155, as follows: NOT VOTING-155 Addabbo Foley ment situation in my congressional dis­ [Roll No. 197] Mosher trict, the 23d of illinois, is more serious Alexander Ford, O'Brien than in most other areas of the United YEAS-276 Anderson, Ill. William D. Parris Abdnor Giaimo Nelsen Andrews, Fraser Passman States, but clear progress may be directly Abzug Gibbons Nichols N.Dak. Frey Patman attributable to the Economic Develop­ Adams Ginn Nix Arends Fulton Pettis ment Act. The long-range planning for Anderson, Gonzalez Obey Ashbrook Fuqua Peyser Calif. Grasso O'Hara Aspin Gilman Rangel economic growth and technical assist­ Andrews, N.C. Green, Oreg. O'Neill Badillo Goldwater Reid ance made possible by the Economic De­ Annunzio Green, Pa. Owens Bafalis Goodling Rhodes velopment Act has proven itself in Archer Grover Patten Baker Gray Riegle Armstrong Gubser Pepper Biaggi Griffiths Robison, N.Y. southern illinois. Ashley Guyer Perkins Bingham Gude Rogers Mr. Speaker, I know this legislation Barrett Haley Pickle Blackburn Gunter Rooney, N.Y. has overwhelming support in the House, Beard Hammer- Pike Boggs Hamilton Rooney,Pa. Bell schmidt Poage Brasco Hanna Rosenthal and I .feel confident that we will adopt Bennett Hanley Podell Bray Harrington Rostenkowski this measure today and send it to the Bergland Hanrahan Powell, Ohio Breckinridge Harvey Roush President. The present economic situa­ Bevill Hansen, Idaho Preyer Brooks Hastings Rousselot Biester Hansen, Wash. Price, Ill. Brotzman Hays Roy tion is too serious and this program too Blatnik Harsha Price, Tex. Brown, Ohio Hebert Roybal effective to take any action other than Boland Hawkins Pritchard Broyhill, N.C. Hlllis Ruppe Bolling Hechler, W.Va. Quie Broyhlll, Va. Holifield Ryan the adoption of this conference report. Burgener Horton Saylor In addition, the congressional oversight Bowen Heckler, Mass. Quillen Brademas Heinz Railsback Burke, Calif. Howard Scherle provision is a plus for our constitutional Breaux Helstoski Randall Carter Hudnut Sebelius system of checks and balances, which has Brinkley Henderson Rarick Cederberg !chord Skubitz been distorted by the Executive in recent Broomfield Hicks Rees Chappell Jarman Staggers Brown, Calif. Hinshaw Regula Chisholm Johnson, Colo. Stanton, years. This legislation is needed, and it Brown, Mich. Hogan Reuss Clancy Jones, N.C. JamesV. has my unqualified support. Buchanan Holt Rinaldo Clawson, Del Kluczynski Steed Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, Burke, Fla. Holtzman Roberts Clay Koch Stuckey Burke, Mass. Hosmer Robinson, Va. Cochran Landrum Symington I rise in strong support of the conference Burleson, Tex. Huber Rodino Collins, Tex. Lent Symms report to extend the authorization for Burlison, Mo. Hungate Roe Conable Litton Ullman the programs of the Economic Develop­ Burton Hunt Roncalio, Wyo. Conyers Lott VanderJagt Butler Hutchinson Roncallo, N.Y. Corman McClory Veysey ment Administration. Byron Johnson, Calif. Rose Cotter McCloskey Waggonner While I commented in depth on the Camp Johnson, Pa. Runnels Crane McDade Waldie Carey, N.Y. Jones, Ala. Ruth Daniel, Robert McEwen Ware substance and need for this legislation w.,Jr. McSpadden when it was first before the House ear­ Carney, Ohio Jones, Okla. StGermain Whitten Casey, Tex. Jones, Tenn. Sandman Davis, Ga. Madden Wiggins lier this year, I would like to reiterate Chamberlain Jordan Sarasin Davis, S.C. Maraziti Wilson, my support at this time and to extend Clark Karth Sarbanes Delaney Mathis, Ga. Charles H., Denholm Mazzoli Calif. my personal appreciation to the confer­ Clausen, Kastenmeier Satterfield Don H. Kazen Schneebeli Diggs Melcher Winn ees for being able to develop a viable Cleveland Keating Schroeder Donohue Metcalfe Wyatt Cohen Kemp Seiberling Edwards, Ala. Michel Wydler compromise bill. Milford Wyman I do not believe that the bill goes far Collier Ketchum Shipley Ellberg Collins, Til. King Shoup Eshleman Minshall, Ohio Yatron enough in promoting EDA's work toward Conlan Kuykendall Shriver Evans, Colo. Mitchell, N.Y. Young, Tex. economic development and stabilization, Conte Kyros Shuster Fish Moakley Zion because I am convinced the EDA has Coughlin Latta Sikes Fisher Mollohan Cronin Leggett Sisk Flood Moorhead, been one of the most effective Federal Culver Lehman Slack Flynt Calif. agencies in the effort to revitalize our Daniel, Dan Long, La. Smith, Iowa So the conference report was agreed rural areas by reducing the trend toward Daniels, Long, Md. Smith, N.Y. to. migration to already crowded cities. Dominick V. Lujan Snyder Danielson McCollister Spence The Clerk announced the following However, I recognize the realities we Davis, Wis. McCormack Stanton, pairs: face and I do believe the legislation be­ de la Garza McFall J. William Mr. Rogers with Mr. Minshall of Ohio. fore us will permit EDA to continue its Dellenback McKay Stark Dellums McKinney Steele Mr. Rosenthal with Mr. Peyser. work in assisting local governmental Dennis Macdonald Steelman Mr. Staggers with Mr. Goodling. agencies meet their needs for planned Dent Madigan Steiger, Ariz. Mr. Rostenkowski with Mr. Mitchell of economic development. Derwinski Mahon Steiger, Wis. New York. It is, of course, these local entities Devine Mailliard Stephens Mr. Steed with Mr. Edwards of Alabama. Dickinson Mallary Stokes Mr. Roush with Mr. Mosher. which must provide the impetus for Dingell Mann Stratton achieving our economic potential. EDA Dorn Martin, Nebr. Stubblefield Mr. Symington with Mr. McEwen. Downing Martin, N.C. Studds Mr. James V. Stanton, with Mr. Brown of has shown it can complement the local Drinan Mathias, Calif. Sullivan Ohio. effort effectively. I hope this bill will have Dulski Matsunaga Talcott Mr. Waggonner with Mr. O'Brien. the support of every Member of this Duncan Mayne Taylor, Mo. Mr. Stuckey with Mr. Lott. duPont Meeds Taylor, N.C. body. Eckhardt Mezvinsky Teague, Calif. Mr. Waldie with Mr. Horton. Mr. JOHNSON of California. Mr. Edwards, Calif. Miller Teague, Tex. Mr. Alexander with Mr. Parris. Speaker, I move the previous question on Erlenborn Mills, Ark. Thompson, N.J. Mr. Flood with Mr. Pettis. the conference report. Esch Minish Thomson, Wis. Mr. Harrington with Mr. Robison of New Evins, Tenn. Mink Thone York. The previous question was ordered. Fascell Mitchell, Md. Thornton is Mr. Evans of Colorado with Mr. Scherle. The SPEAKER. The question on the Findley Mizell Tiernan Mr. Conyers with Mr. Milford. conference report. Flowers Montgomery Towell, Nev. Ford, Gerald R. Moorhead, Pa. Treen Mr. Corman with Mr. Rousselot. The question was taken; and the Forsythe Morgan Udall Mr. Hamilton with Mr. Vander Jagt. Speaker announced that the ayes ap- Fountain Moss Van Deerlin Mr. Kluczynski with Mr. Fish. peared to have it. Frelinghuysen Murphy, TIL Vanik Mr. Landrum with Mr. Ruppe. Frenzel Murphy, N.Y. Vigorito Mr. Fisher with Mr. Sebellus. Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, Froehlich Myers Walsh I object to the vote on the ground that Gaydos Natcher Wampler Mr. Madden with Mr. Williams. a quorum is not present and make the Gettys Nedzi Whalen Mr. Diggs with Mr. Ryan. June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSH 18739 Mr. Metcalfe with Mr. Foley. Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. Payment for obligations incurred for Mr. Mathis of Georgia with Mr. Passman. 7670) to authorize appropriations for the ship operation subsidies is in the amount Mr. Flynt with Mr. Skubitz. fiscal year 1974 for certain maritime pro­ of $221,515,000. Mr. Mazzoli with Mr. Roybal. grams of the Department of Commerce. $20,000,000 is authorized for expenses Mr. Roy with Mrs. Griffiths. After general debate, which shall be confined Mr. Jones of North Carolina with Mr. to the bill and shall continue not to exceed necessary for research and development Symms. one hour, to be equally divided and con­ activities. This amount includes reim­ Mr. Riegle with Mr. Badillo. trolled by the chairman and ranking minor­ bursement of the vessel operations re­ Mr. Biaggi with Mr. Aspen. ity member of the Committee on Merchant volving fund for losses resulting from ex­ Mr. Jarman with Mr. Blackburn. Marine and Fisheries, the bill shall be read penses of experimental ship operations. Mr. Bingham with Mr. Burke of California. for amendment under the five-minute rule. For reserve fleet expenses, the amount Mr. Clay with Mr. !chord. At the conclusion of the consideration of the bill for amendment, the Committee shall if $3,773,000. Mr. Fraser with Mr. Hanna. There is $8,600,000 authorized for Mr. Moorhead of California with Mr. rise and report the bill to the House with Patman. such amendments as may have been adopted, maritime training at the Merchant Ma­ Mrs. Boggs with Mr. Arends. and the previous question shall be consid­ rine Academy; and $2,427,000 for finan­ Mr. Rooney of New York with Mr. Rhodes. ered as ordered on the bill and amendments cial assistance to State marine schools. Mr. Fulton with Mr. Anderson of Illinois. thereto to final passage without intervening There is also authorized such supple­ Mr. Hays with Mr. Saylor. motion except one motion to recommit. mental amounts for the increases in sal­ Mr. Addabbo with Mr. Cederberg. Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, ary, pay, retirement, or other employee Mr. Howard with Mr. Maraziti. I yield 30 minutes to the gentleman from benefits authorized by law. Mr. Brasco with Mr. Gude. Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act Mr. Mollohan with Mr. Baker. Ohio (Mr. LATTA), pending which I yield Mr. Rangel with Mr. Lent. myself such time as I may consume. of 1936, authorizes the Maritime Ad­ Mr. McSpadden with Mr. Andrews of North Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 426 pro­ ministration to guarantee loans placed Dakota. vides for an open rule with 1 hour of gen­ .commercially for funds used for the Mr. Koch with Mr. McCloskey. eral debate on H.R. 7670, a bill to author­ construction of U.S.-flag vessels. The Mr. Brooks with Mr. Collins of Texas. ize appropriations for fiscal year 1974 for title XI program has been so successful Mr. Breckenridge with Mr. Frey. certain maritime programs of the De­ that the authorized ceiling has been in­ Mr. Whitten with Mr. Bray. creased from $3 billion to $5 billion. Mr. Yatron with Mr. Eshleman. partment of Commerce. The bill also in­ Mr. RoonE"y of Pennsylvania with Mr. Mc­ creases the ceiling of the title XI Govern­ Mr. Speaker, I know of no objection to Dade. ment guarantee program from $3 to $5 this rule and urge its adoption. Mr. Charles H. Wilson of California with billion. Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Del Clawson. H.R. 7670 provides for a total author­ I have no requests for time. Mr. Chappel with Mr. Ashbrook. ization of $531,315,000. There is no in­ Mr. Speaker, I move the previous ques­ Mr. Young of Texas with Mr. Clancy. creased cost to the Government associ­ tion on the resolution. Mrs. Chisholm with Mr. William D. Ford. The previous question was ordered. Mr. Cotter with Mr. Brotzman. ated with section 3 of the bill that in­ Mr. Davis of Georgia with Mr. Hudnut. creases the authority of the Govern­ The SPEAKER. The question is on the Mr. Delaney with Mr. Conable. ment's title XI guarantee program from resolution. Mr. Denholm with Mr. Broyhill of North $3 to $5 billion. The question was taken; and the Carolina. The bill's authorization includes $275 Speaker announced that the ayes ap­ Mr. Davis of South Carolina with Mr. Rob- million for ship construction and mod­ peared to have it. ert W. Daniel, Jr. ernization and $221,515,000 for ship op­ Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker Mr. Eilberg with Mr. McClory. eration subsidies. The bill also author­ I object to the vote on the ground that Mr. Fuqua with Mr. Broyhill of Virginia. a quorum is not present and make th'e Mr. Donohue with Mr. Hastings. izes $20 million for research and devel­ Mr. Gray with Mr. Michel. opment activities; and $3,773,000 for point of order that a quorum is not Mr. Gunter with Mr. Bafalis. reserve flee"t expenses. The bill authorizes present. Mr. Hebert with Mr. Carter. $8,600,000 for maritime training at the The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum is Mr. Holifield with Mr. Goldwater. Federal Merchant Marine Academy, and not present. Mr. Litton with Mr. Crane. $2,427,000 for financial assistance to The Sergeant at Arms will notify ab­ Mr. Melcher with Mr. Harvey. sent Members. Mr. Moakley with Mr. Hillis. State marine schools. Mr. Reid with Mr. Gilman. Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of House The vote was taken by electronic de­ Resolution 426 in order that we may dis­ vice, and there were--yeas 274, nays o, The result of the vote was announced cuss and debate H.R. 7670. not voting 159, as follows: as above recorded. Mr. LATTA. Mr. Speaker, I yield my­ A motion to reconsider was laid on self such time as I may consume. [Roll No. 198} the table. Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 426 YEAS-274 provides for the consideration of H.R. Abdnor Camp Dulski Abzug Carey, N.Y. Duncan GENERAL LEAVE 7670, the maritime authorization for fis­ Adams Carney, Ohio duPont cal year 1974. This is an open rule with 1 Anderson, Casey, Tex. Eckhardt Mr. JOHNSON of California. Mr. hour of general debate. Calif. Chamberlain Edwards, Calif. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that The purpose of H.R. 7670 is to au­ Annunzio Clark Erlenborn all Members may have 5 legislative days Archer Clausen, Esch thorize appropriations for programs of Armstrong Don H. Evins, Tenn. in which to revise and extend their re­ the Maritime Administration within the Ashley Cleveland Fascell marks on the legislation just passed. Department of Commerce for fiscal year Barrett Cohen Findley The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Beard Collier Flowers 1974, and to increase the ceiling of the Bell Collins, lll. Ford, Gerald R. the request of the gentleman from title XI Government guarantee program Bennett Conlan Forsythe California? from $3 to $5 billion. Bergland Conte Fountain There was no objection. Bevill Coughlin Frelinghuysen The total cost of this bill is $531,315,- Biester Cronin Frenzel 000. This cost is broken down as follows: Blatnik Culver Froehlich MARITIME AUTHORIZATION $275,000,000 for acquisition, con­ Boland Daniel, Dan Gaydos struction, or reconstruction of vessels Bolling Daniels, Gettys Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, Bowen DominickV. Giaimo and construction-differential subsidy and Bradema.s Danielson Gibbons by direction of the Committee on Rules, cost of national defense features incident Breaux Davis, Wis. Ginn I call up House Resolution 426 and ask Brinkley delaGarza Goldwater to the construction, reconstruction, or re­ Broomfield Dellen back Gonzalez for its immediate consideration. conditioning of ships. Three is a proviso Brown, Cali!. Dellums Grasso The Clerk read the resolution as stating that the appropriation act may Brown, Mich. Dennis Green, Oreg. follows: provide that unobligated balances pre­ Buchanan Dent Green, Pa. H. Res. 426 Burke, Fla. Derwinski Gross viously appropriated for purchase of Burke, Mass. Devine Grover Resolved, That upon the adoption of this modern or reconstructed U.S.-flag ves­ Burleson, Tex. Dickinson Gubser resolution it shall be in order to move that sels for layup in the National Defense Burlison, Mo. Dingell Guyer the House resolve itself into the Commltee Burton Dorn Haley Reserve Fleet, may also be used for con­ Butler Downing Hammer- o! the Whole House on the State of the struction-differential subsidy. Byron Drinan schmidt 18740 CONGRE$SIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 8, 1973 Hanley Mills, Ark. Shoup Rangel Scherle Waggonner Mr. Jones of North Carolina with Mr. Hanrahan Minish Shriver Reid Sebelius Waldie William D. Ford. Hansen, Idaho Mink Shuster Rhodes Sisk Ware Mr. Mathis of Georgia with Mr. Sisk. Harsha Mitchell, Md.. Sikes Riegle Skubitz Whitten Mr. Metcalfe with Mr. Milford. Hawkins Mizell Slack Robison, N.Y. Staggers Wilson, Hechler, W.Va.. Montgomery Smith, Iowa Rogers Stanton, Charles H., Mr. Patman with Mr. Winn. Heckler, Mass. Moorhead, Pa.. Smith, N.Y. Rooney, N.Y. James V. Calif. Mr. Reid with Mr. Lent. Heinz Morgan Snyder Rooney, Pa. Steed Winn Mr. Rogers with Mr. Symms. Helstoski Moss Spence Rostenkowski Stephens Wyatt Mr. Gunter with Mr. Sebelius. Henderson Murphy, Dl. Stanton, Roush Stratton Wydler Mr. Ryan with Mr. Wyatt. Hicks Murphy, N.Y. J. William Rousselot Stuckey Wyman Mr. Staggers with Mr. Stratton. Hinshaw Myers Stark Roy Symington Yatron Mr. James V. Stanton with Mr. Syming- Hogan Natcher Steele Roybal Symms Young, Tex. Holt Nedzi Steelman Ruppe Ullman Zion ton. Holtzman Nelsen Steiger, Ariz. Ryan Vander Jagt Mr. Steed with Mr. Stuckey. Hosmer Nix Steiger, Wis. Saylor Veysey Mr. Stephens with Mr. Frey. Huber Obey Stokes Hungate O'Hara Stubblefield So the resolution was agreed to. The result of the vote was announced Hunt O'Neill Studds The Clerk announced the following as above recorded. Hutchinson Owens Sullivan A motion to reconsider was laid on Johnson, Pa.. Patten Talcott pairs: Jones, Ala.. Pepper Taylor, Mo. Mr. Hays with Mr. Arends. the table. Jones, Okla.. Perkins Taylor, N.C. Mr. Rooney of New York with Mr. Rhodes. Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I move Jones, Tenn. Pickle Teague, Calif. Mr. Hebert with Mr. Michel. that the House resolve itself into the Jordan Pike Teague, Tex. Mr. Addabbo with Mr. Fish. Committee of the Whole House on tihe Karth Poage Thompson, N.J. Mr. Fisher with Mr. Bafalis. Kastenmeier Podell Thomson, Wis. State of the Union for the consideration Kazen Powell, Ohio Thone Mr. Gray with Mr. Gude. of the bill CH.R. 7670) to authorize ap­ Keating Preyer Thornton Mrs. Griffiths with Mr. Brown of Ohio. Kemp Price, Dl. Tiernan Mr. Chappell with Mr. Broyhill of North propriations for the fiscal year 1974 for Ketchum Price, Tex. Towell, Nev. Carolina. certain maritime programs of the De­ King Pritchard Treen Mrs. Chisholm with Mr. Hanna. partment of Commerce. Kuykendall Quie Udall Mr. Davis of Georgia with Mr. Bray. The SPEAKER. The quest~on is on Kyros Quillen Van Deerlin Mr. Delaney with Mr. Cederberg. Landgrebe Railsback Vanik the motion offered by the gentlewoman Latta Randall Vigorito Mr. Diggs with Mr. Madden. from Missouri (Mrs. SULLIVAN). Leggett Rarick Walsh Mr. Holifield with Mr. Del Clawson. The motion was agreed to. Lehman Rees Wampler Mr. Howard with Mr. Maraziti. Long, La. Regula. Whalen Mr. Johnson of California with Mr. Harvey. IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Long, Md. Reuss White Mr. Kluczynski with Mr. Clancy. Accordingly the House resolved itself Lujan Rinaldo Whitehurst Mr. Rostenkowski with Mr. Anderson of McCollister Roberts Widnall into the Committee of the Whole House McCormack Robinson, Va. Wiggins Illinois. on the State of the Union for the consid­ McFall Rodino Williams Mr. Rooney of Pennsylvania with Mr. Mc- eration of the bill. H.R. 7670, with Mr. McKay Roe Wilson, Bob Dade. in McKinney Roncalio, Wyo. Wilson, Mr. Koch with Mr. Gilman. CULVER the chair. Macdonald Roncallo, N.Y. Charles, Tex. Mr. Brasco with Mr. Conable. The Clerk read the title of the bill. Madigan Rose Wolff Mrs. Boggs with Mr. Broyhill of Virginia. By unanimous consent, the first read­ Mahon Rosenthal Wright Mr. Nichols with Mr. Baker. ing of the bill was dispensed with. Mailliard Runnels Wylie Mallary Ruth Yates Mr. Clay with Mr. Riegle. The CHAffiMAN. Under the rule, the Mann St Germa in Young, Alaska Mr. Harrington with Mr. Brotzman. gentlewoman from Missouri CMrs. SuL­ Martin, Nebr. Sandman Young, Fla. lVfr. Alexander with Mr. Andrews of North LIVAN) will be recognized for 30 minutes, Martin, N.C. Sarasin Young, Ga. Carolina. and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Mathias, Calif. Sarbanes Young, Dl. Mr. Biaggi with Mr. Conyers. Matsunaga. Satterfield Young, S.C. Mr. Cotter with Mr. Ashbrook. GRoVER) will be recognized for 30 min­ Mayne Schneebeli Zablocki Mr. Fuqua with Mr. Carter. utes. Meeds Schroeder z wach The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman Mezvinsky Seiberling Mr. Fulton with Mr. Robert W. Daniel, Jr. Miller Shipley Mr. Melcher with Mr. Andrews of North from Missouri CMrs. SULLIVAN). Dakota. Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield NAY8-0 Mr. McSpadden with Mr. Crane. myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Fraser with Mr. McCloskey. Mr. Chairman, I rise to urge the pas­ NOT VOTING-159 Mr. Mollohan with Mr. Collins of Texas. sage of H.R. 7670, a bill to authorize Addabbo Daniel, Robert Howard Mr. Rangel with Mr. Foley. appropriations for the fiscal year 1974 Alexander w.,Jr. Hudnut Mr. Flynt with Mr. Blackburn. Anderson, Dl. Davis, Ga. I chord Mr. Flood with Mr. Eshleman. for certain maritime programs of the Andrews, N.C. Davis, S.C. Jarman Mr. Roush with Mr. Hillis. Department of Commerce. H.R. 7670 Andrews, Delaney Johnson, Calif. Mr. Brooks with l\.1r. McClory. Johnson, Colo. would authorize these funds for the N.Dak. Denholm Mr. Bingham with Mr. Mosher Arends Diggs Jones, N.C. Maritime Administration in the total Ashbrook Donohue Kluczynski Mr. Breckinridge with Mr. Wydler. amount of $531,315,000, to be apportion­ Aspin Edwards, Ala. Koch Mrs. Hansen of Washington with Mr. ed as follows: Badillo Eilberg Landrum Hastings. Bafalis Eshleman Lent Mr. !chord wit.h Mr. McEwen. Construction subsidy ------$275,000,000 Baker Evans, Colo. Litton Mr. Landrum with Mr. Aspin. Operating subsidy ------221, 515, 000 Biaggi Fish Lott Mr. Litton with Mr. O'Brien. Research and development____ 20,000,000 Bingham Fisher McClory National Defense Reserve Fleet 3, 773,000 McCloskey Mr. Roybal with Mr. Peyser. Blackburn Flood Federal Maritime Academy____ 8, 600,000 Boggs Flynt McDade Mr. Roy with Mr. Vander Jagt. Brasco Foley McEwen Mr. Mazzoli with Mr. Wyman. State Marine Schools______2, 427, 000 Bray Ford, McSpadden Mr. Whitten with Mr. Parris. Breckinridge William D. Madden Mr. Charles H. Wilson of California with Before going into some of the impor­ Brooks Fraser Maraziti Mr. Pettis. tant elements of this fiscal year 1974 Brotzman Frey Mathis, Ga.. Mr. Yatron with Mr. Goodling. maritime authorization bill, Mr. Chair­ Mazzoli Brown, Ohio Fulton Mr. Young of Texas with Mr. Zion. Broyhill, N.C. Fuqua Melcher man, I would like to put the U.S.-flag Broyhill, Va. Gilman Metcalfe Mr. Eilberg with Mr. Saylor. marttime situation into proper perspec­ Burgener Goodling Michel Mr. Donohue with Mr. Minshall of Ohio. tive. Burke, Calif. Gray Milford Mr. Denholm with Mr. Ruppe. I think this is best done by comparing Carter Griffiths Minshall, Ohio :Mr. Davis of South Carolina with Mr. Cederberg Gude Mitchell, N.Y. Badillo. the existing U.S.-flag fleet to the surg­ Chappell Gunter Moakley Mr. Ullman with Mr. Scherle. ing Soviet Russia merchant marine. The Mollohan Chisholm Hamilton Mr. Waldie with Mr. Robison of New York. comparative figures which I am about to Clancy Hanna. Moorhead, Clawson, Del Hansen, Wash. Calif. Mr. Passman with Mr. Skubitz. give between the two fleets will be for Clay Harrington Mosher Mr. Moakley with Mr. Mitchell of New merchant vessels over 1,000 gross tons, Cochran Harvey Nichols York. as of June 30, 1972. Collins, Tex. Hastings O'Brien Mr. Evans of Colorado with Mr. Horton. As of that date, the U.S.-flag merchant Conable Hays Parris Mrs. Burke of California with Mr. Ware. Conyers Hebert Passman Mr. Corman with Mr. Rousselot. fleet had 659 privately owned vessels, as Patman Corman Hillis Mr. Hamilton with Mr. Hudnut. against 2,079 Russian-flag merchant ves­ cotter Holifield Pettis sels. Of course, it must be noted that Crane Horton Peyser Mr. Jarman with Mr. Lott. June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 18741 none of the Russian vessels are privately 17 vessels would be a mix of the follow­ tion bill if supplemental appropriations owned and the entire Russian merchant ing: 2 OBO's (oil-bulk-ore carriers); 3 for fiscal year 1974 are sought for this fieet is State owned. The 659 privately tankers (up to 100,000 DWT); 3 VLCC's; purpose. owned U.S.-:tlag merchant vessels totaled 6 LNG's; and 3 dry bulk carriers. Section 3 of H.R. 7670 would amend 9,149,000 gross tons, as compared to 11,- As to the operating subsidy program, section 1103(f) of the Merchant Marine 941,000 gross tons for the 2,079 Russian the Maritime Administration requested Act of 1936, as amended, by striking the vessels. We now rank seventh in the total $221,515,000, which is $10,485,000 less figure $3 billion and inserting in lieu order of world merchant fieets, and the than the funds appropriated last year, thereof the figure $5 billion. Title XI of Russians now rank sixth. We have, un­ but is augmented by an estimated appro­ the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 au­ fortunately, changed ranking with the priation carry-over balance of $25,485,- thorizes the Maritime Administration to Russians in the last year. 000, which would provide for a total of guarantee loans placed commercially for I would like to point out that in 1947 $247 million. funds used for the construction of U.S.­ there were 5,000 merchant vessels under I think it is important to note, Mr. fiag vessels. The Government's guaran­ the U.S. fiag. The fact that we have Chairman, that U.S. containerships are tee, secured by a mortgage on the vessel, dropped to 659 indicates that there is now operating on the North Atlantic enables vessel owners to obtain needed something wrong with our merchant ship trade route without operating subsidy, investment capital at competitive inter­ program and that we are approaching a which is resulting in a savings to the est rates. This aid is available in financ­ dangerously low figure of U.S.-fiag mer­ U.S. taxpayers of $25.6 million annually. ing the construction of unsubsidized as chant vessels. I think it should be pointed In addition, I think it is important to well as subsidized vessels. The title XI out, however, Mr. Chairman, that there note that considerable progress has been program has been very successful so that is a considerable difference in the qual­ made in reducing manning on new ves­ in the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 we ity and type of ships between the u.s.­ sels currently used in the U.S.-fiag fieet increased the authorized ceiling of the fiag and Russian-fiag fieets. We have so that the crews on some 86 new ships Maritime Administration from $1 bil­ one of the most, if not the most, mod­ have been reduced by an average of 4.2 lion to $3 billion and the program has ern and efficient containership fieets in crew members per ship, which amounts continued to grow and diversify. the world. The Russians are just now be­ to a savings of more than $110 million in The Maritime Administrator testified ginning to build container vessels for operating differential subsidy costs over that under the present contract sched­ their merchant marine. These capital in­ the lives of these vessels. ule, the existing title XI authority of $3 tensive, quick turn around, highly ef­ With respect to the research and de­ billion would be "exhausted sometime ficient vessels are obviously much more velopment activities of the Maritime Ad­ during the early fiscal year 1974, perhaps productive than the old style break bulk ministration, your committee favorably July, August or September,'' and that if vessels, which comprise most of the pres­ reported the request of $20 million for the title XI authority is not forthcom­ ent Russian-fiag merchant fieet. R. & D., which is $9 million less than the ing, the impact on MARAD's construc­ In addition to being in the vanguard appropriation for fiscal year 1973. This tion program "would be a disaster." This of the container vessel development, the $20 million will be augmented by $5 mil­ program has historically never cost the United States has also been the chief lion carried over from 1973. The major taxpayer any funding. The title XI pro­ proponent of the LASH and SeaBee ves­ emphasis in fiscal year 1974 will be on gram is funded by a revolving fund and sel concepts. The U.S.-fiag merchant such projects as the development of nu­ this fund has been continually growing. fieet now boasts some 19 Lash vessels clear and automated merchant ships, im­ At present, this fund has accumulated and 3 SeaBee vessels. The Lash and Sea­ provement of shipbuilding techniques over $40 million. Bee, of course, are barge-carrying vessels and materials, and various pollution The increase in the title XI ceiling embodying the concept of the mother abatement measures. from $3 billion to $5 billion would in­ cargo and the barges then being towed The House Merchant Marine Com­ volve no additional cost to the Federal back and forth for loading and unload­ mittee favorably reported the Adminis­ Government. ing, while the mother ship makes various tration's request of $3,773,000 for re­ You will note, Mr. Chairman, that the calls. As with the container ships, the serve fieet expenses, which was a de­ above items of expense in this maritime Lash and SeaBee are much more efficient crease of $127,000 from the previous year, authorization bill does not relate directly than the old style break bulk vessels, so due to the declining number ot ships in to the improvement of port facilities. I the numerical superiority of the Russian the National Defense Reserve Fleet. mention this because the Congress at fieet is mitigated to a considerable ex­ These funds will maintain preservation present, right now, is faced with the crit­ tent by the more modern and efficient measures on about 323 retention ships in ical issue of offshore port terminals for cargo technique vessels just mentioned, three active Reserve Fleet sites. I would the importation of raw materials, espe­ which comprise a good share of the U.S.­ like to note, Mr. Chairman, that the de­ cially petroleum products. There is no fiag merchant marine. clining numbers of National Defense Re­ port on the east or gulf coasts of the While the U.S.-fiag fieet has much to serve Fleet ships is of great concern to United States which can handle a tanker be proud of as a result of these innova­ our Members because of the possible fu­ over about 100,000 DWT. There are hun­ tive concepts, still the numbers are dwin­ ture necessity to break out such ships in dreds of foreign-:fiag tankers over this dling dangerously and the U.S. Merchant future crises. tonnage and we are right now engaged Marine is still beset by a number of prob­ Finally, the Administration requested, in construction of a number of U.S.-fiag lems. and your committee approved, $8,600,000 tankers up to 285,000 DWT. Obviously, Before moving on to the main ele­ for the maritime training of future mer­ our runaway energy needs are going to ments of this authorization bill, I wanted chant marine officers at the Merchant require tremendous imports of petroleum to give some backgmund to the U.S.-fiag Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y.; products in the immediate future. If we merchant fieet whicn I thought might be and $2,427,000 for financial assistance do not construct several port terminals helpful to an understanding of the pur­ to the six State marine schools. These off our coasts to handle these large ca­ poses and elements of the maritime au­ funds are used for the upgrading of these pacity tankers, then the importation of thorization bill before us for our con­ facilities and for the training of cadets petroleum products will be largely by sideration. at these various maritime academies. foreign-:fiag tankers via such non-Amer­ With respect to the construction pro­ The Merchant Marine Committee fa­ ican port areas as Nova Scotia and the gram, the administration requested $275 vorably reported section 2 of H.R. 7670, Bahamas. I submit that this is totally million for vessel construction for 1974. without amendment. This section au­ unacceptable. Although this $275 million is $180 million thorizes additional supplemental Although the offshore port terminals less than the funds appropriated in the amounts for fiscal year 1974 for the ac­ problem is not within the funding of the last fiscal year, these funds, together tivities specified in section 1 of the bill maritime authorization bill, the House with $50 million of unobligated 1973 to the extent necessary for increases in Committee on Merchant Marine and funds carried forward, would allow the salaries, pay, retirement, or other em­ Fisheries is vitally involved in such mat­ Maritime Adminjstration to contract for ployee benefits authorized by law. ters relating to this offshore port termi­ 17 bulk vessels in 1974. The Maritime The purpose of this section is to avoid nals facilities as their relation to mrui­ Administration contemplates that these amending the fiscal year 1974 authoriza- time trade, to traffic separation schemes, 18742 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 8, 1973 to vessel utilization and safety, to trans­ Mrs. SULLIVAN. I yield to the gentle­ target CDS rate of 35 percent to take ef­ fer operations, to port safety and secur­ man from New York. fect in 1976. Bear in mind that the sub­ ity, and to disposal of waste materials. Mr. GROVER. I understand that there sidy rate averaged 53.6 percent in 1969. Our committee is also concerned with has been a new agreement and a new re­ This program is working, Mr. Chair­ these terminals with respect to their im­ vised formula revising downward the man. We are making steady progress. pact on ocean pollution, their impact subsidy to ships of the United States and Nearly 40 ships have been ordered and on site selection of potential marine substantially upward the recapture or an additional 16 converted into modern sanctuaries, their impact on site selec­ reimbursement by the Soviet Union for container ships under the provisions of tion of adja.cent shore areas, their im­ the subsidies. the Merchant Marine Act of 1970. This pact on fisheries, and the impact of the Mr. WYLIE. In other words, we are building rate is, of course, below the 30- National Environmental Policy Act on paying American-flag shipowners money ship per year forecast when the pro­ these terminals. I recognize, Mr. Chair­ to transport wheat to the Soviet Union. gram began; however, numbers do not man, that other committees of the Con­ Is that correct? tell the full story. In terms of productiv­ gress also have legitimate interests with Mrs. SULLIVAN. That is correct. Yes. ity, we are surpassing the carrying ca­ respect to the offshore terminals prob­ Mr. WYLIE. I thank the gentlewoman. pacity of the 30-ships contemplated in lem. Our committee has been working Mr. GROVER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1970. We are building much larger and with these committees on this problem myself such time as I may require. faster ships than our maritime indus­ and it is my fervent hope that these Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure for me try was expected to utilize when the act committees can continue to work to­ to join the distinguished chairman of was in its formative stages 4 years ago. gether on the crucial issue so that we the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com­ The operating subsidy level author­ may jointly produce a responsive andre­ mittee, the gracious lady from Missouri ized for fiscal year 1974 will cover our sponsible piece of legislation dealing sup­ wishes. We share a common goal-the time Affairs has expressed a goal of lift­ port H.R. 7670 so that the Maritime Ad­ expansion of our merchant marine--and ing 17 percent of our total trade by the ministration can continue to successfully we are equally determined to achieve this end of this decade. We now hover at implement the Merchant Marine Act of goal as embodied in the Merchant Ma­ about 3 percent due, of course, to our 1970, and so that we may restore t?is rine Act of 1970. negligible carriage of bulk imports. At country to its rightful place as a leadmg H.R. 7670 authmizes funds for the the end of this decade, our total trade maritime nation. third year of expanded ship construc­ Mr. WYLIE. Mr. Chairman, will the tion since enactment of the Merchant will be perhaps a billion tons of cargo gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. SuL­ Marine Act of 1970. The act recognized annually. LIVAN) yield? our overwhelming dependence on for­ Given this perspective, 17 percent will Mrs. SULLIVAN. Yes, I will be happy eign flag tankers and highlighted the indeed be a respectable share for our staggering increase in foreign oil imports merchant marine. to yield to the gentleman from Ohio

continued viability of both the subsidized Mr. CLARK. Mr. Chairman, in the in­ hold. I am also pleased to inform my and domestic shipbuilding programs. terest of time I will be brief and ask colleagues that not all U.S.-flag mer­ Our distinguished chail·man has fully unanimous consent to revise and extend chant vessels require operating subsidy. explained the various provisions of this my remarks. I rise to join our distin­ Nineteen vessels formerly operated under authorization bill, and I, of course, con­ guished Chairman in urging the strong subsidy no longer receive this form of cur in her estimation of the need for support of the House for H.R. 7670. As Government aid. Additionally, a num­ these funds. We have begun to develop a the Gentlewoman from Missouri has ber of other capital intensive American maritime presence calculated to fulfill gone into some detail on the various ele­ vessels, such as containerships, are suc­ our essential ocean shipping require­ ments of the bill, and I know there are cessfully competing in our foreign trade ments. I, therefore, urge my colleagues Members on both sides of the aisle who without such subsidy. to continue the strong support they have wish to speak in support of it, I wish to Mr. Chairman, as the chairman of the given to this effort. say I am 100 percent in support of H.R. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine, I Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he 7670-a bill to get our merchant marine can assure the House that all the provi­ may use to the gentleman from Califor­ back in business. I will limit myself to sions of the bill were given careful study. nia (Mr. MAILLIARD). ~. few general remarks on what I consider Witnesses for the Maritime Administra­ Mr. MATI...LIARD. Mr. Chairman, I to be the more important provisions of tion, the Shipbuilder's Council of Amer­ also wish to add my support for H.R. this legislation. ica, the Marine Trades Department, the 7670, the Maritime Authorization bill for Mr. Chairman, in the 91st Congress, American Institute of Merchant Ship­ fiscal year 1974. this House was instrumental in the land­ ping, and the American Maritime Asso­ The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 is mark legislation enacted as the Merchant ciation testified in support of the re­ indeed resulting in the construction of a Marine Act of 1970. As you know, that quested amounts. The bill was reported record number and variety of ships pri­ act provided for the new Maritime pro­ unanimously, after full and careful con­ marily to meet our energy and raw mate­ gram that was to revitalize the U.S.­ sideration of the entire record. As the rials needs. The impact of this effort is ftag merchant marine. It was the most chairman of the Merchant Marine and most clearly measured in terms of cargo­ significant Act with respect to our mer­ Fisheries Committee has pointed out, we carrying capacity. chant marine in over 30 years, and long are of the strong view that the author­ For example, had the very large tank­ overdue. ization for the requested funds and the ers now under construction been in serv­ The bill before us this afternoon, H.R. increase in the authority of the Govern­ ice in 1972, they could have increased the 7670, includes requirements for the ment's title XI guarantee program are U.S.-fiag share of our oil trade from 2.2 4th year of expanded activities under essential for the continuation of the new to 23.1 percent. the new Maritime program. maritime program provided by the Mer­ Similarly, the annual cargo capacity of Mr. Chairman, $275 million would be chant Marine Act of 1970. the ships now on the ways would have in­ authorized by the bill for so-called con­ I strongly urge the House to support creased our share of all U.S. trade from struction subsidy. This amount, to­ H.R. 7670. 5.3 to 8.9 percent, almost doubling during gether with $50 million carried forward, Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Chairman, I that year. would provide a total of $325 million. yield such time as he may need to the Of course, as these ships enter service, and permit the Maritime Administra­ gentleman from Virginia

Green, Pa. Matsunaga Seiberling Passman Roy VanderJagt Mr. Gunter with Mr. Vander Jagt. Grover Mayne Shipley Patman Roybal Veysey Mr. Ryan with Mr. Mosher. Gubser Meeds Shoup Pepper Ruppe Waggonner Mr. Staggers with Mr. Parris. Gude Mezvinsky Shriver Pettis R yan Waldie Mr. James V. Stanton with Mr. Robison Guyer Miller Sikes Peyser Saylor Ware Haley Mills, Ark. Sisk Pike Scherle Whitten of New York. Hammer- Minish Slack Rangel Sebelius Wilson, Mr. Steed with Mr. Ware. schmidt Mink Smith, Iowa Reid Staggers Charles H., M r . S t ephens with Mr. Passman. Hanley Mitchell, Md. Smith, N.Y. Rhodes Stanton, Calif. Mr. Mathis of Georgia with Mr. Winn. Hanrahan Mizell Snyder Riegle JamesV. Winn Mr. S ymington with Mr. Peyser. Hansen, Idaho Moorhead, Pa. Spence Robison, N.Y. St eed Wyatt Mr. Stuckey with Mr. Wyman. Ha nsen, Wash. Morgan St anton, Rogers St ephens Wydler Ha rsha Moss J. William Rooney, N.Y. Stuckey Wyman Mr. B a dillo with Mr. Montgomery. Hawkins Murphy, TIL Stark Rooney, Pa. Symin gton Yatron M r. Adams with Mr. Pat man. Heckler, Mass. Murphy, N.Y. Steele Rostenkowski Symms Young, Tex. M r. Karth with Mr. Pepper. Heinz Myers Steelman Roush Treen Zion Mr. Pike wit h Mr. Roybal. Helstoski Natcher Steiger, Ariz. Rousselot Ullman Henderson Nedzi Steiger, Wis. The result of the vote was announced Hicks Nelsen Stokes So the bill was passed. as above recorded. Hinshaw Nix St ratton The Clerk announced the following A motion to reconsider was laid on the Hogan Obey St ubblefield pairs: Holt O 'Hara Studds table. Holtzman O 'Neill Sullivan Mr. Hays with Mr. Arends. Hosmer Owens T alcott Mr. Rooney of New York with Mr. Rhodes. Huber Patten T aylor, Mo. Mr. Hebert with Mr. Michel. GENERAL LEAVE Hungate Perkins Taylor, N.C. M r. Addabbo with Mr. Brown of Ohio. Hunt Pickle Teague, Calif. Mr. Roush with Mr. Brotzman. Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Hutchinson Poage Teague, Tex. unanimous consent that all Members Johnson, Calif. Podell Thompson, N.J. Mr. Gray with Mr. Anderson of Illinois. Johnson, Pa. Powell, Ohio Thomson, Wis. Mr. Rooney of Pennsylvania with Mr. may have 5 legislative days in which to Jones, Ala. Preyer Thone C9derberg. revise and extend their remarks on the Jones, Okla. Price, Ill. Thornton Mr. Davis of Georgia with Mr. Robert W. legislation just passed. Jones, Tenn. Price, Tex. Tiernan D a niel, Jr. Jordan Pritchard Towell, Nev. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mrs. Chisholm with Mr. William D. Ford. the request of the gentlewoman from K a zen Quie Udall Mr. Delaney with Mr. Gilman. Keating Quillen Van Deerlin Missouri? Kemp Railsback Vanik Mr. Brasco with Mr. Fish. Ketchum Randall Vigorito Mr. Diggs with Mr. Madden. There was no objection. King Rarick Walsh Mr. Holifield with Mr. Del Clawson. Kuykendall Rees Wampler Mr. Howard with Mr. Maraziti. Kyros Regula Whalen :::vir. Kluczynski with Mr. O'Brien. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Latta Reuss White Mr. Rostenkowski with Mr. Bray. Leggett Rinaldo Whitehurst (Mr. GERALD R. FORD asked and was Lehman Roberts W idnall Mr. Koch with Mr. McCloskey. to Mr. Nichols with Mr. Ashbrook. given permission address the House for Long, La. Robinson, Va. Wiggins 1 minute.) Long, Md. Rodino Williams Mrs. Boggs with Mr. Carter. McCollister Roe Wilson, Bob Mr. Clay with Mr. Riegle. Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, I McCormack Roncalio, Wyo. Wilson, Mr. Alexander with Mr. Broyhill of Vir- have asked for this time for the purpose McFall Roncallo, N.Y. Charles, Tex. ginia. of asking the distinguished majority McKay Rose Wolff McKinney Rosenthal Wright Mr. Cotter w ith Mr. Mazzoli. leader, the gentleman from Massachu­ Macdonald Runnels Wylie Mr. Biaggi with Mr. Eshleman. setts politics. But when the tellers re­ of accumulated problems. This admin­ tion as grand master would not be in the turned from counting the ballots for Junior istration may have had to pay the piper, welfare of Masonry in Missouri for po­ Grand Warden they disclosed probably the but four other administrations did most litical reasons. closest vote In the history of the Grand of the dancing. However, it is noteworthy that Mr. Lodge. This administration happens to be the Truman, again and again, exercised the Truman had been elected, by a vot e of 395 with a scattering of 345 for others, a vict ory one forced to attempt to put all the greatest care to be sure and certain that margin of only 50 votes. world's currencies, including our own, neither the Masonic organization nor One brother, Luther E. Wilhoit, District into balance. The gentleman from Texas the Eastern Star participated in any way Deputy Grand Master In the 14t h Masonic has been a great help in its efforts, and toward the advancement of his political District, later wrote Truman: I know he will continue to do so in the fortunes. Throughout his entire life as a "I attended Grand Lodge at St. Louis last future. I thank him for his presentation Mason, Mr. Truman carefully observed week and witnessed the most disgraceful today. and scrupulously protected the biparti­ thing I ever saw done in Grand Lodge. "In expressing myself I was informed that san or nonpolitical character of the they didn't want Pendergast for Grand MISSOURI FREEMASONS PROCLAIM Masonic fraternity. Master four years from now. In reply I told HARRY S TRUMAN ''ONE OF THEIR Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to read the brother that I hardly considered a man OWN" into the RECORD the story of Mr. Tru­ worthy of Masonry who would bring that man's progression to grand master of the kind of stuff in to Grand Lodge. . , ." The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Grand Lodge of Missouri as follows: Truman gave serious thought to stepping previous order of the House, the gentle­ TRUMAN AND GRAND LODGE; A RECORD OF aside to avoid the possibility that politics man from Missouri

Fiscal Fiscal year Amount year Amount

ACUSHNET (Population 7 ,767) CHATHAM (Population 4,554)

ESEA title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- 1973 $23, 538 53; full-time employees-7 ------______------;- 1973 $12, 854 53; full-time employees:-8- ______------ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______.; ESEA title II (amount ava1lable under Federal granO------1973 691 1973 799 Vocational education- title 1- pt. H (work study) ______1973 6, 575 Special milk program ______------1973 1, 929 School assistance in federally impacted areas------1972 5, 592 CHILMARK (Population 340) Special milk program __ ------___ __ ------1973 1, 644 Education for the handicapped: students served- 92 (fiscal year 1972) __ 1973 4, 500 NDEA title Ill-audio visual equipment______1973 2, 024 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______;- 1973 101 Special milk program ______1973 75 BARNSTABLE (Population 19,842) COHASSET (Population 6,954) ESEA title 1 (amount available un der Fede ral grant) students served- 1973 78, 406 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- 233; full-time employe~s- 12 . ------­ 15 ; full-time employees- ! ______------______.; 1973 11,813 ESEA title II (amount ava1lable un der Fede ral granO------1973 2, 803 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 1, 217 Vocational education- title 1- pt. H (work study) ______:. ______1973 20, 000 Special milk program ______----- __ School assistance in federally impacted areas ______-;. ______1972 48, 512 1973 4, 902 NDEA- T!tle Ill- Audio-visual equ ipment______1973 6, 019 Special milk program _------_ 1973 13,448 BOURNE (Population 12,636) DARTMOUTH (Population 18,800) ESEA Title I (amount ava ilable under Federal grant) students served- ESEA title I (amou nt available under Federal grant) students served- 1973 37,860 129 ; full-time employees-12 . ------1973 53, 271 ESEA title II (amount available under Fed eral grant) ______:; ______1973 2, 932 Vo~~~io~~lr'-~~~~a~i~~~t~~l::Pt.-H ======~ 1973 10, 154 Vocational education- title 1- pt. H ( work study) ______1973 24, 378 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______.; 1973 2, 957 1972 1, 516, 443 Special milk program __ ------_ - ---- _------.; 1973 6, 137 School assistance in fede rally impacted areas ·------~------­ NDEA-Title Ill-Audio-visual equipment______.; 1973 1, 016 Special milk program __ ------1973 8, 697 BREWSTER (Population 1,790) DENNIS (Population 6,454) ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant)•. :. . :.: _::_:; _:; _::-:.::: ::-.: 1973 27, 135 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) _:. ___ ~_ ::-:.:: . :.· - -- =-= 1973 3, 570 ESEA Title II (amount available under Fede ral grant) ______.; 1973 196 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______.; 1973 820 Vocational education-Title 1-Pl. H (work study) ______:. _____ :: 1973 18, 000 Special milk program ______------1973 521 Special milk program __ ------;; 1973 1, 973 NDEA- Title Ill- Audio-visual equipment______;- 1973 1, 306 CARVER (Population 2,420) ESEA Title I (amount ava ilable under Federal grant) ___ _:;- _::-:.:::;::-:.::-:.::. ::-= 1973 11,448 DUXBURY (Population 7,636) ESEA Title II (amount ava ilable under Federal grant)•• • -: .:. .-=:::.:. ____.; 1973 380 1972 15, 062 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) __:. ______:-:;:: 1973 12,752 School assistance in federally impacted areas •••:. ---=-=---=--=:-==--= -::.-= ESEA Title II (amount avail able under Federal grant) ______.; 1973 2,190 Special milk program ______------:::;:::;::. •••:..; 1973 622 June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ..- · HOUSE 18759'

Fiscal FiiCal year Amount year Amount

DUXBURY (Population 7,636)-Continued MATTAPOISETT (Population 4,500)

Special milk program ___ -;:;:;-_;-_-;:;:;-~-;:;::-.-:-.-:-:;-:--.~~=-:-:;~~-::-~-:-;~ 1973 $6,392 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) •• -:-;;;;;;;= 1973 $15,070 NDEA-Title Ill-Audio-visual equipmenL.:..~ ••••• :::.;.:.-:.; • ..:-.-::-.:: ••• 1973 2,830 ESEA.Title II (am.ount available under Federal grant) • ••••-:-:; ••• == 1973 467 Vocational educatiOn-Title 1-Pt. H (work study) •••••• : ••· ••••• .; ••-;:=: 1973 2, 018 Scho~l as~istance in federally impacted areas ______::;: EASTHAM (Population 2,043) 1972 1, 333 Spec1al m1lk program ______------___ ------_____ ------· 1973 2, 128 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal granO------~-- 1973 5,141 NANTUCKET (Population 3,774) ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______.;: 1973 211 School assistance in Federally impacted areas ••••:. ••• : •••••••••••••• ;: 1972 3, 583 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant).;:••• :-:: __ ;:;_; ___ _ 1973 14,794 ESEA Title_II (am~unt available under Federal grant) ______;: 1973 437 EDGARTOWN (Population 1,481) 1972 21 , 556 ~~~f~l a~~~~t~~~:r~n~~~-~~a!~ ~~~~~t~~ _~ ~~~~----~ ~::: ::::::::::::::: =~ 1973 4, 615 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) .•=-:-:;-:-; ______1973 9, 578 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______;: 1973 135 NEW BEDFORD I (Population 101,777) Special milk program. __ : ______.::, ______------"-·" 1973 642 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- 1,791; full-time employees-120 ______. ______FAIRHAVEN (Population 16,332) 1973 800,440 ESEA .T!tle II (am_ount available under Federal grant) ______;: 1973 13,460 Vocational education-Title 1-Pt. H (work study) ______;: ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- 1973 147, 178 ~c~~f~l a~~~~ta~~e r~n~ederally impacted areas ______-;: 110; full-time employees-13. -~--- _----- ______.;_;; ______.;:. ••• .;;: 1973 63,241 1972 85,844 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______;.. _____ .;: 1973 1, 955 p p g ------~ 1973 43,307 Vocational education-Title 1-pt. H (work study) ______.;; ___ -;: 1973 4, 000 i~Ef ritl~ Vli-Bi.lingual education ••• ------=-~-~=;=~==~ 1973 131, 616 u t as1c education______-- 1973 15,075 1973 6,174 Community development programs: ------~~~~~a~~l~ke~~~~Wo~ ~: =~: ~::::::::::: :::::::::: ~::: ::::: ====~=:: ~ 1973 5, 000 Neighborhood development,! HUD _.::. __ ;: ___ :;;;; ______NDEA-Title Ill-Audio-visual equipment______.; 1973 713 1972 1, 392,000 Gerado apartments FHA-HUD-Applied for ~ 1973 5, 865, 600 FALMOUTH (Population 15,942) RedeJelopment t-Urban renewai-HUD ______::::::::::::::::::::; 1966-73 23,408, 175 pen space-H UD-Applied for__------.;••• -;: 1973 50,000 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- Outf~l~ sewer-:EDA~Applied for___~------.-:: ••-;:.;::::-:::: 1973 6,180, 000 200; full-time employees-12 _____ ------_------____ ------1973 94,973 Mu mc1 pal serv1ce. bu 1ld 1ng constructlon-EDA-Applied for ___ ; __ -~ 1973 140,000 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______. 1973 3, 439 Research and des1gn to expand applied for economic base-EDA 1973 183,961 School assistance in federally impacted areas ______.; 1972 97,528 Urban coalition technical assistance-Red crab project-EDA ••• ::; 1972 108, 100 Special milk program._------" 1973 7, 352 Adult basic education (students served-68, part-time employees-9) •• .;: 1973 15,000 NORWELL (Population 7,796) GAYHEAD (Population 118) ESEA T!tle I (amount available under Federal grant) __ ;;;;;;;;;=-----= 1973 6, 956 ESEA T1tle.ll (am~unt available under Federal grant>------= 1973 1, 208 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) __ :: ______-:-==~ 1973 2, 902 ~cho~1 as~:~tance 10 Federally impacted areas ______..: •••••-::::: 1972 15, 114 pec1a 1 m1 program._------:::: 1973 5,694 HANOVER (Population 10,107) OAK BLUFFS (Population 1,385) ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- ESEA T!tle I (amount available under Federal grant) •• 50; full-time employees-7 ------1973 19,997 =;;;=:;;: 1973 3,774 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______; ____ ;: 1973 2, 259 ~SE~ T1tl~ II (amount available under Federal grant) ______-;. __--= 1973 118 School assistance in federally impacted areas ______;;-.:. ••-;: 1972 21,723 pec1al m1lk program._------_-----______; _____ .;:::;;":~ 1973 1,329 Special milk program. ______------:.:. ••••-;: 1973 6, 070 NDEA-Title Ill-Audio-visual equipment______.;: 1973 7, 081 ORLEANS (Population 3,055) HARWICH (Population 5,892) ESEA T!tle I (amount availabte under Federal grant>---=====:;;: 1973 7, 998 §SE~ T1tl~ ~1 (amount available under Federal grant) ••••• ;;-•••• :: •• ::::. pec1a m1 program ___ :; ___ .. ______; ______:;;:;:;":! 1973 304 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- 1 1973 521 100; full-time employees-G.------______---~------· 1973 19,280 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______;: 1973 759 PEMBROKE (Population 11,193) Vocational education-Title 1-Pt. H------.: 1973 8, 500 Special milk program._------·---·· 1973 4,192 ESEA T!tle I (amount available under Federal grant) ••:;;;=------::1 1973 34,343 ESEA T1tl~ II (am~unt available under Federal grant>------=-=-;.-::.;;.:: 1973 914 HINGHAM (Population 18,845) ~c~~r~l a~~l~ta~~e :~~ederally impacted areas ••••• .:..:;;;-;;.:_=_::-=-::;-;;::-::;-'2 1972 81,730 p p g ------1973 4, 621 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- ND EA- Title Ill-Audio-visual equipmenL ______:::::::;;~ 1973 4, 095 117; full-time employees-16. ____ ------__ ------; ____ ;. 1973 36,806 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ••••-:-; ••••••~:: •• :. 1973 394 PLYMOUTH (Population 18,606) School assistance in Federally impacted areas •••:: •••••••:..:: ••• ..:-•••• ;. 1972 36,549 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) 123 students served· Special milk program ___ ------___ ------.:..;:-•••• .;. 1973 12,170 19 full-time employees •• :.. •••;- ______;; ______;; .; Education for the handicapped: Students served-8; employees-5 •••• .;. 1973 13,233 1973 72,454 NDEA-Title Ill-Audio-visual equipment______; ___ _ 1973 6, 518 ESEA! Title II (afT!OUnt available under Federal grant) _____ ;;-; •• .;.~~ 1973 2,149 VocatiOnal education-Title 1-Pt. H (work study) •••••••••-:..:~--;;;= 1973 236,325 HULL (Population 9,961) Scho~l a~istance in federally i~pacted areas ••••••:;..: ••• ;;.:.:.;-:;~~ 1972 17,797 Spec1a 1 m1lk program.------: •••••; . • · ---= 1973 11, 172 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) students served- Adult ~asic education (55 students served, 5 part-time employees):~;;: 1973 8, 000 97; full-time employees-22. ------___ ------::: ••••• 1973 74,917 Water lmprovem.ents-EDA-Notification of intent. ••••••••••-:.:.;;;::-:-.;:, 1973 1, 096,800 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ••••:;. ••••• ::.:: •••• 1973 1, 721 Small sewer project-EDA •••:..=------= ;;;.~-;:;;:::~ 1972 187, 500 School assistance in Federally impacted areas ______:; ___ ; ______1972 38,972 Special milk program._------: ••• __ _ 1973 6, 951 PLYMPTON (Population 1,224) Education for the handicapped: Students served-42; employees-3 •••• ;: 1973 13,721 NDEA-Title Ill-Audio-visual equipment.. •••• :::. ______-:-; ____ _ 1973 10,038 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ••:::- • ..::;:;;:-::-;;;=;"2 1973 4,927 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______;;.;:~ 1973 113 KINGSTON (Population 5,999) NDEA- Title Ill-Audio-visual equipmenL------=--'11 1973 346 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) __ -:-:;===-=::;: 1973 18, 113 PROVINCETOWN (Population 2,911) ESEA.Title II (am.ount ayailable under Federal grant>------· 1973 623 VocatiOnal educatiOn-T1tle 1-Pt. H (work study) ••••••••••••••::: •••• ~ 1973 30,581 ESEA Tit~e I (amount available under Federal grant) 24 students served; School assistance in Federally impacted areas ______;:-.;;:-___ _ 1972 3, 700 5 full-t1me employees.------~ 1973 14,425 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______::~ Special milk program._------.;- 1973 1, 496 1973 466 School assistance in federally impacted areas.------·------= 1972 6,039 MARION (Population 3,466) Special milk program._------•••:: 1973 1, 140

ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant>----~=-:-:;=;;;: 1973 6, 956 ROCHESTER (Population 1,770) ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ••••••••••;-:;-:;-.:;;:;_ 1973 231 Scho~l as~istance in federally impacted areas •••••· ------=----:::;-;~ .• 1972 3,039 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ••:.-:::;;;;;:; ••= .. 1973 3,043 Special m1lk program .• ______. ____ • .;: 1973 1,032 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______.; 1973 217 HUD, Sewer and Water-Sewer improvement. •••••••••• : ••••••• ;-••-:: •• 1972 605,500 Special milk program. ___ ------______. 1973 249 MARSHFIELD (Population 15, 223) ROCKLAND (Population 15,674) ESEA Title 1. (amount available under Federal grant) students served- ESEA Titl_e I (amount available under Federal grant) 104 students served; 144; full-time employees-22 ______:;;.-••-:::::..::.:;;:; •••• 3 full~tlme employees ______------:: 1973 1973 40,864 ESEA T1tle II (amount available under Federal grant) ______-;: 37,676 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) •••••-:: •••:;;:;;-:;= 1973 3,165 1973 2, 524 School assistance in federally impacted areas ••••••••:;;;; ••••• ;-;-:--••••• 1973 31,409 Vocational education-Title 1-Pt. H (work study)------= 1973 18,978 Scho~l as~istance in federally impacted areas ______;: NDEA-Title Ill-Audiovisual equipmenL·------·· 1973 6,449 1972 2, 023 Spec1al m1lk program __ ------____ ------~ 1973 10,493 MASHPEE (Population 1,288) SANDWICH (Population 5,239) ESEA T!tle I (amount available under Federal grant) ••••;-:;=:;;:;= 1973 9,569 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 9, 426 ESEA T1tl~ II (amount available under Federal grant) •••••:: •••••:::.;-.=: 1973 146 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 526 Sscho~l as~ ,kstance in federally impacted areas ••••• :::.-::.:..-:::.:..-::.-:::.-::.;-:;~ 1972 7,653 ~cho~l as~istance in Federally impacted areas ______pec1a m1 program ____ ----______-----__ ••:;;.-::.:;;.;.;.:;; • .;-.;;-.:::.;;;: 1972 23,306 1 1 1973 241 pec1a 1 m1lk program ______------1973 2, 810 Footnotes at end of table. 18700 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 8, 1973

Fiscal Fiscal year Amount year Amount

SCITUATE (Population 16,973) WELLFLEET (Population 1,743) ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) 30 students served; ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 $3, 999 1 full-time employee; Cushing hall $5,796.00 ______1973 $33, 329 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 179 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 3, 465 School assistance in federally impacted areas ______1972 170, 489 School assistance in Federally impacted areas ______1972 12, 647 Special milk program ______------1973 231 Special milk program _. ______1973 15, 417 Education for the handicapped: 62 students served ______1973 12, 000 WEST TISBURY (Population 453) NDEA- Title Ill- Audio visual equipment______1973 7, 151 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 290 TISBURY (Population 2,257) ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 101 Special milk program. __ ------1973 87 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 12, 771 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 216 WEYMOUTH (Population 54,610) Special milk program _------1973 353 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) 655 students served; TRURO (Population 1,234) 22 full-time employees ______------1973 152, 549 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 9, 702 ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 3, 285 School assistance in Federally impacted areas ______1972 154, 630 School assistance in Federally impacted areas ______1972 47, 656 Special milk program __ ------1973 29,233 Special milk program ______1973 231 NDEA- Title Ill- Audio visual equipment______1973 10, 172 WAREHAM (Population 11,492) YARMOUTH (Population 12,033) ESEA Title I (amount available under Fede ral grant) 148 students served; ESEA Title I (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 40, 132 14 full-time employees ___ ------_------__ _ 1973 88, 248 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 1, 661 ESEA Title II (amount available under Federal grant) ______1973 2, 211 Special milk program _____ ------_ 1973 5, 290 Vocational education-Title 1-Pt. H (work study) ______1973 16, 444 NDEA- Title Ill- Audio visual equipment______1973 3, 288 School assistance in Federally impacted areas ______1972 8, 615 Special milk program ______• 1973 3, 670 Education for the handicapped : 60 students served; 2 employees ______1973 21, 690 NDEA- Title Ill-Audio-visual equipment______1973 2, 655

1 Special mil~ . program figures are projections from State Department of Higher Education, Note: Other figures are from Massachusetts State Department of Education, Office of Education­ Bureau of Nutnt10n and School Food. Region I ; Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District; Local city and town officials.

MANPOWER AND EMERGENCY EMPLOYMENT Easthann ------1 HOSPITAL CARE PROGRAMS Fairhaven ------7 At present: For the first 60 days, $72 Federal programs including manpower Falnaouth ------8 deductible; 6lst to 90th hospital day, development training assistance, the Hinghann ------2 $18 per day deductible. Neighborhood Youth Corps, and the Hull ------5 Nixon plan: Full cost of first hospital emergency employment program have E(ingston ------2 day, average $90; 10 percent of full cost ~arion ------4 provided important and worthwhile work ~arshfield ------5 of each hospital day after the first, aver­ to many of the citizens of the Fifth Con­ ~ashpee ------1 age $15 per day. gressional District. These programs are Nantucket ------1 A two-week hospitalization would cost being terminated or severely cut back. New Bedford------392 an elderly person a minimum of $300. Not only will this mean an increase in Norwell ------1 PHYSICIANS' COST the already too high unemployment rate Orleans ------1 At present: Physicians average, $600; Penabroke ------9 of the area, but services that are neces­ Plymouth ------31 medicare patient pays, $168. sary to cities and towns will be lost or Plympton ------1 Nixon plan: Physicians average, $600; municipalities will have to increase their Provincetown------9 medicare patient pay, $214. budgets in order to continue these Rochester ------2 For those people on medicaid, all den­ programs. Rockland------15 tal care has been eliminated. Sandwich ------1 In the 12th Congressional District, Under the emergency employment pro­ Scituate------5 gram vital services were provided to there are approximately 102,000 people Truro ------2 on medicare and 17,025 people on medic­ towns and cities. In some areas this VVareham ------11 meant increased police protection, re­ VVel1fieet ------1 aid. HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH habilitation of public buildings, improve­ VVeymouth ------29 ment of park areas. Yarmouth ------4 ADVANCE FUNDS FOR MEDICARE These are jobs that cities and towns The emergency employment program When medicare was started, the Fed­ had not been able to afford on their own. has meant that in 1 month $147,189 was eral Government advanced funds to the During the month of July 1972, the brought into the 12th District in the form hospitals on the basis of projected medi­ peak period under the emergency em­ of salaries. care patients. This practice has con­ ployment program, 582 people were em­ tinued so that the hospitals could op­ Programs that have been terminated erate. ployed in 18 cities and towns in the 12th that affect the elderly include many of Congressional District. In some of the The Nixon administration is discon­ the housing programs such as rent sub­ tinuing this practice and demanding re­ small towns this meant only one em­ sidies, nonprofit sponsor housing which ployee; in New Bedford, 392. turn of the funds advanced this year. allowed nonprofit organizations to build This will mean that district hospitals People employed under EEA were often housing for low-income groups including will have to return $435,000 to the Fed­ those members of our society who have eral Government by July 1, 1973. Most the most difficult time finding work; the elderly, and rent supplements. More important may be the loss of various so­ of the hospitals will have to borrow these Vietnam veterans, people over 45, and funds at a commercial interest rate to those under 22. cial services provided by community ac­ tion agencies and model cities agencies; survive. Peak period employment under EEA, Current financing to be returned July 1972, by city and town: these include senior citizens hot meal programs, legal services, and others. Nationally ------$300, 000, 000 Acushnet______4 One of the most severe changes that ~assachusetts ------7, 000, 000 Barnstable ------7 District ------358, 000 Bourn e ------5 will increase the costs to the elderly is St. Luke's HospitaL______200, 000 Nantucket Cottage HospitaL_ 3, 500 Brewster ------1 the proposed Nixon change in the de­ ~artha's Vineyard HospitaL_ 11,000 Carver ------1 ductible under medicare. The amount South Shore HospitaL______70, 600 Cohasset ------2 the elderly will have to pay to supple­ Tobey HospitaL______20, 000 Dartnaouth ------10 ment medicare hospital and physician Falmouth HospitaL______21, 000 Dennis ------1 Duxbury ------1 payments will rise appreciably. Union hospital of New Bedford 32,500 June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 1876l HILL-BURTON CONSTRUCTION it was cut to just under $800,000 with to install water treatment plants or The Hill Burton Hospital Construction a phaseout date of September 1, 1973. sewers. These plans are jeapordized by Act is terminated as of June 30, 1973, Fifty-five jobs are in jeopardy. the Nixon budget. and there is no money for it in the Presi­ The Neighborhood Youth Corps in There is a severe housing shortage for dent's 1974 budget. This means that school and out of school program ex­ the elderly, yet funds for elderly hous­ there will be no construction funds for pires June 30, 1973, and that means that ing, college housing, rent supplements much-needed additions, improvement, 15 staff-full and part time-and 1,391 and subsidies, open space, rehabilitation, or moderniation of hospitals or long­ youngsters will not be working this have all been frozen pending an 18 term care facilities. summer. month study on their effectiveness. This This program has been very helpful to Day care at the OLPH School was orig­ will mean an actual freeze on new starts the hospitals in the district: inally funded at $186,000 and is sched­ in housing of 2 years. St. Luke's Hospital received $400,000 uled for new guidelines making the Marion received $605,000 for sewer im­ for construction of a new hospital wing feasibility of carrying out the program provements in fiscal year 1972; New in 1968. serving 90 children virtually impossible. Bedford has submitted applications for Nantucket Cottage Hospital received The neighborhood and service system $50,000 for open space grants and $5,- $144,000 for construction of a new hos­ operates four neighborhood centers in 865,000 for Gerado apartments FHA. pital wing in 1970. the city, providing activities such as No funding is available for these under Martha's Vineyard Hospital received general education development classes, the 1974 Nixon budget. $351,797 in 1970 for an outpatient facil­ bilingual classes, pap-test facilities, Many cities and towns in the 12th ity, and $464,384 for a long-term care many senior citizen programs, and cook­ Congressional District have begun open facility. Total $816,181. A grant applica­ ing classes. space and recreation programs under tion in the amount of $1,294,788 for a The total number of people employe~ HUD's legacy of parks program, but will new patient facility is still being final­ by the combined programs are 132 full be unable to continue if the Nixon cut­ ized. time and 13 part time, many previously backs are not reversed. Cities and towns South Shore Hospital received $400,000 receiving public assistance. planned construction of wastewater for a hospital addition in 1968. The ..]ommunity Action Committee of treatment plants and local sewer col­ COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH Cape Cod and the Island is in jeopardy of lector pipes. However, the Nixon admin­ There will be no new program money losing $114,000 in local initiative funds istration intends to spend less than half for commuunity mental health. This pro­ which are the basic funds for the admin­ of the planned $11 billion on these pro­ gram has stimulated the establishment istration of many programs. This could grams. Local communities will either throughout New England, helping to mean the collapse of 20 jobs and an have to abandon their plans or increase annual budget in excess of $100,000 di­ local tax rates by intolerable amounts. move care away from costly and ineffec­ rectly affected. Other programs includ­ The Nixon intention to end the Eco­ tive long-term and custodial care in ing local VISTA operations as well as al­ nomic Development Administration will State mental institutions. coholic rehabilitation and family plan­ have a serious effect in the district. In In Massachusetts, grants totaling some ning programs funded by the Federal 1972, New Bedford received $108,000 for $4 million per annum have been made Government are in serious jeopardy with Urban Coalition Technical Assistance through the program. Merely to main­ CAC administrative backup. Red Crab project; and $296,908 for an tain existing and planned services will industrial park. An outfall sewer project cost Massachusetts $7,986,000. In addition, the community develop­ ment wing of CAC will be eliminated. In for $6,180,000 is pending with EDA for South Shore Hospital had plans in the the area of housing, CAC has provided New Bedford. discussion stages for a Community space and technical assistance for the Plymouth was funded for $187,500 for Mental Health Center, but now will have Cape Cod and Islands Tenants Council, a small sewer project in 1972 and has no chance for Federal funding. and has been instrumental in securing submitted a notification of intent for a There is no evidence that patient fees, more than $3 million in State and Fed­ $1,096,800 water improvement project. third party payments, nor State and local eral funds for housing for low-income Other cities and towns anticipating governments can support existing cen­ people. funds under EDA will lose the oppor­ ter.s at current levels of services, not to Other activities included food co-ops, tunity for Federal funding. mention future needs, thus leaving com­ which involve 700 families and craft Housing and construction generate munity mental health emasculated. development, a nonprofit organization of more long-term employment and have a OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS low-income people who sell their handi­ greater multiplier effect than do most Two Community Action Agencies crafts through co-op stores. other projects or input of funds. The ad­ serve 25 cities and towns in the 12th In addition, cooperatives doing busi­ verse effects on employment and econ­ 'Congressional District. Onboard, Inc., ness of close to $150,000 and broad-based omy of the entire area are very serious. serves New Bedford, Dartmouth, and organizations representing the inter­ NEW BEDFORD MODEL CITIES Fairhaven. The Community Action ests of low-income residents of the cape One of the most important programs Council of Cape Cod and Islands serves and islands may also be in danger of col­ begun under the Johnson administration Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee, Sandwich, lapse. is the model cities program. The goal of Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Har­ With the President's planned termi­ this project was to improve inner cities, wich, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, nation of all OEO programs, all directly to make them livable again. Under the Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, Province­ funded antipoverty programs will be lost, Nixon budget, the model cities will be town, Gosnold, West Tisbury, Tisbury, but also lost will be the administrative terminated. Oak Bluffs, Chilmark, Gray Head, and arm of many other manpower and com­ New Bedford, like all model cities, ex­ Edgartown. Both agencies have success­ munity programs. pected to complete its 5-year program in fully dealt with the problems of low­ HOUSING AND BASIC WATER AND SEWER an orderly manner. New Bedford's ter­ income families. Low rent public housing and multi­ mination date was to have been January Onboard, Inc., administered a total family housing both have a zero dollar 31, 1975. budget of $1.7 million serving thousands figure projected in the 1974 Nixon budg­ Through a series of actions by Presi­ of people and was responsible for bring­ et. In fiscal 1973, $7.7 million was allo­ dent Nixon and the U.S. Department of ing much more money into the com­ cated to Massachusetts for these pro­ Housing and Urban Development, the munity as a result. Under the proposed grams; $2.6 million of that has been im­ New Bedford program will terminate on 1974 budget, Onboard, Inc., is in danger pounded. June 30, 1974, but the city has received of losing a substantial amount of local Many cities and towns in the district only 25 percent of the funds normally initiative funds which are used to have received in the past and some had expected for a 17-month interval be­ administrate many worthwhile pro­ anticipated Federal moneys for housing tween the beginning of its fourth action grams. and/or water and sewer programs under year, February 1, 1973, and the closing The concentrated employment pro­ existing law. Most of the new ones will date of June 30, 1974. This reduction will gram is a manpower training program not be funded under the Nixon budget. result in a direct loss of nearly $3,500,000 for the unemployed and underemployed. Many cities and towns in the 12th to New Bedford, and means the elimina­ Originally funded at $1.1 million dollars, Congressional District are under order tion of 138 jobs. 18762 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 8, 1973 In fact, valuable services and jobs will at his headquarters in October o! 1970 in be lost immediately and in the near fu­ 1S7'- the name of then Atty. Gen. John Mitchell 1973 (anticipated) and Jeb Stu rt Magruder, the Nixon cam­ ture, leaving a gap which cannot be filled paign's deputy directvr. until new fWlds are received by the city, Cape Cod Community Colfege: Tommasi said that Walters and Glen Park­ hopefully in July 1974. Ed~K:aticlnal opportunity er, a Nazi sympathizer who broke wlth Wal­ grants. ______------$25,600 $41, zoo- The following are the monetary and Natio ense student ters during the enlistment, offered him job cuts which must be made in the New loans ______------10,200 74,500 $5,000 to use his storm troopers as registrars. Bedford model cities program: Work study program ______43,400 200,000 The Nazi, about 20 of the group's claimed ------­ membership of 1,500, went out neatly dressed Tota' ------79,200 315,700 Jobs elimi­ in civilian clothes to register AlP members. Fundin r nated or in Tommasi only received $1,200 of the Activities lost 1 jeopardy a Note.-ln 1973, a total of 170 students received some form of "promised" $5,000. Payments came in $100 financial aid at Cape Cod Community College. In 1974, the ccl­ increments, both by checks signed l>y Wal­ lege had anticipated 370 students receivin g some fo[m cf in cash. Housing rehabilitation ______9&, 000 21 f.naneiat aid. ters Education (8 projects, inc:ludin« The last payment made to Tommasi came elementary school construc- in January of last year. tion) ___ -- ___ .... ------669,500 66 WATERGATE AND THE AMERICAN Tommasi said that the money was cut Health, social services______163, coo 19 Recreation, cultural activities __ _ 54,000 1 NAZI PARTY off because the registrat-ion drive was a trime, delinquency preventi:m __ 38,000 ll complete failure. Program administration, plan- (Mr. DANIELSON asked and was given Wallace actually gained 6,500 vote.rs dur­ ning evaluation, citizen par- permission to address the House for 1 ing the period that Walters and Tommasi ticipation______151, 000 29 worked together. Physica: improvements ______7_7,_5_oo _____ 2 minute, to revise and extend his :remarks and include extraneous matter.) .. They (Walters and Pa.rker) were afra.id Total ------1, 249, OOC 138 Mr. DANIELSON. Mr. Speaker, this is that Wallace would do damage to the Nixon another little dripping from the Water­ campaign in california," Tommasl said. 1 Total loss is based on the previously projected (12-month "I was surprised when I was contacted, 4th year. To this figure must be a ~: ded $Hl8,000 r~faim~ ~~om gate, whose seepings have polluted our but the idea of enlisting AlP members to the 3d year which had been programed for ongomg acttvit1es, governmental process from coast to coast. weaken Wallace made sense;• he recalled. rather than phasin out, and the $2,109,000 grant for the 5th action year, making a grand total of $3,466,000. Everyone read yesterday in the paper Tommasi said his party needed the money 2 As of February 1973, there were 160 full-time and 20 part­ how the operation in California, under then because the lease on the headquarters time positions in the New Bedford pror ram dependent upon Lyn Nofziger, was spending Watergate "was dying." model cities funding, tottling 180. On o- before 31, neari.Y De~ . money to try to influence the election. "We had no reason to doubt Walters or 77 percent of these positions will be terminated Without add•· Parker and who they said they represented," tional funding. It now comes to light through the San Tommasi added. HIGHER EDUCATION Gabriel Valley Tribune that the Ameri­ Walters denied that- he hired the Nazis, Approximately 325 local students re­ can Nazi Party or the Nazi Party of even when shown photostat copies of checks ceive some form of Federal financial aid America, whose headquarters is in my made out to Tommasi with Waiters' sig­ while attending one of the three local district, was employed in this process. nature. colleges in 1973. It is estimated that as Mr. Speaker, one of the little com­ The advertising executive from Buena many as half of these students would mando groups from the Watergate ap­ Park said he had often given Parker signed blank checks to :fill out for expenses. not be able to attend colleges without proached the Nazi Party in California Walters conceded Thursd.ay that "it is financial aid. and offered them funds to pay off their conceivable some individuals working in the The three basic programs of :financial mortgage. They were in trouble, in peril campaign were in some way or another in­ aid are the educational opportunity of losing their building, their headquar­ volved with Tommasi and company." grants, the national direct student loan­ ters. They were asked if they, the Nazi Most of today's revelations stem from testi­ formerly national defense loans, and the Party, would help change the registra­ mony Thursday by Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., for­ work-study program. The Nixon budget AIP mer treasurer of the Nixon campaign, when tion of the members of Party so that he told the Senate Watergate hearings that terminates the first two programs and it would disappear from the ballot and he disbursed $10,000 in cash to Lyn Nofziger, weakens the third. thereby prevent the name of George former director of the President's California Educational opportunity grants would Wallace from appearing on the ballot. campaign. for an unspecified purpose. be ended and replaced by the basic op­ They did turn over $1,200 in money to Nofziger said the money went to Walters. portunity grant for which most students the Nazi Party-$800 of that money was He said Walters convinced Magruder that he whose families earned between $7,000 used against the mortgage. I do not yet could help disqualify AlP members who had and $12,000 a year would not be eligible. $400. once registered but failed to vote. know what happened to the other Under California law, names of registered National direct student loans are made Along with that, the Nazi Party got a voters are stricken by county registrars if to students through their schools. The gasoline credit card through the cour­ they fail to vote in general elections every President proposes replacing this with tesy, of course, of the Committee toRe­ two years. the guaranteed loan program. However, elect the President or Watergate, what­ Wallace had last run in the state during past experience has shown that students ever we want to call it. the 1968 presidential primary. with proven need have the most difficult An article written by Daniel DeLong Although the registration drive between time obtaining such loans from com­ and appearing in the San Gabriel Valley, Walters and Tomma.si failed, the Nazi leader said that he has also worked with Walters mercial banks. Calif. Daily Tribune of June 7, 1973, fol­ in defeating farm labor leader Cesa.r Chavez. Many schools had hoped to expand lows: Tommasi said that Walters had given him their work-study programs. However, NAZIS USED ND[ON CASH "an undisclOfied" amount of money from serious changes under the programs will (By Daniel DeLong) Teamster Union funds to send his troopers mean that more students will be abla EL MoNTE.--Funds .from President Nixon's into the lettuce fields in the Coachella Val­ to work fewer hours and earn less re-election campaign were used as a down ley to "stir up trouble." payment for the nation's largest Nazi head­ money. quarters, it wa.s revealed today. I include the following: Lt. Joseph Tommasi, head of the National JEWISH CEMETERIES DESECRATED Socialist White People's Party in Southern BY NAZIS Amount Students California, told The Tribune that money received from the California Committee to (Mr. PODELL asked and was given Southeastern Massachusetts Re-elect the President was used to buy the permission to extend his remarks at this University: frame headquarters house at 4375 N. Peck point in the RECORD and to include ex­ Educational epportunity Rd. grants (1973) ______$80,453 215 traneous matter.) National defense student Tommasi said he received $1,200 from loans (1973) ______81 , 386 275 Robert J. Walters, a disgruntled former co­ Mr. PODELL. Mr. Speaker, Willie Work-study (1973) ______168, 397 378 ordinator for the American Independent Brandt, the Chancellor of West Ger­ 868 Party, to enlist members of the AlP into the many, is currently conducting an official TotaL __ ------______--- 330,236 Nazi movement to block George Wallace's visit to the State of Israel. This is truly ( Swain School of Design: third-party candidacy in California last year. a momentous occasion. It is the first such Educational opportunity grants (1973) ______More than $800 of the ~noney received visit by a German leader to the Jewish 11,124 35 from Walters was used to purchase the National defense student State. loans (1973) ______6, 531 35 swastika-decorated headquarters. Total pur­ Work-study (1973)______4, 887 9 chase price was $28,000. The ramifications of this meeting can­ Tollllilasi, 22, a self-styled leader of the not be missed. The German nation, 79 TotaL ______------22,542 group, said that Walters approached him under the control of Adolf Hitler and the '' June 8, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 18763 Nazi Party, earned an infamous place in quirement and as a labor of devotion to Before this Congress adjourns perhaps history by the murder of 6 million Jews. the memory of European Jewry. It is a we can take up and establish such things While Willie Brandt was a courageous backbreaking task that to date has pro­ as comprehensive health insurance, an fighter against Nazism and all the evil duced few, if any, positive results. This equitable system for social security pay­ that dogma represented, the name of task cannot be completed unless many ments, rent control and other items that Germany still evokes bitter memories in more people become aware of the situa­ are a day-to-day concern of older Amer­ the hearts of millions of people, Jews and tion and take an interest in it. icans. gentiles alike. Chancellor Brandt's visit A petition with more than one million to Israel marks a new beginning in the signatures on this matter was presented SOME CONTINUED SAGE ADVICE relationship between the Jewish State to the United Nations. The German Gov­ FROM JAMES A. FARLEY ON HIS and Germany. ernment has been approached in the 85TH BIRTHDAY The prospect of expanded, normalized past, with no response. It is my hope that relations between Israel and Germany is with the current visit of Chancellor (Mr. STRATTON asked and was given certainly a gratifying one. However, this Branut to Israel, German officialdom will permission to extend his remarks at this does not mean that the past is an en­ take a renewed interest in this problem point in the RECORD and to include ex­ tirely closed book. One outstanding issue and intercede with the East European traneous matter.) remaining to be resolved is that of the governments on behalf of Geder Avot. Mr. STRATTON. Mr. Speaker, that be­ Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe World War II and nazism both came to loved former U.S. Government official that were desecrated by the Nazis. an end over a quarter of a century ago. and longtime Democratic Party leader, Over 2,000 Jewish cemeteries in Po­ It is about time that this issue should Hon. James A. Farley of New York, cele­ land, the Soviet Union, Hungary, and be laid to rest as well. brated his 85th birthday the other day. Czechoslovakia were destroyed. The Needless to say, Jim Farley is still in Nazis desecrated gravestones, and used robust health and going strong at 85. them as construction material and pav­ SENIOR CITIZENS WILL PREVAIL And in keeping with his usual practice ing stones for streets and roads. (Mr. PODELL asked and was given he had some very sage and very sound This despoilment continues even to­ permission to extend his remarks at this advice for all of us in Washington these day. The Polish Government has con­ point in the REcoRD and to include ex­ days when he was interviewed in con­ fiscated the large Jewish cemetery in traneous matter.) nection with that 85th birthday cele­ Lvov and turned it into a park. Many of Mr. PODELL. Mr. Speaker, yesterday bration, advice on Watergate, advice on the Jewish graveyards are over 1,000 it was my pleasure to speak to some the future of the country, and advice on years old, and are the last remnant 10,000 of America's finest gathered on the coalition of the Democratic Party. of a once-thriving European Jewish the west steps of the Capitol. I am re­ We can all learn a lesson in listening to community of millions of people. With ferring to the delegates to the legislative what a man of Jim Farley's stature has the destruction of these cemeteries, the conference of the National Council of to say. Under leave to extend my re­ last historical traces of Polish Jewry will Senior Citizens, people who in their ma­ marks, I include an Associated Press be eradicated. ture years are making a further contri­ story on this interview that was pub­ There is an organization that is ded­ bution to this Nation's greatness. lished in the Buffalo Courier-Express for icated to finding, restoring and pre­ They were here to remind us to keep May 31, 197il: serving these forgotten cemeteries. The the Nation's priorities on the track. They FARLEY SEES WATERGATE As BOON TO DEMS name of the organization is the World were here in Washington, and in my NEW YoRK.-James A. Farley, Democratic Center of European Rabbis. The Geder office, to remind us that Government pro­ national chairman in the years of the New Avot section of the World Center has grams for senior citizens are not doing Deal, said Wednesday that Watergate will be enough of a boon to Democrats without im­ for some time been actively engaged in the job they were intended to do. peachment of President Nixon. That, he said, endeavoring to obtain reparations for Too many of the 20 million senior citi­ "would be disastrous." the destruction of Jewish cemeteries. zens exist on the barest minimum in­ At a news conference to mark his 85th Rabbi M. J. Rubin, the tireless, devoted come. It is commonplace to find elderly birthday, Farley said he hopes "nothing will leader of Geder Avot, has unfortu­ couples living on income below the pov­ happen to bring about an impeachment" nately not met with any success in his erty level designated by Federal agen­ because he has "such a high regard for the efforts to date. cies. office of the President." "It would divide the country in a way it Geder Avot's plan is to locate as Mr. Speaker, before the 93d Congress has never been divided before," Farley said. many Jewish cemeteries as possible, and adjourns I believe we will find that the In any event, he continued, the Watergate to restore as many of those as feasible. needs of ow· senior citizens will occupy case can be expected to drag on for "months For those which cannot be restored be­ a larger portion of our interest than and months and months. There will be many cause the destruction is too great, Geder they ever have before. These people, who indictments and trials. It will be many years Avot plans to build memorial houses in have in the past carried America on their before the entire situation is over." Israel for the martyrs, for those who no backs, are beginning to command the GOP CHANCES "DIM" longer have gravestones, and for those attention they deserve. "Unless there is something unforeseen, I cemeteries which have been demolished. Programs established and advanced by don't think the Republicans have a chance Geder Avot is devoted to preventing this Congress will give new meaning to in 1976." He said Watergate's effects would the further confiscation of Jewish ceme­ the daily life of senior citizens. I believe spill over into Congressional and state house teries and to the erection of fences the needs of the elderly is becoming a bi­ races. The news conference touched on a broad around the remaining ones to prevent partisan issue in both Houses of Congress, range of issues in which Farley, now chair­ further vandalism and destruction of and that the result will be progress not man of the board of the Coca-Cola Export graves. dreamed of in the past. Corp., has taken an interest. Rabbi Rubin explains that his orga­ For example, just 6 years ago a resolu­ Farley was Democratic national chairman nization is operating under the guidance tion was introduced here to establish a and postmaster general during President of Jewish law. In the Talmud, it is com­ Select Committee on Aging that would Franklin D. Roosevelt's first two terms. He manded that the dead be properly buried, give full time attention to the needs of split with Roosevelt over the issue of a third and this commandment is being trans­ our 20 million senior citizens. At that term in 1940. gressed every time a Jewish cemetery in time it had only two sponsors. In the last Farley said he thinks Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., "would make a great president" in Eastern Europe is desecrated or a grave session of Congress the same measure 1976. But, he said, "you can't discount Sen. vandalized. So unequivocal is this com­ had 233 cosponsors. I predict that in this, Edmund Muskie, D-Maine." He would not mandment that even the high priest, an the 93d Congress, the measure will carry comment on the chances of Sen. Edward M. office frequently mentioned in the Old and give those senior citizens a full time Kennedy, D-Mass.

Testament, who was forbidden under or­ and continuing voice in the House of BEA~E IS PRAISED dinary circumstances to touch the dead, Representatives. Farley also endorsed Comptroller Abraham may occupy himself with the burial of I am a cosponsor of that measure, and Beame in a four-way Democratic mayoral the dead. I urge all my colleagueE: to join in its sup­ primary in New York City. Rabbi Rubin and Geder Avot are porting. It will help focus our legislative Farley had a few kind words for the old carrying on this work as a religious re- efforts on the real needs of the elderly. style political boss he worked with-a figure 18764 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 8, 1973 whose 1.n1luence he said has declined and progJ"am was knocked out, he said, "by the .. My specialty is washing machines,'' he whose image has changed. private interests who control this country." said, "I have 32, including two of the first "In the day when I was active," he said, Angrily, he said: "This Watergate thing is spin-dryers ever made." "bosses never looked for any publicity and the best thing that ever happened to this Ebersole is also fascinated by the culture never headed the parade. The one thing you country. It will show people what I've known of the Far East, particularly oriental farm­ could say about bosses was that they would ever since r went into Secretary Udall's of­ ing methods which he imitates to some ex­ wholeheartedly support the candidate de­ fice, and saw how impossible it is to do any­ tent in his own garden. spite disagreement in a primary. thing about strip mines or anything else He served with the U.S. Army Corps of that would hurt the private interests. Money Engineers in India and Okinawa during ta.lk.s, and money runs this government." World War Two and with Point Four (now He retired in 1965 to help organize CAD. AID) in Korea from 1959 to 1961. GORDON K. EBERSOLE: The organization had high hopes in the For the past two and a half years, he has APPALACHIAN beginning. realized a lifetime dream by raising horses Its chairman was his friend, Harry M. Cau­ on his 230-acre farm. He noted that his land­ {Mr. HECHLER of West Virginia asked dill, lawyer and author of "Night Comes to lord is not a farmer, but a State Depart­ and was given permission to extend his the Cumberlands," a best-selling book about ment official-an indication of a bad trend remarks at this point in the RECORD and the coal-mining area of Kentucky. Its board in land ownership. to include extraneous matter.) of directors included Milton Sha.pp, who is He has 27 horses which he raises west­ Mr. HECHLER of West Virginia. Mr. now Governor of Pennsylvania. ern-style, leaving them out-of-doors all year Speaker, the Hagerstown, Md., Daily Mail For some months, Ebersole was CAD's un­ round. He has bred two appaloosa foals which has published a fine article concerning a paid spokesman in Washington, working with are everything he wants in horses, and he such congressmen as U.S. Senator Lee Met­ will use them as trail horses. lubt whatever same time, we must help them develop and that the most signtiicant action that can be improve on skills that would Inake them more MY VISIT TO CONGRESS attractive and more competitive bargainers (By David Kennedy) taken against crime is action designed to eliminate slums and ghettos, to improve ed­ within the labor market. The Capitol has two sides--one for the ucation, to provide jobs, to make sure that United States Senate and the ether for the every American is given the opportunities House of Representatives. When either the and freedoms that will enable him to assume LEAVE OF ABSENCE Senate or the House introduces a bill, both his responsibilities. sides must vote in agreement, and then it is By unanimous consent, leave of ab­ sent to the President. Other similar findings will be brought sence was granted as follows to: I was very honored when Senator Pepper to Congress' attention when the Select Mr. RANGEL, for Friday, June 8, 1973, took me with him to the :floor of the House. Committee on Crime submits its final re­ on account of unavoidable and pressing It is a very big and beautiful room with 435 port on Corrections this month. As a congressional district business. seats, one for every Congressman. The Mr. McSPADDEN (at the request of Mr. Speaker of the House, Carl Albert, sits up solution to the "revolving door" justice of our corrections system, Mr. Eugene McFALL), for today, on account of fam­ very high on a platform with the Ameriean ily illness. :flag behind him. Voting is done by computers Rhoden has written the following article. right on the side of each desk. Senator Pepper Mr. Speaker, under the leave to extend Mr. PARRIS (at the request of Mr. GER­ let me vote on two bills for him. But, of my remarks in the REcOJID, I inelude the ALD R. FoRD), for today, on accotmt of course, he told me what to vote. following: official business. A very special thing occurred when Sen­ EMPLOYMENT-A KEY To REHABILITATION Mr. CoRMAN, for today, on account of ator Pepper took me in to meet the Speak-::r official business. in his office. There he gave me a special card NOTES ON COMMlJNITY CORRECTIONs-­ so I could go any place in the Capitol except SPRING, 1973 the Vice President's office. But that's okay; BuREAU OF REHABILITATION SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED I'd rather meet a Democrat anyway! Mr. Al­ OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA, bert said what a great man Claude Pepper Washington, D.C. By unanimous consent, permission to is, but I already knew that. American soeiety places a high value on address the House, following the legisla­ Under the Capitol there is a little subway work, even identifying and giving status to tive program and any special orders which I rode to the Senate wing where I saw a person according to his occupation. There heretofore entered, was granted to: Senator Hubert Humphrey. He took me to the is considerable evidence that unemployment. Mr. GONZALEZ, for 10 minutes, today. :floor of the Senate. Each Senator has a desk while certainly not solely responsible for and the Vice President sits on a platform, but criminal behavior or recidivism, seems to be Mr. RANDALL, for 20 minutes, today. he wasn't there. one of the principal causative !actors. With (The following Members (at the re- I really couliln't believe that this was hap­ this guideline, local and federal governments quest of Mr. PRITCHARD) to revise and pening to me. The Senator also took me to ha.ve sponsored numerous inmate training extend their remarks and include ex­ lunch in the House dining room. Wow! Every­ programs and pre-trial diversion programs in traneous material:) one knows Senator Pepper. It was all just an effort to equip offenders with skills and Mr. MITCHELL of New York, for 5 min- great! opportunities necessary to function success­ utes, today. fully in the free community. Many o! these Mr. TREEN, for 10 minutes, today. projects have supplied us with studies that PRISON REFORM support the validity and the effectiveness of Mr. KEMP, for 10 minutes, today. an employment-oriented social services ap­

SENATE-Friday, June 8, 1973

The Senate met at 9 a.m. and was METHADONE DIVERSION CONTROL stances Act (84 Stat. 1253; 21 U .S.C. 823) is called to order by the Acting President ACT OF 1973 amended by adding the following after sub­ pro tempOl'e (Mr. METCALF) . section (f): The Senate proceeded to consider the "(g) Practitioners who dispense or admin­ bill