July 27, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19229 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS VOICE OF DEMOCRACY Today's America emerged from the chal­ tine beauty of this choice area. The trouble CONTEST WINNER lenges of yesterday. Our country is rich in with this opposition is that it seems to be tradition. We are tempered by war, disci­ based on some incredibly short memories. plined by peace, and proud of our ancient After the discovery in Alaska's Prudhoe HON. DICK CHENEY heritage. Bay of the largest oil field ever found in the OF WYOMING The citizens of America are the builders of U.S., environmentalists insisted that devel­ the future and the caretakers of the past. opment of the field and construction of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We are responsible for protecting and de­ Trans-Alaska Pipeline would damage -the Tuesday, July 26, 1988 fending our precious liberty. We must also area's plants and wildlife, especially 1ts cari­ prepare America for the challenges it will bou herds. Mr. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, each year the face in its third century. Yet, nearly two decades after these Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States We should be grateful for our rights and projects went ahead anyway, what has hap­ and its Ladies Auxiliary conduct the Voice of not forget that there is another side to lib­ pened? The Central Arctic caribou herd, Democracy broadcast scriptwriting contest. I erty. Liberty not only means freedom but which numbered 3,000 in 1968, now numbers also responsibility. Liberty's flame will blaze 13,000. Many of the animals placidly mi­ am proud today, to honor Wyoming's Voice of only so long as our people work to preserve Democracy winner Karen Dombeck. Karen's grate under the pipeline. and defend our freedoms. This country's This episode is worth recalling now be­ thoughtful script entitled "America's Liberty­ strength is the sum of the strengths of each cause environmentalists again are warning Our Heritage" is a commentary on the unique American. A special spirit has kept our that oil and gas development would serious­ nature of the freedoms that we enjoy in this nation strong and the fires of freedom burn­ ly damage the caribou and other wildlife in country, how we attained these freedoms and ing brightly. Let this enthusiasm continue the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. What our responsibilities with regard to protecting from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from now happened in Prudhoe Bay is also worth re­ them for ourselves and future Americans. until the end of time. Let the world know calling in light of Hodel's report this week that we will pay any price, bear any strain, that nearly as much oil could be recovered I am very proud to present Karen's winning meet any challenge, and oppose any foe to essay. from the new coastal plain field as from ensure the survival and success of liberty. Prudhoe Bay. AMERICA'S LIBERTY-OUR HERITAGE Keep in mind, too, that if new fields aren't It is my heritage. It is something that has developed and present trends continue, the · been in my family for generations. It is a ENERGY AND ANWR U.S. will be importing 50% of its oil by the very precious gift. I will work hard to pre­ early 1990's. As it is now, imports already serve it so that it will be a part of the next HON. DON YOUNG account for 38% of the petroleum Ameri­ generation's heritage. My family is America, OF ALASKA cans use. The figure was only 33% in 1973 and the gift I speak of is liberty. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES when OPEC figured the U.S. was so vulner­ You cannot see liberty. You'll never hold able it could get away with imposing its oil it in your hands, but everyday as an Ameri­ Tuesday, July 26, 1988 embargo. can citizen you will experience its benefits. Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, many As Congress considers the future of the More than two hundred years ago, a group coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife of courageous people fought to win their in­ of our colleagues are aware of our energy de­ Refuge, it should pay particularly close at­ dependence from a king. We read about pendence upon other nations, and the fact tention to Secretary Hodel's observation: them in history books, and some we even that the picture is not looking any brighter for "Our nation has proved that we need not know by name. We will never really know the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, legisla­ choose between exploring for and develop­ these people, and they could not have possi­ tion before the Congress to open to environ­ ing the energy necessary for survival and bly imagined the millions of Americans that mentally sound oil and gas leasing the coastal growth on one hand, and protecting the en­ followed them, yet they are an important plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in vironment on the other. We can have both." part of our lives and our heritage. They se­ my district-the State of Alaska-is the bright Indeed; we can. cured for us the blessings of liberty. These blessings are documented in the Declaration spot in terms of responding to this growing of Independence and the Constitution. In international threat. Today I submit for the A TRIBUTE TO BLUE STAR the United States we have freedom of RECORD an article from Deseret News, Utah, MOTHERS OF AMERICA speech and freedom of the press. The gov­ which underscores the need for prompt action ernment makes no restrictions on our opin­ by the Congress on this subject. Because of ions and gives us the right to voice these the vast support nationwide for this legislation, HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. opinions and make them known to others I will do this daily. OF OHIO through the media. We have the right to The article follows: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES choose our government officials. We select the leadership of our country by voting in [From the Deseret News <Utah), Apr. 22, Tuesday, July 26, 1988 elections. These people we elect make and 1987] Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, today I rise enforce our laws. We are given the right to MORE OIL-AND CARIBOU, Too in order to pay tribute to the Blue Star Moth­ pursue our own personal happiness. With­ Congress had better brace itself for a ers of America, Inc. It truly humbles me to out restricting the freedom of others and tough fight over the future of the Arctic note that a resident of my 17th Congressional staying within the limits of ·the law, we are National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. free to become the best that we can be. No The fight will be tough because it's so im­ District, Mrs. Eva Morrison of Warren, OH, matter what your sex, religion, or ethnic portant. The outcome can help determine serves as national president of the Blue Star background, America offers equal opportu­ whether America continues to become more Mothers of America. Also, it should be noted nity. All citizens are guaranteed the same and more dependent on foreigners for oil that their national convention will be held in rights. If you feel that your rights are being and natural gas-or gets serious about be­ Canton, OH, this fall. infringed upon, you have the right to bring coming more self-reliant. The Blue Star Mothers of America was your case to a court. When involved in a This week Interior Secretary Donald formed as a patriotic service organization on criminal case, an American will not be asked Hodel issued a long-awaited recommenda­ February 2, 1942, and the Ohio department to be a witness against himself and will not tion on the refuge, calling for Congress to be deprived of his rights without due proc­ approve oil and gas leasing in the region's was founded in May 1942. The Blue Star ess of law. The rights explained are just a coastal plain. Mothers were incorporated by an act of Con­ few of the many we have as American citi­ The decision makes sense even though it gress which was signed into law by President zens. Our government rests upon the recog­ has angered environmentalists understand­ Dwight Eisenhower on June 14, 1960. The nition of the rights of the people. ably concerned about maintaining the pris- Blue Star Mothers give countless hours to • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 19230 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 27, 1988 aiding the sick veterans in Veterans' Adminis­ have to go to bed every night with the will celebrate his next birthday with his people tration hospitals throughout the United States, sounds of grenades and machine guns, like in freedom. and it truly warms my heart to know that this the people in the Middle East. But we must organization insures that our veterans are not also be dedicated to the freedoms that are not listed in the Constitution: the freedom INDIANA WRESTLERS TRAVEL forgotten after having risked their lives for all to think, the freedom to ask why, the free­ of us. dom to choose, and the freedom to hope. TO SOVIET UNION The Blue Star Mothers is open to any These are the freedoms that we must also mother who has a son or daughter who preserve.