E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 104 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 141 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1995 No. 148 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was vide for joint natural resource management model called the flush model is being called to order by the Speaker pro tem- and enforcement of laws and regulations per- used by Federal agencies as the basis pore [Mr. HAYWORTH]. taining to natural resources and boating at for Columbia River salmon recovery ef- the Jennings Randolph Lake Project lying in forts. While this model is used to jus- f Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral tify reservoir drawdowns and spend DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO County, West Virginia, entered into between the States of West Virginia and Maryland; hundreds of millions of dollars of ex- TEMPORE and penditures, its scientific base has never The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- S. Con. Res. 27. Concurrent resolution cor- been made public nor subject to peer fore the House the following commu- recting the enrollment of H.R. 402. review. nication from the Speaker: f Despite months of repeated requests, I have not been able to obtain this WASHINGTON, DC, September 21, 1995. THE JOURNAL model. The Resources Committee, I hereby designate the Honorable J.D. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. under Chairman YOUNG, will issue a HAYWORTH to act as Speaker pro tempore on HAYWORTH). The Chair has examined formal request for a copy of this model, this day. the Journal of the last day's proceed- but this information should have been NEWT GINGRICH, ings and announces to the House his available for public and peer review be- Speaker of the House of Representatives. approval thereof. fore the planning and costs of salmon f Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- recovery began. nal stands approved. But I have to ask: What do they have PRAYER to hide? f The Chaplain, Rev. James David f Ford, D.D., offered the following pray- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE er: MEDICARE CUTS FOR TAX CUTS Let us pray using the words of St. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given Francis. tlewoman from New York [Mrs. permission to address the House for 1 Lord, make us instruments of Your MALONEY] will lead the membership in minute and to revise and extend his re- peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow the Pledge of Allegiance. marks.) love; where there is injury, pardon; Mrs. MALONEY led the Pledge of Al- Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, today is where there is discord, union; where legiance as follows: Thursday, September 21, and we still there is doubt, faith; where there is de- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the have no Medicare plan from Speaker spair, hope; where there is darkness, United States of America, and to the Repub- GINGRICH and the House Republican light; where there is sadness, joy. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, leadership. Grant that we may not so much seek indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. As you know, we were supposed to to be consoled as to console; to be un- f have it yesterday, and today was sup- derstood as to understand; to be loved ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER posed to be 1 day of hearings before the as to love. PRO TEMPORE House Committee on Ways and Means For it is in giving that we receive; it on the plan. Instead, the meeting was is in pardoning that we are pardoned; The SPEAKER pro tempore. The delayed. It is now scheduled for tomor- and it is in dying that we are born to Chair will entertain ten 1-minutes from row, and we still have no Medicare plan eternal life. Amen. each side. to outline how the Republican leader- f f ship is going to cut $270 billion from Medicare over the next 7 years. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE SALMON FLUSH MODEL The Democrats feel very strongly A message from the Senate by Mr. (Mr. METCALF asked and was given there should be at least 4 weeks of Lundregan, one of its clerks, an- permission to address the House for 1 hearings on Medicare and Medicaid. We nounced that the Senate had passed minute and to revise and extend his re- tried to bring that up in the House yes- bills of the following titles, in which marks.) terday and were denied that by the Re- the concurrence of the House is re- Mr. METCALF. Mr. Speaker, salmon publican majority. Instead, we are quested: rehabilitation on the Columbia River is going to have to have our own alter- S.J. Res. 20. Joint resolution granting the required by the Endangered Species native hearings starting tomorrow and consent of Congress to the compact to pro- Act. In Washington State, a computer going into next week just so that the b This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., b 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. H 9365 H 9366 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE September 21, 1995 American people can find out what the They are cutting $270 billion to pre- America is becoming a colony once Republican plan is for cutting Medi- serve corporate welfare, extravagant again. The American workers are fight- care and Medicaid, how they are going defense spending, and tax cuts. The re- ing for their very jobs. The American to implement it, and how they are sult for senior citizens is higher pre- people need jobs, not debate. going to figure out what they are going miums, less access, low-quality health f to do to prevent the fact, to prevent all care, and, in many cases, poverty. the tax cuts for Medicare cuts. The $270 billion cut is far in excess of THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION f what is needed to keep Medicare sol- vent, yet Republicans have the gall to (Ms. VELAÂ ZQUEZ asked and was SPEAK OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE say they are saving Medicare. given permission to address the House (Mrs. MYRICK asked and was given They will save Medicare, all right. It for 1 minute and to revise and extend permission to address the House for 1 will be a classic case of the operation her remarks.) minute and to revise and extend her re- was a success, but the patient died. Ms. VELAÂ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, last marks.) Let us have real hearings. Medicare week, by voting to terminate the Legal Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I could is the real contract with the American Services Corporation, Republicans not let another day go by without com- people. committed one of the most shameful menting on two senseless incidents f attacks on the working poor that I that have happened in the last week have ever witnessed. INTRODUCTION OF THE MEDICARE In my own community, Brooklyn that are very, very frustrating to me. PRESERVATION ACT One of them was in my own home Legal Services is there day after day, city of Charlotte, where a teenager, a (Mr. HOKE asked and was given per- whether it is intervening to save an el- high school student, was senselessly mission to address the House for 1 derly woman from eviction or helping gunned down in a drive-by shooting. It minute.) tenants receive fair treatment from was not the first time it has happened, Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, today being their landlord. Legal Services is there there or in other parts of the country. introduced in the House of Representa- fighting for their forgotten people. Last week there was an incident in tives is the Medicare Preservation Act, Mr. Speaker, the Constitution says Los Angeles where a young couple a comprehensive plan for a better Med- that we are all entitled to equal protec- made a wrong turn. When they tried to icare. tion under the law, but in today's soci- turn around, they were stopped by a What you have heard from the other ety, some of us are ore equal than oth- gang of youths who literally fired into side and what you hear repeatedly is ers. In this country, if you have the their car, killed a 2-year-old, injured a this notion there have not been hear- money to hire a good lawyer, you can 2-year-old and an adult. ings or there will not be hearings. It is make your way through our legal sys- I just ask: What has happened in simply not true. tem. But if you are poor, you will lose America, and how long are we going to The fact is, and everybody knows it, regardless of whether you are right or stand back and allow this to go on that we have been dealing with this wrong. without us as a people speaking up? I problem now for at least 3 years, that Nothing should come at the price of mean, it is just like it has become so it is clear the trustees of the Medicare denying individuals their constitu- common and everyday what we do, feel, trust fund have said the trust fund is tional rights. or say, that is just the way it is. We ig- going broke. We have to do something I urge my colleagues to support the nore it. about it. We have to do something Legal Services Corporation.