E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 104 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 142 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1996 No. 28 House of Representatives The House met at 9:30 a.m. and was subdue the freedom to exercise new is to bring about for the first time an called to order by the Speaker pro tem- ideas and innovative ways to bring new opportunity for judicial review. That pore [Mr. REGULA]. products and new services to the mar- is, a small business or entity or indi- f ketplace. So, as part of the Contract vidual who is adversely impacted by a With America, the House endeavored regulation that says you must do this. DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO very early, right at the outset of the Many times the regulation has taken TEMPORE new legislative year in 1995, to bring on the form of an edict, a mandate, an The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- about hearings and examination of the unappealable fiat, as it were. fore the House the following commu- issues involved. As a result we are now What now we provide for is judicial nication from the Speaker: poised here in this week of legislative review. So if in the final analysis, after WASHINGTON, DC, action to put the final touches on some this joint venture of trying to create a March 5, 1996. of these relief measures for our small regulation that everyone can live with, I hereby designate the Honorable RALPH business. if everything else fails, we also give to REGULA to act as Speaker pro tempore on Some of the important features that the disaffected regulatee, if there be this day. we have taken into the regulation re- such a word, the option to appeal to NEWT GINGRICH, form arena are, No. 1, we have have a judicial review of that situa- Speaker of the House of Representatives. strengthened the hand of counsel for tion. f the Small Business Administration Now, this is important, of course, in MORNING BUSINESS who before had a role to play, under its own right, just to bring about a new set of rules between the business com- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- the original act, in advising, so to speak, the small business community munity and the agencies of the Federal ant to the order of the House of May 12, as to the impact of regulations. But Government. But that is not the real 1995, the Chair will now recognize now we strengthen his position by giv- reason, the real emphasis that we Members from lists submitted by the ing him additional powers and more should be placing on what we are ac- majority and minority leaders for flexibility and more actual power to be complishing here. What we are accom- morning hour debates. The Chair will one of the decisionmakers as to the plishing here is creating an additional alternate recognition between the par- final texture of a rule or a regulation atmosphere for the creation of new ties, with each party limited to not to that would affect small business. jobs, for the creation of new business exceed 30 minutes, and each Member We have done other things with re- activity, for the lifting up of the Amer- except the majority and minority lead- spect to the kinds of analyses that ican business community into a new er limited to not to exceed 5 minutes. must be accorded to the public and to and better stance for competitive en- The Chair recognizes the gentleman the small business community by the terprises throughout the world. from Pennsylvania [Mr. GEKAS] for 5 agencies involved so that they will This is the importance of what we minutes. have a better idea and a more involved are about here today and for the re- f undertaking on themselves to deal mainder of this week. When these pro- with the agencies and in a cooperative visions become law, we will have ful- manner bring about the final product filled the Contract With America, that REGULATORY RELIEF FOR SMALL of a regulation. Thus, we would be hav- BUSINESS COMMUNITY portion of which promised to the Amer- ing a rule or regulation offered in ican people that we would unsnarl the Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, it was 1 which the small business community, number of lassos that are thrown year ago today when during the flurry the one that would be affected, would around our business communities by of activity that accompanied the floor have had a part in creating. That is a the Federal agencies through their reg- action with respect to the Contract new way and a good way to do business ulations and we would loosen them up with America that this Chamber passed in this very important sector of our for the business competition and activ- overwhelmingly several pieces of legis- business activity. ity with which they will lead the lation, all combined to relax the stran- Third, and this, to me, is the most world. glehold that the various agencies have important new feature of what the f had for generations over our small Contract With America and what my business community. committee and the committee chaired WOMEN'S HISTORY These regulations have served over by the gentlewoman from Kansas [Mrs. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the years to strangle competition, to MEYERS] has been able to accomplish, the Speaker's announced policy of May 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 1665 H 1666 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE March 5, 1996 12, 1995, the gentlewoman from Colo- that the white folks thought were just States, in particular the President of rado [Mrs. SCHROEDER] is recognized nice little songs. They were really sing- the United States, with a coddling of during morning business for 5 minutes. ing the map to the underground rail- Gerry Adams of the IRA, now that they Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I road. Is that not a brilliant, intelligent have broken away from the peace proc- take the floor today to talk about undercover operation? As I say, what a ess and have continued the indiscrimi- March because March is the month of strategist. nate acts of terror. I was almost left National Women's History week. We Would Lewis and Clark ever have speechless, having to defend the Presi- keep saying, his story. I guess what we found the west coast if a native Amer- dent of the United States in what he are really trying to do in this month is ican woman had not helped them had done in the past and not only in tell her story. I think women's role in through the forest to get there? the past, but I am now deeply disturbed history has really been left out in so This is not to say women did every- that while in Northern Ireland they many cases. thing. But when you read the history have broken away from the peace proc- We have this great image that the books, they forget to tell us that ess, that the President continues to men in America all came here on these women did anything. I think it is real- coddle Gerry Adams, the leader of the dangerous ships, coming across the ly reflected in the attitude that we Sinn Fein, the political party of the North Atlantic and all that and set- have today about women's roles. If we IRA, while the citizens in London and tling the great country. Yet women look at America, women are still the the rest of the United Kingdom do not came in cruise ships, sitting around major care giver, every woman I know, know if they can walk down the streets swimming pools getting their nails including myself. Life could be stopped in safety, whether the phone booth will done and their hair done. It is not quite tomorrow if someone in the family gets explode, whether they can ride on a true. critically ill because we have given city bus. And I can understand why Women were there shoulder to shoul- women absolutely very little help with they ask, what are you doing in the der, came to this great country and any kind of those care giver roles. United States. said, we didn't come here to walk in They are the ones that is to rush with My only response is that for some front of you or behind you but along- the family's safety net whenever some- reason this one does not resonate with side in building this Nation. I think it one is in trouble, be they young, be the American people like it should. For is important to remind ourselves that they old, be they sick. so long we have been insulated from in- I think it is time that we do not do early on many of our forefathers got it discriminate acts of terror, yet we had gender wars but we just treat each right. George Washington, had every- the explosion in the World Trade Cen- other as brothers and sisters and figure body followed him, I think, we would ter. We had the experience of Okla- out how we are going to get on with be in great shipshape.