February 2·2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3133 AMENDMENT TO TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE is debatable. I think all Senators are desired on the motion to go into execu­ SEC. 33. Section 5315 of title 5, United entitled to know that the Senate will be tive session, that senator will be present States Code, is a.mended by adding at the on that nomination on Monday. to vote and can ask for the yeas and end thereof a. new para.graph a.s follows: Several Senators addressed the Chair. nays if he wishes. "(122) Members, National Boa.rd of Agri­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Does the distinguished minority leader cultural Governors.". Chair recognizes the Senator from wish me to yield further? RULES AND REGULATIONS Tennessee. Mr.BAKER.No. SEC. 34. The Secretary ls authorized to Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I th-a.nk the Mr. President, I thank the distin­ promulgate such rules a.nd regulations as ma.y Chair. guished majority leader. That is the be necessary to carry out the requirements Mr. President, I thank the majority point I wish to clarify. a.nd policies of this Act. leader for giving us this advanced notice. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. I thank the SEPARABILITY CLAUSE As he knows, I believe we have a hold distinguished minority leader. SEC. 35. If a.ny provision of this Act, or the on this nomination on the Executive Cal­ a.ppllca.tlon thereof to a.ny person or circum­ endar. I have made an effort at this point stance, ls held invalid, the va.llcllty of the RECESS UNTIL 12 NOON MONDAY remainder of the Act and the application of to reach the Senator on beh-a.lf of whom such provision to other persons and circum­ this hold ha.s been noted. He is out of Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, stances shall not be affected thereby. town at the moment. I will reach him in The .roses red upon my nel,ghbor's vine the course of the next few hours, I trust, Are owned by him, ibut they a.re also mine. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi­ but in any event I join in the majority His was the <:ost, and his the labor, too, dent, does any other Senator seek recog­ leader's appraisal of the situation. Under But mine as well as his the Joy, their loveli- nition at this time? these circumstances and with the Execu­ ness to view. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does any tive Calendar and for that matter the They bloom for me and a.re for me a.s fair Senator seek recognition? Evidently not. General Orders Calendar being free of As for the man who gives them all his ca.re. any other item, the rules themselves 'I'hus I am ri'ch, because a good man grew would provide in the ordinary course of A rose-cl&d vine for a.11 his neighbOlrs view. ORDER FOR RECESS UNTIL MON­ I klllow from this tha.t others pl&nt for me, DAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1979 event.s for the procedure that the major­ ity leader outlines. And What they own, my Joy may a.lso be, Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, So why 1be selfish, when so much tha.t's fine I, therefore, put all of my colleagues on Is grown for me, upon my neighbor's vine. I ask unanimous consent that when the this side of the aisle on notice that it is Senate completes its business today it the leadership's understanding that there My Virginia neighbor's vine, Mr. stand in recess until the hour of 12 is nothing that can be done to further HARRY FLOOD BYRD, JR., and my Idaho The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without enhance the quality of the hold that has neighbor's vine, Mr. JAMES L. McCLURE. objection, it is so ordered. been entered on the Executive Calendar (Applause.) and they should be on notice that this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen­ nomination then, it would ap'pear, would ate will be in order. PROGRAM be before the Senate on Monday. Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi­ Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, dent, how I wish I had the eloquence of for the information of Senators, on it was my intention to move today to the Senator from West Virginia, so that Monday, the Senate will take up the proceed to executive session so that the I iµight adequately reply to him. nomination of Leonard Woodcock. It Senate would be on the nomination of Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi­ being in order to move to go into execu­ Mr. Woodcock and then go out and go dent, if there be no further business to tive session and that motion not being over until Monday. But out of considera­ come before the Senate, I move, in ac­ debatable, and Mr. Woodcock being the tion of the minority leader and, in turn, cordance with the order previously en­ first nominee, as a matter of fact as of out of consideration for the Senator tered, that the Senate stand in recess now is the only nominee on the calendar, who has a hold on that nomination and until the hour of 12 o'clock meridian on once in executive session the Senate will for whom I have very high regard, I at Monday next. automatically be on the nomination of the minority leader's request decided not The motion was agreed to, and at 7: 49 Mr. Woodcock so the motion to proceed is to make that motion today. I will make p.m. the Senate recessed untii Monday, not debatable and the nomina.tion itself it on Monday so that if a rollcall vote is February 26, 1979, at 12 o'clock meridian. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HAMILTON FISH, SR., ON ISRAEL'S recently come to my attention-a letter newal of negotiations between Israel and NEED FOR SECUR.rrY to the editor of the New York Times and Egypt go out of its way to openly denounce a poem entitled "Anthem to Israel's Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians whom Freedom Fighters." they suspected of treason to the State of HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN In his letter, Mr. Fish makes the point Israel? The Times apparently believes that OF NEW YORK this tragic mismanagement of our foreign that no country can fully appreciate the relations was merely the result of clumsy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES security concerns of another, and that, public relations. That certainly is a chari­ Thursday, February 22, 1979 consequently, no country should try to table way of looking at it. dictate the terms of an agreement be­ The previous and obviously slanted at­ • Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, in all of tween two other countries. titude of the Carter Administration towards the debate about the Middle East in the I would like to share Mr. Fish's letter Egypt, respecting the surrender of the West House and elsewhere, there are fewer and poem with my colleagues, who I am Bank to the PLO and its Arab adherents, voices more experienced than that of the sure will find it to be of int.erest, and can only embitter and antagonize Prime Honorable Hamilton Fish, Sr., a very Minister Begin and those in authority in therefore ask that it be inserted in the Israel. The Carter Administration had distinguished former Member of the RECORD at this point: House. wisely arranged for the previous Joint meet­ HAMILTON FISH ing between Begin and Sadat and it was Mr. Fish, who now resides in my con­ very effective. gressional district and who served for Letter to the Editor of the New York Times: The United States has no right to try in nearly 25 years on the House Foreign The heading of a. recent editorial in the advance, to dictate the condlltions and terms Affairs Committee, was the author of the N.Y. Times, entitled "A Tortured View of of the proposed final treaty. That ls a matter "American Balfour Declaration," and Israel's Conduct" was both timely and con­ of consideration and concessions by both was a leading advocate for the estab­ structive. Egypt and Israel. Beyond acting a.s a go­ lishment of a Jewish homeland in Israel. Why should the Carter Administration, in between · and friendly counselors, the Two items authored by Mr. Fish have the midst of trying to arrange for the re- United States should re!ra.in. !rom insisting • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the .floor. 3134 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 22, 1979 that Israel give up the We~t Bank to the distributed throughout the country. Thus present benefits or which would combine our PLO. Everyone knows that the PLO ter­ some areas have received millions o! dollars retirement system with social security. rorists, supported and armed by Moscow in grants while others-which includes us­ There ls no evidence to suggest that inte­ would immediately be an armed threat to have obtained only pennies by comparison. gration of the federal worker into social se­ the very survival of Jerusalem and Israel. In too many cases, political influence ls a curity program would be of any long range Prime Minister Begin has offered to take deciding factor-and don't let anyone tell benefit to the social security program, the the Arab refugees a.round the West Bank of you differently. federal employee, or the American taxpayer.