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EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 28, 1985

BLACK HISTORY IN PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY

HON. STENY H. HOYER OF MARYLAND

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Monday, January 28, 1985

• Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, last year I submitted remarks for the REcoRD in honor of Black History Month regarding the Plummer family of Prince Georges County. My remarks were based primarily on the research of Miss Bianca Floyd, project manager of the black history project of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission. In the past year, Miss Floyd has continued her work and thanks to the Prince Georges County Council, especially Council man Floyd Wilson and Councilwoman Hilda Pemberton, a park historian aide position has been established as a career position.

One of the subjects of the research of the black history project has been black suburban community development. A number of suburban communities were established soon after the turn of the century in Prince Georges County specifically for the black middle class. One of the recommendations Miss Floyd has made to the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission is that several of these communities be considered for historic status.

North Brentwood is the first black incorporated municipality in Prince Georges County. The town lies close to the northeast line of the District of Columbia. It is situated on a tract of land which was originally part of the farm of Capt. Wallace Bartlett. Captain Bartlett was a Civil War veteran who had commanded a regiment of black soldiers in Texas. Subsequent to the Civil War, Captain Bartlett settled in Maryland. He subdivided his property with the desire that it be inhabited by black families as a memorial to the soldiers who had served in his regiment. At the start of this century, the area had approximately 65 residents, and was known as Randallstown after one of its leading families.

In 1924, the town was incorporated as North Brentwood. The first mayor of North Brentwood was Jeremiah Hawkins, a native of Brandywine who was active in Republican politics in Prince Georges County for more than 50 years. He served as a delegate to four Republican National Conventions.

A second town of special note in the history of Prince Georges County is

Eagle Harbor which was incorporated in 1926. Located on the site of a former tobacco farm, the town was originally started as a summertime resort for black residents of Washington and Baltimore. Although the town now numbers some 200 year-round residents, Eagle Harbor, in southernmost Prince Georges County on the banks of the Patuxent River, continues to serve as a resort for families which have been coming there for generations.

Just over the border of the District of Columbia lies Fairmount Heights. Had incorporation been granted when application was first made in 1922, it would have been the first black incorporated municipality in the State of Maryland.

Due to its proximity to the District of Columbia and its attractiveness as a community, a number of activists and professionals were drawn to Fairmount Heights. Among them was William Pittman, a prominent black architect of the early part of this century. Pittman, a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, moved to a new home in Fairmount Heights in 1907. He helped to found the first civic association and in 1911, he was hired by the Prince Georges County Board of Education to design a new high school for the community. Completed in 1912, the school housed the first industrial department for black students in Prince Georges County.

Each of the three communities which I have mentioned continue to have operating municipal governments today. Another community, the history of which has been extensively researched by the black history project, is Lincoln. Although not an incorporated town, Lincoln is located off Maryland Route 450 in the LanhamGlen Dale area.

Thomas J. Calloway was one of the founders of Lincoln. A close friend and associate of Booker T. Washington, Calloway was a graduate of Fisk University. Prior to coming to Lincoln, he had served as president of Alcorn College in Alcorn, MS <1894-96> and assistant principal of Tuskegee Institute <1897-99). In 1899, Calloway was appointed U.S. Special Commissioner to the Paris Exposition and was responsible for organizing a photographic exhibit of black industrial education in the United States. Mr. Calloway became a practicing attorney following his graduating from Howard University Law School in 1904. He purchased a lot in Lincoln for $100 in 1910. Construction of a house on that lot was completed in 1912.

Calloway's VISion was to establish Lincoln as an ideal community for black Americans. He described his vision in this way, "Lincoln, MD, has a plan to establish without restriction as to race, but primarily by, for and of colored persons, a community with its own municipal government, schools, churches, commercial and industrial life."

In 1908, the Lincoln Land & Improvement Co., of which Calloway was vice president and general manager, had purchased 200 acres of land between the Vista and Glen Dale stations of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway. Lots of 50 by 100 feet were laid out on wide streets and were sold for $270 each.

Aside from his considerable real estate investments in Lincoln and nearby Buena Vista, and his law practice, Thomas J. Calloway was active in establishment of the Bethel A.M.E. Church, later named the Seaton A.M.E. Church. Calloway was also instrumental in establishment of a school in Lincoln. It was fitting that he should serve as the first principal of the school which was opened in 1922.

In addition to the church and school, Lincoln had a general storehotel-restaurant operated by W.A. Davis, a native of Philadelphia. The town had its own water system, gas plant and a brick factory. Although the community organization continued to develop, the Lincoln Land & Improvement Co. went bankrupt between 1917 and 1920 and housing construction ceased. The original 20 to 25 homes built in Lincoln are still standing, as is the school.

Mr. Speaker, from this brief discussion, I know that Members will be able to see the great service that the black history project is providing in adding to the historical record of my county. Compiling data from written records and from interviews with older residents, the project benefits all citizens by teaching us about the development of Prince Georges County communities. I urge the Members of Congress to encourage similar projects in their own communities and districts. Again, I commend Bianca Floyd for her work and research as well as the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Prince Georges County government for their support of the black history project.e

e This .. bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor.

January 28, 1985 TRIBUTE TO COACH GIL

RECTOR

HON. IKE SKELTON OF MISSOURI


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to honor Coach Gil Rector for being named the Missouri 3A Coach of the Year. Coach Rector has been coach at Lexington High School for 17 seasons and has led the Lexington Minutemen to three State titles in the past 8 years. I praise him for his hard work and wish him continued success in the future.e

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SHOULD ALLOW TAX EXEMPTION FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EMPLOYEES

HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR OF OHIO


Monday, January 28, 1985 • Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, late in the 98th Congress, I introduced and the Congress passed H.R. 6101, a bill which authorizes payment of a housing allowance to &1 executive agency employee whose permanent duty station is in the Republic of Panama.

Mr. Speaker, due to the implementation of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, a number of functions and associated personnel were transferred from the Panama Canal Co., and Canal Zone Government to the U.S. Department of Defense. These transfer-of-function employees, principally schoolteachers and medical personnel, were permitted to continue to rent the Panamanian-owned housing under the control of the Panama Canal Commission. This right, however, was limited by an executive agreement between our Government and the Republic of Panama that expired on October 1, 1984, when the Republic of Panama became entitled to take possession of the housing units.

Because the Department of Defense would not have had sufficient housing units to accommodate these employees and they would have had to find suitable housing on the Panamanian economy, I introduced H.R. 6101 to alleviate this problem.

The new authority to pay a housing allowance, however, is subject to the restrictions that: First, the amount of the allowance must be reduced by the amount that the employee would have paid in rent for Government quarters; and second, the allowance may never exceed the maximum set by the State Department regulations governing overseas allowances. Moreover, the housing allowance will not be paid if suitable Government quarters are

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Mr. Speaker, H.R. 6101 was passed by the Congress under very restrictive conditions and time contraints due to the impending congressional adjournment. Just as Congress was quickly approaching its deadline to act on legislation, so was the Defense Department's ability to provide adequate housing for its civilian employees stationed in the Republic of Panama coming to an end. Due to the necessity for expeditious passage of H.R. 6101, we wanted to make certain that the allowance was available to these employees, and that related matters, such as the granting of a tax exemption on U.S. income taxes for the housing allowance, could await the current Congress.

Mr. Speaker, my new legislation would grant this tax exemption to those Department of Defense personnel stationed in the Republic of Panama. This exemption is now provided to all other Federal civilian employees stationed overseas. I see no reason why Department of Defense civilian employees stationed in the former Canal Zone should be excluded. Without the ability of the U.S. Department of Defense to provide this tax exemption to this important group of employees, I believe that a significant loss of personnel could result and recruitment and retention of replacements would be extremely difficult.

Moreover, it is important to note that the revenue lost through this much needed tax exemption will be very slight when compared to the potential loss of many valuable Department of Defense personnel.

I urge all my colleagues to cosponsor this importe..nt legislation.•

INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATI0?-1" TO EXTEND SECTION 127 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954

HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE OF MASSACHUSETTS


Monday, January 28, 1985 • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I recently introduced legislation to extend permanently the section of the Internal Revenue Code which provides for the exclusion from income of educational assistance payments. In the 98th Congress, we passed H.R. 2568, which extended this exclusion only until the end of this year. My bill would extend the exclusion permanently.

The legislation is very important for several reasons. It is beneficial to all aspects of business, labor, and education.

Under present law, Mr. Speaker, a taxpayer generally may exclude the value of educational assistance pay-

1151 ments-including tuition, books, fees, and supplies-provided by an employer from income. In other words, education can be purchased with tax-free dollars, even if its availability would not normally be a deductible business expense for the taxpayer.

Tax-free educational assistance allows employees the opportunity to keep their education up to datewhich is a key factor in their growth potential. Not only does it allow them to function more effectively in their present jobs, but it also increases their ability for promotion. This, in turn, means increased salaries, and more taxes being paid by a more highly educated workforce.

The exclusion also benefits educational institutions. It provides a means for them to promote their own employees' education, while also increasing their enrollment with students who otherwise might be unable to afford a higher education.

The tax-free educational assistance plan is also profitable for the corporations themselves. It is essential for their productivity to keep their employees up to date on the latest changes in their field. It is also better for the morale of the company's employees if promotion is done from within-something that would not be possible if the employees were not constantly enriching themselves.

The groups most harmed by the expiration of the educational assistance plan would be women and minorities. It is essential for them to be able to continue their education if they are to remain competitive in the job market. For many, higher education would not be possible if they could not receive tax-free education payments from their employers.

Mr. Speaker, this legislation gained a great deal of support in the 98th Congress, and I urge my colleagues to support it now. I also urge expeditious consideration of the legislation by the Ways and Means Committee.e

UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSA-TION/ ADJUSTMENT ASSIST-ANCE ACT [UI/ AAl

HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK OF CALIFORNIA


Monday, January 28, 1985 • Mr. ST.A.,.~K. Mr. Speaker, I am reintroducing today my bill from the 98th Congress, H.R. 5748, a bill to provide for 3-year demonstration projects in two States of provisions under which unemployed individuals will receive retraining, education, and relocation assistance in lieu of certain extended or other additional unemployment compensation benefits.

The ·ways and Means Committee will soon be considering the Unem-

1152 ployment Insurance [UIJ Program, since the Federal Supplemental Compensation Program will expire in March. It is my hope that the ideas contained in my bill will be explored and that there will be a willingness to test out these concepts in two volunteer States.

Let me stress that under this bill, trading in one's extended UI benefits in order to get up front cash assistance for retraining, reeducation, or relocation is strictly up to the worker. It is an option; it is not mandatory. Ideally, I would like to see additional retraining funds for workers in declining and dead-end industries. But with these growing deficits, that is not in the cards. We will be lucky to maintain our current level of job training and support programs. Therefore, I have looked to the UI Program as a possible source of no additional cost financing of worker selected retraining and relocation.

This bill is an attempt to bring some new ideas to the 50-year-old UI Program. I am open to suggestions and ideas on how to make this a better bill, one which provides more flexibility to the worker himself in the selection and use of his UI benefits and retraining opportunities.

Following is a factsheet describing the bill:

FACTSHEET

FINDINGS AND STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Owing to structural changes in the economy and increased trade competition, millions face prolonged joblessness, lack the appropriate job skills to obtain reasonable employment, and exhaust their UI benefits without the opportunity for retraining, education, or relocation necessary to enter occupations or labor markets where job openings are available.

The budget deficits make new retraining, education, and relocation programs difficult, and require that we improve the effectiveness of existing programs.

Therefore, allowing UI recipients early in their period of regular UI benefits to obtain the cash value of the various extended UI benefits be extended benefits and Federal Supplemental Compensation, for which they will be eligible, will provide a "pool of capital" to fund retraining, education, and relocation programs without increasing the Federal budget.

INDIVIDUALS ELIGIBLE TO EXERCISE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE OPTION

Any individual eligible for regular UI, in a State where extended UI benefits and/or Federal Supplemental Compensation benefits are in effect, who applies for the AA option within the first 30 days of his UI eligibilty will be eligible for the AA option.

AMOUNT OF AA

The maximum amount of AA will be the value of the various fonns of extended UI available to him in his state when the individual applies for UI. In other words, the bill assumes that without Adjustment Assistance the worker will exhaust not only his regular UI, but the various fonns of extended benefits available to him-and in lieu of waiting for this to happen, the bill makes available a "pool of capital" equal to what

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS the person would have received in extended benefits.

TYPES OF AA

Retraining: If an employer hires and provides significant adjustment in the workers job skills thru retraining, then the State Employment Security Agency <SESA> may pay the employer an amount up to the cash value of the training or the individual's UIAA, whichever is less. The employer must certify that the hiring does not displace current workers. The SESA will maintain a list of participating employers for interested workers.

Education: SESAs will also maintain a list of education programs for which individuals can use UIAA as payment. The program must result in a significant adjustment in the worker's job skills.

Relocation: UIAA participants may receive job search and relocation cash allowances to help pay for the cost of looking for work outside of the normal commuting area <if the SESA determines jobs in the individual home area are not likely) and/or relocating to another area to accept employment.

FINANCING

The Federal/State share of UIAA shall be the same as their share of extended UI benefits. State administrative costs shall be covered as under current UI programs.

GROUP APPLICATIONS AND APPROVALS

For administrative simplicity, group applications for AA shall be encouraged. Thus, a union or company which is shutting down a production process could seek group approval if it is aware that rehiring is unlikely.

REPORTS AND STUDIES

A report to Congress after 1 year on utilization of the program, barriers to utilization, and how this type of program could be made available to workers not eligible for UI.

EFFECTIVE DATE

January 1, 1986, with amendments to State laws required by 1/1/88.

COST OF UIAA

Duration of unemployment for many is so long that benefits are being exhausted without alternative employment being found. The people who need Adjustment are already using up all or most of their regular and extended UI benefits. Thus, allowing them to trade in their additional benefits for Adjustment Assistance will involve little or no extra cost. Since many of these people have been in cyclical industries in longrange decline, breaking out of this cycle and into new job fields will reduce the number of "repeat" UIU beneficiaries and future UI expenses.e

FEDERAL FUNDING IS VITAL

HON. BARNEY FRANK OF MASSACHUSETTS


Monday, Januarv28, 1985 • Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, recently, an extremely thoughtful editorial appeared in the Fall River Herald News about the importance of continued Federal support for several of the programs which provide assistance to older, poorer cities. The Fall River Herald News does an excellent job of monitoring the economic and political

January 28, 1985 behavior of the city of Fall River. The Herald News has been a voice for fiscal responsibility, and in this very thoughtful editorial the Herald News shows a recognition that fiscal caution must not be achieved at the expense of some of our older industrial areas.

As the editorial points out, Fall River, under the able leadership of Mayor Carlton Viveiros, has spent its Federal funds wisely. There are many areas of the Federal budget in which we can make cuts. I agree very much with the points made by the Fall River Herald News about the lack of wisdom of making some of the cuts in urbanrelated programs which have been proposed and I insert the editorial here.

The editorial follows: [From the Fall River <MA> Herald News,

Jan. 22, 19851 FEDERAL FuNDING Is VITAL

Mayor Viveiros has spoken out strongly against proposals reportedly contained in the administration's new federal budget.

The budget will not be submitted to Congress until the first week of February, but it is already being argued over because of the frequent informal disclosure of parts of its contents by persons involved putting it together.

What Mayor Viveiros is objecting to is the proposal that the federal revenue sharing program be eliminated as well as the block grant community development program.

The Mayor poirits out that Fall River uses the federal money that is received here by both programs for a wide range of essential purposes.

For instance, this city gets nearly $2 million in revenue sharing funds each year. It is used to pay the salaries of policemen and firemen, and to maintain public safety.

The funds received by the Community Development program are used for any number of civic betterment purposes. Many of those are essential to keep the city functioning effectively.

It is all very well to say the city ought to be able to pay for these things itself.

But the fact is that it cannot, and the federal money it receives has been well-spent. It has certain1y not been squandered.

It is no wonder that Mayor Viveiros echoes simi1ar expressions of alarm and dismay by the Conference of Mayors.

The reports about what the administration's budget contains may tum out to be inaccurate.

This is possible but unlikely. What the mayors obviously hope is that if

they respond vigorously enough to the report that revenue sharing and community development are to be eliminated, they will make the White House change its mind before the budget is sent to Congress.

Yet the trouble is that the federal deficits must be reduced.

Just last week the President indicated that he does not really expect to see the deficits eliminated before he leaves office, but they must be trimmed.

Everyone agrees on that, and the problem the administration and Congress are facing is how to do it.

If the reductions are accomplished entirely by cutbacks, as the President seems to wish, then it is hard to see how some ex-

January 28, 1985 tremely valuable programs can avoid being sacrificed.

But if cutbacks are combined with judicious tax increases, then it should be possible to salvage some of the vital programs.

Something along these lines is what the Conference of Mayors must seek to achieve in the next few months.

It will do no good merely to advocate retaining this or that federal program without explaining how this can be done while still reducing the deficit.

But it must not be supposed that increasing taxes, although undesirable, is totally out of the question.

A tax increase may indeed be preferable to some of the cuts that the White House reportedly has in mind.

At any rate Mayor Viveiros is right to make perfectly clear that this city is in no position to absorb the loss of federal revenue sharing and community development funds.

And if enough mayors feel as he does, it is hard to believe that Washington will ignore the clamor from cities everywhere in the country.

The battle of the new budget has not yet begun. It must not be supposed that it has been lost even in advance of the administration's budget being sent to Capitol Hill.e

THE CITY OF COMMERCE CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY

HON. MATI'HEW G. MARTINEZ OF CALIFORNIA


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. MARTINEZ. Mr. Speaker, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Commerce, CA. Since its incorporation, the City of Commerce has evolved into one of southern California's most prolific industrial communities, while providing such outstanding city services that it is a desirable place to live as well as to work.

This modern industrial city was one part of Rancho San Antonio, a Spanish land grant bestowed upon Don Antonio Maria Lugo in 1810. In the latter half of the 1850's Don Antonio portioned the rancho among his heirs. After the death of one of his daughters, he sold her portion to Abel Stearns, a New Englander who had become a merchant in Los Angeles. Stearns gradually acquired other land from Lugo heirs and eventually joined all his holdings into the 6,000-acre Rancho Laguna. This rancho included all of the present City of Commerce with the exception of the small portion south of present day Gage Avenue.

Rancho Laguna began to be broken up in 1900, and in 1922 the last of the land was sold. Subdivision of the land into what would eventually become the City of Commerce started in 1905 with the creation of the El Carmel tract, which was located in the area east of Vail Avenue. The various residential areas were created during the ensuing years. First, the northwest

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS area was created in 1925, followed in 1928 by the Ferguson neighborhood, located on the site of the former Vail Field. The Rosewood Park area was subdivided in 1929, followed by the present southeast area in 1928 and by the Freeway tract in 1941. The Bandini-Rosini neighborhoods, which are actually the oldest of the developed neighborhoods, grew out of earlier subdivisions.

Until 1960, Commerce was an unincorporated portion of Los Angeles County. Relatively low taxes, and the superior rail facilities of Union Pacific and Santa Fe, together with aggressive real estate activities by the railroads themselves, attracted industry with increasing success. As the industrial community grew, so did the property values. Neighboring cities began to look enviously at City of Commerce's potential tax revenues.

By 1959, it was clear that Commerce would have to act at once to protect itself. Such cities as Downey, Montebello, Bell, and others were reported drafting papers and talking to local leaders about annexation. Los Angeles, Vernon, and Maywood were said to be interested.

Despite statements that annexation would be good for the City of Commerce, residents and businessmen alike feared such a fate. They saw as their "reward" higher taxes, a limited voice in their "adopting government," and possibly even fewer services than they were receiving from the county.

In June 1959, the area's business leaders formed the industrial council with the announced purpose of studying the question of incorporation. Faced with such vigorous annexation efforts by neighboring cities, the council retained a management consultant firm to make a complete analysis of the situation. When their report was published in August 1959, its authors noted that a citizens' group had already, on their own, begun the petition drive for signatures to authorize an incorporation election. The report concluded that "a future city will have an excellent chance of real success."

Incorporation sentiment was gi·owing. Charles T. Atwood, a Lever Brothers executive and the first chairman of the industrial council, declared the council's "basic purpose is to promote the development of a model city." He pledged industry support for an improved library, better parks, swimming pool, streets, sidewalks, and curbswhich were services most frequently mentioned as needed in the incorporation survey.

The citizens' committee was chaired by Warren B. Bedell, assisted by Dean Mericle, Georgetta G. Welch, Bernice Parker, Eva Long, Mrs. Leone Thornburg, Lou Gretz, Larry Maese, Mrs. Kathryn Pahl, Mrs. Valentina Bassett, Mrs. Wilma Bedell, Mr. and Mrs. James Bristow, Mr. Leslie Mabey, Mrs.

1153 Lu Mericle, Henry Van Unen, and Earl J. Welch. This committee signed up 34 percent of the residents, representing 42 percent of the assessed valuation, although only 25 percent of each was needed.

In the special election held January 12, 1960, Commerce residents voted 895 to 283 for incorporation. They also chose, from among 25 candidates, 5 members for their new city council: Maurice Quigley, James W. Bristow, Leone Thornburg, Kathryn Pahl, and Charles F. Scheibler.

On January 28, 1960, the council elected Quigley as first mayor and Scheibler as first mayor pro tern. County Supervisor Ernest Debs swore in the mayor and council. Incorporation was now complete. Commerce became Los Angeles County's 67th city with a population of 9,555.

The new City of Commerce boasted many advantages to both residents and industry. One of the most notable was the absence of city property taxes. In the decade that followed incorporation, the city made rapid progress toward becoming the "Model City" envisioned by its founders. An olympicsized swimming pool, built at a cost of $800,000, was opened in December 1961. A new municipal bus system, the Nation's first free bus service, was inaugurated in June 1962. This system still provides fare-free service and carries approximately 180,000 passengers annually. The post office was established in 1963.

The city began its own library operation in a rented duplex on July 1, 1961. In August 1964, the library moved into new quarters in the civic center building with 16,150 square feet of floor space. This library became known as Central Library, and to its first branch library <Atlantic Branch), it added two other branch librariesNorthwest and Greenwood-both dedicated in 1966. The library now houses over 100,000 volumes and is well known in southern California for its excellent resources for business and industry.

Recreation services grew rapidly. In addition to the indoor aquatorium facility, four city parks and park buildings were developed, along with a baseball stadium, gymnasiums, and an indoor rifle and pistol range. Today, the city's parks and recreation department provides over 1,000 activities annually.

Social services to residents included free immunization clinics and transportation for medical appointments as well as a city office for referral services and information services.

A senior citizens center was developed, offering nutritional meals and many social programs and opportunities for the seniors.

1154 Street improvements desired by the

founders were made by the city's public works departments.

The seventies saw some changes in the industrial composition of the city and new efforts by the city toward redevelopment and toward retaining old businesses and attracting new ones.

An industrial development committee was formed in 1972 to gather together Commerce's best business minds to work on long-range plans for enlarging the city's economic base. Tom Hall, general manager of the industrial council, was appointed to that post by then-Mayor Michael V. Guerra.

When some major businesses began leaving in the midseventies, the city started a redevelopment agency in 1974 to improve the competitive position of Commerce by improving appearances and by pursuing the elimination of blight from all areas of the city. Projects designed to improve housing quality and increase the availability of low- and moderate-income housing included an ambitious conversion of Great Western Exhibit Center site to 140 single-family units and 94 seniors apartments. All in all, as of 1984, a total of 291 units had been completed, with all types of housing units represented.

Antiquated industrial sites <U.S. Steel, Triangle Industrial Park> were rehabilitated or redeveloped into industrial and office complexes. Currently, the agency is attempting to redevelop the former Uniroyal Tire site. This would enhance the city's image as a major commercial/business area while retaining the distinctive Assyrian wall, which has been declared an historical monument.

The Atlantic Boulevard Commercial Revitalization Project <now in progress> will provide much needed community shopping areas and improve the quality of surrounding neighborhoods.

A bold new project to convert refuse to energy is now underway and should provide additional revenue to the city as well as creatively utilizing technology for alternative energy sources.

As the 25th anniversary year begins, Commerce should be well underway to establishing its cable TV system, which will be owned by the city. In addition to the usual features of cable, two-way capabilities will be designed into the system for long-range industrial and residential applications.

Services for residents of the city have not been forgotten in the latter decade of Commerce history. All city departments stress fine services to residents, and new programs have been developed of special benefit to the residents. A community outreach program was initiated in 1981 to try to alleviate the antisocial problems of youth. This program has now evolved into a community education program,

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS reaching out to Commerce families to inform them and to help prevent problems with drugs, alcohol, and crime. They also have initiated a program that is getting jobs for young people and is teaching them job skills.

An employment referral office was begun in 1982 to help match residents in need of employment to jobs in Commerce industries.

In 1984, the Commerce library joined the California literacy campaign with a special project which provides tutoring to adults who need to learn to read in English.

Ever mindful of the need for the safety of residents and workers, the public safety office has started a Neighborhood Watch Program, and the city council has authorized a new team of public safety specialists to help the city's Neighborhood Watch Program.

As Commerce reaches its 25th anniversary, the city is proud of its past accomplishments and is looking forward to exciting and creative years ahead. The present city council, consisting of Mayor Dr. Michael V. Guerra, Mayor Pro-Tem James B. Dimas, Sr., and councilmembers Robert Cornejo, Arturo Marquez, and Richardo Vasquez, are pledged to continue the development of Commerce as a fine place to live for its residents and as a outstanding environment for business. They stress to all city departments the necessity for first-class service to residents and business alike and for a continuation of the unique cooperation of council, city departments, residents, and industry that makes Commerce truly a "Model City."e

TRIBUTE TO ROY GERHARDT

HON. IKE SKELTON OP KISSOtJRI



e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, small town America is the backbone of our country, and it often does not get the recognition it deserves. Now, thanks to a book by Mr. Roy Gerhardt, more people will know what it is like to live in a small town, and the contributions a small town makes to its country. The book, titled "A Town Called Speed," is the result of painstaking research, and I commend Mr. Gerhardt for his diligence in bringing small town America alive.e

January 28, 1985 GILMAN INTRODUCES RESOLU

TION FOR MIA/POW'S IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN OF NEW YORK



• Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, last week I introduced along with some of my colleagues on the House task force on American MIA/POW's in Southeast Asia and along with other committed Members of this body, a resolution expressing the sense of the House regarding the status of these brave yet unaccounted for Americans.

The issue of our "Missing in Action" for well over a decade has been of fundamental importance to us all. The exceptional commitment put forth by the National League of Families has been a magnet for involvement on the part of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Resolving the fate of 2,483 missing and unaccounted for Americans has been assigned a high priority by President Reagan, and his commitment to utilizing every avenue for information on their behalf is to be commended and emulated.

The issue of our missing is one that affects all Americans. It has strong bipartisan support in both Houses of Congress. This sense of the House resolution is similar to one which enjoyed significant support in the last Congress. It deserves the endorsement of all of our colleagues. The thrust of this measure focuses on requesting the President to continue to ensure that his commitment to a full accounting by Indochinese governments be carried out by American officials at all levels of government, as well as working to obtain the immediate release of any Americans who may still be held captive in Indochina and for the immediate return of all American servicemen and civilians who have died in Southeast Asia whose remains have not been returned.

Furthermore, every effort should be made to secure the further cooperation that has been pledged by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in resolving this humanitarian issue of fundamental importance. Although some progress has been made in recent months, Vietnam is again to be urged by Congress to accelerate cooperation with our Government in achieving the fullest possible accounting for Americans missing or unaccounted for in Indochina.

Mr. Speaker, last Congress I was privileged to serve as chairman of the House task force on MIA/POW's. Along with my colleagues on our task force, we heard much moving testimony that has spurred us on to further commitment. I ask our colleagues to join in supporting this measure with

January 28, 1985 their cosponsorship, and insert the full text of the resolution at this point in the RECORD:

H. CoN. RES. 37 Whereas the President has declared the

issue of 2,483 Americans missing and unaccounted for in Indochina a matter of highest national priority and has initiated high level dialogue on this issue with the Governments of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

Whereas the Congress, on a bipartisan basis, fully supports these initiatives to determine the fate of Americans still missing in Indochina and realizes that the fullest possible accounting can only be achieved with the cooperation of the Indochinese governments; and

Whereas the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has pledged to accelerate efforts to cooperate with the United States Government in resolving this humanitarian issue, separate from other issues dividing our two countries, and the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic has taken some positive actions to assist the United States Government in resolving the status of missing Americans: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the President should-

(1 > ensure that officials of the United States Government consciously and fully carry out his pledge of highest national priority to resolve the issue of 2,483 Americans still missing and unaccounted for in Indochina;

<2> work for the immediate release of any Americans who may still be held captive in Indochina and for the immediate return of all American servicemen and civilians who have died in Southeast Asia whose remains have not been returned; and

<3> make every effort to secure the further cooperation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in resolving this humanitarian issue of fundamental importance.

SEc. 2. The Congress calls on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to fulfill their pledge to accelerate cooperation with the United States in achieving the fullest possible accounting for Americans missing or unaccounted for in Indochina.e

POLONIA FOUNDATION HONORS TWO OHIO WOMEN



Monday, January 28, 1985 eMs. OAK.AR. Mr. Speaker, on October 7, 1985, the Polonia Foundation of Ohio held its Pulaski scholarship and recognition awards banquet at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Garfield Heights, OH. The banquet was held to honor one of Poland's great heroes and a great friend of the United States, Gen. Casimir Pulaski. To honor the occasion, President Reagan proclaimed October 11, 1984, as "National Pulaski Day." Governor Celeste of Ohio issued a similar proclamation.

The memory of General Pulaski is also traditionally honored by publicly

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS acknowledging the accomplishments of men and women of Polish descent who have contributed their time and talents to the community at large. The 1984 Heritage Awards of the Ohio Polonia Foundation were bestowed upon Mrs. Helen Karpinski, a civic and political leader in Greater Cleveland and upon Mrs. Ursula Preebe who has long been a leader in volunteer youth, civic, religious, and philanthropic organizations.

I commend to my colleagues attention, the biosketches of these two fine citizens who were justly honored by the Polonia Foundation last fall.

The following are sketches of both outstanding citizens:

BIOSKETCH OF URSULA PREEBE

Ursula Preebe was born in the Warzala area of Cleveland, the daughter of the late Adolph and Josephine Biegacki. She attended St. Stanislaus Elementary School, A.B. Hart Junior IDgh School and graduated from South IDgh School. In 1946, she married Stanley J. Preebe who also attended the same schools. Later, she received her secretarial and business education at Schauffler College. Twenty eight years ago, she started her voluntary youth work. This experience led to full-time employment with the Parma City School District; nineteen years at Schaaf Junior IDgh School; six at Fay Junior High and one at Pleasant Valley Junior IDgh. Over these years, she was responsible for training, developing, and supervising the Cooperative Office of Education that trained students in acquiring practical business skills. She assisted students in securing post graduate in business and still keeps in touch with many of the students to see the end results of these experiences and is thrilled with the end results. She reported directly to the principal and was expected to perform on a self-directed capacity. She primarily served as a liaison between principal, teachers, parents, and students to promote a successful educational experience for students. Now retired, she is like a second mother to these young people. Her destiny in life is apparently to continue guiding students. She is best described as being sensitive and sympathetic to the needs of people and enjoys active participation in constructive and positive projects that promote and encourage excellence.

Over many years, she has been involved in a wide range of community activities. She served as past secretary and treasurer of the Educational Secretary's Chapter of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees: founding member of the Playhouse Square Association; past participating member of the Cleveland Safety Council; Life Member of the Parma Community General Hospital Auxiliary; Rotary Ann Club of Parmai contributing and participating member of the Y's.

She also served as the secretary-treasurer of her husband's corporation, the S.J. Preebe and Associates, a multi-million dollar industrial sales marketing firm.

Stanley J. Preebe, also retired as the corporate president. Both continue to be jointly active in Polonia and community activities.

Both have shared their good fortune and talents with others. They are known as "Polish Philanthropists" for their generous grants to worthwhile Polonia and community projects. They are proud of their Polish

1155 Heritage and continue to foster the cultural traditions of Poland.

The Preebe's have a close relationship with Marymount Hospital. Stanley J. Preebe serves on the Marymount Civic Advisory Board. Satisfied with the hospital's care, they donated the "Visitation Chapel." They wanted to do something for the hospital and for the families of patients that visited the hospital that ~;;rere upset with their sick loved ones. The Preebe's wanted to provide a quiet place where these visitors could meditate and find a moment of solitude and peace.

After the Chapel was built, the Preebe's financed a public address system for Marymount Hospital. This allowed bedridden patients to hear Chapel services.

The plaque gracing the entrance to the "Visitation Chapel" reads: "With Gratitude and Love"/Mr. & Mrs. Stanley J. Preebe."

The Preebe's received statewide recognition for donating the "Visitation Chapel" with its unique public address system beamed to rooms at Marymount Hospital. A resolution of recognition was passed by the Ohio General Assembly to honor them for their generous and thoughtful gift to those in need. This sincere concern and consideration is the hallmark of an involved, sensitive, and responsible citizenship. This noteworthy civic accomplishment is evidence of their potential as individuals to positively affect the quality of life in our society.

The Preebe's have earned the respect of others by their unfaltering and unselfish commitment to those in need. They are worthy of the highest form of praise and recognition. They were, furthermore, commended as truly selfless individuals and outstanding Ohioans.

Expressing a sense of humility, the Preebe's consider themselves blessed. "We have received more than we have given. Through giving, you receive."

The Preebe's reside in Parma.

BIOSKETCH OF HELEN B. KARPINSKI

Born in Cleveland, Helen Karpinski married the late John Karpinski in St. Casimir's Church and lived in the "Poznan" area most of her married life, where she was active in community affairs. In 1938 she was an organizer and officer of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Polish Legion of American Veterans, George Washington Post No. 31. Recently she was honored as a founder of the Ave Maria Senior Citizens Club at St. Casimir's.

For over 60 years she actively participated in the American Polish Women's Club, an organization devoted to preserving Polish customs and traditions and to assisting in civic improvement. Elected the Club's sixth President, she initiated projects as part of the World War II effort and helped establish the Polish Garden in Cleveland's CUI· tural Gardens. Through her leadership, funds were acquired for a sculptured bust of Madame Marie Curie for the Polish Garden. For over 20 years she has been a chapter officer in the Polish Women's Alliance of America, through which she has promoted fraternal insurance. She is also a member of the Association of Polish Women and the Alliance of Poles. Through her pioneering leadership and unselfish service, she has provided an effective role model to younger ethnic women, demonstrating that a woman could combine responsibilities of a wife and mother with employment and active work in the community.

Her civic interests include 43 years of membership in the Cleveland CUltural

1156 Garden Federation, where she has represented the Polish Garden and presently serves as Vice-President. The Federation is a chain of ethnic gardens united for peace, culture, and brotherhood. As an officer during most of its history, Helen Karpinski came into contact with a large variety of ethnic groups. One of the major goals in her life, evolving from this experience, has been to develop political influence through ethnic co-operation. To this end, she helped found the Women's Cosmopolitan Democratic League of Cuyahoga and in 1952 served as its President. The League's purpose is to promote mutual understanding among ethnics and to provide an organization for the political activity of ethnic women.

A believer in the two-party system and in women participating in the political process, Helen Karpinski took an early active role in the Democratic Party beginning in the 1930's and continuing to the present. She served as an elected Democratic Ward Leader for 15 years and as precinct committeeperson for 20 years; was one of the first women nominated to Cleveland City Council; and has served on both the County and State Democratic Executive Committees for many years. In 1967 she was elected President of the Federated Democratic Women of Ohio. She has served as an elected Delegate or Alternate at Democratic National Conventions since 1932 and was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1980 to 1984.

She has promoted and supported women aspiring to public office and chaired the successful 1970 campaign to elect the first woman to the Office of Treasurer of the State of Ohio and was a Cleveland coordinator in the present State Treasurer's 1982 campaign. She has served on ethnic campaign committees ranging from the President of the United States to numerous Cuyahoga County judges and has served on the Ethnic Committee of the Democratic National Committee.

Having recently returned from the Democratic National Convention, she witnessed a life-long dream coming true-to see an ethnic woman nominated as Vice-President. Through 54 years of political activity, she has been determined to demonstrate to women and to ethnics that they could be successful in politics and government. In recognition of her pioneer efforts in the changing role of women in our society and their emergence especially in politics and government, the Ohio Hall of Fame gave her an award as a special honoree in 1983.

Other recognition she has received includes:

1959 Public Recognition Reception, Women's Cosmopolitan Democratic League.

1965 Community Service Award, Baptist Ministers Association.

1974 Ohio Democratic Woman of the Year Award, Federated Democratic Women of Ohio.

1982 Distinguished Service Award, American Polish Women's Club.

Helen Karpinski is the mother of three daughters: Gloria Joy Battisti, Mercedes Spotts, and Diane Karpinski.e

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS LEGISLATION TO COMMEMO

RATE SHA YS' REBILLION



Monday, January 28, 1985 • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, we are on the verge of the historical bicentennial of Shays' Rebellion. I stand before my colleagues to share the significance of this hallmark and to summon their support in commemorating its contribution to our American heritage.

Shays' Rebellion was the result of citizens' discontent with the Government and the economy following the Revolutionary War. Revolt took place in almost every State but ignited in Massachusetts where the war had devastated its major industries. Exports fell, resulting in massive public indebtedness. The only accepted tender for a long while was cash and its unstable fluctuations made paying costs close to impossible. Debts were high, punishments were severe. Overall, a general distrust of the Government persisted because public grievances were not being addressed.

By 1786, feelings of unrest had spread across the Massachusetts Commonwealth. Daniel Shays and a group of farmers obstructed court proceedings, demanding that the court be attentive to their concerns. The unrest culminated in January 1787 when Shays and his followers stormed an arsenal in Springfield on the 25th. The uprising of Shays' Rebellion climaxed the newspaper debating, the listing of grievances, the interference with the courts and the rioting which marked the years between 1780 and 1786. People in all States were alarmed by the revolutionary disorder and the underlying social and economic problems that had caused such a reaction.

Plagued by a weak and disorganized economy, and an unresponsive government, the rebels in Massachusetts voiced their dissatisfaction with the post-war crisis. The rebellion hastened special reforms in taxation and judicial procedure. In addition, it alerted leaders of America to the frailities of the Government under the Articles of Confederation and served as the impetus for the drafting of our Constitution.

The influence of Shays' Rebellion in the formation of our present Government deserves recognition by Congress and the people of the United States. I invite my colleagues to support a joint resolution celebrating the historical significance of this event. Please join me in designating January 19 to January 25, 1987 as Shays' Week and Sunday, January 25 as Shays' Day in honor of the rebellion leader.

Mr. Speaker, I feel strongly about this endeavor. Shays' Rebellion represents more than a glimmer of our past.

January 28, 1985 It represents the spirit of the American way and the struggle of a people to persevere and combat injustice. We who have reaped the benefits of the seeds Daniel Shays and his rebels sowed, owe them an enthusiastic recognition. A commemorative resolution signals a step in that direction.e

REPEAL RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENT

HON. IKE SKELTON OF MISSOURI


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I have introduced today a bill to repeal the law that requires that so-called contemporaneous records or logbooks be kept with minutely detailed entries in order for a farmer or a business person to benefit from the lawful deduction of the expenses incurred by the business use of a car or truck. Bear in mind that laws already exist that require business deductions be justified. The law I seek to repeal, however, created an excessive standard to justify the expense and, in my view, imposes too much Government into the life of private citizens.

In the past few weeks, Mr. Speaker, I have interviewed or heard from a large number of small businesses and farmers who have complied with these rules during January. They tell me from firsthand experience that these rules drain their time unnecessarily; time which they could put to better use feeding the country or creating jobs. As a member of the House Small Business Committee, I have heard repeatedly that small businessmen do not mind paying their fair share nor do they mind doing those activities which genuinely safeguard our Nation. They are a patriotic group and a valuable resource. What they do mind are unjustified Federal requirements for thousands of pages of unneeded, unheeded, and unread paper. This body responded to their outcry with the Paperwork Reduction Act, which was designed to systematically reduce Government recordkeeping requirements and to require Government agencies to justify any further demands. The contemporaneous recordkeeping requirement flies in the face of that goal.

Determined tax cheats are not thwarted; they will simply falsify entries or construct false books if they are ever required to "produce the record." It is the honest taxpayer, who already works a good portion of the year for Uncle Sam, who will now spend time filling in the blanks. If what we are trying to do is impose a charge on those who drive their business cars home, then let us debate that issue directly and vote on it on its own merits.

January 28, 1985 Mr. Speaker, it is time that we left

our farmers and small businessmen with enough time to do what they do best: tend to business.e

A TRIBUTE TO MARY ANN DYBALA

HON. WIWAM 0. UPINSKI OF ILLINOIS


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I call attention to a respected citizen from Illinois' Fifth Congressional District, which I am privileged to represent, and she is Mary Ann Dybala. Mary Ann has consistently shown that every neighborhood has people who are dedicated to the growth and progress of their community.

Mary Ann is a native of Chicago and has devoted herself to numerous community activities and projects in the hopes of encouraging future community growth and improvement. Her participation in the community can be highlighted through her efforts as president of the Garfield Ridge Chamber of Commerce. Mary Ann has been active in the chamber for 10 years and is beginning her second consecutive terms as president. Throughout her many years of community service, she has always looked at participation as a way to help others as she has been helped by others in the community.

I join with the residents of the Fifth Congressional District in paying tribute to Mary Ann Dybala for her work in our behalf, and I introduce into today's REcoRD a newspaper article honoring Mary Ann Dybala upon her receipt of the Ray McDonald Community Achievement Award.

The article follows: MCDONALD AWARD TO MARY ANN DYBALA

The Midway Sentinel Proudly salutes Mary Ann Dybala as the recipient of the Ray McDonald Community Achievement Award for the month of November.

Mary Ann Dybala is a native of Chicago having spent here early years in the Brighton Park area. She moved to Garfield Ridge in 1950 with her parents, two brothers and a sister. She graduated from St. Daniel's the Prophet Grammar School and from Kelly High School. She also attended Bogan Junior College and Northern illinois University studying nursing.

Many long time residents may remember her from the old Dvorak's Pharmacy on Archer and Rutherford streets in the late 50s where she worked as an apprentice pharmacist. She also was both a Tupperware Demonstrator and group manager for almost 14 years. It was at one of these parties that a friend in the real estate business convinced her to give selling homes a try. She had always enjoyed sales and meeting people, so she took the state exam and began as a sales associate in one of the community realty officers. After almost two years at that agency, she went into partnership in her own business forming a realty,

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS then located in a small office at the comer of Archer and Austin Aves. Business grew to the point where relocation became necessary, so a move was made one-half block west to the present location at 6165 S. Archer Ave. where she is now the sole owner.

Beside her interest in this area from the home standpoint, she has a genuine interest in people, the Garfield Ridge area and in the future growth of the 23rd Ward. She believes that with the promised improvements to the southwest side such as the Rapid Transit leg to Midway and the regrowth of the airport itself, and the new businesses, our community can only continue to grow and flourish. To that end she has devoted herself to many community organizations and projects. She is presently beginning her second consecutive term as president of the Garfield Ridge Chamber of Commerce of which she has been an active member for almost 10 years. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Garfield Ridge Chapter of the American Cancer Society and is involved with the Southwest Realty Board.

Throughout her many years as a resident of the southwest side and the 23rd Ward, she has participated in many other worthwhile communtiy activities because she truly believes in "getting involved" to help others as she has been helped by others in this community.

She currently lives in the 23rd Ward with Ray, her husband of 19 years, and their daughter Kim, and son Philip.

The staff of the Midway Sentinel Expesses its thanks to Mary Ann and honors her for the unselfish dedication of the time and concern she has shown for the business and residential community of the 23rd Ward and the southwest side.e

TOUR OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPENDENTS SCHOOLS

HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR OP OHIO


Monday, JanuaT'J/28, 1985 • Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, during the recent congressional recess I had the opportunity to chair an inspection tour of the U.S. Department of Defense dependents schools located in Japan. The inspection tour included stops at Sollars Elementary School, Edgren High School, West Elementary School, Byrd Elementary School, Yokota High School, East Elementary School, Sullivan Elementary School, Kinnick High School, Zama Middle and High Schools, and Arnn Elementary School.

These Federal public schools are responsible for the education of American children living abroad-children who are the sons and daughters of our service women and men who have contributed so much to the defense of our country.

Mr. Speaker, while most of us would view the prospect of living and teaching in a foreign country as an exciting adventure, the realities of life are far less pleasant for our overseas personnel. During my recent inspection tour

1157 of the dependents schools I came across a number of glaring problems that could affect not only the morale of the educational staff but also could hinder the recruitment and retention of important military personnel.

The recent inspection tour revealed, among other things, that Department of Defense education personnel face a high cost of living that is not met by their modest salaries. Furthermore, many of the employees encounter on a dally basis substandard housing, language difficulties, cultural adjustments, poor or nonexistent medical facilities and less than sophisticated communication and transportation systems.

There is no doubt in my mind that the educational personnel serving in these schools are of superior quality. It is unfortunate they face personnel problems that no other teacher or administrator could faintly imagine. If we are to continue to provide a superior education for our military dependent children, then we must solve the overwhelming social problems that the educational staff face on a dally basis.

During my tour of the dependents schools, I had the opportunity to meet with and talk to many of the fine teachers and administrators serving in the overseas school system. My lengthy conversation with the personnel brought to light two major problems. The most common complaint was the lack of transfers. Most teachers said they would be willing to experience substandard living conditions for a year or two if they had some hope of moving to another less isolated location. Shockingly, I discovered that some teachers had served in the same location for 10 and 12 years without being able to transfer to a more desirable location. If we are to retain these teachers, then we must design a system that will allow them to compete on an annual basis for available vacancies in other countries.

The second most serious problem facing Department of Defense educational personnel was their inability to use medical facilities on military bases. While our overseas military bases will attend to the needs of military personnel they have refused time and again to provide even the most minimal of medical care to the staff educating their children. It is ludicrous that Defense Department educational personnel have to travel 60 to '75 miles per day to see a foreign doctor for medical care while military doctors and dentists sit idle less than 10 or 15 minutes away.

Finally, the recent tour of our Defense Department dependents schools reaffirmed my belief that we must improve the working conditions of our educational personnel overseas. If we are to continue to recruit and retain superior personnel from the United

1158 States to serve in Department of Defense schools, then I ask all my colleagues to support my bill, H.R. 43, the "Overseas Teachers Act of 1985." The issues addressed in H.R. 43 will guarantee the finest possible education for the children of our armed services and civilian employees serving abroad.

Mr. Speaker, my bill, among other things, will ensure equality of benefits, provide a simplified method of pay, allow sabbatical leave, define the school day, year, and class size, andestablish a career ladder that will allow teachers to remain in the classroom. Only when we have accomplished these goals can we be assured that we have provided a superior education for the children of our military personnel. Mr. Speaker, if there are other Members who are interested in continuing the long tradition of providing a superior education for the children of our armed service employees then I ask them to join me in supporting this important proposal.

Mr. Speaker, in closing, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Dr. Beth Stephens, Director of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Lieutenant. General Weyand, Commander of the IX Corps, Japan, for their assistance in making the visit of the Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee a success. A special thanks is in order to the many fine enlisted and commissioned personnel that provided ground and air transportation during the subcommittee's visit. Without their efforts and cooperation the subcommittee's tour would not have been the success that it was.e

PROTECTION NEEDED FOR TEAM FRANCHISES AND COMMUNITIES

HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI OF MARYLAND


Monday, January 28, 1985 eMs. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, last year, in the middle of a snowy night, the Baltimore Colts were moved from our city to Indianapolis.

At other times, in other cities around this country, other sports teams have also arbitrarily moved from city to city. Oakland lost its Raiders, New York lost its Jets, San Diego lost its Clippers. Philadelphia almost lost its Eagles and, now, there are rumors that the St. Louis Cardinals may be flying the coop.

When professional sports teams leave a city, they not only leave behind the broken hearts of millions of fans, they often leave an empty stadium with enormous financial debts they helped create.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS What we've seen recently is that

sometimes teams hold local governments hostage by threatening to leave and making ransom demands for additional guarantees and subsidies.

It's a sad commentary today that many of our professional sports teams want guaranteed ticket sales and guaranteed stadium improvements but they don't want to guarantee they'll stay in a city. To me, that's not being a good sport.

The legislation we are introducing today is designated to protect local governments and taxpayers who have put millions of dollars into stadiums and playing arenas.

It is also designed to protect the integrity of professional sports leagues and to enable them to be good faith bargainers.

This bill creates an orderly framework of events that must occur and criteria that must be met if a professional sports team wants to move from one city to another.

This bill allows teams to move for financial need, but not for financial greed. It gives cities the right of first refusal if a team does want to leave and it establishes an arbitration panel to determine if there are valid financial reasons for a move.

This bill goes even further in protecting communities and team franchises.

It allows leagues to bargain collectively for telecast agreements and revenue sharing.

It also mandates that by 1988, the NFL must expand its league by two teams and that one of those teams must be in Baltimore. Further, the NFL is to add two more teams by 1990 and one of those teams must be in Oakland, CA.

I have been a fan of profeSsional football all my life. I used to love to go to Colts games with my uncles, and one of the first things I bought when I finished college and got a job was my own set of season tickets.

I am a sports fan. I am also a representative of the fans. Communities are fighting aggressively today to get sports teams as they are to get the high-paying microelectronic industries. Sports teams mean jobs. They mean community pride.

Through this legislation I hope we can bring order and stability to what is otherwise becoming a very chaotic playing field. I urge my colleagues in the House of Representatives to support it.e

January 28, 1985 LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCREDI

TATION COMMISSION DOES EXCELLENT WORK

HON. BARNEY FRANK OF MASSACHUSETTS



• Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, one of the most interesting, educational, and valuable experiences I have had as an elected official was serving as a member of the Commission on the Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies. This group was established by several private organizations concerned with law enforcement and had representation from law enforcement professionals, elected officials, private citizens, and others to propose standards which police forces throughout the country could, on a voluntary basis, be accredited.

During the last years of my service as a State legislator in Massachusetts, I was a member of that commission and found the commission meetings to be extraordinarily useful to me. A diverse group of people representing many ideologies and backgrounds were brought together on a periodic basis to discuss difficult issues of law enforcement, and the results were in all cases stimulating discussions and mutual conclusions. I was serving on the commission in my capacity as a State legislator, so I left when I became a member of this body. But I have continued to follow the commission's work with interest and I was recently delighted to read in Parade magazine a very good article describing the extraordinary progress that has been made with the important work that the Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission does. The fears that some had that this commission would be an intrusive national presence disturbing local traditions have proven unfounded. Instead the commission has alreedy begun to show its usefulness and I long to call to the attention of the Members the interesting work that has been done in this article by Mr. Bernard Gavzer.

The article follows: [From Parade Magazine, Dec. 30, 1984]

CAN YoUR PoLICE DEPARTMENT PAss MUSTER?

<By Bernard Gavzer> Everyone knows-or thinks he knows

what makes a good cop: honesty, strength, dedication, persistence, street smarts, compassion.

But what makes a good police department?

How do you know whether the organization behind the men and women in blue is employing their talents most efficiently and professionally in delivering police services?

You know how to judge schools because of objective tests and standards. The same is true of hospitals.

January 28, 1985 And now, there's the promise of a sort of

revolution in police work. For the first time, there is a nationwide program to accredit entire police departments.

This can be done through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, headquartered in Fairfax, Va. It is an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization operating since 1983 with the goal of raising police work from a bluecollar job to a profession.

"Our goal is to involve every eligible lawenforcement agency in the country in the accreditation program," says James Cotter, executive director of the commission. More than 15,000 agencies could be eligible.

Being accredited would be the equivalent of saying about a department that it "is in an outstanding category, that it rightfully has an uncontested status and that its accreditation is a guarantee that it conforms to a desirable standard," says Cotter. But that definition alone, you could be reasonably sure that, if your department was accredited, at least the professionals regarded it as good.

Charles Plummer, police chief in Hayward, Calif., addresses the issue with emotion, saying: "If you had a heart attack, how'd you feel being wheeled into a hospital that's not accredited? Would you send your kid to a college that's not accredited? If you want standards for health and education, by God, why not for public safety? Why wouldn't any community insist on a police department that meets professional standards?"

His department is seeking accreditation. So far, five police departments have been

accredited. In addition, to the 17-member force in Mount Dora, Fla., which was the first to win accreditation, they are the 290-member Arlington County Police Department in Virginia, the 1370-member Baltimore County Police Department in Maryland, the 44-member department of North Providence, R.I., and the 51-member Elkhart County Sheriff's Department in Indiana. <Figures in this article are for full-time members of a department, but part-time police also must pass muster.>

Thirty-six departments, including those in Denver, Tampa and Atlanta, are in a preliminary stage leading to accreditation, while 130 others-including departments in Boston, Phoenix, Houston and Louisvillehave applied. The accreditation is for five years.

Mount Dora was one of five departments that took part in a test to design an accreditation program. "It's not a 'good ole boy' department anymore," says the former police chief, Earl Gooden, who was in command during the process. And his successor, Bob Roberts, says, "The beauty of accreditation was proved right here because, when Earl left there was no concern about policy changes or interpretations or who would do what. I think it was the most orderly change of authority I ever heard of."

Chicago's force of 12,000, according to Deputy Superintendent Ira Harris, is "in the self-assessment phase of moving toward accreditation." That would make it the largest department in the nation to pursue accreditation.

Like many other big-city departments, Chicago has had its share of grief over corruption, which is the major problem of every police department, regardless of size. "The heritage of American policing is one of brutality and corruption," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose Police Department in California and a highly regard-

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ed but controversial commentator on police matters. He adds that it's been that way since New York City formed its police department in 1845. "The police were manipulated by politicians," says McNamara. "And it is as true today as then that where you have a politically controlled police system, the motives and goals of the political machine are foremost, and you have scandal, brutality and corruption."

McNamara believes accreditation can turn that image around.

The need caused four leading police executive organizations to act. They are the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs' Association, the Police Executive Research Forum, and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, which Chicago's Ira Harris heads. Their aim was to find a way to develop a realistic, workable strategy to raise the status of police work, deal with its problems and make it truly professional.

"There couldn't have been more credible, knowledgeable and professional pollee organizations involved," says Hubert G. Locke, dean of the University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs. "It bodes well for accreditation."

The organizations created the Commission on Accreditation in 1979 and picked Jim Cotter to run it. Cotter had headed the FBI National Academy for 18 years, until his mandatory retirement. On the commission are 11 law-enforcement professionals and 10 representatives from the public and private sectors.

They came up with 1000 standards they thought should be met by most departments. These were sent to 358 randomly selected departments. The number of standards later was pared to 944. If you don't meet them, you can't be accredited. Obviously, a small department without a crime lab wouldn't have to meet standards relating to crime labs.

One revolutionary aspect is that the public has a say in the accreditation. This happens when the inspection team visits the community, inviting the public to say, in effect, if there is any reason accreditation should be withheld. Traditionally, pollee departments are very cool to the notion of inviting citizens to take such a close look.

Jim Cotter says accreditation can work for any size department, whether it's the 25,000-member New York City force or the four-member department at Painted Post, N.Y." But Sheriff Richard Elrod of Cook County, Ill., a commission member and former president of the National Sheriffs' Association, sees some problems for big agencies.

"It can be difficult in a large department-New York, Chicaao, Los Anaeles-because of a need to possibly chanre existing policies, criteria and standards," he says. "It 1s not an easy task chanilnr longtime practices."

New York and Los Angeles are in states whose police chiefs' associations have reservations about the accreditation commission. "We object to a national commission as an intrusion on local government," says Joe Dominelli, executive director of the New York police chiefs' outfit. "We go along with standards and accreditation but want it done on a statewide basts." The California chiefs' group says standards of the Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission <POST> are good enough. It expresses a fear that the accreditation commission could lead to having to deal with a Big Brother out of Washington.

1159 "You know what they're afraid of is what

happened with the 21-year-old drinking age because of drunk drivers," says Howard Runyon, chief of police in Sterling, N.J., and former president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. "States that wouldn't set a 21-year minimum age were threatened with losing federal funds. They think maybe one day there'll be someonethe commission-saying if you don't get accredited, you can't get funds."

Thomas J. Sardino, the current head of the international police chiefs' group, says there's an option open to departments that fear the national commission might become an interfering Big Brother. "That is for meshing the standards to comply with standards set within their own states," he says, "whether it's POST or, in New York, the Municipal Police Training Council."

"The council's standards on use of deadly force, for example, differ only in minor ways from the accreditation commission's, so it's not much of a problem in New York," adds Sardino, who is chief of the 400-member pollee department in Syracuse, N.Y. "But in Tennessee that is a very heated issue right now because of considerable differences relating to the use of deadly force. States like Tennessee may not want to meet the commission's standardsor may not be able to because of state lawso they are not likely to go along with the commission.''

Sardino clearly favors accreditation as a step toward pollee professionalism. He says the Syracuse department already meets most of the commission standards and will very likely seek accreditation.

Jim Cotter says the accreditation commission has no control over any federal or state funds going to pollee organizations. He also insists there is no way accreditation can lead to a national police force any more than school or hospital accreditation has led to nationalization of hospitals and schools.

The standards aim to prevent or correct problems confronting every police department. "Procedures have been thought through and put down on paper as clear directives on how to handle such diverse events as corruption, abuse of suspects, delinquencies by police, hazardous waste spills, mass murder, domestic violence, crowd control, missing persons, runaway children and traffic control,'' says Cotter.

To deal with corruption, for example, there is a strict system of accountability and a sophisticated process for seeing what goes on within a department. Even so, no one is prepared to say there can't be human failure.

AB for excessive force, many states permit police to shoot at fleeing felons or suspects. But the standards say such force may be used only if the life of the officer, or others in the immediate area, is threatened . . . and only then.

"We finally have standards of what a good department ought to look like and be, and put together by professionals,'' says Neil Behan, chief of the Baltimore police. "These are humanistic standards."

Gary Hayes, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, recommends those things stressed by the accreditation commission: leadership, training, written policy.

Charles Sorrentino, a former director with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, says such leadership would be shown by any police chief moving toward getting accreditation because "he is telling them he wants to be professional."

1160 Charles Seiger, chief of the department in

Egremont, Mass., with two full-time members, says it would be great to have the same standards apply to all departments. "It's crazy that they should differ from one place to another."

And Dean Locke says the cost-from $3,800 to $15,000, depending upon sizeshould play no role, "especially when you realize that whom you select for a chief or what you do for your department is as important as whom you choose for the local football coach or team." e

PROSECUTORIAL AUTHORITY TO SEIZE DRUG-RELATED ASSETS

HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOU OF KENTUCKY


Monday, January 28, 1985 • Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I commend to the attention of my colleagues the following article, entitled "Attorneys' Fees Become Issue in Narcotics Cases", which appeared in the January 13, 1985, Washington Post.

For a long time, prosecutors have asked for the authority to seize assets of defendants convicted in drug or organized crime cases. Thus, I was particularly pleased by the inclusion of this authority in the omnibus crime bill enacted into law by the 98th Congress, in 1984.

I believe officials of the Justice Department are exactly right in targeting defendants' assets as "blood money" and ill-gotten gain which should be frozen before trial and forfeitable in full on conviction.

Attorneys who defend these drug kings do so with their eyes open. They deserve no more protection than any other person or entity who knowingly does business with persons indicted on drug or organized crime-related charges. [From the Washington Post, Jan. 23, 19851

ATTORNEYS' FEES BECOME ISSUE IN NARCOTICS CASES

LA WYERS CALLED TO TESTIFY AGAINST CLIENTS

<By Loretta Tofani> Robert Simels, a New York criminal de

fense lawyer, said he was shocked when he was subpoenaed by the prosecution to testify as a witness at a client's trial on charges of cocaine dealing.

Simels this month received a second subpoena, this time to appear before a grand jury to document the size of his fee and who is paying it.

Simels and other defense lawyers say that such testimony jeopardizes the attorneyclient relationship, perhaps forcing the attorney to disqualify himself. But prosecutors say the testimony is necessary to determine whether the defendant has unreported and illegal income.

While lawyers have been receiving subpoenas to testify in their clients' narcotics cases for about 10 years, such subpoenas remain unusual.

Defense attorneys predict that the numbers of such subpoenas will rise as a result of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1984, which gives prosecutors the right to take most assets-including homes and money that would pay lawyers' fees-of a defendant convicted in a drug or organizedcrime case.

To ensure that the- defendant does not spend the money before trail, the government now has the right to freeze the defendant's assets.

"Now that the government is seeking to freeze the defendant's money, it has more incentive to issue subpoenas because it wants to get the money back," said Alan Ellis of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Federal prosecutors have warned at least two attorneys since passage of the law in October that they cannot spend fees from certain clients because that money will belong to the governznent if the client is convicted of a narcotics or racketeering charge.

Neal R. Sonnet, a Miami defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, last month received a letter from Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Leighton saying, "The government hereby puts you on notice that any and all assets belonging to the defendants are forfeitable to the United States, including any attorney's fees or other valuable consideration received by you, or to be received by you for your representation of the defendant."

In another case, defense attorney Jeffrey Gordon of Los Angeles was notified by a prosecutor that the government might be entitled to any money paid him by client Leo Rogers. Rogers had been indicted on charges of obstruction of justice and operating a continuing criminal enterprise-a taxshelter investment program.

Gordon said he intends to argue in federal court this month that the forfeiture provision of the law is unconstitutional because it violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by leaving the defendant unable to pay an attorney.

Prosecutors disagree, saying that the defendant is entitled to a public defender. But defense attorneys point out that only defendants without money can use public defenders. Most defendants charged with drug dealing or racketeering technically have money.

"It might be a catch-22," Simels said Gordon said the forfeiture provision also

could result in violations of attorney-client privllege because if the client is convicted, the attorney must try to prove that the money used to pay his fee did not come from an illegal activity-or he cannot keep his fee.

"The forfeiture provision really strikes at the heart of the adversary system," Gordon said.

Defense attorneys also were worried that the forfeiture provision has great potential for abuse because it makes it difficult for certain defendants to hire excellent defense lawyers, both because the government can claim the attorney's fee and because the government can force the lawyer to testify against his client, encouraging the lawyer to disqualify himself from the case.

But the Justice Department sees the matter differently. "If you have drug money, you're not allowed to buy a plane with it, a house with it or more drugs with it," Trott said. "Why should there be a different rule for lawyers' fees? That money is blood money."

Answered Ellis: "There's no constitutional right to a Mercedes. There is to a lawyer."e

January 28, 1985 A BILL TO AMEND THE FEDERAL

SALARY ACT OF 1967




• Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, I am introducing today a bill to amend the Federal Salary Act of 1967, and title 5 of the United States Code. The purpose of this legislation is to transfer the authority to determine the pay classification of Federal administrative law judges [ALJ'sl from the Office of Personnel Management [OPMl to the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries.

Administrative law judges occupy a unique position in our Federal work force. They are judges serving in the executive branch, who have existed since the days of George Washington when officers were appointed to figure import duties and determine which soldiers were disabled. They hear and decide the appeals from the millions of decisions made by our Federal agencies each year, dealing with everything from the payment of Social Security benefits to the regulation of utilities, the media and interstate commerce.

There are currently more than 1,100 ALJ's, serving in approximately 29 separate agencies and working under the auspices of the Administrative Act and other Federal statutes. Unlike most other Federal employees, administrative law judges are considered personnel of the agency to which they are appointed, but they are selected by the OPM independently of any agency recommendation or rating. In addition, OPM also controls the pay of the ALJ's, and they can only be removed from office after a hearing establishing good cause before the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Administrative law judges also occupy an important place in our constitutional system. While they are not appointed in the same manner as judges in our Federal judiciary, they are, nevertheless, vested with the same responsibilities for maintaining the integrity of our judicial system as are the judges commissioned pursuant to article III of the Constitution. More importantly, administrative law judges generally perform the same duties as do trial judges in our Federal courts. As triers of fact and law, their job is to ensure that agency rulings are legal and fair, and that our citizens are afforded due process of law.

The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the special character of administrative law judges. In Butz v. Economou, 438 U.S. 478 <1978), the Court held that ALJ's are "functionally comparable" to judges employed in the judicial branch, and the Court conferred on them absolute immunity for judi-

January 28, 1985 cial acts. Later in Marshall v. Jerrico, Inc., 466 U.S. 238, 250 <1980), the Court commented on the role of the administrative law judge, observing that the independent administrative law judge is one "whose impartiality serves as the ultimate guarantee of a fair and meaningful proceeding in our constitutional regime."

Over the years, we in Congress have also been concerned with the unique position of administrative law judges in both the career Federal service and our judicial system. Legislative history clearly demonstrates congressional concern and action to preserve the functions of administrative law judges and their freedom from agency influence and control.

In passing the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, we in Congress expressly excluded administrative law judges from the Senior Executive Service [SESl, recognizing that performance evaluations and pay bonuses are incompatible with the decisional independence required of an administrative law judge. ALJ's are, therefore, classified under the General Schedule [GSl pay system. However ALJ's are prohibited by statute from receiving merit pay increases or other bonuses for outstanding performance and, in fact, are excluded from any performance evaluations. These exclusions are necessary and proper in order to avoid exposing administrative law judges to conflict of interest situations. ALJ's need to be independent and impartial in rendering their decisions. To be impartial, however, requires that administrative law judges must be free from all political and employment pressures and control.

Mr. Speaker, impartiality is what this legislation seeks to assure. We have all seen the recent reports that some agencies are allegedly pressuring their administrative law judges to reject appeals. We have read that some agencies may even have quotas on the number of claims which are granted, and that others are supposedly threatening to dismiss or otherwise penalize administrative law judges who grant too many appeals. In fact one group of ALJ's has filed suit against an agency precisely on these grounds. Such allegations, especially if true, do nothing but undermine public confidence in our Government. They strike at the heart and very foundations of our system of justice.

These reports also point out a continuing need to keep the administrative law judges independent and free from improper control by the agencies to which those judges are assigned as well as from arbitrary actions of the OPM. Congress has always recognized the efficacy of an independent administrative judiciary. Such independence serves to structurally insulate ALJ's from the potential of agency retaliation for their decisions. To reassure

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS private litigants of the impartiality of the ALJ employed by the opposing agency, to enhance the credibility of the administrative process, to remove any appearance of impropriety and to maintain public confidence in the administrative process. Congress must continue to foster the independence of administrative law judges.

Mr. Speaker, this bill creates no new obligations, rights or privileges. It follows on recommendations of the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference and the Judicial Administration Division of the American Bar Association. It is needed to solidify the independence of ALJ's. To retain administrative law judges on the GS pay schedule tends to encourage their agencies to view them as other Government employees and to deal with them as such. Moreover, it nurtures unnecessary tension among ALJ's and other agency personnel who take an adversary role in litigation before them. Such dealings impede fair and impartial dispensing of justice. It is entirely appropriate, therefore, that the pay classification of administrative law judges be determined by an outside source, the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries, which has, for years, studied and recommended the salaries of Federal judges in the judicial branch.e

FOOD FOR THOUGHT-AND FOR THE FUTURE

HON.IKE SKELTON OP MISSOURI


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, an editorial written by Mr. Kim Sexton of the Blue Springs Examiner, which is published in my district, brings up a point which should be taken to heart by the various factions working on the 1985 farm bill. The point is the need to work together, to form a farm coalition which will protect all farmers. It is important that we, from rural districts and those with other agriculture interests, do not let the fighting among farm interests cause irreparable damage to the family farmers and farm economy in general. I ask the article be reprinted, and commend it to my colleagues.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT-AND FOR '1'HJ: Ftrrt7RE My New Year's prediction is that farmers

will organize in order to drive up the price they receive for their products.

At a time when the world is starving it is difficult to understand how there could be a record number of farm failures.

Food prices have certainly gone up in the last decade, but most of the increase has gone to distributors rather than growers.

I believe there should be a federal investigation to see whether there has been a conspiracy against farmers and consumers. Meanwhile, I would suggest that producers get together, go on strike or do whatever is

1161 necessary to obtain a fair return on their investment of time, money and energy to feed us.

I know a lot of readers are going to get mad at me for advocating what will likely substantially increase the price of food. I won't like paying more money, either. But I would rather do that now to protect the family farmers and competition than wait for our farmland to be gobbled up by big corporations that will certainly charge even more later.

I don't see any way to keep food prices from going up. The demand is increasing at home and abroad for the most important thing humans need besides water.

I think it is ridiculous for this nation to continue in many cases to pay farmers not to farm, too. Let's grow all we can and send what we don't need to nations where starvation is most prevalent.

It's a national shame to allow the farm foreclosure fad to continue. We know U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton is concerned about this agricultural assault epidemic, and we believe he will encourage his colleagues to give high priority to a solution.

Many of the farms being taken have been in families for several generations. Why are they now suddenly fa111ng at a time when the nation's economy is strong? Please find out, congressmen. Our future requires food.e

SEATBELTS IN SCHOOL BUSES

HON. PETER H. KOSTMA YER OP PENNSYLVANIA


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. KOSTMAYER. Mr. Speaker, today I reintroduced legislation that would provide States with a financial incentive to require the installation of seatbelts in new schoolbuses. I want to congratulate the National Coalition for Seatbelts in School Buses for all of their work in this field aild would like to insert into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD excerpts from an article from one of its recent newsletters.

SEATBELTS IN ScHOOL BUSES

RATIONALE

Seatbelts in school buses serve two functions. The first purpose is to reduce the number and extent of injuries. Although 8 years have passed since the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration enacted stricter school bus design standards, a significant reduction in injuries has not resulted. The National Safety Council statistics reveal 4,100 injuries for 1971 and 4,200 for 1982. Unbelted children have little lateral collision protection, no rollover protection and during a crash they can become human missiles as they are thrown into each other, into the unpadded areas of the bus, and into the aisles, thus blocking quick evacuation.

The second function seatbelts in school buses serve is the education of the children in seatbelt usage. Between 11 percent and 14 percent of the American population wears seatbelts. Children have few role models to follow. Seatbelts in school buses offer an excellent opportunity to teach children the life-saving habit of wearing a seatbelt. This positive training will carry over to the

1162 family car and protect children from their number one killer-the automobile accident.

EXISTING PROGRAMS

The following areas in the country contain school districts operating Type I school buses with seatbelts for each passenger:

Ardsley, Greenburgh, and Port Jefferson Station, NY.

Hartland, VT. Dalton, GA. Manchester and Marblehead, MA. Oxford, MI. West Orange and Plainsboro, NJ. Pleasant Hill and Klamath, OR. Catalina Foothills, AZ. Wilmette, Skokie, and Glencoe, IL. Rochester, MI, will have seatbelts in

school buses sometime this year. THE ILLINOIS PROGRAM

Illinois has four school districts operating school buses with seatbelts. No one has used the belts as weapons and usage rates are extremely high. The buckles are light-weight, easy to operate, and fingers don't get caught in them. Tripping hazards have been eliminated through the installation of the shorter end of the belt in the aisle position. Furthermore, belts are attached to the posterior seat frame and not to the floor of the bus. The belts are color-coded allowing the children to quickly locate their appropriate belts.

Two of the districts have bus monitors, while the other two districts used parent volunteers the first few days of school to help acquaint the students with the seatbelts. The primary function of the monitors is to watch the children outside of the bus and prevent them from being run over by their own bus or another vehicle. Several of our reports indicate that bus drivers have noted a substantial improvement in the behavior of their passengers. Driver error is a frequent cause of school bus accidents and the calmer climate produced by seatbelt usage allows delivers to concentrate better on their driving and observe more carefully the students in the danger zones outside the bus.

Seatbelts make it more difficult for a student to stand up and stick his head out of a bus window. A student in Tennessee was decapitated by an electrical cable when he stuck his head out of the school bus window.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has been actively encouraging seatbelt usage in automobiles, the installation of seatbelts in new school buses is a logical extension of this commitment.e

A BILL TO PROVIDE MORE WORKER OPTIONS IN UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND RETRAINING

HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK OF CALIFORNIA


Monday, January 28, 1985 • Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing a bill to provide more worker options in the use of unemployment insurance and retraining opportunities.

The idea for the bill is drawn from sections 401 through 406 of the Economic Competitiveness and Cooperation Act <S. 2795 ), which was authored

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS by Senator KENNEDY and others and introduced during the last Congress. This is but a small section from that legislation, which provides many incentives to increase the international competitiveness of American businesses. Introduction of just this part of S. 2795 will enable the good ideas relating to unemployment insurance [Uil to be considered in just one committee of the House-a procedure which greatly simplifies the legislative process.

The bill: First, extends expiring TEFRA lan

guage designed to encourage States to establish short-term compensation [STCJ programs and to provide shortterm UI benefits for a worker in a declining industry who works part time while in a State-approved training program. STC is an important, but underutilized option, which helps both firms and workers. As an example, if a firm faces a cut of 20 percent, rather than lay off 20 percent of its workers, the company could cut work hours and pay 20 percent. Under STC, employees could receive 80 percent of full-time pay and 20 percent of what their unemployment benefit would be.

STC has been used in California and two or three other States, but has gone unused in the other States. It is a great tool for encouraging employee loyalty. Rather than firing and hiring with the economic cycles, trained workers can be kept and support for the company built. This is almost a Japanese-style of management idea. For the worker, fewer are laid off, and health and pension benefits are maintained during recessions.

Second, gives UI benefits to workers who voluntarily resign from a declining firm to enter a training program. A declining firm would be defined as one which has had a 40-percent loss of jobs over 18 months or has announced eventual closure, or meets other criteria set by the States.

Third, gives to a worker 80 percent of his remaining weeks of UI benefits if the person accepts a lower wage job. These payments would be made periodically over the course of 1 year to a worker who keeps this lower paying job. This provision is obviously useful for the adjustment of workers in towns where middle-income jobs have been eliminated and only lower paying, or service industry jobs may be available. Rather than having workers wait through their period of unemployment benefits in the often vain hope that better paying jobs will return, it encourages the worker to look at different types of jobs.

Fourth, authorizes extra UI benefits for a worker in a retraining program. This final provision costs moneysome $200 million is provided-and is therefore the most difficult provision to consider during this period of rising deficits. Yet, to the extent it breaks

January 28, 1985 people out of cycles of unemployment, it could be a long-term savings. Under this section, during his first 8 weeks of UI benefits, a worker could elect to get an amount equal to 125 percent of the remainder of his benefits if he's in an approved training program. He will be eligible for these higher benefits for a period equal to the lesser of the length of the training course or two times the number of weeks of eligibility which remained at the time of election.

The Nation spends from $25 to $32 billion a year on UI. It is a program that is 50 years old this year-and I believe that for all its good service, it is a program that has grown too stagnant and too rigid over the years. This golden anniversary year would be a great year to clean out the cobwebs, from top to bottom. In a time when training programs are being slashed and yet unemployment is still above 7 percent, we clearly need to think of new and better ways to use existing resources to help the jobless.

We should be asking ourselves: Can we make the UI Program more

than just a half year to year's subsistance for displaced workers and workers in declining industries?

Since many people in declining industries bounce in and out of UI year after year, can they be retrained or relocated through the UI system so that this cycle is broken?

The bill I am introducing today tries to provide increased flexibility-some increased personal choice-to help workers find a way out of declining industries, to find new careers, and to stay with firms temporarily in trouble.

Congress must consider the future of UI soon as the Federal supplemental compensation provisions expire this March. I hope that at that time some of the ideas contained in this bill can be enacted.e

H.R. 480

HON. G. WIWAM WHITEHURST OF VIRGINIA


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, as I have in previous Congresses, I have introduced legislation which would amend the United States Code to provide that the remarriage of a surviving spouse of a veteran after the age of 60 would not result in the termination of dependency and indemnity compensation. The bill number in this Congress is H.R. 480.

For the benefit of my colleagues, I am including at this point in the REcoRD information which I have inserted in previous years, since the facts have not changed. The first item is a copy of the report sent to the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on May 18, 1978, by

January 28, 1985 Max Cleland, who was at that time Administrator of the Veterans' Administration. He pointed out that the total cost for the fiscal years 1978 through 1983 would have been less than $10 million, and he indicated that the legislation had the administration's support.

The second item is an excerpt from the testimony before the Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension, Insurance and Memorial Affairs of the Veterans' Affairs Committee on April 30, 1980, by Max Beilke, legislative counsel for the National Association for Uniformed Services; NAUS also supported the provisions of my bill.

While the bill numbers have changed from Congress to Congress, there has been no change in the text of the legislation except that "widow" was changed to "surviving spouse."

H.R. 480 would bring the Veterans' Administration into line with the Social Security Administration, OPM, and the Department of Defense, and it seems to me to be a matter of simple equity to take this step to ensure fair and equitable treatment of surviving spouses of veterans, so that some fine elderly people will be permitted to live together in comfort and dignity-and legally married. I urge prompt and favorable action on this legislation.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE

OF ADMINISTRATOR OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS,

Washington, DC, May 18, 1978. Hon. RAY RoBERTS, Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. CHAIR.MAN: We are pleased torespond to your request for a report on H.R. 1744, 95th Congress.

The bill would amend section 103 of title 38, United States Code, "to provide that remarriage of the widow of a veteran after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.

Prior to the enactment of Public Law 91-376, effective January 1, 1971, the remarriage of a widow<er> constituted a permanent bar to the payment of Veterans' Administration gratuitous benefits. The law <38 U.S.C. § 103<d>. as amended by Public Law 91-376> allows the Veterans' Administration to restore those benefits when the spouse's remarriage terminates or is dissolved, absent fraud by either party or collusion. The veteran's spouse may therefore enter into a second marriage without fear of economic deprivation, should the second marriage prove to be short-lived. This provision of the current law proves especially benefical to older surviving spouses who tend to marry men or women of advanced years.

The purpose of H.R. 17 44 is to extend the liberalization provided by Public Law 91-376 to the dependency and indemnity compenation program for surviving spouses.

When a surviving spouse of advanced age remarries, termination of dependency and indemnity compensation may impose severe financial hardship. The new spouse, similarly advanced in age, is generally preparing for or already retired. Such new spouse faces a reduction in income and may be

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS unable, because of age or disablement, to augment it. The remarried, aged surviving spouse also in many instances is precluded from employment to supplement the loss of dependency and indemnity compensation. H.R. 17 44 would provide remedial action to retain for surviving spouses, age 60 or over, entitlement to dependency and indemnity compensation at an economic level at least comparable to that which existed prior to the remarriage.

We observe that the bill employs the term "widow" of a veteran. We believe that, if further consideration is given to this measure, a technical correction may be required to change the term "widow" to "surviving spouse," in order to conform with other recent enactments attempting to eliminate any reference to the gender of a surviving spouse.

Assuming an effective date of October 1, 1978, the estimated 5-year costs of H.R. 1744, if enacted is as follows:

Co1t Fiscal year: fin thowantUIJ

1979 ....................................................... $1,556 1980....................................................... 1,646 1981....................................................... 1,716 1982....................................................... 1,801 1983....................................................... 1,887 In view of the foregoing, the Veterans' Ad

ministration favors enactment of H.R. 1744. This will also serve as a report on H.R.

2893, 95th Congress, an identical measure. Advice has been received from the Office

of Management and Budget that there is no objection to the presentation of this report from the standpoint of the Administration's program.

Sincerely, MAx CI.ELAND,

Administrator.

ExCERPT FRoM TEsTDIONY BY MAx BEILKE

Eligibility to DIC terminates upon remarriage of the surviving spouse, but can be reinstated if that marriage is terminated. NAUS believes that it should not terminate if marriage takes place after the surviving spouse's 60th birthday. Current benefits to recipients of social security, military and civilian survivor benefit plans, and the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan do not terminate if remarriage takes place after age 60. H.R. 809, introduced by Rep. G. William Whitehurst <Va.-2-R>, would allow DIC recipients to remarry after age 60 without loss of benefits. H.R. 809 has 78 cosponsors and is a resubmission of H.R. 17 44 on which the 95th Congress failed to take action. H.R. 1744 had the favorable endorsement of the Veterans Administration.

Senate Committee Print No. 14, 95th Congress, 2d Session, dated January 31, 1978 stated on page 146 that remarriage rate of DIC recipients occurred at a less than one percent rate. Of those that did remarry, 16 percent were over age 60. That computes out to less than 16 for every 10,000 DIC recipients. Those that remarried ranged in ages 60 to 93.

NAUS urges this subcommittee and the full Veterans' Affairs Committee to give consideration to H.R. 809.

NAUS has received several letters and telephone calls, as I'm sure you have also, from widows over age 60 desiring to remarry, but cannot afford the loss of DIC benefits. This leaves them only the choice of continuing to live alone, or "living in sin." We do not believe that either choice is desirable, either for the individuals involved or for society as a whole.e

1163 NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

FOUNDATION ACT OF 1985

HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. OF CALIFORNIA



e Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speaker, the bill I am introducing today establishing the National Technology Foundation corresponds, with only minor revisions, to H.R. 481, introduced in the 98th Congress. The issues that motivated me and my colleagues to reintroduce this bill have neither been resolved nor diminished through our past legislative efforts. These issues loom larger than ever as we begin the new year and the new session of Congress.

We cannot continue to accept the decline in our national competitive position in the world market. Our trade deficit at the end of the third quarter of 1984 was roughly $33 billion, and has been increasing steadily; this trend shows no sign of abating. The causes of our present economic difficulties are many and complex. Some of the problems have been developing for more than a decade, and some are the result of recent shortsighted policies. Fundamental changes have been taking place in the world ~onomy, and we have been slow in responding to them. International trade is becoming an increasingly important part of the world economy. Our economic leadership in the past resulted in large part from our lead in technology and industrial innovation. Now other countries are realizing the important role that technological developments will play in the coming decades. Other nations, such as Japan and France, have been using targeted research and development plans to challenge the United States in markets of both mature industries and new high-technology industries. This fundamental change in the world economy has forced us to search for new approaches in both the short and the long term to ensure that the United States may remain competitive.

Three important areas that require novel approaches are our investment in human resources, investment in new technologies, and our rules for economic cooperation and competition. These areas have received considerable attention in past Congresses, including hearings on the crucial topics of innovation and productivity enhancement by the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology on which I served in the 98th Congress. Other committees and subcommittees have also held hearings on related issues; the Office of Technological Assessment [ OTAl has produced a number of relevant reports.

1164 Through all of this activity, it has

become clear that current efforts by the Federal Government to provide technically trained workers, to facilitate the development and commercialization of advances produced through our basic research efforts, or to enhance cooperative arrangements with our international trading partners are fragmented and insufficient. One obvious consequence is the magnitude of the economic problem currently facing the Nation; another, fraught with significance for our future, is the possibility that the innovative developments we need now to avoid even more serious economic problems later may simply not be happening.

Mr. Speaker, the bill I am introducing today will consolidate in a single Federal agency the responsibility of technology-related programs, now scattered throughout the Federal Government. It is one of various alternative approaches suggested in bills on technology policy in the 98th Congress, several of which were reviewed in hearings held in June 1984 by the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology under the title "Federal Organization for Technological Innovation." There is not, as yet, a developed consensus on the best course of action to achieve the kinds of enhancement in innovative technology and productivity that the Nation needs; this bill to establish a National Technology Foundation provides a vehicle by which we can continue to focus the discussion of alternatives.

As we consider alternatives, it is important to note that the administration is reported to be considering two reorganization initiatives that would have a significant impact on support for technology. These initiatives involve the creation of two new Cabinetlevel agencies: a Department of International Trade and Industry [DITI1 and a Department of Science and Technology. We welcome these proposals as indications of administration concern and leadership. I know that many Members of Congress from both parties would participate in discussing the best means to solve the problems all of us recognize. If these ideas are formally brought before the 99th Congress, I know that they will be seriously considered by the Members and will help shape our own discussion of support for technology, as well as of many other issues.

SPECIFIC NEEDS ADDRESSED BY THE NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION

Links between the generation of knowledge and its use need to be strengthened. The National Technology Foundation would help tie progress in basic scientific research to useful applications.

The National Technology Foundation is proposed as an independent agency with eight main branches dealing with, first, small business; second,

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS institutional and manpower development; third, technology policy and analysis; fourth, intergovernmental technology; fifth, engineering; sixth, national-problem-focused-programs; seventh, the National Bureau of Standards; and eighth, the Patent and Trademark Office and the National Technical Information Service. The agency would have programs transferred from the National Science Foundation [NSFl and from the Department of Commerce.

The act establishing NTF incorporates the two main features of Public Law 96-480, passed with bipartisan support of the 96th Congress, by putting the Office of Industrial Technology functions of Public Law 96-480 into the technology policy and analysis branch of the Foundation, and placing the responsibility for support of centers for industrial technology in the institutional and manpower development branch.

The governance of the Foundation would be handled by a Director and a National Technology Board patterned in organization, though not in composition, after the National Science Board. Key functions of the Board would be to establish the policies of the Foundation and review the Foundation's budget and programs. The Director would have all powers not assigned to the Board, and would be assisted by a deputy and eight assistant directors, one for each branch.

The bill requires close coordination between the National Technology Foundation and other agencies, particularly the National Science Foundation and Department of Commerce. The NTF and the NSF are to have interlocking directorates.

Authorizations in the bill include sums for fiscal years 1986, $480 million; 1987, $670 million, and 1988, $875 million. In each year the eight branches, plus an other purposes category, each have a line item; each branch grows over the 3 years of the authorization. For further information about the bill, I refer you to my introductory statement for H.R. 481 in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of January 6, 1983.

SUJOIAJlY

The concept of a National Technology Foundation grows out of a continuing search for means to enhance the Nation's productivity and competitiveness by the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology during the past three Congresses, as well as studies by other committees and subcommittees and by the Office of Technological Assessment. The consolidation and enhancement of existing fragmented programs in a National Technology Foundation is an alternative deserving careful consideration, especially now when we urgently need to revitalize the American economy.

January 28, 1985 Mr. Speaker, I welcome any com

ments on, and support for, this legislative effort.e

CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT OF 1985-H.R. 700

HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. OF NEW JERSEY



e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join with many of my distinguished colleagues in introducing the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985. This bill, which enjoys widespread bipartisan support, will literally restore our Nation's civil rights laws to the scope and effectiveness that existed before the Supreme Court severely narrowed them in the Grove City case last year.

As an original author of these civil rights laws, I know well that Congress intended them to be applied broadly. It is now our responsibility to close any loopholes and to preserve the full extent of their antidiscrimination provisions.

The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985 ensures that Federal money will not be granted to institutions that practice discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age, national origin, or physical handicap. It states specifically that when a program or activity of an institution receives Federal funds, then all the operations of that institution must comply with the civU rights laws.

Its message, simply put, is that the Federal Government will not, directly or indirectly, subsidize discrimination.

What is at stake, in the end, is the integrity of our civil rights laws. Indeed, these laws embody the promise of American democracy. That promise must not be undermined by a narrow interpretation of our laws.

The Judiciary Committee plans to act quickly on this legislation as a top priority. We look forward to its prompt enactment.e

TAXING SENIOR CITIZENS

HON. DENNY SMITH OF OREGON



e Mr. DENNY SMITH. Mr. Speaker, I have been concerned about the massive budget deficits that threaten to destroy our economy. For several years now I have been pushing for a 1-year freeze on all Government spending. Such a freeze would save the Government $35 billion in 1986 alone, and would give us an opportunity to identify what long-term structural changes

January 28, 1985 can be made to reduce Government spending and cut the deficit.

Deficit reduction should not be achieved, however, by filling the Treasury's coffers with taxes from senior citizens on fixed incomes. I have always been opposed to the taxation of Social Security benefits. Therefore, last week I introduced two bills concerning the taxes recently imposed on certain benefits.

The first bill, H.R. 709, is an outright repeal of the provisions of the 1983 Social Security Act Amendments that instituted taxation on up to onehalf of the benefits received by individuals earning over $25,000 or couples earning over $32,000.

The new tax penalizes individuals for past, unalterable decisions concerning savings and investments. Hard-working individuals who were able to set aside funds for their "Golden Years" are now being hit with an unanticipated tax by the Federal Government. The Government should be encouraging self -sufficiency in retirement years, not discouraging it.

The budget will never be balanced by simply raising taxes. Tax increases have only fueled further spending increases. How many times has this body approved tax increases on the promise of further spending cuts? Yet we never see the spending cuts.

While I favor an outright repeal of the taxation on benefits-and will push for such legislation-something must be done to ensure that while such legislation is still on the books, it is not applied to lower income Social Security recipients.

Under current law, the income thresholds for taxation of Social Security benefits aren't indexed for inflation. In 1984, 9 percent of Social Security recipients faced an increased tax liability because of the ·new law. The Social Security Administration estimates that by 1990, 17 percent of all recipients will be affected by these tax provisions. I have, therefore, introduced H.R. 708, to index the income thresholds.

There is much talk in this Chamber about compassion for the elderly in our Nation. I ask my colleagues to join me in turning talk into action by eliminating the taxes on benefits that the elderly earned throughout their working years.e

NEED FOR A BIPARTISAN COMMISSION ON THE DEFICIT

HON. CECIL (CEC) HEFfEL OF HAWAII



• Mr. HEFTEL of Hawaii. Mr. Speaker, balancing the Federal budget remains our Nation's highest priority.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Unfortunately, balancing the budget has proven to be an elusive goal and future trends show an increasing rather than declining budget deficit. If we are to maintain our economic recovery on a steady course, these deficits must be controlled. Developing a consensus among the many competing interests we in the Congress face has made the task of responsible budgeting increasingly difficult.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation desperately needs a comprehensive budget plan that will guide our economy through a recovery which stands to be compromised if we delay further action on the deficit. I invite my colleagues to join me in cosponsoring the House resolution I have introduced urging the President to establish a bipartisan commission to formulate a deficit reduction plan.

There's recent precedent for such a body. In January 1983 a bipartisan commission presented a plan to solve the Social Security funding crisis. The solution required compromise by all interested parties. Democrats and Republicans alike supported its proposals knowing that they represented the best efforts of men and women of different political persuasions and great expertise. In the same bipartisan spirit and through similar means, we can deal with our growing deficits now.

Mr. Speaker, the urgency of our deficit problem does not allow us to postpone work on its solution. The Nation needs a sound, well-reasoned deficit reduction plan on the table at the earliest possible time. A bipartisan commission on the deficit will move us closer to the goal of a balanced Federal budget and I urge my colleagues to join me in this effort.e

TRIBUTE TO BENNY 0. LARSEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND, INC.

HON. TOM LANTOS OP CALIPORNIA


Monday, Januarv 28, 1985 e Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I wish to pay tribute today to Mr. Benny Larsen, who has been called the "elder statesman of Guide Dog Schools." Mr. Larsen is retiring now, after 25 years of service to the blind as head of one of the finest facilities providing guide dogs to help the visually impaired.

There are few examples of dedication that can equal that of Benny Larson. He has devoted over a quarter of a century to Guide Dogs for the Blind, in San Rafael, CA, where he began as a trainer in 1958 and served as executive director from 1969 to 1985.

A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Benny has always believed in service

1165 to others. He proved this during World War II as a member of the Danish Marines and through participation in the Danish underground resistance movement.

In 1958 Benny came to the United States with his wife, his young son and his dreams. He believed in the concept of America as the land to opportunity and determined that he would use that opportunity to help others.

For Benny Larsen, a lover of dogs and people, the most logical way to do that was by applying his vast knowledge of the dog world toward service to humans. He had trained guide dogs, police dogs and Government dogs in Denmark and, now, in his new country, Benny lent his talents and experience to a rapidly growing Guide Dog Program.

He became a California State-licensed instructor on January 5, 1959, and quickly rose through the ranks of the Guide Dog organization, from training supervisor, to assistant director, and finally, to executive director. His adopted country became his own when, on February 18, 1964, he became a naturalized American citizen.

Throughout the years his advice and expertise have been sought by Government agencies, service organizations for the blind, and those interested in animal behavior and training throughout the world. His sensitivity to animals and people has enabled him to bring out the greatest potential of those he served and who worked for him over the years.

A teacher, in the truest sense of the word, Benny Larsen's wise leadership has made Guide Dogs for the Blind one of the most highly respected service organizations for the blind anywhere in the world today. He has legitimized the role of the dog as a service partner to humans and he has influenced the ongoing development of the guide dog movement in a profound way.

Benny Larsen's mark on the guide dog community is one of dignified and compassionate service leadership, combining faith in man's best friend with belief in human potential.e

SUPPORT FOR THE REINTRODUCTION OF THE NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ACT

HON. DOUG WALGREN OP PENNSYLVANIA


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join Congressman GEORGE BROWN in the reintroduction of the National Technology Foundation Act. This legislation represents a partial but important answer to our mounting

1166 trade deficits. It also places the Federal Government in a position to be more helpful to American companies wishing to compete at home and abroad with products based on new technology.

The National Technology Foundation [NTF], called for by this legislation, would provide a governmental focal point for applied research and technology development. The National Bureau of Standards, the Office of Patents and Trademarks, portions of the National Science Foundation dealing with engineering, and various other governmental offices concerned with innovation in technology would be gathered together in one organization. Over a period of 3 years, major offices dealing with small business, institutional and manpower development, engineering, and national programs would be added. At that point we would have an independent Government agency whose primary purposes were to promote applied research and facilitate the use of Government research results by the private sector as new commercial products.

We have delayed much too long in setting up a technology foundation. Had the foundation been created when this bill was first introduced four Congresses ago, we would be well on the way to matching the efforts of Japanese and European governments in supporting technological innovation. Instead, the Japanese have recorded the largest favorable balance of trade in history while the United States registered the worst. I urge my colleagues to rally behind an idea that can make a real contribution to our economy in the future.e

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS President's desire to solidify United States-Caribbean ties. Nevertheless, there is confusion in the Caribbean as to the best possible American-Caribbean relationship. The current development plans, offered by a variety of governments, development banks, and academics, sometimes contradict, or at best, complement each other. Indeed, there is no regional plan to assault the basic infrastructure problems of the islands.

Responding to the requests of a number of Caribbean government leaders, development experts, and others, I have introduced legislation to create an international commission. It would serve as the prime institution for promotion economic cooperation and development in the Caribbean, defining development plans, providing an international forum for Caribbean development issues, and offering expert advice to donor-aid countries, such as the United States. Consisting of the Caribbean region nations, the United States, and other interested countries, the commission would include delegates from the U.S. Congress in addition to an American commissioner. The U.S. representatives, as in the case of all other representatives, would report their findings to their respective governments for action.

Without question, this commission represents the type of cooperation and planning coordination that h~ been needed in the Caribbean for decades. It symbolizes the best possible approach in harmonious United StatesCaribbean relations. And it is my honor and privilege to introduce a program that promises a peaceful path to the 21st century and beyond.e

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COM- THE 67TH ANNIVERSARY OF MISSION FOR THE CARIBBEAN THE UKRAINIAN INDEPEND-REGION ENCE PROCLAMATION

HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY OF CALIFORNIA


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. DYMALLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to call to the attention of my colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives a matter of vital significance to the future of United States-Caribbean relations. For many years, the social, agricultural, educational and economic problems which have confronted the Caribbean region have not been sufficiently addressed by U.S. policy. The President's Caribbean Basin Initiative [CBil has defined United States-Caribbean relations in business and strategic terms; however, a serious gap remains in the areas of development and infrastructure improvements. I am offering a vehicle to fill that gap.

As a former citizen of Trinidad and an interested American, I welcome the



Monday, January 28, 1985 • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, the Soviet Union is made up of a number of diverse nationalities and ethnic groups. Each has a culture, identity and history which separates it from the rest of the Nation. No people have a stronger sense of national identity than the Ukrainians. They are proud, hard-working people, who have tried to maintain their own individuality and integrity in a system which tries to mold them into conformity. There are, however. people living in the Ukraine who will not be silenced by the repression of a system which ignores their individual rights. These men and women are willing to risk their lives and undergo harsh prison sentences for an ideal. The ideal is that all men and women should be al-

January 28, 1985 lowed to live free of constraints on their individual rights.

Oleksiy Tykhy, Yuriy Lytvyn, Valery Marchenko, and Oleksiy Nikityn join the list of countless others who have paid the ultimate price for their belief in a better way of life. These brave people died during 1984 in Soviet prisons; their only crime was pursuing a policy contrary to the views of the Soviet leadership. On January 22, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America commemorated the 67th anniversary of the proclamation of independence in Ukraine. The tragic deaths of these courageous individuals last year indicates that the commitment embodied in that proclamation bums on. In this regard, I recently sent a letter to Mr. Chernenko decrying the deaths of these brave people, and I also asked that his government make a new and lasting commitment to the Helsinki accords. The time has come for the Soviet Union to guarantee human rights to the people of the Ukraine and all members of its society.e

UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

HON. SAMUEL S. STRA TION OF NEW YORK


Monday, January 28, 1985 e Mr. STRATTON. Mr. Speaker, January 22, 1985, marked the 67th anniversary of the declaration of independence by the Ukrainian Central Rada, the Parliament of the Ukrainian people. I am pleased to have this opportunity to rise in the House, as I have in previous years, to commemorate this anniversary and that brief, yet unforgotten period of freedom for the Ukrainian people, and to reaffirm my continued support and dedication to their fight to regain that freedom.

The Ukraine is one of a growing list of captive nations which has fallen, tragically and violently, under the control of the Soviet Union. The people of the captive nations have suffered severe deprivation. Not only have they been denied the right of self-determination, freedom of expression, and freedom of movement, but actual material well-being.

What happens under the Soviet regime, behind the Iron Curtain, is often obscured to those of us in the free world. News of our friends and families in captive lands is often kept from us, as we are currently reminded by the cloud of mystery that shrouds Afghanistan and that country's fight against Soviet invaders. An earlier, devastating example of this silence was the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33, whereby the forced relocation and collectivization of the Ukrainian peasants and the confiscation and export of their grain caused a disastrous famine

January 28, 1985 that claimed as many as 7 million lives. However, little is known about this famine, and of course, the Soviets deny the whole thing.

But progress was made last year in shedding light on this crime. Following on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian famine, Congress passed legislation, which I cosponsored, to establish a Commission on the Ukrainian Famine to study the causes and extent of this calamity. Congress appropriated $400,000 for the Commission and has required that a report be submitted to Congress in 2 years and be published for the public record. I supported this legislation from the start, and was glad to see it passed late last year. I look forward to the establishment of the Commission and wish them well in their study. I know it will not be an easy or a pleasant task, but it is our duty and our reponsibility to know and to pursue the truth.

We must know what happened during the Ukrainian famine, not only to record an honest history of the people of the Ukraine, but also to understand and perhaps fight its recurrence. Sadly, famine seems still to be the result, if not the partner, of totalitarianism. The Soviet-backed Marxist government of Ethiopia has shown little concern for the plight of the people of that country who are dying by the thousands. Americans and people of other free nations have responded vigorously and generously to the famine victims, yet the Ethiopian Government has even interfered with our humanitarian aid efforts.

So today I want to again commemorate the brief moment of independence for the Ukraine, and to rededicate myself to the fight for freedom and for a decent life for people of the Ukraine for all people.e

INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACT OF 1985

HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. OF CALIFORNIA



• Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing the Information Science and Technology Act of 1985. Joining me as cosponsors of this bill are the chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology, DON FuQUA, and DOUG WALGREN, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology, in the 98th Congress. This proposed legislation is an updated version of a bill I introduced originally in the 97th Congress, H.R. 3137, and reintroduced in the 98th Congress as H.R. 480. The Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology has held hearings on this bill, and the subcommittee's rec-

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ommendations and an analysis of the hearings prepared by the Congressional Research Service [CRSl are available through the subcommittee.

Since I introduced this legislation, the computer and computer-based national information systems have come to pervade nearly every facet of our Nation's life-we can truly speak of the United States as an "information society." From cash registers and supermarket checkouts to 24-hour banking machines and electronic funds transfers; from memory-equipped telephones to microprocessor-controlled appliances from intelligent terminals, word processors and personal computers to supercomputers, robots and automated factorieS; and from bibliographic data bases to communications networks; computers and computercontrolled communications systems have converged in a conglomerate of technologies that are rapidly changing American habits of work, finances, education, and leisure. The information pipeline has become a mig:pty stream.

Information technology and policy issues have not gone unnoticed by Congress. At the request of various House and Senate committees, the Office of Technology Assessment [QTAl has completed or is conducting a variety of studies:

"Computer-Based National Information Systems: Technology and Public Issues," completed in September 1981;

"Radiofrequency Use and Management: Impacts from the World Administrative Radio Conference of 1979", completed in January 1982;

"Alternatives for a National Computerized Criminal History System," completed in October 1982;

"Informational Technology and American Education," completed in November 1982;

"Computerized Manufacturing Automation: Employment, Education and the Workplace," completed in April 1984;

"Effects of Information Technology on Financial Services Systems," completed in September 1984;

"Information Technology Research and Development: Critical Trends and Issues," due to be issued in February 1985;

"Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information";

"Federal Government Information Technology: Congressional Oversight and Civil Liberties"; and

"Information and Communication Technologies and the Office."

In the 1st session of the 98th Congress alone, 255 bills were introduced dealing with this area, and over the entire 98th Congress 12 bills on this subject were enacted into law. And yet Congress-and, in fact, the Federal Government as a whole-continues to lack a coherent information policy, or

1167 even mechanisms for policy coordination and implementation.

Because of the rapid pace of developments in information science and technology, and because of the threats to our international competitive stance created by the development of supportive policies in the countries that are our most active trading partners, the likely consequences of our lack of a coherent policy in this area are highly negative. We must not risk losing our competitive edge, our leadership, in information science and technology; continued increases in productivity in all economic sectors depend on our continued ability to innovate, and information technology has been <and will continue to be> the source of our major innovations.

As hearings and studies on information policy over the last two Congresses have shown, however, we still lack a national consensus on whether we should have a national information policy, much less on what that policy should be and how it should be implemented. To develop such a national consensus, we need to establish a forum in which all the stakeholders can meet and articulate their needs and concerns. The Institute for Information Policy and Research, proposed in the bill I am introducing today, is one of several alternatives for such a forum. The Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology will be evaluating this and other suggestions for means to attain a national information science and technology agenda. My purpose in reintroducing this bill in essentially unmodified form is to provide a vehicle for continued discussion.

I would like to include here an excerpt from a keynote address by Lewis M. Branscomb, vice president and chief scientist at IBM and the immediate past chairman of the National Science Board. This keynote address was delivered at a workshop held on April 14, 1983, under the sponsorship of the Numerical Data Advisory Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the House Committee on Science and Technology and the Congressional Research Service. This workshop was called "Improving R&D Productivity: The Federal Role." Dr. Branscomb's comments illustrate some of the bases for a national information policy, and are especially noteworthy because they are offered by a person with extensive experience in industry, government, and academia.

In his address, Dr. Branscomb outlined six elements of a national science and tech data policy:

1. Productivity of the research and development process, half of which is sustained with Federal funds, should be a major Federal concern. Agencies sustaining the science and technology infrastructure should be held accountable for increasing R&D productivity.

1168 2. Funding of research to produce general

ly useful knowledge carries with it a responsibility, not only to insure publication of results, but also their evaluation and preparation in a form suitable for application and the assurance of public access at reasonable cost. Again, all agencies funding research should be held accountable.

3. The private sector should be encouraged to take an increasing, but not exclusive, role in the provision of access to evaluated data, but commercial companies cannot be expected to finance the depth of scholarship required for data analysis and evaluation. That must be viewed as the obligation of the sponsor of the original research. User fees for the allocated cost of access are appropriate for Government-provided information systems.

4. Unrestricted access to unclassified data, generated at public expense, is a cardinal requirement for a dynamic, high-technology economy. The desire to frustrate technical progress by hostile nations must not be allowed to impede the competitiveness of our own economy in its dependence on available scientific and technical data.

5. It is strongly in the U.S.' interest to make agreements with other nations, to share the costs and scarce skills for data evaluation and access. We should take the lead in this worldwide cooperative effort, as, indeed, we have done in the past. For, as the nation with the most innovative economy, most dependent upon being innovative in the future, we stand to gain the most from global cooperation.

6. The task of evaluating and preparing for application published scientific and technical data of general utility is a joint responsibility of user institutions in the private sector, private information vendors, professional associations and societies, and agencies funding, producing and using research. Some national body with Federal and private participation should monitor the adequacy of this science and technology information system and provide policy guidance to the Federal agencies and recommendations to the private sector.

Mr. Speaker, these remarks deal with only one aspect of the information science and technology policy issues, that of the organization of information; but the remarks apply with equal force to many of the issues facing us in our "information society." I ask my colleagues in Congress, as I have done before, to move quickly to address some of the important concerns brought upon us by the information revolution. At the very least, we must work together to establish a forum within which all the stakeholders can join a national debate. I look forward to working with other Members and other committees to meet the legislative challenge posed by these issues.

A national information policy will happen, whether we come together to bring it about or not; but without a framework for national discussion and coordination, it will be haphazard and self-contradictory and thus operate against the Nation's own best interests. I ask my colleagues again whether our Government, and this Congress in particular, can be foresighted enough to take a considered and co-

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ordinated approach to information science and technology. I continue to hope and believe that we will, and invite my colleagues to join with me and make that hope a reality.e

SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Digest-designated by the Rules Committee-of the time, place, and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or changes in the meetings as they occur.

As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the CONGRESSIONAL REcoRD on Monday and Wednesday of each week.

Any changes in committee scheduling will be indicated by placement of an asterisk to the left of the name of the unit conducting such meetings.

Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, January 29, 1985, may be found in the Daily Digest of today's RECORD.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

JANUARY30 10:00 a.m.

Armed Services Task Force on Selected Defense Pro

curement Matters to hold hearings on the Defense procurement process.

SD-538 Energy and Natural Resources

Business meeting, to consider committee's rules of procedure for the 99th Congress, and committee structure.

SD-366

January 28, 1985 JANUARY 31

9:00a.m. Armed Services

Closed briefing on the strategic doctrine.

SR-222 9:30a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on the nomination of

John S. Herrington, of California, to be Secretary of Energy.

SD-366 10:00 a.m.

Foreign Relations To hold hearings to discuss American

foreign policy. SD-419

Judiciary Business meeting, to consider pending

calendar business. SD-226

Joint Economic To hold hearings in preparation of its

forthcoming annual report. SR-325

2:00p.m. Foreign Relations

To continue hearings to discuss American foreign policy.

SD-419

FEBRUARY 1 9:00a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on the nomination of

Donald P. Hodel, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Interior.

SD-366 9:30a.m.

Joint Economic To hold hearings on the employment/

unemployment situation for January. 2203 Rayburn Building

10:00 a.m. Foreign Relations


SD-419

FEBRUARY4 10:00 a.m.

Foreign Relations To resume hearings to discuss American

foreign policy. SD-419

FEBRUARY5 Environment and Public Works

To hold hearings on the nomination of 9:~~~~Economic

LandoW. Zech, Jr., of Virginia, to be a To resume hearings in preparation of its member of the Nuclear Regulatory forthcoming annual report. Commission.

SD-406 Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings on the nomination of Herbert B. Dixon, to be an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

SD-342 Select on Intelligence

Closed business meeting, to consider committee budget for 1985, committee rules of procedure for the 99th Congress, and legislative priorities.

SH-219 2:00p.m.

SD-342 10:00 a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to consider the nomi

nations of JohnS. Herrington, of California, to be Secretary of Energy, and Donald P. Hodel, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Interior, and other pending calendar business.

SD-366 Foreign Relations


SD-419

Armed Services FEBRUARY 6 To hold closed hearings on a strategy 10:00 a.m.

for the employment of U.S. naval Environment and Public Works forces. To hold hearings on the proposed nomi-

SR-222 nation of Lee M. Thomas, of South

January 28, 1985 Carolina, to be Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.

SD-406 Foreign Relations


SD-419 Joint Economic

To continue hearings in preparation of its forthcoming annual report.

SD-G-50


Foreign Relations To continue hearings to discuss Ameri

can foreign policy. SD-419

Labor and Human Resources Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Subcommit

tee To hold hearings to review advertise

ments promoting the use of alcohol. SD-430


Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to consider the com

mittee budget for 1985, and other pending calendar business.

SD-366

1:00 p.m. Veterans' Affairs

To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Veterans Administration.

SR-418

FEBRUARY21 9:00a.m.

•veterans' Affairs Business meeting, to consider committee

budget for 1985, and committee rules of procedure for the 99th Congress.

SR-418

FEBRUARY26 9:30a.m.

Veterans' Affairs To hold joint hearings with the House

Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative priorities of the Disabled American Veterans.

345 Cannon Building

FEBRUARY27 9:00a.m.


Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative priorities of the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Blinded Veterans of America, Purple Heart, and Vietnam Veterans of America.

334 Cannon Building

9:30a.m. Energy and Natural Resources

To hold oversight hearings to review those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1986, focusing on the Department of the Interior.

SD-366

FEBRUARY28 9:30a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources To continue oversight hearings to

review those programs which fall

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1986, focusing on the Department of Energy,

SD-366

MARCH! 9:00a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources To continue oversight hearings to

review those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1986, focusing on the Forest Service <Department of Agriculture), U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission <Department of Energy).

SD-366

MARCH6 9:00a.m.

Veterans' Affairs Business meeting, to mark up proposed

legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Veterans Administration.

SR-418

MARCH 12 9:30a.m.


Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative priorities of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

345 Cannon Building

MARCH 14 10:00 a.m.

Appropriations BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit

tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es

timates for fiscal year 1986 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

SD-192 MARCH20

9:00a.m. Veterans' Affairs

To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative priorities of AMVETS, World War I Veterans, Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., and Atomic Veterans.

334 Cannon Building 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the American Battle Monuments Commission, Army cemeterial expenses, Office of Consumer Affairs <Department of Commerce>, and the Consumer Information Center.

SD-124

MARCH21 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-

1169 tion, National Credit Union Administration, Office of Revenue Sharing and the New York City loan program <Department of the Treasury), Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and the National Institute of Building Sciences.

SD-192

MARCH27 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the Selective Service System, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Council on Environmental Quality.

SD-124

MARCH28 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the Veterans Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency.

S-126, Capitol

APRIL4 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

SD-192

APRIL24 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Science Foundation.

SD-124

MAYl 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and certain independent agencies.

SD-124

MAY2 10:00 a.m.



timates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and certain independent agencies.

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