May 25, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H 5593

The amount of money that that costs

the Treasury is significant. There is a

no question about it. The additional

amount of money that it costs each

student is not particularly great. It

amounts to about $40 per month.

But here is why I am astonished by

the minority’s arguments. If you look

at the earnings potential for a college

graduate versus a high school graduate

in this country, what you find out is

that on average over the period of a

person’s lifetime, a college graduate

will earn about $14,000 more per year

on average for the entire period of

their working career. If you take a 42-

to 43-year period as the period that you

are going to be working and you figure

that the money will have some value as

well, time value of money, that means

that a college graduate stands to earn,

on average, about $1 million more than

a high school graduate.

My question is this: Why should the

high school graduates be subsidizing

with their tax money, why should they

be working to pay for this interest subsidy during the period that the college

graduate is going to school?

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It does not really make any sense to

me because our proposal does not

eliminate student loans. To the contrary, it increases the funding for student loans. What it does say is that we

will subsidize during the period of the

loan while they are going to school, we

will actually pay that as an additional

loan, but we will not forgive it. It will

not be a freebie, it will be capitalized

and added as principal at the beginning

of the period.

I just cannot understand why Democrats want people who are going to

make a million dollars more on average over their lifetimes to be subsidized by hardworking people who go

to high school. It does not make sense,

it does not make economic sense, does

not make any kind of fiscal sense.

BURTON

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.

of Indiana). Under a previous

forder of the House, the gentleman from

New York [Mr. LAFALCE] is recognized

for 5 minutes.

[Mr. LAFALCE addressed the House.

His remarks will appear hereafter in

the Extensions of Remarks.]

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a

MISSING CHILDREN’S DAY

fprevious order of the House, the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. RAMSTAD]

is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. RAMSTAD. Mr. Speaker, today

marks the twelfth annual commemoration of Missing Children’s Day. Today

we remember the thousands of children

reported missing, pray for their safe return, and hope that 1995 will be a safer

year for America’s children.

I believe this year will be safer for

children in this country because of a

bill that became law at the end of last

year—the Jacob Wetterling Crimes

Against Children Registration Act.

This new law requires those who prey

on children, child abductors, molesters,

who are convicted, to register their

whereabouts with law enforcement for

10 years after their release from prison

or parole.

The bill was named, Mr. Speaker,

after a very special young boy from

Minnesota, Jacob Wetterling, who was

abducted from a small community in

Minnesota in 1989. Jacob Wetterling

was the motivating factor behind my

introduction of the Wetterling bill in

1991. Thanks to the bipartisan support

here in the House and the Senate and

the President’s signature, this became

law.

Jacob Wetterling is also the reason

his family, Patty and Jerry Wetterling,

started the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, which is an organization dedicated to preventing abductions and

finding missing children. Jacob and the

thousands of children who are missing

provide us with thousands of reasons to

keep fighting for America’s kids.

Mr. Speaker, it is alarming when you

think of the statistics. The average

child abductor commits 177 of these

heinous acts before being apprehended

the first time. The children of America

and the parents of America need and

deserve this type of protection afforded

under the Jacob Wetterling law, and I

applaud the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department

for getting this system, this national

registration system of convicted child

abductors up and running.

The second element of that law, Mr.

Speaker, is the community notification provision, a very, very important

provision so that when these dangerous

predators are released back into the

community, child care centers, residents, police departments, and schools

will know of their whereabouts. Because of the high level of recidivism on

the part of these criminals it is essential that we have this type of community notification. After all, people in a

neighborhood deserve to know when a

convicted pedophile is released back

into their community.

I hope, Mr. Speaker, that my colleagues will join me in wearing a white

ribbon today as I am and send this

message to American missing children.

Particularly I send this message to

Jacob Wetterling. You are always in

our thoughts and prayers, we love you

and we will never, ever stop looking for

you.

‘‘PRISONERS OF THE JAPANESE’’

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under

fthe Speaker’s announced policy of May

12, 1995, the gentleman from California

[Mr. DORNAN] is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority

leader.

Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I am certainly glad there is a friend in the

Speaker’s chair as Speaker pro tempore today so I do not have to worry

about whether or not I am taking an

hour away from someone’s getaway

Thursday afternoon, a friend in the

gentleman from Indiana [Mr. BURTON],

who understands and loves history. I

was just showing the gentleman some

of the pictures in the book that I am

about to discuss at length in this historical special order, the book titled

‘‘Prisoners of the Japanese.’’ And the

gentleman and I were just discussing

up there on that lofty perch I believe

the most important in any legislative

body in all of history or anywhere in

the world today, and he said to remind

people that everything I will be talking

about for the next hour also pertains to

Cuba. Cuba at this moment is committing under an evil dictator, Fidel Castro, ghastly human rights atrocities in

their prisons, up to and including in

some cases, and you and I have heard

the testimony firsthand from Armando

Valladares, in some cases equally as

savage as what I am going to read

about the Japanese warlords and what

they did all over the South Pacific

through Burma, into Indonesia, what

they did to Chinese prisoners, Russian

prisoners, American, Australian, and

British prisoners.

Mr. Speaker, we are told over and

over by all of the cable outlets in this

country that about 1 to 11⁄2 million people watch the proceedings of this

Chamber, and sometimes if it has been

a slow or mundane legislative day the

ratings actually go up if there is a special order of quality on the House floor.

Because of that million-plus audience

and because our Galleries are filled

with students today I want to give a

warning that if any parent is home and

they have a child 11 years of age or

under, and I will explain in a moment

why I am going to put the cutoff at 11

and under, I could recommend that

they ask them to go outside and play

or busy themselves in some other part

of the house. If there is any parent in

the Gallery with a child of 11 years of

age or younger, I would suggest that

they leave the Chamber, because I had

nightmares the last two nights reading

this book, and I am in my sixties. The

reason I would say 12 years of age and

up can handle it is for the simple reason that I was in the 11th grade when

the Second World War ended and I went

to movie theaters where the newsreels

were there whether you wanted them

or not, and I saw the newsreels of the

Nazi atrocities, all through occupied

Europe, and I remember specifically

having painful thoughts, if not nightmares, at film of the British taking a

double camp, Bergen-Belsen, and finding so many bodies of tortured human

beings, most of them Jewish, that they

used bulldozers to build mass graves

and then pushed the bodies like cordwood into these mass graves. It was

black-and-white film. They showed the

women camp commandants and guards,

brutal-looking, every one of them excessively overweight, stocky, tough,

cruel faces. And the British soldiers,

typical young ‘‘tommies’’ in their late