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Date: 1989-05-09
Speaker: NITA LOWEY (democrat)
Chamber: H

about authority and funding for New York State to continue its already excellent programs. Madam Chairman. New York State is one of a very few States in this country that have truly excellent vocational education programs. These should be continued. along with authority and funding needed. New York State is very proud of its vocational education system. New York is one of two or three States that have developed and put into place a vocational program that works. I am concerned that this legislation might erode New Yorks hardwon success by taking away much of the States authority and funding. At the same time. however. Id like to commend the chairman for moving forward legislation to invest more money in our disadvantaged youth and adults. The work force of the 21st century is already in our elementary schools. These future workers need skills which they are not getting. skills required if our Nation is to compete in the global marketplace. We need a fundamental recasting of most vocational education prograns. To many State and local vocational education programs prepare young people for the kind of workplace that no longer exists. Our future workers need reasoning skills. technological skills. and adaptability for the workplace of the 21st century. They do not need to learn to make buggy whips and Stanley Steamers. This legislation takes a badly needed first step. I held 9 days of hearings on competitiveness and the quality of the American work force during the last session of Congress. Witness after witness testified about our growing education deficit. Thousands upon thousands of undereducated. underachieving youth. for whom there are fewer and fewer blue collar jobs. are victims of this deficit. Without stateoftheart vocational education. these youth will become adult welfare recipients in the future. costing our Nation billions of dollars each year. instead of becoming the skilled trained workers our Nation needs. This Is a wonderful piece of legislation. It gives broad authority to cities and States to carry out excellent. wellconceived vocational education programs including special programs targeted to the poor and the disadvantaged. and Including special programs on computer literacy. which is Indispensable to having a productive career in todays job market. Over 90 percent of the no:w jobs that will be created by the end of the century will require some postsecondary education and will require computer literacy. States and the cities have an obligation to use these funds creatively and productively.
Date: 1989-05-16
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. today we pay tribute to our late colleague Jim OHara. and it is with great sadness that I rise to speak. A man of friendliness. enthusiasm and cooperation. Jim OHara employed his engaging personality to gain support for the causes in which he believed and for programs which would assist the people of his district. He was a man who often spoke of his great sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving the country he loved. In this. I believe. rested the heart of his personal and political commitment. and to this end he devoted his tremendous energy and vision which so characterized all his efforts in public service. His passing has taken from me a friend. from the citizens of Michigan a dedicated representative. and from the people of our country a great statesman. May God let the light of His countenance shine upon him and give him peace.
Date: 1989-05-18
Speaker: JIM WRIGHT (democrat)
Chamber: H

to the majority leader. TOM FOLEY. to the majority whip. TONY COELIOto my friends on the committee. to my friend the gen. tleman from Massachusetts and all the others. plus ow colleagues who have additional inter. ests who worked today to make it pos. sible to bring this veterans supplemen tal appropriations bill to the flooi today. We have had a whole lot of coopera tion in order to bring this about. fron everybody here. and from everybody a who is interested in what we are doing. I Just want to say "Thank you" to all of them.
Date: 1989-05-18
Speaker: WILLIAM J. BENNETT (democrat)
Chamber: S

Director. Office of National Drug Control Policy. Executive Office of The President. Washington. DC. DEAR MR. BENNETT: The American Bankers Association greatly appreciates your request for recommendations as to how the banking Industry can aid the government in curbing our countrys drug problem. Our members are keenly aware of the need for active participation from the private sector in addressing this critical issue. We hope all members of our nations business community will rise to the challenge. Specifically. I have enclosed a detailed paper prepared by ABAs Money LaunderIng Task Force. This group provides advice and comment on legislative and regulatory proposals and is designed to coordinate all of ABAs present and future programs to educate its members and the government on how best to prevent the usq of banks for money laundering both in the United States and abroad. The enclosed paper is only one aspect of our industrys resolve In this critical area. Your task is Indeed formidable and we pledge our continuing support. Sincerely.
Date: 1989-05-18
Speaker: TIMOTHY WOODMAN (democrat)
Chamber: S

Chairman. Merrimack River Corridor Coordinating Commftte Concord Public Library. Concord. NH. DEAR MR. WOODMAN: The Town of Canterbury endorses the efforts of your Committee to obtain Congressional authorization for a wild and scenic rivers program study of the Merrimack. River. including the segment of the river that lies within Canterbury. It is recognized that the Merrimack River and its corridor represents many important and outstanding resources. both natural and manmade. There is a definite need to plan for the future of these resources and those who use them. and for the planning to be done by the cities and towns that share the river. We look forward to joining with you and the other communities on the river in this study. and intend to actively participate in these efforts. Sincerely.
Date: 1989-05-24
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I want to commend the Rules Committee for making in order the MillerAuCoin amendment which will fund the drug legislation that was passed by Congress last year. We all know what the drug menace is doing to our communities. Let me tell you that in my area and in the other U.S. Insular areas. drugs that are being transported from Latin America or from Asia to the mainland are devastating once wonderful. idyllic island communities. We need the funds that havent been provided to fight the drug war. So. I hope that the House will support the rule. I want to commend the gentleman from California and the gentleman from Oregon for making sure that we put our money where our mouths were last year and seriously fund drug abuse prevention and treatment.
Date: 1989-05-24
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I support H.R. 2442 which would provide many of the still unappropriated funds authorized by the 1988 AntiDrug Abuse Act. And I thank the sponsors. the gentlemen from Oregon and California. LEs AUCOIN and GEORGE MILLER. for proposing It. Our constituents are sometimes cynical about the purposes for which their tax dollars are spent. But there can be no question that they want an allout war to be waged on drug abuse. And although there is a lot of talk in Washington about waging such a war. the necessary resources havent been dedicated to it. The diug traffickers. though. have the resources they need. Some of what we need to fight them was authorized by last years AntiDrug Abuse Act. but much of this hasnt been provided. Mlay 2.4. 198.9 For example. there have been almost no appropriations for authorizations within the jurisdiction of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. Meanwhile. we continue to lose the drug abuse war. Drug abuse Is probably the most serious social problem in many of the Insular areas. It is particularly serious in the Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico. and Palau. It has caused crime so vicious and pervasive that it has changed the very nature of island societies. Violent crime rates actually range to many times the national average and most of these crimes are drug related. And the Insular drug problem Is not just a local problem. it is a national problem. Drugs are abused In islands as a byproduct of increasing foreign transshipment throughthem into the lucrative U.S. market. Yet Federal prevention and treatment efforts In the Insular areas are spotty. And local efforts are limited because insular govern. ments dont have the required resources. The Insular areas drug abuse amendments I sponsored last year as part of the AntiDrug Abuse Act would dedicate some of the resources needed to counter the national drug abuse threat In the Insular areas. It is understood that the amendment would proportionately fund these authorizations. along with other programs authorized by the act. This Includes $13 million for preventionincluding both law enforcement and educationand treatment in the U.S. Insular areas and the trust territory.
Date: 1989-06-06
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I have been honored to know and admire our new Speaker. for a quarter of a century. I first met ToM FoLzy in the early 1960s. when he was chief aide on the Senate committee that had Jurisdiction over the insular areas. and I was a young legislator from the U.S. Virgin Islands who came to lobby before Congress.. In 1972 when I came to Congress as Delegate. he was a hardworking member of. the Interior Subcommittee that had Jurisdiction over the U.S. insular areas. and which I chair today. TOM FOLEY got to know the insular areas very well. He visited the Virgin Islands and many Pacific island groups like Palau. which is now the subject of important pending legislation. TOM FOLEY was one of those special Members who took time to get to know myself and other new Members back in 1972. Even as he climbed in the House leadership. he maintained the rare ability to listen to others with his full attention. and then draw people together to find solutions to the most difficult problems. Over the years. I have come to stand in awe of his abilities as a Congressman. In 1983. I served on the House delegation. leu ."OM FOLEY. that went to Grenada after the invasion. Our new Speaker handled that delicate task with great sensitivity and I recall telling him at that time he would make a great Secretary of State. Since then. I have come to believe he is capable of filling any top leadership job our country has to offer. We are indeed fortunate in this House. in this country. and in the U.S. insular areas to have a man of ToM FoLEYs caliber ready to become Speaker at this ritical moment.
Date: 1989-06-08
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture may have until midnight. tomorrow. June 9. 1989. to file a report on the bill . to amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to allow producers to provide the appropriate county committees with actual yields for the 1989 and subsequent crop years.
Date: 1989-06-08
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture may have until midnight. tomorrow. June 9. 1989. to file a report on the bill to limit a previous owners right of first refusal in the case of fraud or resale for sales of farm property by the Farmers Home Administration and the Farm Credit System.
Date: 1989-06-09
Speaker: LEE ATWATER (democrat)
Chamber: S

Chairman. Republican National Committee. Washington. DC. DEAR MR. ATWATER: Your recent declaration of intent to carry a strong message to the President of the United States on behalf of the Two Forks Dam was strongly criticized by the majority of Nebraskas Congressional delegation. As elected representatives we believe it is entirely Inappropriate for the Chairman of the Republican National Committee to be interfering while a delicate review of the project is underway by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rationalization that you were just acting as a "private citizen" is unacceptable and unbelievable. This is particularly true given the circumstances of your original statement. namely an audience of Colorado Republicans most of whom may today wish you were a private citizen. Initially. I was pleased when you indicated that you had made a mistake. I said publically that you were smart to have understood the nature of the error. However. your subsequent statements have caused me to conclude that I had misjudged you. First of all. you claim to have been misquoted. Mr. Atwater. this is simply not ture. Your voice has been captured on tape saying: "The battle is not finished yet. and I intend to go back and have a very serious discussion with the president. I want to let him know the sentiment of people out here who I have confidence in and who Ive worked with over the years." In fact this kind of misrepresentation of fact appears to be your principle operating procedure. You assume that because you have a respectable position you can say what you want * � * the truth be damned. You evidently assume that is acceptable behavior in American politics. Your successes have led many to conclude that this is so. You assume you can tell a lie and that people will understand because thats the way its done. I understand you set some kind of new political record the other evening in New York by saying straight fuced that you didnt realize William (AKA Willy) Horton was black. Given your behavior in the last Presidential election I find your statement that Senator Exons assertions are the "most outrageous in the twenty years you have been in politics" laughable. Finally. you pathetically express the hope that the people of Nebraska "exmaine the senators concepts of civil liberties and civil rights when he questions my right to talk to the President about this issue." My satisfaction seeing you finally demonstrating concern for someones civil liberties and civil right (albeit your own) does not calm the outrage I feel hearing you say these words. Mr. Atwater. you have asked Senator Exon to retract or clarify his statement. He needs to do neither. you need to do both. Sincerely.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill to amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to allow producers to provide the appropriate county committees with actual yields for the 1989 and subsequent crop years. as amended.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker. payments to producers under Federal agricultural price support programs are determined. in part. by the farm acreage bases. crop acreage bases. and farm program payment yields established for each farm entered into the program. Farm program payment yields determine the production per acre on which payments to program participants are based. if payments are to be made. Many farmers who participate in Federal farm programs have expressed their concern that the program payment yields currently used by the Department of Agriculture are not reflective of the actual production on many farms. H.R. 2042 would provide the means for the Congress to analyze this issue. It would require the Secretary of Agriculture to allow producers of wheat. feed grains. upland cotton. and rice to report actual yield data for the 1989 and 1990 crops to the county committees established under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. The bIll would also require the Secretary to notify producers of the opportunity to submit data regarding their actual yields to county committees and to maintain such data for at least 5 crop years. Under H.R. 2042. the Secretary would determine. and report to the Congress by January 30. 1990 regarding. what the costs of the wheat. feed grains. upland cotton. and rice programs would be if actual yields. and other specified methods. were used to determine farm program payments yields for the 1989 crop year. The Secretary would also be required to assess what impact the use of such yield determination methods may have on each commodity program and on program participants. It Is expected that this report from the Secretary will provide the Committee on Agriculture with information regarding the merits of using actual yields to determine farm program payment yields. This information will be useful as the Committee begins consideration of legislation to reauthorize basic commodity programs as part of the 1990 farm bill. Similarly. producers of soybeans have expressed concern that no actual yields are available from county committee records on which to base certain policies under the Federal crop insurance program. H.R. 2042 would address this problem by requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to allow producers of soybeans to report actual yield data for the 1989 and 1990 crops to county committees. to notify soybean producers of the opportunity to submit such data. and to maintain such data for at least 5 crop years. Madam Speaker. this legislation was approved unanimously by the Committee on Agriculture. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that there would be no significant cost to the Government to implement the provisions of H.R. 2042. I commend H.R. 2042 to the House and urge its passage.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume. . Madam Speaker. Just very briefly. I do this to mention to my distinguished colleague and friend from Minnesota that his concerns are certainly well taken. but I wanted to assure the gentleman that our committee has been responsible and we have accepted the discipline which has been imposed and demanded by the American people. We have reduced agricultural spending by about $30 billion in the past 8 years. This year we have been allocated $1 billionsomething but actually we will have to reduce about $600 million. Every year that the Committee on the Budget has given us a number we have met that number. So I would think that the gentleman could rest assured that as the gentleman from Illinois and the gentleman from Texas and the present membership of this committee remains the same. then we have nothing to worry about Madam Speaker. I yield such time as he may consume to our distinguished colleague. the gentleman from Indiana . who along with our distinguished colleague. the gentleman from Illinois is one of the principal authors of this legislation.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DR LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished gentleman from Kansas (Mr. GLICKMANI. chairman of the subcommittee.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill to limit a previous owners right of first refusal in the case of fraud or resale for sales of farm property by the Farmers Home Administration and the Farm Credit System. as amended.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker. in the 1987 Farm Credit System Act. we had a section called borrowers rights. and that was to try and work with individuals that had difficulty in keeping up payments with the )l-.a mers Home Administration and other institutions. We have found. now. that there are some corrective measures needed. and this bill does exactly that. H.R. 2469 is designed to curb certain abuses involving the rights of first refusal and preferences granted with respect to the purchase of land which has been acquired by the Secretary of Agriculture or an institution of the Farm Credit System. These privileges were granted as a result of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 as a means to help farmers. who had been forced off their land through foreclosure. to return to farming. Currently. persons who have been convicted of fraud against the Federal Government or an institution of the Farm Credit System are allowed to exercise a right of first refusal or to receive a purchase preference to regain title to the land. The Committee on Agriculture does not believe that such persons should enjoy the benefit of these privileges. This bill would eliminate the right of first refusal. granted by the provi. sions of the Farm Credit Act of 1971. for persons hwo have been convicted of criminal fraud against the U.S. Govermnent or any Institution of the Farm Credit System. Similarly. this bill would eliminate the preference given under the provisions of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to borrowerowners and others who have been convicted of criminal fraud against the U.S. Government. It has also come to the committees attention that some parties are exercising these privileges In order to profit by reselling the land to third parties. The intent of granting these privileges was to help farmers who were forced off the land to return to farming rather than permit them to profit by brokering their former land. H.R. 2469 would limit the ability of previous owners who have purchased real estate from an institution of the Farm Credit System pursuant to a right of first refusal. and certain others who acquire title from those previous owners. to transfer such real estate for a period of 2 years. Similarly. this bill would provide limitations on the ability of borrowerowners or others who have purchased real property from the Farmers Home Administration pursuant to the grant of a preference from the Secretary of Agriculture. and certain others who acquire title from them. to transfer such real property for a period of 2 years. Madam Speaker. this legislation has the broad support of the Committee on Agriculture. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that there would be no significant cost to the Government to implement the provisions of H.R. 2469. I commend H.R. 2469 to the House and urge its passa ge.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield such time as he may consume to my colleague. the distinguished gentleman from Oklahoma . the principal author of the legislation.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on H.R. 2042 and H.R. 2469. the two bills Just passed.
Date: 1989-06-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Here we go again. Madam Speaker. I am speaking of Dairy Goat Awareness Week. which I now hereby officially declare for the third week in June.