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Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. will the gentleman yield? I Mr. THO&AS of California. I will not yield further until I finish my statement. Let me say also that it Is one of the clear signs that the recession is over when we have a jobs bill that moves through this House. With the first jobs bill. I felt that the recession was beginning to wane. Now that we have an emergency farm bill. there is no question in my mind that the recession has waned. because by the time this body moves to the floor with jobs bills and farmers ballout billsand I will use that termthe problem is. the recession is over. I understand the impassioned pleas of the chairman. but understand some of us. We would like to be notified when an emergency bill is being moved. so that if we do have objections. we can do it in an orderly and a reasonable fashion. You can bet. your boots the recession is over. the jobs bill has been off this floor end as we move this piece of farmers legislation. everyone can be assured that by virtue of the timetable upon which Congress works. the recession is over. I support the idea of striking "emergency" from the title.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would like to again make the statement I made to our colleague from California. that the Farmers Home Administration does not prohibit loans H 2398 CO to food and vegetable specialty crops. They work with them. Also as to the fruit and vegetable specialty crops. many producers of these crops avail themselves of the resources of the Government by something called marketing orders. which. by the way. this administration is trying to kick out. if I can use the vernacular. So the record is being twisted every which way here. The Farmers Home Administration does provide loans for speciality crops. fruits and vegetables. They also do receive assistance through federally guided marketing orders. and I wanted to set the record straight in that respect.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman. I rise to inform the gentleman that he has an ally in objecting to this amendment. namely the Secretary of Agriculture. John Block. And I would like to quote from a news release.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

He is truly a friend of the farmer. I do not know about other people around him but Jack Block is. Let me quote from a news release from the Office of Governmental and Public Affairs of the Department of Agriculture. in transferring $400 million in lending authority from other accounts to the FmHA operating loan program.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. The release quotes the Secretary. your and my friend: This interchange will come from programs with a less urgent and immediate need. Without a doubt. farmers who are preparing to plant this years crops will have the most pressing needs throughout the next several weeks. Then the release says: Block is using the Secretary of Agricultures interchange authority to deal with the urgent need. That authority allows funds to be transferred between USDA programs in cases of extraordinary emergency. And then quote our friend Jack Block: It is clear that the urgency to provide operating credit to farmers constitutes such an emergency. Secretary Block.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I appreciate the gentleman yielding. Again with the gentleman from Missouri. I feel terrible that we would deteriorate into this debate. As the gentleman and the record will verify. I asked the gentleman from Mississippi . our dear colleague. if would he not feel that my power of persuasion had something to do with scheduling the bill. because I have been asking not the Speaker. and I specifically say not the Speaker. but the majority leader with whom I deal with scheduling legislation. I had no more notice than the gentleman had. All that I knew was that conceivably this legislation would come up this week. I had been scheduled to go to a parliamentary meeting in Helsinki. but I was informed by the minority leader that maybe Wednesday. maybe Thursday. maybe Friday. the bill might come up. So. to keep the record straight. I had ho more notice than my dear distinguished friend. the ranking minority member. I did not do the scheduling. Yes. I had been insisting that we be brought up at the earliest possible moment. And I would like the record to show that. Now. as between minority and majority. how the schedulers work. I do not know. I thank the gentleman for the time.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman. I will say again that I hope we can get away from this. I had no more notice than my dear friend. the gentleman from Illinois. the ranking minority member. But as chairman of the committee. any time I have a bill out of committee I make a conseentious effort and work daily to get it up on the floor. And that is what I was doing. If I have had some degree of success. fine. But the argument I used with the leadership was that this was emergency legislation. this is emergency legislation. If my dear friend from Illinois changes the name on me now. I am going to be in trouble with them. and the next time he may have a bill on which he agrees with me they are not going to believe us. So I would hope that my dear friend would withdraw the amendment and let me keep my word to the leadership. Secretary Block says it is an emergency. Everybody says it is an emergency. We have got a lot more problems than to be spending an hour on what we are going to call the legislation. I have offered to sit down with my dear friend and discuss his legitimate concerns. We have offered to work with him. I know that he can have some constructive impact on this legislation. I would hope that. somehow. we would get back to that spirit and discuss legitimate concerns. And my dear friend from California mentioned something. I did not criticize the Department of Agriculture for their objection to the legislation. I was criticizing the method which I felt that they were using in usurping some of our legislative authority.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. as sincerely and as respectfully as I have made all of my other statements throughout the day. I thank my distinguished colleague. the gentleman from Illinois. I think that this gets us back on the track to do the work that we need to do within the art of the possible and to resolve the differences that we might have on the legislation. This amendment Is really to correct typographical errors. "for" where it should have been "from" and "paragraph" where it shQuld have been "paragraphs." et cetera.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I move to strike the last word. Mr. Chairman. out of an overabundance of concern for some of what happened earlier today and out of caution. I would like to inform all of the Members that I have asked the leadership after we rise today if the bill could be brought up tomorrow. if not tomorrow. then on Friday. if not on Friday. then on Monday. Tuesday. or Wednesday of next week at the earliest possible time. Therefore. I give notice to all of the Members that should my usual powers of persuasion prevail. we might have this back up again tomorrow. Mr. Chairman. I move that the Committee do now rise.
Date: 1983-04-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the Reverend Sebastian Miklas. after 34 years as director of Catholic Universitys Adult Education Division in Washington. is retiring to a well deserved rest. There could be no more generous or humane individual than Father Sebastian. as he is affectionately known by all. I will remember him especially well. He asked me to speak to adult education classes which he taught. and that was privilege enoughbut he said I was a particularly welcomed guest lecturer because my 15th district had a city named Sebastian. On April 20. the Washington Post featured an article on Sebastian Miklas that I would like to submit. and to add my own personal testimony to this great mans life.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the purpose of the proposed legislation is to amend section 3 of the Miller Act to provide that the department secretary or agency head of a contract. ing agency is to have the responsibility for providing certified copies of bonds required under that act. The bill. H.R. 596. was introduced as recommended by the Comptroller General to the CommIttee on the Judiciary in a letter dated April 22. 1978. As was stated in the recommendation of the Comptroller General. the Miller Act establishes performance and payment bonding requirements for most - Federal construction contracts. Section 3 of the act requires the Comptroller General to furnish a certified copy of a bond and the contract for which it was given to any person who submits an affidavit that: First. he has supplied labor or materials for the construction. alteration. or repair of any public buildings or public work of the United States. and payment therefor has not been made. or. that second. he is being sued on a bond. Prior to an amendment in 1959. the Comptroller General had the responsibility for fixing dates on which the period of limitation for filing suits against Miller Act payment bonds commenced to run. In 1959 the act was amended to eliminate this function on the part of the Comptroller General. The amendment. which was made on August 4. 1959. by Public Law 86135. provided that suit must be commenced within 1 year after the date on which the last labor was performed or material was supplied by the person initiating the law suit. The amendment provided for in this bill would relieve the Comptroller General of the duty of furnishing certified copies of bonds and contracts. This was a function which actually was related to the duties of the Comptroller General prior to 1959 when the General Accounting Office was required to determine and certify the final settlement date of contracts. Since the General Accounting Office is presently not so involved. it must obtain thd copies of the original bonds and contracts from the contracting department or agency when a subcontractor or materialman requests certified copies of these documents under the law. The committee agrees that a more logical and expeditious way of handling such requests would be to require that the agency that awards the contracts should supply the copy of the bond and the contract. As recommended by the Comptroller General. this merely requires that the words "department secretary or agency head of the contracting agency" be substituted for "Comptroller General" in the first and second sentences of section 3 of the Miller Act. The committee agrees that the change recommended by the Comptroller General should be made to the Miller Act and recommends that the bill be considered favorably.* The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. was read the third time. and passed. and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I move to suspend the rules and pass the Senate bill to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide for the issuance of income capital certificates.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the legislation before the House today is basically a technical change in the Net Worth Certificate Acttitle II of the Garn/St Germain Act. That title authorized the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to establish a program to buttress the net worth or capital of qualifying insured banks. especially mutual savings banks which have experienced severe erosion of their net worth as a result of the recession. If an institution qualifies for the program. the FDIC would purchase net worth certificates from the institution. However. when the agency makes such a purchase it must have preferential standing in the event of a liquidation with respect to any outstanding subordinated debt. An unanticipated problem has arisen in the administration of this program. There are a few institutions which have outstanding subordinated debt which is held by a large number of individuals and that debt cannot be subordinate to any other obligation. In order to assure that these institutions receive the assistance they need In a timely fashion. this bill would amend the Net Worth Certificate Act to provide that issuance of net worth certificates by a qualifying institution would not constitute a default under the terms of any outstanding subordinated debt issue. This change in no way changes the requirement that FDIC must have priority over outstanding hubordinated debt issues. As you know. this bill originated in the Senate and was passed by voice vote. In that regard. I would like to have placed in the RECORD at this point a letter from the Honorable MARK 0. HATFIELD. the senior Senator from the State of Oregon. Requesting our favorable consideration of this bill. WAsHINGToN. D.C..
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

I would just say to the gentleman I certainly appreciate his.concerns. But I want the gentleman to know that this Member and his staff also went over all of these concerns.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

I might say to the gentleman that I weighed the equities and I appreciate the fact the gentleman is stating his concern but is doing it in a moderate fashion because it could well be in the near future or the far future the gentleman will have some type of problem within the grand State of New York that also will require a little assistance. I want to assure the gentleman that I will remember his compassion today at the time that he approaches me for assistance for somebody in the State of New York.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

I appreciate that faith. But I would say to the gentleman I have found over the years that it is virtually impossible when we legislate to be able to foresee everything hyphen. semicolon. dash. and exclamation point. So. again. with gratitude for the gentlemans faith in this legislation. I am the first to admit that we will prob-
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman. Very definitely. the gentlemans point is well taken. The GarnSt Germain Act also provides. actually it was in the legislation originally that went from the House to the Senate. it provides that the insuring corporation has to assure itself of the fact that this assistance. capital assistance. you know. will mean survival for the institution. We are not just throwing this money around. The whole purpose of it is for the institution to survive. And with the experience the insuring agency had in the past few years. there is no doubt in my mind that the agency is not about to assist even with this amendment. unless it is convinced that the institution is going to survive. Absent that. as the gentleman so well states. were the institution not to get this assistance. the institutionnot to survive. query: What percentage of those bonds would be repaid to the bondholders? So I think this is exercising compassion and concern for both sides of the issue.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I yield myself 2 additional minutes. I would ask the gentleman from Oregon. what is the State flower? Is it a rose?
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

I just want to say that Mr. WYLIE. our ranking minority Member and I. are going to arrange to have a basketful of grapes sent to both the two gentlemen from Oregon for their efforts on this legislation. Mr. Speaker. I have no further requests for time.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I also ask unanimous consent that the amendments be considered en bloc. inasmuch as. although they relate to one subject inatter. they encompass section 3 and section 4.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

That is one of the areas that would be assisted but it is not necessarily aimed at areas where there are migrant dislocations. But I would submit to the gentleman that it would be a major area.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

No: definitely not. When I say rural America I mean all of us who live in that area of this great country.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I would allow us to transfer technology move to strike the requisite number Of -for new products.. the potential for words. and I do so to engage in a collo- new businesses and industries. that quy with the distinguished gentleman would develop jobs in those areas. I from Oklahoma . think that broadness and depth of I have had some concern expressed meaning could be definitely Interpretto me in relation to the gentlemans ed. proposal. which I think is meritorious. Mr. DR LA GARZA. I hope that It as to what impact it will have on exist- would notand I ask the gentleman ing agricultural programs in higher in- respectfullymean that three or four stitutions like the landgrant colleges people can. say. get together and form or universities. our experiment sta-. a nonprofit institution to apply for a tions. and such. How does the gentle- grant- having no knowledge or experman contemplate his amendment tise but may be Just a way to get a working into that system? grant to begin something. Is that what
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

May I further ask device. and there wereayes 383. noes the gentleman. in the initial section of 8. not voting 41. as follows: his amendment he stipulates that any [Roll No. 771 nonprofit institution seeking a grant. AYES383 et cetera. does that mean that we are Ackerman Boner Coleman (TX) looking at existing nonprofit institu- Akaka Bonior Collins tinAlboata Honker Conable tions?Alexander Borki Cne
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. reserving the right to object. a great number of us came into the Chamber for this vote. The clock downstairs obviously was in error. as well as the clocks on our TV screens. We are wondering if there is an opportunity for us to move to reconsider the vote?
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Further reserving the right to object. Mr. Chairman. the gentleman from Rhode Island. on behalf of a great number of Members. would like to know if there is a parliamentary procedure for those Members who were diligent in an effort to be here on time but were misled by one of the clocks that was obviously in error to have themselves recorded on the vote that just preceded this colloquy. Mr. Chairman. I yield to the gentleman from Texas .
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Yes. Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman. I ask unanimous consent that the preceding vote be vacated and that a new vote be taken on the same amendment at this time.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I move to strike the requisite number of words. Mr. Chairman. I take this time to advise the Members that working with diligence. under the art of the possible. and with very diligent work of staff and the Members. we seem to have reached some semblance of agreement on three of the proposed items that have been in controversy in the legislation. There are a couple of other amendments that I do not anticipate would require recorded votes. So I would ask Members to bear with us. I know of no amendment on which I would call for a recorded vote or anyone on this side would. I would hope such would be the case on the other side. So I would like to advise the Members that we are proceeding working toward a final conclusion of this legislation hopefully within the hour. and. if not. maybe a little bit more time. but not anticipating at this point any further recorded votes. I yield back the balance of my time.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. we see no objection to accepting on this side the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri .
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I appreciate the gentlemans yielding. and I would say to the gentleman that this provision generally parallels the present law under the graduation system under which the Secretary continues working with a borrower and if he finds sufficient cause. he graduates him to a private lender. A similar approach would apply under the deferral. If the borrower is determined. during the deferral period. to be able to repay. he would have to repay under either a rescheduling or under the original loan terms. So I see no objection. as it in part generally reflects the present law on other Farmers Home loans. I would support and accept the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman. I would like to state to the gentleman that I share his concern. This committee. as a committee. shares his concern. and I would like to inform the gentleman that I think we have been responsible. quite responsible. in this area. As a matter of fact. I would state to the gentleman that this committee has in the budget items probably reduced more than any other committee as far as budget expenditures and outlays are concerned. I would also like to tell the gentleman that this legislation on which we work today is within or below the budget as approved by the House. Further. in the areas where we deal in loans and lending guarantees. some of the Items are lower and some are higher than in past legislation. In the end they come out about even. We are not just throwing money at the problem. as we have stated for so long. I would assure the gentleman that our committee will continue with diligence to look at the concerns of the gentleman. and any time we come to the floor of this House we will consider the same concerns that the gentleman has. that we do not create a monster and that we do not just go and throw money at what seems to be a problem. Again. Mr. Chairman. I say that I share the gentlemans concern. but I think that within the limitations in the appropriations process. within the limitations that we have from OMB. within the limitations that have been very explicitly shown on this legislation. with the reservations of the administration. and within our groups. there is practically no area where we could just go wild. Of that I assure the gentleman. Mr. Chairman. again I thank the gentleman for his concern. and I assure him of our cooperation and willingness to work with him and with others of like mind.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I ask unanimous consent that the remainder of the bill be printed in the RECORD and open to amendment at any point.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. in the spirit of cooperation. we would have no objection to the gentleman making the appropriate unanimous consent request and then allowing the. House to work its will.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that in the engrossment of the bill. H.R. 1190. the Clerk be authorized to correct section numbers. punctuation marks. and cross references. and to delete the section headings on page 2. line 5 and on page 9. line 4.
Date: 1983-05-03
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on H.R. 1190. the bill just passed.