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Date: 1991-02-28
Speaker: M CEWEN (republican)
Chamber: H

Now they are walking around here today and saying. one dear Senator from the Northeast said that It shows that the CIA was wrong. Their army was not nearly as strong as we thought. The truth of the matter is that General Schwarzkopfs plan. using the A10 tank killers. using the B52s which because we do not have a B2. we had to use the remnants from the Eisenhower administration in order to pound the Republican Guard into oblivion. so that when we went across the border. we then did the mopup and cleanup. George Bush was absolutely right. When everyone was standing around here saying no. no. no. no. no. leave the troops in -the desert. let them die In the sand. let them sit there for 6. 8. 10 months. We have valentines we want to send to Saddam Hussein. I am sure that sometime in September or October he will come out and say. "Oh. I surrender. I withdraw because of the sanctions."
Date: 1991-04-18
Speaker: JOHN J. RHODES (republican)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman from Maryland for those very kind and wellconstructed words. It is always nice to hear them from a distinguished Member of the House. I would like to now yield to my good friend from Indiana. JoHq MYEis.
Date: 1991-04-18
Speaker: JOHN J. RHODES (republican)
Chamber: H

I thank you. and I say to the gentleman from Indiana. he just made a remark about something that I had noticed. too. There are not any sitting Members who are just beating the doors down to join this organization of ours.
Date: 1991-04-18
Speaker: JOHN J. RHODES (republican)
Chamber: H

And that is the way it should be. But once a Member. always a Member. And so we always feel welcome here. And now. Mr. Speaker. it is my great pleasure to turn to the gentleman from Minnesota. the cofounder of the Association of Former Members of Congress. with Brooks Hays. and he is always welcome. and he will always be recognized by me to say whatever he wants to say.
Date: 1991-04-18
Speaker: JOHN J. RHODES (republican)
Chamber: H

Thanks. Walter. It is always good to hear those words of wisdom from our surviving founder. All Members thank the gentleman for those remarks. I did mention that several of our former Members are doing Just what they said. and serving in other areas. One of those Members just walked in. I would like to have the gentleman stand up. Secretary of Interior. Manuel Lujan. Now. Mr. Speaker. it is my great pleasure to do what we have all been waiting for me to do. and that is to give the Distinguished Service Award to a very distinguished person. This lady has a wonderful record in the Congress of the United- States. not only in legislation. but also. for want of a better word. I will say extracurricular activities. such as being tapped by the leadership to be chairman of all the bicentennial activities of the House of Representatives. She did an outstanding job. And as a result. the observance of the bicentennial in the House of Representatives. I think. was as good or better than any similar body or any similar observation in the country Lindy. whenever a good person leaves the House or Senate. we always feel two things. One is that we are sorry that the person will no longer be serving in the capacity in which he or she did serve. but the second one is a feeling. he or she deserve to take a rest and do some of the things that he or she has wanted to do. I am sure that Lindy feels that way. and we all feel that way about her. However. I want to express the hope that as she progesses in her beautiful life. and it is a beautiful life. that she will remain a very active. caring. contributing member of the Association of former Members of the Congress. I bet that she will. Lindy. would you please come up now and let me present to you. first. a gavel. This is for you. It says: Presented to the Honorable LIAndy Boggs on the floor of the House of Representatives by the United States Association of Former Members of Congress in recognition of her distinguished service to the Republic. Washington. D.C.. April 18. 1991. Lindy. also. it just so happens that when the word got out that you were to be given the Distinguished Service Award. a lot of people decided they would like to write letters and thank you for everything that you have done. These two books contain those letters. I know you will want to read them at your leisure.
Date: 1991-04-22
Speaker: VANDER JAGT (republican)
Chamber: H

tracts in Alaska required by the Tongass State of the Union. Timber Reform Act submitted February 26. Mr. M . 1991. Jointly. to the Committees on AgriculMr. ARcmn in two instances. ture and Interior and Insular Affairs. PUBLIC BILLS AND
Date: 1991-05-22
Speaker: SAM JOHNSON (republican)
Chamber: H

appeared at the bar of the House and took the oath of office.. as follows: Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies. foreign and domestic. that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that you take this obligation freely. without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter. So help you God.
Date: 1991-06-19
Speaker: VANDER JAGT (republican)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the economy is rebounding. we are told. It may take a while. it is said. We need aggressive entrepreneurs. businessmen willing to act on their dreams and to reach out to the marketplace effectively. None of us would disagree. That is why it is a pleasure for me to draw attention to the dynamic leadership and industrial growth being generated by Robert L. Kersman of Muskegon. MI. in the Ninth Congressional District which I have the honor to represent. Buzz Kersman assumed the leadership of Lorin Industries. an anodizer of aluminum. from his father a decade ago. He has taken the company. in a city where economic difficulties have persisted even in some of our better times. and provided continuing growth and expansion. Today Lorin Industries. under Bobs leadership. has grown to supply 50 percent of the domestic aluminum anodizing market. In addition. a small fabricating company he founded supplies such items as the aluminum windshield frames for the Armys Humvee which performed so capably in the recent Desert Storm operation. We in the Ninth District and the citizens of Muskegon are proud of the dynamic leadership and industrial growth which Buzz Kersman and Lorin Industries employees have provided in our area. I offer for my colleagues review an article on the company and its workand the leadership of Bob Kersmanwhich appeared in the Muskegon Chronicle earlier.
Date: 1991-07-10
Speaker: FRANK WOLF (republican)
Chamber: H

and others. we met with Li Peng and a number of other high leaders. we have been receiving firsthand reports that the house church movement and a number of other religious leaders. including bishops. have been under increased repression and there have been more arrests. more detentions. and more incarcerations for a number of years. Mr. Speaker. I am also very pleased that the bill reflects one of my deepest concerns. a concern with regard to the onechildpercouple policy and the use of coercive abortion and coercive sterilization against the Chinese women and children. One of the most succinct analyses I have seen of the Chinese population control program is found in Dr. Airds book in which he points out that "the Chinese program remains highly coercive. not because of local deviations from central policies but as a direct. inevitable and intentional consequence of those policies." Dr. Aird points out that foreign organizations and individuals that laud the Chinese program or provide financial or technical assistance for any aspect of it place themselves in the position of supporting the program as a whole. Mr. Speaker. I believe we have an obligation to be consistent in decrying these human rights abuses at every juncture. whether it be In MFN or in such things as the KempKasten language.
Date: 1991-09-11
Speaker: WARREN H. STEWART (republican)
Chamber: S

e Mr. DEConCNqI. Mr. President. I rise to share with my colleagues a speech by Dr. Warren L Stewart. Sr.. pastor of the First Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix. This speech was delivered at the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life luncheon on July 17. 1991 during the 70th General Assembly of the Episcopal Church In Phoenix. AZ. Dr. Stewart passionately expresses his views on the human rights of the unborn child and the need to preserve lifeviews which I shareand I strongly commend his remarks to my colleagues. I ask that the speech be printed in the REOCRD. The speech follows:
Date: 1991-09-11
Speaker: WARREN H. STEWART (republican)
Chamber: S

Past ChairpersonArizonans for a Martin Luther King. Jr. State Holiday. and Pastor. First Institutional Baptist Church I am here today because I believe that all human life is sacred from the womb to the tomb. I am here because I agree with the oftstated "Sanctity of Human Life Ethic" which reads. "The reverence for and sacredness of each and every human life (is) based upon its intrinsic worth and equal value regardless of its stage or condition from conception to natural death." I am here because I believe that "all men and women are created in the image and likeness of God" and should be guaranteed "life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness." An extremely significant and historical reason I am here is because I believe that if Martin Luther King. Jr. were alive that he would be here. You see. Dr. King did not limit his civil and human rights beliefs to the awful consequences of racism and bigotry in America perpetrated against persons of his race only. No. Dr. King spoke out against the nearannihilation of the NativeAmerican peoples of this Land who were before the Mayflower. He declared that Hitlers Holocaust of six million Jews stands as a haunting memorial of "mans inhumanity to man." In the early 1960s. Martin King denounced the South African governments horrendous system of apartheid. Martin Luther King. Jr.. Ph.D.. a son of a middle class. big city preacher. spent most of his adult. life championing the causes of the poor and needy of ever color. Although accused of being a Communist. listen to Pastor Kings own words on Communism. "Communism and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible. A true Christian cannot be a Communist. for the two philosophies are antithetical and all the dialectics of the logicians cannot reconcile them." Regrettably. Dr. King was right about Americas involvement in the Vietnam War. (History has proven him right!) And. Martin Luther King. Jr. loved both his children and the children of America. For. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. D.C.. in 1963. in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. he proclaimed. "I Have a dream that one day down in Alabamawith its vicious racistsone day right there In Alabama. little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys .nd white girls as brothers and sisters." Thats why I believe that if Martin were alive that he would be here eloquently enunciating the human rights of unborn children in words akin to this. "red. yellow. brown. black and white. They are all precious in His sight. (Martin) loves the little children of the world." Lastly. I am here really for one reason and one reason only. I am here to celebrate lifethe lives of precious little babies who have a right to live. as much of a right as their mothers did when they were in their mothers wombs. I am here to celebrate the right of unborn children to live which negates the Supreme Courts alledged right of an expectant mother to choose to end the life of the developing human life within her for any reason whatsoever.
Date: 1991-09-12
Speaker: VANDER JAGT (republican)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. because "caring cant wait." thousands and thousands of homes have a poster card red and black eye looking out the front window. An eye on the community. the all seeing eye which knows the who. what. where. when. and why of the local community. Community Child Watchso simple a concept. and so tragically necessary because our children today are threatened. So the eye becomes not only the presence of citizens concerned and protective of the safety of our young. but also a beacon to those young who may feel. or be. at risk. My home State of Michigan has dedicated the week of September 22 through September 28 as Michigan Community Child Watch Week. During this period special attention is being drawn to the community based effort to provide protection and safe haven in our neighborhoods for our children who are so vulnerable. Community Child Watch was born in 1979 following the abduction and murder of an 11yearold child. The program provides a formal structure for organized efforts within the community to provide safety and communication within our neighborhoods. The participants in the program receve training in the princoes which underlie their participation: watch. observe. record. and report. The participants are subjected to a criminal history check through the - Law Enforcement Information Network [LEIN]. Once the 1 hour educational training session and LEIN check are completed. an individual will display the unique Community Child Watch eyeand make a real contribution to the safety of our children and to a reduction of crime in our neighborhoods. The Michigan Community Child Watch Program-"because caring cant wait"-is an ideal opportunity for senior citizens to continue an offen active history of community involvement at a time when physical limitations may restrict. more demanding activities. It is ideal for the family where a parent has chosen to dedicate days to family care giving. It is ideal for every home and every adult who simply wishes to use home time constructively. In cities across our Nation our citizens are rallying to take back their neighborhoodsfrom decay. from crime. from those who would turn homes into. prisons out of fear and frustration. The people of Americas neighborhoods arefighting backthrough crime .patrols. through community clean up. through innovative recreational and neighborhood involvement programs for our youthand through programs such as Community Crime Watch. It is a pleasure to be able to recognize the special focus that is being placed on this fine program during the week of September 22 in Michigan and in communities in our Ninth District. I hope that this kind of community spirit and interest will continue and that it will .grow so that once again our children will be free to walk their neighborhood streets. to play "ball in the E 2999
Date: 1991-10-15
Speaker: CLARENCE THOMAS (republican)
Chamber: S

Judge. U.S. Court of Appeals. Washington. DC. DEAR JUDGE THOMAS: On behalf of the women of the staff of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) please accept our continued and unshaken support of you in this most trying moment of your life. Words cannot express the outrage at this last minute attempt to impugn your character. For Anita Hill to give testimony about alleged sexual harassment on the condition that you not be informed is one of the greatest violations of a fundamental concept of American law: that the accuser must be willing to face the accused. This is totally unacceptable from someone with the background of Ms. Hillsa tenured law school professor. For this exploitation of a serious problem in our societysexual harassmentto be allowed to affect your confirmation. is a total travesty of justice. The women of this organization. the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) as well as the majority of level headed woman of all races are behind you 100%. Do not hesitate to call on us if you need US. Respectfully.
Date: 1991-10-29
Speaker: T WARNERI (republican)
Chamber: S

1 n . President. I that is a classic case. if you read the Many of us have been fighting ever Mouldr. WAr Mr.ti rede hi f rule book. of not having to vote on since to achieve this kind of equality would urge our distinguished whip for this issue as it is presented. but truly on various pieces of legislation. A year the majority. this is a very. very ser- voting. as the Senator has certainly ago. we included Congress for the first
Date: 1991-11-26
Speaker: EARLE M. CRAIG (republican)
Chamber: H

Chairman. The White House Endowment Fund. Midland. TX. DzA DOTTIE. The 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the White House this coming yearOctober 13. 1992is a milestone we all look forward to celebrating. I am delighted both that plans for congressional authorization of a commemorative coin are undeway and that the proceeds from the sale of this coin will go to The White House Endowment Fund toward a permanent endowment for the furnishing and preservation of the public rooms of the White House. As we all know. no taxpayers money is used for the preservation and refurbishing of the public rooms of the White House. and therefore the funds from the sale of this commemorative coin will be an important contribution to a White House endowment. George and I are both grateful for the work of the White House Historical Association in seeking authorization of a commemorative coin. and we are grateful to all who are working on behalf of what we consider to be a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge an important date and to augment an endowment for the White House. Warmly. BARBARA.
Date: 1992-02-04
Speaker: VANDER JAGT (republican)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. if Congress passes a mandate. it should be forced to pay for it. and to balance the cost with savings elsewhere. After all. a mandate just increases someone elses burdenand that means higher taxes at the State and local level. President George Bush was right on the mark on the burden of regulation or mandates. or whatever it is that we do here on the banks of the Potomac that affects the cost of governing or doing business beyond the Beltway. Perhaps in the 90 days major departments and agencies will carry out a top to bottom review of all regulations. old and newto stop the ones that will hurt growth. and speed up those that will help growth. Perhaps also the EPA will discover the foolishness of the $200.000 to $300.000 burden that they propose to impose on small local government generators of power. EmisSions control is a significant needwe all value the air we breathe. But a regulation which requires constant monitoring for data that is reported quarterly. from small plants using technology that rarely results in substantial pollutants is wrongsighted. Michigan municipal power generators deserve relief. So do business and government at all levels. Government regulation. conceived as the pet who can distinguish friend from foeand only barks at danger. has become the very monkey on our backs as mindless mandates find evil lurking at every turn. Paranoia parades as prudence! So we have to step back. We owe it to ourselvesor well pay for it at the market or city hallto do a little analytical thinking: A cost/ benefit ratio that encompasses not only the effect of regulation. but the longterm burden we will bear. Recently. the Muskegon Chronicle of Muskegon. Ml. in our Ninth Congressional District. offered an opinion piece which very clearly stated the case for reviewand where the buck should stop. I offer that editorial for my colleagues review. and for their attention as we consider proposals which impose burdens on businesses and governments without providing the wherewithal to meet the obligation: [From the Muskegon Chronicle. Jan. 22. 1992]
Date: 1992-02-05
Speaker: WILLIAM BROOMFIELD (republican)
Chamber: H

who said: * * * Let me say that to my knowledge the Foreign Affairs Committee has never commissioned a formal investigation of this matter. From time to time. however. the minority has become aware. usually from the press. that the majority Members and staff have been undertaking various investigatory activities. The letter referred to follows:
Date: 1992-02-18
Speaker: MITCH ELL (republican)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today it stand in recess until 9 a.m. on Wednesday. February 19. that following the prayer. the Journal of proceedings be deemed approved to date. that the time of the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. and that under the previous order. the Senator from Pennsylvania be recognized to read Washingtons Farewell Address: that. upon the conclusion of the reading of the address. there be a period for the transaction of routine morning business not to extend beyond 10 a.m. with Senators permitted to speak for up to 5 minutes each. and that at 10 a.m.. the Senate resume consideration of S. 2166 under the provisions of the agreement just entered.
Date: 1992-03-20
Speaker: MICHAEL S. OOUGHLIN (republican)
Chamber: H

Deputy Postmaster General. U.S. JPosta7 Service. -Wa hington. DC. DEAR SIR: .OnTuesday I read an Associated Press sccount of a transaction .involving the purchase by the Postal Service of -an office building in downtownSt. Louis. Troday I spoke about the transaction. as it was described in the A.P. report. in a short -speech on the House floor. No sooner had I fkilshed than a -umber of Members came up to me and -wanted to know what the Postal Service was doing to Investigate this situation. The A.P. report mentions investigations by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the House.Post Office -and Civil Service -Committee. I understand from your legislative relations office that investigations are underway. While I dont want to jeopardize -an ongoing Investigation. I would urge you Mo send me at yourisarldestconvenience as detailed~a .desorlption -as posslble -of -.what you already know about -the transaction in Question and .a .complete report on the steps you are taking to investigate this situation. Sincerely.
Date: 1992-04-28
Speaker: EARLE M. CRAIG (republican)
Chamber: S

Chairman. the White House Endowment Fund. Midland. TX. DEAR MRS. CRAIG: It was a great pleasure to learn that the House and the Senate are moving forward on the White House Commemorative Coin Act. It is very appealing to me. and I strongly support its authorization. When Lyndon was in Congress and later the White House. I still remember the excitement and delight countless school children and visitors took in touring the Mansion. The restoration and presentation of the public rooms of that great House and the expansion and maintenance of its fine arts collection deserve wide citizen support. which I believe will be helped immensely by the sale of the commemorative coin. These sales will provide funding needed to supplement private donations to the White House Endowment Fund. to which you have so ably given your leadership. I know the White House Historical Associations partnership has been invaluable. and as one citizen. I am deeply grateful to all of you for the care and dedication you bring to this outstanding effort. With a large salute. Sincerely.