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Date: 1990-10-10
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker. I will not use the entire time remaining because we have worked so long. and we want to get to this moment. However. Mr. Speaker. I want to thank the gentleman from California for his graciousness. I will be submitting a statement from the great gentleman from Arizona Mr. UDAL]. the chairman of the full Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Mr. Speaker. the United States took Puerto Rico 92 years ago and with it responsibility for its status. Our Nation has been. committed to further selfdetermination for Puerto Rico ever since the current Commonwealth was established 38 years ago. However. until today we have failed to explain how such a decision can be made and put into effect. This history has frustrated those who believe in commonwealth. convinced others that statehood is the answer. and strengthened the convictions of still others who want independence. H.R. 4765 would establish the necessary process at a time when the process of selfdetermination is accelerating throughout the world. This substitute is the product of compromises that balance conflicting interests and have made the broad support for this legislation possible. It proposes the strongest commitment possible and incorporates the most precise descriptions of the status options on which agreement can be reached. Any changes could cause a fragile consensus to break apart and prevent any bill on this issue from becoming law. I thank Speaker ]FOLEY and the gentlemen from California and Puerto Rico respectively. BOB LAGOWARSINO and JAIME FusTER. for their cooperation and I now urge the House to approve this historic bill. I cannot say too much about what these gentlemen have done to make this legislation possible. History should record that the leadership. judgment. and dedication to the cause of resolving the status debate in Puerto Rico of these three men has .been essential to the development of a bill that has a realistic chance of becoming law. A number of other Members should also be recognized for their contributions to further selfdetermination for the people of Puerto Rico. Outstanding contributions were made by the chairmen of the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and Rules. our colleagues Mo UDALL and JoE MOAKLEY. Important contributions were also made by other leaders on the other side of the aisle: the minority leader. BOB MICHEL. the ranking minority members of the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and Rules. DON YOUNG and JIMMY QuILLEN. and the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Rules of the House.
Date: 1990-10-10
Speaker: V ENTO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all Members may ahve 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on H.R. 4227.
Date: 1990-10-11
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker. we have no problem. The Committee on Agriculture is not the culprit in this endeavor. The gentleman should be making his presentation to the other body. to the other conferees and not here. But the gentleman just made a reply that negates what the gentleman is trying to do. because if you instruct the Committee on Agriculture. then you cannot help Mr. KosTmAYER negotiate and improve on the issue in the conference. So either you go one way or you go the other.
Date: 1990-10-11
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Instruct the other committee. We are not the ones that are the culprit. You can instruct the conferees from the other committee. I feel badly we are taking the time of the House. and in one case the author of the amendment is instructing. or is asking us to instruct him. to support his amendment. This is beyond my legislative career experience. and in this case also. he is agreeing with another committee. He wants to leave a mark on the Committee on Agriculture. which is unfair. and I ask the Members. very reluctantly. because I agree with their intent. I agree with what they are trying to do. but we should not support this motion to instruct. because it just is ludicrous really at this point.
Date: 1990-10-15
Speaker: D LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I thank the gentleman for yielding this time to me. Let me first explain to my colleagues that this is an issue in another committee. the Interior Committee. not in the Agriculture Committee. but it involves the production of food and fiber. We are at the other side of the Capitol at this very moment In a very traumatic situation. doing all the bleeding and suffering as we work with the budget proposal for agriculture. Agriculture is going to give $13.6 billion for deficit reduction. much beyond the little line on the target chart that I have shown you. Also let me state that in the balance of payments. as our Nation against the world. what we manufacture is not bringing money back. The only thing that is bringing money back in agriculture. and beef is a major factor. So under the guise of bringing money to the deficit. it is not going to. It is the taxpayers who will not benefit. The taxpayers basically will not benefit because you could conceivably be reducing the amount of beef that we export to bring back money from abroad. This is rnconceived. I do not know where the figures came from. because I do not know of any responsible study that shows that these figures are correct and accurate. I would hope that the Members vote no on this amendment for those reasons.
Date: 1990-10-19
Speaker: AND OTHER FOOD (democrat)
Chamber: S

PACKAGING.-The list published under paragraph (1) shall not include cardboard. pallets. beverage containera. and other food packaging except to the extent the Secretary determines that the transportation of cardboard. pallets. beverage containers. or other food packaging in a motor vehicle or rail vehicle which is used to transport food. food additives. drugs. devices. or cosmetics would make the food. food additives. drugs. devices. or cosmetics unsafe to the health of humans or animals.
Date: 1990-10-22
Speaker: THOMAS A. LUKEN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. it is not often that I have the opportunity to depart from such weighty matters as defense and talk about defense. the defense. the impregnable defense of the Cincinnati Redsyea. Just last week our underdog team was described on national TV as the Ohio Reds. and they were talking about how the slugging As were going to defeat and sweep our poor Reds. Well. here it is. Mr. Speaker and Members of Congress. the clean sweep of the Cincinnati Reds. I found out last week that there are many Members of this House who were for Cincinnati. They liked the underdogs. They knew that the As were billed as the best team in baseball. and I am here to say that the best team in baseball. if that is what they were. was completely dominated in every department by the Cincinnati Reds. Manager Lou Panellas club is a blue collar club. They worked harder. They did the job. They have been magnificent all year. We knew that. We love them and now the Nation does.
Date: 1990-10-22
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would like to engage in a brief colloquy with the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee. Before I do. though. I would like to associate myself with the remarks that were made a little earlier by the gentleman from Maryland regarding the gentleman from Michigan . the chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. on which I have had the good fortune to serve for some three terms. I can say. as any Member here who represents Government employees. Federal Government employees. that he is a magnificent chairman and has certainly protected and looked out for civil service workers. Madam Speaker. Puerto Ricos three political parties. which represent the three status alternatives which have long divided their people. reached an historic agreement last year to end the islands divisive status debate. To make it effective. the Federal Government needs to authorize a referendum on the issue and commit to act on the results. The agreement was such a breakthrough that within weeks President Bush endorsed the parties request before a joint session of the Congress. Earlier this month. the House unanimously passed the Puerto Rico SelfDetermination Act which I sponsored along with our colleague BoB LAGOMARsiNo. the ranking Republican of the Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs which I am privileged to chair. and with the expressed support of Speaker TOM FoLEY and Minority Leader BOB MICHEL. The bill. H.R. 4765. was developed through extensive and intensive negotiations with Puerto Ricos three parties and the White House. It is an alternative to a Senate committee bill which would bind the Federal Government to implement all of the terms that bill would specify for the status selected in a referendum. an approach which the leadership of this House and the authorizing committee consider unrealistic. Our negotiations were facilitated because House conferees on last years dire urgent supplemental appropriations bill cooperated with my request to support funding for this matter. Because of the leadership of the chairman of the Treasury. Postal Service. General Government Appropriations Subcommittee. ED RoYBAL. $500.000 was provided to enable each of the parties to express their positions to a fair extent. Although at least one party may not use all of the funds it was provided. another has some outstanding debts. Further. since the Senate has not passed Puerto Rico selfdetermination legislation yet. there may need to be further work on this matter. Will the distinguished chairman be willing to work to provide necessary funds for reasonable outstanding debts and for any essential further work. if it appears that legislation along the lines that the House has indicated it can agree to can be enacted?
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. pursuant to House Resolution 520. I call up the conference report on the Senate bill to extend and revise agricultural price support and related programs. to provide for agricultural export. resource conservation. farm credit. and agricultural research and related programs. to ensure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices. and for other purposes.
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to state to my friend from I1linois that the chairman and gentleman from Illinois have worked together throughout this endeavor. We have suffered together. and we have made cuts together. and the cuts came as the gentleman has correctly stated. at the instructions of this House and the Senate under the resolution as approved. I do not think that can be contested by anyone. I have no control over what a Member may or may not say. The fact is that the cuts. as painful as they are. cannot be attributed to any individual. but collectively. All Members have had some impact as to where we are today. I would hope that we can proceed from this point on to address the issue of the day. which is the approval of this conference report. Also. let me state that the cuts are in the reconciliation bill rather than this conference report. If reconciliation is not passed it eventually could lead to a sequester. if there is no resolving of the dilemma of the budget. But the gentleman and I know that. and we have worked together. side by side.
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I have the time. and the gentleman knows what we have done together. As I said. I cannot control what any other Member says. I have not. and I guess we as a committee have not addressed the issue of Medicare or the other body. or this body. As the gentleman knows. we are the committee that works together more closely than any other committee. I would hope that we can proceed in that spirit.
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. if we might continue in the comity we have always enjoyed in this committee. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. HucxABY] for the purpose of positive debate only.
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey . the chairman of the Committee on Science. Space. and Technology. who is one of the conferees from one of our sister committees.
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I yield 1 minute to our distinguished colleague. the gentleman from Oklahoma . chairman of our Subcommittee on Conservation. Credit. and Rural Development.
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I thank the gentleman. Madam Speaker. where do I begin to thank all of those who have participated in this endeavor? My distinguished ranking minority member. members of the committee. the staff. the staff of all of the committees that we have been involved with. the Senate. the Senate Members. everyone. even those who opposed this legislation. We have heard them. We have tried to accommodate them. We have done everything that is within our power to do to arrive at this stage. It is not perfect. Nothing that ever leaves this Chamber is perfect. But we have done our best. We have dedicated ourselves to the best interests of our country and to agriculture and the consumers and the producers. This is the most progressively. environmentally sound piece of legislation. This addresses trade. This addresses containment or erosion. This addresses helping the needy throughout the world. This provides for food not only for us but for those who may hunger and suffer throughout the world. It is a good piece of legislation. within the constraints that we have. I think that we have done a good job. Let me say that I urge my colleagues to support. very respectfully. to support this legislation. Madam Speaker. let me just conclude. up there above us there are words from Daniel Webster that say: Let us develop the resources of our land. call forth its powers. build up its institutions. promote all its great Interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered. This legislation in the 101st Congress. Madam Speaker. in my humble estimation. fulfills that dream of Daniel Webster. and I am glad to have been a part and a party to achieving that end. I respectfully request all of my colleages to vote "aye" on the conference report.
Date: 1990-10-23
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks. and include therein extraneous material. on the conference report on S. 2380. just agreed to.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. (Mr. DE -LA GARZA asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Chairman. I thank the distinguished gentleman from Alaska [Mr. YouNG]. my friend. for yielding. and. one. I do not believe his figures. I do not know where he got his figures. It is not $350some million.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Chairman. we do not have those figures. Second. my seafood. basically shrimp. people ask me for a Federal mandatory seafood inspection. That is where I am coming from. The shrimp industry requested it. Then also to the surprise-
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Chairman. my shrimpers in my district asked me. Now. surprise of all surprise. because of soybean and all of the other things. and I thank my distinguished friend for yielding. but. surprise of all surprise. Food safety inspection service involvement in fish inspection has been increasing. That is in the Department of Agriculture. Between fiscal 1990 and 1991. the amount of money transferred from Commerce to the USDA for fish inspection has more than doubled. USDA is doing the inspection for Commerce. They are contracting it out to USDA. The gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Youn0] does not have that information.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Madam Chairman. I told the gentleman from Alaska USDA is contracting to do the inspection for Commerce. and the figures from CBO are 13. 38. 71. 83. 82 between now and 1995 per year. We do not have a figure forthere never was a hearing on this substitute. SOct6ber24. 1990 They had seafood inspection or sea- for fish. -shellfish specifically. then we food hearings. so did we. but we do not adopt this substitute. do not create know what it is going to cost. It Is this monstrous new government exgoing to be what Mr. Sununu saysit is penditure program. and the public will going to cost. and that is what it Is have their safe fish. That is all I am going to be. suggesting.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. I yield myself 1 minute. Madam Chairman. one thing that needs to be made clear right now is that we have the safest food in the world in the history of the world. and it sells for the least amount of disposable income per family of any industrialized nation in the world. Some of us are getting cute here and comparing chickens with fish and so on. We have the safest food in the world. period. bar none. in the history of the world. and so let us not get cute and confuse the issue. Also. there is no Dingell bill. The bill will be written by Mr. Darman and Mr. Sununu. Let us get that straight right now. There is no bill from Energy and Commerce. That bill is delegated to be written by Mr. Sununu and Mr. Darman. Do you want to trust those two gentleman again? That is your business. but that ought to be made perfectly clear. There is no bill. There are guiding directions. but the bill will be written by the White House. ostensibly by Sununu and Darman. Madam Chairman. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Dakota .
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. I apppreciate the gentleman yielding. We get just so confused with facts here. 0] 1510 Only about 10 percent of the seafood is Inspected under the Department of Commerce. and it is a voluntary program. not mandatory. Under that inspection. the Food and Drug inspection. we talk about and we have the safest food in the world. but under the Food and Drug Inspection. an inspector goes into a plant once every 4 years. That is what we do now.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Just for correction. our legislation does not preempt the States. It has to be at least equal. The gentleman stated we preempted. Second. there was mention by the gentleman of people who are not acquainted with seafood and so on. I represented almost half the shrimp industry of Texas when the gentleman and I served on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Both of us were there. so it is not like the gentleman saying. well. Agriculture cannot do the job. What does the United Auto Workers know about shellfish?
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. if the gentleman will yield. I apologize to the gentleman. but I represent shrimpers. too. I probably have more coastline than the gentleman does or some of the other Members that are involved in the debate here. so it is not like pointing the finger at Agriculture. that Agriculture does not know about seafood. because Commerce now hires Agriculture to do the inspection.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. I would make the request that we be allowed to submit for the RECORD the letter sent endorsing the Mitchell bill. In that way. we have evened it out. The fact Is that the United Auto Workers do not know anything about shellfish.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. I ask unanimous consent that. I be permitted to yield 15 of those 30 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Kansas on behalf of the minority. and that he may allocate time.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. I yield myself 1 minute. Madam Chairman. I sympathize and agree with what our distinguished colleague. the gentlewoman from Illinois. has said. That is the reason we are trying to get the bill. to address the situation she just mentioned. Over here it was mentioned about contaminated waters. Our bill lets Commerce continue working with contaminated waters. Over here it talks about building expertise. We build on expertise. The Food and Drug Administration will do the standards. Also it is kind of like saying Agriculture does not know anything. Commerce contracts the Food Safety Insepction Service to do the inspections for them. How many times do I have to say that and keep repeating and repeating. Whistleblower. my dear colleague. the gentleman from California . and my good and dear friend. Chairman DINGELL. they wrote the whistleblower provision that is in the Clean Air Act. They just kept it in the Clean Air Act. they did not raise their voices against it in the Clean Air Act. and now that we honor them by accepting their version. they say it does not do enough.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. I yield myself the remaining 1 minute. First. the consumers of America. the people of Amerida deserve and need a fish inspection bill. We provide it. The whistleblower provision. we accepted the WaxmanDingell version. Now. they provide a study. We act. A study says the President. we know it is going to be Mr. Darman from OMB. We are being criticized for not acting now. That is what happened with the summit. Do not yield to another summit. They could get a DingellDarman deal. We can act now. vote no on the substitute. vote yes on the bill that is before Members. Members will be acting responsibly. We will exert leadership. and we would allow the people what they need and what they want. which is a mandatory seafood inspection. Vote no on the substitute.
Date: 1990-10-24
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam Chairman. the gentleman mentioned that it is not processed. It is processed. It is canned. It is cooked. It goes to canning plants also.
Date: 1990-10-24
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 S. 2924. the Senate bill just passed.
Date: 1990-10-25
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture be discharged from further consideration of the bill to provide for studies and planning activities for Improvement of tropical forest managemerit. Including forest management of insular areas and jurisdictions and public lands of the United States. and for other purposes.
Date: 1990-10-25
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker. I think the gentleman from Minnesota has adequately explained the legislation. It takes from several bills that have been introduced by myself and the gentleman from California and others. and incorporates it into a short version. I would appreciate the support of Members.
Date: 1990-10-25
Speaker: THOMAS A. LUKEN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speakers table the Senate bill to amend the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1990. 1991. and 1992. and for other purposes. and ask for its immediate consideration.