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Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for his contribution. Mr. Speaker. yesterday we were in Fayetteville. NC. to hold a committee hearing and to gather input from the agribusiness sector and from everyone in any way concerned about or related with or involved in agriculture. We were there as guests of the distinguished gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. RosE]. chairman of the Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts. Mr. Speaker. I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina.
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman from North Carolina. Mr. Speaker. let me say to the Members that this is the graph that the gentleman is talking about. That part in red is the trilliondollar budget. and the little black line is what we get for agriculture. We can look at this and see everything that we get back. Mr. Speaker. my colleague. the chairman of the Subcommittee on Cotton. Rice. and Sugar. and his ranking member are here. and I yield first to the chairman of that subcommittee. and then I will be happy to yield to his ranking member so that we may get a report from that subcommittee.
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman from Louisiana . and now I yield to my distinguished colleague from Minnesota .
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I thank my colleague for his generous words and commend him for his contribution to the overall work of our committee. Mr. Speaker. at this time I yield to the distinguished chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock. Dairy. and Poultry. the gentleman from Texas .
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the gentleman mentioned a figure of the cost of the dairy program to the taxpayer. What was that figure?
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I have some figures here. For example. aid to El Salvador. in the past 4 years we have given them $1.8 billion. That would run the cost of the dairy program now for what4 years?
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for his contribution. Mr. Speaker. I yield to our distinguished colleague. the gentleman from Wisconsin .
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DR LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman. my distinguished colleague. and I thank him for his contribution in the effort that we all shared. We always look forward to working with him. Mr. Speaker. I yield to the gentleman from Missouri . our distinguished chairman of the Forests. Family Farms. and Energy Subcommittee.
Date: 1990-01-30
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I thank the distinguished gentleman from Missouri [Mr. VOLKMERJ. All of us look forward to working with him as he leads his subcommittee and we deliberate on the 1990 farm bill. Mr. Speaker. at this time I yield to the distinguished gentleman from Kansas . the chairman of the Subcommittee on Wheat. Soybeans. and Feed Grains.
Date: 1990-02-07
Speaker: BRIAN ONEILL (democrat)
Chamber: S

President Insurance Institute For Highway Safety. Arlington. VA. DEAR MR. ONEILL: Your letter to Nissan Motor Company. Ltd. has been forwarded to my attention. We have reviewed the issues that you expressed in your letter. Nissan and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety share the belief that advertising communications should not encourage Irresponsible or unsafe driving practices. Certainly. as a major marketer in the United States. Nissans interests are best served by presenting our products in a positive manner. Our 300ZX Turbo commercial is one of a series of TV commercials in our new "Fantasy" advertising campaign which depicts the dreams of drivers. We do not believe that the Turbo Z commercial. or any of our fantasy commercials. encourage irresponsible driving practices. The futuristic Turbo Z commercial is so fanciful and farfetched that we see no confusion or connection with realworld driving situations. The wonderful thing about advertising is that everyone has an opinion. including the Wall Street Journal writer whose articles was the basis of your letter to Nissan. However. we are confident that when you get a chance to actually see the imaginative Turbo Z commercial during the Superbowl on January 28th your feelings will be tempered from those formed by a newspaper description. The American public respects and enjoys advertising that is intelligent and presents a message in an entertaining manner. They understand that good advertising can be an art form with its own poetry and sense of reality. This recognition of the good judgement and common sense of the American public is a point of view that you and your organization hopefully share with Nissan. Sincerely.
Date: 1990-02-27
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill to provide the Secretary of Agriculture authority regarding the sale of sterile screwworms.
Date: 1990-02-27
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. 4010. the bill just passed.
Date: 1990-02-27
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I am proud to join my distinguished colleague from Ohio and the members of the Congressional Black Caucus in this special order in honor of Black History Month. I want to commend Mr. STOKES for calling this special order and Mr. DELLUMS. the chairman of the Black Caucus. for his many years of bold leadership on issues of concern to black Americans and all minorities in the United States. We in the U.S. Virgin Islands join enthusiastically in observing Black History Month. For us it is a major opportunity to celebrate the primary culture of our islands. where the vast majority of our people are black west Indians. We are proud of our distinctive heritage as west Indians and Americans. And we are determined to create for ourselves a distinctive future. which will build upon our unique position as a west Indian and American territory under the U.S. flag. I want to take special note of two big events that relate to the celebration of the Virgin Islands own history within the context of this observance of Black History Month. First. just last week on the island of St. Thomas we dedicated two statu~s in Post Office Square in Charlotte Amalie. now known as Educators Park. Statues of three outstanding Virgin Islanders now grace that park. and these three individuals represent the best in community service. accomplishment. and courage that are so important to remember during Black History Month. The statues portray J. Antonio Jarvis. an outstanding educator and newspaper editor. Rothschild Francis. a courageous community leader who fought for the dignity of all Virgin Islanders after our islands were acquired by the United States in 1917. and Edith Williams. a dedicated teacher who also established the first school lunch program in our islands. These three Virgin Islands leaders are an inspiration for us as we build upon our history to create an even better future for our islands. Second. it is good to note during Black History Month. that the U.S.. Virgin Islands has been selected for a special exhibit during this summers Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife on the Mall here in Washington. From June 27 to July 8. the local culture of the Virgin Islandsfrom folk stories and native recipes to music and Carnival troupeswill be on display on the Mall. Our history and our living culture will shine brightly during that festival and I hope many of my colleagues here in Congress will be able to see Virgin Islands culture for themselves. thanks to the Smithsonian exhibit. Mr. Speaker. again. let me say the U.S. Virgin Islands is proud to share its unique history and culture as part of this celebration of Black History Month.
Date: 1990-02-28
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the leaders of Puerto Ricos three political parties have asked Congress to authorize a referendum between improving the current commonwealth and granting statehood or independence and commit to implementing the results. President Bush. who supports statehood. endorsed their request before a joint session last year. A Senate committee has reported a bill supported by the President which would automatically lead to statehood. independence. or commonwealth improvements. depending on a referendum next year.The stakes include: the rights of 3.4 million of our fellow Americans. billions of dollars in taxes. program costs. and investments. national security. and political power. The Insular and International Affairs Subcommittee. which has primary jurisdiction and which I chair. will hold an initial hearing with the leaders of Puerto Ricos parties this Friday at 9:45 a.m in room 2167. Rayburn Building. We will hold further hearings in Puerto Rico March 9. 10. and 12. I Invite any Member interested to sit with us for these hearings.
Date: 1990-02-28
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. Speaker. on behalf of the people of the U.S. Virgin Islands I would like to send our sincere regrets to our sister territory of American Samoa in the aftermath of Hurricane Ofa.. We in the Virgin Islands also are saddened to hear of the total destruction on Western Samoa. the neighborhing islands which bore the brunt of the storm. and where 11 deaths have been recorded to date. Ofa damaged or destroyed over 50 percent of American Samoas structures. It totally destroyed 175 homes and severely damaged another 417 homes. leaving many homeless. According to a FEMAs estimate 3.719 homes were affected by this catastrophe in American Samoa. Power was knocked out and is being restored. I know all too well tle terrible shock that my colleague. ENI FALEOMAVAEGA. and the good people of American Samoa are now going through. It was only last September 17 that Hurricane Hugo and its terrible winds devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands. with extremely severe damage to the island of St. Croix. We are still feeling its effects everyday. in our economy. our schools. our hospitals. and our homes. Rebuilding is slow and arduous. but we in the Virgin Islands sympathize with our friends in American Samoa who must also go down this difficult road of reconstruction. Before long. American Samoans will be very familiar with the workings of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Small Business Administration. Department of the Interior. and other agencies that must be counted on for assistance in such terrible disasters. These Federal agencies must do their best to see that the recovery is completefrom rebuilding public buildings and homes to restoring power. phone and roads. and even the traditional tales that represent the strong community spirit of the people of American Samoa. I will stand behind the U.S. territory of American Samoa throughout this rough period. and do all I can to help the people of American Samoa through their recovery from Hurricane Ofa.
Date: 1990-03-06
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker. I wish to commend the chairman of the subcommittee. and the ranking minority member. and the members of the subcommittee and the full committee. Mr. Speaker. so that the world might know. our commitment to rural America has. not changed. Our commitment to try and keep our farmers on the land has not changed. But. we also must continue with our commitment realizing that these are taxpayers dollars. This. is the peoples money that we are dealing with. and what this legislation is doing is to try and take the most flagrant abuses in this endeavor so that we might comply With the intent of the law. The 1987 act is in full force. It is working. Nothing has changed. We are still the best fed .people in the world. If there is any subsidy. basically it is the American consumer as being subsidized by the American farmer. Mr. Speaker. our commitment is still there. It will continue to be there. But this is the responsible thing to do when dealing with the peoples money. There cannot be one who can use a loophole to take money that does not rightfully belong to them and in the end prejudice the Family Farm Coalition. Small farmers from across the United State. would be prejudiced by those that abuse the program. I still insist that if you do not feel the vibration. you are not a farmer. They are not going to vote for you. This legislation is aimed at those who do not feel the vibration. that are not rightfully those who toil the soil and feed our families. so I would hope that the Members support this legislation. because it is to correct some deficiency that we see. Our commitment remains the same. to keep our farmers on the land.
Date: 1990-03-06
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill to suspend section 332 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 for the 1991 crop of wheat.
Date: 1990-03-06
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker. this legislation would suspend section 332 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 for the 1991 crop of wheat. Mr. Speaker. what section 332 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 would do is require the Secretary to proclaim and determine a national marketing quota for wheat for the 1991 marketing year. The Secretary would have to undertake this massive exercise in quota calculation by April 15 of this year. Today is March 6. He would have to do all that massive calculation at a cost of time and money to the Department. This section has been suspended almost routinely through the years. and basically that is what we do once again. Mr. Speaker. H.R. 4099 will suspend section 332 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 for the 1991 crop of wheat. Section 332 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 would require the Secretary of Agriculture to proclaim and determine a national marketing quota for wheat for the 1991 marketing year. The Secretary would have to undertake this massive exercise in quota calculation by April 15 of this year. Mr. Speaker. the requirements of section 332 have routinely been suspended in past farm bills. including the Food Security Act of 1985 which applies to the 1986 through 1990 wheat crops. However. the 1985 farm bills suspension of section 332 does not apply to the 1991 wheat cropwhich includes the winter wheat crop that will be sown this fall. By passing this bill and suspending section 332. we avoid needless actions and expenses being incurred by the Department of Agriculture. More importantly. H.R. 4099 avoids unnecessary confusion among our wheat farmers about the operation of the Federal wheat price support program next year. This Congress will set wheat program guidelines for the 1991 through 1995 crops in the 1990 farm bill. The Committee on Agriculture is currently working on the 1990 farm bill which will address the provisions contained in the 1938 act. H.R. 4099 is a bipartisan measure. supported by my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and by the administration. By supporting passage of this legislation we can avert needless actions and expenses being taken by the Department of Agriculture this year and avoid confusing .our wheat producers. . I urge my colleagues to support this timely measure.
Date: 1990-03-06
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. 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 H.R. 4077 and H.R. 4099. the two bills previously passed.
Date: 1990-03-14
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I wish to thank the gentleman from California for the kind words earlier. I returned yesterday from leading a delegation to Puerto Rico for hearings on legislation to authorize a referendum between enhancing the islands current commonwealth and granting statehood or independence to commit the Federal Government to implement the results. In addition to eight members and staff of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. the delegation included your representative. Mr. Speaker. and representatives of the minority leader and the majority and the minority on the Rules Committee. demonstrating the seriousness the House attaches to this issue. The trip followed a hearing here in Washington at which the presidents of Puerto Ricos three statusbased political parties expanded on their joint request for this legislation. which has been endorsed by President Bush. In Puerto Rico. well over 100 witnesses appeared during some 19 hours of hearings. We heard additionally from leaders of the three parties in meetings of about 4 hours each. The clear consensus that Puerto Ricos political status needs to be developed was also indicated by the participation in our visit. in a real sense. of millions of other people. An estimated 120.000 demonstrated for statehood. Others followed the hearings through extensive television. radio. and newspaper coverage. Congress has a constitutionaland moralresponsibility to act on their petition. I will try to get this House to do so as soon as possible after the Senate acts on a bill which has been reported by our counterpart committee on the other side of the Capitol. I want to thank the presidents of Puerto Ricos parties and their representatives. including Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon and his counselor. Jose Berrocal. of the Popular Democratic (commonwealth) Party. former Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo and former Representative Benny Frankie Cerezo of the New Progressive (statehood) Party. and former Senator Ruben Berrios Martinez and Senator Fernando Martin Garcia of the Independence Party for their cooperation. I also want to thank the many officials of the Puerto Rican Government. the Air Force. and this House who helped us to carry out our mission.
Date: 1990-03-14
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding. This is to assure the gentleman. as the gentleman well knows. that this is not the practice of the Committee on Agriculture. Ordinarily we have an open rule. The problem here was that there are areas with amendments of a highly technical nature. not necessarily generated from within our committee. but by members .outside the committee. For the protection of other committees. such as the Committee on Ways and Means and/or the Committee on Energy and Commerce. for example. that we would not have on the floor a Member just writing in his own handwriting at the last minute something in a highly technical area. It is in cooperation with them and for their protection. as well as ours in those areas. Otherwise my statement to the Committee on Rules was it is not a matter of life and death for us. Ordinarily we ask for it. But there could have been amendments and will be of a technical nature that need to be worked out. and we have.
Date: 1990-03-14
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I yield 1 minute to our distinguished colleague. the gentleman from Maryland . a valued member of our committee.
Date: 1990-03-14
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Texas in order that he might ask a question and participate in a colloquy with the gentleman from Texas on clarifying some languaage in the legislation. . (Mr. COLEMAN of Texas asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)
Date: 1990-03-14
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. if the gentleman will yield. the gentleman from Texas makes a good point. In the Southwestern United States. for example. hundreds of thousands of people live In colonias. Some of these are truly isolated areas. while others are outside the city limits of major cities such as El Paso. In the gentlemans district. Because they are unincorporated. and are not actually part of the cities or towns. however. they are not provided services by adjoining municipalities. This title seeks to provide assistance to all identified colonias which have substandard housing. inadequate roads and drainage. and a lack of adequate water or wastewater facilities. In addition. this provision will benefit the individual colonia residents by allowing them to borrow funds for badly needed hookups into existing water delivery and wastewater collection systems.
Date: 1990-03-14
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman. I echo and associate myself with the words of our distinguished colleague from Missouri . who has done very diligent work on this issue. and I repeat what he has stated that tomorrow the Hosue convenes at 11 am.. and as soon as the leadership allows us. we will commence the 5minute period on this legislation. There are some amendments. We hope that the membership would support the committee. Some we can accept. Some deal with other committees that they are trying to work out some agreement. and others that might just deviate the thrust of this legislation that I would hope the Members would cooperate with and sustain the actions of the committee. We hope that we might be able to accelerate the process. that we may not have votes. if not necessary. and that hopefully we would finish the deliberations before 3 oclock tomorrow afternoon. That is basically the plan for tomorrow.
Date: 1990-03-14
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I have no further requests for time. and I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman. I move that the Committee do now rise.
Date: 1990-03-14
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. 3581. the bill just considered.
Date: 1990-03-15
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

(during the readIng). Mr. Chairman. I ask unanimous consent that section 1 and title I through title VII of the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute be printed in the REcoPD and open to amendment at any point.
Date: 1990-03-15
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I ask unanimous consent that the amendments be considered as read. considered en bloc. and printed in theRzcoRD.
Date: 1990-03-15
Speaker: E LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. the three technical amendments are one. The first amendment is to change the effective date of section 201 of the bill to October 1. 1991. This amendnient is designed to afford the States the time necessary to comply with the requirements of the act. rather than say at the time of enactment. The second amendment satisfies the Department of Justices constitutional objections to title 2 of the bill. The third amendment. Mr. Chairman. I am offering at the request of the administration. This amendments strikes language in the bill regarding the depreciation rates used by REA to evaluate telephone loans and in certain language that the depreciation rates used will be those of either the appropriate regulatory body or the average of all similar REA borrowers. That is an explanation of the three amendments.