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Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the bill to recognize the organization known as the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 186165 and ask for its immediate con. sideration.
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker. the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. 186165 was originally organized on May 30. 1885. and was incorporated under the notforprofit laws of the State of Ohio as the National Alliance of Daughter of Veterans on December 12. 1885. In 1944. the corporation changed its name to the Daughter of Union Veterans of the Civil War. 196165. Inc. The corporation is organized and dedicated to the promotion of our Nations history and to perpetuate the memories of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to preserve the Union. Membership Is open to women descendants of honorably discharged. killed. or missing in action Union soldiers. sailors. and marines who are at least 8 years of age. There are over 20.000 members In this corporation. The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. 186165. Inc.. is particularly active in its support for the U.S. Veterans Administrative Volunteer Service. as well as providing scholarships. and maintaining a Civil War museum and library.
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on. the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the bill to recognize the organization known as the Navy Wives Clubs of America. and ask for its immediate consideratior.
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker. The Navy Wives Club of America was originally organized in 1936 and was incorporated under the notforprofit laws of the State of Callfornia In 1936. The corporation is organized and dedicated to the support of the Constitution of the United States. to perform charitable activities: to promote a friendly relationship between the wives of enlisted men who are serving in the Navy. Marine Corps. or Coast Guard. Membership is open to wives of enlisted men of the U.S. Navy. the U.S. Marine Corps. and the U.S. Coast Guard and has over 2.000 members nationwide. The Navy Wives Club of America works for charitable and educational purposes. The Navy Wives Club of America sponsors and supports charitable activities with other nonprofit organizations. including the American Red Cross. the Salvation Army. the March of Dimes. and the Boys Club of America.
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the bill to grant a Federal charter to the National Society. Daughters of the American Colonists. and ask for its immediate consideratior..
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker. the National Society. Daughters of the American Colonists was originally organized in 1921 and was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia in 1921. The corporation is organized and dedicated to be patriotic. historical and educational. to research the history and deeds of the American colonists. and to record and publish the same. to commemorate deeds of colonial interest. to inculcate and foster love of America and its institutions. to obey its laws and venerate its flag. (The corporation is a nonprofit. nonpartisan organization. and is not discriminatory as to race. color. religion. or national origin.) Membership is open to any female American citizen. who is 18 years of age and is a lineal descendant of an ancestor who rendered civil or military service in any of the colonies prior to July 4. 1776. There are over 30.000 members of this corporation. . The National Society. Daughters of the American Colonists is particularly active in providing contributions to veterans and veterans hospitals. as well as providing scholarships to undergraduate students. This corporation has also raised money for various civic projects. including a shelter for abused women and children in Utah and to send needy children to summer camps in Pennsylvania.
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous conseqt that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on the bill. H.R. 1881. just passed.
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. today the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. the Hon. JAKE GARN. and the ranking minority member. the Honorable WILLIAM PnOXMIRE. and I released to the public the following statement: In view of the fact that no banking legisla. Lion will be finalized by Congress this wee. we emphasize that legislation addressing the competitive and regulatory framework of the financial system will be the first priority of the Banking Committees of the House and Senate as soon as the 99th Congress convenes in 1985. Both of us agree on a need for a fInal resolution of all the issues early in tie next Congress. As regards .he specific issue of the socalled "nonbank bank" loophole. it is our intention that the grandfather date of July 1. 1983. become law. Those who invest funds now assuming this grandfather date will be extended will. in our opinion. end up having to divest. no matter what the cost.*
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I Just have the greatest respect and admiration for our colleague and friend. CHICK KAZEN. He has been a trusted and valuable ally of mine since I first arrived in this body over 8 years ago. He is a true son of Texas and a gentleman of the first order. and its just difficult to imagine that come the 99th Congress CHICK will no longer be in our midst. Im going to miss him. For 18 years CHICK KHAZEN has represented his District. State. and Nation with honor and dignity. He has fought long and hard for a strong national defense. and he has been as instrumental as anyone I know in the constant struggle to assure an: adequate water supply for the great Southwest. a matter of utmost importance to our people. CHICK KAZEN has spent a lifetime helping others. He likes people and they like him. From his early days in the Texas Legisature some 37 years ago to his exemplary service in the House of Representatives right now. CHICK KAZEN has been a public servant. and I might add. a highly effective public servant. He has won more elections than anyone could hope to win. and yet he maintains a friendly and engaging manner that would be characteristic of someone entering elective politics for the first time. He. has time for people and he has time to listen to their problems and this in.
Date: 1984-10-04
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. one of our distinguished colleagues from my own State of Texas. RON PAUL. will not be returning to the House next session. Though we have often dIsagreed on the issues under debate in this body. I will certainly miss Dr. PAULS presence. as the majority of us go about our business of governing the country. compromising where necessary. this body also needs Members who will provide us with a constant flow of thoughtprovoking Ideas. In the 8 years he has served as the Representative of the 22d District of Texas. Dr. PAUL has provided us with a unique perspective on many subjects. Whether we have agreed or disagreed. it is always a pleasure to deal with a principled individual who while In the minority. does not attempt to obstruct the workings of the institution. RoN PAULS" departure is a loss to the Institution. for I have certainly learned much from listening to his discourses. I know I Join my colleagues in wishing
Date: 1984-10-05
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speakers table the bill . to recognize the organization known as the Womens Army Corps Veterans Association. with Senate amendments thereto. and concur in the Senate amendments.
Date: 1984-10-05
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. this is merely to recognize the organization known as the Womens Army Corps Veterans Association. the WACs. that was instituted and begun in World War II. It is a nonprofit organization and meets all of the requisites of the Federal charters. The amendments that have been offered are technical amendments that make certain provisions for the continuation of the WAC organization to act. If they violate any of these elements of the charter their charter will. of course. be revoked. I urge its adoption.
Date: 1984-10-09
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the veto message of the President. together with the accompanying bill. H.R. 1362. be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Date: 1984-10-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2790. a bill designed to strengthen water salinity control programs in the Colorado River Basin. One portion of the Senate amendment relates to a matter within the Jurisdiction of the House Agriculture Committee. The provisions that I refer to would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to set up a costsharing cooperative program with Colorado River Basin landowners to improve farm management and reduce erosion. These are identical. with one exception. to provision contained in the Housepassed bill and have their origin in H.R. 3903. the Colorado River Basin Agricultural Conservation Program. which the Agriculture Committee favorably reported last November and which the House passed and sent to the Senate a week later. on November 16. 1983. The goal of the costsharing program is to improve current efforts to control salinity in the region where high salt content in water has become an increasingly serious problem for downstream farmers and urban residents. To carry out this program. the bill would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to: First. identify salt source areas and salt loading resulting from irrigation. second. develop plans for implementing actions to reduce salt loads. third. provide technical and costsharing assistance for voluntary water management and salinity control measures on private and public nonfederal lands. and fourth. provide for related education. research. and monitoring programs. The Senate amendment would add a new provision to this program that would limit the Federal share of costs to 70 percent. but at the same time would authorize the Secretary to exceed this limit in individual cases if that is necessary to carry out onfarm conservation measures. This legislation would be an important and useful step in our overall national efforts for soil and water conservation.e
Date: 1984-10-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of H.R. 5121. as amended. a bill designating wilderness areas in national forests in the State of Virginia. The bill. which was referred jointly to the Committee on Agricul. ture and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. was passed by the House on May 8. 1984. The bill was amended by the Senate to change slightly the acreage for one of the wilderness areas. require the Forest Service. in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Virginia. to conduct a study on the effect of emissions from the Covington. VA. Westvaco paper mill on certain wilderness study areas. and make clear that Congress does not intend that the designation of wilderness areas will lead to the creation of buffer zones around such areas. Except for the changes described above. H.R. 5121. as passed by the Senate. is substantially the same as the Housepassed bill. I am pleased to concur in the Senate amendments and encourage my colleagues to do likewise.*
Date: 1984-10-10
Speaker: SPARK M. MATBUNAGA (democrat)
Chamber: S

U.S. Senator. Washington. DC. DEAR SENATOR MATRUNAOA: I appreciate your informing me of your efforts to have the space cooperation agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States renewed and a fresh lease of life given to cooperation between the scientists of those two countries. In the pursuit of its space programme. France is privileged to have close ongoing relationships with both the United States and the Soviet Union which have proved richly rewarding for us. First of all. because they afford us an opportunity of participating in very worthwhile missions. but also because we are able thereby to establish closer and more open human relationships between scientists. regardless of national barriers. Despite the vagaries of the political climate. relationships between scientists remain deep and strong. To sever them on the pretext that Governments may be at odds on other issues is. to my mind. a mistake. Discarding what does or what can work is no way of improving what doesnt. Scientists all over the world long for the free international exchange of ideas. Such exchange. when it is based on a pooling of programmes chosen from amongst the most ambitious of their kind. should be of particular benefit to mankind. For instance. a joint Initiative taken recently by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the European Science Foundation is a very promising one the best specialists on both sides of the Atlantic met together in order to define what seemed to them the most desirable planetary missions for the years ahead. If. in future. such cooperation could also involve the Soviet Union still greater benefits would accrue. I therefore congratulate you. Senator. on your initiative and I hope you may be heard by your countrys authorities. I express this hope without reservation. convinced as I am that striving to promote better understanding between scientists throughout the world can in no way be regarded as interfering in the specific politics of each of our nations. matters which are. of course. outside my competence. Yours sincerely.
Date: 1984-10-10
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speakers table the Senate bill to grant a Federal charter to the National Society. Daughters of the American Colonists. and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
Date: 1984-10-10
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker. the bill is similar to the bill H.R. 1881 granting a charter to the National Society. Daughters of the American Colonists. It contains the standard language followed by the House Committee on the Judiciary in previous bills granting charters to nonprofit organizations of a patriotic nature. This is the same bill. if the gentleman from Ohio will recall. that passed through our subcommittee.
Date: 1984-10-10
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speakers table the bill to grant a Federal charter to the 369th Veterans Association. with a Senate Amendment thereto. and concur in the Senate amendment.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker. I think I know the answer to this. but I would like the record to reflect it.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

The Sullivan Principles are probably being utilized fully by those corporations that are doing business now dealing with nondiscriminatory hiring tactics?
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

I understand at one time there was a move afoot to restrict the corporations from increasing any additional moneys in South Africa? Does this bill affect that in any way?
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the bill for the relief of Joseph Karel Hasek. and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker. this bill merely places into action again the fact that Mr. Hasekand pursuant to the veto message of the Presidentcan go back before the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States and attempt to prove his damages. We do not make any statement here as to anything except giving him the right to go back to do that.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (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 the bill just passed.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the Senate bill for the relief of Adel Shervin. and.ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. if the gentleman will yield. Dr. Adel Shervin is a native of Iran who has been in the United States since 1977. He has a license to practice medicine and he is an OBOYN specialist. His services are vitally needed in Kansas. He has also served in the State of Iowa. This bill is one that I think should be granted because of the need for this type of discipline in the area where Dr. Shervin is now practicing his profession.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the Senate bill (8. 2449) for the relief of the Sisters of Mercy of the Union. Providence of St. Louis. MO. and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the Sisters of Mercy of the Union Providence of St. Louis. MO. were the former owners of the Mercy Hospital in Brownsville. TX. This bill is seeking to relieve that group of all liability to the United States under title VI of the Public Health Service Act resulting from the sale of that Mercy Hospital to a forprofit organization. Under the statute. any nonprofit organization such as this was. if they -ell to a forprofit organization. they must pay back all of the HillBurton funds that they previously have received. In this particular instance. we have a letter from the Secretary of Health and Human Services which states that. and this is directed to the Honorable ORIN HATCH. it says this bill would relieve the Sisters from the right of the United States to recover from them any of the Federal grant funds provided for construction of the former nonprofit Mercy Hospital at Brownsville. TX. It appears that they had taken some 11111Burton funds to build a hospital. It also appears that at some time in about 1973. a bill was introduced in the 93d Congress to grant relief to this facility. The revised bill became part of another Senate bill to amend title VI of the Public Health Service Act. In conference. the conferees decid.d to retain title VI unchanged. but the revised bill then became the new title XVI of the Public Health Service Act. Since section 1622 permits the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to waive the right of recovery. if the proceeds of the sale of an assisted facility are applied in an approved manner to another health facility in the same State. the hospital people thought that they had a right to continue to build another nonprofit hospital in Texas. They continued to do that. They then found out in 1980. and I continue to quote from the letter. "In 1980. the Department discovered that the Mercy Hospital recovery review action had not been completed. and that a statutory question seemed to exist." In 1981. an audit of the program conducted by the Office of the Inspector General noted that the case had not been resolved and recolumended a recovery claim. Until the Department. on the advice of the general counsel. decided in 1981 that the title XVI waiver provision could relieve a facility. both the Departments and the Sisters believed that Public Law 93641 had relieved the Sisters from the title VI obligation. Because of the complexity of the thing and because all parties believed that the sisters were acting in good faith. the Secretary of Health and Human Resources has joined in this measure seeking to grant them the relief that they are asking for.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (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 the Senate bill just under consideration.
Date: 1984-10-11
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. leaving our midst with the adjournment of this Congress is our distinguished colleague RICHARD OTTINGER. I would like to say it has certainly been a privilege to serve with RICHARD for these past 16 years. A legislator of style and integrity RICHARD is a man who has served in this body with distinction and pride. He has earned the respect and admiration of all of us for the fine job he has done for his constituency over the years and for the contributions he has made in aiding the Congress in producing effective legislation. Producing a solid record of achievement reflecting his abiding concern for the needs of the American people RICHARD has worked diligently. His contributions are indeed innumerable going beyond what he has done for his district and State of New York for many years affect our national and international interests. RICHARDS ability and dedication to high performance will remain as an example for all of us to follow. As he ends his distinguished career in Congress I wish RICHARD well and congratulate his neighbors of Westchester County upon his decision to rejoin them. Know always you have been an example of the best in representative government. I bid you Godspeed and all the best in your future endeavors.e
Date: 1993-01-05
Speaker: DE LUGO (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. as a Delegate from a U.S. territory who has served in this House for 18 years. I will take that half a loaf. We already had this debate two decades ago. when the Members of this House determined that it was constitutional to give the vote to the Delegates for the first time since the Founding Fathers. for the first Q time in the committees. What we are talking about here today is a committee. the Committee of the Whole. We are in the House right now. but most of the business. as has been said. is in the Committee of the Whole. We can change the Committee in any way we want to because that is not the House. We are in the Committee of the Whole. The symbol of the House is put down lower. The Speaker is not in the chair. It is a Chairman. And we want to participate. That is all we want to do. participate. We have already amended these rules so that we cannot be decisive. We cannot reach into the House and determine anything. But let us participate. When Desert Storm came up. I could not vote. I could not vote for my constituents. and yet within days after this House endorsed Desert Storm and we went to war in Desert Storm. three of my constituents were dead. We pay Federal taxes. Federal taxes. We use the same forms as my colleagues use. We pay the same rate as my colleagues do. It Is the Federal law and the Congress that says that money will stay in the territory and be used in the territory. If we want to change it. change It. We do not want to. and I know we will not. But that is not the issue here. The issue here is participation for 4 million Americans. France allows it. Spain allows it. Let us allow it.