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Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would like to inform the gentleman I have discussed the matter with the chairman of the subcommittee. the gentleman from Tennessee . The gentleman in turn has discussed it with various members of the committee. We have arrived at the consensus the gentleman makes a very valid and useful contribution to the legislation. and it would be our purpose to accept his amendment on our side.
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I have discussed this with the chairman of the subcommittee. As we understand the explanation of the gentleman. this would impose no obligation on the Government. Under the factual situation the gentleman has delineated for us. there is no possibility that it could be any loss to the Government but rather that a time sequence is all the gentleman is asking for but not a deferral of payment or a deferral of the loan but rather that the time sequence for foreclosure would be affected. is that correct?
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I move to strike the requisite number of words. Mr. Chairman. we appreciate the contribution of the gentleman from Virginia. I just want to understand for the record that the gentlemans amendment in no way changes the responsibility of the Farmers Home to assure repayment and the responsibility to make loans to the full amount. or grants possible. but rather that the gentleman defines in a more exact nature the criteria. so that these small communities may be able to work and present their case to the Farmers Home Administration. is that a correct interpretation of the amendment?
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. we have examined the amendment. I have just checked with counsel. though. with one clarification. that we would- be prepared to accept the amendment. The gentlemans amendment in item 3 provides for appeal within the Department of Agriculture from a decision which denies relief under such provisions and alternatives. Is it the gentlemans intent to restate the appellate procedure that exists in the law at this time?
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the gentleman yielding. but taking that statement. the gentlemans amendment and the reason for accepting it. recommending it to the committee. is that the concerns of the gentleman from Minnesota may be valid concerns and we shave some of them. What the gentleman is doing has nothing to do with the legislation. the interest rate. 1 year. 3 years. or anything. All the gentleman is saying is that when and if the legislation is in place or that the Secretary informs those who have an interest. which I think is worthwhile in many of the rural areas where there is a lack of the dissemination of information. I think it would be unjust and many times cruel if we were to pass legislation providing for some assistance and that some farmer. because of the lack of receiving the information. might not at least petition so that his situation may be reviewed. Granted. the bulk of them possibly would. but I think that we do no harm to responsible activity by the Farmers Home Administration. but we rather enhance it: that they not put themselves off in a corner. shut themselves off in a room and say. "Well. the Congress gave us authority but we are not going to let anyone know about it." I think that is the thrust of the gentlemans amendment and the reason why we would accept it.
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman. if I may address the gentleman from Minnesota. the concern of the gentleman from Minnesota deals with another area Iry the bill.
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

I thank the gentleman for yielding further to me. Mr. Chairman. might not the gentleman from Minnesota address that issue in the bill. with the possibility that he might receive some support. rather than to obstruct at this time the intention of the gentleman from South Dakota? That information should be made available. If the gentleman is worried about the content of what information may be made available. then he should address that in the other section of the bill.
Date: 1982-09-09
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 the bill just passed.
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: WON PAT (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speakers table the bill to authorize appropriations for certain insular areas of the United States. and for other purposes. with a Senate amendment thereto. and concur in the Senate amendment with an amendment.
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: WON PAT (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that further reading of the House amendment to the Senate amendment be dispensed with. and that It be printed in the RECORD.
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: WON PAT (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 on the matter just considered.
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. the distinguished Senator is welcome. Does Mr. PROXMIRE or Mr. STENNIS wish to have me yield some time to them?
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. reserving the right to object. I shall not object. I merely wish to point out for the record that if an objection is interposed the cloture vote would occur in accordance with rule XXII. which would mean that it would occur 1 hour after the Senate convenes follos ing a mandatory live quorum. so we have our choice. We can either vote in 1 hour following a mandatory live quorum on Monday or we can set the hour. which the majority leader is trying to do. and therefore there is no objection. September .9. 1982 CON
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. the majority leader has the floor. I merely ask the majority leader if in his judgment the vote will occur at around 12 to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow?
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

May I ask a further request of the majority leader? Does the majority leader foresee another cloture vote on the amendment by Mr. HELMs if the vote on the cloture motion falls on Monday?
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Does the distinguished majority leader agree with me in saying that at some point. if cloture motions on the amendment by Mr. HELlMs fail to get the required number of votes. a cloture motion will in all likelihood be entkred on te .Itself. so as to expedite acton on tra bill?
Date: 1982-09-09
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. reserving the right to object. the request of the majority leader is that no tabling motion be in order with respect to the measure itself or to any amendments thereto on today or tommorrow or Monday. prior to the cloture vote. Am I correct?
Date: 1982-09-10
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. about what time does the majority leader anticipate the vote on the override of the Presidential veto? Is he in a position to say?
Date: 1982-09-10
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I am prepared on this side to have no more than an hour on the debate with 5 minutes of our time going to Mr. HARRY F. BYRD. JR.. of Virginia. if the other side will yield 5 minutes to him from their time.
Date: 1982-09-10
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I would urge that the clerk repeat the names as the votes are cast so that everyone can hear.
Date: 1982-09-10
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Date: 1982-09-13
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. on behalf of Mr. BUMPERS. Mr. BAKER. and other Senatorsand I add my own name because this resolution provides for the designation of October 15 as National Poetry DayI send to the desk a joint resolution and ask that it be stated by the clerk.
Date: 1982-09-13
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. as the Clean Air Act has moved through the reauthorization process. I have advocated a cautious approach in dealing with the phenomenon of acid precipitation. Others have called for massive control programswhich would cost Jobs and increase electric utility rates in my State of West Virginia and the Appalachian. Midwestern. and Southern regions of our countryand which may prove to be totally ineffective. The scientific community has by no means reached a consensus with regard to acid precipitation. As this debate has intensified over the last 2 years. the Canadian Government has been an active participantand has urged that controls be placed on coalburning facilities in the United States as a necessary action to address the perceived threat to Canadas lakes and streams. Our Canadian friends recently had an opportunity to hear from the president of the National Coal Association. Mr. Carl Bagge. on this issue. Mr. Bagge spoke before the Canadian Bar Associations 64th annual meeting on August 30. 1982. Mr. Bagges remarks are timely. hard hitting. and deserve attention. I ask unanimous consent that his remarks to. the Canadian Bar Association be inserted in the RECORD.
Date: 1982-09-13
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I yield to the distinguished Senator from Wisconsin such time as he may require. from the time under my control.
Date: 1982-09-13
Speaker: ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER (democrat)
Chamber: H

Chairman. Subcommittee on Courts. Civil Liberties and Administration of Justice. Committee on the Judiciary. House of Representatives. Washington. D.C. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I write to support the Patent Term Restoration Act from my perspective as a member of the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means. We regard soaring health care costs as a major problem which. to date. has eluded any pervasive legislative or marketplace solution. Health care costs have increased sixfold over the past twenty years. and skyrocketing hospitalization and surgical costs have accounted for a substantial portion of the increase. Health care costs as a percentage of our ONP continues to increase at an alarming rate. Many families have been wiped out because of Illnesses that have required protracted and costly hospitalization. and the Medicare and Medicaid programswhich are esssential to the elderly and the poorhave become prime targets for the Administrations budget cutters. One component of our health care systemmedicineshas provided an efficlent. effective and humanitarian counterweight to an otherwise bleak health care picture. Prescription drug prices have increased only 34% over the past 20 years. Perhaps even more importantly. however. new drugs have alleviated human suffering and saved billions of dollars by providing effective alternatives to costly surgical procedures and hospitalization. The past two years alone has witnessed the introduction of new or improved drugs to treat or prevent ulcers. glaucoma. pneumococcal pneumonia. second heart attacks. epilepsy. hepatitis. arthritis and hypertension. to name some of our more common and costly illnesses. New medicines. Mr. Chairman. represent the most compassionate and cost effective means of preventing and treating discase. It is in our national Interest. and particularly in the interest of the poor and the elderly. to assure adequate incentives to encourage the introduction of new and better medicines. The stakes are too big to be penny wise and pound foolish. An average 6.8 year patent term for drugs Is grossly unfair and inequitable when better mousetraps receive 17 years of exclusivity. Continuation of this inequity is bound to reduce the flow of funds into R&D for new medicines and the number of new medicines that will be forthcoming in the 1990s. H.R. 6444 both redresses this inequity and protects consumers and generic manufacturers by excluding products already marketed and patents already issued. It should be supported by all who are prepared to critically examine the importance of new medicines to the poor. the elderly and to our health care delivery system. Feel free to use this letter during floor debate on the bill if it will help secure its passage. With best regards. Sincerely.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

May I say to the distinguished majority leader that our good friend the Chaplain included everybody but himself. We thank the Deity for him.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I would be happy to proceed as the majority leader wishes. but before we do so I wish to make an inquiry.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I should like to ask the majority leader the schedule. as he sees it. for the next week and the week ending October 2. Early on. it was announced by both leaders that the Senate would probably try to adjourn by October 2.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

The House will return after the election. as they have been doing in recent years. for organizational purposes. I hope that the Senate will go out on the 2d of October and. inasmuch as the House is going to come back in any event. I would also expect to talk with the Speaker and the majority leader of the House and at least those over there to try to pursue adjournment on the 2d. If the House is coming back after the election in any event. I do not see why the House should proceed until October 8 and hold us here until October 8if they are coming back. anyhow. Perhaps we should come back for organizational purposes and if there is any cleanup work to be done. do it at that time. I would not suggest that we ought to attempt to do a lot of work following the election. but I would want to underscore the hope that has been expressed by the majority leader and the intention that has been expressed by him to try to complete the work here by October 2. I agree with him that we are. to a considerable degree. dependent upon the House acting first on appropriations matters and the continuing resolutions. but I join with him in urging the House leadership to try to complete action by October 2. I have a number of Senators on this side of the aisle who have scheduled engagements back in their respective States beginning October 2. as a matter of fact. If there is going to be any change from October 2. I would personally hope that it would be possible for us to go out on October 2 and come back after the election and do whatever cleanup work has to be done.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. last weekend the Washington Post published an article entitled. "Rising Utility Bills Stir Revolt." The article reported thatConsumers. angry over rising utility bills. have forced utility Issues onto the ballot In November in an unprecedented number of States. alarming the industry and producing heated campaigns that have seeped into other races. In other words. the Post article indicates that rising utility bills are becoming a political issue in many States. I was interested In this report. because the Committee on Environment and Public Works recently completed their revision of the Clean Air Act which included a very controversial acid precipitation proposal. The committees proposal is to impose a new regulatory program on a 31State region to achieve a reduction of 8 million tons of sulfur dioxide emissions by 1995. If passed. one of the major effects of such a program would be to increase the electric utility bills for thousands of consumers in the Midwest and Appalachia. One analysis has estimated the change in electric utility rates that would be required in the first year that the 8millionton reduction is achieved. These would be rate Increases required in order for utilities to recover capital costs associated with an acid precipitation control program. According to that analysis. several States in the Midwest would have utility rate increases of over 10 percent. These same States are also currently facing high unemployment rates. In my own State of West Virginia. where unemployment is about 10.9 percent. first year electric utility rate Increases would be about 6.3 percent. In Ohio. where unemployment is about 11 percent. electric utility customers would see their rates increa.e by 19 percent. In Kentucky. where unemployment Is about 9.8 percent. customers would see their rates increase by 10.9 percent. In other words. people who have already been hit hard by the economic recession could also look forward to the prospect of significantly higher electric rates. Mr. President. I know there are many other Senators who are very concerned by the Environment Committees acid precipitation proposal and its impact on utility rates. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD this article
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that I may reserve the remainder of my time until the special orders have been completed.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I call attention to the fact that bills are not supposed to be introduced until the period for morning business. So for that reason I could object to the introduction of the bill at this point or even during this calendar day. I will not do that. I will not object to the first and second readings of the measure if I may have the same privilege accorded on behalf of two bills which I want to introduce on behalf of two other Senators. one by Mr. KENNEDY which deals with funding for public works infrastructure employment. and one which is by Mr. METZENBAUM which deals with extended supplemental unemployment benefits. So. if we can work out an arrangement whereby both the measure which Mr. THURMOND and the measures which I have referred to can be given first and second readings and obSeptember- 14. 1982 jected to and go on the calendar on the next legislative date or if he wishes to ask unanimous consent that the measures be put directly on the calendar. I would have no objection with that provided the same courtesy could be shown in regard to the measures I have referred to. Could we work the thing out along that line?
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. for the record. so that my colleagues on this side will clearly understand. there is no wayno waythat anybody on my side of the aisle can prevent the placing of the Presidents crime package and the bill which Mr. THURMOND introduced on insanity. from going on the calendar. I can object at this point to their being introduced on this legislative day. but the majority leader has the votes and he can adjourn for a half minute and that cures the first objection. Then the offering of the two measures could be made. the request could also be made that there be a first and second reading. and there could be an objection to the . second reading. which would mean that the bill could not be placed on the calendar until the Senate adjourned again. The majority leader would have used his adjournment weapon once on this legislative day. It could not be used again until tomorrow. but he could use it again tomorrow. after which rule XIV could be used as a mechanism to automatically force the two bills on the calendar. I hope my colleagues understand that about the only thing we can accomplish is to delay. by a couple of days at most. those bills going on the calendar. I have been a majority leader and I know how the rules work here. I know what the majority leader can do. He has the votes to adjourn. That is not a debatable motion. If he wants to adjourn this Senate. all he has to do is to have the votes and make a motion. A quorum call can occur before then. but that Is all. Then there will be a vote on adjournment. For any who might wonder why I give unanimous consent to the request of the majority leader. there it is in the record. If any Senators want to check with the Parliamentarian to see if I am correct. they can do so. I have used this procedure many times and I know whereof I speak. Therefore. I have no objection to the placing of the two bills on the calendar that the majority leader has made reference to. provided the same clearance may likewise be given to a bill by
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I thank the distinguish2d majority leader for his customary courtesy. I ask unanimous consent that a joint resolution by Mr. KENNEDY. dealing with funding for public works infrastructure employment. and a bill by
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. reserving the right to object. I have no objection. but I might make the same request with respect to the bills introduced on behalf of Mr. KENNEDY and Mr. METZENBAUM.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I thank the distinguished Senator from South Carolina. Will the majority leader allow me to make a parliamentary Inquiry. Mr. President?
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. just for the record. is it not true that bills and resolutions may be introduced only during the period for routine morning business if there is an objection?
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I thank the Chair. (The measures placed on the calndar are: S. 2902. S. 2903. S. 2904. and S.J. Res. 245. The text of S. 2902 is printed heretofore in todays RECORD. The text of the remaining three measures follow:) S. 2903CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM AcT or (Introduced by Mr. TIURMOND. by request.) Be it eniacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1982."
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. Piesident. I have asked the staff to explore the possibility of agreeing to a request to vote at 2 p.m. on Thursday.
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. does the distinguished majority leader intend to renew the request by him for no tabling motion for tomorrow?
Date: 1982-09-14
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I have nothing. I hope I am not being repetitious in asking the majority leader. as I understand it. the only remaining "must" legislation is the debt limit. the continuing resolution. and appropriations bills.