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Date: 1981-11-12
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. the President has 30 days in which to certify to Congress that such an embargo would not be in the national Interest or the foreign policy Interest. Congress also. of course. at any time. can take whatever action is necessary to give the President greater flexibility it the circumstances so require. I
Date: 1981-11-12
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. they would have every Incentive to move out. every incentive. because the reason for which the embargo would have been applied would have been removed.
Date: 1981-11-12
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I would be agreeable to vitiating the yeas and nays on the amendment. as amended. and also on final passage.
Date: 1981-11-13
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I thank the distinguished majority leader. Mr. President. I have no need for the time. and I yield back my time.
Date: 1981-11-13
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. Presidlent. November 11 was Veterans Day. Across our country. official celebrations. parades. and public concerts honiored Americas nearly 30 million veterans. But It was also a special day In Poland. November 11. 1018World War Is Armistice Daywas also Polands modern Independence Day. No official observances or parades were held in Poland. Nevertheless. millions of Poles either made unofficial gestures of celebration or remembered their nations resurrection In their hearts. Polands 1918 rebirth was both real and symbolic. In the late 18th century. Polands rapacious neighborsPrussia. Hapsburg Austria. and Tsarist Russiacynically and methodically obliterated Polish Independence. Erasing Polands boundaries. however. did not destroy Poland. Polanda state of mind and heartlived on In the souls of Polish people everywhere. For more than a century. In spite of persecution from "divine right" tyrannies in Berlin. Vienna. and St. Petersburg. Polish national pride. culture. and religious faith flourished. The 1918 Armistice saw Poland rebornthe redemption of one of Woodrow Wilsons goals. as well as the cherished hope of the Western European deniocracies. For 21 years thereafter. the Polish people enjoyed the recovery of their national Identity and Independence. Unfortunately. Poland fell again under foreign domination In 1939. the first victim of Adolph Hitlers blitzkreig tactics. Subsequent to Hitlers invasion. the Soviet Union swallowed half of Polanda dividend from the "devils compact" earlier signed between the Nazis and the Soviet Communists. For more than threeandahalf decades. Poland has lived under the Soviet fist. Today. however. the Polish people are showing the world that even the tentacles of Communist totalitarianism cannot strangle Polish pride and faith. In her struggle. Poland Is again earning the worlds admiration and respect. Mr. President. I salute Poland and the Polish American community. And I want to assure those Polish Americans that many of their neighbors congratulate them on the occasion of Polands Independence Day. Historically. the ties between the United States and Poland are strong. Currently. as in the past. the American and Polish people share many mutual hopes. one of which is for a strong. Independent. and foreverfree Poland. May we live to see the -day when Warsaws streets publicly and officially ring with the cheers of a free Polish people celebrating November 11 as joyously as Americans celebrate the Fourth of July.
Date: 1981-11-13
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: 1981-11-13
Speaker: DE LA GARZA (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. yesterday on rollcall No. 297. the motion to recommit H.R. 4035. the Interior appropriations bill. I inadvertently voted "yea" for recommittal when my vote should have been "nay" against recommittal. I bring this to the attention of the House to set the record straight. Thank you for your attention.*
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I yield my time. or such of It as he may require. to the distinguished Senator from Colorado .
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that that order be vitiated. The PRE SIDING OFFICER. Without objection. it Is so ordered.
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I thank the majority leader. I take the floor to Inquire as to what the program will be for the rest of the week. if the majority leader should state it.
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I had promised the majority leader that I would inform him as to the amendments we expect on this side of the aisle. We only know of four: one by Mr. BENTSEN. which Is an interest rate amendment. He may change it. There Is an amendment by Mr. CHILES which is an Interest rate amendment. an amendment by ROBERT C. BYRD which deals with unidentified budget cuts: and an amendment by ROBERT C. BYRD which would provide for the appointment of a smell business representative on the Federal Reserve Board. There are Just four amendments.
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I move to lay that motion on the table. The mnotion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. reserving the right to object. may I Inquire of the distinguished majority leader. will there be an explanation of the various treaties before the Senate prior to the vote?
Date: 1981-11-16
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: 1981-11-16
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I noticed on page 4. lines 12 through 14. it states that under whichever is lower. uinder the authority and conditions provided in applicable appropriations act for the fiscal year 1981prefacing my remarks. earlier this year under the Legal Services Corporation Reauthorization Act. H.R. 3480. we voted several restrictions on Legal Services. One was that they would not handle any abortion cases --"less the life of the mnother was en- .igered. It prevented LSC lawyers from taking any case to promnote or- defend homosexuality and prevented them fromi filing any class actions against local. State. or Federal governments. and one or two others. My question is this: In the event that the continuing resolution passes in its present form. would these Legal Services restrictions on spending provided for in the fiscal year 1982 appropriations no longer be applicable?
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. if the gentleman will yield further. Is the gentleman stating that if the continuing resolution passes. the restrictions that we voted against Legal Services would still be in effect?
Date: 1981-11-16
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the Banking Committee has two bills listed on tomorrows Suspension Calendar. H.R. 4879 would make deposits at International banking facilities exempt from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation assessments. H.R. 4879 also would extend FDIC deposit insurance coverage to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The second bill. H.R. 4515. would lift the 20 percent ceiling on purchases of mortgages older than 1 year by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association. and would permit FHLMC and FNMA to purchase mortgages from FDIC and from the National Credit Union Administration. Both bills were the subject of hearings by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision. Regulation. and Insurance. In addition. the Housing and Community Development Subcommittee heard testimony on the amendments made by H.R. 4515. In both cases. the necessity of taking prompt action led to full committee markup sessions. This step was taken with the agreement of the minority and the committee and was not done to rush anything to judgment by bypassing subcommittee markup. To expedit consideration on the floor tomorrow. I intend to move to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 4879 with a committee amendment thereto. The committee amendment will contain two titles. title I being the text of H.R. 4879. as ordered reported by the committee. and title II the text of H.R. 4515. To provide Members with a copy of the committee amendment to be considered by the House. the text will be printed in the amendments section of todays CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.*
Date: 1981-11-17
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I thank the distinguished majority leader for his outline of the program. I have no need for my time at this point.
Date: 1981-11-17
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. the Banking. Finance and Urban Affairs Committee Is continuing its series of grass roots hearings on the economy. The commitee will be in Atlanta on Friday. December 4. and Providence. R.I.. on Monday. December 7. During the committees first four hearings in St. Paul. Minn.. Seattle. Wash.. Tucson. Ariz.. and Chicago. Ill.. we heard 259 witnessesworkers. builders. senior citizens. small business peoplecitizens from every walk of life. Mr. Speaker. the concern over the economy is growing even In great growth areas of the Sun Belt. The pain and suffering of people without Jobs and the tragedy. of small businesses slipping into bankruptcy have been dramatically brought before the committee in these hearings. As the Seattle Times described the witnesses: The came to the Federal Building from the woods. from closeddown mill towns. lumber yards. realestate offices. sporting goods stores. neighborhood groceries. trade organizations and associations for retired persons. to tell the committee headed by Representative FERNAND J. Sr GERMAIN. Rhode Island Democrat. Just how badly the Pacific Northwest Is being hurt by "Reaganomics." Situations related by the unemployed and others were grimthey touched on having to poach wild animals for food for their children. the humiliation of asking for food stamps and unemployment checks and other help. of family strife because there is not enough money to buy food. clothing and other necessities. Then the next day the committee traveled to Tucson. Ariz.. in the heart of the Sun Belt and the Arizona Republic. published in Phoenix. carried this lead on its story: For 71/v hours on Saturday. seven Congressmen were told about unemployed construction workers unable to feed their families. -small businesses ready to collapse. builders unable to sell homes and the elderly unable to pay their medical bills. Mr. Speaker. the committee will publish the hearing record following the completion of the Atlanta and Providence hearings. It Is our Intention to issue a report on the six hearings and these documents will help provide guidance to the commnittee. and hopefully to the Congress and the administration. as we consider economic -legislation in the coming months. Hopefully. Mr. Speaker. the direct facetoface testimony gathered In this set of hearings will give official Washington a more concrete base for decisionmaking than the shaky premises the numbers no one understood and the other economic shots in the dark we have heard so much about In recent days thanks to William OrIeder and Atlantic Monthly.
Date: 1981-11-17
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I .move to suspend the rules and pass. the bill to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to clarify the treatment of international banking facility deposits for purposes of deposit Insurance assessments. as amended.
Date: 1981-11-17
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

I want to thank our colleague from Ohio . for raising this matter on the floor today. His assessment of the meaning of the phrase "or any other seller currently engaged In mortgage lending" is the correct one. The Intent is to define the class of sellers eligible for the program In general terms. to assure that sellers are over time engaged in mortgage lending activities. A mortgage lender is not excluded under this definition if its mortgage window is temporarily closed as a result of economic conditions. the lack of lendable funds. or the lack of a demand for mortgage loans. The mortgage market is subject to cyclical movements which create periods when mortgage lending activity slows or in some cases stops. The thrust of the bill before the House. In fact. is a recognition of this fact and seeks to allow the secondary market institutions to~ utilize their processing and purchasing capacity throughout economic cycles.
Date: 1981-11-17
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (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 and to Include extraneous material on the legislation just passed.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I move o lay that motion on the table. The mu.tion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I shall suggest the absence of a quorum. I ask unanimous Consent that I be recognized following the quorum. to call Up an amendment.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. the committee amendments have not yet been adopted en bloc. I have discussed this request with the distinguished chairman of the commnittee. I ask unanimous consent that I may be permitted to offer an amendment to the bill notwithstanding the fact that the committee amendments have not been adopted en bloc.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam President. I send my amendment in the second degree to the desk and ask that It. be stated by the clerk.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I thank the Senate. Before I yield the floor. I want to say that the September 30. 1981. date is not in the continuing resolution by virtue of any action that could be assigned to the Senate Appropriations Committee. That language was in the continuing resolution when it came over from the other body. So I do not attempt to assign any blame here or any fault. I am simply trying to correct what I: think is a mistakenot a mistake. but correct an action which will prove to be a mistake. I yield to the Senator from Mississippi.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I hope the distinguished Senator from Virginia would also consider the fact that what we may be doing If we accept the longer date. we may be insuring lesser appropriations for defense. Mr. President. I am particularly concerned that the Senate not be denied an opportunity to debate and make decisions on our defense programs for fiscal year 1982. The bill appropriated for defense Is the largest in the Nations history. it incorporates funding for decisions which are of paramount Importance. and which will be with us for the rest of this decade and beyond. The Senate has a deep responsibility to thloroughly consider the import of these decisions. As the continuing resolution is now constructed. the defense funding level will be the lower of the House or Seinate. This results in the Senate enldorsing the lower House funding level.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I hope tht the distinguished Senator from Oregon will do me the courtesy of coming over and offering his amendment before I leave the Senate. I called the distinguished Senator several minutes ago. perhaps 20 or 30 minutes ago. and requested that he come over and offer his amendment. He has every right to do that. and I respect him for that. But Ihope that in view of the fact that I will have to be gone after 5 p.m. today that he will come over and offer the amendment while I am here to oppose the amendment. The amendment. If adopted. would certainly aff ect my State and Its citizens. I Implore and beseech the distinguished Senator to come to the floor and call up his amendment so that we can debate It and the Senate can act on It before I am obliged to leave the Senate Chamber. I would do the same for him or any other Senator under those circumstances. Now. Madam President. I yield the floor and I express the hope the Senate will adopt my amendment that Is now pending.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Madam President. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. The PRES=IG OFFICER. The minority leader is recognized.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I shall send to the desk an amendment which would change the September 30. 1982. date to March 30. 1982. which is the date. I am advised. that the President requested. The arguments have been made on the amendment as far as I am concerned. I know of no new argument to make on my amendment that I did not offer before. except to say again that It Is my understanding that this is the date the President requested onthe continuing resolution. It seems to me. Mr. President. that this would allow the Senate to take up the other appropriations bills. debate them. and act upon them and send them to the President. It would allow the Senate. then. come March 30. 1982. to take a new look at any items that are covered by the continuing resolution which have not been superseded by action on appropriations bills prior to that. Therefore. I send the amendment to the desk and ask that It be stated by the clerk.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. reserving the right to object. and I certainly want to cooperate in every way I can with the distinguished chairman because he has been exceedingly fairwith me and with others on this side of the aisle. I reiterate that I hope that the distinguished Senator from Oregon Will offer his amendment with respect to the Cardinal before I have to leave town. I therefore hope that the distinguished chairman would exclude from the amendments which he has asked to have agreed to en bloc the amendment on page 7. beginning with line 7 and going through page 14.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I thank my distinguished friend. the chairman of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee. May I inquire of the distinguished Senator from Oregon what he proposes to do? Does he propose to strike the language in the continuing resolution or does he propose to offer a substitute? What are we facing here?
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I merrly want to know what I am up against. Is the Senator going to off er the amendment. is he moving to strike the language in the Pending resolution. What does he propose to do?
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I move to reconsider the vote by which the amendment was rejected. and. Mr. President. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I understand that the distinguished Senator from Kentucky wishes. to engage In a colloquy at this time. I yield the floor.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Does the distingished Senator move to table the amendment In the second degree or the amendment In the first degree by which both amendments would fall?
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

I thank the distinguished Senator. Mr. President. what the motion would do would be to table my amendment in the first degree. which changes the date on the continuing resolution from September 30. 1982. to December 19. 1981. and. in addition. would table my amenidment in the second degree. which Is the sense of thle Senate amendment calling onl the administration to submit a balanced budget for fiscal year 1984 and to identify all the details with respect to budget cuts and tax increases required to achieve such balanced budget.
Date: 1981-11-18
Speaker: ST GERMAIN (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. today. once again the Federal experts have told us what the people In this Nation have known for a long timethat. the housingand construction Industry Is In a deep depression. Housing starts. we are told by the Commerce Department. were down to an annual rate of 857.000 in Octoberthe second lowest number since records have been kept on this area of the economy. Only In October of 1966. when starts dipped below the 850.000 mark. was housing construction at a lower ebb. These numbers are disastrous when the Nation is in need of at least 2 to 21/ million new starts annually just to keep up with basic needs. These aggregate numbers speak loudly. but they do not begin to explain to the Nation the severe hardships. the Pain. the suffering. the dashed hopes that flow from the failure of the Reagan administration policies on housing. The Banking. Finance and Urban Affairs Committee has been In the field. talking directly to the peopleto carpenters. electricians. plumbers. contractors. lumber mill operators. copper
Date: 1981-11-19
Speaker: SAM B. HALL (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman and state that the Texas Railroad Commission is adamantly opposed to this bill. and one of the reasons being that It wants no Federal preemption over the existing State authority to regulate intrastate carriers. If this bill is passed. that will take place.
Date: 1981-11-19
Speaker: PHILLIP BURTON (democrat)
Chamber: H

I respect our distinguished colleague In the well as I respected his distinguished predecessor. However. I do not think that the gentlemans observations are justified by the situation. I yield virtually to no one In this House or In the other body for the hopefully consistent and persistent opposition I had to the war In Vietnam when there were few or virtually none In this body or the other body that held that point of view. This particular situation Is the mirror image. if you will. If I am using the right analogy. to that we had in Vietnam. The American presence there. in fact E3 going to serve the cause of peace. Our presence there is requested by these two nations who previously had bcen hostiles. who are groping to improve on their current peaceful relationship. both of whom believed our presence serves a positive purpose in that respect. . I applaud the Judgment that produced this resolution.
Date: 1981-11-19
Speaker: WILLIAM J. COYNE (democrat)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I rise to associate myself with the remarks of Congressman GAYDos and Congressman BENAmiN. I also would like to submit for the RECORD the remarks of Mr. Thomas C. Graham. president and chief executive officer of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. to a Symposium on American Productivity in Pittsburgh. Pa.. on November 4. 1981. Mr. Speaker. the remarkE follow:
Date: 1981-11-19
Speaker: ROBERT C. BYRD (democrat)
Chamber: S

Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that the names of Mr. DECONCINi. Mr. PRYOR. Mr. Exox. Mr. METEENBAUM. Mr. MoYNIHAN. Mr. CANNON. and Mr. RANDOLPH be added to my amendment as cosponsors.