CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE

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• Publication Date: April 27, 1983
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H 2374 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? HOUSE
portant one, conservation being one of
the matters uppermost in the minds of
the American public, I wish to declare
today as "National Antilitter Champi-
ons" the people of Lycoming County
in my district in central Pennsylvania.
More than 20,000 volunteers repre-
senting 16.9 percent of the county
population participated in an antilitter
campaign of picking up litter from
over 700 miles of Lycoming County
highways. This represents 81.3 percent
of the 861 miles of State highways in
the county. 'They picked up 186 tons
of litter and deposited it on a parking
lot at the? Lycoming County Mall to
show the results of their efforts. Over
a half million cans were collected for
recycling.
Therefore, I put before this House
and challenge every Member of the
House to compare?rtheir efforts or to
exceed this record in the hope that we
lose the distinction in Lycoming
County of being the No. 1 antilitter
area in the United States.
Mr. Speaker, Anthony Casale, a citi-
zen of Lycoming County who began
this effort, is to be given a great deal
of credit, but more credit goes to the
rising consciousness of the people of
all the country, and especially in Ly-
coming County, on the need .to con-
serve and to be' antilitter in conscience.
INTRODUCTION OF EQUAL
ACCESS ACT FOR GREATER
PROTECTION OF RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY
(Mr. LOTT asked and was given per-
mission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his
remarks)
Mr. LOTT. Mr. Speaker, a year and
a half ago, the Supreme Court, in the
case of Widmar against Vincent, took
a giant step forward in the protection
of religious liberty in the United
States. The' Court held that a public
university could not discriminate
against voluntary religious groups in
the conduct of extracurricular activi-
ties. Whereever ,a public university
Makes time and space available for
voluntary political, civic, and social
groups, the university has a constitu-
tional obligation to make equal access
available to voluntary religious groups.
These principles of religious liberty
and nondiscrimination are in the best
traditions of the American system.
Unfortunately, lower courts have
been less than eager to follow the lead
of the Supreme Court in this area.
Even though the Supreme Court held
some 15 years ago that the first
amendment applies to public second-
ary and elementary school students,
some lower courts have gone so far as
to prohibit the exercise by those stu-
dents of the liberties guaranteed by
the Supreme Court in the Widmar
case. It seems to me that Congress has
both the power and the obligation to
protect this exercise of liberties guar-
anteed by the Constitution.
For that reason, Mr. Speaker, yester-
day I introduced the Equal Access Act,
which would require all public educa-
tional institutions receiving Federal
funds to comply with the principles
set down in the Widmar case. Schools
would be required to recognize the
same rights and privileges for volun-
tary religious groups which they make
available to other voluntary extra-
curricular activites. I am pleased to be
joined in this effort by three original
? cosponsors: the gentleman from New
York (Mr. KEmp); the gentleman from
Illinois (Mr. HYDE); and the gentleman
from California (Mr. DANNEMEYER). A
similar measure has already been in-
troduced in the other body by Senator
DENTON, and a somewhat different re-
sponse to the same problem has been
introduced by Senator HATFIELD. Presi-
dent Reagan has lent his endorsement
to this approach, and Secretary of
Education Terrell Bell is expected to
endorse the idea in hearings before
the Senate Judiciary Committee this
Thursday.
The religious liberties of our chil-
dren are too important to be neglected
by this Congress. I call on my col- -
leagues to assist in the enactment of
this legislation to redress the inequi-
ties our children presently face..
BACK TO THE BASICS IN
EDUCATION
(Mr. PACKARD asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr. 'PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, we
need to get back to the basics in the
education of our children. The report
of the National Commission on Excel-
lence in Education forces us to face
the fact that the foundations of
American education "are presently
being eroded by a rising tide of medi-
ocrity that threatens our very future
as a nation and a people." The medio-
cre education we are giving to our chil-
dren today is a cruel deception.
'Prompt action is urgently needed to
restore meaning to the diplomas
awarded by our high schools and col-
leges.
As the report states, "the primary
respcinsibility for financing and gov-
erning the schools" lies with State and
local officials. The Commission has
recommended that States and local-
ities adopt stiffer requirements for a
student to receive a high school diplo-
ma. Four years of English and three
years of math, science, and social stud-
ies should certainly be a part of every
student's high school education.
The education of our children must
be the very best that we can offer. We
must not settle for mediocrity.
UNFAIR FOREIGN COMPETI-
TION: FEEDSTOCK SUBSIDIZED
IMPORTS
(Mr. MOLLOHAN asked and was
given permission to address the House
April 27, 1983
for 1 minute and to revise and extend
his remarks and include extraneous?
matter.)
Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Speaker, it is
clear that unfair foreign trade prac-
tices have become pervasive, under-
mining both our domestic and oversea.
markets. One striking case involves
the U.S. carbon black industry.,
The historical record is enlightening.
In 1882, the Cabot Corp. began its first
carbon black Manufacturing operation
just 4 miles from Grantsville, W. Va.,
on the Little Kanawha River. This
represented the first production of
carbon black in this country. The
Cabot Co. grew and my, father, who
was born and raised in Grantsville, can
well remember the operation as
making an important contribution to
the Jotal? economy. Today Cabot faces
a real threat .from Mexican produc-
ers?a challenge based completely on
?unfair foreign competition.
Feedstocks for carbon black produc-
tion are natural gas and a residual oil
know as carbon black feedstock. Ap-
proximately 70 percent of the cost of
carbon black production is attributa-
ble to hydrocarbon raw material costs,
86 percent 'of which is for the pur-
chase of carbon black feedstock.
The price of this feedstock in the
United States is $25 a barrel. PEMEX,
the Mexican national oil monopoly,
charges Mexican carbon black produc-
ers about $2 or less a barrel and this
price is available only to local produc-
ers. With this advantage, Mexican pro-
ducers have production costs at or
near 10 percent of those of U.S.
carbon black producers.
The Department of Commerce,
acting under U.S. trade laws, has re-
cently determined in an action filed by
the U.S. carbon black producers that
subsidized feedstock prices for carbon
black by the Government of Mexico
are not countervailable when Mexican
carbon black is imported into the
United States since such material is
generally available to all Mexican pro-
ducers. It is argued that this is a com-
parative advantage based on abundant
local natural resources. These argu-
ments are factually incorrect, but
more importantly they permit Mexico
to grant a clear and intentional subsi-
dy for which a nonoil producing coun-
try would be penalized if made as a
monetary grant.
This decision has far-reaching and
disastrous implications for all U.S. in-
dustries dependent on petroleum feed-
stocks, such as petrochemicals, anhy-
drous ammonia, and cement. If the
Department of Commerce were per-
mitted to continue this policy, it could
well lead to the destruction of impor-
tant U.S. industries, despite our ef-
forts to promote modernization and
productivity. Nonmarketplace advan-
tages?including material subsidies?
sponsored by foreign governments to
give their industries unfair advantages
must be rooted out.
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April 27, 1283
? CONGRESSIONAL RECORD?HOUSE
SUBSTI ru k. FOR EMERGENCY
HOUSING ASSISTANCE ACT
(Mr. WYLIE asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. WYLIE. Mr. Speaker, this after-
noon the House will be taking up H.R.
1983, the Emergency Housing Assist-
ance Act. I will offer a substitute that
not only attacks the problem of fore-
closures in a more direct and cost-ef-
fective manner than H.R. 1983, but
will also include the $100 million in
emergency assistance for the homeless,
provision.
I take this time to alert my collegues
to that fact, since there has been some
,question about whether my substitute
would include the $100 million in
emergency assistance for the home-
less, and I have concluded that it is in
our best interests to do that.
I have spoken to the principal
author of the provision, Congressman
VErro, about my intention. The addi-
tion of the $100 million to my substi-
tute means that it is more? likely to
prevail than if it is included in the
housing authorization bill.
Housing conferences have a history
of being long and drawn out. We have
completed? many conferences with
Christmas carols in the background. I
believe these funds for the homeless
are too important to run the risk of
delaying consideration until next
winter.
REDUCTION IN PASSENGER
.CEILING AT NATIONAL AIRPORT
(Mr. WOLF asked and was given per-
mission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. WOLF. Mr, Speaker I would like
to take this opportunity to express ap-
preciation on behalf-of the Washing-
ton metropolitan area to Secretary of
Transportation Elizabeth Dole for her
appropriate decision to propose a re-
duction in the passenger ceiling at Na-
tional Airport.
I believe it is important to point out
that her proposal, which is being
issued for public comment before final
decision, would not, affect a single
flight now in operation at National.
This proposal from the Federal Gov-
ernment, which is the proprietor of
both National and Dulles Airports,
continues the progress of the local air-
ports policy in the right direction. A
lowering of the passenger cap at Na-
tional will be a tremendous boost to
Dulles. With this fall's opening of the
Dulles connector linking 1-66 and the
Dulles Access ffighway, the trip from
downtown Washington to Dulles will
be about a half hour, which will make
Dulles more convenient and accessible.
Mrs. Dole's decision is a continua-
tion of the good neighbor policy for the
Washington area established in 1981
when the- Metropolitan Washington
airports policy, was implemented and
her proposal is another important step
toward bringing greater, balance be-
tween the passenger levels at National
and Dulles Airports.
Again, on behalf of the area's citi-
zens, I commend Secretary Dole on
her proposal.
REMOVAL OF NAME OF MEMBER
AS COSPONSOR OF H.R. 287
Mrs. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent to'. remove my
name as a cosponsor of H.R. 287.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.
PArd-rrA). Is there objection to the re-
quest of the gentlewoman from Ten-
nessee?
There was no objection.
BOLA-.ND AMENDMENT NOT
BEING- VIOLATED BY ADMIN.-IS:
TRATION
? (Mr.. YOUNG of Florida asked and
was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute and to revise and
extend his remarks.)
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speak-
er, the language of the Boland amend-
ment came directly from the language
included in the intelligence authoriza-
tion bill's report. As a member of the
Intelligence Committee, I had a little
bit of something to do with drafting
that language and the debate that
ensued prior to its adoption.
I can tell you that it is important to
this House of Representatives for all
our colleagues to know and to under-
stand exactly what type of direction
was given to the administration when
the Boland language was approved
and the Intelligence Authorization Act
was approved.
What' I am suggesting to you is that
those who suggested the Boland
amendment is being violated 'today by
the administration are not really
aware of the direction given to the ad-
ministration by the Intelligence Com-
mittee. I would urge my. colleagues to
go, to the office of the Intelligence
Committee and read the transcript
that we are talking about, find out
what it was that the Intelligence Com-
mittee told the administration that
they could do or that they could not
do with regard to Central America.
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A DIALOG WITH TRP.c
SANDINISTA JUNTA ?
(Mr: will rt,HURST asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute, and to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr. WHiTEHURST. Mr. Speaker,
the gentleman from Florida (Mr.
Yuma) and three other colleagues of
the Intelligence Committee had the
opportunity in the last 2 days to visit
Central America. It is impossible, of
course, in this time to give the full
story of what we saw and heard, but I
would like to call the attention of the
House to a dialog that we had with
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members of the Sandinista Junta in
Managua on Monday morning.
I told the members of the junta that
we wanted the best of relations with
their country, but I said, what pre-
vented good relations were their ef-
forts toward exporting their revolu-
tion within the frontiers of their
neighbors. I called particular attention
to the aid that has been given to the
rebels in El Salvador. I said that as
long as that went' on it was impossible
for us to have good relations with
them.
The answer I got was one of com-
plete denial that they are doing any-
thing to aid and abet the revolution
inside the borders of their neighbors.
Mr. Speaker, the headquarters of
the rebel movement in El Salvador is
located in Managua. Nobody should be
under any illusians as to the inten-
tions of the Sandinista government.
SALVAGE CENTRAL AMERICA
FROM' THOSE WHO WOULD
SAVAGE IT
(Mr. MARTIN of North Carolina
asked and was given permission to ad-
dress the House for 1 minute and to
reivse and extend his remarks.)
Mr. MARTIN of North Carolina. Mr.
Speaker, we will soon face the ques-
tion whether to try to salvage or to
write off the non-Communist govern-
ments to our south. We cannot decide
here what kind of governments our
friends in Central America -will have.
Not only is it none of our business, but
that does not work. Even FDR's
handiwork in Nicaragua has finally
fallen apart.
But we can say that Soviet, Lybian,
and PLO influence will not expand in
this hemisphere. That is our business.
It has been our business since the
Monroe administration. We should
commend the chairman of the Foreign
Operations 'Subcommittee for recog-
nizing the need for, at least, a token
effort.
But there -will be voices of dissent
and more voices demanding any effort
be meaningless. We have no choice but
' to make a real effort to salvage Cen-
tral America from those who would
savage that land. ?
We must reject the line of the
Soviet-PLO-Lybian-Cuban axis: That
what they seek to contest we must
abandon, and what they seek to solidi-
fy we must assure them. That line, if
adopted again, will give us a choice in
a few years whether or not to help
defend Mexico and Panama.
PEOPLE OF LYCOMING COUNTY,
PA., DECLARED "NATIONAL
ANTILITTER CHAMPIONS''
.(Mr. GEK:AS asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute, and to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, on a
lighter note, but nevertheless an im-
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