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October 9., 1 967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE S14475
There being no objection, the mate A spokesman for the automobile industry power to seek a court injunction against any
rial was' ordered to be printed in the told the Assembly committee that it is a source of pollution which creates an "im-
"difficult technical job" to meet California minent and substantial" danger to public
RECORD, as T011OWS: current standards. No doubt it is, but as Dr. health.
[From the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 8, 1967] Boyle warned, no further delay can be tol- California won a highly important exemp-
tion that will permit it to impose auto emis-
SnaoG: THE WoRSENING CRISIS elated with safety.
"Las An residents have the choice of The health and welfare of the Los Angeles sion standards that are more stringent than
driving the kinds of autos they now own Basin dare not be imperiled by any weaken- the national requirements. Approved at the
with current fuels-or breathing. But they ing of the fight for clean air. Emission con- request of Sen. George Murphy (R-Calif.),
won't have the choice for long." trol devices must be made to meet present the exemption recognizes the pioneering ef-
"Already some 10,000 persons are moving standards, and more stringent standards forts in auto smog control by California and
from the Los Angeles Basin annually because must be adopted as soon as feasible without our intention to require tougher standards
federal interference. in 1970.
Boyle, president of the Los Angeles County
Medical Assn.
His grim warning, given at a Los Angeles
hearing of the Assembly Transportation and
Commerce Committee, was by far the strong-
est statement the medical association has
made on the threat of air pollution.
"A critical and worsening health crisis
exists in Los Angeles County despite all
efforts for its control," Dr. Boyle told the
legislators. "the pending crisis is imminent
.and demands that every appropriate action,
however drastic be taken immediately, No
further delay can be tolerated with safety."
His pessimism was echoed by the local and
elate county's air pollution control officer,
Louis J. Fuller and by' Eric Grant, executive
,officer of the State Motor Vehicle Pollution
Control Board,
Both officials warned that California's pres-
ent auto emission standards are inadequate
and must be strengthened to cope with the
continuing increase of motor vehicles.
The "adverse" level of oxidant, or ozone,
.has been exceeded virtually every day since
1956 in the county, Fuller said.
In terms of the de'nition by the State
Board of Public Health, the Los Angeles
`Basin is continually under a "substantial
threat from air pollution."
Fuller also offered new substantiation for
Despite attempts at control, Los Angeles This year every new car produced in De-
County suffered three first-stage smog alerts troit will have exhaust control devices that
in succession at the end of August, during meet the standards heretofore only required
which the ozone level was the highest in 10 for a
The utos sold in should act delay on
years.
How many persons will have to leave the the new legislation and should resist any
Los Angeles Basin to find breathing room? attempts to weaken an essential program for
County smog chief Fuller offers little en- cleaner air throughout the nation.
couragement.
"I have previously stated that the possi- [From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat,
bility of a major catastrophe from air pollu- Aug. 6, 1967]
tion in this basin was quite remote," he AIR POLLUTION
concluded. "I must now say that on the basis That was a good job Sen. George Murphy
of a a, n has changed. did in persuading the Senators to include a
Herald Examiner, Oct. 2, 1967] by motor vehicles.
TuE SMnr, CAUSE It is unusual legislation that exempts one
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gression deel leggati ation-Republicans and others. But in this case there was a good
Democrats like-to undo the harm done by reason.
the House merce Committee in approv- "I couldn't sit by and allow lower stand-
lace those deemed necessary by
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ing a national can air bill. ar
The committe eliminated from the Sen- our rtate officials," Sen. Murphy explained.
ate-passed version `& provision which would Essentially, the clean air bill pased by the
have permitted California to strengthen its Senate authorizes the Secretary of Health,
auto emission standards beyond those set Education and Welfare to divide the country
into air quality control regicns and give
states.
for all the other sta
The reason behind the o`Zanal California states in each region 15 months to accept
exemption is that California, ith one of the the federal standards before the Department
his charge that the smog control devices in- nation's worst smog problems ,already has takes over.
Because of both experience and sheer
ments, The exemption was removed, lipwever,
He quoted from a report made last March when the House committee accept an
by the State Department of Public Health, amendment (from Rep. John Dingel D-
which stated: "Projection of surveillance Mich.) which would impose national star d-
,data shows that as vehicle mileage accumu- ardization unless the secretary of heal ,
rates, the average emissions from vehicles education and welfare authorizes tough r
with exhaust control systems will not meet measures.
mil- i an of the Boa
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necessity, the California standards on pollu-
tion of air by motor vehicles are both strict
and effective.
Federal standards, when and if adopted,
may be equally good. But if they are not,
the California standards will not be weak-
ened as a result. Sen. Murphy has seen to
that.
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the current standards o
liff. .) Independent
Warren M. Dorn, c arm lion (ppm) hydrocarbons and 1.5 per cent of Supervisors' Air Pollution Control Co [From the To
San urnal Rafael Jul
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monoxide. " mittee, sees it this way: ,
But even this much progress in combatting ,This means that Los Angeles Count ... MARIN PLAYED Bic; ROLE IN AUTO SMOG
smog would not have been achieved had not can have no stricter requirements con- CONTROL
California and particularly Los Angeles trol than some wind-swept prat own un- The Air Quality Act of 1967, now before
County, pioneered In the setting-and en- less the secretary of heal ducation and Congress, represents a nationwide war
"forcing-of standards of air purity. welfare approves." against air pollution, with cooperation
It seems incredible therefore, that an ef- In other w he House committee ac- among federal, state, and local agencies.
fort is being made in Congress to deny Cali- tion h the fate of Los Angeles smog The bill would authorize the Secretary of
fornia the right to take the stronger action co in the hands of one man. We believe Health, Education and Welfare to divide the
needed to meet its pending crisis in air pol- at it should be fixed in law and that the country into control regions, establish cri-
lution. California delegation should rally to restore teria for controlling pollutants, give the
Although the Senate unanimously excl. ed the original exemption, states up to 15 months to accept the air
California from the federal preemp n of quality standards, and authorize the Secre-
auto emission standards, the Ho e Com- [From the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 1, 1967] tary of HEW to implement standards if states
merce Committee decided no xemptIon POLLUTION: SENATE CLEARS TIER AIR failed to do so.
should be made.
Any change in' the federal standards- "No one has the right to use the atmos- At the Insistence of Sen. George Murphy,
which are the same as California's presently phere as a garbage dump," declared the U.S. California would retain the right to enact
Inadequate requirements-could only be Senate, as it unanimously approved new and its own control on motor vehicle pollution
made by the secretary of health, education stronger air pollution control legislation. because acute car smog problems in the
and welfare if the House committee has its The Senate bill gives the Department of state require stricter controls.
way. Health, Education and Welfare additional California has led the nation in efforts to
"'Unless the special section is restored," authority to set clean air standards and to combat air pollution. It entered the auto
said Grant, "it will be an outright violation implement them if local and state officials smog control picture in 1960 with establish-
of the concept of states' rights and an ap- fail to act. A total of $700 million was also ment of Its Motor Vehicle Pollution Control
parent recognition by Congress that the authorized for re$earch and demonstrations Board.
interest of Detroit auto makers prevails programs over the next three years. And within California, Marin County
over the interests of California's 20 million Although the Administration sought the played no small role in the long and often
people." establishment of national emission stand- controversial process of equipping auto-
If the smog crisis is to be averted in urban ards for certain pollutants, the Senate de- mobiles with anti-smog devices.
California, the allowable amount of -hydro- 'tided to let the states set their own require- Back in 1964 when the first crankcase
carbons from autos must be reduced to at ments-within a 15-month period, after devices were ordered for used cars, two Marin
least j80 ppm, as presently scheduled. Every 'which the federal government would move County residents spearheaded a determined
additional car makes the problem worse, and m- opposition to the devices.
the number of vehicles Is expected to double The bill, however, went beyond the Ad- Lester E. Jennings Jr. and Lars William-
by 1980. `ministration's request by giving HEW the son, mechanics by avocation, charged that
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crankcase devices installed on used cars That schedule could be brought to a halt I suggest to the President that 1968
ti, and ould be dou a be harmful maintain In top c ndi car under the national smog bill as amended is not the year of decision for North
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this week. The House Commerce committee
engine. removed the Murphy Amendment, Vietnam, but 1972. I see no reason why
intro_
Their contention was that the little guy, duced by Senator Murphy, which would per- North Vietnam, or the Vietcong should
those who owned older model cars, should mit California--California alone-to impose surrender to a reelected Johnson admin-
not be saddled with the extra cost of crank- stricter rules than would be contained in the istration, when it knows that by 1972, a
ease devices and the risk of a damaged national law. change in American Government has to
motor As the proposed law reads now, if theState take place.
shoo d rsii nts , not the , ste onthat little the responsibility
but of California wanted to impose standards That is why I warn the American peo-
tougher than the Federal law, we would have ple against the notion that if the
on the car manufacturers in Detroit. to ask permission of the Health, Education y just
Jennings and Williamson made many a and Welfare Department. hold out through November of 1968,
trip into Sacramento to attend committee Such a rule could involve prolonged hear- peace can come on our terms. I warn
hearings and hammer away with their mes- ings by the Federal bureau. California's smog them that unless they insist on prompt
sage. control schedule would be tied up in red negotiations, and upon deescalation of
Bearing the brunt of their attack was an- tape that stretched all the way back to the military scope of the war, it more
other former Marinite, Donald A. Jensen, Washington.
who had been Marin County administrator Southern California needs the Murphy chun likely will proceed on ito present
before taking over as-exectuive officer of the Amendment. We've led the way in smog con- Course of steady enlargement for some 5
State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board. trol for 20 years, and we can continue to more years at the very least.
.Jensen and the car-pollution control board set the pace if Washington does not apply That is why I think the work of NegOti-
faced increasing resistance from among used the brakes. ation Now is so important. It is helping
car owners. A law that finally went through to bring an understanding to the average
the Legislature was considerably less strin- American that a warof attrition can be
gent than that which had been proposed NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF
originally. VIETNAM WAR just as costly to us as to the enemy, and
high cost of installation and maintenance, a Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, Negotia- In fact, the longer the war has continued,
reform measure enacted in 1965 gave further tion Now is meeting in Washington to the more itis costing us in both man-
relief to used car owners. Requirement of organize its friends and rally followers power and money, plus the growing ero-
crankcase. devices on 1955 and later models behind a negotiated end to the Vietnam sion of American leadership in other
was made to apply only in 10 smog counties war. parts of the world.
and only when car ownership was f.rapm-
Thi
The bulk of the attention thereaftdr fo- standing job of educating the American
y
cused on new models, with manufacturers People to the fact that there are alterna- V E E
- required to install crankcase devices on cars tives to our present course in Vietnam. I Mr. MGRS . Mr. President, the press
after 1963, and exhaust devices on cars sold extend to them my good wishes for a suc- tells us that the Greek junta has re-
in California after 1966. cessful meeting. leased from house arrest an elderly lead-
Jennings and Williamson and other oppo- That the war must be brought to a er of Greek political affairs, George Pa-
nents of crankcase devices for used vehicles
did not succeed in halting the devices alto- negotiated settlement seems to me to be pandreou. It has also undertaken to con-
gether. But they did succeed in getting relief the only reasonable course the American suit with his son, Andreas Papandreou,
for the older car owners and in focussing people can expect from their Govern- on economic problems facing Greece,
attention on the responsibility of the car ment. Some recent news stories have pur- even though Andreas Papandreou is in
manufacturer. ported to represent the administration as jail awaiting trial on charges of treason.
Jensen, who took quite a buffeting as believing that North Vietnam will have Richard Eder, reporting from Athens
executive officer of the state car pollution made a great psychological gain and that for the New York Times, describes these
control board, maintained his composure and negotiations more favorable to it will
humor throughout the exhausting commit- actions as conciliatory moves the junta
tee hearings, flow from a GOP victory. Therefore, this has made to the Center Union party.
Jensen has since movedon into the private rationale runs, a defeat of the Johnson
auto manufacturing business, joining Ford administration will be viewed as a victory that From whatever else experience, one has to se "con-
Motor
Motor Co. as executive engineer in vehicle for Ho Chi Minh and the American peo- c ory mov el least on these "con-
and regulations, pie must not allow that to come to pass. is th ary desire o , at least one motivation
in his new job Jensen is concerned pri- The trouble with this theory is that able the to depict of the the junta U.S. ta as desert/ to be
manly with improved crankcase devices and a as deserving
combustion system to reduce pollution from it assumes the 1968 election is the one a resumption of full U.S. military aid.
d.
automobile emissions. North Vietnamese consider the vital one. All the way from Saigon to Athens, our
Thus, Marinates and former Marinites have In my opinion, that is very doubtful. A diplomatic policy is concerned far more
been in the forefront on the fight to control much more practical and logical course with appearances than with substance,_
auto smog, as California groped its way for- for North Vietnam to be following would for behind appearances the real interests
ward as pioneer in the field of air pollution be to look to the 1972 election as being
control. of American military power can be ad-
We take pride in the fact that the sound the key one. vanced in any way we see fit.
and fury created in Marin led to practical Ho Chi Minh must appreciate that it I very much regret that the adminis-
and meaningful legislation in Sacramento would be unusual for the American peo- tration seems to have decided to resume
and is resulting in legislation on the federal ple to turn out of office a President who our military support of this group of
level. seeks reelection. But anyone who can
read the Constitution knows that this ad- militarists, just soon as a facade of
THE FEDERAL SMOG LAW reasonableness is s constructed in in front
(By Karth Hintz, broadcast September 29 and ministration must leave office in 1972, of their iron-fisted rule. Let no one in
86.1967, station
Kepte and that it will be succeeded by a new this country, or in Greece, be fooled
Southern California faces the threat of a President and a new administration. about the why we send this aid to Greece.
serious delay in the fight against smog. Unless this administration finds a way It has nothing to do with democracy;
A Federal air pollution control bill now to change its military policy in Vietnam, nothing to do with freedom of the Greek
before Congress may strip California of its and seek a negotiated settlement, I see people; nothing to do with advancing
authority to establish strict controls for au- nothing else it can offer the American the cause of personal freedom through
tomobiles. people except 5 more years of
growing As you know, California has pioneered in war and growing casualty lists; for if action. constitutional
do not stand for those things
smog control legislation. Progress atthe na- North Vietnam has sustained a war effort any more in Greece, just as we do not
tional level lagged far behind, But Congress under the heavy air attack and over- stand for them in many parts of the
is now considering ways to bring the na- whelming firepower the United States has world.
tional smog law up to standards already in
effect in California. showered upon it for 2 years, it is hard to The only object of our aid program in
That's all to - the good, but California is we why it cannot sustain such a war Greece is to keep a strong pro-American
moving beyond that point. The State has a for another 5 years-especially when the military government in power that will
target date of 1970 for controls that would probabilities are increasing that it will accede to whatever requests the Penta-
double the effectiveness of the present auto- get more and more aid from its allies, gon makes of it, especially with respect
mobile devices. China and Russia. to NATO.
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October 9, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
As one who supported the program of
aid to Greece and Turkey when it was
announced by President Truman in 1948,
I can, only say that those of us who be-
lieved that program would lead Greece,
Turkey, and the United States to peace-
ful progress have now found that we only
got on a merry-go-round that comes
back to the same place every year.
Greece has retrogressed politically;
what economic progress she made with
our billions of aid is being dissipated by
the actions of the military dictatorship
under the junta. If anything, Greece is
now more threatened by economic and
political upheaval than it was before our
aid program started.
The country that only a few years ago
was called a showcase for U.S. aid is now
a showcase for the futility of U.S. aid,
insofar as its contribution to political
and economic growth is concerned.
Here the American taxpayers are sup-
porting through a misguided adminis-
tration, dominated by the military power
of the Pentagon, the use of tax dollars to
support a dictatorship in Greece; yet we
have an administration that considers a
$70 billion defense budget-the largest
in the history of the Republic-to be un-
touchable.
It is out of this budget that $71/2 billion
saving should come, and thus avoid get-
ting us into the very serious political is-
sues that will develop, if the administra-
tion continues to insist upon yoking the
American taxpayers with a 10-percent
surtax charge.
But I do not doubt that the aid will be
resumed in full. There will be another 20
years of heavy U.S. taxpayer contribu-
tions to Greece. But they will not have
my support, for they will do no more for
the well-being of the Greek people than
have the last 20 years and $3.5 billion
worth of U.S. money which we have
poured into Greece.
Here is a. place where great savings
can be made on behalf of the taxpayers.
We have before us a public works bill
at the present time on the floor of the
Senate.
Let me respectfully point out to the ad-
ministration that the expenditure of
money for the benefit of our domestic
economy is sorely needed by the Ameri-
can people in order to keep strong the
greatest defense weapon we have; name-
ly, the economic security of the Republic.
RECOGNITION OF SENATOR
SMATHERS OF FLORIDA AT THE
CLOSE OF MORNING BUSINESS
TOMORROW
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi-
dent, I ask unanimous consent that at
the close of morning business on tomor-
row, the distinguished junior Senator
from Florida [Mr. SMATHERS] be recog-
nized for not to exceed 30 minutes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
PUBLIC WORKS AND ATOMIC
ENERGY COMMISSION APPRO-
The Senate resumed the Consideration
of the bill (H.R. 11641) making, appro-
priations for certain civil functions ad-
ministered by the Department of De-
fense, the Panama Canal, certain agen-
cies of the Department of the Interior,
the Atomic Energy Commission, the At-
lantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study
Commission, the Delaware River Basin
Commission, Interstate Commission on
the Potomac River Basin, the Tennessee
Valley Authority, and the Water Re-
sources Council, for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1968, and for other pur-
poses.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi-
dent, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk
will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call
the roll.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi-
dent, I ask unanimous consent that the
order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, I am con-
cerned, as I stated in connection with
the amendment offered by the Senator
from Delaware [Mr. WILLIAMS] a short
while ago, about the failure to make any
significant cuts in the public works and
Atomic Energy Commission appropria-
tion bill now pending before the Senate.
It it well known that I have been of
the view that the fiscal crisis in this
country is very serious indeed. It seems
likely,'unless the House Ways and Means
Committee changes its mind, that we will
not have a tax bill. We may be con-
fronted with a deficit so huge that it will
be necessary to sell some $30 billion
worth of U.S. Government bonds in the
next calendar year.
Such an action on the money market
is sure to cause very tight money, ex-
tremely high interest rates, and would
slow down the normal growth of the
economy.
It is likely also to have an inflationary
effect, because of the immense cash flow
which will be thrown into the economy
as a result of the enormous deficit.
Last week I argued strenuously for
substantial additional authorization for
the poverty program; and I am very
proud that I made that argument, be-
cause, as I said during the course of that
debate, the problem with us is to put
first things first. Where is our sense of
national priorities?
We are confronted with very serious
problems. The war in Vietnam, which is
costing us $2.5 billion a month and is
costing hundred-indeed, thousands-
of American lives and American casual-
ties of the flower of our youth. Yet there
seems no end to it. That war will cost,
in the current fiscal year, practically
the same amount as the anticipated
deficit if there is no tax increase-
namely, $30 billion.
It has been one of my duties as a
Member of the Senate to follow very
closely both the poverty program and
the education program; I serve as chair-
nian on one and as a member of the
other subcommittee of the Committee on
Labor and Public Welfare charged with
the processing of legislation in the pov-
erty and educational area. To me these
matters should have the highest possi-
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ble priority. Therefore, I have supported,
and will continue to support, all the
authorization we are able to press
through a reluctant Congress to see that
every boy and girl in America gets the
best possible education, and that some-
thing effective is done to improve the
economic, social, and, indeed, educational
status of the one-fifth of the Nation,
almost 30 million Americans, who are ill-
fed, ill-housed, and ill-educated.
One may well ask the question, how
can one advocate increased appropria-
tions in these social areas in the face of
the deficit which confronts us? My an-
swer is that the cuts have to be made in
the less important matters, in programs
of lower priority, in addition to cuts in
the fat of the military appropriations
requests.
With respect to the military, I have
made as good a record as I could. When
the appropriations bill was before the
Senate, I tried to make a cut of some-
thing in excss of $3.5 billion. I had only
six votes in support of my amendment.
This morning I made a strong plea to
the President not to spend the $5 billion
which it is anticipated will be spent in
construction of an utterly inadequate
anti-ballistic-missile system at a great
cost to our taxpayers.
Now, in a far less dramatic setting, we
are confronted by the public works and
atomic energy appropriation bill. I was
happy to support the Senator from Dela-
ware in his effort to cut back the appro-
priations for public works by eliminating
all the new starts for the Corps of Engi-
neers. I shall not repeat the argument
I made in that regard only a short time
ago.
We come now to the Atomic Energy
Commission. There the total of appropri-
ations recommended for both operating
expenses and construction is in the
neighborhood of $2.5 billion. In view of
the strains placed upon our economy as a
result of the costs of the war, I believe we
must seek out and discover places to cut
this item. I would be prepared to support
cuts in the military research and devel-
opment areas of the Atomic Energy Com-
mission. I believe such cuts can be made
with no prejudice to our national
security.
In addition, they would signal to the
Russians our desire for a downturn in the
arms race, with mutual reductions in
weaponry. But I have no illusions on that
score. I am perfectly confident that my
colleagues in the Senate would not sup-
port me in that regard.
So I return to the area of peaceful uses
of atomic energy. I find that, under the
heading of "Reactor Development," we
appropriated last year a total of
$467,720,000. This is a huge sum for ac-
tivities which, while desirable, are less
essential to the well-being of our country
than aid to our beleagured cities and
other programs which I could name.
Moreover, they are expenditures which
can have no possible impact on our mili-
tary program.
Therefore, I would be prepared to sup-
port an amendment which would cut
back the $509,058,000 which the Senate
committee has recommended in this area
of peaceful reactor development to the
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figure of $467,720,000, which was appro-
priated last year.
It is my understanding that the Sena-
tor from Delaware will propose such an
amendment tomorrow. I intend to sup-
port it.
I would be prepared to support an even
greater cut in this field, but to me it
would seem unrealistic to hope that such
a out could be successfully pressed
through the Senate.
Mr. President, I yield the floor.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres-
ident, I have listened with interest to
what the senior Senator from Pennsyl-
vania has said. He has touched on a sub-
ject which should be the concern of
every Member of this body-and of every
American. We are being asked to in-
crease the tax burden of the country by
10 percent. We are told that this is neces-
sary to sustain our fighting forces in
Vietnam. But if we are to ask the Amer-
ican people to make this sacrifice, we
must be ready to stand before them with
the firm and sincere reassurance that
every penny we spend is in the national
interest.
But economy cannot be the only meas-
ure of our decision. The distinguished
Senator from Pennsylvania has raised
the issue of the health and welfare of
the American people. To build the civil-
ian reactor plants for the production of
electrical energy, as the AEC would have
us do, is playing nuclear roulette with
the future of this country.
I am moved to recall the words of
W. A. Boyle, the president of the United
Mine Workers union in his recent Labor
Day address. He spoke of the 6,000 ura-
nium miners condemned to a slow death
by cancer, of the transport through our
cities of deadly atomic waste, of the
burial of this waste where it can pollute
and has polluted the soil of this Nation
with radioactive poisons. The Atomic
Energy Commission, in its testimony be-
fore committees of this Congress, has
admitted that it has not yet solved the
problems of handling the deadly by-
products of nuclear power.
Mr. President, if we give serious
thought to what the president of one of
this country's oldest and greatest unions
has said; if we study what the AEC It-
self has unwittingly disclosed; if we lis-
ten to what the scientists tell us about
the primitive state of our understanding
of the nuclear arts-then we must, in
all conscience subscribe to what the
senior Senator from Pennsylvania has
said.
There will be plenty of time for this
body to sanction the wholesale prolifera-
tion in this country of nuclear power-
but only when the Atomic Energy Com-
mission and the scientific community
know precisely what they are about.
Meanwhile, there are ample means,
through the use of other energy-
produc-ing materials such as coal, to supply this
country with all the electric power that
it needs-and at a cost far lower than
what the AEC can offer.
I would be the last man in this great
body to deprive the Atomic Energy Com-
mission of a single penny that would be
devoted for research and development in
instruments to guarantee this Nation's
security. But I would be remiss in my
duty if I did not stand behind the state-
ment by the Senator from Pennsylvania.
I submit that the interests of this coun-
try and of its people require us to ques-
tion, and even limit, the civilian expendi-
tures of the Atomic Energy Commission
until such time as we know with absolute
certainty that we are not taking a fool-
ish and willful gamble.
I will join the Senator from Pennsyl-
vania in supporting the amendment
which it is anticipated will be offered
by the Senator from Delaware on
tomorrow.
Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Yes, I
yield.
Mr. CLARK. I congratulate the Sena-
tor from West Virginia on the statement
he has just made. Pennsylvania, like
West Virginia, is a State where coal min-
ing has been the backbone of our econ-
omy. It has fallen upon perilous times,
but is now staging somewhat of a come-
back. I hope very much that the coal
industry and the unionized miners who
work in that industry in my State, in
both hard coal and soft coal, will be able
to look forward to more prosperous days
ahead.
If there is a real threat that the atomic
energy program is, in fact, as the Sena-
tor from West Virginia suggests, creating
a serious danger to the health and well-
being, and perhaps the lives, of millions
of Americans, it certainly is time to stop,
look, and listen. It seems to be essential
that we assure ourselves, before we move
forward with the development of the
peaceful uses of atomic energy by build-
ing a large number of atomic reactors,
that we are not, by so doing, endangering
the lives of untold thousands of our fel-
low citizens.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. I thank
the Senator from Pennsylvania.
Mr. President, I suggest the absence
of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk
will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call
the roll.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi-
dent, I ask unanimous consent that the
order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres-
ident, before moving to adjourn, I ask
the distinguished Presiding Officer, what
is the pending business?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pend-
ing business is H.R. 11641, an act mak-
ing appropriations for certain civil func-
tions administered by the Department of
Defense and other departments and
agencies.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Is it cor-
rect that the bill will be open for further
amendment on tomorrow?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-
ator is correct. The bill will be open for
further amendment tomorrow.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. I thank
the Presiding Officer.
ADJOURNMENT
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres-
ident, if there be no further business to
come before the Senate today, I move,
in accordance with the previous order,
that the Senate stand in adjournment
until 12 noon tomorrow.
The motion was agreed to; and (at 4
o'clock and 41 minutes p.m.) the Sen-
ate adjourned until Tuesday, October 10,
1967, at 12 noon.
NOMINATION
Executive nomination received by the
'Senate October 9, 1967:
Asher E. Schroeder, of Iowa, to be U.S.
attorney for the northern district of Iowa for
the term of 4 years, vice Donald E. O'Brien,
resigned.
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