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RECEPTION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
The Speaker of the House presided.
The SPEAKER. The Chair would like to have an opportunity at this
point to welcome our former Members, who have come again for this
wonderful opportunity for us to share their friendship and remembrance
and recollection of previous service together. I am delighted to have
the opportunity now to recognize distinguished Members who are former
Members of the House, but before I do that, I would like to recognize
the distinguished Republican leader, Mr. Michel.
Mr. MICHEL. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. May I simply say to our former
members that we are always glad to see you come back. I think our ranks
look a little depleted this morning. Maybe we ought to convene this
meeting about 1 or 2 o'clock. As we all get a little older, we do not
like to get up early in the morning, but the Speaker is obliged to do
so, and so is the minority leader. We are here, Johnny on the spot.
I would like to tell the former Members that things keep changing
around here. I doubt whether any one of the former Members would have
experienced a period of time during their tenure when in one class
there were 110 new Members. That happened this last time around. People
talk about a renewal of the Congress, or the need for term limits or
some such thing. When we think about it in practical terms, a quarter
of the House renewed last time. This year already we have retirement
announcements that will almost rival last year's, including
resignations and those running for Governor, Senator, et cetera. We are
going to have, after the next election, a House of Representatives
where nearly 50 percent will have less than two terms. It is going to
be quite a different House of Representatives, as I see it.
As many of you know, I have announced my own intention to bow out,
and have made that official. I already have a successor hopefully on
the right track to succeed me. I guess it could be said that next year
at this time I will be joining your ranks.
It is a funny thing how people approach you about it. I was kind of
taken aback when even back home they are congratulating me, and I said,
``What for?'' ``Well, for announcing your retirement.'' You kind of get
mixed emotions about that. It seems that they are darn glad you are
leaving, you know.
It is nice to have those of you who do come back from time to time to
visit with us. One of the things I have missed, particularly since the
advent of our electronic voting, is the fact that we can observe so
much of what goes on here on the floor on the television monitor back
in our office. It might be good for the American people, but the bad
part about it for the institution is that we are not communicating with
one another across the aisle as frequently as we did. Let's face it,
all those debates you listened to were not always the most sparkling,
interesting, or enlightening kinds of things. There were dull moments,
but when we were here we used those dull moments to visit with one
another, get to know each other better. It was a different kind of
institution at that time than it is today.
I guess all I can do is satisfy in my own mind that times do change.
The Republic has endured. This House and the Senate, they have changed
dramatically over a period of years, so I guess we will just simply
have to live with it.
Again, I say thanks to all of you for coming back and giving us an
opportunity to renew our friendship.
The SPEAKER. The Chair might make a comment that in addition to
having a 1993 class of the 103d Congress of 110 Members, the largest
since 1948, most expectation is that next year, when on January 3 I
hope and expect to be swearing in the first session of the 104th
Congress, it is now estimated that probably half of the House will have
served 4 years or less on that day, and many of us have to be reminded
that the vast number of Members of this Congress did not serve in
President Carter's administration, an increasingly great number did not
serve in President Reagan's administration, and have only been recently
elected, so you will see a number of new faces, a great number of new
faces, as the Members come into the Chamber.
Particularly for us who have had the honor and pleasure of serving
with so many of you, it is a wonderful opportunity to see you again and
to greet you and to welcome you back to the House.
It is now my great pleasure to ask the gentleman from Arizona, the
distinguished former Republican Leader of the House, John J. Rhodes,
Jr., to come forward and take the gavel and the chair, and to preside
over this session.
Mr. JOHN J. RHODES, Jr. (presiding). This is a real pleasure, it
always is. I want to say something to my friend, Bob Michel. When I led
the applause when you announced that you were about to retire, it was
because of my deep affection for you and the fact that you are going to
be a member of the Association of Former Members. I must admit that
that was half of me. The other half was sorry that you are leaving the
House, because as my successor as the Republican leader. I have always
been proud of you, and I still am, and I thank you for the fine service
that you have given.
One of the things which I often thought has taken away from some of
the collegiality that we used to have is the difficulty in getting to
know other people, particularly those who serve on the party which is
not your party. If you will recall, most of you, when we had the
rollcall by the Clerk, you could be on the floor and somebody, the
Clerk, would say, ``Lindsay,'' and somebody would say, ``Here,'' and
you could say, ``There is Lindsay,'' and that is the way you got to
know the faces, at least, and later you got to know the individual.
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I am not suggesting that we turn the clock back and go back to the
old days of calling the roll, but I do think that there ought to be
some better way than I think there is for the Members to get to know
each other. I am just naive enough to believe that if that could occur,
the whole attitude of a lot of the Members might change to be more like
it was back in the old days.
The Clerk will now call the roll of former Members of Congress.
The Clerk called the roll of the former Members of the Congress, and
the following former Members answered to their names:
roll call of former members of congress attending the 24th annual
spring meeting, may 19, 1994
J. Glenn Beall, Jr. of Maryland;
Edward P. Boland, of Massachusetts;
William S. Broomfield, of Michigan;
Donald C. Brotzman, of Colorado;
Clarence J. Brown, of Ohio;
James T. Broyhill, of North Carolina;
Elford A. Cederberg, of Michigan;
Charles E. Chamberlain, of Michigan;
Floyd J. Fithian, of Indiana;
Louis Frey, Jr., of Florida;
Robert N. Giaimo, of Connecticut;
Robert A. Grant, of Indiana;
James M. Hanley, of New York;
William L. Hungate, of Missouri;
David S. King, of Utah;
Horace R. Kornegay, of North Carolina;
Peter N Kyros, of Maine;
John V. Lindsay, of New York;
John Y. McCollister, of Nebraska;
Daniel A. Mica, of Florida;
Abner J. Mikua, of Illinois;
John S. Monagan, of Connecticut;
Frank E. Moss, of Utah;
Shirley N. Pettis, of California;
Richard B. Ray, of Georgia;
John J. Rhodes, of Arizona;
John J. Rhodes, III, of Arizona;
Philip E. Ruppe, of Michigan;
Harold S. Sawyer, of Michigan;
Mark D. Silhander, of Michigan;
Henry P. Smith, III, of New York;
James W. Symington, of Missouri;
Charles W. Whalen, Jr., of Ohio;
Edward L. Winn, Jr., of Kansas; and
Lester Wolff, of New York.
Mr. JOHN J. RHODES, JR. (presiding). The Chair recognizes the
gentleman from Missouri, Jim Symington, the President of this august
assemblage.
Mr. SYMINGTON. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my colleagues, I am pleased to present our
24th Annual Report to the Congress. Although marked by a grievous loss
to which I shall later refer, it has been a full and productive year.
The Association has continued its successful Congressional/Campus
Fellows Program in which former Members of Congress visit college,
university and high school campuses for 2 to 5 days to share their
practical political experience with students, faculty and community
representatives to help them better understand the Congress. To date,
71 former Members of Congress have made a total of 230 such visits to
164 institutions in 49 States. Most recently our colleague, Lindy
Boggs, former Louisiana Representative, combined a high school visit
and a college visit in one highly successful trip to Minnesota's Twin
Cities. Both institutions reported what should be no surprise to us
that ``Lindy wowed them.'' The Congressional/Campus Fellows Program was
begun in 1974 under a grant from the Ford Foundation and has been
continued through a number of other corporate and foundation
contributions. In the light of what I think it is fair to say can be
perceived as an erosion of respect for this national representative
body, the Members of our Association believe it is very important to
take advantage of every opportunity to encourage young people to learn
about the political process and to participate in it. We know the need
is great for this program and would like to expand it as, and if,
appropriate resources become available.
Mr. Speaker, I ask permission to insert in the Record at this point
the list of the institutions that have been visited by former Members
of Congress.
Colleges, Universities and High Schools Visited Under the Congressional
Fellows Program
College/University/High School, Location, Fellow, and State/Country
Adelai E. Stevenson High School, Illinois, Paul A. (Pete)
McCloskey (California).
Alaska Pacific University, Alaska, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Albion College, Michigan, David S. King (Utah).
Albion College, Michigan, Ted Kupferman (New York).
Albion College, Michigan, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Alfred University, New York, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
American College in Paris, France, David S. King (Utah).
American College in Paris, France, Byron L. Johnson
(Colorado).
Arizona State University, Arizona, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Arizona State University,\1\ Arizona, Jacques Soustelle
(France).
Assumption College, Massachusetts, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Auburn University, Alabama, William L. Hungate (Missouri).
Auburn University,\1\ Alabama, Alan Lee Williams (United
Kingdom).
Avila College,\1\ Kansas, Karin Hafstad (Norway).
Bainbridge Jr. College, Georgia, Gilbert Gude (Maryland).
Baylor University, Texas, James Roosevelt (California).
Baylor University,\1\ Texas, Peter von der Heydt (Germany).
Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Robert P. Hanrahan
(Illinois).
Bradley University, Illinois, Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
(Ohio).
Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Abner J. Mikva
(Illinois).
Brandeis University, Massachusetts, L. Richardson Preyer
(North Carolina).
Brenau College, Georgia, Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas).
Brigham Young University,\1\ Utah, Jacques Soustelle
(France).
California Poly. State--San Luis Obispo, California, John
B. Anderson (Illinois).
California Poly. State--San Luis Obispo, California, Frank
E. Evans (Colorado).
California Poly. State--San Luis Obispo, California, Paula
Hawkins (Florida).
California Poly. State--San Luis Obispo, California, Robert
N. Giaimo (Connecticut).
California Poly. State--San Luis Obispo, California, John
R. Schmidhauser (Iowa).
California Poly. State--San Luis Obispo, California, Ralph
W. Yarborough (Texas).
California Poly. State--Pomona, California, Robert R. Barry
(New York).
Cameron University, Oklahoma, William D. Hathaway (Maine).
Cameron University, Oklahoma, William L. Hungate
(Missouri).
Cameron University, Oklahoma, Dick Clark (Iowa).
Carleton College, Minnesota, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Carroll College, Montana, Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas).
Chaminade College, Hawaii, Catherine May Bedell
(Washington).
Chatham College, Pennsylvania, Catherine May Bedell
(Washington).
Chatham College, Pennsylvania, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Charleston College,\1\ South Carolina, John M. Reid
(Canada).
Clarke College, Georgia, William L. Hungate (Missouri).
Clark College, Georgia, William S. Mailliard (California).
Colgate University, New York, William S. Mailliard
(California).
College of the Sequoias, California, Gale W. McGee
(Wyoming).
Colorado State University,\1\ Colorado, Alastair Gillespie
(Canada).
Columbia College, South Carolina, Catherine May Bedell
(Washington).
Columbia College, South Carolina, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Columbia College, South Carolina, James M. Quigley
(Pennsylvania).
Columbia College,\1\ South Carolina, John M. Reid (Canada).
Columbia College, South Carolina, Henry S. Reuss
(Wisconsin).
Columbia College, South Carolina, Nick Galifianakis (North
Carolina).
Concordia College, Michigan, Walter H. Moeller (Ohio).
Connecticut College, Connecticut, Ralph W. Yarborough
(Texas).
Converse College, South Carolina, Jed Johnson, Jr.
(Oklahoma).
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, John O. Marsh, Jr.
(Virginia).
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, William S. Maillard
(California).
Davis & Elkins College, West Virginia, Frank E. Moss
(Utah).
Davis & Elkins College, West Virginia, J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
(Maryland).
Denison University, Ohio, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
DePauw University, Indiana, Hugh Scott (Pennsylvania).
Dillard University,\1\ Louisiana, Georg Kahn-Ackermann
(Germany).
Doshisha University, Japan, Catherine May Bedell
(Washington).
Duke University,\1\ North Carolina, Georg Kahn-Ackermann
(Germany).
Eckerd College, Florida, William L. Hungate (Missouri).
Elmira College, New York, Charles W. Whalen, Jr. (Ohio).
Friends University, Kansas, Henry P. Smith, III (New York).
Furman University, South Carolina, Jed Johnson, Jr.
(Oklahoma).
Furman University, South Carolina, Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
(Ohio).
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Celio Borja
(Brazil).
Grinnell College, Iowa, Neil Staebler (Michigan).
Guilford College, North Carolina, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, Charles W. Whalen,
Jr. (Ohio).
Hamilton College, New York, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Hartwick College, New York, Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas).
Hirman College, Ohio, Howard H. Callaway (Georgia).
Hiram College, Ohio, Roman L. Hruska (Nebraska).
Hope College, Michigan, Walter H. Judd (Minnesota).
Hope College, Michigan, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Hope College, Michigan, Catherine May Bedell (Washington).
Idaho State University, Idaho, John R. Schmidhauser (Iowa).
Indiana State University, Indiana, Gordon L. Allot
(Colorado).
Indiana Univ. Northwest, Indiana, Neil Staebler (Michigan).
Indiana Univ. Northwest, Indiana, William L. Hungate
(Missouri).
Indiana Univ. Northwest, Indiana, Tom Railsback (Illinois).
Jackson State University, Mississippi, Allard K. Lowenstein
(New York).
Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, Hugh Scott
(Pennsylvania).
Johns Hopkins University,\1\ Washington, DC, Celio Borja
(Brazil).
Kansai University, Japan, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
Kansas-Newman College, Kansas, Henry P. Smith, III (New
York).
Kansas State University, Kansas, Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
(California).
Keio University, Japan, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
King College, Tennessee, Charles W. Whalen, Jr. (Ohio).
King's College, Pennsylvania, Philip Hayes (Indiana).
Kirkland College, New York, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
LaGrange College, Georgia, Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas).
Lake Forest College, Illinois, Ralph W. Yarborough (Texas).
Lindenwood College, Missouri, Gaylord Nelson (Wisconsin).
Longwood College, Virginia, Paul W. Cronin (Massachusetts).
Luther College, Iowa, Gilbert Gude (Maryland).
McNeese University, Louisiana, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Macalester College, Minnesota Lindy Boggs (Louisiana).
Marshall University, West Virginia, John J. Gilligan
(Ohio).
Mary Hardin Baylor College, Texas, Brooks Hays (Arkansas).
Matanuska-Susitna Community College, Alaska, William L.
Hungate (Missouri).
Mesa Community College, Arizona, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Miami University-Middletown, Ohio, James Roosevelt
(California).
Miami University-Middletown, Ohio, James W. Symington
(Missouri).
Mid-America Nazarene College, Kansas John B. Anderson
(Illinois).
Mid-America Nazarene College, Kansas John Dellenback
(Oregon).
Millsaps Collge, Mississippi, Allard K. Lowenstein (New
York).
Minnetonka High School, Minnesota, Lindy Boggs (Louisiana).
Montclair State College, New Jersey, Walter H. Judd
(Minnesota).
Montclair State College, New Jersey, Ralph W. Yarborough
(Texas).
Morehead State University, Kentucky, Dan Kuykendall
(Tennessee).
Morehouse College, Georgia, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Morehouse College, Georgia, William L. Hungate (Missouri).
Morris Brown College, Georgia, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Morris Brown College, Georgia, William L. Hungate
(Missouri).
Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Murray State University, Kentucky, Brooks Hays (Arkansas).
Nanzan University, Japan, Catherine May Bedell
(Washington).
New Trier High School, Illinois, John V. Lindsay (New
York).
New York University, New York, George McGovern (South
Dakota).
Northern Illinois University, Illinois, William L. Hungate
(Missouri).
Northern Kentucky University, Kentucky, Martha Keys
(Kansas).
North Park College, Illinois,\1\ Karin Hafstad (Norway).
Northwestern University,\1\ Illinois, Karin Hafstad
(Norway).
Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, Ralph W. Yarborough
(Texas).
Oregon State University, Oregon, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Otterbein College, Ohio, James Roosevelt (California).
Purdue University--Calumet, Indiana, William L. Hungate
(Missouri).
Purdue University--Calumet, Indiana, Tom Railsback
(Illinois).
Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Randolph-Macon College,\1\ Virginia, Hugh Scott
(Pennsylvania).
Revere High School, Ohio, John B. Anderson (Illinois).
Rockhurst College,\1\ Kansas, Karin Hafstad (Norway).
Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana, Gordon L.
Allott (Colorado).
St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, Charles W. Whalen,
Jr. (Ohio).
St. Lawrence University, New York, Roman L. Pucinski
(Illinois).
St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, Gordon L. Allott
(Colorado).
St. Mary's College, Vermont, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
St. Michael's College, Vermont, Walter H. Judd (Minnesota).
St. Norbert's College, Wisconsin, Martha Keys (Kansas).
St. Olaf College, Minnesota, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Salem College, North Carolina, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Sangamon State University, Illinois, Andrew J. Biemiller
(Wisconsin).
Sangamon State University, Illinois, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Sangamon State University,\1\ Illinois, Alan Lee Williams
(United Kingdom).
Sangamon State University,\1\ Illinois, Alastair Gillespie
(Canada).
Siena College, New York, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
Siena College, New York, Charles W. Whalen, Jr. (Ohio).
Southeast Comm. College, Kentucky, Donald E. Lukens (Ohio).
Southern Illinois University, Illinois, John R.
Schmidhauser (Iowa).
Southwestern College, Kansas, Henry P. Smith, III (New
York).
Spelman College, Georgia, William S. Mailliard
(California).
Spelman College, Georgia, William L. Hungate (Missouri).
SUNY-Binghamton, New York, John B. Anderson (Illinois).
SUNY-Plattsburg, New York, L. Richardson Preyer (North
Carolina).
State University of Oswego, New York, Martha Keys (Kansas).
Syracuse University, New York, Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
(Ohio).
Talladega College, Alabama, Ted Kupferman (New York).
Tougaloo Southern Christian College, Mississippi, Allard K.
Lowenstein (New York).
Transylvania University, Kentucky, James M. Quigley
(Pennsylvania).
U.S. Air Force Academy,\1\ Colorado, Alan Lee Williams
(Great Britain).
U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut, Ralph W. Yarborough
(Texas).
U.S. Naval Academy, Maryland, John S. Monagan
(Connecticut).
U.S. Naval Academy, Maryland, William S. Mailliard
(California).
U.S. Naval Academy,\1\ Maryland, Alan Lee Williams (Great
Britain).
University of Alaska, Alaska, William L. Hungate
(Missouri).
University of Alaska, Alaska, William S. Mailliard
(California).
University of Arizona,\1\ Arizona, Celio Borja (Brazil).
University of Arkansas, Arkansas, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
University of Arkansas, Arkansas, Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
(Ohio).
University of California--Berkeley, California, Robert N.
Giaimo (Connecticut).
University of California--Berkeley, California, Henry S.
Reuss (Wisconsin).
University of California--Berkeley, California, Newton I.
Streets, Jr. (Maryland)
University of Dayton, Ohio, Catherine May Bedell
(Washington).
University of Delaware, Delarare, John J. Gilligan (Ohio).
University of Delaware, Delaware, Henry S. Reuss
(Wisconsin).
University of Georgia,\1\ Georgia, Georg Kahn-Ackermann
(Germany).
University of Georgia, Georgia, Otis Pike (New York).
University of Georgia,\1\ Georgia, John M. Reid (Canada).
University of Georgia,\1\ Georgia, Alan Lee Williams
(United Kingdom).
University of Hawaii, Hawaii, Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
(California).
University of Maine--Orono, Maine, John Rhodes (Arizona).
University of Michigan--Flint, Michigan, Gale W. McGee
(Wyoming).
University of Mississippi, Mississippi, Tom Railsback
(Illinois).
University of Nevada, Nevada, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
University of New Mexico,\1\ New Mexico, Alastair Gillespie
(Canada).
University of New Mexico,\1\ New Mexico, Celio Borja
(Brazil).
University of New Orleans,\1\ Louisiana, Georg Kahn-
Ackermann (Germany).
University of New Orleans,\1\ Louisiana, Jacques Soustelle
(France).
University of North Carolina, North Carolina, Robert P.
Hanrahan (Illinois).
University of North Dakota, North Dakota, Neil Staebler
(Michigan).
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Catherine May Bedell
(Washngton).
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Dick Clark (Iowa).
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Martha Keys (Kansas).
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, William S. Mailliard
(California).
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
(Ohio).
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
University of Oregon, Oregon, Martha Keys (Kansas).
University of Redlands, California, Catherine May Bedell
(Washington).
University of South Carolina,\1\ South Carolina, Alan Lee
Williams (United Kingdom).
University of South Carolina, South Carolina, Gale W. McGee
(Wyoming).
University of South Dakota, William L. Hungate (Missouri).
University of Texas,\1\ Texas, Alastair Gillespie (Canada).
University of Texas,\1\ Texas, Celio Borja (Brazil).
Univeristy of Utah, Utah, Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut).
Univeristy of Utah,\1\ Utah, Jacques Soustelle (France).
Univeristy of Utah,\1\ Utah, Alan Lee Williams (United
Kingdom).
University of Washington,\1\ Washington, Alan Lee Williams
(United Kingdom).
University of West Virginia,\1\ West Virginia, Georg Kahn-
Ackermann (Germany).
University of West Virginia,\1\ West Virginia, Jacques
Soustelle (France).
University of Wisconsin,\1\ Wisconsin, Georg Kahn-Ackermann
(Germany).
University of Wyoming, Wyoming, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
Urbana University, Ohio, David S. King (Utah).
Valparaiso University, Indiana, Neil Staebler (Michigan).
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Ralph W. Yarborough
(Texas).
Vanderbilt University,\1\ Tennessee, Celio Borja (Brazil).
Virginia Military Institute, Virginia, Gale W. McGee
(Wyoming).
Wake Forest University, North Carolina, William L. Hungate
(Missouri).
Wake Forest University,\1\ North Carolina, Georg Kahn-
Ackermann (Germany).
Washington College, Maryland, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Washington & Lee University, Virginia, Gale W. McGee
(Wyoming).
Wayne State College, Nebraska, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming).
Westmont College, California, Ronald A. Sarasin
(Connecticut).
Wheaton College, Massachusetts, Charles A. Vanik (Ohio).
Whitman College, Washington, Frank E. Moss (Utah).
William & Mary College, Virginia, Hugh Scott
(Pennsylvania).
Wofford College, South Carolina, Jed Johnson, Jr.
(Oklahoma).
230 visits--71 Fellows--164 institutions--49 states.
\1\International project funded by the Ford and Rockefeller
Foundations for visit of Parliamentarians from the United
Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil and Norway.
The Association has continued serving as the secretariat for the
Congressional Study Group on Germany, which is the largest and most
active exchange program between the U.S. Congress and the Parliament of
another country. It is a bipartisan group involving more than 100
Representatives and Senators which provides opportunities for Members
of Congress to meet with their counterparts in the German Bundestag to
facilitate better understanding and greater cooperation. The
Congressional Study Group on Germany is an unofficial and informal
organization open to all Members of Congress.
In addition to hosting a number of Members of the Bundestag and other
German Government leaders at the Capitol this past year, the Study
Group hosted the Sixth Annual German-American Day Celebration in
October 1993. Dr. Klaus Kinkel, Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister,
and Dr. Dieter-Julius Cronenberg, Vice President of the Bundestag,
participated in the celebration along with a delegation of Members of
the Bundestag and representatives from the German Foreign Ministry. In
April 1994, the 11th Annual Congress-Bundestag Seminar was held on the
Outer Banks of North Carolina in which seven Members of Congress and
six Members of the Bundestag participated, along with former Members of
Congress and the Bundestag and German and American speakers and other
guests.
This program is funded principally by the German Marshall Fund of the
United States. It has included joint meetings of the Agriculture
Committees of Congress and the Bundestag and visits by Members of the
Bundestag to observe the Illinois Presidential Primary and the Iowa
Caucus, as well as to Congressional Districts throughout the country
with Members of Congress to learn about the U.S. political process at
the grassroots level. Because of the election schedules in the United
States and Germany in 1994, a German-American Day celebration is not
being planned, but it is hoped that a seminar can be held to introduce
the new Members of Congress and the Bundestag to the importance of
United States-German relations. This year's chairman of the
Congressional Study Group on Germany in the House is Representative H.
Martin Lancaster of North Carolina. The Vice Chairman is Representative
Bill Emerson of Missouri. Senators William V. Roth, Jr. of Delaware and
Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota serve as cochairmen of the
Congressional Study Group on Germany in the Senate.
In March of this year, the Association, in cooperation with the
Herbert Quandt Foundation and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and funded by the
Quandt Foundation, convened an international conference on ``The United
States and Europe: Transatlantic Relations Beyond 2000.'' Political
leaders, scholars, business and media representatives from the United
States, Western and Eastern Europe discussed these issues and
deliberated on the future of the Transatlantic Community.
Another project of the Association's, in cooperation with the East-
West Center, is the Congressional Japanese Study Group, which was
initiated in January 1993. It is currently led by Senator William V.
Roth, Jr. of Delaware as chairman and Representative Lee H. Hamilton of
Indiana as vice chairman. An unofficial, informal and bipartisan group
open to all Members of Congress, it has 67 members and an additional 34
Members of Congress have asked to be kept informed of activities. The
objectives of the study group are to develop a congressional forum for
the sustained study and analysis of policy options on major issues in
United States-Japan relations, and to increase opportunities for
Members of Congress to meet with their counterparts in the Japanese
Diet for frank discussion of those key issues. Initially, the Study
Group is focusing attention on four major areas of concern to
legislators in both countries: aid to Russia; United States and
Japanese role in the Asia Pacific Region; bilateral trade and economic
relations; and certain global issues. In a series of roundtable
discussions that have been held throughout the year, United States and
Japanese Government officials and nongovernmental experts have explored
these issues in-depth. Initial funding to launch the Study Group and to
support its programs has been provided by the Ford Foundation, the
Japan-United States Friendship Commission, and the Laurasian
Institution.
A special project grant from the Center for Global Partnership gave
support for the ``United States-Japan Issues Meeting'' in Lanai, HI in
February of this year which brought together current and former Members
of Congress and the Japanese Diet, academicians, business
representatives, and other government personnel to discuss major issues
of mutual concern. Its signal success leads us to hope regular
opportunities of this kind may be provided.
Another facet of the Association's program with Japan was the
continuation of the Japanese Congressional Fellows Program. In the
past, staff members participating in this program had been selected
from nominations made by the Secretaries General of the House of
Councillors and the House of Representatives of the Japanese Diet. In
1993, the Association broadened the program to invite nominations from
the Japanese political party structure so that in the fall of 1993,
under funding from the Center for Global Partnership, two staff members
from the Policy Research Councils--one from the Liberal Democratic
Party and one from the Komeito Party--participated in the program. They
spent approximately 60 days in the United States, during which time,
the Association arranged for them to serve in congressional offices and
to meet with staff in the Congressional Research Service of the Library
of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, and other support
institutions of the U.S. Congress. The fellows also attended special
academic lectures and visited congressional districts with Members of
Congress.
The Japanese Congressional Fellows Program has proven to be extremely
helpful to the staff members of the Diet and to the political parties.
The experiences of the fellowship benefit not only the participants but
also the colleagues with whom they share their experience. The time
spent by the Japanese fellows in offices also has been extremely
beneficial to United States congressional staff members by refining
their understanding of the Japanese political process, and of Japan,
per se.
The Association's program to aid the emerging democracies in Central
and Eastern Europe also has continued to expand. In September and
October 1993, the Association, under a grant from the United States
Information Agency, hosted a delegation of four parliamentarians from
the Czech Republic for a 2-week visit in the United States. During
their week-long visit in Washington, the parliamentarians met with a
number of current and former Members of Congress, including
Representative Martin Frost of Texas, Chairman of the House Task Froce
on Eastern Europe, other government representatives and personnel of
congressional support institutions. They also traveled to Cleveland and
Chicago for discussions with business, academic, and community leaders
who have particular interests in the Czech Republic, as well as with
State legislators and local government leaders.
Also under the grant from the U.S. Information Agency, our first
Congressional Fellow, Bulcsu Veress, successfully completed his second
year providing technical assistance to the Parliament of Hungary. It is
evident from a letter received from the President of the Hungarian
National Assembly that Dr. Veress' 2 years in Hungary were highly
productive. His counsel was welcomed by the administrative staff of the
National Assembly. He assisted in the drafting of the new rules of the
House and translated into English for further comparison and analysis
the entire yearly legislative output of the Hungarian National
Assembly.
Building upon this first successful venture of sending a
Congressional Fellow to provide technical assistance to a new
Parliament, the Association applied for and received a grant from the
Pew Charitable Trusts. Under this grant, one Congressional Fellow has
been sent to Slovakia, Jon Holstine, and another to Ukraine, Clifford
Downen, for 1 year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year,
to work with the Members and staffs of those respective Parliaments. It
is anticipated that a third Congressional Fellow will be sent to
Bulgaria later this year or next year on a similar assignment.
The Association has continued its program of hospitality and
orientation for distinguished international visitors, parliamentarians,
cabinet ministers, judges, academicians and journalists here at the
Capitol. This program, originally funded by the Ford Foundation, has
been continued under grants from the German Marshall Fund of the United
States. It has enabled us to host 292 events--breakfasts, luncheons,
dinners and receptions--for visitors from 82 countries and the European
Parliament. It has proved a genuine resource for communication and
understanding between Members of Congress and leaders of other nations.
Two invaluable comparative studies have been prepared by the
Association in connection with these ongoing initiatives: ``The
Japanese Diet and the U.S. Congress'' and ``The U.S. Congress and the
German Bundestag.'' The latter has been particularly helpful to the new
parliamentarians of Central and Eastern Europe.
Mr. Speaker, needless to say, these programs could not be conducted
without financial support, and on behalf of the Association, I want to
thank our many contributors who continue to make them possible. At this
point, I would like to insert in the Record the list of our financial
sponsors.
The Association's Sponsors as of May 16, 1994
patrons\2\
1. Ford Foundation.
2. German Marshall Fund.
3. Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
4. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.
5. Pew Charitable Trusts.
6. U.S. Information Agency.
benefactors\3\
7. Anonymous Individual.
8. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
9. John Crain Kunkel Foundation.
10. Lilly Endowment, Inc.
11. National Endowment for the Humanities.
12. Rockefeller Foundation.
13. United Parcel Service Foundation.
donors\4\
14. Anonymous Foundation.
15. Anonymous Individual.
16. Anonymous Individual.
17. Alfred Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach Foundation.
18. Bertelsmann AG
19. Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
20. Howard H. Callaway Foundation.
21. Carnegie Corporation of New York.
22. Carnegie Corporation of New York--Aging Project.
23. Hon. Elford A. Cederberg.
24. Hon. Charles E. Chamberlain.
25. Chemical Bank.
26. Daimler-Benz Washington, Inc.
27. Exxon Education Foundation.
28. FMC Corporation Foundation.
29. Hon. Charles K. Fletcher.
30. Former Members of Congress Auxiliary.
31. Freightliner Corporation.
32. Grand Street Boys' Foundation.
33. Flora & William Hewlett Foundation.
34. Hoesch Corporation.
35. Mrs. Janice Hutchinson.
36. Institute for Representative Government.
37. Mrs. Benjamin F. James.
38. Hon. Jed Johnson, Jr.
39. Hon. Walter H. Judd.
40. Koerber Foundation.
41. Hon. William S. Mailliard.
42. Hon. D. Bailey Merrill.
43. Mobil Corporation.
44. Hon. Frank Moss.
45. National Association for Home Care.
46. Hon. Otis Pike.
47. Herbert Quandt Foundation.
48. Hon. John J. Rhodes.
49. Robert Bosch Foundation.
50. Hon. Philip E. Ruppe.
51. Louise Taft Semple Foundation.
52. Siemens Corporation.
53. Hon. Herbert Tenzer.
54. The Tobacco Institute.
55. Hon. Andrew Jackson Transue.
56. U.S. Department of State.
57. Unilever United States, Inc.
58. United Technologies.
59. University of South Carolina, Byrnes Center.
supporters\5\
60. Anonymous Donor.
61. Hon. J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
62. Hon. James T. Broyhill.
63. Champion International Corporation.
64. Coyne Chemical Company.
65. Delphi Research Associates.
66. Deutsche Bank North America Holding Corporation.
67. Forbes Foundation.
68. Hon. Louis Frey, Jr.
69. Hon. Robert N. Giaimo.
70. H.J. Heinz Charitable Trust.
71. Hon. Jeffrey Hillelson.
72. Home Federal Savings & Loan Association.
73. The Johnson Foundation.
74. Mr. J.C. Kennedy.
75. Hon. Norman F. Lent.
76. Hon. Russell B. Long.
77. Hon. Clark MacGregor.
78. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
79. Mercedes-Benz of North America.
80. Miles Inc. Foundation.
81. Mine Safety Appliances Charitable Trust.
82. Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co.
83. Hon. Shirley Pettis.
84. Phillip Holtzmann USA, Ltd.
85. Hon. Richardson Preyer.
86. The Prudential Foundation.
87. Hon. James M. Quigley.
88. Sangamon State University.
89. Florence & John Schumann Foundation.
90. Soros Foundation.
91. 3M Corporation.
92. U.S. Nat'l Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation.
93. U.S.-Japan Foundation.
94. University of Oklahoma Foundation.
95. University of Notre Dame.
96. Hon. Victor Veysey.
97. Mr. Philippe Villers.
sponsors\6\
98. A.T.&T. Corporation.
99. Hon. Jim Abdnor.\1\
100. Hon. Brock Adams.
101. Albion College.
102. Hon. Donald Albosta.
103. AMAX Foundation.
104. America-Israel Friendship League.
105. American Brands, Inc.
106. American Consulting Engineers Council.
107. American Family Life Assurance Company.
108. American Income Life Insurance Company.
109. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
110. Hon. Mark Andrews.
111. Hon. Frank Annunzio.
112. Hon. Beryl Anthony, Jr.
113. Mrs. Leslie C. Arends.
114. Ashland Oil Company, Inc.
115. Atlantic Council of the United States.
116. Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc.
117. BASF Corporation.
118. BMW of North America.
119. Hon. Robert Badham.\1\
120. Hon. Lamar Baker.
121. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company.
122. Bank of America.
123. Hon. Joseph Barr.
124. Hon. Robert R. Barry.
125. Battelle Memorial Institute.
126. Baylor University.\1\
127. Mrs. J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
128. Hon. Berkley Bedell.\1\
129. Hon. Catherine May Bedell.
130. Beech Aircraft Corporation.
131. Hon. Marion Bennett.\1\
132. Hon. Jonathan B. Bingham.\1\
133. Black & Decker Manufacturing Company.
134. Hon. Iris F. Blitch.\1\
135. Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation.
136. Boehringer Mannheim Pharmaceuticals.
137. Hon. J. Caleb Boggs.
138. Hon. Lindy Boggs.
139. Dr. Landrum Bolling.
140. Hon. Albert H. Bosch.\1\
141. Hon. Robin Britt.\1\
142. Hon. Donald Brotzman.
143. Hon. Clarence Brown.
144. Hon. Garry Brown.
145. Hon. Charles B. Brownson.
146. Mrs. Charles B. Brownson.
147. Hon. Joel T. Broyhill.
148. Representative John Bryant.
149. Hon. James L. Buckley.\1\
150. Hon. Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\1\
151. Hon. Beverly Byron.
152. Hon. William T. Cahill.
153. California Polytechnic University.
154. Hon. Howard Cannon.
155. Hon. Frank Carlson.
156. Mrs. Terry Carpenter.\1\
157. Castle & Cooke, Inc.
158. Cedar Hill Memorial Park.
159. Mrs. John Chapman.
160. Hon. James C. Cleveland.
161. Representative William Clinger.
162. Hon. and Mrs. Jeffery Cohelan.
163. Hon. W. Sterling Cole.
164. James M. Collins Foundation.
165. Columbia College.\1\
166. Commerzbank.
167. Hon. Barber Conable.
168. Congressional Staff Directory, Ltd.
169. Contel Cellular Co., Inc.
170. Mr. Ralph J. Cornell.
171. Hon. Larry Coughlin.
172. Hon. Jim Courter.
173. Hon. James K. Coyne.
174. Hon. William C. Cramer.\1\
175. Hon. George Crockett.
176. Hon. Paul W. Cronin.
177. Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, Inc.
178. Day is Done Foundation.
179. Degussa Corporation.
180. Mrs. Robert V. Denney.\1\
181. Hon. John Dent.\1\
182. Ernst & Paula Deutsch Foundation.
183. Hon. Joseph DioGuardi.\1\
184. Senator Robert Dole.
185. Mrs. Francis E. Dorn.\1\
186. Hon. Thomas Downey.
187. Dresdner Bank.
188. E-System, Inc.
189. Mr. Ernst van Eeghen.
190. Mrs. Paul Miza Elicker.
191. Hon. Robert Ellsworth.\1\
192. Hon. Ben Erdreich.
193. Hon. John Erlenborn.
194. Exxon Company, U.S.A.
195. Fannie Mae Foundation.
196. Hon. Leonard Farbstein.\1\
197. Hon. Dante Fascell.
198. Federal National Mortgage Association.
199. Hon. Michael A. Feighan.\1\
200. Finance Factors Foundation.
201. First Financial.
202. Mrs. Joseph Fisher.
203. Ford Motor Company Fund.
204. Hon. Gerald R. Ford.
205. Gerald R. Ford Foundation.
206. Hon. J. Allen Frear, Jr.
207. Hon. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen.
208. Fru-Con Construction Corporation.
209. Hon. J.W. Fulbright.
210. Hon. David H. Gambrell.
211. Mr. Hugh Garnett.
212. General Electric Company.
213. General Electric Foundation.
214. Gerling America Insurance Company.
215. German Industry and Trade.
216. Hon. Robert A. Grant.
217. Hon. Bill Green.
218. Hon. William Green.
219. Dr. Rolf Grueterich.
220. Hon. Frank J. Guarini.
221. Hon. Gilbert Gude.\1\
222. Gulf Oil Corporation.
223. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation.
224. Hon. Thomas M. Hagedorn.
225. Mrs. Audrey Hagen.\1\
226. Hon. John Paul Hammerschmidt.
227. Hon. James Hanley.
228. Hanna Family Foundation.
229. Hon. Ralph R. Harding.
230. Hon. Porter Hardy, Jr.
231. Hon. Claude Harris.
232. Hon. Oren E. Harris.\1\
233. Hon. Thomas F. Hartnett.\1\
234. Hartwick College.
235. Hon. Floyd K. Haskell.
236. Hon. Harry Haskell.\1\
237. Hon. William D. Hathaway.
238. Hon. Paula Hawkins.
239. Mr. Yasuhiko Hayashiyama.
240. Hon. Brooks Hays.
241. Hon. Cecil Heftel.
242. Henkel Corporation.
243. Hon. A. Sydney Herlong, Jr.\1\
244. Hermes Abrasives.
245. Hon. Dennis Hertel.
246. Hon. John Hiler.
247. Hoechst Corporation.
248. Hoechst Celanese Foundation.
249. Hon. Ken Holland.
250. Hope College.\1\
251. Hon. Frank Horton.
252. Hon. Roman L. Hruska.
253. Huels America, Inc.
254. Hughes Aircraft Company.
255. Human Rights Project.
256. Hon. William L. Hungate.
257. Hon. A. Oakley Hunter.
258. Hon. J. Edward Hutchinson.
259. I.B.M.
260. Institute of International Education.
261. International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc.
262. International Harvester.
263. International Union of Operating Engineers.
264. Hon. Andrew Ireland.
265. J.P. Morgan, Inc.
266. Hon. Ed Jenkins.
267. Mr. W. Carey Johnson.
268. Hon. James R. Jones.
269. Hon. William J. Keating.
270. Hon. Hastings Keith.
271. Kemper Educational & Charitable Fund.
272. Hon. Jack Kemp.
273. Kempinski International, Inc.
274. Hon. Joe M. Kilgore.
275. Hon. Ernest Konnyu.\1\
276. Kraft General Foods, Inc.
277. LaGrange College.\1\
278. Lagus Capital.
279. The Laurasia Institution.
280. Hon. Claude Leach, Jr.
281. Lincoln Memorial Park.
282. Hon. John V. Lindsay.
283. Hon. Tom Loeffler.\1\
284. Hon. Catherine Long.
285. Lotepro Corporation.
286. Hon. William Lowery.
287. Hon. Clare Boothe Luce.\1\
288. Hon. Daniel Edward Lungren.
289. Luther College.
290. Hon. Robert McClory.\1\
291. Hon. Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
292. Hon. John Y. McCollister.
293. Representative Bob McEwen.
294. Hon. Gale W. McGee.
295. Hon. Ray McGrath.
296. Hon. Thomas C. McGrath, Jr.
297. Hon. Matthew McHugh.
298. McNeese State University.
299. MAN Capital Corporation.
300. MMB Associates.
301. Mt. Vernon College.
302. Hon. Edward Madigan.
303. Hon. Andrew Maguire.\1\
304. Hon. James G. Martin.
305. Matanuska-Susitna Community College.
306. Hon. M. Dawson Mathis.
307. Hon. Edwin H. May, Jr.\1\
308. Mrs. Adelaide Bolton Meister.
309. Mrs. D. Bailey Merrill.
310. Hon. Helen S. Meyner.
311. Miami University-Ohio.
312. Hon. Daniel A. Mica.
313. Mid-America Nazarene College.
314. Hon. Joseph G. Minish.
315. Minnetonka High School.
316. Hon. Chester L. Mize.
317. Hon. John S. Monagan.
318. Hon. Robert Morgan.
319. Mr. Richard Murphy.
320. National Association of Broadcasters.
321. National Association of Independent Insurers.
322. National Education Association.
323. National Paint and Coatings Association.
324. National Study Commission on Public Documents.
325. New Hampshire Charitable Directed Fund.
326. New York University.\1\
327. Northern Kentucky University.\1\
328. Hon. Henry Nowak.
329. O'Connor & Hannan.
330. Mrs. Alvin E. O'Konski.
331. Hon. Jim Olin.
332. Hon. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
333. Representative Solomon P. Ortiz.
334. Representative Michael Oxley.
335. Pacific Federal Savings & Loan Association.
336. Hon. Elizabeth Patterson.
337. Hon. Edward Pattison.\1\
338. Hon. Charles H. Percy.
339. The Pfizer Foundation.
340. Pioneer Federal Savings & Loan Association.
341. Hon. Bertram Podell.
342. Hon. Howard W. Pollock.
343. Pratt & Whitney.
344. Hon. Graham Purcell.
345. R.J. Packing Corporation.\1\
346. Hon. Thomas Railsback.
347. Hon. Ben Reifel.
348. Relief Foundation, Inc.
349. Hon. Henry S. Reuss.
350. Revere High School.\1\
351. Reynolds Metals Company.
352. R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.
353. Hon. Matthew Rinaldo.
354. Hon. Don Ritter.
355. Hon. J. Kenneth Robinson.
356. Mrs. Kathryn Rankin Robinson.
357. Hon. John Robsion, Jr.\1\
358. Hon. Robert A. Roe.
359. Hon. Paul Rogers.
360. Hon. Fred B. Rooney.
361. Hon. John H. Rousselot.
362. Hon. William R. Roy.
363. Hon. Donald Rumsfeld.
364. Hon. Marty Russo.
365. Salem College.
366. Hon. Pierre Salinger.
367. Hon. Harold S. Sawyer.\1\
368. Schering Berlin.
369. Hon. James Scheuer.\1\
370. Dr. Scholl Foundation.
371. Schott Corporation.
372. Representative Patricia Schroeder.
373. Hon. Richard Schulze.
374. Hon. Richard Schweiker.
375. Hon. Hugh Scott.
376. Hon. William L. Scott.
377. G.D. Searle & Company.
378. Sears, Roebuck & Company.
379. Mrs. Harry O. Sheppard.
380. Hon. Carlton R. Sickles.
381. Siena College.
382. Hon. George Smathers.
383. Hon. Dennis (Denny) Smith.
384. Hon. Henry P. Smith, III.
385. SmithKline Corporation.
386. Hon. Gene Snyder.
387. Hon. Stephen Solarz.
388. Sperry Corporation.
389. Hon. William L. Springer.
390. St. Cloud University.
391. Hon. Neil Staebler.
392. Hon. David Stockman.\1\
393. Hon. Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr.
394. Sun Company, Inc.
395. SUNY-Binghamton University.
396. SUNY-Plattsburgh University.\1\
397. Hon. Robert Sweeney.\1\
398. Hon. James W. Symington.
399. Senator Steve Symms.
400. TRW, Inc.
401. Hon. Robert Taft, Jr.
402. Hon. Burt Talcott.\1\
403. Hon. Robin Tallon.
404. Florrie & Herbert Tenzer Philanthropic Fund.
405. Hon. Lera Thomas.
406. Hon. R. Lindsay Thomas.
407. Mrs. Devon O. Thompson.
408. Hon. Bob Traxler.
409. Hon. Jim Guy Tucker.\1\
410. Union Bank of Bavaria.
411. U.S. Capitol Historical Society.
412. University of Alaska--Anchorage.
413. University of Arkansas-Monticello.
414. University of California-Berkeley.
415. University of Dayton.
416. University of Delaware.
417. University of Mississippi.\1\
418. University of Utah.
419. Urenco, Inc.
420. Hon. Guy Vander Jagt.
421. Volkswagen of American, Inc.
422. Hon. Alton Waldon.
423. Mrs. John Ware.
424. Washington Institute for Value in Public Policy.
425. Hon. Wes Watkins.
426. Whalley Charitable Trust.
427. Mrs. Eva Tollefson White.\1\
428. Hon. G. William Whitehurst.
429. Hon. Larry Winn.
430. Hon. Timothy Wirth.
431. Hon. James C. Wright, Jr.\1\
432. Hon. Louis G. Wyman.\1\
433. Mr. and Mrs. James Yao.
434. Hon. Ralph W. Yarborough.
435. Hon. Gus Yatron.
436. Yeshiva University.
437. Hon. Samuel H. Young.\1\
438. Hon. Ed Zschau.\1\
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\1\Qualifies as a Sponsor under Challenge Grants.
\2\Patrons have contributed over $250,000.
\3\Benefactors have contribution between $50,000 and
$249,999.
\4\Donors have contributed between $10,000 and $49,999.
\5\Supporters have contributed between $5,000 and $9,999.
\6\Sponsors have contributed between $1,000 and $4,999.
In addition to our work with current parliamentarians, we maintain
close relations with associations similar to ours, that is, former
members of the parliaments of other countries. In this connection, Mr.
Speaker, I am pleased to recognize and welcome several representatives
of those associations who are with us today: Jack Ellis and Barry
Turner of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians; Georg C.
Ehrnrooth of the Finnish Association of Former Members of Parliament;
Ellen Lauterbach of the Association of Former Members of the German
Bundestag; and Giuseppe Vedovato of the Association of Former
Parliamentarians of the Italian Republic. These relationships have been
particularly rewarding, and we look forward to exploring further
cooperative efforts to promote and assist parliamentary forms of
government.
Mr. Speaker, it is now my sad duty to inform the House of those
persons who have served in the Congress and who have passed away since
our report 2 years ago:
Jerome A. Ambro of New York;
Ross Bass of Tennessee;
Jackson E. Betts of Ohio;
Iris F. Blitch of Georgia;
J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware;
Lyle H. Boren of Oklahoma;
Frank P. Briggs of Missouri;
J. Herbert Burke of Florida;
Gene Chappie of California;
Earl Chudoff of Pennsylvania;
Del Clawson of California;
Thomas B. Curtis of Missouri;
John W. Davis of Georgia;
Millicent H. Fenwick of New Jersey;
J. Allen Frear of Delaware;
Newell A. George of Kansas;
Ben H. Guill of Texas;
Sam B. Hall, Jr. of Texas;
Julia Butler Hansen of Washington;
Louis Heller of New York;
Floyd V. Hicks of Washington;
Richard H. Ichord of Missouri;
Jed Johnson, Jr. of Oklahoma;
Walter H. Judd of Minnesota;
Frank M. Karsten of Missouri;
Gale W. McGee of West Virginia;
Thomas J. McIntyre of New Hampshire;
Martin McKneally of New York;
William S. Mailliard of California;
Chester L. Mize of Kansas;
George L. Murphy of California;
Ancher Nelson of Minnesota;
Richard M. Nixon of California;
James E. Noland of Indiana;
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. of Massachusetts;
Ray Roberts of Texas;
Will Rogers, Jr. of California;
Fred D. Schwengel of Iowa;
Robert T. Secrest of Ohio;
William L. Springer of Illinois;
Newton I. Steers of Maryland;
Robert Taft, Jr. of Ohio;
Herbert Tenzer of New York;
George M. Wallhauser of New Jersey;
Charles L. Weltner of Georgia;
I would like to ask for a moment of silence in their memory.
It is now my happy duty to report that nominated to be our
Association's new President is our colleague Philip Ruppe of Michigan,
and as Vice President, Lindy Boggs of Louisiana. So the leadership of
the Association will be in capable and experienced hands.
Each year, the Association presents a Distinguished Service Award.
This award rotates between political parties as do our officers. Last
year's recipient on the Democratic side was former Illinois
Representative Abner J. Mikva. This year the Republican recipient is
the distinguished former Ohio Representative Clarence J. ``Bud'' Brown.
Clarence J. ``Bud'' Brown's 17 years as the Representative for the
Seventh District of Ohio built upon a family tradition of legislative
service, for Bud succeeded his own father after the latter had served
13 terms from 1939 to 1965. Bud would likely have equaled or exceeded
his Dad's legislative tenure had he not won the GOP nomination for
Governor of Ohio half way through his ninth term. In 1983, he accepted
the post of Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Serving beside his good friend, and one of the Nation's greatest
Secretaries, Malcolm Baldrige, Bud won instant recognition for his
sound policies and administrative skills. A U.S. Navy veteran of both
World War II and the Korean war, Bud graduated from Duke University
with a degree in economics, and won his MBA at Harvard at the age of
21. A shining example of the Former Members' axiom that public service
does not end with public officer, Bud brought his skills to the Kennedy
School of Government, and the American Enterprise Institute, as a
fellow of both institutions. A devotee of American history and
tradition, Bud found the perfect expression of these interests when, in
September 1992, he was named President and Chief Executive Officer of
the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, succeeding the Honorable Fred
Schwengel. Finally, it should not only be noted but emphasized that Bud
Brown's tenure as President of the U.S. Association of Former Members
of Congress did us all proud. His extraordinary vigor, perception and
dedication mark his service to our Association.
So, it is my great pleasure to present to him, on behalf of our
Association, a volume of letters from his former colleagues in the
Congress and this plaque and gavel which commemorate this special
occasion and this award presented on behalf of his colleagues who
served with him in the Congress.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to Bud Brown.
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Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Jim, thank you for those kind words. If the acting
Speaker will forgive, and if my Republican colleagues will forgive and
certainly if the current Speaker will forgive me, I will speak from
this podium rather than the one I normally spoke from when I was in the
Congress. It looks OK, does it?
Jim, I thank you for those kind words, and I thank all of my friends
in the Association of Former Members of Congress for the award, which I
choose to call historic. In my current role as president of the U.S.
Capitol Historical Society, I am now looking at everything in historic
terms, and some of that, of course, may be the result of advancing age.
However, I must assure you that without much thought, I can count
many other Members with whom I served or who have served since I left
the Congress who are much more deserving of this honor than I. Even
more embarrassing, several of them are in this room today.
I am not naming them because it might stimulate some kind of a recall
petition and I certainly do not want that to happen.
As a matter of fact, when I informed one of my former colleagues that
I had taken the post I now enjoy with the Capitol Historical Society,
he thought for a minute and said to me, ``It is probably a good idea,
Bud, since you couldn't make history when you were in the Congress, at
least you can now rewrite it,'' a temptation that has occurred to me
from time to time.
That reminds me also to thank Jim for the very graceful way in which
you handled, Jim, my race for Governor in 1982. With a Republican
President that year in the White House, I was trying to succeed a term-
limited Republican Governor in Ohio in the worst economy we had
experienced since 1932, when my father ran for Governor of Ohio as a
Republican and lost.
We just do not learn a hell of a lot in my family about politics, one
generation over the next.
Like Jim Symington, though, I must say I am also proud of Jim and the
wonderful job he has done this year, perhaps, except for this
selection, heading up the Association of Former Members at a time we
had some very severe challenges with the death of Jed Johnson. But,
Jim, you did a nice job with that comment. Like you, I am proud of my
dad and my family heritage in politics. After 27 years here, my dad
died in office. I believe he would have been amazed that I succeeded
him; my mother, of course, would have been justified, but both of them
would be very proud today.
My dad never got to be a former Member of Congress, but he would have
enjoyed this organization because he liked nothing more than telling
stories about political personalities, old-time events in politics.
One of his homilies was to assure me that if I ever went into
politics, there was no good way out of it. You either retired to do
something else, he said, in which case no one remembers your name about
6 months later, or you get defeated, which tends to discredit you, or
you die at the height of your power and there is damn little comfort in
that.
Well, I went through that experience. First, I want to say it is a
demanding and consuming job and, as 110 of our colleagues who left last
year will tell you, it takes a while to get over it.
Soon after I left the House, I ran into a former colleague and an old
friend I had admired very much, Bob Giaimo of Connecticut, the first
chairman of the Committee on the Budget, who had retired a few years
earlier. ``How are you handling retirement,'' Bob said in a very
gracious way. ``Oh, fine,'' I told him, ``I didn't like losing the Ohio
gubernatorial race to an Italian Democrat, but I am taking it all
right.'' I said that without any effort at political correctness.
Somewhat more gently, with a hand on my arm, he said, ``Seriously,
Bud, how are you handling it?'' I said, ``Well, I dreamed the other
night I had heard the bells ringing and I was late for a vote that I
hadn't decided how I was going to cast, and I think I am driving Joyce
crazy. But other than that, everything is OK.'' He smiled and patted my
arm, and he said, ``Well, you'll get over it. Give it another 6 months
or so, you should be OK after the next election.'' Indeed, Bob, it
turned out that way. You had the experience that you shared with me,
and I appreciate it.
My dad loved this body, and his friends and adversaries on both sides
of the aisle. And we do have adversaries on both sides of the aisle.
There is nothing quite like the infamy of one of your own colleagues
who votes the wrong way on an issue that you feel strongly about.
He hated to see it deprecated unless, of course, he was doing the
deprecating. And that is true of all of us, too.
One of dad's friends from across the aisle, an Ohio colleague of his
and mine later, was a great American whom some of you will remember. I
will not identify him, but he had a 3rd grade education because he had
left school to go to work in the mines, the coal mines in Ohio, when he
was 9 years old. He had a pet project for his district which he never
got quite through the congressional process, in spite of considerable
power and the promises that he had received from many of his colleagues
that they thought it was a good idea and they would support it. When he
would get frustrated, he used to say that he met more gentlemen in the
mines than he ever met in the U.S. Congress.
Well, unfair though it was, I think sometimes you felt that way when
you got mad. That seems a tough remark when we have just recently laid
to rest Bill Natcher, with whom so many of us served. Judge Natcher
would probably get a unanimous vote as one of the best examples of a
true gentleman that any of us ever met, but not all of us are
gentlemen. As a matter of fact, there are some in this room who are
not, and I intend to identify them at this moment.
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First I want to point out Representative Pettis of California. I do
not know were Representative Boggs of Louisiana is, but that is
another, and of course there were others here who were not gentlemen:
Griffiths of Michigan, Jordan of Texas, and many, many more, and I
expect one of those ladies would say, any one of those ladies would
say, as one of my great colleagues from Ohio, Frances Bolton, once said
to a group of her male counterparts when she discovered them discussing
legislative matters in terms that were very ungentlemanly, and she was
embarrassed when she walked into the room at that time; she said,
``Don't worry, fellows. Just think of me as one of the boys.''
But all of us did get frustrated, did get frustrated from time to
time, as are many of the Members serving in Congress today and as many
of Americans are with Congress and other of our institutions. I remind
them all that the blessing we have in our Democratic Republic is that
we have within our hands the power to make whatever reforms we like,
sometimes wisely, sometimes unwisely.
I am reminded in my historical activities that almost a century ago
the House rebelled against omnipotent Speaker Uncle Joe Cannon to
establish the Committee on Rules and the seniority system for selecting
chairmen. Uncle Joe used to pick them out of the group by his own
choice. Within my time of service junior Members of Congress on both
sides upended the seniority system to select their own chairmen instead
of relying on the winnowing system of seniority, and just last year, at
the apex of the furor over term limits, over one-fifth of the Members
of Congress did not return to serve.
Patience sometimes serves us better than revolution, but we do have
those means within our own hands. It does not work perfectly, this
system of ours, and it does not always satisfy us. But it does work,
and this system has made us the greatest Nation and the most envied
Nation in the history of mankind.
The dome above us under which we have all served and labored
sincerely, even among our differences, makes this building and what
goes on here the best-known edifice in the world. There is not a person
beyond our Nation's shores who would not be pleased to be governed
under this dome.
I assure my colleagues, particularly my colleagues and friends on the
other side of the aisle, that I will not rewrite any history in my new
role, but candor advises me to admit one of the reasons I accepted that
responsibility with the Historical Society. I hope to be able to use
the position to bring about a better public perception of the U.S.
Congress and the people who serve in it. I feel more deeply than I can
adequately express that service in the U.S. Congress is one of the
highest callings there is, and it is one of the greatest honors a
person can be given by fellow citizens of this country.
Our Nation's founders must have shared that view because the
Congress, this body in which we have all had the honor to serve, was
the first to be established by our Constitution. We, the people of the
United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish
justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and to our posterity do ordain and establish this
Constitution of the United States of America. Article I, section 1, all
legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the
United States which shall consist of the Senate and a House of
Representatives given the responsibility to fulfill that opening of the
Constitution.
What higher calling? The Supreme Court? The President of the United
States?
At the next State of the Union Address look at the audience wherein
sit the invited Chief and Associate Justices and at the lower podium
wherefrom the invited President speaks. All are beneath the chairs of
the Speaker of this House and the presiding officer of the Senate. Mr.
Speaker, that means that there is no higher calling in public service
in this country than serving as a Member of the U.S. Congress.
It is a demanding job, as I said. We are all proud to have had the
opportunity, and I am particularly proud today, as a former Member of
Congress, to receive your honor. I say, ``Thank you very much.''
[Applause.]
Mr. JOHN J. RHODES, JR. (presiding). The Chair recognizes the
gentleman from Missouri.
Mr. SYMINGTON. I thank the distinguished gentleman from Ohio for his
comments, advice, and counsel.
Mr. Speaker, before adjournment, I have one last function to perform
as this year's president of the Association. As we all know, to our
grief, last December we lost our esteemed executive director, Jed
Johnson. Those of you who were unable to attend the services for Jed
should know that there was an outpouring of sentiment, reminiscence and
love that did justice to the career and the character of the man. His
one shining term as a Member of Congress was later supplemented by 20
years of absolutely devoted and selfless service to our Association. It
is no exaggeration to say he was the Association.
Looking back over those years and the voluminous record of
interparliamentary and educational endeavors which engaged us, it is
almost impossible to believe that all the planning, all the diplomacy,
all the energy and all the detail necessary to conceive, carry out,
promote and fund our activities arose full blown from the mind, heart
and tireless spirit of that ever young gentleman from Oklahoma. He left
us so quickly, and so unexpectedly, that the award we would have wanted
him to have in his lifetime must now be posthumous. Even then it is but
a mere symbol of the enormous gratitude we bear for Jed and his life of
service.
We are honored today by the presence of Jed's gracious widow, Sydney
Herlong Johnson, their two daughters, Alice and Sydney, and Jed's
sisters, Mrs. Janelle Seiberlich and Mrs. Joan Stauffer. I would ask at
this time that Mrs. Johnson approach the well to receive this small
reminder of the gratitude and affection which reads,
In Memoriam. The Honorable Jed Joseph Johnson, Jr. December
27, 1939-December 16, 1993. Representative from the Sixth
District of Oklahoma 1965-67. Executive Director, U.S.
Association of Former Members of Congress 1974-93. In
recognition of his selfless and invaluable service to this
Association, the nation and the cause of peace. Presented to
his widow, Sydney Herlong Johnson, by the United States
Association of Former Members of Congress on the floor of the
House of Representatives. Washington, DC. May 19, 1994.
Sydney, this if for you, and it comes with the pledge that the
Association Jed served so well will continue in his spirit.
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Mrs. SYDNEY HERLONG JOHNSON. Thank you all very much. I really
appreciate this expression of your gratitude.
Jed loved his work with former Members of Congress, and I am really
grateful that he had so many years to work for a cause that he believed
in so deeply. I feel that I am among our treasured and wonderful
friends today, and I want you to know that I thank you all so very
much, not only for what you have done in the past but for what you are
doing to continue the important work that he loved and treasured so
deeply. Thank you.
[Applause.]
Mr. SYMINGTON. Thank you, Sydney.
Mr. Speaker, this concludes the 24th Annual Report to the Congress by
the United States Association of Former Members of Congress. We are
grateful as always to you, Speaker Foley, and the Members of his House
on both sides of the aisle for this pleasant chance to share a review
of the activities of its former Members and to renew our commitment to
the spirit of this place; to touch, as it were, a few of what Mr.
Lincoln called ``the mystic chords of memory.''
Finally, we thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the continuing opportunity to
lend bipartisan support for the interparliamentary and educational
exchanges which the Congress deems of value.
With renewed appreciation and respect, Mr. Speaker, we take our
leave. Thank you.
[Applause.]
Mr. JOHN J. RHODES, JR. (presiding). I thank the gentleman from
Missouri.
The Chair has the gavel, and that gives me certain prerogatives, and
among those is to say what he has in mind, and I have several things in
mind.
Sydney is not only the wife of a Congressman but the daughter of my
very good friend, Syd Herlong. We extend to you and your daughters our
absolute sincerity and sympathy in the passing of Jed. As a former
president of the Association, I had the privilege, of course, of
serving very closely with Jed. I have never known an individual any
more dedicated to his job and to an organization than Jed was to this.
I think most of us would agree with me that if it had not been for Jed
Johnson, this organization might well have passed into oblivion
sometime ago.
So, Sydney, we do appreciate you, because I know that without a wife
a man really is not worth very much. And I can say that from personal
experience. I hope that you will not only give our love to your
daughters but to your father and mother also.
Now, Jim, I want to congratulate you on a great term. You had the
misfortune to be president of this organization during what I will say
was a watershed year, but it was much more than that. I was a difficult
year because of the fact that Jed is no longer with us. You have
handled it beautifully, and I know you will be passing the gavel to
Phil Ruppe, who will also handle it beautifully. It is amazing how
people who have served in the Congress have all sorts of capabilities
that you do not get to really exercise unless you are in the leadership
of the Congress. It is really wonderful and it is heartwarming when
people who have served in the Congress take over as leaders of this
organization and do such a magnificent job. In fact, I do not remember
any officer of this organization who has not done a great job. I am
looking right at Ab Mikva right now who certainly was a close associate
of mine during that time.
I need to announce that there have been 32 Members who have announced
their presence. Are there any former Members of the Congress in the
House who would like to have their presence recorded whose presence has
not previously been recorded? If not, I have one other announcement.
Those of you who desire to take the Capitol tour will assemble in the
Speaker's Lobby behind the podium here.
Before I close, let me give my thanks to the Speaker, as well as to
the Parliamentarian and his staff, for all the kindnesses that you have
shown the former Members, not only this year but in other years past.
We thank you, Sir.
The House will stay in recess until 11 a.m. eastern daylight time, of
course, and again may I thank all of you who are here and pray that we
will all be together at this time next year.
Without motion, I now declare the session of the Association of
Former Members of Congress in the House of Representatives adjourned.
Accordingly (at 10 o'clock and 25 minutes a.m.), the House continued
in recess until 11 a.m.
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