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                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-587. A resolution adopted by the Board of Supervisors 
     of the County of Chenango, New York relative milk price 
     supports; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry.
       POM-588. A resolution adopted by the House of the General 
     Assembly of the State of Illinois; to the Committee on 
     Appropriations.

                           ``House Resolution

       ``Whereas, the Pentagon's Bottom-Up Review concluded that 
     the next Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier (CVN-76) is 
     required if America is to maintain a 12-carrier fleet, the 
     force structure needed to sustain peacetime forward presence 
     and protect American interests in regional conflicts; and
       ``Whereas, this year Congress will consider the 
     Administration's request for full funding of CVN-76, which 
     will be constructed by Newport News Shipbuilding at its 
     Virginia facilities; and
       ``Whereas, the Administration's plan calls for full funding 
     of the carrier in FY 1995, with work on the ship beginning 
     soon after October 1; and
       ``Whereas, CVN-76 could bring millions of dollars in 
     contracts and jobs to the businesses and citizens of the 
     State of Illinois; and
       ``Whereas, the possible benefits to Illinois will be much 
     greater if the funding for 1995 is approved and the project 
     is kept on schedule; Therefore, be it
       ``Resolved, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-
     Eighth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That we 
     urge the Congress to support full funding of the CVN-76 
     aircraft carrier project in the 1995 budget; and be it 
     further
       ``Resolved, That suitable copies of this resolution be 
     presented to the President of the United States Senate, to 
     the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 
     and to each member of the Illinois Congressional 
     delegation.''
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       POM-589. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the State of Alaska; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.

                         ``Legislative Resolve

       ``Whereas, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
     Act (ANILCA) and the Tongass Land Management Plan define 
     multiple use objectives for the Tongass National Forest; and
       ``Whereas, according to the Multiple Use Sustained Yield 
     Act of 1960, national forest land is to be managed for a 
     sustainable yield of various resources including water, fish, 
     wildlife, and timber; and
       ``Whereas, the Tongass Land Management Plan is currently 
     undergoing revision to see how these goals are being met and 
     to provide direction for meeting these goals in the future; 
     and
       ``Whereas, regeneration on harvested land in the Tongass 
     National Forest has demonstrated that second growth yields 
     can reach the 23,000 board feet per acre necessary to sustain 
     a harvest of 450,000,000 board feet per year as designated in 
     the Tongass Land Management Plan; and
       ``Whereas, in recent years, timber sales on the Tongass 
     National Forest have been significantly reduced so that far 
     less than 450,000,000 board feet are available; and
       ``Whereas, the economy of Southeast Alaska utilizes 
     resources of the Tongass for commercial fisheries, 
     recreation, tourism, mining, and timber harvest; and
       ``Whereas, the economy of Southeast Alaska is stable, has 
     enabled the use of long-term bond financing for public 
     service, and has attracted significant private capital 
     investment; and
       ``Whereas, the timber industry of Southeast Alaska was 
     developed based upon an expected annual harvest level of 
     450,000,000 board feet; and
       ``Whereas, Tongass National Forest timber resources 
     accounted for about 2,500 of the annual average 3,600 private 
     sector jobs directly generated by the forest products 
     industry in Southeast Alaska in 1992, the last year for which 
     accurate figures are available; and
       ``Whereas, the forest products industry in Southeast Alaska 
     accounted for 24 percent of basic industry employment 
     (including government), and 34 percent of all private basic 
     industry employment, in 1992; and
       ``Whereas, workers in the forest products industry in 
     Southeast Alaska, including loggers, road builders, 
     stevedores, sawmill workers, and pulp mill workers earned 
     approximately $146,000,000 in wages and salaries during 1992; 
     and
       ``Whereas, forest products industry employment in Southeast 
     Alaska has declined sharply since 1990, marked by the loss of 
     $18,000,000 in payroll and more than 600 jobs, due to reduced 
     timber harvests on the Tongass and the near completion of the 
     first harvest on private land; and
       ``Whereas, the United States Congress in 1980 enacted the 
     Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which 
     includes provisions designating 5,400,000 acres of the 
     Tongass National Forest as part of the Wilderness 
     Preservation System, and thus closed that land to timber 
     harvest; and
       ``Whereas, an increase in the availability of timber for 
     harvest on the Tongass National Forest could offset the lack 
     of production of timber from private land and maintain the 
     economic well-being of Southeast Alaska; and
       ``Whereas, a decline in the availability of timber to 
     harvest on the Tongass National Forest will continue to cause 
     the loss of jobs in the timber industry in Southeast Alaska 
     and will significantly impair the economic well-being of the 
     area as many communities are totally or otherwise very 
     dependent on the timber industry as the sole or one of the 
     largest employers in the community; and
       ``Whereas, the United States Congress in 1990 enacted the 
     Tongass Timber Reform Act, thus closing an additional 
     1,100,000 acres of land to timber harvest through wilderness 
     designations and management practices; and
       ``Whereas, timber availability is critical to the health of 
     the forest products industry in Alaska, and the availability 
     of timber in the Tongass National Forest will likely 
     determine the future of the forest products industry in 
     Alaska; and
       ``Whereas, the United States Congress controls the level of 
     timber harvesting in the Tongass in part through the budget 
     process and by these land designations acts; and
       ``Whereas, the United States Department of Agriculture, 
     Forest Service, manages the Tongass National Forest and 
     determines the availability of timber for harvest on the land 
     not closed to timber harvest: Be it
       Resolved, That the Alaska State Legislature respectfully 
     requests the United States Congress to review the economic 
     impact on the Southeast Alaska economy and the forest 
     products industry of the wilderness designations imposed by 
     the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, 
     and the wilderness designations and changes in management 
     practices mandated by the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990; 
     and be it further
       Resolved, That the Alaska State Legislature respectfully 
     requests the United States Congress to provide sufficient 
     funding to the United States Department of Agriculture, 
     Forest Service, to facilitate offering for harvest the 
     maximum amount of Tongass timber possible under current law 
     while recognizing and protecting other resource values; and 
     be it further
       Resolved, That the Alaska State Legislature requests the 
     United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, to 
     manage the Tongass National Forest in order to provide 
     maximum opportunity for timber harvest under current law 
     while recognizing and protecting other resource values.
       ``Copies of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable 
     Bill Clinton, President of the United States; the Honorable 
     Al Gore, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and 
     President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Thomas S. Foley, 
     Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable 
     George Mitchell, Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate; the 
     Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. 
     Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, 
     members of the Alaska Delegation in Congress; and to Mr. 
     Michael Espy, Secretary of the U.S. Department of 
     Agriculture, and Mr. Jack Ward Thomas, Chief of the U.S. 
     Forest Service.''
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       POM-590. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the General Assembly of the State of Illinois; to the 
     Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

                        ``House Joint Resolution

       ``Whereas, there is continuing controversy concerning the 
     presence of American servicemen, who were listed as Prisoners 
     of War or Missing in Action, being held against their will in 
     the Southeast Asian nations of Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea 
     (formerly Cambodia); and
       ``Whereas, the United States government has stated that all 
     of our Prisoners of War have been returned from Vietnam; and
       ``Whereas, a recent top secret Vietnamese report, dating 
     from 1972, by General Tran Von Kwong, Deputy Chief of Staff 
     for the North Vietnamese Army, reported that in September of 
     1972 Hanoi held 1,205 American prisoners; and
       ``Whereas, only 591 American Prisoners of War have been 
     released under the 1973 Peace Settlement; and
       ``Whereas, Vietnamese nationals who have moved to the 
     united States have reported the appearance of American 
     Prisoners of War still being held against their will in 
     Southeast Asia; and
       ``Whereas, the President of Russia let it be known that the 
     Soviet Union took American servicemen during the Vietnam War 
     into the Soviet Union and that there is no adequate 
     explanation concerning the whereabouts of these servicemen; 
     and
       ``Whereas, there are still hundreds of documents in the 
     United States Defense Department that have not been released 
     to the public concerning the fate of American servicemen 
     classified as Prisoners of War or Missing in Action; and
       ``Whereas, the United States government's intelligence 
     agencies have taken the position of trying to discredit any 
     information concerning the existence of American Prisoners of 
     War, instead of demanding a full accounting from Vietnam, 
     Laos, and Kampuchea based upon the information that has been 
     received; and
       ``Whereas, there are 96 missing and unaccounted for 
     servicemen in Southeast Asia from Illinois; and
       ``Whereas, the United States government has never entered 
     into negotiations with the government of Laos or Kampuchea 
     concerning the release of American Prisoners of War who were 
     taken prisoner by the communists in Laos during the Vietnam 
     War; and
       ``Whereas, the only reason for secrecy at this time would 
     be to cover up the actions of politicians, bureaucrats, and 
     negotiators who deliberately abandoned American Prisoners of 
     War after the Vietnam War; and
       ``Whereas, the executive branch of the Federal government 
     has put forth a pathetic effort to negotiate the release of 
     Americans that may still be held in Southeast Asia, and is 
     obstructing the discovery of any remaining servicemen; and
       ``Whereas, the legislative branch of the Federal government 
     has failed to thoroughly investigate and honestly report on 
     this tragedy, and, indeed, has even ordered the destruction 
     of staff documents containing staff intelligence reports on 
     this sensitive issue; and
       ``Whereas, the inferior courts of the federal judiciary 
     have not granted relief to the American soldiers listed as 
     Prisoners of War or Missing in Action; and
       ``Whereas, the United States Supreme Court is the last 
     bastion that an American citizen has for redress of 
     grievances and protection of Constitutional liberty against 
     an oppressive federal executive and a duplicitous federal 
     legislature; and
       ``Whereas, the United States Constitution, in Article III, 
     section 2, states ``In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other 
     public Ministers and Counsels, and those in which a State 
     shall be a Party, the Supreme Court shall have original 
     jurisdiction''; and
       ``Whereas, any Americans who are still being held against 
     their will in Southeast Asia as a result of the Vietnam War 
     are having their right to liberty, that inherent and 
     inalienable right by which they are endowed by our Creator, 
     as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the 
     Constitution of the United States, violated: therefore be it
       ``Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-
     Eighth General Assembly of the State of Illinois. (The Senate 
     Concurring Herein.) That we request the Attorney General of 
     the State of Illinois, on behalf of the people of the State 
     of Illinois, to file in the United States Supreme Court a 
     cause of action against the government of the United States, 
     especially the Department of Defense and the intelligence 
     agencies, and also against the ambassadors or other public 
     ministers and consuls of the governments of Vietnam, Laos, 
     Kampuchea, Russia, and China, alleging violation of civil 
     rights of the people of Illinois, especially alleging the 
     violation of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
     happiness of the following named citizens of the State of 
     Illinois:
       ``Harold Joseph Alwan, USMC, of Peoria;
       ``Harry Arlo Amesbury, Jr., USAF, of Morrison;
       ``Gregory Lee Anderson, USAF, of Wheaton;
       ``Robert Donald Beutel, USAF, of Tremont;
       ``Wayne Bibbs, USA, of Blue Island;
       ``Timothy Roy Badden, USMC, of Downer's Grove;
       ``Arthur Ray Bollinger, USAF, of Greenville;
       ``Daniel Vernor Boran, Jr., USN, of Olney;
       ``James Alvin Branch, USAF, of Park Forest;
       ``Thomas Edward Brown, USN, of Danville;
       ``Robert Wallace Brownlee, USA, of Chicago;
       ``Bernard Ludwig Bucher, USAF, of Eureka;
       ``Kenneth Richard Buell, USN, of Kankakee;
       ``Park George Bunker, USAF, of Homewood;
       ``Michael John Burke, USMC, of Chicago;
       ``Joseph Henry Byrne, USAF, of Evanston;
       ``Ralph Laurence Carlock, USAF, of Des Plaines;
       ``John Werner Carlson, USAF, of Chicago;
       ``John Bernard Causey, USAF, of Granite City;
       ``Charles Peter Claxton, USAF, of Chicago;
       ``Dean Eddie Clinton, USA, of Dix;
       ``Ralph Burton Cobbs, USN, of East St. Louis;
       ``Willard Marion Collins, USAF, of Quincy;
       ``Joseph Bernard Copack, Jr., USAF, of Chicago;
       ``Kenneth Leroy Cunningham, USA, of Ellery;
       ``Patrick Robert Curran, USMC, of Bensenville;
       ``Raymond George Czerwiec, USA, of Chicago;
       ``Thomas Carl Daffron, USAF, of Pinckneyville;
       ``Randall David Dalton, USA, of Collinsville;
       ``James Leslie Dayton, USA, of Granite City;
       ``Richard Carl Deuter, USN, of Chicago;
       ``Michael E. Dunn, USN, of Naperville;
       ``Dennis Keith Eads, USA, of Prophetstown;
       ``William F. Farris, USN, of West Salem;
       ``Barry Frank Fivelson, USA, of Evanston;
       ``Ronald E. Galvin, USN, of River Forest;
       ``Carles Hue Gatewood, USMC, of Chicago;
       ``Donald Arthur Gerstel, USN, of Matteson;
       ``John Bryan Golz, USN, of Rock Island;
       ``Thomas E. Heideman, USAF, of Chicago;
       ``Robert D. Herreid, USA, of Aurora;
       ``Joseph Arnold Hill, USMC, of Taylorville;
       ``Anthony F. Housh, USA, of Newton;
       ``Roger B. Innes, USN, of Chicago;
       ``Michael James Jablonski, USA, of Chicago;
       ``Ronald James Janousek, USMC, of Posen;
       ``Jack Elmer Keller, USN, of Chicago;
       ``Kenneth Keith Knabb, Jr., USN, of Wheaton;
       ``Jeffery C. Lemon, USAF, of Flossmoor;
       ``Leonard J. Lewandowski, Jr., USMC, of Des Plaines;
       ``Notely G. Maddox, USAF, of Rockford;
       ``Richard Carlton Marshall, USAF, of Chicago;
       ``James Philip Mason, USA, of DeKalb;
       ``Glenn David McElroy, USA, of Sidney;
       ``James Patrick McGrath, USN, of Chicago;
       ``Carl Ottis McCormick, USAF, of Peoria;
       ``Robert Charles McMaran, USN, of Jacksonville;
       ``Roger Allen Meyers, USN, of Chicago;
       ``William John Moore, USAF, of Monmouth;
       ``Wayne Ellsworth Newberry, USAF, of E. St. Louis;
       ``Randall John Nightingale, USN, of Onarga;
       ``Joseph Paul Nolan, Jr., USA, of Oak Park;
       ``Michael David O'Donnell, USA, of Springfield;
       ``Floyd Warren Olsen, USA, of Wheaton;
       ``Warren Robert Orr, Jr., USA, of Kewanee;
       ``Donald E. Parsons, USA, of Sparta;
       ``Roger Dale Partington, USMC, of Sparta;
       ``Gordon Samuel Perisho, USN, of Quincy;
       ``James L. Phipps, USA, of Mattoon;
       ``Thomas Holt Pilkington, USA, of Morton Grove;
       ``Jerry Lynn Pool, USA, of Freeport;
       ``William Marshall Price, USMC, of Kewanee;
       ``Dennis M. Rattin, USA, of Bradley;
       ``Ronald R. Rexroad, USAF, of Rankin;
       ``Robert Paul Riggins, USAF, of Champaign;
       ``Billie Leroy Roth, USAF, of Lacon;
       ``Leland Charles Cooke Sage, USN, of Waukegan;
       ``Richard Eugene Sands, USA, of Springfield;
       ``Leroy Clyde Schaneberg, USAF, of Ashton;
       ``David Lee Scott, USA, of Carlock;
       ``David William Skibbe, USMC, of Des Plaines;
       ``Harold Victor Smith, USAF, of Bridgeport;
       ``Joseph Stanley Smith, USAF, of Assumption;
       ``Dean Paul St. Pierre, USAF, of Kankakee;
       ``James Clellon Story, USA, of Berwyn;
       ``John W. Swanson, Jr., USAF, of Arlington;
       ``Jerrold Allen Switzer, USMC, of Paris;
       ``Derri Sykes, USA, of Chicago;
       ``Oral D. Terry, USA, of Mascoutah;
       ``John C. Towle, USAF, of Harrisburg;
       ``Duston Cowles Trowbridge, USN, of Wayne;
       ``Martin D. Vandeneykel II, USA, of Wheaton;
       ``James Edward Whitt, USAF, of Penfield;
       ``Richard Dennis Wiley, USA, of Decatur;
       ``Robert Cyril Williams, USAF, of McLeansboro; and
       ``Robert John Zukowski, USAF, of Chicago; and be it further
       ``Resolved, That the Attorney General of the State of 
     Illinois, in filing this suit, shall demand that the 
     Department of Defense, the intelligence agencies, the 
     governments of Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, Russia, and China 
     turn over all documents concerning Prisoners of War and 
     Missing in Action in Laos, Kampuchea, and Vietnam: and be it 
     further
       ``Resolved, That the sister forty-nine states of the United 
     States of America be urged to join in this action on behalf 
     of their state and the citizens of their state who are being 
     held in captivity in Southeast Asia: and be it further
       ``Resolved, That a suitable copy of this preamble and 
     resolution be forwarded to the Attorney General of the State 
     of Illinois, to the United States Supreme Court, to the 
     President of the United States, to the Speaker of the United 
     States House of Representatives, to the President of the 
     United States Senate, to the members of the Illinois 
     congressional delegation, and to the clerks of the respective 
     Houses and Senates of our sister forty-nine states.''

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