[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 93 (Monday, July 18, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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            HAROLD AND BETTY FISHER: A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

                                 ______


                         HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 18, 1994

  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring to your attention and 
to the attention of my colleagues here in the House, the story of a 
very special couple who will soon be celebrating the 60th anniversary 
of their marriage on July 24--Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Fisher.
  I'd like to share their story with you in honor of this special 
occasion:

                Betty Kahn Elopes With Harold L. Fisher

       In 1934, Harold L. Fisher was a handsome young promising 
     lawyer with looks reminiscent of Douglas Fairbanks. Betty 
     Kahn was a beautiful young woman with auburn hair, sparkling 
     green eyes and an engaging smile. Betty worked as an 
     Assistant Buyer for Bamberger's department store. She bought 
     goods for the untrimmed millinery department. This department 
     had an off-season in the late fall. During that time 
     artificial cemetery wreaths were put on sale. Fall delivery 
     dates had to be arranged in the summer. Betty told Harold 
     that she was going to be buying wreaths in Philadelphia in 
     July. Harold told her he would meet her and they would get 
     married.
       On July 24, 1934, Harold met Betty in Philadelphia. They 
     went to Orphan's Court to obtain their marriage license. Then 
     they located a Magistrate in a storefront. In this romantic 
     setting, with the handyman who, momentarily, stopped mopping 
     the floor, and a local newspaperman as their witnesses, Betty 
     and Harold were married.
       At the conclusion of the ceremony they affectionately shook 
     hands. They then went to the railroad station to have a 
     ``nuptial'' lunch before Harold returned to New York. Betty 
     completed her buying trip and returned to her parents' home 
     in New Jersey. A month or so later, Betty and Harold rented a 
     furnished apartment in Brooklyn and began married life.
       The early years were difficult financially, but the plucky 
     couple never despaired. They began a family. Leonard was the 
     first born in 1936. He grew up to be a physicist and 
     academician in California, where he lives with his wife 
     Yvonne. Leonard was followed three years later by the birth 
     of the twins, Alice and Stephanie.
       Alice, is now an attorney and traffic court judge. She 
     lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Lowell Rubin and is the 
     mother of David and Emily.
       Stephanie, is a North Carolina business owner and wife of 
     Joseph Harrison. She is mother to her adopted children Neil, 
     Edward, Jay and Gary Cooper.
       The twins were followed nineteen months later by the birth 
     of Andrew, now an attorney. He lives in Staten Island with 
     his wife, Barbara and is the father of Elana, Jonathan and 
     Matthew.
       Kenneth, also an attorney and member of the New York City 
     Council, was the bonus baby born in 1953, eleven years after 
     Andrew. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Kirsten and their 
     children, Jacob and Penny.
       With the birth of four children in five years, Betty was 
     needed at home full time. Her organizational skills, cooking 
     and baking ability and good humor were essential for the 
     family's growth and stability. She soon earned the 
     affectionate nickname of ``The Boss''!
       The Fisher household was known to the local political 
     community as the place to go for freshly baked apple pie, a 
     decent cup of coffee, Harold's sound advice, and a gaggle 
     of children always underfoot!
       Harold's career began to prosper as his family grew. Always 
     devoted to his law career, he was honored by the legal 
     community when he was elected President of the Brooklyn Bar 
     Association. This was a second--Betty had been a President 
     first, when she headed the P.S. 156 PTA for several years.
       Active in politics, Harold was ``the'' expert on election 
     law. He was Chairman of the Kings County Democratic 
     Organization Law Committee for many years. Still politically 
     active, and holding the record for presiding over more Kings 
     County Judicial Nominating Conventions than anyone else in 
     history, Harold will chair the September, 1994 meeting.
       Harold was Counsel to the NYS Assembly Speaker in 1966, 
     where he worked closely with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who 
     later appointed him to the board of the Metropolitan 
     Transportation Authority. Governor Hugh L. Carey named Harold 
     Chairman of the MTA in 1977.
       President Jimmy Carter paid Harold a singular honor when he 
     requested that Harold be part of a United States mission to 
     Egypt and Israel to meet with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin.
       Despite Harold's involvement in international and local 
     events, the family was not neglected. During the children's 
     younger years, Betty would take the kids to visit Daddy, who 
     was counting petitions or ballots at a variety of places. 
     Harold also made sure that the children had a sample voting 
     machine as a toy! When the children were old enough, they 
     became involved in the political processes. Politics became a 
     family enterprise, as normal to the Fishers as other family's 
     visits to the zoo!
       Betty and Harold are known throughout the political world 
     as a devoted couple with strong family ties. Where Harold 
     went, Betty was never far away. She enjoyed the hurly-burly 
     world of politics as much as Harold did. Both Betty and 
     Harold have been Presidential Electors and delegates to many 
     national and state political conventions.
       Life in the Fisher household was never dull. Visitors might 
     be Governors or wanna-be Governors, Congress members, Judges 
     and other officials and the people who helped get these folks 
     elected. The circle of friends widened considerably as Betty 
     and Harold began to travel extensively. Friends from all over 
     the world were brought into the warmth and laughter of the 
     Fisher family.
       Family and friends wish Betty and Harold L. Fisher a happy 
     60th anniversary of their marriage.
  


                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, July 19, 1994, may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JULY 20
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting, to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
       Governmental Affairs
       Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the Federal role in child 
           support enforcement.
                                                            SD-342
     10:00 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to review the Federal Reserve's semi-
           annual monetary policy report.
                                                            SD-538
     2:00 p.m.
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to review the Administration's 
           Floodplain Management Task Force report on the 1993 
           Midwest floods, and to examine the current flood 
           situation in Georgia.
                                                            SD-406

                                JULY 21
     9:30 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Toxic Substances, Research and Development Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 1545, to authorize funds for 
           fiscal years 1994 through 1996 for environmental 
           research, development, and demonstration.
                                                            SD-406
     10:00 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings on issues relating to international 
           fisheries.
                                                            SR-253
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings on the nominations of Jose A. Cabranes, 
           of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
           the Second Circuit, Blanche M. Manning, to be United 
           States District Judge for the Northern District of 
           Illinois, and Mark W. Bennett, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa.
                                                            SD-226
       Labor and Human Resources
         To hold hearings on the nominations of Gilbert F. 
           Casellas, of Pennsylvania, Paul M. Igasaki, of 
           California, and Paul Steven Miller, of California, each 
           to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity 
           Commission.
                                                            SD-430
     10:30 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to review the Department of the 
           Treasury's report to Congress on international economic 
           and exchange rate policy.
                                                            SD-538

                                JULY 22
     9:00 a.m.
       Joint Economic
         To hold open and closed hearings to examine the economic 
           conditions in China.
                                                            SD-628
     9:30 a.m.
       Labor and Human Resources
       Disability Policy Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 2140, to permit an individual to 
           be treated by a health care practitioner with any 
           method of medical treatment such individual requests.
                                                            SD-192
     10:00 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings on the nominations of Robert A. Pastor, 
           of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, 
           and Curtis Warren Kamman, of the District of Columbia, 
           to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia.
                                                            SD-419
       Labor and Human Resources
         To hold hearings to examine health insurance coverage for 
           American and foreign employees of multinational 
           corporations.
                                                            SD-430

                                JULY 25
     2:00 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings on the nominations of Dorothy Myers 
           Sampas, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Islamic 
           Republic of Mauritania, E. Michael Southwick, of 
           California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, 
           Carl Burton Stokes, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the 
           Republic of Seychelles, and Brady Anderson, of 
           Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of 
           Tanzania.
                                                            SD-419
       Indian Affairs
         To resume hearings on S. 2230, to revise the Indian 
           Gaming Regulatory Act.
                                                            SD-106

                                JULY 26
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings on the nomination of Elizabeth Anne 
           Moler, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal 
           Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
                                                            SD-366
     2:30 p.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
       Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General 
           Legislation Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on the Administration's proposed 
           legislation relating to meat and poultry inspection.
                                                            SR-332

                                JULY 27
     2:00 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 2253, to modify the Mountain Park 
           Project in Oklahoma, S. 2262, to amend the Elwha River 
           Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act, and S. 2266, 
           to amend the Recreation Management Act of 1992.
                                                            SD-366

                                JULY 28
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands, National Parks and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 2121, to promote entrepreneurial 
           management of the National Park Service.
                                                            SD-366
       Rules and Administration
         To hold hearings on S. Res. 230, to designate and assign 
           two permanent Senate offices to each State.
                                                            SR-301
     2:30 p.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
       Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General 
           Legislation Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 985, S. 1478, and S. 2050, bills 
           to improve existing legislative authority regulating 
           the use of pesticides and to insure public health and 
           environmental benefits.
                                                            SR-332

                                AUGUST 1
     2:00 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting, to mark up S. 2269, to protect the 
           Native American cultures and to guarantee the free 
           exercise of religion by Native Americans, S. 2075, to 
           authorize funds for and to strengthen programs of the 
           Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention 
           Act, and S. 2036, to specify the terms of contracts 
           entered into by the United States and Indian tribal 
           organizations under the Indian Self-Determination and 
           Education Assistance Act.
                                                            SR-485

                                AUGUST 4
     2:00 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold joint hearings with the Committee on Indian 
           Affairs on provisions of S. 2259, to provide for the 
           settlement of the claims of the Confederated Tribes of 
           the Colville Reservation concerning their contribution 
           to the production of the hydropower by the Grand Coulee 
           Dam.
                                                            SD-366
       Indian Affairs
         To hold joint hearings with the Committee on Energy and 
           Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Water and Power on 
           provisions of S. 2259, to provide for the settlement of 
           the claims of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville 
           Reservation concerning their contribution to the 
           production of the hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.
                                                            SD-366

                               AUGUST 12
     2:00 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings on the nomination of Harold A. Monteau, 
           of Montana, to be Chairman of the National Indian 
           Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior.
                                                            SD-628

                             POSTPONEMENTS

                                JULY 19
     2:30 p.m.
       Labor and Human Resources
         To hold hearings on S. 1702, to amend the Federal Food, 
           Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure that human tissue 
           intended for transplantation is safe and effective.
                                                            SD-430

                                JULY 20
     10:00 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the humanitarian crisis in 
           the Horn of Africa.
                                                            SD-419

                                JULY 22
     9:30 a.m.
       Labor and Human Resources
       Disability Policy Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 2140, to permit an individual to 
           be treated by a health care practitioner with any 
           method of medical treatment such individual requests.
                                                            SD-430