[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H2325-H2327]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          REMOVAL OF NAME OF MEMBER AS COSPONSOR OF H.R. 2745

  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my name be 
removed as a cosponsor of H.R. 2745.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from New Mexico?
  There was no objection.

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                    HEALTH CENTERS CONSOLIDATION ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of May 
12, 1995, the gentleman from New Mexico [Mr. Richardson] is recognized 
during morning business for 5 minutes.


                 tribute to representative jim bunning

  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I am going to talk about a bill I have 
introduced to reauthorize community health centers. Before I do that, 
there are three brief items I wanted to make my colleague aware of.
  I would also like to join in congratulating our colleague from 
Kentucky, Jim Bunning, recently elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 
It is about time. Jim Bunning, an outspoken politician. When he was a 
baseball player, he was outspoken, too. He told it like it is. The 
sports writers kept him off the Hall of Fame for years. They finally 
rectified that. About time. A great pitcher. For 11 years, he never 
missed a start.
  Now, our hope, especially the democratic baseball team, is that Jim 
Bunning will now see fit to pitch in the annual game. Jim did so 3 
years ago. I am proud to announce that the great Jim Bunning has 
lost his fast ball. Of course, he is in his fifties or sixties. We hope 
Jim is encouraged to play ball again. But congratulations to the great 
Jim Bunning.

  Mr. Speaker, I include for the Record the following statistics:

                   14--Bunning, James Paul (Jim) RHP

       Born--Covington, Ky., 10/23/31 . . . Home--Southgate, Ky. . 
     . . B--R, T-R, . . . 6-3, 200 . . . Married Mary Theis; 9 
     children; Barbara, twins Jimmy and Joan, Cathy, Bill, 
     Bridget, Mark, and twins Dave and Amy . . . 1949 St. Xavier 
     School grad and 1953 Xavier U. grad with B.S. Degree in 
     economics . . . Traded by Detroit to Phillies 12/5/63 with 
     Gus Triandos for Don Demeter and Jack Hamilton . . . Traded 
     to Pirates 12/16/67 for Woodie Fryman, Hal Clem, Don Money, 
     and Bill Laxton . . . Traded to Dodgers 8/15/69 for infielder 
     Chuck Coggins, outfielder Ron Mitchell and cash . . . 
     Released by Dodgers and signed by Phillies 10/28/69, after 
     unclaimed in major league waivers.

                                                 ALL-STAR GAMES                                                 
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                                                                      W-L    1P   H    R    ER   BB   SO    ERA 
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1957 American......................................................    1-0    3    0    0    0    0    1    0.00
1959 American (1st ga.)............................................    0-0    1    3    2    2    0    1   18.00
1959 American (2nd ga.)............................................    0-0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0.00
1961 American (1st ga.)............................................    0-0    2    0    0    0    0    2    0.00
1961 American (2nd ga.)............................................    0-0    3    0    0    0    0    1    0.00
1962 American (1st ga.)............................................    0-0    3    1    0    0    0    2    0.00
1963 American......................................................    0-1    2    0    1    0    1    0    0.00
1964 National......................................................    0-0    2    2    0    0    0    4    0.00
1966 National......................................................    0-0    2    1    0    0    0    2    0.00
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
      Total........................................................    1-1   18    7    3    2    2   13    1.00
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                                                                                                                       Relief         BATTING           
                                                                                                                      Pitching   -----------------      
            Year and club              W    L    PCT    ERA     G     GS   CG     IP       H      BB     SO   ShO ---------------                    BA 
                                                                                                                    W    L    SV    AB    H    HR       
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1955 DET A..........................    3    5   .375   6.35     15    8    0      51       59     32     37    0    2    0    1     15    3    0   .200
1956................................    5    1   .833   3.71     15    3    0      53.1     55     28     34    0    4    0    1     18    6    0   .333
1957................................   20    8   .714   2.69     45   30   14     267.1    214     72    182    1    2    1    1     94   20    1   .213
1958................................   14   12   .538   3.52     35   34   10     219.2    188     79    177    3    0    0    0     75   14    0   .187
1959................................   17   13   .567   3.89     40   35   14     249.2    220     75    201    1    0    1    1     89   17    1   .191
1960................................   11   14   .440   2.79     36   34   10     252      217     64    201    3    0    0    0     81   13    0   .160
1961................................   17   11   .607   3.19     38   37   12     268      232     71    194    4    0    0    1    100   13    0   .130
1962................................   19   10   .655   3.59     41   35   12     258      262     74    184    2    0    0    6     95   23    1   .242
1963................................   12   13   .480   3.88     39   35    6     248.1    245     69    196    2    0    0    1     84   13    0   .155
1964 PHI N..........................   19    8   .704   2.63     41   39   13     284.1    248     46    219    5    0    0    2     99   12    0   .121
1965................................   19    9   .679   2.60     39   39   15     291      253     62    268    7    0    0    0    103   22    1   .214
1966................................   19   14   .576   2.41     43   41   16     314      260     55    252    5    1    0    1    106   19    0   .179
1967................................   17   15   .531   2.29     40   40   16     302.1    241     73    253    6    0    0    0    104   17    2   .163
1968 PIT N..........................    4   14   .222   3.88     27   26    3     160      168     48     95    1    0    0    0     51    5    0   .098
1969 2 teams--totals for PIT N (25G                                                                                                                     
 10-9) and LA N (9G 3-1)............   13   10   .565   3.69     34   34    5     212.1    212     59    157    0    0    0    0     65    4    0   .062
1970 PHI N..........................   10   15   .400   4.11     34   33    4     219      233     56    147    0    0    0    0     71    9    0   .127
1971................................    5   12   .294   5.48     29   16    1     110      126     37     58    0    0    2    1     25    3    1   .120
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17 yrs..............................  224  184   .549   3.27    591  519  151    3760.1   3433   1000   2855   40    9    4   16   1275  213    7   .167
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                            jim dandy dates

       April 19, 1955--Baltimore Orioles' catcher Hal Smith 
     becomes second-inning strikeout victim, the very first in 
     Jim's glorious career.
       1957-67--In eleven straight seasons Jim did not miss a 
     start. Starting 399 games and completing 134--2953 innings 
     pitched--184 W 127 L.
       July 20, 1958--Jim becomes third pitcher in Detroit Tigers 
     history to pitch a no-hitter, 3-0, at Boston's Fenway Park in 
     the first game of a doubleheader. Only two walks and a hit 
     batter keep him from a perfect game.
       June 21, 1964--The father of seven children then, Jim 
     pitches the major league's first regular season perfect game 
     in 42 years, 6-0, against New York Mets on Father's Day at 
     Shea Stadium, also the first game of a Sunday doubleheader. 
     Wife, Mary and oldest daughter Barbara, were in attendance.
       April 14, 1968--Side-armer strikes out Claude Osteen to 
     become only second pitcher in baseball history to reach 1,000 
     strikeouts in both leagues. Cy Young was the first.
       August 11, 1970--Move over again, Cy Young. Jim stops 
     Houston Astros, 6-5, at Houston's Astrodome for his 100th 
     National League victory, tying Young for 100 wins in both 
     leagues.
       April 10, 1971--Jim goes into record book as winning 
     pitcher in first game ever at Veterans Stadium as he beats 
     Montreal Expos, 4-1, before 55,352 fans.
       May 31, 1971--At San Diego, Clarence Gaston becomes 
     strikeout victim 2,820, moving Jim ahead of Young into second 
     place on the all time strikeout list behind Walter Johnson 
     with 3,508.


                    handling the taiwan-china crisis

  Mr. Speaker, I also hope that today we are very cautious in this 
Taiwan-China resolution. I think the last thing we want to do is send a 
signal to China and Taiwan that the United States has a firm, no-holds-
barred policy toward averting conflict. I think here is a classic case 
where ambiguity and flexibility is our best policy tool as we deal with 
China and as we deal with Taiwan in these very critical times.
  What we do not want to do is give the President and the Secretary of 
Defense less flexibility in the way they are responding to this crisis. 
We should not be having this bill on the floor. We should support the 
Taiwan Relations Act, the Shanghai communique which President Nixon and 
Henry Kissinger very artfully put together.
  Mr. Speaker, I believe that we have to be very careful and the signal 
we send. Of course we support Taiwan. of course we believe that their 
freedom is important. But the last thing we need is 435 Secretaries of 
State telling the President what he or she should do.
  Mr. Speaker, on community health centers, I would urge my colleagues 
to join me in helping more than 9 million people in 2,400 communities 
across this country to continue to have a cost-effective source of 
quality primary health care.
  Last week I introduced H.R. 3081, the Health Centers Consolidation 
Act, a bill already introduced in the other body by Senator Kassebaum. 
The Kassebaum-Richardson bill consolidates, streamlines, and 
reauthorizes four health centers: Migrant health centers, community 
health centers, health care centers for the homeless, and health 
centers for residents of public housing. It basically reauthorizes 
these critically important community health centers that are right now 
hanging on the vine.
  This consolidation is going to reduce paperwork and administrative 
costs, while still maintaining community-based systems of health care 
to address the needs of medically underserved communities in vulnerable 
populations.
  Federal health center programs have been highly successful in 
treating some of the most needy populations still at risk today. 
Although this body and the President are committed to making health 
insurance more accessible through the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, we must 
still face the fact that millions of Americans cannot afford health 
care insurance or basic health care. In fact, an estimated 43 million 
Americans will be without health care coverage this year.
  Community health centers provide service to those needy Americans who 
have no other source of health care; 21.2 million people live in rural 
areas that lack access to any primary health care provider. Private 
practice in these underserved areas is not economical because of low 
incomes and low population density.

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  In my State of New Mexico, Federal health centers serve 156,000 
patients each year. My State has 56 clinics in 27 of the State's 33 
counties. Many of the States in this country that are rural probably 
have a similar percentage.
  In most areas these clinics are the sole providers of health care in 
the county. These clinics are usually also the only providers with a 
sliding fee scale, which means they provide both geographic and 
economic access to health care for many uninsured or geographically 
isolated New Mexicans.
  Although they serve much smaller populations, community health 
centers for migrant populations, the homeless and public housing 
residents, provide necessary services to many medically underserved 
populations.
  Last year a network of 122 migrant health centers across the country 
provided basic health care services to 600,000 migrant and seasonal 
farm workers. Mr. Speaker, this a good bill. It should be reauthorized. 
I invite cosponsors to the Kassebaum-Richardson bill.

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