[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
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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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