Congressional Record, Volume 142 Issue 82 (Thursday, June 6, 1996)

[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 82 (Thursday, June 6, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H5990-H5996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

TRIBUTE TO A GREAT IRISH-AMERICAN, AND THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY OF AIDS

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Stearns). Under the Speaker's announced
policy of May 12, 1995, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is
recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I am actually going to discuss two things:
one, a short tribute to a good friend of mine, a political
acquaintance who has developed into a good friend because of his good
heart and what he and his whole large family has tried to do about the
agony in Northern Ireland. His name is Thomas Tracy.
I put this little tribute to him in the Extensions of Remarks a month
ago, but for some reason I felt that it was important enough for me to
rise today and say it to the whole Nation through the wonders of C-
SPAN, that million-plus audience of ours, and through you, Mr. Speaker,
to the world.
And then I want to discuss the terrible tragedy of AIDS and how it is
growing exponentially and almost unnoticed in our society. First to Mr.
Thomas Tracy.

TRIBUTE TO THOMAS TRACY: DISTINGUISHED IRISH-AMERICAN LEADER

I just want to recognize, Mr. Speaker, Tom's honorable achievements
for the Irish-American community. He gives to umpteen charities as most
good businessmen do. But Tom recently was recognized for his service.
He received the 1996 Distinguished Leadership Award by the American
Ireland Fund in the beautiful city of St. Francis by the Bay and I was
just heartbroken that our unrelenting pace around here, this all-
important budget fight that we are engaged in, kept me from flying up
with my Sally and some of our older children up there to San Francisco
to add our congratulations to Tom's tribute.
Here is what this award acknowledges, Mr. Speaker. That an American
of Irish heritage, to quote partly from the award, whose lifetime
accomplishments personify the spirit of the Irish immigrants who
contributed to making our Nation the greatest in the history of
mankind.

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If you take the troubled North and the Republic of Ireland and
combine them, you are still not going to get to 5 million people. Far
short of it. But in the United States of America, right through a
primary grandparent, at least 25 percent of blood, is over 45 million
Americans. On St. Patrick's Day, we know it reaches all 265 million.
But some people say that that is a low figure, that it is realistically
closer to 60 million out of the 260-plus million Americans.

I am especially proud of Tom because I am one of these rare Irishmen
whose all 4 grandparents, came directly from Ireland, it is just
becoming more rare, and I do not get too puffed up about it because I
remember a cute story that John F. Kennedy looked at his own beautiful
children, young John and his beautiful older sister Caroline and he
said, ``It's too bad that they're not 100 percent Irish like me.''
And Jackie is supposed to have said to him, ``Oh, you mean they're
mixed breed'' or something? And he never ever said that again.
My own five are half Danish and since my wife says she is Heinz 57,
there is an extended Dornan family with, and I do not think I told you
this, an 11th grandchild is on the way--my colleague from Florida did
not know that--that there is none in that great gang of 11, and they
all know about their Irish heritage, that is Irish on both sides. My
mother's name was Mickey McFadden and her mother was Katie McDonough
and my dad's mom was Mary Highland. It goes back to O'Donnells and just
keeps on going.
So as a 100-percent Irishman, and I say that humbly, I am especially
proud of Tom. I value my ancestry, because it has given me a feeling of
being connected to a long history of people in love with life. The
French have coined this beautiful phrase, Mr. Speaker, joie de vivre,
the joy of life, and I have seen it in France from north to south, east
to west but never have I seen it in any greater depth than in Ireland
itself.
The Irish have suffered mightily through history. That is why their
hearts have gone out to African Americans. It was probably one of the
main motivating factors in my registering voters in a dangerous period
of our country in the beautiful State of Mississippi and marching as I
did with Martin Luther King on August 28, 1963 proudly in my Air Force
captain's uniform, was all I had to offer.

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But I identified as an Irishman with an 800-year turbulent history
with the multicentury history of the suffering of those of African
heritage in this Nation.
The essence of life is to persevere and conquer the challenges that
God presents to us in life. An Irish Americans, like Thomas Tracy of
southern California, they have excelled at that task. Tom has been
associated with about 28 different issue-related organizations,
including many devoted to achieving peace in Northern Ireland. Over the
last 5 years Tom has spent much time and just so much generosity with
his own financial resources trying to work toward that peace. Just so
many trips to Northern Ireland and to Dublin that I lost track of them.
Over just the last 5 years he has just donated himself with great
energy toward that goal of peace in that troubled beautiful little
Emerald Isle.
I share one of Mr. Tracy's other passions, our love for our Christian
faith, our Catholic faith. We have both been dedicated to strengthening
and protecting the church, and in particular our own diocese. Mr. Tracy
has been deeply involved in the diocese of Orange, CA, where he served
at key committees, numerous Catholic organizations to help people of
every level in society, and he has been the leader in the effort to
gain sainthood for Father Junipero Serra, who has already reached the
first plateau of being referred to as Blessed Father Serra. His statue
is one of the two statues representing the State of California in this
beautiful rotunda area, the other being the great freedom fighting
Reverend King, Protestant Minister, during the period in California
leading up to the Civil War.
I thank Tom Tracy for his many contributions. He honors all of us who
are Irish Americans for his dedication, his good will, and his brave
heart.
Now, if I was going to put a title on that, I would ask our recorders
to make it ``Tribute to a Great Irish American, Thomas Tracy.''
Then I would draw a line through the Congressional Record and start
on a not so happy note.
Mr. Speaker, do you remember the legionnaires disease? Remember the
American Legion was having a convention in the City of Brotherly Love,
Philadelphia, and some got sick at the convention, and a few who were
older went into respiratory failure, could not be saved, some died
after they got home, and it began to hit the evening news coast to
coast, night after night after night? It was a terrible tragedy.

You say legionnaires disease and doctors still come to attention and
think about that frightening period. Part of it was frightening because
it involved infectious spores getting into the air-conditioning system,
and I would not even mention the hotel if I thought of it, because they
probably had to rename it and refurbish the hotel. But here is my
point. The death toll, the total death toll, Mr. Speaker, was 34 human
beings. Thirty-four souls on their way to god earlier than their
families had planned. Thirty-four.
I just got back from the Center for Disease Control, doing research
for a point of personal privilege to answer our colleague, Steve
Gunderson of Wisconsin, on the charges, the horrible charges that he
made against me on the House floor on May 14, and I will do it in the
middle of the day. I am sorry to interrupt legislative business, but on
Wednesday or Thursday of next week I will do it. If Thursday is a get-
away Thursday, I will ask, demand, as is my right, I will ask the
leadership, to coordinate with the leadership, because I do not have to
ask their permission to do it, it is a right, a wonderful treasured
right in this House, I will ask for the time on Tuesday or Wednesday.
But I have been doing research on AIDS, along with researching the
circumstances surrounding that wild abuse of Federal buildings, so-
called Jubilee Party that took place on Thomas Jefferson's birthday in
April, April 13, and here is what my current research on AIDS is
causing me to believe: That a homosexual lobby, does not want us to
discuss the enormity of this death toll. They do not want anybody,
frankly, to discuss this greater health problem in the history of our
Nation unless they are the ones doing the discussing. They want to
define all the parameters of the discussion so as never to put a tough
edge on it, that this is basically a medical nightmare driven by
behavior and conduct.
Keeping in mind that 34 death toll figure of legionnaires disease,
and I do not have the time to go back to 1981, which by the way was Mr.
Gunderson's first year, Ronald Reagan's first year, it has been an
amazing 16 years, but the cumulative figure as of the end of this month
for deaths in this country is 360,000.
Now, anybody listening on C-SPAN, if they want to go get a pencil, I
would tell them, Mr. Speaker, to go do it. But if they are too lazy to
get up out of the chair and get a pad and pencil, this one is easy.
Just think of a circle; 360 degrees. Three hundred sixty. That is how
many have died, 360,000.
And it is probably a little low because in 1981 and 1982 and 1983 and
1984, the then Surgeon General, Dr. Everett Koop, told me that they
were not counting many AIDS deaths that out of understandable and
totally understandable empathy for families, rather than say that their
young man or any family member had died of a fatal venereal disease,
AIDS, they would say only on the death report the proximate cause; lung
failure, dementia, Kaposi's sarcoma. They would just write down
deceased of cancer.
And then all doctors, all doctors worthy of the name, decided that it
did no good to fight this major public health problem, to hide the true
cause, the breakdown of the immune system that brought about the
pulmonary problems, the heart problems, the stroke, the cancer, the
dementia, and we started keeping accurate figures by the middle of the
1980's. So according to Dr. Koop, about 20,000, maybe double that, were
lost. I will say 20. Add it to the 320,000 dead as of New Year's Eve
last year, 1995, that would be 340. And then this year, I am low, I am
saying 20,000 dead by the end of this month, and that brings us to 360,
when the truth is I am probably 5 or 10,000 low, but 360,000.

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A third of a million is a good figure to try to memorize so you can
discuss this intelligently with people. So, 34 legionnaires disease,
360,000 for AIDS.
Now, here are the figures just for the last 3 years. Dead in 1993,
now there are lots, thousands of drug users in here, thousands of
people that do both homosexual activity and drug use, and hemophiliacs
are in here, a very small figure, an infinitesimal cause of infection
unknown, the overwhelming figure, somewhere always between 65 and 75
percent is homosexual activity, basically sodomy of some kind.
1993: 42,992. Death toll per week, I just divided it by 52 a minute
ago, 827 per week. What a horrible death toll. Not 34 in the entire
course of legionnaires disease, but 827 a week.
1994: 46,050. That is 886 a week. And last year, the year when I
enjoyed myself so much traveling around this country debating with good
men like Senator Bob Dole reaching for that secular holy grail of the
Presidency, 1995, wonderful year for me and my family, a tough year,
but while that year, those 12 months were slipping by, 48,979 people
died of AIDS.
And children in here. It is horrendous. We have lost 4,000 children
to AIDS over the years. Now, the homosexual lobby hates it when you
call the children innocent victims because they all want to say they
are innocent victims. But the children not one of them got it from
behavior they got it from childbirth or from hemophilia or from the bad
blood transfusion or some blood byproduct. Some 4,000 innocent little
children over the course of this nightmare.
Now, I just now added up those 3 years. That is 138,021 out of the
last 15 years. Out of the 360,000, in round numbers, almost half just
in the last 3 years.
What is the half year figure going to be at the end of this month? I
said 20. Well, if I look at 1995, it is going to be closer to 25,000.
Where are we going?
I do not know if I will have time in my point of personal privilege
to put these figures into the Record, so I am going to do it now for
the wars of our Nation to give a balance of how large that figure of
360,000 dead people are.

Here are the figures, and then I will be able to refer to them in my
point of personal privilege. I would hope that every youngster who has
ever studied American history would memorize the Revolutionary War as I
have and that will teach them something about their Congress.
Take the number of this House, 435 men and women, and add 4,000. That
is how many died under George Washington, the Father of our Country, in
the Revolutionary War; 4,435. Well, at the rate people are dying of
AIDS, in 4.5 weeks, 5 weeks, we averaged a whole 6.5 years, from
Concord Bridge April 19 of 1975, hardly a man is now alive, all the way
up to Yorktown, October 19, a precise 6.5 years, 4,435. But not in 6.5
years, in less than 5 or 6 weeks we equaling that now in AIDS deaths.
I will go more quickly here but I hope somebody is writing it down.
It took me a lot of time to research the this. The war of 1812: 22,060.
I have that memorized since I was a little kid. I do not know why. And
the Mexican War, 1,733--1,733 for manifest destiny, reaching out toward
the heights of Chapultepec in Mexico.
The Civil War, the War Between the States, or for my southern friends
here the war of northern aggression. I do not want to politicize this.
They are all Americans, we know that. We do not know how many young
southern lads died from other causes, like disease or Northern prison
camps. We have a Northern figure on that, so that is a mystery forever,
but in the North 224,097 died of the diseases associated with men
coming together who had never lived in an urban environment and
catching diseases that they had no immune system operating for, the
thousands that died at Andersonville, 10,000 there alone, it is
224,097.
But set aside those extra deaths. In the Mexican War 11,500 died
outside of battle combat. I want to talk battle deaths. Billy Yank, the
blue of the North. Battle deaths. Gettysburg, Antietam, Stone Mountain,
Murfreesboro, TN, all of it, Shiloh, 140,414. Johnny Reb fought Billy
Yank with a great ferocity, because the death toll in battle is much
lower. Under Robert E. Lee and the rest of the southern generals it is
only 74,524.
Now, you do not have to add those together, people that are taking
this down, I will do it for you: 214,938. Fair to round that off at
215,000. There it is, Mr. Speaker, 215,000 combat deaths. That is only
adding 62--215,000 combat deaths.
Let me come back to my AIDS figure: 360,000. It is 145,000 more than
we lost in the Civil War, and nobody talks about it here, because the
homosexual lobby does not want us to talk about these horrible figures.

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They just want money. I will give them more than they are asking for.
Because it is a tragedy beyond cancer, heart disease, or stroke or the
things that begin to bedevil us in our 60's and 70's and 80's. These
are young people, mostly males, taken out in the prime of life when
they should be returning God's creative gift of life and contributing
most to this society, to this society.
The Spanish-American War, this is getting down toward Legionnaire's
disease size, not quite, 385,000--excuse me, 385--385 people, less than
400 died in combat in the Spanish-American War, including a few people
under Teddy Roosevelt, running up San Juan Hill because the Rough
Riders horses had not arrived at Cuba in time. On Kettle Hill, now
called the charge up San Juan Hill, just a few dozen men, taking Manila
Bay in the Phillipine Islands, not a single man lost. Dewey said,
``Fire when ready, Gridley,'' and killed hundreds of Spanish on their
ships, not a single American sailor lost. Disease in that war, even
that is not too horrible, given the change of climate for a lot of
American soldiers, 2,061. But back to the combat deaths, 385.
Now we get into some serious killing in the name of making the world
safe for democracy, my father's war, where he was on a train that was
derailed by German fire and rolled down a hill with a hot stove that
they had purloined from a little French railroad station, rolling
around with all the hot coals burning men and the stove itself killing
men. My dad got up, stood up, thought every bone in his body was
broken, covered in blood and realized it was the blood of other men. My
dad was poison gassed twice, shrapnel, small wound in his face. And in
that war, 53,513. It was ferocious combat, mostly in the last 6 months,
after we declared war, April 6, 1917. There was a long, slow period in
the beginning there, and Black Jack Pershing refused to have French
officers over our men so it took us a long time, till basically the
spring. And then serious fighting in the summer of 1918, all over at
the 11th hour, the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Combat deaths,
most of them loaded toward the end, 53,513, very close, by the way, to
Vietnam, although not over 10 years, all in six months, 53,513, AIDS
360,000 plus.
Now let us go to World War II. I am sure that anybody who even has a
clue of how many people were killed in battle from the Aleutian Islands
to the North African deserts, under the sea, on the sea and every
battle from Santa Cruz to Guadalcanal, all the way up to Okinawa and
the invasions before that from Tarawa to Iwo Jima and then of the
fighting cross Europe, General MacArthur's island hopping campaign,
death from Bataan and Corregidor right down to the prisoners who died
after the cessation of hostilities in mid-August of 1945. What was the
combat death toll of World War II? It was 292,131. So AIDS has already
killed 68, 70, 75,000 more than all the battle deaths on every
continent of the world, even bombing in Australia in 1942, Japanese
bombing. It has now eclipsed World War II.
Korea, 3 years of fighting, in 3 years and one month, compared to
Vietnam's almost 10 years, 33,651 in Korea, one-tenth of the death toll
of AIDS.
In Vietnam, a figure that changes tragically every quarter, every
half a year by the finding of some remains or the solving of some
mystery, Vietnam, hard figure to memorize because I had memorized it
recently as 47,366 because that was the great fighter wing at Da Nang,
the gunfighters, I see 3 more is added, 47,369. Compare that 10-year
struggle that tore our Nation apart. There is another almost 11,000
there of people who died in plane crashes, all the poor flying safety
situations that are always involved with a combat area, but Vietnam has
torn this country apart. And given the course of the

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Clinton administration, it is still tearing our country apart. We are
still lying through the bureaucracy to the American MIA wives who come
to town with the aging mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters who
are now double the age of their siblings that are still missing in
action with the built-in bias, pro-Hanoi bias of this administration
because of its leadership at the top. We are still suffering Vietnam.
But the death toll, including the missing in action, 47,369. All the
names on the wall, including those 11,000 automobile and plane crash
accidents during the course of that decade, it is 58,000 names on the
wall, 58,000, add 302,000 and you have got the AIDS deaths.
What are we doing about this AIDS death toll? We have thrown $35
billion into research, Mr. Speaker. It has already cost our Nation $107
billion. Because I am going to deliberately restrain my innate passion
during my point of personal privilege in the middle of next week so
that people focus on my words and not on my delivery style or anything,
I will not constrain my passion tonight. Let me tell you what is
causing this unbelievable health nightmare, Mr. Speaker.
Homosexual activists refuse to apologize for or give up the wild,
promiscuous lifestyle that is the main driving, evil engine of this
public health catastrophe of 360,000 dead people. Here is what I
learned in one of my many trips around the world to educate myself on
this issue.
I have studied this trip in Bangkok, this nightmare trip of AIDS
contamination worldwide, AIDS infection. I have asked about it in Arab
countries where the figure is very low and they are loath to speak
about it. I have asked about it in Beijing, where they said it,
contemptuously, that is was a Western decadence problem, and they never
would have a problem in China, and, oh, do they have a problem building
now. Fascinating front page section story in the Washington Post, New
York Times, I think, just a few weeks ago about how China is a
nightmare ready to explode, way beyond our third of a million death
toll.
Here is what I learned last week up at NIH. I have been up there
several times. I have been to the Centers for Disease Control in
Atlanta. I do not know that Mr. Gunderson has ever been up to Bethesda.
I know he has not been to the World Health Organization in Geneva. I
took my wife there. She was stunned when they told her 55, 60, 70
million worldwide would die before--no, 100 million or more would die
before the thing even peaked.
My wife turned to me and said, how many died in World War II? I said
55 million. She turns back to Dr. James Chin and Dr. Jonathan Mann and
said, you are wiping out 100 million and that is almost double World
War II? I have researched this all over the world.
My last trip last week up to NIH tells me this? I said to a man I
greatly admire, Dr. Tony Fauci, I cannot, God could not design a better
research doctor and dedicated person to fight this problem. He was at
the table in the cafeteria at NIH in Bethesda when he and Dr. Bob Gallo
looked at one another and decided they had a fatal virus among
homosexual males in LA and New York. They called it GRID, gay related
immunodeficiency. I do not know why they would use that adjective
``gay.'' There is nothing happy about 360,000 people dead. There is no
gaiety here, no cheerfulness, mirthfulness. It is the saddest thing I
have ever encountered healthwise or anybody has encountered in the
history of our Nation.

Tony Fauci, as you may recall, Mr. Speaker, came up during the
debates of 1988 between George Bush and Gov. Michael Dukakis, Vice
President Bush. And Bush was lucky enough to go second.
I was sitting next to the future Secretary of Commerce Bob Mosbacher
and his wife Georgette and the--who was the narrator then? Was it
Bernie Shaw? Was it a panel? Was it Tom Brokaw? I think it was Tom
Brokaw. He asked Governor Dukakis, who are your heroes? There was this
long, painful pause. I remember I turned to Bob Mosbacher and I said,
``He is thinking right now, other than myself, Michael Dukakis.'' That
is how long the pause was.
Finally he said, ``Dr. Jonas Salk.'' That was a quarter of a century
ago, over polio. I thought, come on, Mr. Vice President, respond with
Tony Fauci. It was like mental telepathy. I hope he says Tony Fauci.
And there was no one else for a follow-up by Dukakis, just Jonas Salk.
So it comes to George Bush and he had the advantage. He had time to
think about it. He said, there is a doctor, and he could not think of
his first name, and he said, Dr. Fauci at NIH. And Mosbacher says to
me, nice job of mental telepathy. I said more, more. Then he hit the
ball out of the park. Probably won the election. This was his defining
moment in 1988. He says, ``And any cop on the beat anywhere in
America.'' That did it for George Bush.
But that is how far back Tony Fauci goes in my mind. That is 8 years
ago this coming October. Fauci is great. So at the end of this
tremendous tour, where he introduced me to some wonderful HIV-infected
people that are fighting for their lives in a program, I hope they have
changed their conduct. I hope they tell other people not to engage in
the high risk politics, in the high risk political and homosexual
movements and the high risk sexual activity that is shortening their
lives.
After it was all over, I walked through the tremendous labs and I met
people from Palermo, Sicily, a young lady doctor working with Tony
Fauci. I met people from northern Italy, from Bologna, from France,
from all over the world. What a team they put together. And, Mr.
Speaker, none of them have the money anywhere in Europe, let alone the
rest of the world. It is not up to European or American medical
standards. Nobody has the money that they have at NIH and the Centers
for Disease Control that we in this Congress without any hesitation
have given of the taxpayers' money that we are supposed to guard to try
and find some kind of a--there never will be a cure, Dr. Fauci tells
me, you cannot get an infinitesimal retrovirus out of the T cell that
it has worked its way into. That is impossible. It keeps replicating as
they attack it anyway.
What we need is a vaccine to hold off the onslaught, to build up the
immune system, to prevent the infection or, once they have it, to keep
the T cell count up and extend the life into another decade beyond the
decade or so that some stronger people have been able to fend off the
onslaught of full AIDS.
We are out in the hall and we are about to leave. I said to Dr.
Fauci, I said, ``Tony, I am hearing some bad rumors. I am hearing that
in the homosexual communities in the hot spots of America, Key West,
Miami, New York, LA, San Francisco, that young homosexuals are doing
two things--get this, Mr. Speaker--``they are playing Russian roulette
with deliberate high risk unsafe sex because it adds to the erotic
thrill to play roulette with the HIV virus.'' And he nods in
affirmation. ``Yes,'' he says, ``that is happening.''
And I said, and then I hear that there is kind of a communal thing
that when you get hit a with a positive test on the HI virus, it is
almost like you joined a greater community. You get to see Whoopi
Goldberg or Barbara Streisand wearing a red ribbon at the Academy
Awards or you see these great tributes paid to theatrically talented
people who died at the Tony Awards, the award system for Broadway
plays, that it is somehow or other a shared experience to get the virus
and be on a greased path to dying of AIDS. He said, yes, that is true.
Then there is a third thing--imagine this, Mr. Speaker--he says,
there is a third thing beyond deliberately playing high risk Russian
roulette and wanting to join a bigger community of sufferers. He says,
a lot of them, paraphrasing Dr. Fauci very closely here, a lot of them
have a sort of exhaustion, a mental exhaustion, a frustration over
trying to beat the HIV virus, and they are just sort of giving up and
saying it is going to get me eventually anyway.
You put those three things together, high risk erotic sex, telling
yourself that lie, two, the shared community, that we are all in this
together and, three, I cannot stand this ugly game of trying to avoid
it so I am throwing caution to the wind. I am abandoning hope. Abandon
hope, all ye who enter here.

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Wiliam F. Buckley once recommended that as a cruel joke, I assume as
a tattoo on high-risk practitioners.

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So there it is. It is starting to go back up. I honestly thought when
I got the figures on 1995 from the Centers for Disease Control about an
hour and a half ago, I was sure it was going to go 43,000 in 1993,
46,000 in 1994, and drop back to 42,000 or lower last year, but it
almost breaks 50,000. So I can--I can feel it coming for the end of
this month. Around the middle of July I will call the center down at
the six Centers for Disease Control that handles this, or I will call
Sharon Katz, who does a great job trying to keep me informed on this up
here in D.C. She is congressional liaison for--legislative liaison for
CDC, and say, OK, because they are only going to a yearly report.
Can you believe that, Mr. Speaker? When this thing started, I could
get a weekly report, a published monthly report. Every month I could
find out--I will show you what it looked like. I would get this: Table
13, monthly cases diagnosed during the interval of 1 month, case
fatality rate, deaths occur in the interval. Then they went to
quarterly, and they stayed that way until about 2 years ago, and they
went to semiannually. Now they tell me no more semiannual report on
June 30, you got to get a report once a year. Why? The reports are
higher than ever. More people are dying than ever before, and now they
are only going to tell us once a year.
So they told me informally we will give you round figures at the mid
point of the calendar year on June 30, and if it breaks 50,000, then
this has not peaked yet in spite of killing off 360,000 people, of
which certainly 300,000 were hard partiers.
Drugs, which is one of the unknown stories of how this is transmitted
so frequently in the homosexual--among the homosexual hard parties; the
drug use among circuit-riding homosexual parties is almost as bad as it
is at the lowest level of poverty in our big cities where drugs is a
release from the depression of not being a player in the American
dream. These are people that are just looking for hedonistic pleasure
and an end in and of itself.
Now, Mr. Speaker, I give you a preview on my point of personal
privilege. Here is my second draft. It is over 30 pages long. I can get
through it in an hour. I am not a bad extemporaneous speaker, as
speakers go around this place, but I am going to read this one on
Wednesday or Thursday because I will not be accused of not having love
for my fellow man.
I watched yet another stupid Phil Donahue show this morning where he
had two young reverends on, one from somewhere in Colorado, one from
Nashville, TN, and I guess it was a rerun from sometime around November
where they had a play on Halloween that they called Hell House where
they tried to show young people that the wages of sin is death, and why
they got through the whole hour, because he put them against a lesbian
Presbyterian minister and somebody from Planned Parenthood, of course,
picking out somebody as beautiful as young Liz Taylor to, you know, use
all the softened euphemistic words for killing babies in their mothers'
wombs, and Donahue left objectivity when the first 10 minutes of the
show was insulting these two handsome, in their mid to late 30's, these
two Protestant ministers, and I was shocked, and so was my wife, that
the ministers did not bring up that liberals approve of this when it is
called scaring them straight in prison where you take young people to
prisons who are flirting with crime, they are in their first
arrest period, grand theft auto or something, or maybe caught carrying
a gun, they have not used it yet, and they put them in a prison, and
these big grizzly cons come in, rough talk to them, scaring them
straight, or taking high school kids and showing them pictures,
graphic, bloody, color pictures, of automobile accidents from prom
night or any drinking night at a party and trying to get young people
who think they are going to live forever to conceptualize in their head
that there but for the grace of God would be me torn to shreds in a
small Japanese-made car that is lying on the highway in three or four
pieces with five or six dead teenagers or one who survives to be
paralyzed all of his or her life. They say, my gosh, I am drinking at
parties and driving. Why is it OK to show teenagers, and I am all for
this graphic pictures of teens dying when they drink and drive, or what
MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, does, to say this is what people
do when the drunk crosses the line and because he is sotted out of his
mind, usually is so limp he survives, but he front-ends a van full of
children and kills 27 people on a bus, which happened in Kentucky or
Tennessee a few years back. That young driver is still in prison, I
assume, that killed, burned to death all those children. Or how many
times did we read about the innocent family driving along at 45 miles
per hour and some drunk comes across the divider on a two-lane road, no
divider, just across a line, and crashes into their car killing them.
Why is it valid to show them these pictures, but it was not valid for
these reverends to show an abortion scene, an AIDS death, the young
teenager in the casket and the family all crying. It was a fascinating
show, but there was all the careful language, and here is what the
lesbian minister kept saying:

My lesbianism, my homosexuality, my gayness, is a gift from God, a
gift from God. How many times do I hear this? It is a gift, gift, gift,
gift? Well, in the case of HIV and AIDS, it is the gift that does not
stop giving, and what it gives in the end is a terrible, terrible
death.
What a tragedy to think of 360,000 young people. The Presbyterian
minister kept saying how people reject children. How rare must that be
for a family to reject someone who is dying of AIDS when they come to
their family. I think that must be a minority, I know, every family
that I have ever heard of that lets that poor young person die inside
the womb, the nurturing unit of the family. That has been my
experience. That is what the priests and nuns and ministers that I
talked to say. We maybe went through a rough period when people did not
understand it, but the scene I have in my mind is a young person,
usually a male, who contracted it in his early 20's, he is dying in his
late 20's; that is the bubble in the middle of where most of these
deaths are from 25 to 35, that is the largest category out of the
360,000, and he is there with his mother putting her cool hand on his
fevered forehead, his father holding his hand, saying I still love you,
son, picturing them all those times, the campouts, or the Little
League, or the Pop Warner Football, and the reverend, a priest, a
minister, a rabbi; they are giving the last rights, telling them Jesus
loves you, God loves you, you are forgiven, your soul is white, you are
going directly to heaven because you suffered so much on this Earth.
I do not see this grinding religious right, vengeful nastiness that
people talk about.
A reporter, I know he is a nice fellow, he wrote a stupid article on
the front page of this new competing paper with Roll Call called the
Hill, and he said--he even singled me out and said the Republicans had
to go along with voting for money for AIDS, they were embarrassed to do
it. Who embarrassed us into it? And here is the line that he sort of
apologized for. Point well taken, Congressman, he said. He writes in
there, even Bob Dornan voted for the Ryan White money.

The vote I think was 430 to 3 or 4; yeah, 430-something to 3, and the
three people who voted had a very good reason for voting no. All three
are friends of mine, that there is no accounting for this money, that
it is given to homosexual groups, and that they squander millions of
dollars of it in propaganda efforts that are causing more people to
become enamored with sodomy, and they are killing themselves with more
anal sex, and our tax dollars is going toward that end.
But the overall cost of little Ryan White, a hemophiliac whose blood
supply that he was using to keep his life extended was polluted
deliberately by high-risk people in San Francisco and other places who
knew they were contaminated with the AIDS virus, but they wanted to go
in and get paid for a blood donation so they could go out and get
drugs.
This is a proper name for the bill; maybe Ryan White, but how many
times have I heard Phil Donahue twist this whole thing and was one of
young Ryan's pallbearers, how often has the movement used the Ryan
family to, they think, get money out of us that even I have to go along
with it.
I willingly voted for that money, and I say it again, Mr. Speaker,
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money until we can turn this thing around and get a vaccine because I
tell you at the tail end of this, when AIDS hits, there is not much
unsafe sex going on, there is not any smoking marijuana, there is not
much drug abuse except the drugs like morphine to take the pain away.
There is no partying time.
But I turned on PBS the night before last. Did you see, Mr. Speaker,
the 3-hour special on Tiananmen Square? It was gripping. And going into
it and coming out of it was an ad for something on Public Broadcasting
next week about a show on Broadway, Angels Over Broadway; I do not know
what the title is. It is written by a homosexual about--to put a
glorifying spin with a tragic, tragicomic spin on this AIDS crisis, and
they showed a scene from like a park bench of two young male
homosexuals, and one is speaking to another, and he says, yes, the
angel of death has come with his wine-colored kiss, and he holds out
his arm, and there are Karposi's lesions, and he looks at his friend
and says, yes, I am a legionnaire. Maybe you think of legionnaires'
disease, only 35. I am a legionnaire.

It made me think of Dr. Tony Fauci a week ago saying, Bob, they are
getting exhausted with fighting off the roulette of maybe getting it,
so they give up and just end up contracting it and become a
legionnaire.
Well, in my work around here over the last 16 years as this has built
with the 2-year gap from gerrymandering where I was not here, in 1983
and 1984, and there was not a single speech, Mr. Speaker, in this
Chamber or the U.S. Senate during those 2 years I was out, 1983 and
1984. Nobody really knew about it in 1982. It had only been discovered
in the middle of 1981.
So when I came back, I called the Library of Congress. How many
speeches on AIDS in this Chamber? Bill Dannemeyer was working on it, my
colleague from California; Henry Waxman, another colleague from
California, had jumped over 5 to 10 years of seniority and become
chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, and I said how many speeches
had been given?
Mr. Speaker, not a single Member ever came to this leadership lectern
or those two lecterns in the well and had spoken about AIDS from its
first reported beginnings all the way through 1985 until I took the
well, and I have spoken on it over and over and over again, and I speak
from the compassion of the heart that I think is pure and brave to stop
the killing of one another of young Americans, and I am not getting
much help from organized groups that will put on the disgusting display
that went on at the historic Andrew W. Mellon auditorium.
If the hour had not caught up with me, I was invited to come by and
take a tour of that facility. I have been in there, several tuxedo
dinners when I first got here in the early--late 1970's early 1980's. I
have not been by there awhile, but I drove by last night, and guess
what, Mr. Speaker? What the homosexual jubilee party is there called
Screw Alley along the side, its not an alley at all. If there is any
alley, it would be behind the building, and that is blocked off with
cyclone fences because the Ronald Reagan building is being built
immediately behind it, and if there ever was an alley, it would be
turned into a beautiful atrium walk area. The two sides of the building
have exquisite carriage side entrances with modern, leveled-off places
for disabled Americans in wheelchairs to get in.

{time} 1800

The beautiful front, with six massive Doric columns, faces precisely
on the architectural line from the center of the building, the Mellon
Auditorium is on the opposite side or south side of the street, the
National Museum of American History.
As I stood on the sidewalk and looked up at the Mellon and thought
about this party on Thomas Jefferson's birthday, and thought about
2,000 writhing, half-naked bodies, and people going out into the
darkness to have illicit sex and urinating on both sides of the
building, and by the way, everything that I put in the Congressional
Record, everything that I sent around in the Dear Colleague letter by
Marc Morano, a young reporter I have known for years, because he did
work for Rush Limbaugh, Morano was not alone. He had an associate with
him. Some homosexual reporters from one of the city newspapers backed
it up on the May 15 edition of the Washington Times.
These carriage entrances on the side are one of the three front
entrances of this building, and there were no construction cones. They
had six rent-a-cops, Mr. Speaker, six from a group called APACS, that
was the lowball bidder, to control 2,000 people determined that night,
inadvertently or by high-risk Russian roulette, to get themselves
infected and join the greater community.
As I stood on the sidewalk and looked at one of my favorite museums,
right up there with the National Museum of Art, the Aerospace Museum,
and the Natural History Museum, I look across the street and something
struck me. Inside the wall, on the side facing the Mellon Auditorium,
is the Star-Spangled Banner, 20 or 30 times bigger than Old Glory
behind you, Mr. Speaker; the actual flag from the night of September 13
and 14, 1814, when Francis Scott Key, prisoner on a British ship,
looked at this massive flag by the dawn's early light, and composed on
the deck of this British man-of-war our Star-Spangled Banner.
I may open my special order, not a special order, I will do one that
night, too, for cleanup purposes, but by point of personal privilege, I
may put that in the beginning, that across the street from the Mellon,
on the very wall, I paced it off, 40 Dornan steps, pretty close to a
yard, I guess, across Constitution Avenue, there is a big hemispheric
pond to accommodate the circular driveway in front of the National
Museum of American history. So I went up to the edge of the pond,
detoured left, squared it off, and started counting again, and from the
front of the Mellon to the wall, upon the inside of which is this
massive, original Star-Spangled Banner, it is 106 paces, 106 paces from
the front of the Star-Spangled Banner itself, blocked only by the
thickness of the wall that it is on, and people are urinating on
Constitution Avenue and acting like it is some Roman basshanal, all in
the name of, brace yourself, Mr. Speaker, raising, according to the
gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Gunderson], in this well, $50,000 for the
Whitman-Walker Clinic.
I learned up at NIH, Mr. Speaker, that one of the selected few lucky
people in the Government program using Interleukin IL-2, which seems to
be successfully rebuilding their immune system, getting their count
from below the 200 figure, where they are declared an AIDS victim, back
up to 1,000 almost. And I asked what is mine, what is a normal healthy
person's, and they said 600 to 800, probably more like 600. This seems
to be working to extend lives, but they will always be infectious with
AIDS until the day God calls them, but they can maybe have a dream of a
normal life.
Do you know what it costs for one of these lucky patients in the
Government program? One hundred thousand dollars a year. So at this
jubilee, and by the way, I want to explain to you what jubilee is, they
were more concentrating on the cherry, its third definition of
virginity in that dictionary, that is their clever title. I am going to
show the ads for this bacchanal in some of the homosexual newspapers. I
will tell you what the word jubilee means; right now do you know what
that word is? It is a Judaic, a Hebrew word. Every 50 years every
prisoner would be freed, debtors would be relieved of their debts that
they had not yet paid off. It is a 50-year religious celebration of
piety and reverence toward God, kind of like a super Yom Kippur of 50-
year, half a century point.

And in the Catholic Church, I had forgotten, it is a formal title for
a 25-year religious celebration, the holy year of jubilee that the Pope
in Rome will declare for a year of joy and prayer and thanks to God for
any good that we have managed to treasure in our lives; jubilee, a
religious or Christian ceremony. In African-American history it is a
series of religious songs and hymns. African-Americans in the slave
days would have their jubilee songs, singing about the day of freedom.
To take that word and apply it to cherry, with a sexual overtone, and
then to have these pictures that I am going to bring to the floor,
carefully censored for the tender eyes of the new crop of pages, I will
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Mr. Speaker, one final thing on this tragedy that I have done more
hard work on than most Members that I know around here, and I am sick
and tired of getting my motives questioned and my integrity challenged
with vile words like ``hater'' and ``bigot'' and ``prejudice.'' I went
up to the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center.
When I got on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 8 years
ago, I made up a list of all of the intelligence operations around this
Nation and around the world that I would visit. Unfortunately, I put
way at the bottom of the list, medical intelligence. I thought it was
like the museum that I dearly enjoyed at Walter Reed, going back to the
conquering of yellow fever and the building of the Panama Canal, which
a young colonel named Walter Reed eventually lent his name to this
largest of all Army hospitals in the world.
I have looked at some of the historical things at Bethesda, but I
just had not gotten up to Fort Detrick, MD. Finally I went up there,
because someone in the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
upstairs said they give a frightening briefing on the growth of AIDS
around the world.
I think I told our Speaker pro tem, a fellow Air Force officer, I
think I told him this in the Cloakroom, and if I did, forgive my
advancing years here in retelling something, but the nation of Zimbabwe
is no longer fit, I say to the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Stearns] for
U.N. peacekeeping or peacemaking duty. They infected so many people in
the torn country of Somalia that Boutros Boutros-Ghali has said, ``You
are not fit for U.N. service anywhere in the world any longer.''
Zimbabwe is about to be quickly followed by Uganda, by Kenya, the
jewel of all the British-African possessions, where the late Bill
Holden still has his beautiful camera safari at Treetops Lodge. Kenya
is about to be blackballed for any future service, written off. Guess
why? Zimbabwe two commanders ago, their General Shalikashvili died of
AIDS. The last commander after him died of AIDS. The current commander
is infected with HIV, as is 75 percent of his officer corps, 75 percent
of his NCO corps, and 75 percent of his Air Force and line soldiers.
That is three out of four. I did not say 7.5; 75 percent are infected
with AIDS in Zimbabwe. Is this incredible? The whole army is going to
die off soon.

I have a point here. When Uganda and Chad and Kenya and Rwanda and
Burundi and Malawi and all of the rest of the countries in that
terrible belt south of the Atlas Mountains and north of South Africa,
but now it is starting to rip into South Africa, the evil of apartheid
was a false break because of cruelly restricting the free flow of
peoples, and it kept out AIDS for a while. Now is tearing apart South
Africa.
Of course, Rhodesia is the other white enclave that held out. It
changed its name to the ancient city of Zimbabwe when it achieved its
independence. Get this, Mr. Speaker. If Zimbabwe cannot pull a duty in
Bosnia, guess who is going to be asked to ante up more than our fair
share? The United States of America, Great Britain, France; countries
where, when somebody has HIV, they are no longer worldwide deployable,
they are no longer combat trainable, they will never drive a tank, a
truck, fly a plane, a helicopter, or sail on a ship or under the waters
in a sub.
That is why I am trying to make our military 100-percent HIV-free,
and lavish love and medical attention on the regiment size of 1,000
people that we have left, put them in the VA and make sure they get
equally, if not better care, than they get right now on active duty
when they admit, when they are honest, that they are not pulling their
load or their fair share.
How can we go from 1,400,000 Americans on active duty all the way
down to where we are now, and keep on active duty the people that are
infected, while we are putting healthy men and women out of active
duty? This nightmare of world AIDS' exponential growth is not being
discussed in this Chamber or in the U.S. Senate, one, because it
involves that potent little word, s-e-x, but mainly because the people
that have a grip on what should be the truth about this epidemic, and
how it is spread by heterosexual behavior and conduct, promiscuous
conduct and lack of sanitation worldwide, and in this country, which is
the most sanitary Nation in the world, without a question of Europe,
driven mainly by homosexual conduct and behavior.
Mr. Speaker, I appreciated this time set the scene for my point of
personal privilege, question of personal privilege on the floor, where
I will defend my honor, defend my heart which I believe to be pure, and
explain why I know more about AIDS and HIV than any Member of the House
or Senate, including the three forced-out-of-privacy homosexuals that
still serve in this Chamber. I know more than they do, and I know what
the truth is on how to save hundreds of thousands of more young
Americans, mostly males, from dying in the next decade, since we did
such a pathetically poor job in educating young people on how not to
kill themselves in this last decade.

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