[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 82 (Thursday, June 6, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H5990-H5996]
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  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 
show how this bacchanal was advertised.

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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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