[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 14, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E932-E934]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  CONCERNING THE DEATH OF CHAIM HERZOG

                                 ______
                                 

                               speech of

                           HON. CORRINE BROWN

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 13, 1997

  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the House of 
Representatives unanimously approved a resolution honoring one of 
Israel's greatest leaders--President Chaim Herzog.
  I want to express my true sympathies to Chaim Herzog's family and the 
people of Israel for having recently lost one of their favorite sons.
  Born in 1918, Chaim Herzog was son to Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, the 
Chief Rabbi of Ireland. To protect his son from the hazards of the 
Irish revolution, the elder Herzog sent his son from Dublin's Irish-
Jewish ghetto to Palestine for schooling. In his formative years, 
Judaism taught him to respect the law so greatly that Herzog went on to 
eventually receive his bachelor of law degree at the University of 
London and a degree of barrister at law from The Honorable Society of 
Lincoln's Inn in London.
  But Herzog's belief in one true Jewish homeland was never far from 
his heart. He returned to Jerusalem in 1935 and served in the Jewish 
Defense Forces, commonly known as the Haganah, during the Arab revolt 
that lasted from 1936 to 1938.
  As Nazi Germany's evil empire began to overtake Europe, Herzog knew 
of his obligation to fight for and protect the Jewish Diaspora. A 
graduate of the Royal Military College, Herzog fought in World War II 
for the British Army, rising up to be the head of intelligence in 
northern Germany.
  As one of the first soldiers to liberate the concentration camp of 
Bergen Belsen, Herzog was left with an indelible impression of the 
horrors of the Holocaust. This experience underscored his belief that 
Jews needed their own homeland.
  Soon after his return to Palestine, Herzog fought in 1948 as an 
officer in Latrun, one of the bloodiest battles in Israel's War of 
Independence. From Herzog's success as an officer and intelligence 
experience in World War II, he created Israel's superb military 
intelligence infrastructure. In fact, he served as the head of the 
Israeli Defense Force's Military Intelligence Branch from 1948 to 1950 
and 1959 to 1962. In between his terms as intelligence head, Herzog 
served as defense attache in Washington, DC., at the Israeli Embassy. 
He continued to further his military career until 1962, when Herzog 
retired from active duty as a Major General.

  When one would have preferred a private life at this point in his 
life, Herzog was thrust back into the military arena as the leading 
military commentator on Israeli radio during the 1967 Six-Day War. 
After the war, Herzog was appointed as the first military governor of 
the West Bank.
  At the age of 57, Herzog made the jump from military leader to 
diplomat. In 1975, Herzog was sent to New York to serve as the 
country's Ambassador to the United Nations. During the 3-year period he 
served as the Ambassador, Herzog is most known for speaking against the 
U.N. resolution that equates Zionism with racism.
  Herzog continued his political career when, in 1981, he was elected 
to Israel's Parliament, the Knesset, on the Labor Party ticket. As a 
Member of the 10th Knesset, Herzog served on the Foreign Affairs and 
Defense Committee and the Legislation and Judiciary Committee. in 1983, 
he was chosen as the sixth President of the State of Israel. From 
there, Herzog went on to be the longest serving President in Israeli 
history until 1993.
  Throughout his life, Herzog has reported his life's observations. 
Some of his national writings include ``The Arab-Israeli Wars,'' 
``Israel's Finest Hour,'' and ``The War of Atonement.'' In his final 
book, ``Living History,'' Herzog writes:


       When I disembark, I hope that everything my generation and 
     I dreamed of and fought for will have come true * * * I pray 
     that the world will have taken even greater steps toward 
     Democracy and the guarantee of human rights, and that dignity 
     will have become the universally accepted value of mankind.


  Because of Chaim Herzog, I believe his dreams have come true. 
President Herzog--a soldier, a diplomat, and a voice to the world. He 
has truly been a light unto the nations.

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                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Thursday, May 15, 1997, may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED


                                 MAY 16
     10:00 a.m.
       Labor and Human Resources
         To hold hearings to examine adult education programs.
                                                            SD-430


                                 MAY 19
     11:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Energy Research and Development, Production and Regulation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on H.R. 363, to extend through 1998 the 
           Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public 
           Information Dissemination Program, along with 
           corresponding deadlines for the submission of certain 
           reports concerning the extent to which human health is 
           affected by exposure to electric and magnetic fields 
           produced by electric energy.
                                                            SD-366
     2:00 p.m.
       Special on Aging
         To hold hearings to examine the current Medicare payment 
           system, focusing on managed care payment.
                                                            SD-562


                                 MAY 20
     9:00 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Interior Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 1998 for the Department of the Interior.
                                                            SD-124
     9:30 a.m.
       Judiciary
       Immigration Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation granting lawful 
           residence to Michel Meili.
                                                            SD-226
     10:00 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings on the Quadrennial Defense Review, 
           focusing on the impact of its recommendations on 
           national security entering the 21st century.
                                                            SD-106
       Labor and Human Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the quality of various health 
           plans.
                                                            SD-430
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To resume hearings to examine the process to enlarge the 
           membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
           (NATO).
                                                            SD-538
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Legislative Branch Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 1998 for the Capitol Police Board and the 
           Congressional Budget Office.
                                                    S-128, Capitol
     2:30 p.m.
       Appropriations
       Foreign Operations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 1998 for foreign assistance programs, focusing on 
           international financial institutions.
                                                            SD-138
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Communications Subcommittee
         To resume hearings to examine the Federal Communications 
           Commission implementation of the Telecommunications Act 
           of 1996, focusing on efforts to implement universal 
           telephone service reform and FCC proposals to assess 
           new per-minute fees on Internet service providers.
                                                            SR-253


                                 MAY 21
     9:30 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine program efficiencies at the 
           Department of Transportation.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting, to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
       Indian Affairs
         To hold oversight hearings on programs designed to assist 
           Native American veterans.
                                                            SR-485
     10:00 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 1998 for the Department of Defense, focusing on 
           Air Force programs.
                                                            SD-192
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the Federal Employees Health 
           Benefit Plan as a model for Medicare reform.
                                                            SD-215
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings on United States implementation of 
           prison labor agreements with China.
                                                            SD-419
     2:00 p.m.
       Armed Services
         To continue hearings on the Quadrennial Defense Review, 
           focusing on its impact on the future years defense 
           program.
                                                            SH-216
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. Res. 57, to support the 
           commemoration of the bicentennial of the Lewis and 
           Clark Expedition, S. 231, to establish the National 
           Cave and Karst Research Institute in the State of New 
           Mexico, S. 312, to revise the boundary of the Abraham 
           Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Larue 
           County, Kentucky, S. 423, to extend the legislative 
           authority for the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall to 
           establish a memorial to honor George Mason, S. 669, to 
           provide for the acquisition of the Plains Railroad 
           Depot at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, and 
           S. 731, to extend the legislative authority for 
           construction of the National Peace Garden memorial.
                                                            SD-366


                                 MAY 22
     9:30 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold oversight hearings on the professional boxing 
           industry.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To resume a workshop to examine competitive change in the 
           electric power industry, focusing on the financial 
           implications of restructuring.
                                                            SH-216
       Labor and Human Resources
       Public Health and Safety Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to review the activities of the 
           Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
           Admninistration, Department of Health and Human 
           Services.
                                                            SD-430
     2:00 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Communications Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 442, to establish a national 
           policy against State and local government interference 
           with interstate commerce on the Internet or interactive 
           computer services, and to exercise Congressional 
           jurisdiction over interstate commerce by establishing a 
           moratorium on the imposition of exactions that would 
           interfere with the free flow of commerce via the 
           Internet.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Forests and Public Land Management Subcommittee
         To hold a workshop on the proposed ``Public Land 
           Management Responsibility and Accoutability Act''.
                                                            SD-366
       Judiciary
       Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the antitrust implications of 
           the college bowl alliance.
                                                            SD-226


                                 JUNE 4
     9:00 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold oversight hearings on the Federal Bureau of 
           Investigation, Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
     10:00 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 1998 for the Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-192



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                                JUNE 11
     10:00 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 1998 for the Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-192


                                JUNE 12
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To resume a workshop to examine competitive change in the 
           electric power industry, focusing on the benefits and 
           risks of restructuring to consumers and communities.
                                                            SH-216


                             POSTPONEMENTS


                                 MAY 15
     2:00 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
       Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on the export of the Iranian revolution.
                                                            SD-419


                                 MAY 20
     10:00 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on NASA's international space station.
                                                            SR-253