James Oberstar

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Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, and I shall not object, but take this reservation for the purpose of an explanation of the bill.

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Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, further reserving the right to object, I join with delight in supporting this legislation to honor the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Justice O'Connor, who has indeed distinguished herself. I have had the delight and privilege of meeting and visiting with her on several occasions. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill, which designates the courthouse at 401 West Washington Street in Phoenix, Arizona, as the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse. Justice O'Connor is the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She was nominated by President Reagan and was confirmed by a unanimous vote of the U.S. Senate in September of 1981. Ever since, she has served as a distinguished jurist on our Nation's highest court. In addition to her outstanding legal career and dedication to judicial excellence, Justice O'Connor also devotes many hours as a volunteer for various charitable organizations, and she has a long history of participation in numerous civic and legal organizations. Justice O'Connor has spent her career serving the public trust. She began her public career in legislative positions, including serving in the Arizona State Senate from 1969 until 1975, during which time she served as majority leader and a member of the Arizona Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations. Earlier in her career, from 1952 to 1953, Justice O'Connor served the public in California as the Deputy County Attorney in San Mateo County, and as Assistant Attorney General in Arizona from 1965 until 1969. Her civic activities are numerous and reflect her broad interests and public services. She is a member of the National Board of the Smithsonian; she is President of the Board of Trustees of the Heard Museum; and she serves on the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army. Justice O'Connor has been Vice President of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and a member of the Board of Trustees of her alma matter, Stanford. She has worked with the Arizona Academy, Arizona Junior Achievement, and Phoenix Historical Society. Justice O'Connor has been active in the training and education committees for the judicial conference, and holds memberships in the America Bar Association and several state associations. Amid all these accomplishments, Justice O'Connor has also been a devoted wife and mother. She and her husband, John, have been married almost 50 years and have three sons. Her life has been filled with challenge, hard work, and promise. It is with great pleasure that I support S. 1595 in honor of Justice O'Connor, and urge my colleagues to join me. Mr. Speaker, I would like to further add to the comments of the gentleman from Arizona who listed a number of women who serve in public office. The State of Arizona is very privileged to have my cousin, Rose Oberstar, serve as its governor. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, further reserving the right to object, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg).

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, and I shall not object, but I will ask the gentleman from Louisiana for an explanation of the bill.

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Mr. OBERSTAR. I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McIntyre) said it best. This was a hurricane and a disaster of biblical proportions. It struck 11 States with enormous widespread consequences, billions of dollars in infrastructure damage, in agricultural losses, and President Clinton responded promptly. The administration did not waste time making their disaster declaration. I commend the President for the way he has responded. In fact, in the last decade, this President has declared 42 major disasters from landfall hurricanes. Cost to FEMA, $7.7 billion. The 10 major disaster declarations for Hurricane Floyd are the most for any single hurricane in our history. And what are the consequences in North Carolina? What has happened? Seventy-three thousand individuals have been received by FEMA, filed applications registering for assistance. Two hundred sixty-three million dollars already has been spent, and more to come. Four thousand six hundred sixty low-interest SBA loans. 20.7 million dollars reimbursed to local governments for infrastructure. Seven hundred thirty-four travel trailers now occupied. And they are still working. But what troubles me the most is this resolution that says the President should immediately submit recommendations for emergency response actions, including appropriate offsets. This 106th Congress declared the census an emergency and provided money. We have been doing emergency census, then, for 200 some years. What nonsense. If it is that big a deal, declare it an emergency right now and provide the money. I do not like this kind of nonsense that we are engaged in right here, frankly. Why do we have to have this resolution that calls for an offset? Declare it simply an emergency. Be consistent. Do not play games with the lives, the hopes, the aspirations, the concerns of the people in North Carolina and other places who are deserving of help. Just get on with the business of this Congress. Declare it a disaster, declare it an emergency, provide the funds as we did for the census.

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Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to transportation cuts in this bill.

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Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for those kind remarks and compliment her on her leadership on the Metropolitan Branch Trail that was dedicated this morning. I, too, rise in support of the bill to designate the Executive Office Building as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Others have already detailed the long and illustrious career of President/ General Eisenhower who was a towering figure. There are many other qualities and aspects of this great leader's career that I would like to underscore. It was during President Eisenhower's tenure that the charter for the Federal Aviation Administration was crafted and that the first program of Federal grants to airports was initiated. It was on the result of a commission which he crafted, headed by General Lucius Clay to evaluate the status of airports in America and the future of aviation, and the Clay Commission reported in 1957 that within 10 years there would be a need to double, Mr. Speaker, double airport capacity in America and urged the establishment of a Federal grant and aid program to support and establish a national system of airports, and that resulted in the old Civil Aviation Administration being recrafted and created as we know it today as the Federal Aviation Administration, the first Federal grant program, a wise move and for once a prediction that fell far short of what really happened because airport capacity more than doubled in less than 10 years, but it was President Eisenhower's understanding of the power and the importance of aviation that moved him to support this initiative by the Federal Government. It was also Captain Eisenhower taking a convoy across America in the 1920s who, seeing the condition of the roads, wondered to himself and to others what would happen in time of national emergency if we needed to move men and materiel rapidly in defense of the Nation. The road system would not support it. As President, he acted upon a recommendation of the Congress in 1944 to establish a national system of highways and refined the proposal to submit to the Congress the national system of interstate and defense highways and establishment of the highway trust fund, a dedicated revenue stream for the financing of the Nation's interstate highway program, the largest infrastructure program in the history of the world. $135 billion later this system represents 1 percent of the total highway mileage supported by Federal funds but carries 26 percent of all the traffic, which is well over a trillion miles traveled nationwide. President Eisenhower clearly was a visionary and set the stage for our action in 1998 to restore the highway trust fund to its dedicated status as a guaranteed revenue stream protected by firewalls within the Federal budget under the leadership of our great chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster). It was also President Eisenhower who saw the need to serve the great heartland, the industrial and agricultural heartland, of America and supported the legislation introduced by my predecessor in Congress, John Blatnik and supported by George Don Darrow, then the chairman of the Public Works Committee from Michigan. In the 2 years at that point that the Republicans had the majority in the House to establish the St. Lawrence Seaway, which was opened by President Eisenhower and Queen Victoria in 1959 and has now carried well over 2\1/2\ billion tons of cargo, and of course, as with the interstate highway system, it is now known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and there is at the St. Lawrence Seaway on the U.S. side, the Eisenhower lock, which appropriately gives credit to the man who had the vision to support this great inland waterway system. It was also President Eisenhower who gave the initial support for a national center for the performing arts that we today know as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and within which is the Eisenhower Theatre, appropriately named again for this President who had the sensitivity to understand that the arts are for all Americans. There is more to a man of this stature than a legislative legacy or military leadership or accomplishments on the field of battle. There is a human dimension. Last night, as I was driving home, I heard a segment of the LBJ tapes in which there was a conversation, a phone call placed by then retired President Eisenhower to then President LBJ to disavow a story that he thought was going to appear from a report of a closed session in which, as President Eisenhower said, of course I was talking to Republicans, and we were advocating a strong campaign, but I did not say things that I understand may make their way into print and told President Johnson that he had called the publisher of the news organization to disavow the statement and to urge that it not be published, and it was a very touching and a very warm and a very personal conversation between two truly great leaders, and it took, I think, extraordinary character to make the phone call and to talk in such a warm and touching way as President Eisenhower did to President Johnson. That is a dimension that we cannot write in stone, that we cannot affix on buildings, but when that touches us very deeply as a great humane and humanitarian leader of this country, this building is appropriately named for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I will include in the Record the list of the more than 127 items in this country, places, objects, monuments, that are named for President Eisenhower. Lest there be any question whether former President Dwight D. Eisenhower has been appropriately recognized, I submit the following astonishing list on highways, Acts of Congress, buildings, golf courses, scholarships, and even an aircraft carrier named for this great American: Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways Congressional Acts; Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act; Eisenhower Exchange and Fellowship Act of 1990; Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bicentennial Civic Center Act; and the Dwight David Eisenhower Commemorative Coin Act of 1988. Named for Dwight D. Eisenhower-- Index 1. Schools 2. Buildings, Rooms, Halls, Auditoriums, etc. 3. Awards, Funds, Foundations, etc. 4. Medical 5. Statues 6. Veterans' and Political Organizations 7. Geographic Features 8. Recreation 9. Miscellaneous 10. Philatelic and Numismatic 1. Schools Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, 848 N. Mesa Drive, Mesa, Arizona. Dwight D. Eisenhower School (elementary), Garden Grove, California. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Indio, California. Dwight D. Eisenhower School (elementary), Cupertino, California. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Rialto, California. Eisenhower Elementary School, Santa Clara, California. Eisenhower Elementary, Eisenhower Drive, Boulder, Colorado. Colegio Eisenhower, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Clearwater, Florida. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, 3600 Southwest College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650. Dwight D. Eisenhower School, 206 S. School Lane, Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070. Eisenhower Junior High School, Darien, Illinois. Eisenhower School (elementary), Lansing, Illinois. Eisenhower Schools (elementary), South Holland, Illinois. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Decatur, Illinois. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Blue Island, Illinois. Dwight D. Eisenhower School, 153 South Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. Dwight D. Eisenhower Junior High School, DuPage County, Illinois. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, 1450 South Main Street, Crown Point, Indiana. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Ottunwa, Iowa. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Eisenhower Elementary School, Dubuque, Iowa. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Community School District, Davenport, Iowa. General Dwight D. Eisenhower School, (elementary), Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Eisenhower Elementary School, Wellington, Kansas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, Topeka, Kansas. Eisenhower School (elementary), Hoisington, Kansas. Eisenhower School, (elementary), Junction City, Kansas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, Kansas City, Kansas. Eisenhower School, (elementary), Ottawa, Kansas. Eisenhower School, (elementary), Great Bend, Kansas. Eisenhower School, (elementary), Norton, Kansas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Louisville, Kentucky. Dwight D. Eisenhower School, Laurel, Maryland. Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, Prince George's County, Maryland. Eisenhower Elementary School, 8985 Newburgh Road, Livonia, Michigan 48150. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Fraser, Michigan. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Flint, Michigan. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Saginaw, Michigan. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Utica, Michigan. Eisenhower Elementary School, Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Dwight D. Eisenhower Junior High School, Township of Wyckoff, Wyckoff, New Jersey. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Piscataway Township, New Jersey. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial School, West Berlin, New Jersey. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Sayreville, New Jersey. Eisenhower Junior High School, Carlsbad, New Mexico. John Rosenkrans, President, Eisenhower College, Seneca Falls, New York 13148. Dwight D. Eisenhower Junior High School, Oregon, Ohio. Dwight D. Eisenhower School (elementary), Enid, Oklahoma. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Eisenhower Junior and Senior High Schools, Lawton, Oklahoma. Eisenhower Junior High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Indiana, Pennsylvania. General Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Akeley, Pennsylvania. Eisenhower Elementary School, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dwight D. Eisenhower School (elementary), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Warren, Pennsylvania. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Levittown, Pennsylvania. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Dwight D. Eisenhower Junior High School, San Antonio, Texas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School, Grand Prairie, Texas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Senior High School, Yakima, Washington. Dwight D. Eisenhower School (elementary), Green Bay, Wisconsin. Eisenhower High School, New Berlin, Wisconsin. Eisenhower Elementary School, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. 2. BUILDINGS, ROOMS, HALLS AUDITORIUMS, ETC. Edifico ``Ike'' (Apartment Building), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. General Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Sir Winston Churchill Cultural Institution, Guaxupe, Brazil. The General Eisenhower Hall (dormitory), Brown Military Academy, Glendora, California. Dwight D. Eisenhower Tower, California State College at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Eisenhower Chapel, Denver, Colorado. The General Dwight D. Eisenhower Auditorium, The National War College, District of Columbia. Eisenhower Room for Heads of State, Blair House, District of Columbia. Eisenhower Corridor, The Pentagon, District of Columbia. Eisenhower Theater, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, District of Columbia. Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Workers' Liberal-Radical Society of Guayas, Ecuador. Eisenhower Pavilion (New part of American hospital) Paris, France. Eisenhower Hall (school hall), Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, Illinois. Dwight D. Eisenhower Library District, Norridge-Harwood Heights, Illinois. Eisenhower Hall, Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Gymnasium, Hyde School, Bath, Maine. The Eisenhower Library, Yeshivath Shearith Hapletah (Rabbinical School), Brooklyn, New York. Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Hall, Delmar, New York. Eisenhower Hall, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. Dwight D. Eisenhower Hall (Officers Mess), Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania. Eisenhower Ballroom, Officers Open Mess, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Eisenhower House (a ``game house''), Que Que High School, Que Que Southern Rhodesia. Eisenhower Auditorium, Dension, Texas. Eisenhower National Bank, Stanley Road at Henry T. Allen, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78286. Eisenhower Church of Christ, Odessa, Texas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Building, Spokane, Washington 99202. 3. AWARDS, FUNDS, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. Eisenhower Scholarship Fund, Johns Hopkins University, (Established by The Capitol Hill Club), District of Columbia. Dwight D. Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, 918 16th Street, NW., Suite 501, Washington, District of Columbia 20006. E.M. Sears, Executive Director, Eisenhower Memorial Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 1324, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. Col. Howard Pars, General Dwight D. Eisenhower Award, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, Office of the Commandant, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027. Bill Reese, Eisenhower Golf Fellowship, Burning Tree Club, Burdette and River Roads, Bethesda, Maryland 20817. Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship Fund, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts. William G. Bowen, President, Dwight D. Eisenhower Fund, (Foreign and International Affairs), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. Debra Doame, Director, Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarships and Fellowships Columbia College, New York City, New York 10028. General Eisenhower Scholarship Fund, LaSalle Military Academy, Oakdale, Long Island, New York. Rita Treacy, Awards Clerk. Eisenhower Award, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 10996. Eisenhower Youth of the Year Award, (Given by the Youth Hall of Fame), Allentown, Pennsylvania 18105. Col. Duey, Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair of Strategic Appraisal, US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania 17013. Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eisenhower Scholarship Fund, 120 S. Payne Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. 4. MEDICAL Richard R. Augustine, Eisenhower Medical Center, 39000 Bob Hope Drive, Palm Desert, California 92260. Eisenhower Hospital Osteopathic, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Eisenhower Cardiac Unit, Spalding Rehabilitation Center, 1919 Ogden Street, Denver, Colorado. Dwight D. Eisenhower Electronic Exercise Room, The Cardiac United of Spalding Rehabilitation Center, Denver, Colorado. Major Foster, Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Gordon, Georgia 30905. Dwight D. Eisenhower Department of Veterans, Affairs Medical Center, Leavenworth, Kansas. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Stroke Research, 420 East 72nd Street, Suite 1-A, New York, New York. The Eisenhower Cerebral Palsy Training Center, Cerebral Palsy of Greater Milwaukee, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dwight D. Eisenhower Research Fund, (For United Cerebral Palsy Research and Education, Inc.) Dwight D. Eisenhower Research Fund, (For American Heart Association). 5. STATUES American Embassy, London, England. City of Bayeux, Bayeux, France. Eisenhower Center, Abilene, Kansas. US Military Academy, West Point, New York. Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Eisenhower Birthplace, Denison Texas. 6. VETERANS' AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS General Dwight D. Eisenhower Award, Arizona Young Republican League, Arizona. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Post, Orange County, California. Dwight D. Eisenhower Unit, Women's Political Study Club of California, Inc. California. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Barracks, Veterans Home of California, California. The Eisenhower Republican Center, District of Columbia. Eisenhower Platz, (Plaza and adjacent Street, Holocaust Museum), Washington, District of Columbia. Dwight D. Eisenhower Amvets Memorial Post No. 44, New Orleans, Louisiana. Veterans Post Camp Ike, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation for G.I. Joe, Inc., 82 Beaver Street, New York, New York. The General Dwight D. Eisenhower Amvets Post No. 102, Spring Valley, New York. The General Dwight D. Eisenhower Senior Village, (Disabled American Veterans), Farmingdale, New York. The Eisenhower Federation of Republican Women, Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. 7. GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways, [Entire 43,000-mile network of Interstate highways in the U.S.A]. Eisenhower Street, Los Angeles, California. Eisenhower Street, San Mateo, California. Mount Eisenhower, Canada. Eisenhower Memorial Tree Forest, Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado. Eisenhower Tunnel, Interstate Highway 70, Colorado. Esplanade Eisenhower, Caen, France. Eisenhower Parkway, Macon, Georgia. Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway,Chicago, Illinois. Eisenhower Memorial Highway (K-15), Central Kansas. Eisenhower Street, Wichita, Kansas. Mount Eisenhower, New Hampshire. Dwight D. Eisenhower Mall, (in Battery Park). Castle Clinton--National Monument New York, New York. Eisenhower Street, Dallas, Texas. Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia. Dwight D. Eisenhower Freeway, Washington, District of Columbia. 8. RECREATION Dwight D. Eisenhower Park, Skagway, Alaska. General Dwight D. Eisenhower Park, Orange County, California. Eisenhower-Sunburst Tournament, Eldorado Country Club, Palm Desert, California. Eisenhower Golf Course, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California. Eisenhower Heart Fund Golf Tournament, Riverside County Heart Association, Inc., Riverside, California. Eisenhower Golf Course, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. One hole on golf Course, Cherry Hills Country Club, Englewood Colorado. Eisenhower National Memorial, District of Columbia. 1st Hole, Omaha Beach Golf Course. Colluvial sur Mar., France. Eisenhower Pool, Springfield Park District, Springfield, Illinois. Eisenhower Park. Abilene, Kansas. Eisenhower League, (High school sports conference in north central Kansas), Kansas. Dwight D. Eisenhower Park, Evesham Township, Burlington Co., New Jersey. Dwight D. Eisenhower Park, Nassau County New York, Elmont, New York. Eisenhower Braves, (Children's baseball team), Seminole, 1, Oklahoma. General Dwight D. Eisenhower Trophy, Pennsylvania Horse Show, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dwight D. Eisenhower Campership, Penn Laurel Girl Scout Council, Inc., 1245 West Princess Street, York, Pennsylvania. Eisenhower Park, Newport, Rhode Island. Dwight D. Eisenhower Park, Houston, Texas. Eisenhower State Park, Denison, Texas. Eisenhower International Golf Classic, Eisenhower Tournament Office, P.O. Box 7363, Tyler, Texas 75711. Eisenhower Trophy, (World Amateur Golf Championship). Eisenhower Ski Trophy (Annual trophy awarded by United States Ski Educational Foundation, Inc.). 29th Annual ``Pike's Peak or Bust'' Rodeo Program (Dedicated to General Dwight D. Eisenhower). 9. MISCELLANEOUS Dwight D. Eisenhower Room, Palm Desert Community Church, Palm Desert, California. Larry Adams, Curator, Mamie Doud Eisenhower Birthplace Foundation, P.O. Box 55, Boone, Iowa 50036. Ernest A. Morse, The Eisenhower Foundation, 1302 North Buckey, Abilene, Kansas 67410. Eisenhower Chapter People-to-People, Abilene, Kansas. Eisenhower Athletic Association, Inc., Until 7806, Saginaw, Michigan. Eisenhower Patrol, Boy Scout Troop 56, Niagara Falls, New York Ike Patrol, Girl Scout Troop, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Eisenhower Class, Order of De Malay, San Antonio, Texas. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, Newport News, Virginia. Dwight D. Eisenhower Engine, National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin. IKE Livestock Brand, Wyoming. Dwight D. Eisenhower Lock, St. Lawrence Seaway. Eisenhower Alumnae Reunion, (Members of Eisenhower Administrations). Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bible Fund, American Bible Society. Dwight D. Eisenhower Pledge Class, Kappa Omicron Chapter, Alpha Pi Omega (National organizations composed of former members of Boy Scouts of America). Eisenhower Toile (drapery fabric). Harry S. Truman, Dr. Howard A. Rusk, Irvin Geist Fund for the People-to-People Committee for the Handicapped RENAMED The Harry S. Truman, Dr. Howard A., Rusk, Dwight D. Eisenhower Fund for the People-to-People Committee for the Handicapped. Towncouncil Rijswijk, Dep. Voorlichtung en p.r., Mr. J.C. deBeer Gen. Spoorlaan 2 2283 GM Rijswijk, Holland. Dwight D. Eisenhower Nuclear Training Center, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, Burlington, Kansas. 10. PHILATELIC AND NUMISMATIC Dwight D. Eisenhower Society, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania #17325. Eisenhower Postal Society, Box 1176, Waco. Texas. Eisenhower Dollar Coin, (U.S. Treasury Department 5-5-70). Postmaster General--Commemorative stamp and a regular 6- cent stamp in General Eisenhower's honor. Eisenhower Centennial Coin, U.S. Mint 2/90, Proof Silver Dollar; Uncirculated Silver Dollar. Postmaster General--Eisenhower Centennial 29-cent stamp. Stamp issued in Abilene, Kansas only on 10/13/90, FDI stamped in Abilene, Kansas on 10/13/90. Pictorial cancellation in Abilene, Kansas only on 10/14/90.

Mr. OBERSTAR

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I want to especially express my appreciation to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Chairman Shuster) for bringing this bill forward, and to the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Franks) for acting on the bill so quickly. After a long gestation period, this bill has been awaiting action; but it is, as both the chairman of the full committee and chairman of the subcommittee have noted, a deserving recognition for a noted jurist. I want to also commend my colleague, the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkeley), on her persistence in advocating for this legislation and to the Senator from Nevada, Mr. Reid, for being such a strong champion of naming the building for Judge Lloyd D. George. I did not have the pleasure, as the gentlewoman from Nevada has had, of knowing Judge George, but on a recent visit last month to Nevada, where I met with many of the gentlewoman's constituents, spontaneously and without prompting, each came forward to extol the virtues of this great jurist. He certainly is a living legend, loved and respected, admired and appreciated by all who know of him, and maybe have been adjudicated by him. But certainly this naming by popular appeal is exceptional. He is a man of great judicial capacity, but also great compassion, as the gentlewoman has so appropriately noted; and I am delighted we at last have this opportunity to bring to conclusion the appropriate naming of the U.S. courthouse and Federal building in Las Vegas for Judge Lloyd D. George. I compliment the gentlewoman on her success in achieving this breakthrough.

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Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Chairman, additionally I would point out this instant case plus an additional one in the district of our colleague from near Cleveland, Ohio (Mr. Kucinich) where the CSX merger has increased, and let me take that word back, has doubled rail traffic to 110 trains a day through his little town of Berea, Ohio. The vibration, the noise, the safety whistles of the trains going through have disrupted to an unacceptable level the lives of the people who for years have lived peaceably along that track. The situation is parallel to that of the gentleman from Minnesota, and the Surface Transportation Board has to take into account these adverse consequences on communities in its consideration of requests for service expansion and mergers of the Nation's railroads. This is an instant case of the failure of the Surface Transportation Board adequately to consider the adverse impacts on people, business, and people and other businesses in the communities served by the very important rail service of our Nation.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume for the purpose of addressing, supplementing the excellent statement the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) has just raised. The matter of the DM&E Railroad is a very serious one for the city of Rochester, Minnesota, where the world renowned Mayo Clinic is located. The DM&E expanded service will mean as many as 30 trains a day rumbling within a quarter of a mile or less of the heart of the Mayo Clinic and right next to one of its main hospitals. That amount of vibration and attendant noise is very disconcerting to the medical staff and the administration of the Mayo Clinic. It is a very serious matter. The best way it can be addressed, I think, is to completely relocate the railroad at a cost of several hundreds of millions of dollars. There are other mitigation efforts, though, that can be taken at less cost that can and should be taken; and I am delighted to work with my colleague who represents the Rochester area with distinction in this body and with the mayor of Rochester and the Mayo Clinic board. We must do all that we can to assure that this medical institution with an international reputation is not demeaned in any way by the necessary railroad service that must also go through the community. I know this is a very thorny issue that the gentleman has attempted to address, and it is a statewide matter. It is not just a local matter.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer).

Mr. OBERSTAR. Madam Chairman, if the gentleman will yield, I concur in the chairman's statement. We are very pleased to hear the gentleman's appeal. It is a very sound and sensible one. There are 1- 800 numbers in other sectors of transportation. This matter needs further elaboration and we will work with the gentleman as we proceed through conference.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Madam Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

Mr. OBERSTAR. Madam Chairman, the gentleman's amendment enhances the safety purpose of this legislation, and we accept it.

Mr. OBERSTAR. I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Bentsen). (Mr. BENTSEN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Lipinski), the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Aviation. (Mr. LIPINSKI asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Rahall), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Ground Transportation.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Madam Chairman, we are happy to accept the gentlewoman's amendment that will add to and enhance safety and will provide the means for reaching the desired objective.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania, my chairman, for yielding and compliment him on the decisiveness with which he has moved on this issue, particularly on the eve of renewed U.S.-UK bilateral aviation talks. We are deadly serious. This is serious business to introduce legislation of this nature to terminate an important aviation bilateral. But it is the only message I am convinced, as the chairman has just said, that our British negotiators will understand. The significance of this market is that U.S.-UK service is about a $10 billion market. It is half of the $20 billion U.S.-Europe market. Our carriers have less than 37 percent of that market share, compared to other markets around the world where we have open skies bilaterals where our carriers have penetrated up to 60 percent of market share. Those numbers simply underscore the seriousness of purpose with which the chairman and I are engaged in the message that we deliver to our Secretary of Transportation and to the British Minister of Transportation. That market has to be open; and if it does not, these are the tools the chairman has outlined we will invoke to ensure that serious steps will be taken in the future. I compliment the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Chairman Shuster) on his courage in moving forward.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to compliment him on his determination and especially his persistence on this issue which began during our consideration of TEA 21. TEA 21 did require the Department of Transportation to complete this important safety rulemaking within 1 year of enactment. As the gentleman from New Jersey has pointed out, it is now 16 months since TEA 21 was enacted, and small passenger-carrying commercial vehicles are still exempt from Federal motor carrier safety regulations. I am deeply disappointed in DOT's failure to act appropriately. The Senate bill, as introduced by the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Mr. McCain, includes a provision to apply Federal safety standards to these vehicles. This matter will be an issue, therefore, in any conference on this bill, and I look forward to working closely with the gentleman as we proceed to and through the conference. I thank the gentleman for his concern.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Madam Chairman, will the gentlewoman yield?

Mr. OBERSTAR. Madam Chairman, I just want to observe that the issues in this manager's amendment have been very carefully worked out with cooperation on both sides on a bipartisan basis. We support the amendment in its entirety.