AMENDMENT OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961

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• Publication Date: September 22, 1964
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21796 CONGRESSIONAL
being. For 10 years he has been voting
against the farmer in the Congress.
Look at his record.
Senator GOLDWATER voted against the feed
grain programs in 1961, 1962, and 1963.
Senator GOLDWATER voted against the Agri-
cultural Act of 1962, which authorized pro-
grams for wheat and feed grains and ex-
panded authority for food for peace and
the Farmers Home Administration.
Senator GOLDWATER has voted consistently
against efforts to suppOrt and strengthen
REA-loan funds.
Senator GOLDWATER voted against the bill
to authorize funds for public works, TVA and
power marketing agencies of the Department
of the Interior in 1959.
Senator GOLDWATER voted against the Ni-
agara River project to produce low cost
power with preference for cooperative and
other consumer electric systems in 1956.
With a record like that, is Senator GOLD-
WAITE the man you want to trust with the
destiny of American agriculture?
. I don't think so.
Let me assure you of one thing: a Johnson-
Humphrey administration never will aban-
don American agriculture. It never will re-
ject cqnstructive change as long as the
change can be for the better.
Our criteria for judging proposed: changes
in American farm policy will include these
10 points:
1. Will it provide a fair return to the
farmer consistent with the goal of full parity
of income for farm people?
2. Will it assure an abundant supply to
meet the needs of consumers at reasonable
prices?
3. Will it add to the strength of the Na-
tion in its quest for world peace, increasing
prosperity, and national security?
4. Will it help the individual farmer to
preserve his economic independence and to
develop his talents to their fullest potential?
5. Will it permit our system of free mar-
kets to operate efficiently, fairly, and without
needless. handicaps?
6. Will it facilitate the expansion of our
foreign trade and maintenance of a fair share
of world markets for American farm prod-
ucts?
7. Will it encourage the full utilization of
land, water, and human resources that are
not needed for the agricultural production
for alternative purposes more beneficial to
the public interest?
8. Will it encourage conservation of our
soil and water resources for future genera-
tions?
9., Will It assure us of a desirable level of
reserves for Our national security?
10. Will its cost to the taxpayers be com-
mensurate with its benefits to the consumers,
the national economy, and the Nation's
strength in world affairs?
With these tests as our guide, I am con-
fident that we can and will build a better
future for rural America?and for all
America.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-
pore. Is there further morning busi-
ness? If not, morning business is
closed.
Without objection, the Chair lfLys%e-
fore the Senate the unfinished b
AMENDMENT OF FOREIGN A
ANCE ACT OF 1961
The Senate resumed the considera-
tion of the bill (H.R. 11380) to amend
further the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, as amended, and for other pur-
poses.
RECORD ? SENATE
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
suggest the absence of a quorum.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-
pore. The clerk will call the roll.
The Chief Clerk proceeded to call the
roll.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-
pore. Without objection; it is so
ordered.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent?
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-
pore. Pursuant to the unanimous-con-
sent agreement entered into yesterday,
the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr.
PROXMIRE] has the floor.- Does the Sen-
ator from Wisconsin yield to the Senator
from New York?
Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that I may yield
to the Senator from New.York without
losing my right to the floor, and that I
shall be recognized when the Senator
from New York has finished his state-
ment.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-
pore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, I am
grateful to the Senator from Wisconsin
for yielding to me.
EXECUTIVE SESSION ?
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. Pr?dent, will
the distinguished Senator from New York
yield to me?
Mr. JAVITS. I yield.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
move that the Senate proceed to the
consideration of executive business, to
consider the nomination on the Execu-
tive Calendar.
The motion was agreed to; and the
Senate proceeded to the consideration
of executive business.
EXECUTIVE MESSAGE REFERRED
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-
pore laid before the Senate a message
from the President of the United States
submitting the nomination of James G.
Grunwell for permanent appointment as
lieutenant in the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Commerce.
EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF COM-
MITTEES
As in executive session,
The following favorable reports of
nominations were submitted:
By Mr. BYRD of Virginia, from the Com-
mittee on Finance:
Edward W. Dempsey, of Missouri, to be
special assistant on health and medical af-
fairs to the Secretary of Health, Education,
and Welfare.
By Mr. McNAMARA, from the Committee
on Public Works:
Maj. Gen. George H. Walker, U.S. Army,
to be a member of the Mississippi River
Commission.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-
pore. If there be no further reports of,
committees the nomination on the Exec-
utive Calendar will be stated.
September 22
OFFICE OF ECONOMIC
OPPORTUNITY
The Chief Clerk read the nomination
of Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., of Il-
linois, to be Director of the Office of
Economic Opportunity.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, when the
nomination/ of Robert Sargent Shriver
came up for consideration in the Com-
mittee on Labor and Public Welfare, I
voted "present." I voted "present" not
because I had any doubts about the
capacity of Mr. Shriver to handle the
job. In the' first place, his capacity to
handle it remains to be seen; in the
second place, he is rendering a fine serv-,
ice as Director of 'the Peace Corps.. So
we had every reason to suppoSe that he
could carry over his talents to perform
the task which the war on poverty pro-
gram involved.
My problem is a different one. Mr.
Shriver proposes to retain his position as
Director of the Peace Corps at the same
time he would hold the position?if his
nomination is confirmed, as it undoubt-
edly will be?as Director of the Office of
Economic Opportunity.
Before I speak of my own views on this
subject, I invite the attention of Sena-
tors to the fact that Senators on the.
majority side entertained exactly the -
same reservations.
Senators will note from the record of
the hearings on the nomination which is
before them that the Senator from West
Virginia [Mr. RANDOLPH] said on page 10:
Mr. Shriver, my opinion, for what it is
worth, in reference to the matter of holding
two directorships, the .Peace,Corps and the
economic, opportunity program, is that Pres-
ident Johnson will not ask you to hold both
positions. That is my personal feeling. Since
It has been a matter of comment and col-
loquy here today, I would like to have the
record indicate my feeling in this regard.
Mr. President, an important point was
made, it seems to me by a member of the
majority, with respect to the very thing
that is troubling me. I also received sup-
port from the Senator from Vermont
[Mr. Psorrry] on my own side of the
aisle. He said:
However, I do share Senator Javrrs' reser-
vations as to one man's ability, regardless .of
his competence to administer both of these
two vitally important programa. I hope that
you will give serious consideration to your
ability to do that and will make 'your posi-
tion known to the President.
The difference between Mr. Shriver
and myself, which the RECORD will show
was a trying one, lay in the fact that
Mr. Shriver sought to convince the com-
mittee?and myself?on the question of
holding both positions. Incidentally, he
said each was a full-time task. He said
that specifically. I asked him, on page 3
of the record:
Do you consider being the head of the
poverty program a part-ttme. job?
Mr. SHRIVER. I see. No; I do not consider
the head of the poverty program as being a
part-time job.
I asked him the same question about
the Peace' Corps. He said practically the
same thing with respect to that. The dif-
ference-between Mr. Shriver and myself,
as it developed at the hearing, was that
Mr. Shriver insisted that it was, up to-
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