Mr. GARN. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? Mr. WILLIAMS. I yield. Mr. GARN. Mr. President, I shall be very brief so as not to prolong this day that we have been able to cut short. I thank my colleagues for the compliments. They read their statements just like my mother wrote them for them, and I appreciate that. It has been a pleasure to work with both of them. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I add my compliments to those that have been expressed regarding the splendid performance that has been demonstrated by Mr. Williams and Mr. Garn. I also compliment Mr. Stewart and Mr. Morgan for their handling of the bills that were passed earlier in connection with the whole subject of housing. Again, Mr. Garn was the ranking manager in connection with those two bills. Again, Mr. Williams has demonstrated the skill, the patience, and the fine knowledge that he has been able to bring to bear from time to time on legislation out of the committee, and I thank him. Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I shall not take long. I take this opportunity not only to commend the distinguished Senator from New Jersey and the Senator from Utah for their good work in bringing to conclusion these important bills earlier than we had anticipated but to briefly state my appreciation to the Senator from Utah for his service as ranking minority member of this committee. Senator Garn is a freshman Senator, but he has come a long way and has done a great deal in the years that he has been here. It has been my special privilege to work with him not only as a Member of the Senate but as Secretary of the Republican conference, part of the Republican leadership. He is the ranking minority member of the Banking Committee. For his services on the Armed Services Committee, he is the undoubted and undisputed expert in this body on strategic arms limitations. His military experience and his expertise have lent much to the Members on both sides in the consideration of a range of military issues. I have never seen a Senator who has contributed so much so soon as Senator Garn has. I take this opportunity to pay him that special tribute at the conclusion of this difficult task which he performed after scheduling on fairly short notice. I express my personal appreciation to him for it. DAILY DIGEST MEASURES PASSED Omnibus housing legislation: By an unanimous vote of 82 yeas, Senate passed H.R. 3875, Housing and Community Development amendments after striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in therefor provisions of S. 903, 1064, and 1149 as amended. Prior to this action Senate took the following actions on amendments proposed to S. 1149: Adopted: (1) Williams unprinted amendment No. 328, to allow the Department of Housing and Urban Development to insure a supplemental loan for an FHA-insured nursing home, and other insured multifamily projects. (2) Williams unprinted amendment No. 329, to require communities to take conversions into account with regard to housing problems, and to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to report to Congress within six months on the state of the multifamily housing market. (3) Cranston unprinted amendment No. 331, to extend to Indian tribal government deposits the same amount of deposit insurance and security as provided to other public unit deposits. (4) Metzenbaum unprinted amendment No. 332, to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish procedures necessary to assure that income data provided to public housing agencies and owners by families applying for or receiving assistance is complete and accurate. (5) Bayh unprinted amendment No. 333, to increase the amount of Federal mortgage insurance available for mobile home parks. (6) By 51 yeas to 40 nays Proxmire unprinted amendment No. 334, to reduce the funding for the assisted housing program to the amount requested by the President. (7) Lugar unprinted amendment No. 335, to instruct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to recommend programs which will encourage ownership of mobile home sites. (8) By 49 yeas to 42 nays, Leahy unprinted amendment No. 330, adding $10 million to the 701 program-that is the principal funding source for A-95 review of the Federal grant application required by the Office of Management and Budget. (9) Levin unprinted amendment No. 336, to retain the 45-day review provision for the Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations. (10) Levin unprinted amendment No. 337, to permit the continuation of operating subsidies to low-income housing projects after the end of an annual contributions contract. (11) Hollings unprinted amendment No. 338, to permit community development grants with respect to that part of a community which is part of an urban county but which is located outside the county. (12) Helms unprinted amendment No. 339, to provide for limited funding for Soul City, North Carolina. (13) Modified Tower unprinted amendment No. 340, relative to Urban Development Action Grants (UDAG) program, as modified by Tsongas unprinted amendment No. 341, to require non-distressed cities to obligate twenty percent of the Urban Development Action Grants (UDAG) project costs from local, state, or other Federal resources. (14) Domenici amendment No. 231, to provide for a study of elderly and handicapped housing in rural areas and to establish an Office of Elderly Housing; and No. 232, to authorize waivers of minimum capital requirements under the section 202 program. (15) Tsongas unprinted amendment No. 342, to make uniform the eligibility and adjusted income definitions of the rent supplement programs, and will use the Section S method of calculating rent. (16) Bayh unprinted amendment No. 343, to clarify the use of fees from in-plant inspection of mobile homes. (17) Chiles unprinted amendment No. 344, to allow the elderly and handicapped to utilize community space for adult day health facilities. (18) Javits unprinted amendment No. 345, to increase the Government National Mortgage Association multifamily mortgage limits to the level of FHA multifamily mortgage limits. (19) Javits unprinted amendment No. 346, to increase from 75 percent to 90 percent the amount by which a high cost area mortgage may exceed the maximum FHA mortgage limits. (20) Cranston unprinted amendment No. 347, to enable the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to provide improved assistance to minority-owned and managed Federal Savings and Loan Associations. Rejected: (1) By 35 yeas and 57 nays, Garn amendment No. 315, to exempt rehabilitation activities conducted by neighborhood-based nonprofit organizations from certain labor standards requirements. (2) By 20 yeas to 62 nays, Morgan unprinted amendment No. 348, to strike the exemption from State usury laws contained in the bill. S. 903, 1064, and 1149, were indefinitely postponed. 96TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 3875 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JULY 13 (legislative day, JUNE 21), 1979 Ordered to be printed with the amendment of the Senate AN ACT To amend and extend certain Federal laws relating to housing, community and neighborhood development and preservation, and related programs, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That this Act may be eited as the "Housing and Community 4 Development Amendments of 1979". 5 6 7 8 TITLE I COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION REHABILITATION LOANS SEO. 101. (a) Section 812(d) of the Housing Act of 9 1964 is amended 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 (1) by striking out "and not to exeeed $245,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning on October 1, 1978" in the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "not to exceed $245,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning on October 1, 1978, and not to exceed $150,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning on October 1, 1979"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new sentenee: "Of the amounts available for loans under this section during any fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 1979, the Secretary may utilize not more than $50,000,000 for rehabilitation loans for multifam ily properties.". (b) Section 312(h) of such Act is amended by striking 15 out "1979" each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof 16 "1980", 17 (e) Subsections (i) and (j) of section 312 of such Act, as 18 added by section 101(b) of the Housing and Community De19 velopment Amendments of 1978, are redesignated as subsee20 tions (j) and (k), respectively. 22 COMPREHENSIVE PL SEO. 102. The second sentence of section 701(e) of the 23 Housing Act of 1954 is amended by striking out "and not to 24 exceed $57,000,000 for the fiscal year 1979" and inserting 25 in lieu thereof "not to exceed $57,000,000 for the fiscal year |