Peach Market Referendum
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture Jim McHale has
scheduled a hearing on the ad
visability of calling a referendum
among state peach growers.
Testimony will be taken at 1:30
p.m., Thursday, April 20, 1972,
Room 309, Agriculture Building,
2301 N. Cameron Street,
Harrisburg.
The referendum wotdd be on a
Peach Marketing Program
within the provisions of the
Agricultural Commodities
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Marketing Act. The proposal
calls for an assessment of four
cents per hundred pounds of
peaches sold for fresh market
use.
Money collected under the
proposed program, estimated at
about $30,000 annually, would be
devoted to the promotion of fresh
peach sales. A similar program
has been in operation with state
apple producers for several
years.
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Recently, I joined several of
my colleagues in sponsoring
legislation to set a voting at
tendance requirement for
Members of Congress.
What this bill would do is make
Representatives and Senators
show up to vote at least 70 per
cent of the time. If they failed to
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do so their offices would be
declared vacant so that new
Members could be selected.
It is a sad commentary on the
legislative process that the need
for such a bill has arisen. The
people who send someone to
Washington to represent them
certainly expect that
representation to be more than
part-time. Congressmen are paid
good salaries to be full-time
voices for their States and their
districts. But the wishes of the
people and the salaries do not
seem to be enough to persuade
some Members to be on hand
most of the time to vote on the
business before Congress.
How bad are the absences?
There is one Senator who made
only 30 per cent of the votes in
that body last year. That means
he was gone more than two-thirds
of the time, and in my opinion, his
office should most definitely be
declared vacant. Otherwise, if
that Senator continues that
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record, the people of his State can
look forward to six years of non
representation.
A 70 per cent requirement is not
very demanding. Most of us
maintain attendance records in
the 80 to 90 per cent range. Even
when I was out with a heart at
tack last year for nine weeks, my
overall attendance did not fall
below 70 per cent. Of course,
{leaves of absence for official
business or sickness should not be
figured into one’s attendance
record and would not be under
the legislation we are proposing.
But, I offer my personal example
as proof positive that you really
have to be gone a great deal of the
time to fail to meet a 70 per cent
requirement.
You might wonder what
Members could be doing'if
they’re absent for something
besides sickess or official
business.
This year, some of them are out
campaigning for higher office.
That might be a very worthwile
endeavor, but I still question
whether it is more important
than doing the job they were
previously elected to do.
Others cannot even claim the
excuse of campaigning. After one
very close vote in the Senate
recently when there was a great
deal of absenteeism, a study was
made of where the various ab
sentees were. Many of them were
campaigning, or were on
business back in their home
States. But some were
vacationing on the ski slopes, in
Europe or other places more
exotic than Capitol Hill..
It’s time to blow the whistle on
that kind of behavior. It’s time
for Congress to begin policing
itself so that it deserves the
respect of the American people.
Nelvin B. Empet
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Empet Named to
Sire Power Staff
Nelvin B. Empet of Kingsley,
Pennsylvania, has been ap
pointed director of membership
Relations and assistant Sales
Manger for Sire Power, Inc. of
Tunkhannock, Pa. In this
capacity he will work closely with
breed and farm groups and will
be responsible for the develop
ment of sales and service
programs throughout the Sire
Power member coop, areas of
NEBA, the Maryland ABC and
the West Virginia ABC.
Upon graduation from Penn
State in 1965, Empet served as
state fieldman for the Penn
sylvania Holstein Association. He
later taught vocational
agriculture at Mountain View
High School and worked in the
family farm operation. Active in
the community, he has served as
a director and diary superin
tendent for the Harford Fair in
Susquehanna County.
Nelvin and his wife Carol plan
to relocate in the Wyoming
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