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BR/EK:
We worked up this 2-pager for state/local press to get out this afternoon
to help carry some stories on today's events. Any quick thoughts,
comments? I'd like to get to the regional press folks ASAP.
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Clinton Administration: Taking Action to Stop Gun Violence
May 27,1999
This morning, the Vice President and Congressional Democrats challenged the Republican
leadership in the House to follow the Senate's lead and quickly pass common sense gun
legislation that would help keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children. And later this
afternoon, Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Treasury Undersecretary Jim Johnson will
call on the House Judiciary Committee to improve upon -- not weaken -- the Senate's legislation
by passing some of the other gun measures proposed by the President last month. One week
after the Senate's historic vote to close the gun show loophole, the Administration's clear and
consistent message to Congress is:
•
The time to act is now. Although violent and gun-related crime have fallen
dramatically over the last six years, the recent school shootings remind us that we must
do even more to reduce youth violence and keep guns out of the hands of children.
Sadly, an estimated 13 young people die everyday in America from a gun shot wound -or the equivalent of365 "Littletons" a year. This is unacceptable. The House
leadership must recognize that there is a growing national consensus that government
should more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children, and that they should
put the will of the American people over the clout of the gun lobby.
•
The House should lead, not follow. Although the Senate passed tough new provisions
to close the gun show loophole, require child safety locks with every new handgun sold,
ban the importation oflarge capacity ammunition clips, and prohibit violent juveniles
from owning guns as adults, it did not debate and vote on other important gun proposals
put forwarded by the President. The House has an important opportunity -- indeed, an
obligation -- to show leadership and ensure that its members have a chance to debate and
vote on additional life-saving measures, such as:
Raising the age of handgun possession from 18 to 21. In 1994, the House
voted unanimously to ban the possession of handguns by juveniles under the age
of 18. Given that law enforcement officials recover more crime guns from 18
and 19-year olds than any other age group -- well over 80 percent of which are
handguns -- Congress should now consider raising the age of handgun possession
from 18 to 21.
Extending the Brady Law to purchases of explosives. In 1993, Congress
passed the Brady Law requiring background checks of prospective gun purchases,
and an end to the buying and selling of guns on the "honor system." To date,
Brady background have helped stopped more than 250,000 illegal handgun sales
to felons, fugitives, and other prohibited purchasers. The time has now come for
Congress to apply the same common sense provisions to the sale of explosives,
and cut off the easy access that criminals and children have to them.
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Holding reckless adults accountable. Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws
promote gun safety and responsibility by holding adults responsible if they allow
children easy access to firearms and ammunition. CAP laws promote the safe
and secure storage of firearms, and recent studies show that in states where they
have been enacted fatal unintentional shootings have been reduced by an average
of23%. Congress should pass a tough, federal CAP law that includes felony
penalties and stiff fines for adults who "knowingly or recklessly" allow a child
access to a gun that is later used to kill or cause injury.
•
No new loopholes. Even as the Senate voted to try and close the gun show loophole, the
gun lobby exercised its influence and worked behind the scenes to include dangerous new
loopholes that would have made it easier for criminals to get guns and harder for law
enforcement to catch those criminals. At one point, the Senate bill included at least 5
new loopholes to our gun laws, including one to weaken the successful Brady Law by
limiting background checks to no more than 24 hours -- even if law enforcement needed
more time on a Sunday to clarify someone's criminal history while the county courthouse
was closed. The Administration will expose and fight against the gun lobby's stealth
efforts to weaken our gun laws with new loopholes.
•
A record of accomplishment. Under the President's leadership, this Administration has
launched one of the most cooperative and successful efforts to keep guns out of the hands
of criminals, and to crack down on gun criminals and traffickers that fuel gun crime.
Successful Administration efforts include:
Blocking over a quarter of a million illegal gun sales. Through Brady
background checks, we have helped stop over 250,000 handgun sales to felons,
fugitives, stalkers, and other prohibited purchasers.
Sending more serious gun criminals to prison. Because we work more closely
than ever before with our counterparts in state and local law enforcement, the
overall number of criminals sent to federal and state prisons for weapons offenses
is up by nearly 25 percent since 1992. The number of serious gun criminals sent
to federal prison for at least 5 years is also up, by nearly 30 percent since 1992.
Providing more resources for gun enforcement. Over the past 2 years, we
have called for tens of millions of dollars to hire over 280 new ATF agents and
over 40 new federal prosecutors to vigorously enforce our guns laws. And
during the past 6 years, we have increased state and local assistance for law
enforcement by over 500 percent --from $849 million to more than $5 billion.
Reducing gun crime. With more police on the street and tougher gun laws on
the books, crime rates have dropped across the board for 7 years. Overall violent
and property crime are down by more than 20 percent each, and the murder rate is
down to its lowest level in 30 years. Also, homicides, robberies, and aggravated
assaults committed with gun are down by an average of 27 percent.
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CREATOR: Richard Socarides ( CN=Richard Socarides/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 09:56:34.00
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09:56 AM ---------------------------
Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn <LID@nycnet.com>
OS/26/99 10:30:38 PM
Record Type: Record
To: LID@nycnet.com
cc:
Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT
Dear LID Member:
PLEASE CALL CONGRESSMAN JERRY NADLER. CONGREESSMAN ANTHONY WEINER AND YOUR
MEMBER OF CONGRESS TODAY! !
Today or tomorrow the U.S. House is scheduled to vote on the Religious
Liberties Protection Act (RLPA).
This bill was originally introduced in
the
105th Congress and was introduced in the 106th. The prinicipal purpose of
RLPA is to restore meaning and effect to the 1st Amendment's "free
exercise"
clause, which was largely gutted in a Supreme Court decision a number of
years ago. The free exercise clause had, in essence, guaranteed the
citizens' right of free religious exercise unburdened by the government.
Congress has previously acted to restore the free exercise clause, but the
prior act was also tossed by the Court.
.
In its current version, RLPA would enhance the protection of certain
religious expression that could conceivably be burdened by arguably neutral
state or local laws.
While this is a laudable and generally agreeable
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the concern that LID, the ACLU, and many other progressive organizations
have about RLPA is that it may create a new and powerful defense against
civil rights claims brought under state and local civil rights laws. An
unamended RLPA could especially undermine state and local laws that
protect
groups that already get the least protection from the courts and federal
government including protections, including sexual orientation, disability,
familial status, marital status, pregnancy status, and possibly gender and
even some minority religions. As such, WE OPPOSE RLPA in its current form.
We ask our members and others to IMMEDIATELY CONTACT REP. JERRY NADLER,
REP.
ANTHONY WEINER as well as his/her own Member of Congress, and urge him to:
1. Offer and vote in favor of an AMENDMENT to RLPA that would preserve the
reach of state and local civil rights protections for lesbians and gays and
others;
2.
Failing the passage of an effective and meaningful amendment, to VOTE
NO
ON AN UNAMENDED RLPA.
Members of Congress may be reached at 202-225-3121.
BECAUSE CONGRESS IS ACTING ON RLPA NOW!!
Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn
Brooklyn's lesbian and gay political club
P.O. Box 150614
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-361-3322
LID@nycnet.com
http://www.nycnet.com/LID
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Once again
We'll be putting together the Podesta Daily Report today for the
President.
Please send bullet points to me by email in WordPerfect w/ a
cc: to Barbara Barclay before 4 p.m.
Thanks.
And, for the many who pointed out just how much more fun Kevin Moran's
daily report emails were, I think George Bush said it best:
"Message:
care." Here's a website to answer all your Yulee questions:
http://www.amelia-island.com/yulee.htm
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2001: A Gore
Odyssey
WAS H I N G TON,
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HeD,s vice-president; heD,s heir apparent. But
who is Al Gore, and what does he believe in?
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FOR months, Al GoreD,s selection as the
Democratic nominee for president in 2000 has
looked unavoidable. For months, until now. In
short order, a credible rival has emerged in the
gangling shape of Bill Bradley (see article), and the
partyD,s nagging doubts about Mr Gore have been
given voice by Bill Clinton himself. The president,
talking privately to colleagues and by telephone to
the New York Times, admitted that he was
worried by the campaignD,s slow start and by the
candidateD,s lack of forcefulness. Other Democrats
agree. Although Mr Gore still beats Mr Bradley
with ease in polls among Democrats, he always
trails both George W. Bush·and Elizabeth Dole,
two Republican contenders, when a broader
national pulse is taken; and his extraordinary
fund-raising prowess has never been matched by a
set of convincing ideas.
The mediaD,s attention is now fixed on the
wobblings of the Gore electoral machine. The
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recent appointment as campaign manager of Tony
Coelho, a former congressman renowned for his
fund-raising skills, gives sceptics only slightly more
confidence, for Mr GoreD,s image already suffers
from his obsession with money. But these are early
days, when any campaign is unformed. Rather than
agonising over Mr GoreD,s day-to-day fumblings,
his critics would do better to investigate how
D&Prince AlbertD8 differs from King Bill, and what he
is offering his country.
If you ask Mr GoreD,s campaign organisers what
Gore-ism is, you get· two rather careful and wary
answers. The first is that it is too early to say: the
campaign must stick to its initial priorities, raising
money and harvesting grass-roots endorsements in
key primary states. The second is that, to
understand Gore-ism, one need only look at
Clintonism. Over the past seven years, Mr Gore
has been the presidentD,s most durably influential
adviser, with the exception of Hillary Clinton; other
intimates, like the pollster Dick Morris, have
proved ephemeral. It follows that a Gore
administration would continue Mr ClintonD,s
policies, since these are in large part Mr GoreD,s
anyway.
There is, admittedly, much truth in this second
answer. Unlike most presidents, Mr Clinton chose
a deputy who resembled him in many ways: a
youngish southerner, a policy wonk, a centrist.
Moreover, shared years in the White House have
increased the bond between the two men. Past
presidents have disparaged their deputies, but Mr
Clinton has always been commander-in-chief of the
Gore fan club. In the suite of offices occupied by
the vice-presidential staff, the walls are lined with
photographs showing Mr Gore in a series of
intimate moments with the president: walking alone
together down a corridor, exchanging confidences
at a conference table, embracing at a rally. Hence
the damage done when Mr ClintonD,s private
doubts were aired.
The Clinton-Gore bond extends to the people who
advise them. Many prominent members of Mr
GoreD,s kitchen cabinet have also been part of Mr
ClintonD,s. The top Gore economist, for example, is
Larry Summers, just nominated as Mr ClintonD,s
treasury secretary. Mr GoreD,s chief of staff, Ron
Klain, once worked on Mr ClintonD,s staff at the
White House. Mr KlainD,s predecessor, Jack
Quinn, went on to be Mr ClintonD,s chief counsel.
Elaine Kamarck, a Harvard academic charged with
developing policies for Mr GoreD,s presidential
campaign, has known and advised Mr Clinton
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since 1990. Chris Edley, another Harvard
professor and Gore policy guru, worked in Mr
ClintonD,s budget team and advised him on race
issues.
Shared years in the White House have also
developed in Messrs Clinton and Gore some
common political reflexes. Having plunged abruptly
from victory in 1992 to humiliation in the mid-term
elections of 1994, both men are risk-averse. Mr
Gore, like Mr Clinton, seems to believe in stroking
interest groups, even when he has the strength to
defy them. He listens carefully to pollsters, rather
than risk getting ahead of public opinion. He raises
pots of campaign money, even though he damages
his boy-scout image in the process.
Third-term Clinton?
In keeping with this political caution, Mr Gore
·seems to share Mr ClintonD,s belief that modest
proposals are better than grand designs: they serve
the political function of registering concern, but are
too small to provoke opposition. This is the lesson
learned from the defeat of Mr ClintonD,s ambitious
health reform in 1994. Asked about Mr GoreD,s
ideas on health care now, a top aide waffles for a
while. But then he adds, with sudden clarity and
emphasis, that the vice presidentD,s proposals will
be D&hard to demoniseD8.
Thanks to similar centrist instincts, overlapping
staffs, and the shared experience of the White
House, many Gore administration policies would
indeed resemble those that America has grown
used to. On the economy, for example, Mr Gore
emphasises fiscal prudence. He resists Republican
calls to spend the current budget surplu·s on tax
cuts, preferring to put money aside for the day
when demography drives government finances
back into deficit. He prefers to shore up the big
pension and health-care programmes, rather than
experiment with their privatisation. He favours
cautiously redistributive tax and spending policies,
arguing that technology and globalisation are
tending to increase gaps be'tween rich and poor,
and that public policy should mute this.
Like Mr Clinton, Mr Gore favours free trade; but
he may not be inclined to take risks for it. In the
past, some of his finest moments have come on this
issue: against Dick Gephardt, then a rival in the
Democratic primaries, for proposing anti-trade
policies in 1988, or against Ross Perot over
NAFTA in 1993. But these days Mr Gore seems to
sense that the political winds have turned. His
advisers talk of trade liberalisation, but they add
that this must be D&appropriateD8. That means that
new trade deals must include concessions to the
environmental and labour lobbies.
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Mr GoreD,s foreign policy is also likely to resemble
Mr ClintonD,s. It will be pragmatic, ad hoc, lacking
in a grand design; but its basic instincts will be
sensible. As vice-president, Mr Gore has veered
between amoral realpolitik, as when he visited
China but made few public statements about
human rights, and moralistic sermons, as when he
delivered a lecture to the Malaysian hosts of last
yearD,s APEC summit, criticising the trial of Anwar
Ibrahim, the countryD,s former deputy prime
minister. Rather like Mr Clinton, Mr Gore
promises to defend American values with gusto
when the price is low, but to be tactful when
dealing with big countries that can damage
American interests.
Mr Gore has also emerged as a believer in African
debt relief, development programmes aimed at the
poor worldD,s under-educated girls, and generally in
the idea that rich countries will suffer in the end if
large chunks of humanity are left behind to languish.
As he noted at the World Economic Forum in
Davos las't January, one in three adul ts in the
developing worldD*872m of themD*cannot read or
write; 125m children of primary-school age are not
attending classes. This is compassionate,
internationalist stuff, but it shares Mr ClintonD,s taste
for the eclectic.
Those little differences
Despite all these similarities, Gore-ism and
Clintonism will differ. For one thing, circumstances
will compel a difference. Two of Mr ClintonD,s main
policy aimsD*reducing the fiscal deficit and
reforming welfareD*were accomplished during his
first term, obliging Mr Gore to look for new
frontiers to conquer. For another, Mr Gore does
have personal interests, and personal quirks, that
distinguish him from the president. Most strikingly,
Mr Gore is interested in science: his famous
concern for the chemical balance of environment is
matched by' similar passions for the Internet, the
genome map, new research on learning.
If you measure Mr Gore on a left-right scale, he
looks like a conventional centrist. He surrounds
himself with clever technocrats: people who are on
the whole unattached to union interests and
uncommitted to the traditional welfare state. The
exceptions, such as HarvardD,s Chris Edley (a
self-proclaimed D&paleo-liberalD8) tend only to
confirm Mr GoreD,s centrism. The vice-president,
Mr Edley points out, is tough on crime; he
supported welfare reform; he is a fiscal hawk: there
is no way that he could be identified with the
Democratic PartyD,s liberal wing, Mr Edley
concludes regretfully. The archetypal Gore man is
Mr Klain, the chief of staff, a super-smart lawyer
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with no known ideology.
But the left-right measure is not the most telling
gauge of the vice-president. Indeed, if you ask Mr
GoreD,s tribe of advisers what he is like, adjectives
like D&leftDB or D&rightDB do not feature in the answer.
Instead, you are liable to hear a lot about his
D&futurismDB, his fascination with D&complex systemsDB,
his taste for methodical analysis. If Mr Clinton is in
his element chairing a town hall discussion on race,
or empathising with the victims of a school
shooting, Mr Gore is drawn to long-run, abstract
themes. He worries about acid rain. He
brain-storms about. the Internet. He calls in
management gurus to help reinvent government. He
is fascinated with the science and social science
that shape the D&new economyDB. He is, as Ms
Kamarck (one of his chief government reinventors)
gushingly says, D&a creature of the next centuryD8.
To illustrate this futurism, Mr GoreD,s advisers draw
attention to his record before he became
vice-president. In the 1980s, they like to point out,
Mr Gore focused on global warming: he even
predicted, amid much derision at the time, the
demise of the internal combustion engine. History,
say Mr GoreD,s boosters, is already proving him
right: last year Jack Smith, the chairman of General
Motors, declared that no car company that relied
solely on the internal combustion engine would
thrive in the next century. Equally, Mr Gore spoke
passionately during the 1980s about the
importance of linking computers together, and
claims to have coined the term D&information
superhighwayDB. Again, history is on his side: the
Internet is everywhere.
The Gore campaign will play up this record of
canny futurism. Already Mr Gore peppers his
speeches with grand predictions. In his recent
Davos appearance, he foresaw an age when
D&billions of ubiquitous intelligent devices, connected
to the global information superhighway, promise
ultimately to have an impact on our civilisation
larger even than that brought about by the invention
of writing.DB And he showered his audience with
breathless historical comparisons: the means of
production have changed as dramatically as they
did in the industrial revolution; the ways of thinking
are changing as profoundly as during the
Renaissance; the climatic balance is changing in
ways it has not done since before the agricultural
revolution.
The Gore people are convinced that this message
is a vote-winner. People understand, they say, that
AmericaD,s prosperity is built on technology; they
know that their individual prosperity will depend on
this. People also suspect that most politicians know
little about technology: after all, George Bush, the
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Republican front-runner, made money in oil and
baseball; Elizabeth Dole ran the Red Cross until
recently. Mr Gore wants to stand out as the man
who can sustain the high-tech boom, and at the
same time devise measures that protect the weak
from technologyD,s more alarming consequences.
What might this mean in policy terms? Mr Gore is
likely to apply science-friendly instincts to all sorts
of government challenges. If you ask his advisers
about crime policy, for example, you will hear all
about the breakthrough that computerised patrol
cars imply for police productivity. If you ask about
schools, you will be told that the wiring of the
classroom will soon deliver a quantum leap in
learning. The first applications of a new technology,
Ms Kamarck says, never realise its potential: when
electricity arrived, some misguided companies
acquired separate generators for each floor of their
buildings. If an enlightened administration leads the
way, Ms Kamarck goes on, America can
accelerate the productivity gains of the information
revolution.
To this end, Ms Kamarck talks enthusiastically of
computer-focused teacher training and pilot
programmes that may improve applications of
existing science. But she is also keen on basic
science: on the search for the next Internet-sized
breakthrough. She likes to note that the effort to
map the human genome began as a government
project, and has been taken over by private efforts
now that the commercial potential has become
obvious. Mr Gore has lately been passing around
an article about the Human Genome ProjectO,s
public-sector origins, hoping to provoke ideas on
its consequences for medicine.
Next, Mr GoreD,s advisers offer policies to improve
the information revolutionD,s social consequences.
Because of rapid technological change, they say,
people must be prepared to change jobs
frequently: therefore, pensions and health care
should be portable. In order to change jobs,
people must retrain: therefore, tax breaks should
make adult education D&as affordable and routine as
buying a new appliance or financing a car,D8 as Mr
Gore put it recently. But adult retraining is not
enough. Thanks to the information revolution, the
rewards for university study are growing: in 1997
college graduates earned 77% more than high
school graduates, up from a differential of 58% in
1975. This D&digital divideD8 worries Mr Gore:
D&How,D8 he asked in a recent speech, D&do we make
sure that everyone has the chance to compete and
win in this new knowledge-based economy?D8 His
answer is to extend Mr ClintonD,s commitment to
reducing class size, and to give children a better
start by making pre-school education universal.
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Restless mind, heavy hand
Thus far, Mr GoreD,s scientism seems benign. The
trouble is that it may be pushed further than this; for
Mr GoreD,s intellectual style is to push everything to
its furthest limits. His brain-storming carries him to
extremes: in O&Earth in the BalanceOS, published in
1992, Mr Gore likens global warming to the
Holocaust, discerns its root cause in the
O&dysfunctional civilisationOS of the West, and
demands O&a change in our essential character.OS The
clich? holds that Mr Gore is a bore. There is some
truth in this: the issues he loves, as Michael Kinsley,
the editor of Slate, has pointed out, tend to be
both obscure and politically uncontroversial, which
makes for dull campaigning. But it is also true that,
were this man to get the presidency, he might well
be too interesting for comfort.
You can hear traces of this hyperactive mind in the
adoring praise from his advisers. Policy sessions
with the vice-president, they say, are an
intellectualO,s dream. Mr Gore will suddenly
expound on the fifth law of thermo-dynamics and
why this is a metaphor for reinventing government.
He seizes upon the idea that government
programmes should be evaluated according to their
impact on families, rather than individuals, and
demands a thorough re-analysis of anti-poverty
policy. He loves, above all, to spot links between
different subjects. O&Environmentalism is not just
about the health of the planet,OS one Gore
confidante explains, in his tribeO,s signature style. O&It
has implications that extend to political stability.
When the streams dry up, people migrate, and that
causes instability and conflict.OS
The worry is that this restless mind may make for
restless government. If ArnericaO,s security
ultimately depends on Bengali pollution and the
education of African girls, presumably ArnericaO,s
president should fix these problems, just as he
should help to make teachers computer-literate. If
the cohesion of families goes a long way to
determine rates of poverty and illiteracy,
presumably the president should devise ways of
promoting families also. The more ideas Mr Gore
grapples with, the more policy initiatives he is likely
to produce. Lately, for example, he has promised
to grapple with urban sprawl, and to make the
suburbs more D&liveableOS. This conjures up a new
image of the American presidency, or one at least
not seen since Jefferson: the president as town
planner.
There are three possible dangers in Mr GoreD,s
restlessness. The firstO*which will be played up by
RepublicansO*is that a Gore presidency would
bring about a large expansion in the size of
government. This seems, on balance, unlikely: Mr
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GoreD,s restless intellect is checked and balanced
by his Clintonian political caution. At a recent
conference on adult education, for example, Mr
Gore laid out grand-sounding policy goals: D&we
must ensure that all of our people have good,
up-to-the-minute information and counselling on
available jobs, the training needed to get those
jobs, and the knowledge of where to get the
resources to pay for it.DB But the suggested means
to these ends involved very little expansion in
government. Mr Gore offered a tax break to
employers that provide college scholarships, and
another to those that provide literacy and English
training. He promised a token sum of
moneyD*$60mD*to help alliances of employers,
colleges and unions to organise more training. And
he announced a new Labour Department website
with training information. This is hardly a harbinger
of big government.
The second danger in restless Gore is that
AmericaD,s tax code will become even more
complicated and unpopular than it is already. To
requite his policy passions without expanding
government, Mr Gore will propose tax incentives
for an endless list of worthwhile pursuits, with the
result that even accountants cease to keep track of
the new loopholes in the system. This danger is,
unfortunately, real: Mr GoreD,s advisers concede
that they mean to use tax breaks frequently. Far
from denying this, indeed, they argue that it is fine:
better to have a complicated tax code, they say,
than a larger government bureaucracy. This is
debatable, to say the least. A bewildering tax code
is economically inefficient, and frequently fails to
promote the activities that it favours.
But the biggest danger in restless Gore is the last
one. It is that, preoccupied with innovative small
policies, he will fail to tackle the big challenges. In
foreign policy, he will think interestingly about the
interconnectedness of migration and war; but he
may fail to clarify AmericaD,s muddled thinking on
military interventions. On the domestic front, his
attention to urban sprawl may come at the expense
of more presidential issues.
Is this last danger real? Mr Gore usually appears
methodical enough to stick to the big themes; he is,
by nature, less distractable than Mr Clinton. But,
occasionally, he seems to lose a sense of
perspective. D&The person who deserves to be our
next president is the one who understands how
tired working parents are,DB he said on a campaign
swing through Iowa in March. This is nonsense.
The person who deserves to be the next president
is the one who resolutely ignores peripheral issues
and attends to the big ones. When Mr Clinton frets
about his micro-managing vice-president, it is not
merely campaign-management he is referring to.
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LINKS
GoreD,s presidential agenda is displayed at the
Gore2000 official campaign site. His office at
the White House site contains a cartoon gallery.
Rivals Bill Bradley and George W Bush are
challenging Gore online as well as on the
campaign trail. GoreD,s Davos speech on debt
relief is available in audio format. You can
check the state of GoreD,s (and BradleyD,s)
campaign coffers at the Federal Election
CommissionD,s site.
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CREATOR: Todd Stern ( CN=Todd Stern/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 10:05:40.00
SUBJECT:
race memo
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
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TEXT:
I'm sending it at 11 am.
If you've got anything to holler about, please
holler before that.
Thanks.
tds
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CREATOR: Jennifer M: Luray ( CN=Jennifer M. Luray/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 11:04:00.00
SUBJECT:
PCTF: floor fight alert
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
You were inadvertently left off this as well. Sorry about that. Last
night, we had a close vote (49-51) in the Senate on an attempt to allow
military women to use their own money in order to have abortions in
military hospitals overseas. This is the season ...
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11:00 AM ---------------------------
Daniel N. Mendelson
OS/27/99 10:51:33 AM
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cc:
Subject:
PCTF: floor fight alert
Please copy me on these, particularly as they relate to appropriations
bills. Thanks.
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OS/27/99 10:50 AM ---------------------------
Barbara Chow
OS/25/99 12:31:17 PM
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To:
Daniel N. Mendelson/OMB/EOP@EOP
cc:
Subject:
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Jennifer M. Luray
OS/25/99 12:23:23 PM
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Subject: PCTF: floor fight alert
FYI: from Pro-Choice Task Force re: House floor this week
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"Coleman, Clare" <Clare.Coleman@mail.house.gov>
OS/25/99 11:20:40 AM
Record Type: Record
To: See the distribution list at the bottom of this message
cc:
Subject: PCTF: floor fight alert
MEMORANDUM
To: Democratic Pro-Choice & Health Staff
From: Clare Coleman/Rep. Lowey -- Pro-Choice Task Force
Date: May 25, 1999
Re: Floor fights ahead: DOD authorization; Ag & TP Appropriations
Yesterday, you received from the PCTF an email alerting you to the
possibility of anti-choice action in the Agriculture Appropriations bill,
which should hit the floor today.
Here's what else may be ahead this week:
DOD Authorization: The DOD Authorization bill is scheduled for floor
consideration on Thursday, May 27, although the House may not get to it
this
week.
Loretta Sanchez is carrying the amendment (which is the past has been
sponsored by former Reps. Jane Harman and Pat Schroeder) to allow military
women and dependents stationed overseas to use their own money to pay for
an
abortion in an overseas military facility.
Rep. Sanchez won a major victory in subcommittee, when her amendment to
allow privately-funded abortions won by two votes. However, her provision
was stripped during full Armed Services Committee consideration last week.
Rep. Sanchez will attempt to restore access to privately-funded abortions
in
military facilities overseas during floor consideration of the DOD
Authorization bill.
It is also important for you to know that an exception for rape and incest
has been added to the current DOD policy of paying for abortions only in
the
case of life endangerment. This change aligns DOD policy with the Hyde
Amendment (which limits federal payment for abortion under Medicaid,
Medicare, and CHIP to cases of rape, incest and life endangerment) & every
other federal abortion restriction except the restriction affecting women
in
the federal prison system (where payment is restricted to cases of rape and
life endangerment only) .
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Attached to the life, rape and incest exception is a requirement that women
who are victims of "forcible" rape or incest report the assault to a law
enforcement agency in order for their abortion to be federally-qualified
for
payment.
Discussions are underway to remove this provision, which would
only impose more burden and humiliation on a woman who has been assaulted,
when the DOD authorization moves to conference.
Treasury Postal Appropriations:
Full Committee mark-up of the FY 2000
Treasury-Postal Appropriations bill was cancelled last week due to the
impending fight over gun control.
It is likely that the Appropriations
Committee will postpone mark-up of the bill until after Memorial Day
recess.
The subcommittee mark includes the prohibition on Federal Employees Health
Benefit (FEHB) coverage of abortion (exceptions: rape, incest, life
endangerment).
There is an attempt to strike this provision every year,
and
unfortunately, the strike fails every year. Rep. DeLauro is expected to
offer an amendment to strike the restriction in committee.
The subcommittee mark also contains the Lowey contraceptive coverage
provision, requiring FEHB plans to cover prescription contraceptive drugs
and devices if they cover other prescriptions.
It is likely that an
anti-choice member will attempt to strike the Lowey provision in committee
or on the floor -- we expect to win that. Again, Treasury-Postal
Appropriations is still in committee and is unlikely to make to the floor
before Memorial Day recess.
Message Sent
To:
Ann-=F~.~L-e-w-i~s-/~W~H~O~/~E=O~P~@~E~O~P-------------------------------------------
Lisa M. Kountoupes/WHO/EOP@EOP
Caroline R. Fredrickson/WHO/EOP@EOP
Broderick Johnson/WHO/EOP@EOP
Martha Foley/WHO/EOP@EOP
Broderick Johnson/WHO/EOP@EOP
Barbara Chow/OMB/EOP@EOP
Mary Beth Cahill@cahill_m@al.eop.gov
Nicole R. Rabner/WHO/EOP@EOP
Neera Tanden/WHO/EOP@EOP
Barbara D. Woolley/WHO/EOP@EOP
Christopher C. Jennings/OPD/EOP@EOP
Sarah A. Bianchi/OVP@OVP
Karen Tramontano/WHO/EOP@EOP
Lynn G. Cutler/WHO/EOP@EOP
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CREATOR: Barry J. Toiv ( CN=Barry J. Toiv/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 17:34:11.00
SUBJECT:
GOP Celebrates Welfare Success (Eli's in the story)
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Cynthia A. Rice ( CN=Cynthia A. Rice/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce N. Reed ( CN=Bruce N. Reed/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
GOP Celebrates Welfare Success
By LAURA MECKLER Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Bill Archer, a top House
Republican, still remembers being called names
when he
pushed the 1996 welfare overhaul, so he's
feeling more than a
little vindicated by the good news so far.
"Where are the children starving on the sewer
grates? "
he
asked Thursday.
Releasing a report on welfare reform, GOP
leaders celebrated
the diminishing welfare rolls and rising work
rates, dismissing
anything negative. Any problems are like
"cracks"
in the Sistine
Chapel's ceiling, said Archer, R-Texas, chairman
of the House
Ways and Means Committee.
Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., a lead author of the
welfare bill, said
the new report proves the overhaul was
"undoubtedly the most
successful piece of legislation in this half
century. ' ,
The report, by the General Accounting Office,
reviews a
handful of the state studies on people who have
left welfare and
finds most people are working. But those same
studies suggest
former welfare recipients have not escaped
poverty and are
struggling to get by.
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Archer and Shaw dismissed questions about those
findings.
They rejected warnings that things may get
tougher when the
economy worsens or when people use up their
five-year
lifetime limit on benefits.
Skepticism comes from the same people who
opposed welfare
reform in the first place, said a defiant
Archer. He seemed to
welcome the chance to swing back at them, saying
he feels
vindicated by welfare rolls that are at a
30-year low and little
evidence of severe hardships predicted by
advocates for the
poor and some Democrats.
"They called me a Nazi. They called me Hitler.
They called me
mean-spirited and said I wanted children
starving on the sewer
grates,"
he said.
"We had a job to do and we
plowed through
all that.
"You can pick at anything,"
he added. "Are we
better off now
that we were before? That's the question that's
got to be
asked. ' ,
But others -- even those who supported the
reforms -- say it's
too early to declare success.
"We haven't won yet,"
said Rep. Benjamin
Cardin, Ii-Md,
who voted for the welfare bill. He said
declaring victory is
"either naive or political"
given that many
questions remain.
"What I really regret is they give the public
the impression the
job's been done,"
he said.
Eli Segal, who heads the cheerleading Welfare to
Work
Partnership, agrees that there is more work to
do.
"We don't kid ourselves, "
he said. "Many
people, at best, are
going from welfare to the working poor. ' ,
Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., who chairs the Ways
and
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Means welfare subcommittee, said she would
continue to work
on the issue. But she also dismissed critics who
say people
leaving the rolls are having trouble making it.
--It's very hard to live on welfare,"
she said.
And most people
leaving the rolls, even if they take minimum
wage jobs, make
more than they got on welfare.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert joined the
celebratory news
conference, though he was less gleeful. He said
he was
encouraged by Vice President Al Gore's
suggestion that
faith-based groups can be more involved in
social programs.
And he suggested that more work remains.
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CREATOR: Jennifer M. Palmieri ( CN=Jennifer M. Palmieri/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 13:17:55.00
SUBJECT:
leak for sunday
TO.: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce N. Reed ( CN=Bruce N. Reed/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Thomas D. Janenda ( CN=Thomas D. Janenda/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Richard L. Siewert ( CN=Richard L. Siewert/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Loretta M. Ucelli ( CN=Loretta M. Ucelli/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Barry J. Toiv ( CN=Barry J. Toiv/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
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TEXT:
so -- you guys got any policy lying around you wanna kick out for sunday?
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 14:03:42.00
SUBJECT:
OJJDP money
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
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02:05 PM ---------------------------
Neera Tanden
OS/27/99 01:43:54 PM
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To:
Bruce N. Reed/OPD/EOP, Karin Kullman/OPD/EOP, Jose Cerda
III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
OJJDP money
I just talked to OJJDP folks, and they told me that they can do a transfer
to FTC and that they also have the authority to do the study themselves
already because they have specific authority to examine media violence.
So I think this loose end is tied up.
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CREATOR: Neera Tanden ( CN=Neera Tanden/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 18:07:41.00
SUBJECT:
Senator Lieberman
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Janet Murguia ( CN=Janet Murguia/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce N. Reed ( CN=Bruce N. Reed/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )"
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Apparently Senator Lieberman is planning to be in Seattle on Mon and
Tues. He is thinking of doing an event with Pam Eakes around the
Washington State Retail Association on point of sale enforcement.
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CREATOR: Barry J. Toiv ( CN=Barry J. Toiv/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO I )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 08:55:23.00
SUBJECT:
Re: Does either of you know how many vetoes President has cast on "partial
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD I )
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
That's Ann's memory, too.
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CREATOR: Irene Bueno ( CN=Irene Bueno/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:27-MAY-1999 20:23:39.00
SUBJECT:
INS Detention Amendment
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Here is more information on the budget proposal that OMB arid DOJ/INS have
been developing.
The offsets I think are okay but I am a little concerned
about the border patrol offset since a bipartisan group of members have
criticized the President for not hiring 1,000 more border patrol.
However, I think we can argue tha this offset is going toward another INS
enforcement function - ie detention.
Please advise if you have any concerns with this offset.
Thanks.
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Steven M. Mertens
OS/27/99 05:51:27 PM
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To:
Maria Echaveste/WHO/EOP
cc:
Michael Deich/OMB/EOP, Kenneth L. Schwartz/OMB/EOP, David J.
Haun/OMB/EOP, Irene Bueno/OPD/EOP
Subject:
INS Detention Amendment
We are in the process of clearing an INS' mandatory detention budget
amendment for FY 2000. To support the $230 million we are requesting will
require comparable offsets. There are two offsets for which we would like
your concurrence:
Reinstatement of the 245(i) adjustment of status provision which permits
eligible individuals to adjust to permanent resident status upon payment
of a $1000 penalty. The Administration fought hard and unsuccessfully to
enact a permanent extension in FY 98 and the program expired on January
1998. Janet Murgia has touched base with the Hispanic Caucus and they are
supportive. NSC and DPC also have no objection. We are estimating
receipts from this penalty provision will total approximately $110M in
2000.
Reallocation within INS' Enforcement Account of $20 million from the
annualization savings in FY 2000 associated with the slow hiring of the
1,000 Border Patrol agents in FY 1999.
INS is estimating they will only
hire 200-400 towards the 1,000 goal in FY 99. They will likely hire the
remaining agents to the full 1,000 funded during the first half of FY
2000.
The President's Budget assumed that we would be paying for 1,000
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additional agents for the full year, starting on October 1, 1999.
However, because not all of the agents will be on board on October 1, INS
estimates they will "save" $20 million in salary/benefit costs.
These
funds will remain within INS' Enforcement Account, albeit for detention
purposes. We want to alert you, however, because the optics may be
interpreted as a lack of Administration support for the 1,000 Border
Patrol agents.
If you object to these offset or have any concerns, please contact Michael
or me at your earliest convenience. Thanks.
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CREATOR: Jeffrey A. Shesol ( CN=Jeffrey A. Shesol/OU=WHOIO=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:28-MAY-1999 17:50:44.00
SUBJECT:
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PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS ON CHILDREN, VIOLENCE AND MARKETING
THE ROSE GARDEN
June 1, 1999
Acknowledgments: the First Lady; AG Reno; FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky;
Arthur Sawe [sah-WAY] and his mother Caroline; Mayor DeeDee Corradini, US
Conference of Mayors; Wash. State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson
In recent weeks, and in the wake of tragedy, we have witnessed
something truly remarkable: Americans from all regions and all walks of
life coming together to prevent youth violence.
As you may recall, the
First Lady and I traveled to Colorado recently and spoke with the students
of Columbine High School.
In one sudden moment, just six weeks ago, they
lost much of the innocence of youth; but ·I am pleased to say that they
have lost little of its idealism.
They have held fast to their faith in a
better future 0) a future where hatred no longer hardens the heart; a
future where values, and not violence, make up our common culture.
)
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The national grassroots campaign Hillary described is rooted
firmly in that faith.
We know we can prevent youth violence if we work
together, across all the lines that may divide us; and assume
responsibility rather than assign blame. That responsibility, of course,
begins at home.
Parents must guide children as they grow, and stay
involved even as children become more independent. That responsibility
must be reinforced at school; in houses of worship; and in the community
as a whole.
The more invested we are in the lives of our children, the
less isolated they can become.
Those of us in public service must also do our part, and fulfill
our responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and
children. To that end, there is a broad and growing national consensus
that says we must do more.
I am grateful that a number of gun
manufacturers came here to the White House last month and voiced their
support for our common-sense approach.
And I am encouraged that the
Senate D) by the narrowest of margins D) agreed to close the deadly gun-show
loophole; require that safety locks be sold with every handgun; and raise
the age of handgun possession from 18 to 21. To the House of
Representatives I say:
Pass these common-sense measures into law, and do
so swiftly when you return to Washington.
DonD,t put our childrenD,s safety
on hold D) put it on top of your agenda.
Members of the entertainment industry must also do their part.
They D) and
the rest of us D) must not kid ourselves:
our children are being weaned on
a dependable, daily dose of violence. Violent movies and television
programs; violent CDs and video games; violent ads for violent products.
Studies show that the typical 18-year-old has seen 200,000 dramatized acts
of violence and 40,000 dramatized murders.
Kids become numb to it. They
have to. And as their tolerance for violence grows, so, in many cases,
does their taste for it. We should not be surprised that half the video
games the typical seventh-grader plays are violent ones.
Anyone who doubts the impact of this cultural assault can look at hundreds
of studies, three decadesD, worth, showing the direct link between violent
entertainment and violent behavior. What these studies tell us is that
for adults, the boundary between fantasy and reality is a bright line; but
for vulnerable children, it can be blurred.
Kids who are steeped in the
culture of violence become desensitized to it and more capable of
committing it themselves.
That is why I have strongly urged people in the industry to consider the
consequences of what they create. Our administration has also worked to
give parents the tools to protect their kids D) and block violent
programming from entering their living rooms.
We have developed a
voluntary rating system for television, and a V-Chip that enables parents
to enforce it. WeD,ve also made progress on parental screening for the
Internet and ratings for Internet game sites.
Still, when violent entertainment made for adults is marketed to children,
it undermines the rating systems designed to protect them. Advertisements
have the power to egg children on and lure them in.
Every parent knows
what a commercial for sugar cereal D) or the latest D&Star WarsnS toy n) can
do to kids.
They want that product and, one way or another, theyD,re
likely to get it. An ad for an R-rated movie may have the same effect on
a child. And we shudder to think of the impact of ads for so-called 0&
first-person shooterDS video games D) like the recent ad for a Sony video
game that invites players to D&get in touch with your gun-toting.
cold-blooded murdering side.DS Now, Arthur obviously has the inner
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strength and the upbringing to reject that kind of violent appeal.
not every child does.
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But
To any company that sells violent products, I say this: Children are more
than consumers. They are our future, and our most precious resource.
They should not be the targets of the marketing of violence.
Today, I am asking the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade
Commission to study the extent to which the video game, music and movie
industries market violence to children 0) and whether those industries are
abiding by their own voluntary systems of regulation. And I issue this
challenge to the owners of movie theaters and video stores, to
distributors, and to anyone at the point of sale: enforce strictly the
ratings systems on the products you sell. Check IDs.
Draw the line.
If
gratuitous violence is getting into PG-13-rated movies, then ratings
systems should be reevaluated. And if underage kids are getting into
R-rated movies or buying violent video games, then ratings systems should
be better enforced.
I want to thank Senators Brownback, Lieberman, Hatch, and Kohl for the
groundbreaking work theyO,ve done on this issue. And I want to commend
Washington State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson, who is here with us
today.
Inspired by an article she read about young Arthur, Rep. Dickerson
helped create a task force on video game violence. And, thanks to her
work with the Washington Retailers Association, video game retailers in
their state will now voluntarily check IDs and block sales of violent
games to minors.
I urge others to follow their lead.
For this is the way we will make
progress: by constant and coordinated effort 0) as individuals and
industries, as communities and as a nation.
Youth violence is a problem
we face together 0) and it is a problem America can solve together.
By
joining hands in this effort we can truly build a safer future for all our
children in the 21st Century. Thank you.
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CREATOR: Jeffrey A. Shesol ( CN=Jeffrey A. Shesol/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:28-MAY-1999 15:07:28.00
SUBJECT:
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3:00pm
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS ON CHILDREN, VIOLENCE AND MARKETING
THE ROSE GARDEN
June 1, 1999
Acknowledgments: the First Lady; AG Reno; FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky;
Arthur Sawe [sah-WAY] and his mother Caroline; Mayor DeeDee Corradini, US
Conference of Mayors
In recent weeks, and in the wake of tragedy, we have witnessed
something truly remarkable: Americans from all regions and all walks of
life are coming together to prevent youth violence. As you may recall,
the First Lady and I traveled to Colorado recently and spoke with the
students of Columbine High School.
In one sudden, violent moment, just
six weeks ago, they lost much of the innocence of youth; but I am pleased
to say that t,hey have lost little of its idealism.
They have held fast to
their faith in a better future 0) a future where hatred no longer hardens
the heart; a future where values, and not violence, make up our common
culture.
The national grassroots campaign that Hillary described is rooted
firmly in that same faith: that we can and will prevent youth violence by
working together, across all the lines that may divide us; and by assuming
responsibility rather than assigning blame. That responsibility begins at
home.
Parents must guide children as they grow, and stay involved even as
children become more independent. That responsibility must be reinforced
at school; in houses of worship; and in the community as a whole.
The
more invested we are in the lives of our children, the less isolated they
can become.
)
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Page 3 of4
Those of us in public service must also do our part, and fulfill
our responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and
children. To that end, there is a broad and growing national consensus
that says we must do more.
I am grateful that a number of gun
manufacturers came here to the White House last month and voiced their
support for our common-sense approach. And I am encouraged that the
Senate D) by the narrowest of margins D) agreed to close the deadly gun-show
loophole; require that safety locks be sold with every handgun; and raise
the age of handgun possession from 18 to 21.
To the House of
Representatives I say: Pass these common-sense measures into law, and do
so swiftly when you return to Washington.
Put our childrenD,s safety on
top of your agenda D) not on hold.
Members of the entertainment industry must also do their part.
They D) and
the rest of us D) must not kid ourselves:
our children are being weaned on
a dependable daily dose of violence. Violent movies and television
programs; violent CDs and video games; violent ads for violent products.
Studies show that the typical 18-year-old has seen 200,000 dramatized acts
of violence and 40,000 dramatized murders.
Kids become numb to it.
They
have to. And as their tolerance for violence grows, so, in many cases,
does their taste for it. As Arthur Sawe [sah-WAY] just told us,
advertisements egg children on and draw them in: a recent ad for a Sony
video game invites players to D&get in touch with your gun-toting.
cold-blooded murdering side.DS So we should not be surprised that half the
video games the typical seventh-grader plays are violent ones.
Anyone who doubts the impact of this cultural assault can look at hundreds
of studies, three decadesD, worth, showing the direct link between violent
entertainment and violent behavior. What these studies tell us is that
for adults, the boundary between fantasy and reality is a bright line; but
for vulnerable children, it can be blurred.
Kids who are steeped in the
culture of violence become desensitized to it and more capable of
committing it themselves.
That is why I have strongly urged people in the industry to consider the
consequences of what they create. Our administration has also worked to
give parents the tools to protect their kids D) and block violent
programming from entering their living rooms.
We have developed a
voluntary rating system for television, and a V-Chip that enables parents
to enforce it. WeD,ve also made progress on parental screening for the
Internet and ratings for Internet game sites.
But these filters are designed to keep out violent programs and games, not
the ads for violent programs or games.
We know that all too often,
children make up the audience for violent advertisements 0) whether TV
commercials, print ads, or movie trailers.
A recent study in the Journal
of the American Medical Association looked at violent ads shown during a
nonviolent, family-friendly broadcast D) the baseball playoffs.
During
each and every game of the World Series, an average of ten violent
commercials appeared. Ten per game.
Most of the ads were for violent TV
programs or violent movies.
Kids may not get to see the show, but in the
commercial, theyO,re seeing the commercial.
Now, no parent wants to tell a child to stop watching baseball because the
commercials are too violent.
But all parents know the effect that ads for
sugar cereals D) or the newest O&Star WarsOS toy 0) have on our kids.
So we
had best be concerned about the effect that violent ads have on our kids.
These advertisements are troubling.
TheyD,re pure, packaged violence, arid
totally stripped of context or consequence.
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If violent products are made, they should not be marketed to children.
I
think all Americans can agree on that.
Today, I am asking the Department
of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to study the extent to which
the video game, television, music and movie industries market violence to
children 0) and whether those industries are abiding by their own voluntary
systems of regulation.
I want to acknowledge Senators Brownback,
Lieberman, Hatch, and Kohl for the work theyO,ve done to raise this issue.
And I also want to issue this challenge to owners of movie theaters and
video stores, to distributors, and to anyone at the point of sale:
enforce strictly the ratings systems on the entertainment you sell.
Check
IDs. Draw the line.
If gratuitous violence is getting into PG-13-rated
movies, ratings systems should be reevaluated.
And if underage kids are
getting into R-rated movies or buying violent video games, ratings systems
should be better enforced.
There is no high-tech quick fix to these problems.
It will take effort,
vigilant and concerted effort, by all of us to make a difference and do
right by our children. But we must do it. We must step up to our
responsibility as individuals and industries, as communities and as a
nation.
Youth violence is a problem we face together 0) and it is a
problem America can solve together.
By joining hands in this effort we
can build a safer future for all our children in the 21st Century. Thank
you.
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CREATOR: Paul J. Weinstein Jr.@EOP@LNGTWY@LNGTWY ( Paul J. Weinstein Jr.@EOP@LNGTWY@
CREATION DATE/TIME:2B-MAY-1999 15:56:03.00
SUBJECT:
Intern Projects
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TEXT:
Message Creation Date was at 28-MAY-1999 15:52:00
Please remember, you MUST give your interns a policy, substantive research
project that they can work on all summer long (including health care).
I
want
to know what these projects are by next Friday (4th) bye-mail.
Those who
do
not provide your intern with a project.by then, I will take away your
intern
privileges, no kidding.
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CREATOR: Neera Tanden ( CN;Neera Tanden/OU;WHO/O;EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:28-MAY-1999 10:51:39.00
SUBJECT:
memo to FTC and DoJ
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN;Laura Emmett/OU;WHO/O;EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
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CREATOR: Janet Murguia ( CN;Janet Murguia/Ou;wHO/O;EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:28-MAY-1999 18:27:48.00
SUBJECT:
announcement regarding GFSA
TO: Tracey E. Thornton ( CN;Tracey E. Thornton/OU;WHO/O;EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
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TEXT:
Scott Flemming, Dir. of Leg. Affairs at Education raises concerns
regarding proposed Gun Free Schools Act announcement next Friday.
Please
review and comment.
Jm
---------------------- Forwarded by Janet Murguia/WHO/EOP on OS/28/99
06:23 PM ---------------------------
Scott_Fleming@ed.gov
OS/28/99 05:56:00 PM
Record Type: Record
To: Janet Murguia@eop
cc:
Subject: announcement regarding GFSA
Bill M. sent me a cc-mail about the possible WH interest in doing an
announcement on a morning news show next Friday, June 4, on the Gun Free
Schools Act numbers of expulsions for the most recently available school
year.
This is very troubling.
Sens. Feinstein and Dorgan met with the
Secretary a few weeks ago. Feinstein was very concerned with the apparent
lack of compliance with the Act at least in California.
We indicated to
them that the Secretary would be willing to do a press event with them
linking the new numbers to efforts to prod better compliance. As you know,
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the Congress is not in session next Friday and Feinstein is in California
and Dorgan is in N. Dakota with a very full schedule.
Since some of Feinstein's concern about lack of compliance stems from a
court ruling that invalidated the Gun Free School ZONES Act (which has
since
been remedied and is back in effect), we had even thought an event with the
two Senators, Secretary Riley and AG Reno might make sense.
Any way, next Friday is very troubling.
If it is going to happen -- which
I
would hope could be delayed until they are back in town on Tuesday, June 8
-- we should determine how we can do a follow up event with them and get it
locked in before this announcement so they don't feel left out of it.
For the Congressional angle of this, please get back to Tom Kelley in OLCA
since I am on travel.
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please remember, you MUST give your interns a policy, substantive research
project that they can work on all summer long (including health care).
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want to know what these projects are by next Friday (4th) bye-mail.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Elena Kagan
Bruce Reed
SUBJECT:
DPC Weekly Report
Crime/Guns - House Republican Bill: While we have yet to see actual bill language,
Chainnan Hyde and Rep. McCollum released some preliminary details on the juvenile crime bill
they intend to move in the next two weeks. The legislation will build on McCollum's current
juvenile crime bill -- a significantly scaled-back version of a bill passed in the House two years ago
-- which now has bipartisan cosponsors.
Juvenile provisions: The current version of the McCollum bill creates a $500 million juvenile
accountability block grant for states and localities to fund numerous activities, such as:
graduated sanctions programs, juvenile drug and gun courts, and the hiring of additional
prosecutors, probation officers and juvenile court judges. Instead of requiring states to
prosecute juveniles as adults as a condition of receiving block grant funds, the McCollum bill
allows states one year to for states to adopt graduated sanctions for juvenile offenders in order
to receive funding.
Gun provisions: Unlike the previous bill, the juvenile crime bill will contain a number of
gun-related measures -- many which are similar to those recently passed in the Senate (e.g.,
background checks at gun shows, juvenile Brady, child safety locks, juvenile ban on assault
weapons). The House bill will likely reach beyond the Senate to include additional provisions
-- some from our bill -- to require background checks for explosives purchases; prohibit
bomb-making instructions on the Internet; ban all long gun sales to juveniles; increase penalties
for gun traffickers and individuals who transfer guns to juveniles; and require mandatory
sentences for juveniles who use guns to hurt others on school property.
Other provisions: The bill will also likely.include provisions from the Senate bill to address the
"culture of violence" issue, including studies and investigations into the marketing and effects
of violent television shows and games on children. The House Republicans will also include
the contentious IDEA provision opposed by Senator Harkin, to allow school officials to
discipline disabled children in the same manner as other students for bringing guns to schools.
Crime -- Gun Free-Schools Report:
The Education Department will soon release the
Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA) report for the 1997-98 school year. The report will show that there
were over 3,000 students expelled for bringing a gun to school -- almost half the number of expulsions
as compared to the previous school year. While Education is generally confident about the report,
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there is some concern about under-enforcement by school districts of the GFSA, particularly in
California. Education will be working with the state and relevant school districts about these
concerns.
Children and Families - Media Violence: Over the last week there have been a number of
decisions by various television networks that reflect a more concerted effort to limit the level of
violence in their progranuning in light of the recent school shootings. Studios USA, the studio that
owns "The Jerry Springer Show," announced that it would no longer include violence, physical
confrontation, or profanity in its show, and this week it pulled shows that included those three
elements. The Wamer Brothers network pre-empted its season finale of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
-- which featured students killing their principal after he was transformed into a serpent -- with a
re-run, though it plans to show the episode later this year. Finally, CBS has rejected a pilot about the
Mafia in part because of its heavy gun violence. However, at the same time, the Fox network
unveiled a full schedule that features shows with unprecedented levels of violence.
Education - D.C. College Access Act: Acting on a concept proposed in your FY 2000
Budget, the House has passed a version of the D.C. College Access Act. Under this bill, the Federal
government would be authorized to pay the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition for
any qualified D.C. undergraduate attending a public college or university in any of the 50 states.
The bill would also provide grants of up to $3,000 annually to D.C. residents who choose to attend a
private college or university in D.C., Maryland or Virginia, as well as authorize financial support for
the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). Initial projections show that this proposal could
cost more then double, or even triple, the $17 million included in your FY 2000 Budget. Secretary
Riley sent a letter to the Senate expressing the Administration's support for the intent of this bill, but
also our reservations regarding some of the provisions. Instead, the Secretary urges them to
consider a bill introduced by Senator Jeffords - one that the Administration was involved in drafting.
The Jeffords proposal limits the tuition assistance to D.C. undergraduates attending public colleges
and universities in Virginia and Maryland, whose family income is less than $50,000 annually. It
would also limit the grants for students attending area private colleges and universities to $2,000
annually. While we support additional funding for UDC, we prefer that they receive the additional
funding they are entitled to as an Historically Black College or University (HBCU) under Title ill of
the Higher Education Act.
Education -- School Uniforms: Per your request for an update on the percent of school
districts adopting school uniform policies, we have requested additional data from the Department
of Education and will forward that to you as soon as possible. As of July, 1998 the Department of
education estimated that 3% of all public schools have mandatory uniform policies. A survey of
principals in 10 states showed that 11 % of elementary schools require uniforms, and 15% are
considering a policy. Some of the nation's largest school districts have adopted school uniform
policies, including New York City, Dade County, San Antonio, Houston, Chicago, Boston and
Albuquerque. In Washington, D.C., the District School Superintendent has requested that the
principals of the city's 146 public schools consider the adoption of a policy that would require
students to wear school uniforms or adhere to a strict dress code. In Massachusetts, the Governor
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has proposed legislation for next year that would require all public schools to adopt uni fonns unless
their local parent councils vote to opt out.
Education -- Republican Teacher Empowerment Act: Congressman McKeon has introduced
a version of TitIe II (Teacher Quality) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that
has some similarities to your proposal, including a focus on high-quality, sustained professional
development and a an effort to improve alternative certification methods and teacher pension and
credential portability. However the McKeon bill differs from your proposal in many important
ways. McKeon's bill:
Would weaken the Class Size Reduction Initiative by giving districts the option of using their Class
Size Reduction funds for professional development. It also does not maintain the focus on
reducing class size in the early elementary grades.
Does not encourage States and districts to continue their efforts to develop and implement content
and perfonnance standards and curricula and assessments aligned to those standards - an
essential part of advancing the Goals 2000 agenda.
Does not target funds to high-poverty districts as effectively as your proposal.
Would prohibit Federal support of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Does not expand the Troops-to-Teachers program to non-military mid-career professionals -- which
your proposal does.
At this point, the bill does not include the kind of clear, enforceable accountability provisions
included in your Title XI proposal.
Health Care ~- Senator Breaux and Congressman Thomas Testify on Medicare
Reform: On Wednesday, Senator Breaux and Congressman Thomas testified before the Senate
Finance Committee in support of their Medicare Commission proposal. Notably, Senator Breaux
indicated that he would now advocate dropping his proposal to raise the eligibility age to 67,
change his Medicaid prescription drug coverage proposal to include a subsidy for all Medicare
beneficiaries, and indicated his openness to modify his graduate medical education provision that is
so problematic for Senator Moynihan and the academic health centers. His office is indicating that
Senator Breaux hopes that his modifications will help begin to bridge the gap between the
Administration and the Senator's priorities for modernizing the Medicare program.
Health Care -- Patients Bill of Rights. Discharge Petition Resolution Filed: On
Thursday, Congressman Dingle filed a resolution beginning the process for a discharge petition that
(if successful) would bypass the House Committee process and lead to a House floor vote. On the
same day, Senator Lott opened up negotiations with Senator Daschle to detennine if a time an
amendment agreement could be reached to enable Senate floor consideration of its version of the
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Patients Bill of Rights. Congressman Dingell filed the resolution because there seems to be little
movement from the House leadership on proceeding with this legislation. He hopes that it will
lead to either an expedited Committee markup or provide legislative a vehicle to obtain the
necessary 218 cosponsors necessary for a vote. Congressmen Norwood (R-IA) and Ganske
(R-GA) did not cosponsor the resolution because they first want to determine whether the filing of
the resolution will force Commerce Committee Chairman Blilely to mark up and pass out a Patients
Bill of Rights Bill. They will likely join the Democratic effort if they determine that the
Republican leadership is not ready to move on this legislation. Speaker Hastert immediately
charged the House Democratic leadership with politicizing this issue, but is clearly worried that this
effort will lead to an embarrassing vote on the House floor.
Health Care -- Jeffords-Kennedy-Roth-Moynihan Worker Incentives Improvement
Act is set to pass the Senate: On Thursday evening, the Senate leadership agreed to schedule a
vote on the final passage of the Work Incentives Improvement Act. Although Senator Gramm
(R-TX) has objected to proceeding because of concerns about some of the offsets, we anticipate
that this legislation will be passed out of the Senate soon after the Senate returns from its Memorial
Day recess. We believe the progress in the Senate, as well as that in the House (the Commerce
Committee marked up a bill that appears headed for final House consideration sometime in June),
can be highlighted by you when you deliver the President's Award of the Committee on
Employment of People With Disabilities next Friday.
Health Care -- Update on the status of Arkansas' 1915(b) waiver proposal: You had
asked for an update on the status of "Benefit Arkansas", the State of Arkansas' proposal to use a
managed care delivery system to provide intensive case management services to children with
special mental health needs. This demonstration was designed to assure that these children receive
inpatient, outpatient, and rehabilitation services in a coordinated and cost-effective fashion. Last
week, HCFA requested that Arkansas momentarily halt the review of their application in order for
the State to assure that beneficiaries mandatorily enrolled in managed care have access to
specialists, are guaranteed a choice of providers, or have access to an effective complaints and
appeals process. Following our inquiry into this matter, HCFA has concluded that the Arkansas
proposal meets the necessary standards and expects to approve the Arkansas waiver by mid June.
Health Care -- Update on the dissemination of polio vaccine contaminated with monkey
(simian) viruses and the associated spread of other diseases: You had asked for an evaluation of
Walter Kyle's contention that the distribution of contaminated polio vaccine is responsible for the
spread of a variety of viruses that cause cancer and immune depressive diseases, such as HIV. Mr.
Kyle also asserts that in 1977, the FDA released additional batches of polio vaccine contaminated with
many simian viruses, including SIV (the simian version of HIV), that he believes are associated with
the spread of AIDS. Mr. Kyle is correct that from 1955 to 1963, FDA did release several batches of
vaccine that were contaminated with a simian virus called SV40. However, research experts at FDA
and NUl have definitively concluded that after more than 30 years of follow-up, exposure to polio
vaccines that was contaminated with SV40 is not associated with a significantly increased rate of
cancer. In addition, last year, in response to the assertion that FDA had released polio vaccine
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contaminated with SlY, FDA tested 12 lots of polio vaccine from 1977 and the years surrounding it for
the presence ofHlY or SlY. The results of the test were negative, and FDA has been unable to find any
additional corroborating evidence for Mr. Kyle's claims. The majority of the scientific community,
including John Coffin, a senior editor of the Journal of Virology and Jonathan Allan, a well respected
and internationally known AIDS researcher, stand solidly behind FDA's contention that the polio
vaccine is safe. As for the issue of informed choice on the use of the polio vaccine, researchers and
physicians at the Centers for Disease Control believe that parents should be informed about the
potential risk of the polio or any other vaccine before vaccinating their children. However, they believe
that the polio vaccine is completely safe as far as retroviruses are concerned, and believe it is therefore
unnecessary to discuss the issue of contamination by simian viruses.
Disabilities - Employment of People with Disabilities in the Federal Workforce: We
have been working with the Vice President's office to prepare two executive actions to help
increase the employment of people with disabilities in the federal workforce. The first will be a
directive to federal agencies to implement an employment plan for people with disabilities prepared
by the Office of Personnel Management at the Vice President's request. The directive will ensure
agencies 1) recruit widely people with disabilities for positions at all levels; 2) establish
agency-wide reasonable accommodation policies and procedures for applicants and employees with
disabilities; 3) provide career opportunities for people with disabilities, including equal opportunity
to obtain managerial and executive training and compete for promotions; and 4) collect and
maintain data to monitor the success in achieving a higher percentage of adults with disabilities in
the federal workforce. The second action will be an executive order, to be followed by regulations,
which will change the civil service rules to ensure that people with psychiatric disabilities 1) will be
covered by the same appointing authority which facilitates hiring of individuals with other
disabilities and 2) will be allowed to acquire competitive civil service status after two years of
service as individuals with other disabilities now can. These stricter standards for mental
disabilities were put in place over 20 years ago, and Mrs. Gore, in a speech at Dartmouth in
January, announced that OPM would examine ways to eliminate these disparities. We are
discussing with the Vice President and Mrs. Gore's office when to announce these, including
possibly at the disability awards discussed [abovelbelow], at the mental health conference, or
elsewhere.
Welfare -- Ways & Means Hearing on Welfare Outcomes: Last week, the Ways and
Means Human Resources Subcommittee held a hearing to review the effects of welfare reform and
the Republican members held a separate press event to celebrate the success of what Clay Shaw
called "the most successful piece of legislation in this half century." GAO provided testimony on
state welfare reform implementation and reported a dramatic increase in the number of people
moving from welfare to work. Summarizing seven state studies of those who have left the rolls,
most of which we have reported to you previously, GAO found that between 61 percent
(Tennessee) and 71 percent (Washington) of former recipients were working at the time of follow
up and between 63 percent (Maryland) and about 85 percent (Indiana, South Carolina, Washington,
and Wisconsin) had worked at some point since leaving welfare. We will review the entire GAO
report on which the testimony was based and the other information presented by a range of panelists
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CREATOR: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ] )
CREATION DATE/TIME:28-MAY-1999 12:59:22.00
SUBJECT:
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TO: Elena Kagan
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May 21, 1999
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Elena Kagan
SUBJECT:
. Bruce Reed
DPC Weekly Report
Crime/Guns -- House Republican Bill: While we have yet to see actual bill language,
Chainnan Hyde and Rep. McCollum released some preliminary details on the juvenile crime bill
they intend to move in the next two weeks. The legislation will build on McCollum's current
juvenile crime bill -- a significantly scaled-back version of a bill passed in the House two years ago
-- which now has bipartisan cosponsors.
Juvenile provisions: The current version of the McCollum bill creates a $500 million juvenile
accountability block grant for states and localities to fund numerous activities, such as:
graduated sanctions programs, juvenile drug and gun courts, and the hiring of additional
prosecutors, probation officers and juvenile court judges. Instead of requiring states to
prosecute juveniles as adults as a condition of receiving block grant funds, the McCollum bill
allows states one year to for states to adopt graduated sanctions for juvenile offenders in order
to receive funding.
Gun provisions: Unlike the previous bill, the juvenile crime bill will contain a number of
gun-related measures -- many which are similar to those recently passed in the Senate (e.g.,
background checks at gun shows, juvenile Brady, child safety locks, juvenile ban on assault
weapons). The House bill will likely reach beyond the Senate to include additional provisions
-- some from our bill -- to require background checks for explosives purchases; prohibit
bomb-making instructions on the Internet; ban all long gun sales to juveniles; increase penalties
for gun traffickers and individuals who transfer guns to juveniles; and require mandatory
sentences for juveniles who use guns to hurt others on school property.
Other provisions: The bill will also likely include provisions from the Senate bill to address the
"culture of violence" issue, including studies and investigations into the marketing and effects
of violent television shows and games on children. The House Republicans will also include
the contentious IDEA provision opposed by Senator Harkin, to allow school officials to
discipline disabled children in the same manner as other students for bringing guns to schools.
Crime -- Gun Free-Schools Report:
The Education Department will soon release the
Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA) report for the 1997-98 school year. The report will show that there
. were over 3,000 students expelled for bringing a gun to school -- almost half the number of expulsions
as compared to the previous school year. While Education is generally confident about the report,
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there is some concern about under-enforcement by school districts of the GFSA, particularly in
California. Education will be working with the state and relevant school districts about these
concerns.
Children and Families - Media Violence: Over the last week there have been a number of
decisions by various television networks that reflect a more concerted effort to limit the level of
violence in their programming in light of the recent school shootings. Studios USA, the studio that
owns "The Jerry Springer Show," announced that it would no longer include violence, physical
confrontation, or profanity in its show, and this week it pulled shows that included those three
elements. The Wamer Brothers network pre-empted its season finale of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
-- which featured students killing their principal after he was transformed into a serpent -- with a
re-run, though it plans to show the episode later this year. Finally, CBS has rejected a pilot about the
Mafia in part because of its heavy gun violence. However, at the same time, the Fox network
unveiled a full schedule that features shows with unprecedented levels of violence.
Education -- D.C. College Access Act: .Acting on a concept proposed in your FY 2000
Budget, the House has passed a version of the D.C. College Access Act. Under this bill, the Federal
government would be authorized to pay the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition for
any qualified D.C. undergraduate attending a public college or university in any of the 50 states.
The bill would also provide grants of up to $3,000 annually to D.C. residents who choose to attend a
private college or university in D.C., Maryland or Virginia, as well as authorize financial support for
the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). Initial projections show that this proposal could
cost more then double, or even triple, the $17 million included in your FY 2000 Budget. Secretary
Riley sent a letter to the Senate expressing the Administration's support for the intent of this bill, but
also our reservations regarding some of the provisions. Instead, the Secretary urges them to
consider a bill introduced by Senator Jeffords - one that the Administration was involved in drafting.
The Jeffords proposal limits the tuition assistance to D.C. undergraduates attending public colleges
and universities in Virginia and Maryland, whose family income is less than $50,000 annually. It
would also limit the grants for students attending area private colleges and universities to $2,000
annually. While we support additional funding for UDC, we prefer that they receive the additional
funding they are entitled to as an Historically Black College or University (HBCU) under Title III of
the Higher Education Act.
.
Education - School Uniforms: Per your request for an update on the percent of school
districts adopting school uniform policies, we have requested additional data from the Department
of Education and will forward that to you as soon as possible. As of July, 1998 the Department of
education estimated that 3% of all public schools have mandatory uniform policies. A survey of
principals in 10 states showed that 11 % of elementary schools require uniforms, and 15% are
considering a policy. Some of the nation's largest school districts have adopted school uniform
policies, including New York City, Dade County, San Antonio, Houston, Chicago, Boston and
Albuquerque. In Washington, D.C., the District School Superintendent has requested that the
principals of the city's 146 public schools consider the adoption of a policy that would require
students to wear school uniforms or adhere to a strict dress code. In Massachusetts, the Governor
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has proposed legislation for next year that would require all public schools to adopt unifonns unless
their local parent councils vote to opt out.
Education - Republican Teacher Empowerment Act: Congressman McKeon has introduced
a version of Title II (Teacher Quality) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that
has some similarities to your proposal, including a focus on high-quality, sustained professional
development and a an effort to improve alternative certification methods and teacher pension and
credential portability. However the McKeon bill differs from your proposal in many important
ways. McKeon's bill:
Would weaken the Class Size Reduction Initiative by giving districts the option of using their Class
Size Reduction funds for professional development. It also does not maintain the focus on
reducing class size in the early elementary grades.
Does not encourage States and districts to continue their efforts to develop and implement content
and perfonnance standards and curricula and assessments aligned to those standards - an
essential part of advancing the Goals 2000 agenda.
Does not target funds to high-poverty districts as effectively as your proposal.
Would prohibit Federal support of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Does not expand the Troops-to-Teachers program to non-military mid-career professionals -- which
your proposal does.
At this point, the bill does not include the kind of clear, enforceable accountability provisions
included in your Title XI proposal.
Health Care - Senator Breaux and Congressman Thomas Testify on Medicare
Reform: On Wednesday, Senator Breaux and Congressman Thomas testified before the Senate
Finance Committee in support of their Medicare Commission proposal. Notably, Senator Breaux
indicated that he would now advocate dropping his proposal to raise the eligibility age to 67,
change his Medicaid prescription drug coverage proposal to include a subsidy for all Medicare
beneficiaries, and indicated his openness to modify his graduate medical education provision that is
so problematic for Senator Moynihan and the academic health centers. His office is indicating that
Senator Breaux hopes that his modifications will help begin to bridge the gap between the
Administration and the Senator's priorities for modernizing the Medicare program.
Health Care -- Patients Bill of Rights Discharge Petition Resolution Filed: On
Thursday, Congressman Dingle filed a resolution beginning the process for a discharge petition that
(if successful) would bypass the House Committee process and lead to a House floor vote. On the
same day, Senator Lott opened up negotiations with Senator Daschle to detennine if a time an
amendment agreement could be reached to enable Senate floor consideration of its version of the
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Patients Bill of Rights. Congressman Dingell filed the resolution because there seems to be little
movement from the House leadership on proceeding with this legislation. He hopes that it will
lead to either an expedited Committee markup or provide legislative a vehicle to obtain the
necessary 218 cosponsors necessary for a vote. Congressmen Norwood (R-IA) and Ganske
(R-GA) did not cosponsor the resolution because they first want to determine whether the filing of
the resolution will force Commerce Committee Chairman Blilely to mark up and pass out a Patients
Bill of Rights Bill. They will likely join the Democratic effort if they determine that the
Republican leadership is not ready to move on this legislation. Speaker Hastert immediately
charged the House Democratic leadership with politicizing this issue, but is clearly worried that this
effort will lead to an embarrassing vote on the House floor.
Health Care - Jeffords-Kennedy-Roth-Moynihan Worker Incentives Improvement
Act is set to pass the Senate: On Thursday evening, the Senate leadership agreed to schedule a
vote on the final passage of the Work Incentives Improvement Act. Although Senator Gramm
(R-TX) has objected to proceeding because of concerns about some of the offsets, we anticipate
that this legislation will be passed out of the Senate soon after the Senate returns from its Memorial
Day recess. We believe the progress in the Senate, as well as that in the House (the Commerce
Committee marked up a bill that appears headed for final House consideration sometime in June),
can be highlighted by you wheri you deliver the President's Award of the Committee on
Employment of People With Disabilities next Friday.
Health Care - Update on the status of Arkansas' 1915(b) waiver proposal: You had
asked for an update on the status of "Benefit Arkansas", the State of Arkansas' proposal to use a
managed care delivery system to provide intensive case management services to children with
special mental health needs. This demonstration was designed to assure that these children receive
inpatient, outpatient, and rehabilitation services in a coordinated and cost-effective fashion. Last
week, HCFA requested that Arkansas momentarily halt the review of their application in order for
the State to assure that beneficiaries mandatorily enrolled in managed care have access to
specialists, are guaranteed a choice of providers, or have access to an effective complaints and
appeals process. Following our inquiry into this matter, HCF A has concluded that the Arkansas
proposal meets the necessary standards and expects to approve the Arkansas waiver by mid June.
Health Care -- Update on the dissemination of polio vaccine contaminated with monkey
(simian) viruses and the associated spread of other diseases: You had asked for an evaluation of
Walter Kyle's contention that the distribution of contaminated polio vaccine is responsible for the
spread of a variety of viruses that cause cancer and immune depressive diseases, such as HlV. Mr.
Kyle also asserts that in 1977, the FDA released additional batches of polio vaccine contaminated with
many simian viruses, including SlY (the simian version of HlV), that he believes are associated with
the spread of AIDS. Mr. Kyle is correct that from 1955 to 1963, FDA did release several batches of
vaccine that were contaminated with a simian virus called SV40. However, research experts at FDA
and Nlli have definitively concluded that after more than 30 years of follow-up, exposure to polio
vaccines that was contaminated with SV40 is not associated with a significantly increased rate of
cancer. In addition, last year, in response to the assertion that FDA had released polio vaccine
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contaminated with SN, FDA tested 12 lots of polio vaccine from 1977 and the years surrounding it for
the presence ofHN or SN. The results of the test were negative, and FDA has been unable to find any
additional corroborating evidence for Mr. Kyle's claims. The majority of the scientific community,
including John Coffin, a senior editor of the Journal of Virology and Jonathan Allan, a well respected
and internationally known AIDS researcher, stand solidly behind FDA's contention that the polio
vaccine is safe. As for the issue of informed choice on the use of the polio vaccine, researchers and
physicians at the Centers for Disease Control believe that parents should be informed about the
potential risk of the polio or any other vaccine before vaccinating their children. However, they believe
that the polio vaccine is completely safe as far as retroviruses are concerned, and believe it is therefore
unnecessary to discuss the issue of contamination by simian viruses.
Disabilities -- Employment of People with Disabilities in the Federal Workforce: We
have been working with the Vice President's office to prepare two executive actions to help
increase the employment of people with disabilities in the federal workforce. The first will be a
directive to federal agencies to implement an employment plan for people with disabilities prepared
by the Office of Personnel Management at the Vice President's request. The directive will ensure
agencies 1) recruit widely people with disabilities for positions at all levels; 2) establish
agency-wide reasonable accommodation policies and procedures for applicants and employees with
disabilities; 3) provide career opportunities for people with disabilities, including equal opportunity
to obtain managerial and executive training and compete for promotions; and 4) collect and
maintain data to monitor the success in achieving a higher percentage of adults with disabilities in
the federal workforce. The second action will be an executive order, to be followed by regulations,
which will change the civil service rules to ensure that people with psychiatric disabilities 1) will be
covered by the same appointing authority which facilitates hiring of individuals with other
disabilities and 2) will be allowed to acquire competitive civil service status after two years of
service as individuals with other disabilities now can. These stricter standards for mental
disabilities were put in place over 20 years ago, and Mrs. Gore, in a speech at Dartmouth in
January, announced that OPM would examine ways to eliminate these disparities. We are
discussing with the Vice President and Mrs. Gore's office when to announce these, including
possibly at the disability awards discussed [abovelbelow], at the mental health conference, or
elsewhere.
Welfare -- Ways & Means Hearing on Welfare Outcomes: Last week, the Ways and
Means Human Resources Subcommittee held a hearing to review the effects of welfare reform and
the Republican members held a separate press event to celebrate the success of what Clay Shaw
called "the most successful piece of legislation in this half century." GAO provided testimony on
state welfare reform implementation and reported a dramatic increase in the number of people
moving from welfare to work. Summarizing seven state studies of those who have left the rolls,
most of which we have reported to you previously, GAO found that between 61 percent
(Tennessee) and 71 percent (Washington) of former recipients were working at the time of follow
up and between 63 percent (Maryland) and about 85 percent (Indiana, South Carolina, Washington,
and Wisconsin) had worked at some point since leaving welfare. We will review the entire GAO
report on which the testimony was based and the other information presented by a range of panelists
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May 28,1999
The House Appropriations Committee has issued its 302(b) allocations - the annual allocations to the 13
subcommittees. After factoring in commitments made in the House budget for defense, NIH, Census, mass transit,
and highway construction, and freezing key priorities of special education and VA medical care at 1999 levels - the
remaining programs would have to be slashed. Ifwe assume across-the-board cuts in remaining programs, the
allocations under the House budget could mean cuts from FY 1999 levels, such as the following:
Education and Training
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The Reading Excellence program which helps children learn to read by the 3rdgrade could be cut $47
million, from the $260 million FY 1999 enacted level, and could serve 93,000 fewer students.
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The 21 st Century Community Learning Centers could be cut by $36 million from the $200 million FY 1999
enacted level, denying after school and summer school programs to more than 85,000 students.
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Over 100,000 summer jobs and training opportunities could be eliminated for low-income young people.
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Between 50,000-85,000 low income children could lose access to Head Start compared to FY 1999 level, a
reduction of almost 100,000 low income children from the level proposed for FY 2000, making it impossible
to reach the goal of serving one million children by 2002.
Environment and Health
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Cuts to Health Resources and Services Administration's health services for women and children, uninsured
people and people with AIDS could mean as many as 5.3 million fewer people receiving needed health care
services from FY 1999 enacted level and a cut of 6.2 million people served from the FY 2000 request.
•
Funding could be eliminated for the clean-up of 15 Superfund toxic waste sites below the FY 1999 level -needlessly jeopardizing public health for citizens living near affected sites and making it more difficult to
meet the 900-site cleanup goal in 2002.
Crime, Housing, and Other Priorities
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Rental assistance under the Home Block Grant Program could be cut by $144 million and deny tenant-based
assistance to over 2,100 families compared to FY 1999. Further, funds could be lost for new construction,
rehabilitation, or acquisition of about 15,000 affordable housing units.
•
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) could be cut over $300 million from the FY 1999 enacted
(outside the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund) level of$2.8 billion, a reduction of over 2,700 FBI agents
below the FY 1999 enacted level. The FY 2000 request level could be cut by over $600 million and over
5,000 agents.
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The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) would be cut $144 million from the FY 1999 enacted
level (outside the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund) of $1.2 billion for border enforcement. This cut
could result in a reduction of approximately 1,300 Border Patrol agents. From the FY 2000 request, this
would be a cut of $378 million and 3,500 agents.
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The National Park Service operating budget could be cut by $240 million below FY 1999. Most seasonal
workers could not be hired, resulting in widespread cutbacks in visitor services, seasonal programs, and
hours of operations at 378 park units serving almost 300 million visitors annually.
If we assume they are not going to be able to keep their priorities, the effect of across-the-board cuts could reduce the
NIH budget by $1.9 billion. And the 7 percent across-the-board cut to the Veterans AffairslHUD appropriations bill
could seriously hinder the delivery of vital medical care to hundreds of thousands of our Nation's veterans.
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May 28,1999
Overall the House 302(b) allocation to the LaborffiHS Subcommittee would require a 18 percent cut from
FY 1999 and 21 percent reduction from the President's request in 2000 for many discretionary programs.
Assuming across the board cuts to LaborlHSS subcommittee, this would have a devastating impact on critical
education, training, and other programs for children:
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21 st Century Community Learning Centers, funded at $200 million in FY 1999, could be cut by $36 million,
denying after school and summer school programs to more than 85,000 students.
•
The Reading Excellence program which helps children learn to read by the 3rd grade could be cut $47 million,
from the $260 million FY 1999 enacted level, and could serve 93,000 fewer students.
•
Head Start funding could be $840 million less than FY 1999 levels. A reduction of this magnitude could cut
services by between 50,000 and 85,000 low income children below the FY 1999 level, a reduction of almost
100,000 low income children from the level proposed for FY 2000, making it practically impossible to reach
the goal of serving one million children in Head Start by 2002.
•
Work Study could be cut by $157 million from the FY 1999 level of$870 million, to the lowest level since
FY 1996. The number of students served would decrease by approximately 172,000 below the FY 1999 level
and the funding would not support the President's goal of serving 1 million work study students by 2000.
•
GEAR-UP could be reduced by $22 million, from $120 million in FY 1999 denying 21,000 young people
services to help them prepare for and succeed in college.
•
Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities funding could be reduced by nearly $102 million from the
$566 million FY 1999 enacted level, reducing funds for drug and violence prevention that benefits children in
97 percent of the nation's schools. It could also eliminate funding for emergency resources and assistance,
including crisis counseling and increased security, in schools experiencing violent events, such as the recent
tragic shootings in Littleton, Colorado and Conyers, Georgia.
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Title I, Education for the Disadvantaged could be slashed by nearly $1.4 billion, from $7.7 billion in FY
1999, cutting up to 2.2 million disadvantaged youth from services to help them reach high standards.
•
Dislocated Work~r Assistance could be cut by $253 million below the FY 1999 enacted level, denying
training, job search assistance, and support services to about 133,200 dislocated workers.
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Over 100,000 training and summer job opportunities for low-income youth could be eliminated.
•
This reduction could tenninate Jobs Corps' planned 4-center expansion and/or force Job Corps to close 11-12
other centers compared to FY 1999. This could eliminate about 8,000 residential training slots for extremely
disadvantaged youth in FY 2000. In addition, this would reduce program effectiveness by postponing
necessary repairs, tenninating the relocation of dilapidated centers, and modernizing the vocational training
programs.
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The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) would be reduced by $140 million from FY 1999
enacted level and could provide child care assistance to almost 50,000 fewer children.
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May 28,1999
The House 302(b) allocation slashes funding by 12 percent for priority domestic programs from their
1999 level. Assuming across-the-board cuts in affected subcommittees, V AIHUD, LaborlHHS,
Agriculture, Interior, and Energy and Water, this could have devastating impacts on public health and the
environment in such programs as toxic waste clean-up, water and public health programs, global warming
prevention, and national parks:
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Stopping 15 Toxic Waste Cleanups -EPA's Superfund program could be cut by $135 million from
FY 1999 enacted levels. This could eliminate funding for 15 new federally-led cleanups due to begin
during FY 2000, needlessly jeopardizing public health for citizens living near affected sites and
making it more difficult to meet the 900-site cleanup goal in 2002.
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Shutting Down National Parks - Cuts to the National Park Service could reduce services and hours
of operation at 378 parks and other facilities serving almost 300 million visitors a year. The $240
million below FY 1999 enacted level could shut smaller parks and back -country areas in larger parks,
and jeopardize visitor safety by preventing vital maintenance and repairs.
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Squandering Our Lands Legacy - By failing to support the President's Lands Legacy initiative, the
House allocation could cripple Federal efforts to preserve natural treasures, and deny states and
communities $588 million to protect farmland, coastland, urban parks and other green spaces.
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Slashing Water and Public Health Protections - The reduction to EPA operations from the FY
1999 enacted level could severely hamper implementation of the Clean Water Action Plan, which
helps communities clean up the 40 percent of surveyed waters still too polluted for fishing or
swimming; and could let polluters off the hook by severely limiting EPA's ability to enforce public
health protections.
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Gambling with Global Warming - Cuts to the Department of Energy and EPA could gut efforts
toward cleaner, more efficient energy for homes, transportation, and industry; and keep the
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles from meeting its goal of new cars three times more
fuel-efficient than today's models by 2004.
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Crippling Wildlife Protections - Cuts to the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, and Army Corps of Engineers could hamper salmon restoration in the
Pacific Northwest, shut down some wildlife refuges, and reduce efforts to restore endangered species.
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Raising the Risk of Deadly Wildfires - Cuts to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management
(19 percent below FY 1999) could close some lands to the public and reduce firefighting capabilities.
A total decrease of about $160 million below FY 1999 in the wildland firefighting requests for
Agriculture and Interior in FY 2000 could severely hamper their capabilities to suppress wild fires,
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jeopardizing lives and property throughout the West.
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House 302(b) Allocations
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May 28,1999
The House 302(b) allocation for Commerce, Justice, State Subcommittee could require a 12 percent
cut from the FY 1999 enacted level to many discretionary programs, assuming minimum essential
funding for the 2000 Decenial Census. This could have a devastating impact on critical law enforcement
programs such as the Drug Enforcement Agency, INS, FBI, prisons, and drug control programs:
•
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) could be cut $100 million from the FY 1999 enacted
(outside the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund) level of $835 million. This cut could result in a
reduction of approximately 780 agents.
•
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) could be cut $144 million from the FY 1999
enacted level for border enforcement of $1.2 billion (outside the Violent Crime Reduction Trust
Fund). This cut could result in a reduction of approximately 6,400 detention beds necessary to
incarcerate criminal aliens and illegal border crossers, or over 1,300 Border Patrol agents.
•
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) could be over $300 million from the FY 1999 enacted
level of$2.8 billion (outside the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund). This cut could result in a
reduction of approximately 2,700 agents below the FY 1999 enacted level.
•
The Federal Prisoner Detention program run by the U.S. Marshals Service could be cut by $51
million from the FY 1999 enacted level of $425 million. This cut could result in a reduction of
approximately 2,450 criminal detention beds.
•
Drug Control Programs. The State Department's drug control programs could be cut by $29 million
compared with FY 1999 enacted levels. This could underfund the State Department programs recently
authorized in the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act and could necessitate grounding
operating aircraft and stop the deployment of assets newly acquired with 1999 drug supplemental
funds. As a result, efforts to diminish illicit crop cultivation in Peru, Columbia, and Bolivia could
suffer.
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May 28,1999
The House 302(b) allocations reflect a 9 percent cut in funding from the FY 1999 enacted level to
discretionary programs and would have a devastating impact on programs critical to our urban areas.
Assuming across the board cuts to V NHUD appropriations subcommittee, key programs such as rental
assistance, housing vouchers, and community development efforts would be cut.
•
From the FY 1999 enacted level of $1.6 billion, $144 million could be cut denying tenant-based
rental assistance to over 2,100 families. Further, funds could be lost for new construction,
rehabilitation, or acquisition of about 15,000 affordable housing units.
•
It could eliminate 50,000 welfare to work housing vouchers enacted in the FY 1999 budget. The
cuts could wipe out the Administration's proposal of adding 100,000 new housing vouchers,
including 25,000 to help move families from welfare to work, 18,000 for the homeless, and 15,000
for extremely low-income elderly.
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•
The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) could be reduced by nearly
$9 million from the FY 1999 enacted level of $95 million. This could result in 12 fewer
community development institutions (CDFIs) receiving capital funding and 9 fewer financial
institutions receiving Bank Enterprise Act grants compared with the FY 1999 enacted level.
•
Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) could be cut by 9 percent or $428
million from the FY 1999 enacted level and could translate into a loss of assistance to over 35,000
homes and loss of support for over 54,000 jobs in low-income areas. The CDBG Program is one
of the most popular and flexible sources of funds that mayors and governors use to improve
economic opportunity and housing in low-income communities. Thousands of local neighborhood
improvement efforts could be jeopardized.
•
A cut of9 percent in HVD's discretionary housing subsidy puts low-income tenants at risk of
losing their housing subsidies and virtually eliminates the Administration's efforts to assist more
needy families and the elderly. In addition, the Administration's successful effort to reform public
housing by tearing down boarded-up units and replacing them with proper housing could be
jeopardized.
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A cut of9 percent to HUD's Brownfields funding could severely slow the efforts in cities to
revitalize vacant, abandoned, or underutilized commercial and industrial sites. In tum, this could
hamper efforts to create more jobs and revitalize urban areas.
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Total Defense spending for all subcommittees will be what the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees indicated in their 302(b) allocations.
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Highways, transit, and crime (Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund) will all be funded at the
level of the caps. The appropriators have no discretion to change these amounts, which
appear in separate sub-caps. (The highway and transit funding is above 1999, crime is
below.)
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Census will be funded at the minimum amount needed to conduct the census.
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VA medical care will be frozen at the FY 99 level. (See, e.g., statements of Rep. Chambliss
in the Congressional Record of April 14, 1999, at page H 1990, Rep. Stump at page H 1995,
and Rep. Hill at page HI988.)
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NIH will be increased by $2 billion. (See, Subcommittee Chairmen Porter and Specter's
cosponsorship of the "Biomedical Revitalization Resolution of 1999," H. Res. 89 and S.Res.
19 respectively, which call for a $2 billion increase.)
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Special education will be frozen at 1999 levels.
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Elena Kagan
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<p>Elena Kagan worked as Associate White House Counsel from 1995-1996 and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) from 1997-1999.</p>
<p>During her work at the White House Justice Kagan worked on many topics including, but not limited to: AIDS, budget appropriations, campaign finance reform, education, health, labor, race, tobacco, Native Americans, and welfare.</p>
<p>In 1999 President Clinton nominated Kagan to the U.S. District Court of Appeals, no hearing was ever scheduled and she was thereby never confirmed.</p>
<p>Note: These records were made available in response to a <a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/freedom-of-information-act-requests">Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)</a> request, FOIA 2009-1006-F. This collection contains both records created by Elena Kagan and records concerning Elena Kagan. </p>
<p><strong>Descriptions of the Sub Collections:</strong></p>
<ul><li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elena+Kagan%27s+White+House+Counsel+Files&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">White House Counsel Files</a></strong><br /> These records consist of files created and received by Elena Kagan when she served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton from 1995 to 1996. The files include but are not limited to records concerning Amtrak, campaign finance reform, gaming/gambling (especially as it relates to Native Americans), timber, regulatory reform, and welfare. The records include memoranda, notes, correspondence, articles, reports, executive orders, bills, and directives.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elena+Kagan%27s+Domestic+Policy+Council+Files&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">Domestic Policy Council Files</a></strong><br />These records contain files created and received by Elena Kagan when she served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) from 1997-1999. The files include records concerning domestic policy topics such as AIDS, budget appropriations, campaign finance reform, education, health, labor, race, tobacco, and welfare. The records include memoranda, correspondence, articles, and reports.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=White+House+Staff+%26+Office+Files+re+Elena+Kagan&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">White House Staff Files re Elena Kagan</a></strong><br />These records are compiled from a variety of staff office files including the Chief of Staff, Personnel, Office of First Lady, Counsel, and DPC and include correspondence, memorandum, forms, and reports all concerning or having to do with Elena Kagan.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=White+House+Office+of+Records+Management+Files+re+Elena+Kagan&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">White House Office of Records Management Files (WHORM)</a></strong><br />These records are from the White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) subject file series. The Clinton Presidential Library inherited a document-level index maintained by WHORM during the Clinton Administration which tracked some incoming correspondence and other documents as they were circulated throughout the White House and filed by WHORM. The records contain files created and received by Elena Kagan that were tracked by the WHORM Subject File index. The files include records related to a variety of topics such as memoranda, correspondence, and Domestic Policy Council weekly reports. The records are tracked by an alpha/numeric code, and are listed as such.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elena+Kagan%27s+1999+Nomination+to+U.S.+Court+of+Appeals&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">Elena Kagan's 1999 Nomination to U.S. Court of Appeals</a></strong><br />After serving as the Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Elena Kagan was nominated to serve on the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit) in1999. Her nomination expired in 2000 without Senate action. The files in this opening contain records from the White House Staff and Office Files, Counsel’s Office and Presidential Personnel, concerning her nomination. The records consist of Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaires, correspondence, law review files, news articles, briefs, and press briefings.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Email+Received+by+Elena+Kagan&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">Email Received by Elena Kagan</a></strong><br />These records consist of email received by Elena Kagan during her time as Associate White House Counsel from 1995-1996 and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) from 1997-1999. In addition to the email proper, these messages include forwards, reply chains, and attachments. The attached documents include notes, memorandum, articles, reports, executive orders, bills, and directives. These email concern a myriad of topics including but not limited to Amtrak, campaign finance reform, gaming/gambling (especially as it relates to Native Americans), timber, regulatory reform, welfare and domestic policy topics such as AIDS, budget appropriations, education, health, labor, race, and tobacco.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Email+Sent+by+Elena+Kagan&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">Email Sent by Elena Kagan</a></strong><br />These records consist of email sent by Elena Kagan during her time as Associate White House Counsel from 1995-1996 and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) from 1997-1999. In addition to the email proper, these messages include forwards, reply chains, and attachments. The attached documents include notes, memorandum, articles, reports, executive orders, bills, and directives. These email concern a myriad of topics including but not limited to Amtrak, campaign finance reform, gaming/gambling (especially as it relates to Native Americans), timber, regulatory reform, welfare and domestic policy topics such as AIDS, budget appropriations, education, health, labor, race, and tobacco.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elena+Kagan%27s+Records+re+Native+Americans&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">Elena Kagan's Records re Native Americans</a></strong><br />These records were created or received by Elena Kagan during her service as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (1997-99). These ten folders were previously opened as part of a Freedom of Information Act request related to Native Americans (FOIA case <a href="http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/Documents/Finding-Aids/2006/2006-0197-F%28seg%203%29.pdf" target="_blank">2006-0197-F</a>).These records consist of memoranda, emails, reports, notes, and clippings.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Additional+Materials+re+Elena+Kagan&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">Additional Materials re Elena Kagan</a></strong><br />These records were taken from the files of Elena Kagan. They include memos to, from, and relating to Elena Kagan’s work on Domestic Policy issues. The records include some memos from Elena Kagan to President Clinton.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=70&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Federal+Email+re+Elena+Kagan&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">Federal Email re Elena Kagan</a></strong><br />The federal email re: Elena Kagan consists of 114 email messages that were part of the Federal side of the Clinton White House. The email generally consists of summaries of meetings or telephone conversations in which Elena Kagan was a participant.</li>
</ul></div>
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2009-1006-F
Provenance
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Publisher
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Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
Format
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Adobe Acrobat Document
Creator
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Office of the Counsel to the President
Domestic Policy Council
First Lady's Office
White House Office of Records Management
Chief of Staff
White House Office for Women's Initiative and Outreach
Automated Records Management System
Tape Restoration Project
Security Office
Presidential Personnel
Date
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1995-1999
Extent
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2945 folders
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Magnetic Disk: Hard Drive
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[05/27/1999 – 05/28/1999]
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OPD
Automated Records Management System
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2009-1006-F
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Email Received by Elena Kagan
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Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System
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Adobe Acrobat Document
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Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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6/18/2010
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ARMS - Box 052 - Folder 002
574745