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CREATOR: Michael Cohen ( CN=Michael Cohen/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:15-0CT-1998 02:00:43.00
SUBJECT:
Class size negotiations
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
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TEXT:
Together with Kennedy, Harkin, Clay,
Daschle and ED staff, I met with
staff from Goodling and Gorton's office on the outstanding class size
issues. The R's came with their own draft, and insisted we work off of
theirs. Much of their draft was lifted from the ED draft, which they had
gotten from ED earlier in the evening.
So we had a cornman starting point
to work from, and it was easy to reach agreement on the bill language
reflecting the points we had previously agreed to.
However, we were unable to resolve the outstanding issues, principally
because the Republicans were unwilling to make any of the concessions
Elena proposed at the end of the afternoon meeting.
Further, they were
clearly not interested in finding cornmon ground at the meeting; they
conceded early on that they had not agreed to any of our end-of
-the-afternoon proposals, and would not move from their positions at this
meeting. There was one area (see below) where they were open to bringing
back our idea and so we have the basis to communicate again in the
morning, and agreed to.
Otherwise, it is not clear how best for us to
proceed.
Here is where we are on an issue-by-issue basis, starting with the simple
stuff:
Private School Participation: We agreed to language on this.
It
essentially requires equitable participation for private school teachers
in professional development, and states that the private school
provisions in Title 6 now otherwise do not apply to this program.
Participation by BIA schools.
Daschle's staff yielded to Gorton on the
size of the set aside for BIA schools.
While the 1% setaside that Gorton
could live with is much lower than in other programs, no one on our side
felt strongly enought to fight--nor believed it would be possible to move
Gorton very far on this if we tried.
Reducing Class Sixe in the early grades.
Kennedy feels very strongly that
we not give up on our original focus on grades 1-3. We had suggested that
we could live with a priority for grades 1-3 (if adequately defined,
Kennedy could live with this), and we did this in three places in our
bill
the statement of purpose in the opening paragraph; the provision
that describes what local district's can spend the money on, and in the
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"local flexibility trigger" that allows other uses of the funds once an
average class size of 18 is reached in grades 1-3
Their draft
contained none of these.
While they were initially unwilling to consider any of our language, or
possible modifications to it, vic ultimately did agree to take our
"trigger" proposal back to Goodling.
In our judgment, this is actually
the only provision with any teeth in it--if it is enacted into law it
would have the effect of getting local districts to work on grades 1-3
first.
We could probably still get a decent message about this being an
initiative aimed at grades 1-3 with new compromise language the Dems
agreed to after the meeting.
(i.e., requiring LEA's to give priority
consideration to grades 1-3 because of the research showing that the
impact of class size reducation is greatest in the early grades) .
However, we didn't think this ought to be in play until we hear back on
the trigger idea--and perhaps until one of you can get a better deal form
the Speaker.
Cap on Professional Development and Teacher Testing.
It was my
understanding from Elena that Gingrich had a agreed to a 10% cap on these
items together. However,
the Goodling draft proposed 10% for teacher
testing, and an additional 10% for professional development.
They claimed
that the Speaker had only been asked about professional development, and
therefore the additoinal 10% set-aside made sense.
We could easily live with a 10% cap on professional development, and an
additional 2% or so for testing. However, it did not seem like a good
idea to concede to Goodling's staff a point you had already won with the
Speaker. Let me know if you want me to try this one out; the Dems will be
ok with it.
State Administrative Funds. Our proposal is for .5% for state
administration.
Kennedy's staff has been very strong on this as is
Riley.
The R's were unmoveable on this, and insisted on nothing on State
Administration.
In my judgment , Riley and Kennedy are not going to fallon their swords
on this--and we certainly shouldn't. Clay could care less; he's just
being a loyal team player.
While they both think that some state $ are
needed, they are digging in on this mainly because they don't want to be
hounded by the head of the state school superintendent's group, who has
been a staunch supporter of and good friend to both of them. And neither
wants to be the first to back off.
I've told Scott Fleming to talk to
Riley first thing in the morning, and explain that no one here is going to
fall hold this up over state administration.
I will follow up with Riley
as well.; he will be here for the school safety conference.
I think we should try to get Kennedy and Riley to converge on a
compromise--.025 % rather than .05%--which works out to roughly 50K per
state.
If we try this and the R's won't budge, both Kennedy and Riley
should find it a lot easier to drop this, and to let each other off the
hook.
Formula.
It is our understanding the there is agreement on the
distribution of funds to states (the higher of TItle 1 or Eisenhower for
each state), on an appropriations of an additional $100 million (bringing
the appropriations to $1.2 billion ), and that the within state formula
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will be worked out sometime tomorrow at your level.
I'll check in first thing in the moring.
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CREATOR: Cynthia A. Rice ( CN=Cynthia A. Rice/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:15-0CT-l998 10:59:55.00
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Supreme Court welfare reform case
TO: Andrea Kane
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As you may know from the papers, the Supreme Court has accepted for
expedited review Anderson v. Roe, a case challenging Calif,ornia's policy
of providing lower welfare benefits to new state residents.
HHS and DOJ are currently reviewing the case and plan to make a
recommendation to us and counsel's office as to whether we should file a
brief in the case. The U.S. is not a party to the suit (only the state of
California was sued), so we are not required to do anything.
As you may
recall, the welfare law made such two-tiered benefits an explicit state
option.
Briefs would need to be filed by Nov. 7th. Harriet Rabb is currently
leaning towards staying out of the case altogether (we did so on a
previous case, Green v. Anderson). Other options include filing on behalf
of one side (California or plaintiff) or filing a brief explaining our
understanding of the statute.
Harriet sent a note to Chuck Ruff saying they are looking into this.
She
and Marcy Wilder of her office are working with Ed Needler at Justice.
In a week or so when Justice and HHS have gathered their thoughts, I
assume we'd want to have them over here to discuss and Elena, I assume you
would want to be there.
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TEXT:
Just wanted to provide everyone another chance to comment/add/subtract on
this long budget victory document and the shorter "work left to do"
document.
(OMB is reviewing it right now to make sure the numbers are
correct.)
If you have suggestions, I need them by 1:15 PM.
And that's a
hard deadline.
Thanks.
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�DESPITE ALL THE PROGRESS IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET,
THERE IS STILL MUCH WORK LEFT TO DO
In the waning days of the session, the President and Congressional Democrats prevailed in
making critical investments in advancing the President's agenda. However, much work remains
for the future because Republicans in Congress killed, at least for now, critical priorities,
including:
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School Modernization Tax Credits. Beginning with his State of the Union address, the
President fought all year to modernize our schools. His fully paid for tax credits would
have leveraged nearly $22 billion in bonds to build and renovate schools. In the final
days of the budget negotiations, Republicans in Congress refused to even meet on the
critical issue of school construction.
Patients Bill of Rights. President Clinton repeatedly urged the Congress to pass a
strong, enforceable patients' bill of rights that would assure Americans the quality health
care they need. Congressional Republicans killed this year's effort to pass a Patients Bill
of Rights.
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Comprehensive Tobacco Legislation. This year, President Clinton made passage of
legislation to reduce youth smoking a top priority, in order to stop kids from smoking
before they start through a significant price increase, measures to prevent tobacco
companies from marketing to children, and critical public health prevention and
education programs. Congressional Republicans opted to act as politicians instead of
parents, and killed this year's effort to pass bipartisan comprehensive tobacco legislation
to reduce youth smoking.
Campaign Finance Reform. At the beginning of the year, the President made passage of
bipartisan, comprehensive campaign finance reform a priority for his Administration. After
months of delay, the House of Representatives overcame defenders of the status quo and
passed the Shays-Meehan bill. However, the Senate Republicans killed this historic
legislation.
Child Care Initiative. In his State of the Union, the President proposed an historic
child care initiative to make child care better, safer and more affordable for America's
working families. The President's proposal included $7.5 billion over 5 years for child
care subsidies for low-income working families and tax credits to help 3 million working
families pay for child care. The Republicans refused to support these critical
investments.
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Speeding Toxic Cleanups. President Clinton called for an additional $650 million -- a
40 percent increase -- to accelerate Superfund cleanups with a goal of completing a total
of 900 cleanups by 2001. The Republican majority refused these funds, threatening to
delay cleanup at up to 171 sites across the country.
Work Incentives Bill for People with Disabilities. At the commemoration of the
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�Americans with Disabilities Act last July, the President endorsed the bipartisan
Jeffords-Kennedy bill that enables people with disabilities to go back to work by
providing an option to buy into Medicaid and Medicare, as well as other pro-work
initiatives. This bill was on the list of top Administration priorities in the rmal
budget negotiations, but rejected by Republicans. The President will continue to
fight to give people with disabilities the opportunity to work --including the critical
health insurance that makes work possible.
Education Opportunity Zones. President Clinton, in his budget, called for Education
Opportunity Zones to help high-poverty urban and rural communities increase student
achievement by raising standards, improving teaching, ending social promotions, and
turning around failing schools. The Republican majority refused to provide the
requested $200 million in funds, which wo"uld have helped about 50 high-poverty,
low-achieving, urban and rural school districts.
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Minimum Wage. President Clinton and Congressional Democrats called for a $1
increase in the minimum wage over two years -- to raise the wages of 12 million workers.
For someone who works full-time, this minimum wage increase would have meant
an additional $2,000 per year. However, 95 percent of Senate Republicans voted to
kill the President's minimum wage increase.
Medicare Buy-In. President Clinton proposed providing new options for
Americans ages 55 to 65 to obtain health insurance, including buying into Medicare.
This policy would not have hurt the Medicare Trust Fund. The Republican
majority killed this new initiative that would have helped provide health care to
hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Americans.
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�PRESIDENT CLINTON, VICE PRESIDENT GORE, AND
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WIN ON THE BUDGET
October 15, 1998
Saving Social Security First
In his State of the Union address, President Clinton asked a basic question "what should we do with
this projected surplus," and gave an historic four-word answer: "Save Social Security First." With
our fiscal house in order, marked by the first surplus in a generation, President Clinton is determined
to seize this unique opportunity to strengthen this most important program for generations to come.
Protecting the surplus is a key step towards enacting Social Security reform. President Clinton
defeated repeated efforts to squander the surplus and, at the end of this Congress, it remains intact.
Invests in Education and Training
In the face of House Republican efforts to slash their education budget by more than $2 billion,
President Clinton and Vice President Gore delivered on their education agenda:
NEW EDUCATION AND TRAINING INITIATIVES IN FINAL BUDGET AGREEMENT:
More High-Quality Teachers With Smaller Class Sizes. In his State of the Union address,
President Clinton said, "Tonight, I propose the first-ever national effort to reduce class size in
the early grades. My balanced budget will help to hire 100,000 new teachers." Throughout
the year, Republicans failed to consider this important initiative. The final budget provides
$1.2 billion for the first year of the President's new initiative to hire 100,000 new,
well-prepared teachers, to reduce class sizes in the early grades to a national average of 18.
GEAR-UP: College Mentoring Initiative To Help Up to 100,000 Students Prepare for
College. In his State of the Union address, President Clinton urged Congress "to support
our efforts to enlist colleges and universities to reach out to disadvantaged children, starting
in the 6th grade, so that they can get the guidance and hope they need so they can know that
they, too, will be able to go on to college." The President proposed $140 million to get this
effort started, but the House appropriations bill denied funding and the Senate provided only
$75 million. The final budget provides $121 million for this new initiative which was
authorized as part of the higher education legislation enacted on October 7th. GEAR-UP
will expand mentoring efforts by States, and provide new grants to partnerships of middle
schools, institutions of higher education, and community organizations, to provide
intensive early intervention services to help prepare up to 100,000 students at
high-poverty middle schools for college.
Child Literacy Initiative to Help Children Read Well By the End of the Third Grade.
In 1996, President Clinton proposed an America Reads Challenge to help 3 million
children improve their reading skills. In 1997, he insisted that the new initiative be
included as part of the Balanced Budget Agreement. With this budget, he has won the
$260 million that he proposed to help ensure that all children can read well and
independently by the end of third grade. The budget includes the legislation creating
a program that is consistent with the President's America Reads proposal. The new
program will provide competitive grants to States to (1) improve teachers' ability to
teach reading effectively; (2) promote family literacy programs to help parents be their
child's first teacher; and (3) improve the quality of tutoring programs by supporting
tutor training.
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�Youth Opportunity Areas To Help Increase Job Opportunities for 50,000 Youth in
High-Poverty Communities. As part of the Workforce Investment Bill, President Clinton
created Youth Opportunity Grants to direct resources to high-poverty areas, including
Empowennent Zones and Enterprise Communities, to provide comprehensive services
designed to increase employment and school completion rates for disadvantaged youth. The
President's FY99 budget included $250 million for this new innovative program. While the
. House Republican budget did not fund this critical initiative, the final agreement includes the
full $250 million request, which will help provide job training and social services to 50,000
youth.
New Learning Anytime, Anywhere Initiative. The President's FY99 budget included a
new initiative to enhance and promote distance learning opportunities -- learning outside the
usual classroom settings, via computers and other technology -- for all adult learners. The
final budget includes $20 million for the Education and Labor Departments to implement this
new initiative to demonstrate new high-quality uses of technology for distance learning in
post-secondary education and training, and to help provide more accurate labor market
infonnation.
Teacher Recruitment and Preparation -- $75 million. On October 7th, President Clinton
signed legislation that had incorporated the President's Teacher Recruitment and Preparation
proposal. While House Republicans did not fund this important initiative, the final budget
provides $75 million, which will help recruit and prepare thousands of teachers to teach in
high-poverty urban and rural communities and will strengthen teacher preparation programs
across the country.
Training New Teachers to Use Technology Effectively. President Clinton's FY99 budget
requested $75 million to train new teachers in how to use technology to improve student
achievement. The House and Senate Republicans denied the request. The final agreement
includes the full $75 million the President requested.
Hispanic Education Action Plan To Attack Unacceptably High Drop-Out Rate.
Because the high-school drop-out rate of Hispanics is unacceptably high, President
Clinton's FY99 budget included the first-ever Hispanic Education Action Plan. As
part of this plan, the President proposed significant increases in Title I funding and a
number of other programs that enhance educational opportunity for Hispanic
Americans. The final budget includes increases of $524 million for these programs;
for example, it provides a $301 million increase for Title I; $600 million for TRIO
college preparation programs, an increase of $70 million over FY 1998, which will
provide support services for over 700,000 students; and $50 million for Bilingual
Education Professional Development -- double the FY 1998 level-- to begin to provide
20,000 teachers over five years with the training they need to teach Limited English
Proficient students.
EXPANDED KEY EDUCATION AND TRAINING INVESTMENTS;
Expanded After-School Programs To Serve A Quarter of A Million Children. In his
State of the Union address, President Clinton asked Congress to "dramatically expand our
support for after-school programs." The President and Vice President proposed $200 million
for after-school programs in their FY99 budget. While the House Republican budget did not
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�fund $140 million of the President's and Vice President's request, which would have denied
services to about 425,000 children, the final budget includes full funding for the President's
and Vice President's initiative, which will serve a quarter of a million children each year.
Expanded Head Start. President Clinton proposed a $313 million increase for Head Start
to add 30,000 to 36,000 new slots for children, continuing on the path to serving one million
children by 2002. The House Republican budget did not provide the President's increase
and would have denied 25,000 children Head Start slots if enacted. The final budget
includes the President's full increase for Head Start, which is funded at $4.660 billion.
Summer Jobs Protected for Half a Million Youth. While House Republicans attempted to
eliminate the successful Summer Jobs program, President Clinton prevailed with his request
for $871 million in funding, which will finance up to 530,000 summer jobs for disadvantaged
youth.
Expanded Educational Technology -- Connecting Our Children to the Future.
President Clinton's and Vice President Gore's budget requested $721 million -- a $137
million increase -- for educational technology to ensure that every child has access to
computers, the Internet, high-quality educational software, and teachers that can use
technology effectively in the classroom. The House Republican denied the President's and
Vice President's request for a funding increase, cutting funding $43 million below last year.
The final agreement includes $729 million -- a 25-percent increase over the $584 million
funding level in FY98, including the new $75 million initiative for training new teachers and
$10 million for new grants to pUblic-private partnerships in low-income communities to
provide residents access to computer facilities for educational and employment purposes.
Education technology has always been a top priority for the President and Vice President;
since 1993, they have created the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund and increased overall
investments in educational technology by more than thirty-fold, from $23 million to $729
million this year.
Expanded Goals 2000 to Promote High Academic Standards. President Clinton created
Goals 2000 in 1993 to promote high academic standards for all students and proposed a
modest expansion in this year's budget. While the House Republican budget tried to cut the
program in half, the final budget includes $491 million which will help all 50 States continue
raise academic standards and help at least 12,000 schools implement innovative and effective
education reforms.
Improved Child Care Quality. In his State of the Union, the President proposed an
historic child care initiative to make child care better, safer and more affordable for
America's working families. While the budget does not include critical investments in
subsidies and tax credits to help working families pay for child care, it does include the
President's request of $182 million to improve the quality of child care.
Expanded Work Study To Help Nearly One Million Students Work Their Way
Through College. President Clinton's FY99 budget included a significant expansion of the
Federal Work Study program. The final budget agreement provides $870 million -- a $40
million increase over the FY 1998 level of $830 million -- which will allow nearly one
million students to work their way through college and keeps us on track to the President's
goal of one million students in work study by the year 2000.
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�Expanded Job Training To Help 666,000 Dislocated Workers. President Clinton's
FY99 budget included a significant expansion in the dislocated worker program. While the
House froze job training funds for dislocated workers, the final agreement includes $1.4
billion which will help some 666,000 dislocated workers get the training and reemployment
services they need to return to work as quickly as possible. This represents an increase of
$55 million -- to help 27,000 dislocated workers -- compared to FY98. Since 1993,
dislocated worker funding has been expanded by 171 percent -- helping to well more than
double the number of workers served.
Expanded Charter Schools to Promote Creation High-Quality Public Schools.
President Clinton's FY99 budget included $100 million for Charter Schools to keep us on
track toward the President's goal of creating 3,000 high-quality public charter schools that
will educate more than half a million students by early in the next century. Charter schools
are public schools started by teachers, parents and communities, that are given flexibility in
decision-making, in exchange for high levels of accountability for results. The final budget
provides $100 million -- the President's 25-percent increase -- for Charter Schools and will
give parents and students more choice, better schools, and greater accountability for results in
public education.
Assistance to Help Over 400,000 More Students in Distressed Communities Learn Basic
Skills. President Clinton proposed a $392 million increase in Title I funding to help
students in high poverty communities receive the extra help they need to master the basics to
reach high academic standards. The House Republican budget proposed a freeze in Title I
funding. The final budget provides a $301 million increase, from $7.375 billion in FY98 to
$7.676 billion in FY99. This funding will support educational services for nearly 11 million
students, over 400,000 more than last year.
Largest Maximum Pell Grant Award Ever. Last year, President Clinton signed into law
the largest one-year increase in Pel! Grant scholarships in 20 years. This year, the final
budget provides $7.7 billion for Pell Grants, an increase of$359 million over FY98,
increasing the maximum Pell Grant award from $3,000 to $3,125 -- that's the largest
maximum award ever, 36-percent higher than it was in 1993. This year, approximately 4
million students will receive Pell Grant awards.
Moves Forward On The Environment
In the final budget, President Clinton won important increases to combat water pollution, protect
national parks and other precious lands, restore salmon and other endangered species, and develop
clean energy technologies. At the same time, President Clinton forced Congress to drop
special-interest riders that would have cut roads through wilderness, forced overcutting on our
national forests, crippled wildlife protections, and blocked common-sense actions to address global
warming.
Clean, Safe Water for America. The final budget provides $1.7 billion -- an additional
$230 million or 16-percent increase from last year -- for the President's Clean Water Action
Plan, a five-year initiative to help communities and farmers clean up the almost 40 percent of
America's surveyed waterways still too polluted for fishing and swimming. In addition, the
budget provides states $2.15 billion in financing for clean water construction projects.
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�Preserving Precious Lands. An additional $325 million -- a $55 million increase from last
year -- through the Land and Water Conservation Fund will be used to acquire dozens of
natural and historic sites around the country, including critical winter range for Yellowstone
bison, New Mexico's Baca Ranch and the last remaining private stretches of the Appalachian
Trail.
Protecting Endangered Species. The final budget provides a 23-percent increase for
efforts to restore threatened and endangered species, including $5 million to provide
incentives for habitat conservation on private lands.
Leading the Fight Against Global Warming. The final budget provides over $1 billion-a 24-percent increase from last year -- to support research investments that will reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, oil consumption, and energy costs for consumers and businesses
by promoting increased energy efficiency and clean energy technologies.
Defending Our Environment Against Stealth Attacks. President Clinton forced
Congress to drop special-interest riders that would have rolled back hard-won environmental
protections. Anti-environmental language in the budget bills would have:
Forced overcutting of timber on national forests and accelerated logging of Alaskan
rain forest.
Allowed intrusive helicopter landings in Alaska wilderness and the first road ever
carved through a designated wilderness area.
Hindered salmon restoration in the Pacific Northwest, and allowed harmful
commercial fishing in wilderness waters of Glacier Bay National Park.
Blocked common-sense actions to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, and barred the
Administration from informing the public about the threat of global warming.
Responds to the Farm Crisis at Home ...
Emergency Farm Assistance. President Clinton vetoed the Agriculture Appropriations bill
on October 8th "because it fails to address adequately the crisis now gripping our Nation's
farm community." The final budget includes a significant increase in emergency farm
assistance over the $4.2 billion in the vetoed bill. The final budget provides total emergency
assistance to farmers and ranchers of about $6 billion -- that's 40 percent more assistance
than the bill the President vetoed. The final bill increased the amount for crop loss
compensation by_$228 million, and increased the amount for economic loss
compensation by $1.4 billion, bringing the amounts for these to $2.6 billion and $3.1
billion, respectively.
USDA Discrimination Claim Payments. The final budget includes an improved version
of the language waiving the statute oflimitations on minority farmer discrimination claims
against USDA than was included in Agriculture Appropriation bill. The final version is
substantially the same as the Senate-passed version drafted by Senator Robb. Unlike the
vetoed version, the final bill waives the statute oflimitations on claims stemming from
alleged discrimination in USDA's housing loan program, as well as the farm loan program
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�waiver included in the vetoed bill. It also includes expedited resolution of the claims, which
was not in the vetoed version, urging the Secretary of Agriculture to resolve claim cases
within 180 days from when claims are filed. With this language, discrimination claims from
1981 to 1996 that had been barred by the statute of limitations will be expeditiously resolved
by USDA.
.... And to Financial Turmoil Abroad
Full IMF Funding To Help Address International Financial Crisis. With America's
fiscal house in order, the United States is now the bulwark of economic stability in the world.
Some other nations around the world, however, are experiencing major economic upheaval,
hurting our exports, farmers, and ranchers. A strong International Monetary Fund is a
stabilizing force in the world economy and is a critical piece of President Clinton's strategy
to protect the international financial system -- and therefore the U.S. economy -- against the
risk of new, escalating, or spreading crises. President Clinton fought for and won full
funding of $17.9 billion for the IMF -- a critical part of his strategy to help address the global
financial crisis and to keep our economy strong. A stronger IMF will give the U.S. and its
allies new flexibility in developing responses to protect the world from the spread of the
financial crisis.
Fully Funds President Clinton's Child Labor Initiative. In his State of the Union
address, the President pledged to send legislation to Congress to fight abusive child labor and
proposed making the United States the world leader in supporting programs to reduce
abusive child labor, with a 10-fold increase in our commitment to the International
Programme for the Elimination of Child Labor (lPEC), from $3 million to $30 million a
year. While the Senate, with the strong leadership of Senator Harkin, fully funded the
President's request, the House failed to do so, providing only $6 million. In the final
budget, Congress agreed to the President's full request of $30 million for IPEC. The
budget also fully funds the President's $9 million request for domestic enforcement and
a migrant youth job-training demonstration.
Moves People from Welfare to Work and Empowers Communities
President Clinton and Vice President Gore are committed to tapping the potential of
America's urban and rural communities. This budget moves forward on their vision to help
revitalize America's communities:
50,000 Welfare-to-Work Housing Vouchers. President Clinton's FY 1999 Budget
included $283 million for 50,000 new vouchers exclusively for people who need housing
assistance to make the transition from welfare to work. The original House bill
included $100 million, while the Senate provided only $40 million. The final budget
includes President Clinton's full request of $283 million for 50,000 welfare-to-work
housing vouchers.
Flexible Funding for Empowerment Zones. President Clinton and Vice President Gore
requested mandatory funding for second-round urban and rural Empowerment Zones. The
final budget includes $60 million in this flexible funding for the next round of Empowerment
Zones and 20 new rural Enterprise Communities.
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�Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Expansion. The Administration
requested a major expansion of the CDFI program to continue building a national network of
community development banks. The original House bill froze CDFI funding at $80 million,
while the Senate cut funding to $55 million. The final budget increases CDFI funding from
$80 million in FY98 to $95 million in FY99 -- a 19-percent increase.
Public Housing Reform. This legislation makes the President's landmark housing reform
a reality. This bipartisan bill will allow more economic integration and deconcentration in
our Nation's public housing, encourage and reward work, provide protections for those most
in need, and put the Nation back into the housing business with the first new housing
vouchers in five years.
FHA Loan Limit Increased. President Clinton's FY99 budget included an increase in the
FHA loan limit to expand homeownership opportunities to more Americans. The final
budget includes an increase in the FHA loan limit, raising the limit from $86,317 to
$109,032 in the lowest cost areas and from $170,300 to $197,621 in the highest cost areas.
"Play-by-the-Rules" Homeownership Initiative. President Clinton's FY99 budget
included $25 million for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation to start the
"Play-by-the-Rules" homeownership initiative, which would make homeownership more
accessible to 10,000 families who have good rental histories, but are not adequately served in
the housing market. The final budget includes $25 million for this new initiative.
Increased Funding for Homeless Assistance. The President proposed a major expansion
ofHUD's continuum of care program, designed to help homeless persons obtain health care,
jobs, and permanent housing. The final budget includes $975 million in funds for the
homeless -- a $152 million, or 18 percent, increase over last year.
HUD Fair Housing. The President proposed a major expansion ofHUD's Fair Housing
programs, as part of his "One America" initiative. The final budget expands HUD's Fair
Housing programs from $30 million in FY98 to $40 million in FY99. That 33-percent
increase includes $7.5 million for a new audit-based enforcement initiative proposed by the
Administration.
Regional Opportunity Counseling. The Administration requested funds to help counsel
Section 8 certificate and voucher holders on their full range of housing options. While the
Senate did not include any funding for this initiative, the final budget includes $10 million
for this voluntary effort to expand the housing and employment opportunities available to
low-income families.
Expansion of HUD's Youthbuild Program. The Administration proposed expanding
funds for Youthbuild by more than a quarter. While the original House bill provided $35
million and the Senate provided $40 million, the final budget includes $42.5 million -- an
increase of over 20 percent.
Cleaning Up Brownfields. The Administration proposed $91 million for EPA's
brownfield activities, such as grants for site assessment and community planning. The final
budget includes the President's request of $91 million.
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�Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Expansion. President Clinton's FY99
budget included an expansion of CDBG. The final budget increases funding for CDBG
from $4.675 billion in FY98 to $4.750 billion in FY99 -- that's a $75 million expansion this
year.
Increased Help For Communities Suffering From Sudden and Severe Economic
Dislocation. President Clinton's FY99 budget included a 10-percent increase in funds for
EDA so that they can better respond to sudden and severe economic dislocation. The final
budget increases funding for EDA from $361 million to $393 million -- that's a 9-percent
expansion this year.
Expansion of NADBank. The Administration proposed providing the North American
Development Bank's (NADBank) Community Adjustment and Investment Program $37
million of paid-in capital, which would allow the Bank to leverage private capital markets to
provide additional financing to trade-affected communities. The final budget includes $10
million of paid-in capital for the NADBank.
$75 Million for Welfare-to-Work Transportation Funds. While the House and Senate
provided $50 million -- the minimum amount "guaranteed" in the transportation bill -- the
final budget includes $75 million for this competitive grant program. These funds will
assist states and localities in developing flexible transportation alternatives, such as van
services, to help former welfare recipients and other low income workers get to work.
Heating and Cooling Assistance for Low-Income Families Protected. More than five
million low-income families receive help to pay for home heating costs through this
program, yet the House Republicans tried to eliminate it. The final budget includes the
President's full request for funding to help low-income families pay for home heating and
cooling assistance.
Advances a Strong Health and Technology Research Agenda
For six years in a row, President Clinton and Vice President Gore have proposed substantial
increases in the Federal government's research and development portfolio to build a healthier, more
prosperous, and productive future. In FY 1999, the President proposed, within the first balanced
budget in a generation, the largest commitment to key civilian research in the history of our country
as part of the "Research Fund for America." Congress agreed to support significant increases in
R&D, including:
Expansion of National Science Foundation. President Clinton proposed a major
expansion of research and development funds for the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The final budget includes a 7-percent increase -- from $3.4 billion in FY98 to $3.7 billion in
FY99 -- in the NSF research budget to support science and engineering research across all
fields and disciplines. NSF supports nearly half of the non-medical basic research
conducted at universities.
Expansion of National Institutes of Health for Biomedical Research. President Clinton's
FY99 budget included the largest-ever dollar increase in funds for the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). The final budget includes almost $2 billion expansion of NIH research
funding -- a 14-percent increase. Scientists are on the cusp of important new breakthroughs
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�in biomedical research, which could revolutionize the way medical experts understand, treat,
and prevent some of our most devastating diseases. This increase will enable scientists to
pursue a wide range of cutting edge research from Alzheimers to AIDS to genetic discoveries.
Expansion of Energy Department Science Budget. President Clinton's FY99 included an
8 percent increase in the Department of Energy's science budget, including support for the
National Spallation Neutron Source. The final budget fully funds the President's request.
Funds Next Generation Internet. In his State of the Union address, President Clinton
said, "I ask Congress to step up support for building the next generation Internet... And the
next generation Internet will operate at speeds up to a thousand times faster than today."
The final budget includes more than $100 million funding for the Next Generation Internet, a
Federal R&D initiative which will connect more than 100 universities at speeds that are up to
1,000 times faster than today's Internet, and establish the foundation for the networks and
applications (e.g. telemedicine, distance learning) of the 21 st century.
Expansion in Advanced Technology Program (ATP). President Clinton's FY99 budget
proposed an expansion of ATP to promote cutting-edge high-technology projects. While the
Senate froze funding atthe FY98 level and the House cut funding by $13 million, the final
budget increases ATP funding to $204 million -- an $11 million increase over last year -which will allow for about $70 million in new awards to develop high-risk technologies that
promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread economic benefits.
Improving the Public Health of America
For six years, President Clinton and Vice President Gore have been working hard to expand our
Nation's health care investments, including research, prevention, and quality care for more
Americans.
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New Efforts to Prevent and Treat HIV/AIDS. The Congress has responded to the President's
and Vice President's request to substantially increase efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS.
Congress has provided $1.4 billion for Ryan White Care Act activities. This funding level
includes a 61-percent increase for the AIDS drug assistance program, which provides funds
to States to help uninsured and underinsured people with life-saving treatments for
HIV/AIDS. In addition, Congress provided about $630 million for HIV prevention
activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Historic $130 Million Effort to Address HIV/AIDS in Minority Community. Minority
communities make up the fastest growing portion of the HIV/ AIDS caseload (44 percent of
all new HIV cases). Today, the final budget makes an unprecedented $130 million
investment, including $50 million in emergency funding that will improve prevention efforts
in high risk communities, and expand access to cutting edge HIV therapies and other
treatment needed for HIV/AIDS, and the Department of Health and Human Services will
invest $20 million of existing resources to address this problem.
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Critical New Investments to Protect Public Health at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The Congress has responded to President Clinton's request for a $2.4 billion investment -- a
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�$222 million increase -- in public health at the CDC. This critical investment will address a
host of public health challenges, including fighting emerging infectious diseases, combating
new resistance to anti-biotics, and improving prevention for some of our. nation's leading
killers, such as diabetes, HIVjAIDS, and heart disease.
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New Efforts to Improve the QuaJity of Health Care. Congress has responded to the
President's request for a $25 million investment in new research at the Agency of Health
Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) to improve the quality of the health care delivery
system. Identifying critical health care problems and educating health plans, medical
professionals, patients, and advocates about solutions can lead to important improvements in
the quality of health care. For example, overuse of antibiotics has been shown to lead to
resistance and cost as much as $7.5 billion a year. AHCPR's development and dissemination
of guidelines for the appropriate use of antibiotics will result in better patient care and
significant health care savings.
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Increasing Funding to Provide Health Insurance to Low-Income Children in Puerto
Rico and the Territories. Thousands of uninsured children in both Puerto Rico and
the other territories will now be eligible for meaningful health care coverage for the
first time under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The territories
were currently on schedule to receive an inadequate and inequitable $10.7 million.
Today, the Congress responded to the President's request and provided the territories
with an additional $153 million over five years for their new CHIP programs that will
meet the needs of their uninsured children.
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Funding the President's Commitment to Eliminate Racial Health Disparities.
Minorities suffer from higher rates for a number of critical diseases. For example, African
Americans under the age of 65 have twice the rate of heart disease as whites, and Native
Americans suffer from diabetes at nearly three times the average rate. The Congress has
taken a critical first step in investing in the President's multi-year proposal to eliminate racial
health disparities in six health areas, including HIV/ AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and
immunizations. The Congress has given the Administration authority to fund its proposed
$30 million grants for communities to develop new strategies to address these disparities and
has granted the President's request for increases in other critical public health programs, such
as heart disease and diabetes prevention at CDC, that have proven effective in attacking these
disparities.
Other Highlights ...
Reduces Backlog and Expands Alternative Dispute Resolution at Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The President's FY99 budget included $279 million
-- a $37 million increase over the previous year -- to significantly expand EEOC's alternative
dispute resolution program and reduce the backlog of private sector discrimination
complaints. The final budget fully funds the President's request -- providing the first real
increase for EEOC in several years.
President Clinton's Food Safety Initiative. The final budget provided approximately $75
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�million in new funds for the President's Food Safety Initiative to help implement a
far-ranging plan to improve surveillance of food borne illnesses, education about proper food
handling, research, and inspection of imported and domestic foods. The new funds are part
of an Administration-wide effort, led by the Department of Agriculture and the Department
of Health and Human Services, to create a seamless, science-based food safety system.
More Police on the Streets. In 1994, President Clinton fought for and won a commitment
"to put 100,000 police officers on the street. The final budget includes funds for 17,000
additional Community Oriented Police Services (COPS) Program police officers toward the
President's goal of 100,000 cops on the beat by 2000.
Increasing Law Enforcement in Indian Country. In his FY1999 budget, the President
requested a $25 million increase for law enforcement in Indian country. The final bill
includes the President's full request. This funding will go to more police officers and
public safety initiatives in the approximately 56 million acres of Indian lands serving
more than 1.4 million residents.
Brings Financial Stability to Tennessee Valley Authority (TV A). The final budget
includes $50 million that will allow TV A to better provide for the citizens of the seven
states -- Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Virginia -- that it serves. The agreement will let TV A refinance part of its debt to
compensate for the loss of Federal funds for its non-power programs. The final
budget also prevents TVA from losing the Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area.
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Attached is a slightly revised version of the signing statement on
S. 53 - Baseball Antitrust (the only difference is that we added a
paragraph on Curt Flood).
Since the clock on the bill has started we will
need to finalize this signing statement ASAP.
Therefore please provide
your sign-off or any comments by 2pm, Friday, October 16th. Thanks
Draft Signing Statement for S. 53
I am pleased today to sign into law S. 53, the o&Curt Flood Act of
1998.08 This legislation is the successful culmination of bipartisan
efforts to treat employment matters with respect to Major League Baseball
players under the antitrust laws in the same way such matters are treated
for athletes in other professional sports.
I particularly want to thank
Chairman Hatch, Senator Leahy, Chairman Hyde and Representative Conyers
for their efforts in guiding this legislation through Congress.
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It is especially fitting that this legislation will forever honor
a courageous baseball player and human being, the late Curt Flood.
Flood~,s enormous talents on the baseball diamond were matched by his
courage off the field.
It was 29 years ago this month that Curt Flood
refused a trade from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia
Phillies. His bold stand set in motion the events which culminate in the
law I am signing today. The personal and professional sacrifices made by
Curt Flood have benefitted all players since then and played a major role
in the current enormous popularity of our national pastime.
The Act appropriately limits baseballO,s special
judicially-created antitrust exemption by expressly applying the antitrust
laws to certain conduct of Major League Baseball. The legislation would
not affect the applicability of those laws to certain matters that, it has
been argued, the exemption would legitimately protect (including franchise
relocation rules and the minor leagues). The Act provides that certain
conduct of Major League Baseball is subject to the antitrust laws; the
applicability of the antitrust laws with respect to all other conduct is
unchanged. The Act in no way codifies or extends the baseball exemption.
The Act does not in any way limit the standing of the United
States to bring an antitrust action. The antitrust laws protect the
publicO,s interest in the efficient operation of the free market system,
thereby protecting consumers, and the United States has standing to sue to
enjoin all violations.
Treating employment matters with respect to Major League Baseball
players under the antitrust laws in the same way such matters are treated
for athletes in other professional sports is sound policy.
I know I am
joined by millions of baseball fans in hoping that the Curt Flood Act of
1998 helps baseball avoid stoppages of play it has too often experienced
as a result of player/owner disagreements.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Washington, D.C. 20503-0001
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
LEGISLATIVE REFERRAL MEMORANDUM
TO:
FROM:
Reference
OMB CONTACT:
SUBJECT:
Legislative Liaison Officer - See Distribution below
Ingrid M. Schroeder (for) Assistant Director for Legislative
Ingrid M. Schroeder
PHONE: (202)395-3883 FAX: (202)395-3109
Signing Statement on S53 Curt Flood Act
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In accordance with OMB Circular A-19, OMB requests the views of your
agency on the above subject before advising on its relationship to the
program of the President.
please advise us if this item will affect
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Elena Kagan
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Draft Signing Statement for S. 53
I am pleased today to sign into law S. 53, the O&Curt Flood Act of
1998.08 This legislation is the successful culmination of bipartisan
efforts to treat employment matters with respect to Major League Baseball
players under the antitrust laws in the same way such matters are treated
for athletes in other professional sports.
I particularly want to thank
Chairman Hatch, Senator Leahy, Chairman Hyde and Representative Conyers
for their efforts in guiding this legislation through Congress.
The Act appropriately limits baseballO,s special
judicially-created antitrust exemption by expressly applying the antitrust
laws to certain conduct of Major League Baseball.
The legislation would
not affect the applicability of those laws to certain matters that, it has
been argued, the exemption would legitimately protect (including franchise
relocation rules and the minor leagues).
The Act provides that certain
conduct of Major League Baseball is subject to the antitrust laws; the
applicability of the antitrust laws with respect to all other conduct is
unchanged.
The Act in no way codifies or extends the baseball exemption.
The Act does not in any way limit the standing of the United
States to bring an antitrust action.
The antitrust laws protect the
publicO,s interest in the efficient operation of the free market system,
thereby protecting consumers, and the United States has standing to sue to
enjoin all violations.
Treating employment matters with respect to Major League Baseball
players under the antitrust laws in the same way such matters are treated
for athletes in other professional sports is sound policy.
I know I am
joined by millions of baseball fans in hoping that the Curt Flood Act of
1998 helps baseball avoid stoppages of play it has too often experienced
as a result of player/owner disagreements.
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CREATOR: Martha Foley ( CN=Martha Foley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME: 16-0CT-1998 11:34:23.00
SUBJECT:
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please call re fehbp. foley 61988
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CREATOR: Martha Foley ( CN=Martha Foley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TlME:16-0CT-1998 15:25:15.00
SUBJECT:
TO: ELENA (Pager) #KAGAN ( ELENA (Pager) #KAGAN [ UNKNOWN 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
please call re contraceptive language. Foley. 61988
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CREATOR: Martha Foley ( CN=Martha Foley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME: 16-0CT-1998 16:02:06.00
SUBJECT:
TO: ELENA (Pager) #KAGAN ( ELENA (Pager) #KAGAN [ UNKNOWN 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
us catholic conference called me about both our issues. foley
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CREATOR: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:16-0CT-1998 16:20:37.00
SUBJECT:
TO: ELENA (Pager) #KAGAN ( ELENA (Pager)
READ: UNKNOWN
#KAGAN [ UNKNOWN 1 )
TEXT:
Sylvia is having a 5:00 Briefing on the Omnibus which she would like you
to attend in Roosevelt Room
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Reminder: 5:00 Omnibus Briefing w/ Sylvia is beginning in Roosevelt Room
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CREATOR: Maureen T. Shea ( CN=Maureen T. Shea/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TlME:16-0CT-1998 18:06:09.00
SUBJECT:
USCatholic Conference
TO: Christopher C. Jennings ( CN=Christopher C. Jennings/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan· ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
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TEXT:
I have received calls from them worried about the drafting of the
conscience language in the Lowey amendment.
I have consulted with Martha
Foley, who also spoke with them, and explained that this was policy/OMB
issue.
I know you are overwhelmed and I apologize for bugging you on
this, but it does seem to be a real concern to them. Martha has explained
some of the politics to me, but I simply told them it was policy/OMB and I
would try to get you to call them.
The two issues, as you might have guessed, are:
language says religious plans not religious beliefs
and concerns that doctors don't always prescribe contraceptive devices IUDs etc. and they also give out pills in their office
The person is Richard Doerflinger
Office is 202-541-3171
Home is
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you do, I'll end up with unhappy people - perfect!
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Weekly Report 10/16/98
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�October 17, 1998
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Bruce Reed
Elena Kagan
RE:
DPC Weekly Report
Education -- Budget Deal: While your victory on class size reduction and your
other education initiatives was remarkable, a number of key pieces of your education
agenda remains unfinished. In addition to school modernization, there are two key areas
we will focus on in the near term. First, the final provision on national standards allows
some test development work to continue (while banning pilot testing or implementation),
and calls on NAGB and NAS to conduct additional studies in anticipation of possible
Congressional consideration of this issue when NAEP is reauthorized in the next Congress.
Because the likelihood of ever getting full Congressional support is so slim, we will develop
a number of additional options for how to best continue to press for national standards.
Second, as we work with the Education Department on a proposal for the reauthorization
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, we will ensure that the concepts in the
Education Opportunity Zones are fully reflected in that proposal and remain a central part
of our education agenda.
Health Care -- Kennedy-Jeffords Legislation: Despite our efforts, the Work Incentives
Improvement Act (Kennedy-Jeffords) did not make into the final Omnibus budget appropriations
bill. This bipartisan legislation, that you endorsed at the commemoration of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) last July, enables people with disabilities to go back to work by providing
an option to buy into Medicaid and Medicare, as well as other pro-work initiatives. The
disability community believes this is the most significant legislation since the ADA. Although
this bill was on the list of top Administration priorities throughout the final budget negotiations
and received broad-based bipartisan support, it was rejected by Republicans because they did not
want to have significant health expansions and because they thought it was too late in the process
to approve such a significant piece of legislation. However, the disability community as well as
the AIDS community and others are extremely appreciative that the Administration fought so
hard to pass this legislation.
Health Care -- AIDS Issues in the Budget: The Omnibus bill included significant new
funding for HIY /AIDS. In particular, it included $110 million for funding to address the critical
AIDS problem in the minority community. This increase, plus an additional $20 million that
HHS has agreed to allocate from existing funds, meets the Congressional Black Caucuses' full
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�funding request for this problem. In addition to this important victory, the Ryan White Program
which provides a range of treatment and services for people with HIV/AIDS, also received a
$250 million -- or nearly 30 percent increase. The AIDS community and the CSC are quite
pleased with this remarkable outcome. However, there is disappointment regarding the
inclusion in the final bill of a needle exchange provision that prevents the District of Columbia
from using their own funds for needle exchange programs. We strongly opposed this
provision because it strips federal funds from community-based agencies trying to stop the
spread of HIV through needle exchange programs.
Health Care -- Race and Health in the Budget: The Congress has taken a critical
first step in investing in your multi-year proposal to eliminate racial health disparities in
six health areas, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and immunizations. As you know
some of these disparities are startling. For example, African Americans under the age of
65 have twice the rate of heart disease as whites, and Native Americans suffer from
diabetes at nearly three times the average rate. The budget gives sufficient funding to
finance the $80 million you included in your budget request, including new grants for
communities to develop new strategies to address these disparities.
Health Care -- Historic Increases in Biomedical Research. The Congress agreed to
fund your proposal to increase biomedical research at the NIH with a $2 billion expansion
of NIH research funding --a 14-percent increase. This increase will enable scientists to
pursue a wide range of important new breakthroughs in critical diseases, from Aizheimers
to AIDS to genetic discoveries. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control also received
your requested increases for new research to improve prevention efforts, including fighting
emerging infectious diseases and combating new resistance to anti-biotics, and the Agency for
Health Care Policy Research (AHCPR) received your requested increases to improve quality
outcomes. For example, overuse of antibiotics has been shown to lead to resistance and cost as
much as $7.5 billion a year. AHCPR's development and dissemination of guidelines for the
appropriate use of antibiotics will result in better patient care and significant health care savings.
Tobacco -- Medicaid Recoupment: During negotiations over the omnibus
appropriations bill, the Republican Leadership proposed including language which would have
waived our right to the federal share of state tobacco recoveries. They would not, however,
agree to conditions requiring states to spend a portion of the funds on a menu of items and the
language was therefore not included in the bill. We plan to tell the states and others that we are
willing to consider this issue next year, but only if the federal share of settlement funds to a
list of specified activities along the lines of the menu negotiated in the McCain bill and
preferably including tobacco control activities.
Crime -- Prison Drug Testing/Treatment: In the budget agreement we succeeded in
including legislative language to allow states to use up to 10% of federal prison funds to
implement drug testing and treatment plans for prisoners and parolees. As you know, you called
for this change in law in a directive on coerced abstinence that you signed last year.
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�Crime -- Brady Implementation: The final budget agreement ensures that the Brady
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) will go on-line as planned at the
end of next month. While the final compromise does not allow the FBI to charge a user fee, it
appropriates 42 million dollars to pay for these checks and, more importantly it doe snot require
the immediate destruction of records. This latter provision would have delayed implementation
of the NICS by 6-8 months.
Community Empowerment -- Final Budget Agreement: The final budget agreement
included almost all of the major initiatives proposed in your State of the Union and FY99
Budget. Some of the highlights include: 1) 50,000 new Welfare-to-Work Housing Vouchers; 2)
the first year funding for the Round II Empowerment Zones; 3) a 19 percent increase in the
Community Development Financial Institution Fund budget; 4) enactment of the landmark public
housing reform legislation; 5) extension of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and tlie
Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WTWTC); 6) an 18 percent increase in homeless assistance; 7) a
33 percent expansion of HUD's Fair Housing programs that are part of your One America
Initiative; 8) full funding for EPA's Brownfield's program; 9) and the creation of a new program
to provide Individual Development Accounts (IDA) to empower individuals to save for a first
home, post secondary education, or to start a new business. The enactment of the IDA
legislation means that you have fulfilled, at some level, all of the promises made in Putting
People First in the area of community empowerment.
The one initiative which Congress was unwilling to consider as part of the tax extenders
legislation was your proposal to expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC).
However, we believe that the ground work has been laid to secure Congressional approval next
year for the LIHTC and a longer extension of the WOTC and the WTWTC. Over the next
several week, DPC, NEC, and the Office of the Vice President will be finalizing a set of new
proposals for your FY2000 budget and State of the Union that will build on the victories we
achieved in this year's budget.
Welfare Reform -- Teen Birth and Pregnancy Rates: Two recent reports show
continued good news regarding teen birth and pregnancy rates. CDC announced preliminary data
showing a 3 percent drop in the teen birth rate from 1996 to 1997, the sixth annual decline in a
row and a drop of 15 percent since 1991. The latest rate, for 1997, is 52.9 births per 1,000 girls
between 15 and 19 years old. Teen birth rates declined for all racial groups, though the rate of
decline for blacks was slightly less than for other groups. A new report from the Alan
Guttmacher Institute shows the teen pregnancy rate dropped nearly 13 percent from 1991 to 1995
and now stands at the lowest level since 1975, at 101 pregnancies per 1,000 15- to 19-year-old
girls. Researchers attribute the drop in pregnancy rates to a decline in sexual activity among
teens and improved use of contraceptives. The teen pregnancy data lag several years behind the
teen birth data because the pregnancy data depend on abortion data which take longer to collect.
In several months, CDC will produce its own estimate of the teen pregnancy rate which will
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CREATOR: Jeanne Lambrew ( CN=Jeanne Lambrew/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:16-0CT-1998 21:13:37.00
SUBJECT:
Status of Medicare Home Health
TO: Charles M. Brain ( CN=Charles M. Brain/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce N. Reed ( CN=Bruce N. Reed/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Lawrence J. Stein ( CN=Lawrence J. Stein/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Gene B. Sperling ( CN=Gene B. Sperling/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Charles R. Marr ( CN=Charles R. Marr/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Melissa G. Green ( CN=Melissa G. Green/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
From Chris Jennings & Jeanne
As you all know, the Republicans have been pushing us to accept their
proposal to fix the Medicare home health payment system problem with a set
of offsets that includes increasing the income limits on Roth IRA
rollovers.
Per the senior staff discussion this morning, we were told
that the Roth IRA provision is totally unacceptable. We subsequently
worked with Treasury to develop several alternative financing packages to
offer the Republicans as a substitute for the Roth IRA financing.
We
developed three packages, in consultation with Hill Democratic leadership
and authorizing committtee staff:
1.
"Cats and Dogs": This includes 7 relatively non-controversial tax
offsets that have appeared in other bills and have not yet been used.
2. Limiting enrollment in the Medicare MSA demonstration: This is
basically free money, since no one is signing up for this demonstration
that the Republicans insisted on including in the BBA.
3. Limiting MSA plus some cats and dogs:
This option increases the
amount of savings that can be spent on helping home health agencies a
little more.
(While the home health fixes are generally accepted, some
members from rural state (e.g., Grassley) are unhappy with the proposal
extra funds can help solve this problem) .
Chris and John Tallisman from Treasury briefed Bill Thomas and key
Republican staff on these alternatives, and expressed our opposition to
their offset.
The conversations went well, but as predicted, Mr. Thomas
said that the MSA provision was to him what the Roth IRA provision is to
us.
However, he was open to considering the cats and dogs.
He did push
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us on whether we could support their other tax offset:
a provision that
changes the tax treatment of winnings from gambling and the lottery.
This
is a short term saver, but, depending on how it is structured, can cost in
the out years. Treasury has not yet developed a position on this policy,
but it looks like a compromise may involve this particular offset.
Thus, the ball is back in the Republicans' court. Mr. Thomas was going to
canvas the House Ways & Means committee, and the Senate Finance tax people
were going to closely look at the offsets.
Meanwhile, our Democrats
appear pleased with the way this process has unfolded to date and have
been supportive of our objection to the Roth IRA. As a note, the major
home health agency organization wrote a letter today objecting to the
offset as well.
We will let you know if we have any news over the weekend.
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CREATOR: Thomas L. Freedman ( CN=Thomas L. Freedman/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:19-0CT-1998 10:54:44.00
SUBJECT:
food safety
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Mary L. Smith ( CN=Mary L. Smith/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:
---------------------- Forwarded by Thomas L. Freedman/OPD/EOP on 10/19/98
10:53 AM ---------------------------
Mark A. Weatherly
10/19/98 09:33:29 AM
Record Type:
Record
To:
Thomas L. Freedman/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
food safety
The final bill that we read through yesterday had only the $5 m. more for
FDA. As you can see in the e-mail below, the House clerks allegedly
talked to FDA and got the impression that FDA was "drowning" in food
safety money.
Dan Mendelson talked later to FDA, who denied saying that,
but the damage was done.
---------------------- Forwarded by Mark A. Weatherly/OMB/EOP on 10/19/98
09:19 AM ------------------------------------------------ Forwarded by T J. Glauthier/OMB/EOP on 10/18/98
10:58 AM ---------------------------
Charles E. Kieffer
10/17/98 03:18:29 PM
Record Type:
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To:
See the distribution list at the bottom of this message
cc:
Subject:
food safety
Sally Chadbourne (Obey) called this afternoon to report that the majority
has changed the allocation of our $23 million food safety addback. Tim
Sanders (Skeen) and Sally report that FDA told them that they can not
spend the $9.9 million in the original allocation on food safety and that
if they get it they would propose to reprogram it to other activities
later in the year.
.
Needless to say, Tim decided to reduce the $9.9 million to $5 million
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(allocating the balance to various USDA agencies).
to allocate the $23 million as follows:
FDA $5
FSIS $8m
Cooperative State Res, Ed and extension
ARS$3.6
AMS $2.8
Their current plan is
$3.9 million
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Jacob J. Lew/OMB/EOP
Sylvia M. Mathews/OMB/EOP
Daniel N. Mendelson/OMB/EOP
Elena Kagan/OPD/EOP
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CREATOR: Julie A. Fernandes ( CN=Julie A. Fernandes/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ] )
CREATION DATE/TlME:19-0CT-1998 15:24:20.00
SUBJECT:
Draft immigration paper
TO: Paul J. weinstein Jr.
READ: UNKNOWN
( CN=Paul J. Weinstein Jr./OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ] )
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ] )
READ:UNKNOWN
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�PRESIDENT CLINTON AND CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS
WIN IMPORT ANT VICTORIES FOR THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY
October 19, 1998
Reducing the Naturalization Backlog. The President's FY99 budget included $827
million in funding from the Examination Fee Account and $486 million from the User Fee
Account dedicated to providing immigration benefit and inspection services. A recent
estimate of INS fee receipts has resulted in a significant reduction in anticipated fee
revenue to support the Examination Fee Account and insufficient resources to address the
two-year backlog of pending naturalization applications at the INS. As a result, the
Administration sought an infusion of $171 million in new resources to support
naturalization activities. The Administration urged the conferees to ensure that
immigration fees are used to reduce the backlog of pending citizenship applications, as well
as to approve the reprogramming request. The final Omnibus appropriations package
includes approval of the full $171 million in reprogramming and does not divert any money
from the INS's Exams Fee account for unrelated expenses.
Protecting U.S. Farmworkers. The Administration strongly urged the conferees to delete
provisions in the Senate-passed CJS bill that would create a new agricultural guestworker
program. These provisions would likely increase illegal immigration to the U.S., reduce job
opportunities for legal U.S. farmworkers, and depress wages and work standards for U.S.
farmworkers. We fought hard, and were successful, at getting these provisions removed from
the Omnibus appropriations package.
Defeated Efforts to Dismantle the INS. Some Republicans in Congress made an effort to
attach legislation to the Omnibus appropriations bill that would drastically reorganize the INS
over the next six months. Though we support efforts to reform the INS and promote greater
effectiveness and efficiency, we opposed going forward with such a major reorganization of this
important agency without the benefit of hearings by the Judiciary Committee and consideration
by the House and Senate. We strongly opposed this legislation, and successfully defeated it.
Deportation Relief for Haitians. Last year we were disappointed that Haitians were
excluded from the relief granted Central Americans and Eastern Europeans in the
Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA). Last December,
the President temporarily suspended deportation of certain Haitians for one year and
called on Congress to address, through legislation, the circumstances of this group. The
Haitian provisions included in the final appropriations bill will allow thousands of Haitians
who were paroled into this country after the 1991 overthrow of President Aristide or who
applied for asylum prior to 1996, to become legal residents of the U.S.
Visas for High-Tech Workers and Protection for U.S. Workers. The Administration and
Congress reached a compromise on legislation that temporarily increases the number ofH-lB
visas; reforms the H-IB program to ensure that employers do not replace U.S. workers with
temporary foreign workers and requires employers to recruit U.S. workers; and provides for a
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user fee that will generate approximately $250 million over three years in new investments for
training and educational opportunities to U.S. workers.
Enhancing Enforcement at the Border. The final budget agreement includes the
Administration's request to hire 1,000 additional Border Patrol agents, as well as funds to provide
improved technology to detect illegal aliens along the Southwest Border.
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CREATOR: Michael Cohen ( CN=Michael Cohen/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ] )
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SUBJECT:
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TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ] )
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Attached is the final version of the chart comparing the final class size
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�CLINTON VICTORY ON SMALLER CLASSES WITH QUALITY TEACHERS
PRESIDENT
CLINTON'S GOAL
ADMINISTRATION'S
PROPOSAL
FINAL AGREEMENT IN
OMNIBUS ApPROPRIATIONS
BILL
CLEAR PURPOSE
Reduce class size to 18
in the early grades
Reduce class size to 18in the
early grades
FIRST STEP
TOWARD IllRING
100,000 TEACHERS
$1.1 billion in first year
$1.2 billion in first year
Help school districts
hire more than
30,000 teachers in the
first year of a seven
year-initiative to hire
100,000 teachers
Help school districts hire more
than 30,000 teachers in the first
year.
TARGETING
NEEDIEST
STUDENTS
Targeted to high
poverty stUdents using
Title 1 formula
Targeted to high poverty
communities, with 80% of
funds allocated by poverty and
20% by population count
GETTING
DOLLARS TO
LOCAL SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
99.4% of funds to local
school districts;
PRESIDENT'S
GoAL MET
100% to local school districts
0% for federal
administration
0.5% for costs to state
of program
administration and
testing of new teachers
O.O%for federal administration
0.0% for costs to state of
program administration and
testing of new teachers
0.0% for evaluation
or evaluation
Requires that local
school districts spend
at least 10% of funds
on improving teacher
quality
Establishes 15% cap for local
school district expenditures on
improving teacher quality
New teachers must
meet state certification
requirements
ENSURING
TEACHER
QUALITY
School districts may use funds
for teacher competency tests
New teachers must meet state
certification requirements
New teachers must
pass state-selected
competency test
ACCOUNTABILITY
FOR RESULTS
Must produce annual
school report card to
parents and the public
on student
Must produceannual school
reportcard to parents and the
public on student achievement
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CREATION DATE/TIME:19-0CT-1998 18:24:52.00
SUBJECT:
Daily Update for Senior Staff Mtg. from Chris
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
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READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Sarah A. Bianchi ( CN=Sarah A. Bianchi/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
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Bruce and Elena:
Health Care -- Status of FDA Commissioner Confirmation: If all goes
according to plan, Jane Henney should be confirmed as the first woman and
the first oncologist FDA Commissioner.
Senator Nickles has indicated that
he will do everything possible to clear any remaining hurdles prior to
Congressional adjournment.
I thought you may want to advise Senior staff
tomorrow and consider whether you may want to release a POTUS & VPOTUS
statement tomorrow afternoon.
Health Care -- Home Health Care Update: The Republicans agreed to drop the
Roth IRA financing provision and instead fund the roughly $1.7 billion,
five year home health fix through savings equally divided from Medicare,
primarily from a home health care payment reimbursement reduction, and thro
ugh the gambling tax provision we discussed earlier.
Although the
industry and the Democrats are not completely thrilled with the home
health care policy, they believe that we did everything we could to
improve it and seemed to be placing most of the blame for the shortcomings
of the provisions squarely at the feet of the Republicans.
And certainly
between doing nothing and this, our Democrats and the home health care
industry opted for the compromise.
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CREATOR: Janet Murguia ( CN=Janet Murguia/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:19-0CT-1998 20:34:34.00
SUBJECT:
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TO: Ann F. Lewis ( CN=Ann F. Lewis/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
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READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
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TEXT:
Congresswoman Water's office called to let me know that the Budget Message
Document, "President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and the Congressional
Democrats Win on the Budget, But There Is Still More Work To Do,"
does
not indicate or reflect the Black Farmers win in the bill for the CBC nor
does it reflect that the AIDS package for minorities was a CBC priority
targeted for African Americans.
Donna Cruise indicated that the
Congresswoman and other CBC members felt strongly that since there is a
reference to the Hispanic Education Initiative there should be some
similar reference to accomplishments targeted for African Americans.
Can we update our current document or will there be an effort to do
summary sheets for different wins in the bill targeted to different
groups? I thought I saw a draft document targeted for women.
Should we
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ] )
CREATION DATE/TIME:19-0CT-1998 20:36:10.00
SUBJECT:
Miscellany
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ] )
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TEXT:
EK:
This isn't too substantive, but it has some good general examples ... jc3
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�"CLEARANCE FATIGUE SYNDROME"
On July 8,
1998, the President stood up with Suzann Wilson -- the mother of a student slain in
the Jonesboro school shooting -- and called on Congress to pass federal CAP
legislation that would hold adults who allow children easy access to firearms
accountable for their actions. But this announcement. which received wide
media attention, was almost killed by the Treasury and Justice Departments the
night before the event. Despite having had more than a month to review the
CAP legislation; having already recommended that states pass their own CAP
laws; and having told the Rahm that the Administration could generally support
a federal CAP, as long as their was room to negotiate the final language -- the
Justice and Treasury Departments insisted that they would not support federal
CAP legislation. Chief of Staff Bowles had to speak with Secretary Rubin just to
keep this event from falling of the schedule.
1.
Administration Position on Child Access Prevention (CAP) Laws.
Granting COPS Waivers for Distressed Communities. On May 29, 1998, the
President announced a new COPS initiative that would target funds to
high-crime, high-need neighborhoods by waiving the federal match for them.
This initiative also almost never came to pass. Although the 1994 Crime Act
grants the Attorney General broad waiver authority -- and a DPC-Ied working
group had repeatedly recommended invoking this waiver authority over the
past year -- the Justice Department opposed granting any waivers unless
Congressional appropriators signed off first. Finally, with the help of some
prominent mayors -- and a year's worth of complaining -- the Justice
Department relented. Similar waivers have now been granted to different cities
and to help hire police to work in schools.
2.
Report on School DiSCipline. Several times, in anticipation of his July 98
speech to the AFT. the President asked us for a status report on the school
discipline issues that he supported during the '96 campaign -- uniforms, curfews
and anti-truancy programs. Despite weeks of hostile meetings with the
Departments of Education and Justice, we were unable to get them to produce
anything for the President's speech.
3.
When the U.S. SentenCing
Commission released its revised recommendations on crack sentences in April of
97, the President issued a statement calling on ONDCP and Justice to review
these recommendations and report back to him within 60 days. However,
before ONDCP and Justice could agree, General McCaffrey publicly expressed
his own views and refused to work with members of the WH staff to develop a
consensus Administration response to the SentenCing Commission's report. In
the end, ONDCP and Justice were a month late in reporting back to the
4.
Recommendation on Crack SentenCing Policy.
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crack sentencing policies was lost before it even started.
5. Directive on Modified Assault Weapons. On November 14, 1997, after much
disagreement with the Treasury and Justice Departments, the President signed a
directive asking the Treasury Department to review whether or not certain
modified assault weapons could continue to be legally imported. Both
agencies strongly resisted taking this action; thought the Administration would
lose in court; delayed in producing the final report and recommendations; and
were dead wrong. After 6 months of doing battle with Justice and Treasury, the
President's decision on modified assault weapons has been strongly supported
by the public, law enforcement most of Congress -- and not challenged in
federal court.
6. Southwest Border Reorganization. For more than a year now, General
McCaffrey has been issuing reports and holding press conferences on how the
Southwest Border needs to be overhauled -- with huge increases in border patrol
agents, technology resources, and the appointment of a Senate-confirmed
Border Czar. None of these proposals are official Administration policy, and
they are strongly opposed by Secretary Rubin and the Attorney General.
However, McCaffrey has refused to work with us and other WH staff in helping to
determine a formal Administration position on these issues.
7. Teen Drug Testing and Drivers' Licenses. During the '96 campaign, the
President signed a directive asking certain Cabinet Members to report back with
recommendations on what the Administration could do to support drug testing
for teenagers applying to get their drivers' licenses. In early '97, ONDCP and
the Department of Transportation (DOT) replied that the Administration should
fund a demonstration program for interested states. However, CongreSSional
appropriators prohibited DOT from funding such demonstration program before
they could get it off the ground. We have since tried to get Justice and
ONDCP to fund such a demonstration with their discretionary funds, but they
have been unwilling cross the appropriators and dedicate any of their funds for
this purpose.
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CREATOR: Julie A. Fernandes ( CN=Julie A. Fernandes/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 09:08:12.00
SUBJECT:
NACARA regulation
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Maria Echaveste ( CN=Maria Echaveste/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Marjorie Tarmey ( CN=Marjorie Tarmey/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Laura Emmett
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CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
CC: Leslie Bernstein
READ: UNKNOWN
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TEXT:
I just got word from OIRA that they have signed off on the NACARA
regulation. Now it is up to DOJ to publish it in the federal register
(likely within the next few days) .
I have already called DOJ to ask that
they expedite their process.
julie
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CREATOR: Mary L. Smith ( CN=Mary L. Smith/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 12:30:57.00
SUBJECT:
Native American budget win document
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:
I'm trying to prepare a Native American budget win document for Lynn to
use at the National Congress of American Indian Conference.
OMB is still
looking it over, but I will get it to you to review this afternoon.
If
you could review it by 4:30pm today, I would appreciate it.
I'm leaving
this afternoon to go to the conference and would like to take it with
me.
I get it to you as soon as OMB gets back to me.
Thanks, Mary
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CREATOR: Michael Cohen ( CN=Michael Cohen/OU=OPD/O=EOP o[ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 12:59:40.00
SUBJECT:
Working with ED
TO: Elena Kagan
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CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
CC: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
As we discussed yesterday, there have been a number of instances in which
an extrordinary effort on our part was necessary in order to get the
Education Department to take steps which the President clearly wanted.
1. Giving NAGB rather than the Education Department authority to develop
national tests:
In a meeting with national experts shortly after the
President's national standards initiative was announced in the 1997 SOTU,
the President made clear that he thought that the national test should be
moved out of the Education Department and placed in NAGB's hands.
DPC
staff regularly reiterated this view to ED in the following weeks and
months.
The Education Department resisted moving in this direction until
Secretary Riley announced this as the Administration's position in
September '97, as the battle over national testing was coming to a head
and when it became clear that this step was necessary to save the tests.
I believe ED resistance to this move was rooted in several institutional
factors:
The statistical agency and leadership in ED had real doubts about NAGB's
technical capacity to handle this job effectively, and real concerns about
expanding NAGB's responsibility.
Since NAGB's creation a little more than
10 years ago, there has always been a somewhat uneasy relationship between
NAGB and the National Center for Education Statistics, as they try to
appropriately define their respective roles and shared responsibilities
for designing and conducting the National Assessment of Education
Progress. Further, NAGB has a small staff, with limited technical
capabilities.
Putting NAGB fully in charge of the tests and eliminating
any role for ED staff was a concern to those who have worked most closely
with NAGB.
ED leadership was concerned that, for a variety of reasons, NAGB would
slow down the schedule for developing and implementing the national tests.
ED was concerned that NAGB would lack the desire and the ability to keep
the test development work on the fast-track that ED had put it on, in
order to meet the President's goal of implementing the test in 1999. They
were right; NAGB delayed the timeline by a year, in addition to a
one-year delay caused by the Congress. (although I remain convinced that
if we had not taken this step, the tests would have been completely killed
by the Congress a year ago.
From this perspective, a delay is not so
bad.
ED and DPC held different views about when we should announce our intent
to place NAGB in charge of the tests.
Because of NAGB's carefully defined
statutory authority, it could assume full authority for the tests only if
it was given this authority by the Congress. DPC pressed to announce our
intent to seek Congressional authorization, and at the same time to make
NAGB an official advisory group by executive action--either by the
President or by the Secretary. Taking this step would have reinforced
our committment to ultimately give NAGB full responsibility for the
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tests.
However, ED resisted this move, arguing that it would buy us
little support in the Congress.
Aggressively promoting the President's agenda of ending social promotions
and intervening in failing schools.
Since the President challenged states
and local school districts to take these steps in March 1996, DPC has been
trying to get ED to advance this agenda through nonlegislative means, such
as producing reports and guidebooks that could assist in the impleme
ntation of these policies and give the President the hook to return to
these issues. Ultimately, ED agreed to produce ~ guidebook on turing
around failing schools (released last Spring and well received in the
Education community) and on ending social promotions (to be completed
later this Fall), but only after repeated requests and after we insisted
on issueing Presidential directives to produce these guidebooks.
I
believe that it has been so difficult to get ED's enthusiastic action on
these issues for several reasons:
Concerns about the policies themselves. Though Secretary Riley has always
supported these policies on both substantive and political grounds, deeper
in ED there has been scepticism to both of them.
Briefly, there has been
concern that the message about taking over failing schools was too nega
tive and the research to guide such actions to limited; opposition to
ending social promotion has been routed in the view--supported by
research--that having students repeat a grade can increase the odds of
later school failure and dropping out.
It has taken some effort to
convince people that the President's challenge is not simply to keep kids
back, put to make sure that school systems take the necessary steps from
the outset to ensure that kids get the extra help the need to meet
standards and be promoted on time.
Limited staff capacity. ED has only a small number of staff with the
analytic skills and substantive knowledge to produce first-rate reports on
these two issues--and its staff capacity to do this has been further
depleted in recent years.
I am convinced that part of the problem here
has been that there were simply not many people to turn a pr.oject like
this over to--and those who could do it were already swamped with other
high priority tasks.
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CREATOR: Mary L. Smith ( CN=Mary L. Smith/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ] )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 15:53:34.00
SUBJECT:
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TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ] )
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TEXT:
This is
I would
Indians
catch a
a document on Native American budget wins that OMB has approved.
like to pass this out at the National Congress of American
conference. Could you review this by 4:30 as I am leaving to
plane to the conference at 5pm? Thanks
I am just waiting for signoff from Fred DuVal on the gaming paragraph.
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�PRESIDENT CLINTON FIGHTING
FOR NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE BUDGET,
BUT THERE Is STILL MORE WORK To Do
October 20, 1998
The final FY99 budget represents a significant step forward for America, protecting the surplus until
Social Security is reformed, and putting in place critical investments in education and training, from
smaller class sizes to after-school care, and from summer jobs to college mentoring. While the final
budget is clearly a win for President Clinton and Vice President Gore, there is still more work to do to
prepare America for the 21st century. Unfortunately, Republicans blocked school modernization,
Patients Bill of Rights, comprehensive tobacco legislation, child care investments, and campaign finance
reform.
Budget Victories for Native Americans:
Saving Social Security First. The President's commitment to Save Social Security First held the
line against several Republican efforts to drain the surplus.
Investing in Education and Training. While House Republican tried to slash their education budget
by over $2 billion, President Clinton and Congressional Democrats delivered on their education agenda:
More High-Quality Teachers With Smaller Class Sizes: $1.2 billion for the first year of the
President's new initiative to hire 100,000 new teachers to reduce class size in the early grades to a
national average of 18. Through smaller classes this initiative will help recruit high-quality
teachers and will insure that students will receive more individual attention, a solid foundation in
the basics, and greater discipline in the classroom.
$6 Million of the $1.2 Billion is for BIA-funded schools. The funds can used to
recruit, hire and train teachers in order to reduce class size in the early grades.
BIA School Construction and Repair: The final budget provides $60 million to replace older,
unsafe, and dilapidated schools on reservations in accordance with a Congressionally-approved
priority list ofreplacement schools and would provide for much-needed health and safety-related
repairs and improvements that together comprise a roughly $700 million backlog. In his FY1999
budget, the President requested $87 million, which is a $33 million (61 %) increase over FY 1998,
to support the Administration's initiative The House-passed bill would have provided only $59
million, which was $28 million (32%) below the requested amount.
Ensuring the Success of Public Schools and Colleges Serving Tribes. The final budget
provides $574 million for the operation of elementary and secondary schools, tribally contrrolled
community colleges, and assistance to Indian children attending public schools. This represents an
increase of 16 millions from FY98. The funds can used to recruit, hire and train teachers in order
to reduce class size in the early grades. These funds will assist the Nation's 30 tribal colleges,
which provide 2-year degrees to over 25,000 students in 12 states. For the first time in his FY99
budget, the President singled out tribal colleges for the time in his proposed budget for the Higher
Education Act.
After School Programs: $200 million to expand programs and serve a quarter of a million
children.
Child Literacy: $260 million for a ~ literacy initiative, con~~t&~~t~i!et~jlt System
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Child Care Quality: $182 million to improve the quality of child care for America's working
families.
Teacher Recruitment: $75 million for~ teacher quality programs including to recruit and
prepare thousands of teachers to teach in high-poverty areas.
Head Start: A $313 million increase to fund President's request of up to an additional 36,000
slots for children and keeping on track towards one million children served by 2002.
Indian Head Start: The final budget provides $134 million for Indian Head Start -- a $9 million
increase over FY98.
Fighting Crime in Indian Country.
The President's budget included key increases for law
enforcement:
Improves Law Enforcement in Indian Country. The final bill includes a $109 million increase
-- for the Departments of Justice and Interior -- for the President's Indian Country Law Enforcement
Initiative. The initiative will improve public safety for the 1.4 million residents on the
approximately 56 million acres ofIndian lands. This funding will increase the number oflaw
enforcement officers on Indian lands, provide more equipment, expand detention facilities, enhance
juvenile crime prevention, and improve the effectiveness oftribal courts. Although violent crime
has been declining nationally for several years, it has been on the rise in Indian country. At
the same time, police service on Indian lands has been steadily shrinking. Recognizing these
facts, the President made a major commitment to improve law enforcement in Indian country
Providing Health Care. President Clinton and Vice President Gore are committed to providing health
care to the Native American population. This budget moves forward on their vision to help realize this goal.
Indian Health Service: Indian Health Services saw an increase of $140 million over FY98. This
increase will assist in providing much-needed quality health care to Indian communities.
Indian Health Service (IHS) Contract Support Costs. The House bill contained an .
objectionable provision that would allocate contract support costs (e.g., indirect costs) to tribes that
have contracted and compacted their health systems on a proportional basis. The Native American
community and IHS objected to this provision because some tribes would have received less
funding than they received in FY 1998. At the same time, the Congress agreed to add some
. funding to contract support costs so that the amounts by which some tribes' payments are reduced
is minimized. The Administration pursued compromise language, but at the last minute the House
relented and removed the objectionable provision entirely.
Moving People from Welfare to Work and Empowering Communities. President Clinton
and Vice President Gore are committed to tapping the potential of America's urban and rural communities.
This budget moves forward on their vision to help revitalize America's communities.
50,000 Welfare-to-Work Housing Vouchers. President Clinton's FY 1999 Budget included $283
million for 50,000 new vouchers exclusively for people who need housing assistance to make the
transition from welfare to work. The original House bill included $100 million, while the Senate
�provided only $40 million. The final budget includes President Clinton's full request of $283
million for 50,000 welfare-to-work housing vouchers.
$75 Million for Welfare-to-Work Transportation Funds. While the House and Senate
provided $50 miIIion -- the minimum amount "guaranteed" in the transportation biII -- the final
budget includes $75 miIIion for this competitive grant program. These funds wiII assist states and
localities in developing flexible transportation alternatives, such as van services, to help former
welfare recipients and other low income workers get to work.
Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Expansion. The Administration
requested a major expansion of the CDFI program to continue building a national network of
community development banks. The original House biII froze CDFI funding at $80 million, while
the Senate cut funding to $55 million. The final budget increases CDFI funding from $80 million
in FY98 to $95 million in FY99 -- a 19-percent increase.
Flexible Funding for Empowerment Zones. President Clinton and Vice President Gore
requested mandatory funding for second-round urban and rural Empowerment Zones. While the
House and the Senate did not provide any funding, the final budget includes $60 million in this
flexible discretionary funding for the next round of Empowerment Zones and new rural Enterprise
Communities. Included in this funding is $10 million in discretionary funds for 5 rural Zones. This
funding will allow the Zones to begin implementing their development strategies to bring jobs and
investment to these disadvantaged areas. Also included is $5 milli<;m for 20 new rural Enterprise
Communities with purposes similar to the round one Enterprise Communities. Tribes are eligible
to receive funding.
Indian Housing: The budget provides $620 million in block grants for Indian housing, which will
serve 552 tribes.
Protecting Sovereignty and Promoting Economic Development.
The Administration was
successful in negotiating to remove several riders on the Interior bill that would have seriously interfered
with tribal sovereignty and cut funding for Indian populations. The President's negotiators made protecting
tribal sovereignty and promoting economic development a priority:
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Protecting Sovereignty: Worked out an agreement to remove from the bill an effort to prohibit the 1$
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promulgation of regulations for Class III gaming. The final bill permits these regulations to be
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Much Work Still Left to Do:
In the waning days of the session, the President and Congressional Democrats prevailed in making critical '<:l
investments to advance the President's comprehensive education agenda. Much work remains for the future~
because Republicans in Congress killed, at least for now, critical priorities, including:
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School Modernization. Beginning with his State of the Union address, the President fought all year
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to modernize our schools. His fully paid for tax credits would have leveraged nearly $22 billion in
bonds to build and renovate schools. In the final days of the budget negotiations, Republicans in
Congress refused to even meet on the critical issue of school construction.
Patients Bill of Rights. President Clinton repeatedly urged the Congress to pass a strong,
enforceable patients' bill of rights that would assure Americans the quality health care they need.
Congressional Republicans killed this year's effort to pass a Patients Bill of Rights.
Comprehensive Tobacco Legislation. This year, President Clinton made passage oflegislation to
reduce youth smoking a top priority, in order to stop kids from smoking before they start through a
significant price increase, measures to prevent tobacco companies from marketing to children, and
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�critical public health prevention and education programs. Congressional Republicans opted to act as
politicians instead of parents, and killed this year's effort to pass bipartisan comprehensive tobacco
legislation to reduce youth smoking.
Campaign Finance Reform. At the beginning of the year, the President made passage of bipartisan,
comprehensive campaign finance reform a priority for his Administration. After months of delay, the
House of Representatives overcame defenders of the status quo and passed the Shay-Meehan bill.
However, the Senate Republicans killed this historic legislation.
Child Care Initiative. In his State of the Union, the President proposed an historic child care
initiative to make child care better, safer and more affordable for America's working families. The
President's proposal included $7.5 billion over 5 years for child care subsidies for low-income
working families and tax credits to help 3 million working families pay for child care. The
Republicans refused to support these critical investments.
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CREATOR: Annette E. Rooney ( CN=Annette E. Rooney/OU=OMB/O=EOP [ OMB 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 16:24:41.00
SUBJECT:
Veto Message on HR 1757 - Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act
TO: BAKER_JA@A1@CD@VAXGTWY
READ:UNKNOWN
BAKER_JA@A1@CD@VAXGTWY [ UNKNOWN 1 ) (NSC)
TO: Carlos Del Toro ( CN=Carlos Del Toro/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Richard P. Emery Jr.
READ: UNKNOWN
( CN=Richard P. Emery Jr./OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
TO: Gina C. Mooers ( CN=Gina C. Mooers/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: RUDMAN_M@A1@CD@VAXGTWY
READ: UNKNOWN
RUDMAN_M@A1@CD@VAXGTWY [ UNKNOWN 1 ) (NSC)
TO: Richard J. Turman ( CN=Richard J. Turman/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Adrienne C. Erbach ( CN=Adrienne C. Erbach/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Charles E. Kieffer ( CN=Charles E. Kieffer/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Robert D. Kyle ( CN=Robert D. Kyle/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Robert N. Weiner ( CN=Robert N. Weiner/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Keri A. Eisenbeis
READ:UNKNOWN
CN=KeFi A. Eisenbeis/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
TO: Barry T. Clendenin ( CN=Barry T. Clendenin/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Devorah R. Adler ( CN=Devorah R. Adler/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Martha Foley ( CN=Martha Foley/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Robert L. Nabors ( CN=Robert L. Nabors/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Christopher C. Jennings ( CN=Christopher C. Jennings/OU=OPD/O=EOP@EOP [ OPD 1 )
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READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Robert G. Damus ( CN=Robert G. Damus/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Daniel N. Mendelson ( CN=Daniel N. Mendelson/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Sylvia M. Mathews ( CN=Sylvia M. Mathews/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Michael Casella ( CN=Michael Casella/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: John D. Burnim ( CN=John D. Burnim/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Rodney G. Bent ( CN=Rodney G. Bent/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Bruce K. Sasser ( CN=Bruce K. Sasser/OU=OMB/O=EOP@EOP [ OMB ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Attached is a draft veto message for this bill, which may be received at
the White House -- and vetoed -- as soon as today. The principal basis
for the veto is the bill's "Mexico City" abortion provision.
The draft
veto message is based on input from State and NSC.
Because of the possibility of Presidential action on this bill as soon as
today, please give me any comments on the draft veto message by 6:00
today. Thank you.
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�TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
I am returning without my approval H.R. 1757, the "Foreign Affairs Reform and
Restructuring Act of 1998". I take this action for several reasons, most importantly, because this
legislation includes unacceptable restrictions on international family planning programs.
Current law, with which Administration policy is fully consistent, already prohibits the
use of Federal funds to pay for abortion abroad and for lobbying on abortion issues. This bill
would go beyond those limits. One provision would deny U.S. government funding for family
planning programs carried out by foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that use their
own funds to perform abortions even though the overall result of these NGO family planning
programs is to reduce the incidence of abortion. Although the bill allows the President to waive
this restriction, use of the waiver would also cripple many programs by limiting annual spending
for international family planning to $356 million, $44 million below the amount available for
Fiscal Year 1998.
A second provision would attempt to restrict the free speech of foreign NGOs by
prohibiting funding for those that use their own funds to engage in any activity intended to alter
the laws of a foreign country either to promote or to deter abortion. The bill would even ban
drafting and distributing material or public statements on abortion. No waiver is provided for
this restriction.
These restrictions and the funding limit would severely jeopardize the ability of the
United States to meet the growing demand for family planning and other critical health services
in developing countries. By denying funding to organizations that offer a wide range of safe and
effective family planning services, the bill would increase unwanted pregnancies and lead to
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�more abortions than would otherwise be the case.
I am also deeply concerned that this legislation ties unacceptable restrictions on
international family planning to payment oflegitimate U.S. arrears to the United Nations and
other international organizations. There are strongly held beliefs on both ides of the debate over
international population policy, and issues associated with this debate should be decided on their
own merit.
Congressional insistence on this linkage, and thus its failure to pay U.S. arrears,
undermines U.S. leadership and ability to achieve far reaching reforms at the United Nations.
The package authorizing arrears payments linked to UN reforms was the result of good
faith negotiations between the Administration and Congress more than a year and a half ago.
Unfortunately, due to the passage of time, some of these conditions are now outdated and are no
longer achievable. While many of the UN reform benchmarks in the package remain acceptable,
significant revisions are required, and we look forward to working with Congress next year to
win the payment of our arrears and an achievable package of UN reforms.
H.R. 1757 also contains a number of provisions that raise serious constitutional concerns.
These proyisions include section 1809 that instructs U.S. representatives to the International
Atomic Energy Agency as to positions that they must take on programs and projects in Cuba,
section 1228 requiring denial of visas to certain classes of Haitians, and a part of section 1812
regarding U.S. policy on Jerusalem.
While the legislation contains important and carefully negotiated authority to reorganize
the foreign affairs agencies and other basic authorities for the State Department, these important
provisions have been included in the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 1999,
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�which will be presented to me for signature shortly ..
For these reasons, I am compelled to return H.R. 1757 without my approval.
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CREATOR: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TlME:20-0CT-1998 16:30:37.00
SUBJECT:
TO: ELENA (Pager) #KAGAN ( ELENA (Pager)
READ: UNKNOWN
#KAGAN [ UNKNOWN 1 )
TEXT:
I have budget document which needs your immediate sign-off; call me if you
can review -Laura
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CREATOR: Michael Waldman ( CN=Michael Waldman/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 16:41:31.00
SUBJECT:
state of the union
TO: Sally Katzen
READ: UNKNOWN
CN=Sally Katzen/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
As I mentioned to Bruce, please let me know about future deputies'
meetings on SOTU policy.
It is very helpful to me to get an early sense
of the universe of possible policies.
If you think it more productive to
not have me there, I could send a designee.
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CREATOR: Mary L. Smith ( CN=Mary L. Smith/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 17:01:41.00
SUBJECT:
Native American budget wins
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP
READ: UNKNOWN
@
EOP [ OPD l.
CC: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
I'm leaving for the conference. Lynn is speaking tomorrow morning so I
wanted to try to have it by then.
Here is the information where to fax
it to:
Fairfield Inn, Mrytle Beach
843-444-8097
FAX 843-444-8394
I won't be there until 10pm tonight. Thanks, Mary
---------------------- Forwarded by Mary L. Smith/OPD/EOP on 10/20/98
05:02 PM ---------------------------
Mary L. Smith
10/20/98 03:51:58 PM
Record Type:
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To:
Elena Kagan/OPD/EOP
cc:
Laura Emmett/WHO/EOP
Subject:
Native American budget wins
This is
I would
Indians
catch a
a document on Native American budget wins that OMB has approved.
like to pass this out at the National Congress of American
conference. Could you review this by 4:30 as I am leaving to
plane to the conference at 5pm? Thanks
I am just waiting for signoff from Fred DuVal on the gaming paragraph.
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CREATOR: Sarah A. Bianchi ( CN=Sarah A. Bianchi/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ] )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 17:28:51.00
SUBJECT:
Breast cancer paper
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Attached is the press paper for the First Lady's breast cancer event
tomorrow that includes new cancer #s etc that I thought you would want to
review.
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�FIRST LADY ANNOUNCES LARGEST INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR CANCER RESEARCH,
NEW BREAST CANCER CLINICAL TRIAL, AND OTHER NEW STEPS TO FIGHT BREAST
CANCER
October 21, 1998
"We are facing a critical juncture in the fight against breast cancer. Our national commitment- in
the form of increased federal investment, additional private support, and a dose of heart and hard work
- is beginning to payoff as we witness enormous progress against the disease. With more investments
at this critical time, we can truly hope for successful ways to prevent, detect, treat, and one day cure to
this cancer that strikes so many women. "
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Today, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced: the
largest funding increase in the history of the National Cancer Institute (NCI); the largest clinical trial of
drugs with the potential to prevent breast cancer; and an expanded mammography outreach campaign.
The First Lady also released a landmark five-year report from the Federal Coordinating Committee on
Breast Cancer charting extraordinary progress in breast cancer research, prevention and treatment. The
First Lady:
Announced Record Funding Increases for the National Cancer Institute.
As part of the recent budget
agreement, Congress passed a significant down-payment on the President's 21st Century Research Fund.
Today, the First Lady announced that the National Cancer Institute will receive a total budget of over $2.9
billion in FY 1999, a $375 million increase that will enable NCI to fund critical new research activities.
The First Lady also note that this increase was strongly advocated for by the Vice President. Over ten
percent of this increase will go to fund initiatives to increase patient participation in clinical trials; efforts to
meet the President and Vice President's challenge to translate progress into better genetics to create
diagnostic techniques for every major cancer by the year 2000; and other investments to develop new
early detection methods. This increase will also fund seven new breast cancer treatment clinical trials,
including a trial to expand the use of Herceptin to treat breast cancer earlier. This budget will build on
historic increases in breast cancer at the NCI during the Clinton Administration from $283 million in FY
1993 to $433 million in FY 1998. The Department of Defense will spend an additional $135 million in
FY 1999 on innovative peer-reviewed breast cancer.
Announced Largest Clinical Trial of Drugs With Potential to Reduce the Risk of Developing Breast Cancer.
The First Lady also announced a new clinical trial to compare tamoxifen, a drug that has been shown to
reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, to raloxifene, which researchers believe may also reduce risk,
but with fewer side effects. The unique STAR trial will involve 22,000 women at increased risk of breast
cancer and is scheduled to open at approximately 400 sites across the United States and Canada early next
year. Underscoring the need to examine all aspects of breast cancer, the First Lady also highlighted an
important trial underway at NIH examining the relationship between low-fat diet and prevention of breast
cancer.
Expanded Awareness Campaign To Help Ensure Women Get Recommended Mammograms. The First Lady
also unveiled an expanded outreach and education campaign to encourage women ages 65 years and older
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�to get regularly scheduled mammogram screenings. This year's campaign will emphasize the new
mammography Medicare benefit that the President proposed and signed into law that covers annual
mammograms and makes them more affordable. HHS is also expanding outreach efforts to special
populations -- low-income and minority women -- who tend to have the highest breast cancer mortality
rates. For example, the Health Care Financing Administration has initiated a pilot program to provide
free mammogram screenings and air public service announcements in key cities targeted to minority
communities, while the Food and Drug Administration has developed and distributed educational
materials to underserved communities around the country.
Unveiled Landmark Report on Progress Against Breast Cancer in the Last Five Years. The First Lady also
released a new report from the Federal Coordinating Committee on Breast Cancer highlighti'ng the
accomplishments in breast cancer over the past five years, since the Administration took office. This
report underscores critical progress the Administration has made, including:
•
A significant investment in research--reaching over $550 million in 1998 that has led to historic
advances in breast cancer, such as the identification of new breast cancer genes, and promising
new treatments, such as Taxol and Herceptin;
•
Improved the quality and availability of prevention tools like mammograms, through efforts such
as a new Medicare mammography benefit, an unprecedented outreach campaign to encourage
older women to get mammograms, as well as improvements in the quality ofmarnmograms
through the Mammography Quality Standards Act;
•
Enhanced access to treatment and quality of care for women with breast cancer by increasing
access to cancer clinical trials, new projects to improve detection and care among low-income and
minority women; and launching
•
Innovative interagency and public-private partnerships that have made remarkable strides, such as
applying the latest in defense and space technology to better detect cancerous tissues and to
develop less intrusive surgery methods for patients.
Highlighted That Congress Has Adjourned Without Passing CriticaJ Legislation to Advance the Fight Against
Breast Cancer. The First Lady also outlined the agenda that has yet to be finished by this Congress,
including:
•
A Patients' Bill of Rights. The Clinton Administration has repeatedly urged the Congress
to pass a strong, enforceable patients' bill of rights that would assure Americans the quality
health care they need. A patients' bill of rights contains critical patient protections for
women with breast cancer, such as assuring access to specialists, continuity of care so that
women are not required to change doctors in the middle of treatment, and an independent
appeals process to address concerns that health plans are unfairly delaying or denying care.
•
Legislation to End Genetic Discrimination. Studies show that a leading reason women do not get
new genetic testing for susceptibility to breast cancer is because they worry about discrimination.
To ensure that new advances in genetics are used to improve health rather than to discriminate
against individuals, the President has called for legislation prohibiting health plans and employers
from discriminating against individuals on the basis of their genetic information.
•
Bipartisan Initiative Authorizing Coverage of Cancer Clinical Trials for Medicare
Beneficiaries. Americans over the age of 65 make up half of all cancer patients, and are 10 times
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�more likely to get cancer than younger Americans. Older Americans, however, frequently cannot
participate in cutting-edge cancer clinical trials because Medicare does not pay for experimental
treatments. The Congress has adjourned without passing the Administration's proposal, similar
to legislation supported by Senators Mack and Rockefeller, that authorizes coverage of clinical
trials for Medicare beneficiaries without harming the Trust Fund.
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CREATOR: Cynthia A. Rice ( CN=Cynthia A. Rice/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 18:32:53.00
SUBJECT:
New ideas update
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Bruce N. Reed ( CN=Bruce N. Reed/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Cynthia Dailard ( CN=Cynthia Dailard/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Paul J. weinstein Jr.
READ: UNKNOWN
CC: Andrea Kane
READ: UNKNOWN
CN=Paul J. weinstein Jr./OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
CN=Andrea Kane/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
TEXT:
We've been working to further develop the tobacco and welfare ideas we've
discussed but the basic descriptions you already have haven't changed.
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CREATOR: Andrea Kane ( CN=Andrea Kane/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 19:19:58.00
SUBJECT:
Access to Jobs Roll-Out in Chicago 10/22
TO: Cynthia A. Rice ( CN=Cynthia A. Rice/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jennifer L. Klein ( CN=Jennifer L. Klein/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:
According to DOT staff, there's a possibility that the First Lady may be
attending this event (Jen, this is when Secretary Slater will be
announcing availability of the Job Access/Reverse Commute grants that we
fought hard for and were included in TEA-21.)
If HRC does attend, DOT
will make sure there are some former welfare recipients participating who
could introduce her. We've suggested they go to United Airlines for local
success stories (W2W Partnership staff and United will be on one of the
panels) .
Also, there's a rumor that Slater is considering naming the program for
Rosa Parks and Delores Juerta (sp?), so it would be something like the
Rosa Parks and Delores Juerta Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants
Program (try to get an acronym around that one!).
There may be legal and
perception issues w/ this that DOT is still sorting out.
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CREATOR: Andrea Kane ( CN=Andrea Kane/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TlME:20-0CT-1998 19:22:25.00
SUBJECT:
Read this version: Job Access Roll-Out in Chicago 10/22
TO: Cynthia A. Rice
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan
READ: UNKNOWN
CN=Cynthia A. Rice/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Jennifer L. Klein ( CN=Jennifer L. Klein/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:
According to DOT staff, there's a possibility that the First Lady may be
attending this event (Jen, this is when Secretary Slater will be
announcing availability of the Job Access/Reverse Commute grants that we
fought hard for and were included in TEA-21.)
If HRC does attend, DOT
will make sure there are some former welfare recipients participating who
could introduce her.
We've suggested they go to United Airlines for local
success stories (W2W Partnership staff and United will be on one of the
panels) .
Sen. Mosley-Braun, Rep. Danny Davis, Mayor Dailey, and Cook
County Commissioner John Stroger are expected to participate.
Also, there's a rumor that Slater is considering naming the program for
Rosa Parks and Delores Juerta (sp?), so it would be something like the
Rosa Parks and Delores Juerta Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants
Program (try to get an acronym around that one!). There may be legal and
perception issues w/ this that DOT is still sorting out.
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CREATOR: Christopher C. Jennings ( CN=Christopher C. Jennings/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-0CT-1998 20:03:03.00
SUBJECT:
tomorrow's DOJ conference
TO: Cathy R. Mays ( CN=Cathy R. Mays/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
TO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHOIO=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1 )
READ: UNKNOWN
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Tomorrow is the first day of a two day conference sponsored by DOJ on
nursing home fraud and abuse. The conference is not being held to discuss
specific initiatives around fraud and abuse, although some may be
developed subsequent to it. We anticipate that substantive intiatives may
be developed following the conference from both DOJ and HHS. Should that
be the case, we will determine the feasibility of holding an event around
their release. While we don't anticipate much media coverage of tomorrow's
conference, Eric Holder will probably do everything in his power to
attract attention. (We write this only to cover us in the event that there
is any media coverage.)
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Draft --Top Ten List
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Here's a top ten list of Exec. Actions plus 5 alternates.
If these look
like the right ones I'll run 'em back by the team leaders to see if we can
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10 KEY EXECUTIVE ORDERS, MEMORANDUMS, AND PROCLAMATIONS
1996-1998
1.
Protecting Patients' Rights. Executive Memorandum, February 20, 1998. Directed
Secretaries of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and the Director of
the Office of Personnel Management to ensure that all Federal health plans, which serve over 85
million Americans, come into substantial compliance with the recommended protections in the
Health Care Consumer Bill of Rights ("Patient Bill of Rights").
2.
Creating A National Monument. Proclamation, September 18, 1996. President Clinton
created by proclamation the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah, thereby
protecting 1.7 million acres of spectacular red rock canyon lands, artifacts from three ancient
cultures, and the most remote site in the lower 48 states.
3.
Banning Imported Assault Weapons. Executive Memorandum, November 14, 1997. In
response to this memorandum, the President announced in April 1998 that the Treasury
Department had found that more than 50 kinds of modified assault weapons are generally not
importable because they accept large capacity military magazines. Up to 1.5 million rifles
whose importation had been temporarily suspended may be affected this decision.
4.
Increasing Child Support. Executive Memorandum, June 18, 1996. Strengthened child
support operations by toughening paternity establishment requirements for applicants for welfare
and by enabling states to locate, and withhold wages from, obligors who have taken a job in
another state -- reforms that became law along with other tough new rules as part of welfare
reform. The Clinton Administration collected a record $12 billion in child support in 1996
In 1996,
through tougher enforcement, an increase of $4 billion, or nearly 50%, since 1992.
the number of child support cases with collections also rose to 4 million, an increase of 43%,
from 2.8 million in 1992.
5.
Protecting Children from Handguns. Executive Memorandum, March 5, 1997.
Required that a child safety lock device be issued to every Federal employee who carries a
firearm on official duty. By October 1997, all federal agencies with law enforcement agents
reported that they were in compliance with the President's directive, including approximately
30,000 Justice Department employees from the FBI, DEA, INS, and Marshals Service, and about
20,000 Treasury law enforcement personnel. Also, under the President's leadership, 8 major
handgun manufacturers, who make the vast majority of handguns in the country, have agreed to
provide child safety devices with each handgun sold.
Creating a Sexual Offender Registration System. Executive Memorandum, July 25, 1996. Improved the
safety and protection of children through creation of a national sex offender registry. As of
December 1, 1997, 20 states, representing 44.2% of the U.S. popUlation, have contributed to the
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Promoting Adoption. Executive Memorandum, December 14, 1996. The Memorandum directed
the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a plan to double, by the year 2002, the
number of children in foster care who are adopted or permanently placed each year. On
February 14, 1997, HHS presented its report called Adoption 2002. The Adoption 2002 report
formed the basis of Administration work with Congress toward the development ofthe Adoption
and Safe Families Act of 1997, which incorporated nearly all of the recommendations outlined in
the Report and the Memorandum. The President signed the Adoption and Safe Families Act
into law on November 19, 1997 less than one year after the Executive Memorandum was issued.
Encouraging Welfare-to-Work. Executive Memorandum, March 8,1997. The President directed
federal agencies to use existing hiring authority to hire individuals off the welfare rolls into
available federal jobs. In April 1997, agencies identified commitments to hire a total of 10,000
individuals by 2000. To date, the federal government has hired nearly 7,100 welfare recipients,
67 percent of its planned hires.
Improving Food Safety. Executive Order, August 25,1998. Created the President's first-ever
Council on Food Safety chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture, Health and Human Services,
and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to develop a comprehensive strategic
plan for Federal food safety activities and to take the next steps to advance Federal efforts to
implement a science-based strategy to improve the safety of the food supply and enhance
coordination among Federal agencies.
Promoting the Use of School Uniforms. Executive Memorandum, February 23, 1996. Helped
to deter school violence, promote discipline, and foster a better learning environment by
promoting school uniforms. Disseminated Manual on School Uniforms to 15,000 school
districts in 1996. In addition, 9,167 copies of the manual were distributed to persons who
requested them.
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Making Public Housing Safe. Executive Memorandum, March 28, 1996. Denied admission to applicants
and evicted tenants in public housing authorities (PHAs) who have engaged in illegal drug use or
other criminal activities. The guidance permits PHAs to institute and enforce tough rules to
protect the safety of families living in public housing. Of the 1,859 out of 3,192 (58%) total
PHAs responding to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Public and
Indian Housing March 1997 survey, 1,392 PHAs had implemented "One Strike" programs.
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Making Tobacco Documents Available to the Public. Executive Memorandum, July 17, 1998. The
Executive Memorandum directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to
coordinate a public health review of tobacco industry documents and develop a plan to make
documents more accessible to researchers and the public.
Helping Uninsured Children. Executive Order, February 18,1998. President directed the seven
Federal agencies with jurisdiction over children's programs to establish a multi-agency effort to
enroll uninsured children. As a result, 10 agencies are implementing over 150 activities to
educate families on enrolling uninsured children.
Ensuring Opportunity for all Children. Executive .Order, April 17, 1996. Launched the "Computers
for Learning" program, which is a unique partnership between federal agencies, schools, and
non-profits across the country to move more than 70,000 computers into the nation's neediest
classrooms.
Keeping Guns Away From Kids. Executive Memorandum, July 8, 1996. Traced approximately 93,477
guns from 27 communities (17 original sites and 10 new sites) through the use of an innovative
computer software system that examines crime gun trace information and provides law
enforcement officers with crucial investigative leads about the sources of these guns.
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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>
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<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>
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