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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
NATIONAL FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
MAYFIELD WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL
ELKRIDGE, MD
SEPTEMBER 13, 1995
[Acknowledgements: Carol Reeves, NFP President; Myrna Cammerena,
Enrique Cammerena's sister and a DEA agent; Dora Cammerena,
Enrique's mother; Rick Evans, NFP Executive Director.]
One year ago today, with the enactment of the Crime Bill, the
American people made a pledge to the youth of America to do all
we could to ensure the' safet and to rovide alternatives to
crime and violence. Since then, my Administrat1on, 1n
artners 1p Wl
communities and schools like this one
across
the nation, has taken bold actio to keep that pledge.
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Passage~
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accomplis ents of my Administration. We~ six ye~:~-~
gridlock to put in place the toughest~rtest crim~ ~n _
history. We broke gridlock to put~e ·police on the stree~: We
broke gridlock to make. "Three strikes and you're out" the law~~ f. /} /}
the land. We broke gr1dlock to ban assault weapons from our.
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~and our schools.
We broke gridlock to finally do
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something about the terrible problem of violence against women;_~~~~
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As she mentioned a few minutes ago, Attorney General Reno
presented me a progress report on the first year of the Crime
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Bill this morning. The crime rate for all serious offenses,
including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault is down
virtually every urban and rural area of the country. Much of
that is due to the fact that more and more citizens are realizing
that fighting crime is ~~~?~~~the job of the police. It's
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everybody's job. _f;t 4;~ M ~'tb-~~+'.'"!;"
of~ommunity
That was my vision
policing. We didn't just want to
put 100,000 additional police officers on the streets. We wanted
to create 3.ft~
n~eww partnership p~tw~~~-~~1 police 1~~ti e s to
take back~treets. Al'ld ~'"'f's~~~ ao1ng.
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we have awarded grants to nearly half th~e~~~-e~and sheriff'
de~~~~-the country.
They have received funding for the
hiring of more than 25,000 communit
alice officers in the fir t
ou of that and the police departments around the
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'L's makit~ a real difference. All over the
w~~a-:t"":i:ng success stories:
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In Lowell, Massachusetts, for the first time in 25 years, 365
days passed without anyone-being murdered. In a city plagued by
heroin use and street gangs, many credit community policing for
turning the tide.
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�In Sharon, Pennsylvania, kids in the Quinby Street neighborhood
are playing outside again and people are no longer afraid to sit
on their front porches. All of this in the last few months since
four community police officers were added to patrol Sharon's
neighborhoods. This is happening all over the country.
But, as we make progress in certain areas~;re is a dark cloud
hanging over us. It is the ~k cloud of juvenile violence~:..ve.L.,. ~-·
Last week, the Justice Department released a report showing th~~
while overall crime is down, violent crimes committed by
juveniles is at an all-time high. &t fi.m, b, if carnmt:-ElGitd~,.c.cmtinue, juvenile crime arrests will Inere t:han dot1ble by thE!
t¥@91F48ii§". Juvenile violence is the number one crime problem in
this country. I will not rest -- my Justice Department will not
rest -- until it is stopped cold in its tracks.
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As a parent, I am sick and tired of seeing stories like the one I
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read recently about a 16-year-old boy who shot a 12-year-old boy
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dead because he thought he'd been treated with disrespect by the
younger boy. This story came just days after a national survey
in which an unbelievable two-thirds of young gang members said
they thought it was actually acceptable to shoot someone if the~
treated you with disrespect. ~ long as there are stories like
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this, as long as their are children who have never been taught
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right from wrong, we'll have more work to do.
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Health And Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala also released a
report yesterday which shows that marijuana use among 12 to 17year-olds has nearly doubled since 1992. A greater percentage of
young people also now mistakenly believe that marijuana use is
not harmful. Let me say to ~young people here-- make no
mistake about .it: Marijuanf~e~rong, illegal and dangerous.
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One of the most important things you have done to stop drug use ~~'~'·
in this school and this community is your participation in the
National Family Partnership's Red Ribbon campaign. Hillary and I
have been involved in this project for many years. When I was
Governor of Arkansas, we served as Red Ribbon Chairs from 1988
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until the day we came to Washington. We did it, not only out of a ~~~
sense of civic duty -- we did it for much the same reason many of ~.
you are doing it. We did it because, as parents, we have a
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responsibility to do everything in our power to help guide our
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daughter and every child along the right path. We have always
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believed that if it's governmentis job to ensure law and o~rder, ~~
it's parents' job to teach our children right from wr~
~~The Red Ribbon is ·a
symb~ ~~
our childrens' pledge to lea
~:r, drug-free ~· And we should be proud of them
· for taking that stand. But their c mmitment is only one-half of
what needs to be done.. Our childr
need the support of their
parents and their communities, not only to help them just say
"No."
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That's really what the Red Ribbo
is all about. In
addition to the pledge by stude
display of red
ribbons~d Ribbon ~
on educating students about the
dangers of drug use and mobilizing communities to develop their
own solutions.
all who would retreat from the progress we've
ot succeed. We must honor our pledge to these
.
they have the courage to say no to drugs and
st have
~o age to stand with them. To those
ege
our pled e to put .0-G,O
cops on
s'treet ... to
ose who would
weapons ban ... to those who would throw out the Brady Bill ... to
those who would decimate our Safe and Drug Free Schools efforts,
I say: You're going·nowhere fast.
pe~Amer-z~sault
Let me be clear: I'm for a balanced budget. But a balanced
budget is not much of an accomplishment if it sacrifices the
safety of our children and the future of our country. We can
continue to honor our pledge to America's children through the
efforts of our Crime Bill, and balance the budget at the same
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to redouble our efforts to fight crime, especially
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juvenile violence. That's why today I am announcing a new Youth ~
Violence Initiative. The Justice Department will award up to $1
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million to 10 police departments so that in partnership with
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local schools, courts, hospitals and civic leaders, they can
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target enforcement efforts geared specifically to the· reduction
;:Cof violent youth crime.
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In Baltimore, 24 community policing officers will form curfew
enforcement and juvenile violence crime teams to work with
schools in high-crime areas. This is not~to~unish children,
it's to demand responsibility~~~(f~. '
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In Inglewood, California,
department has made street
terrorism a crime, and through intensified community policing,
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they will increase penalties for gang members. We're not going
t~ tolerate terrorism of any kind in this country.
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In Birmingham, Alabama, community policing officers will work
with school officials and a Family Gun Court to crack down on
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guns in schools. No child should ever have to fear being shot at
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Similar efforts will be supported in Bridgeport, Connecticut;
Cleveland; Milwaukee; Richmond; San Antonio; Seattle; and
Salinas, California.
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But, in closing, let me say that nothing we do will work unless
all of us take the time to teach our children what it means to be
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�a good person and a good citizen. Education Secretary Riley has
been extremely supportive of what has been popularly called
character education -- trying to encourage our schools to teach
the basic values that make a good life. Values like honesty,
trustworthiness, and respect for yourself, for others, for
property, and for our environment. These v~lues~do make a
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difference. r~~¥-rftv.- ~f~J~~~
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The freshest evidence of this is a recent study
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hat study showed that the th~== '~
major determin
in w
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people use drugs or not was ~-UA_ whether the
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whether
ey tended to b
ve in the future, and whether they
had
connection to a church or synagogue. Those three things
we
the repeating constants in helping young people stay off
drugs and out of trouble. So, values do make a difference.
There is an old saying, "Train up a child in the way he should
go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
That is the most important work we will ever do.
At this time, I'd like the young people here to stand with me to
take the Red Ribbon pledge:
"I pledge to lead a hea'lthy, drug-free/ lifestyle. I will say no
to alcohol. I will say no to other drugs. I will help my
friends say no. I pledge to stand up for what I know is right
and remain Drug Free and Proud."
Thank you.
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COPS YOUTH FIREARMS VIOLENCE INITIATIVE
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) will award up to $1 million to 10
police departments to develop innovative community policing and enforcement effQ.rts to curb
the rise of youth firearms violence. ·
The sites were selected based on gang and firearm homicide rates, population, location, and
existing community policing efforts. Grants will assist police working with schools, courts and
prosecutors, hospitals, and other civic leaders to employ highly targeted enforcement efforts
geared toward reducing violent youth crime. Highlights from the first 10 Initiatives include:
Baltimore, MD--24 community policing officers will form curfew enforcement and juvenile
violence crime teams to work with two schools in high-crime areas.
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Birmingham, AL--community policing officers will work with school officials and a Faniily
Gun Court to crack down on gtins in schools.
Bridgeport, CT --Nip.e officers will form teams to execute highly targeted proactive patrols and
handgun suppression activities.
Cleveland, OR--Residential Area Policing Program (RAPP). Community policing officers
work with community development leaders to stabilize neighborhoods while renovating crack
houses shut down through nuisance abatement and civil actions.
Inglewood, CA--employs targeted enforcement, makes street terrorism a crime, and provides
enhanced penalties for gang members.
Milwaukee, WI--increases investigation and enforcement efforts in partnership with the
Medical College of Wisconsin.
Richmond, V A--pairs uniformed and investigative units to target "fast track" offenders and
work with at- risk youth.
Salinas, CA--combines a 15-officer Violence Suppression Unit with a geographic-based
information system to track illegal weapons and apprehend violent offenders.
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San Antonio, TX--Weapons Recovery and Tracking Task Force (WRAT) to identify firearms
hot spots and direct enforcement efforts.
Seattle, W A--School Enforcement Teams will work with educators and crime analysts to
develop targeted enforcement strategies.
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.'.1be.Office of Community Oriented Policing ServiCes (COPS) is providing funding to supP,ort' . ·
.~geted~ focused enfor~e:ment efforts directed at combating the rise of youth :fireanns violence in
10 cities .. These projects will use'com.munity policing.tactics both to leverage additi9nal.
te~ources
and support cmd to maintain the success· achieved as a result of the enforcement .
, strategies.
In accordance with the "Public S'afecy Partnership and Community Polici11g Act of 1994, 11 the
Youth Firearms Violence Initiative se~:ks to ".establish and implement innovative programs
increa.Se .and enhance proactive crime control and prevention programs involving law
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Bal~j_:a:w:or.e, MD. Polite Departtnimt
. $999~907
. (Colllmi!ioDer Tom Frazier)
Baltimore Police Department wiU implement a targeted Youth Firearms Violence Stra,tegy in two
specific comn:tunities: Park Heights (pop. 66,oOq) in th~·Northwest District and Cperry.Hill.
· (pcip.ll.OOO) in the Southern Dis~c.i. Both commUnities experience drug related ru~l temtorial
·gang related confliCts as well as high incidents oft:rUandes. To addres~ these problems, 24 ·
additional polic:e.officers will be deployed as Curlew :bnforcemeut Teams and Juvenile Violence:
, Crime Fle_x: Teams. Curfew.teams will perform day and· night curfew. interdiction operations, and
coordinate efforts with local schools to identify and deter curfew and ·truancy violators. Juvenile
Violence Cnme Flex Teams will be assigned to particular areas to monitor, investigate.-and deter
illicitjuvenile activity. The p-rogram is expected to bre&k up concentrations ofcrlriiina1 activity
il'l., areas frequented· by youth: playgrolutds and schools.:.
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(C.hiefJohnraic Johnson, Jr.)
$578,060
In Birmingham, tl1e police' departma1t plans to :use p~oblem-soiving appr~aches tO identify
specific youth-related fire~1ns problems in and around schools .. To detect:fiiea.nns in a school.
enviromnent, officers will work with si::hool'officials to conduct seatthes oflockers and vehicles
and use hand~held m~:ta.l detectors f~r random checks of students. Stude11ts found with fireamts
· . will be adjudicated in a special.Family Court operated "'Gun Court·•. Outside of schoolst officers
wUl enforce c:laytime·curfew (truancy programs) as. well as strategically conduct traffic
e¢orcemcnt and direct~ patrols in locatio~ where student congregate and participate in illi~it, ,_.:~
activities a.ftei school hours. The basis for these activities will be rooted in the development of
geo~ra,phic-based information systems an4 the use of directed overtime for experienced officers.
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$916.748
. Bridgeport Police Depamnent proposes to use two< te~ of officers to conduct proactive patrol
· and handgtm suppression activities in targeted youth violence ''hot spots." !rdtia!ly, the teams
·will be trained on searCh and sei2urel gun illterdic;ti~n. conununity policing ~d problem solvmg.
Strategies to be employed under the proactive enforcement inc:lude motor vehicle stops. road
. checks, .field interrogatiollS, an~ reverse stings. ·Efforts .will be concentrated in Jhre~ areas: 1)
. current conlaiuruty policing areas where the problems are beyond the resources or time of the
conli:nunity policing ·officers~· 2) neighborhoods where community policing has not yet been
iJltrocluced; and 3) areas where gangs or g~mg splinter groups ar~ known to res.ort to gUIJ.
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implementing ..Drugfire,, an_d warrant enforcement' targeted toward violent crin:ies
Cleveland, OH; Police Department '
$685~42,
(Chief John J. ColliD.s) ·
The Clevelan.d Police Department vnll implement a Residential Area Policing Program (RAPP)
· to 'establish a strong police presence hi neighborhoods that cunently experience high levels of
·violence. yet ~ave a high,p'otential for.fuJLc:ommu.nicy involvement. Nine officers will be
redeployed to tl1ree areas identified through analysis of jLtvenile. crime 'statistics, calls for servic~,
-. md Part 1 crimes. Within these areas,, the police depanment, in cooperation with _the City of , .
Cleveland's Community Develop,q.1ent Program and the Cleveland Neighborhood Development
, Corporations Inc., will identify a house in need of renovations for the
officers to o~cupy 24
· hours a day an,d to repair over a.tbree month time frame.' By physically locating in these
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neighborh~odsj the officers wiJl be able to establish a strong police presence, directly target
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Inglewood, CA. Police Department
(Chid'Oliver1'bompson)
, .$748,056·. The Inglewood Polic.:c Department v.ill implement their Youth Frr'eanns Violence strategy ·
thiough the developlll.ent of two targeted prograxns: Strategy Against G<:tpg EnvirolUnents ·
(SAGE)., and Street Terrorist Bnforcement and Prevention (STEP). SAGE will stress the use of
Civil sanctions against local gangs; profiling of targeted gang members and educating the public
on
behavior_ The STEP program not only makes street t~trorism a c:rime, l?ut it provides for
enhanced pepalties for gang. member and defines 11crirninal st,reet,gangs." A six~ officer task
. force will be assigned .to facilitate the c~:rtification.oftllese "crimil'lal street gangs, and to provide
street level,enforcement foc_~tsing on tracking gang me~bers and the illegal possession of
. firea:ans by youLh.
gang
Milwalikee, WI.. Police DepartJnent
(Chief Philip Arreol~)
S999,990
The Milwaukee Police Departtnent will assign ~ight new pollee officer positions to the.Gang
Crimes!Tntdligence Divislon to .conduct investigations focus~;d detem~ining the sourcet ·
methods and reasonS for juvenile gun possession. Officers '-Vill focus their efforts on gangs.
curfew enforceinen~ and fireaun connscation. The information gathered during the enforCeJ;llellt -.
activities will be foxwarded to the Medical College of Wisconsin for analysis to aid in the , · development of strategies specifically focused on identifying and eliminating the sources of
firearms obtained by youth. These programs are expected to provide the capability to analyze '
the pr,oblem in order to tailor a solution to meet the needs ofyoung people.
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$692,605
·Richmond Police Depanment' s Youtl) Fireatms Violence enforcement strategy is comprise4 of
. two components: a highly "visible uniformed Wlit'and an investigative unit. "The umts will target
· open alr drug marketS, school 'grounds, and meas surroUnding schools. The uniformed unit will
work in two-person teams targctiD.g incidents such as curfew Violations; shotS fired. highway .
· . robberies, aggravated assaults, homicides .and car jackings. The investigative unit will target
serious juvenile offenders and juveniles identified as_being·on the ••fast' track'' 1:() a violeit career . · ·
in c:rime. · The program is expe'cted tc;l remo\le Juveniles form the street and red~ce .the lilcelihood
of them committing violent crimes or becoming victinls of those crimes.
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$999p524_
Jh~ Salinas PoJice Department will center its Youth Fireann Violence Strategy m:ound the
· Vjolence Supp~ession Unit (VSU). As a 15 officer task force, the VSU focuses on street gangs
and tracking firearm that ate. stolen.'recovered, used. or possessed illegally, In support of the
VSU~ a geographic-based infonnation system(G~S) _will be jmplemented to conduct the tracking
and analysis. The entire SaliDas PD will receive training regardirig firearm viqlence and theVSU
will received specialized training directly related to youth gangs and violence. The anticipated
. outcome of this prograin is a decline in. street-level gang acpvity. which -.villl~ad 10 a reduction.
iri youth fircann v.iolence.
S~n-Antonio, TX. Police Department
(Cliier AI A. Philippus)
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Tlle San Antonio Police Department will make use of their InvestigatiOJl.S_ and Uniform divisions .
to begin operations of the Weapons Recovery and Tracking Task Force (\VRAT). WR.AT v.ri.ll .
use several slrategies such as T raffle Stops and Driver's License' Checkpoints to accomplisldheir
objectives. WRAT will identifY Gun "Hot Spotss\ develop strategies to disrupt_gun trafficking~
and ieduce the supply of guns in the hands of yout11s. San Ariionio PD hopes ~1at the Weapons
R~overy and TrackingTasl< Force will end the growing nimlber of homicides and assaults'
caused by gang activity.
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In Seattle~ geographically.based.School E11forcement Teams will be established to handle
criminal conduct in and around schools~ to proYide,selected enforcement at sc;hools and. to
provide a positive p(Jlieepresen'?e. Work1ng With school administrators ~d crime analyst, the·
teams ,wlll develop targeted enforcement'stiategies and engage in problem solving· projects.
, Officers will. identify both students on the verge of crilniDai activity. and students considered to
be Sel;ious anci chronic juvemle'offenders. StudeiJ.ts on,the verge ofcriminal activity will be .
referred to :Special programs to deter delinquency, while student with serious criminal records
will be tracl{ed to ensure enforcement ofrelease/parole violations.
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BALTIMOJis. MD:
C!)ounissloner Torn ·Frazier
RICHMOND. VA
Bdt1rnore Poli;:e Deparuncnt
601 E. Fayette Street.
Sill Floor
Chief Jcrzy Oliver .
Riclunond Police Oepanment
SOl Nonb. 9tb Srreet .
Richmond, Vii'gl1:iia. ~219
Baltimore. Ma:yhmd 21202
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Cbi~fJohnnie
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.Biz'mingham Polic:e Pep11,rnnent
417 6lh Avenue So\lth
Birmin&twn. Alabama 35205
Phone: (lOS) 254·1700
(205) 254·1733
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Chief Dan Nelson
Salinas Police· D~:partment
· 222 Lin~;clrl A.venue
Sal~s. California '9390 1
Phone: (408) 758·128~
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Chief Thomas J. Sweeney
Bridgeport Police D~pamnent
45 LYOll TeJTace
SAN ANTONIO. TX
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Chief gf Police
San Antonio
Bridsepon. Ct 06604
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Deparnnent
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·CLEVBL\ND, OH
_Chief John J. Collins
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.Phone: (216) 623·5000
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SEATTLE, WA
Chief Norm StamPe:r,
Seattle Pollee Deparlment
· Public Safe!)' Building ·
610 3rd A venue
. (216) 623-5584
·Room 1001
Seattle. Waslllngton 98104
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Chief Oliver Thompson
Inglewood Police Department ·
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Phone: (310) 412-5210
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MILWAUiffiE. WI
Chief PbHip Arreola
Milwaukee Police Pepanme!lt
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Phone: (414) 93SM7200
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: Following are answers to questions abo~t the Youtb Firearms Vlolen<:e Initiative, a grant program of the
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Tbe ten cities selected to participate it1 the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative were cho.sen based on follr
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1. Level of Violent Crime:
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Thes~ preliminary figures were'.combined to derive a youth firearms vi~lence.indexfor all citiesin the
U11ited States with populations within the specified range. The top 37 citicst in terms of the youth firea.rms .
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It was itriport~mt that cities aHhe low end (1 00,000 pop.), middle {500,000) and high end (approachi~g .
1,000,000) were all represented in selecting sites .. We 'expected considerable variation with respectto·current violence problems, availability of firearms, and ga~g.related activity ill cities of different sizes.
Further, the intervention efforts would be expected to differ dep~nding on the level of violence in cities of ·
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Location:. Geographical represct;ttation:
G1ven r~gional differences in violence rates, firearm o"Wnershlp and availability, policing practice$. and
youth. population sizes, efforts were made to include cities represe~?-ting all areas of the United States.
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Current community policing plans for each of the police forces were examined.
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develop targeted enforcement efforts directed at combating the rise of youth frreal-ms violence. Following
these efforts, polic.e and sheriffs' dcpanrr1ents are to use. ilmovative community policing tactics to stabilize
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· Cities were selected based on a ~ombination.of factors included violent crime~ population size, geographicallocation~ and existing col:llJ:Ilunity policing efforts. No single factor, such a violent c:rimerate, was the
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In the case of St. Louis, that city currerttly receives funding.from.the National Institute cifJustice for a·
firearms reduction project, and both St.. Louis a11d Newark receive funding from the COPS Office for new
police officers.
-In the case of Miami, that city recently received more than three million dollars from COPS for much
· needed computer technology and civilians, that in tum would atlow sworn officers to less.time on paper::. ·
work and more time.onthe beat. In the case ofBaltimore. that city does.have a.serious violent crime problem, with 697 homicides involving firearms from 1990 to 1992.
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In additiop, cities with populations runging from 100,000 to 1 million were chosen for this program. It
was important that cities at the lowend (100,000), middle (500,000) and high end (approaching 1 million)
were included. Cities with populations more than 1 million were not included in this.program because we
wanted to:allow for significant replication. efforts. Programs implemented in the largest cities often cannot.
be r~;:plicated in the middle lo smaller cities because there is consi~erable variation with respect current
.violence problems, availability of firearms. and gang'"rel,ted activity. Further, the intervention efforts differ
depending 011 the violence situations in cities of different sizes. ·
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of youth :violence?
TI1e Youth Firearms Violence Initiative is a continuation and expansion ofefforts by the Department of
Justice to ·identify programs which can impact the natiorial epidemic of youth violence.
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intended to allow ten medium· to.sn1all cities to build upon past research such as the Kansas·City Gun
Experiment and to test innovative targeted enforcement strategies. By evaluating these programs, we hope
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lengthy period.oftime to issue asolicitatio.n, accept applicatio~s, ~d avvnrd grants. In·thefuture, the COPS .
Office anticip_~tes working with other jurisdictions with similafproblerns to reduce firearms. violence · ·
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. Youth crlme is,a problem· that is being address~d by numerous police. agencies across
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community policing. The COPS Office, through its hiring grants. is providing departments with ofticers to
work in schools and in neighborhoods to curtail gang violei1ce and school-related violence. Cities and .
. police age11cies are requesting officc;:rs for these purposes. The_ CO~S Offic~ is responding to those requestS
through hiring· grants.
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But hiring more officers alone is not enough to fight crime ifthey ar~ not on the beat, practicing community
policing. "fhat'.s why the COPS Office combines hiring grants with grants to promote commun.ity policing
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Q: Isn't this something citie~ should' be taking care ofon their own? Isn't the COPS office supplanting·.
programs that are. already being considered locally? Why does tbe_ federal govei'nme:r;d need to be involved .
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The COPS Office is mandated legislation to ensure that grant funds supplement, and'not supplant, local
tunds for pol~ce hiring. Grant awards are made with the condition that grantees expand the resources de.:Yoted to these projeCts, rnther than replace local funds with federal funds.
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· Because of the national nature and scope of youth firearms violence, the federal government has a vital and
' proper role in assisting local law enforcement, a decision born out of the bipartisan support given to pasm
sa:ge pfthe Crinie'Act one year ago.
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an affect on the tro'ubling evidence that a violentg~nera~ion is coming of age?
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is not agimmick; These 'cities have serious youth firearms vi~le~ce. The, Administration is ~d has
bee11 committed to facing up to :the problem of violence in America. Efforts to reduce violence have been
underway in the Department of Justice through the COPS Office and the Office of Juvenile Justice ~d
Delinquency Preventiot1, and also in other Cabinet-level agencies including the Department o(Health and
Hllmap Services and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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establis:hing community policing programs, 'this initiative seeks to stabilize and impro.Ve those neighbor~
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results related to reducing gun violence. The .Kansas City Police Department engag~d in vehicle stops for
liCense chcck.s·and for OUtstanding warrantS that led.to seizUres of guns and a reduction in gUll•related calls·
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COPS Office hope:s to transfer information and knowledge to other communities,.
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lil the next month, the COPS Office \Vill be_ releasing a program designed for agencies that wish to engage.
in inn'ilYative/community policing. Funding will be available for problem-solving, comm'Wlity .. based.
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�still pray individually or together, silently or aloud. Religious
clubs have a right to meet, just like any other clubs, and to do what
they wish to do.
Flyers can be distributed. Homework and other
assignments can even be used to express religious convictions by
students. Religion can be a part of the curriculum of public
education as long as particular views are not advocated.
I think this is a very important thing. There are those
who say that they think more should be done, and I think that part of
it is they feel that unless our young people, particularly those who
may not be subject to religious influences, understand the basic
values behind the great religions that our country permits to
flourish and encourages to flourish they might not grow up to be the
kind of citizens they ought to be. So we've also done a lot of work
on what has popularly been called character education in our country,
trying to emphasize to our schools and to encourage them to teach the
basic values of good citizenship, values that make a good life.
Secretary Riley has been extremely supportive and a
strong advocate of what he calls the moral code that holds us
together.
In teaching that in our schools, teaching our students to
be honest and trustworthy, reliable, to have respect for themselves,
for others, for property, and for our natural environment; to be good
citizens, and also to do the things that I advocated a few months ago
when I spoke at my alma mater, Georgetown University, to treat one
another with civility and tolerance and to exercise personal
responsibility. After all, if we all did what we were supposed to,
we wouldn't have to spend so much time talking to other people -(laughter) -- and neither would anybody else.
And this character education movement, I predict to you,
will do quite well in this country. There will more and more and
more deliberate efforts to teach these values in our public schools.
There is evidence already that in the schools that have a
thoroughgoing, comprehensive, disciplined commitment to this, the
dropout rate is down and the student performance is up. That's
because you basically san't live without values. You've got some.
It's just a question of what they are. And it's important to be
explicit about them, and you can do that within the framework of the
First Amendment.
So if any of you are more interested in that, we can get
you the information on what the Department of Education is doing.
I
just announced in, California a couple of days ago that we have
actually put out modest grants to four states to help school
districts in those states develop comprehensive character education
programs.
Let me say, the freshest evidence that this is important
is a recent study, a very, very large study of young people and drug
use that Joe Califano brought to my attention about three weeks ago
that said that the three major determinants in whether young people
use drugs or not was whether they had a strong relationship with
their parents, whether they tended to believe in the future and be
�optimistic about it, and whether they had a connection to a church.
Those three things were the three repeating constants in what is
otherwise an incredible kaleidoscope of different life circumstances
that lead young people either to use drugs or to refrain from using
them.
So I think that is important.
The Vice President talked about the night we had -- I
might say, it made a special night for us because he and I went to
Baltimore with his.son and my daughter and each of them brought a
friend.
So we got to see this great event through the eyes of·
children. And the thing that struck me about it was that everybody
was so happy and nobody resented Mr. Ripken's success. Not a person.
I don't think a person in the country. Why? Because it was about
more than talent, success and making several million dollars a year.
It was about showing up for work every day -- (laughter) -- and
sticking with your team.
It wasn't about who got the best contract,
who made the best deal.
It was about keeping your end of the
bargain.
And I think one of the reasons that people were so
ecstatic about it is that it was an exceptional example of what most
people try to do in their lives every day. When I got home from
California the night the record was tied, it was about midnight. And
before I went to bed -- I don't know about you, but when I get off an
airplane and come in the house, I can't just plop down and go to
sleep -- so I turned on the television and I saw the late local news.
And there was a feature on the local news in Virginia of a bus driver
who had not missed a day's work in 18 years. And here was this bus
driver, he never would have been on television before, and they were
doing a feature on him.
And the local reporter was riding a bus with him. And
he was meeting the people that he picked up every day and let off
every day, and talking about how his daddy told him he was supposed
to work, that he didn't think there was anything unusual. Why? Why
wouldn't you go 18 years and never miss a day's work? And I thought,
that man would have never been on television if it hadn't been for
Cal Ripken breaking Lou Gehrig's record. There was a reaffirmation
of the idea of responsibility, personal responsibility, the dignity
of work, the devotion -- that guy's team were the people that carry
the folks around every day. Pretty important team. And I think it
sort of reinforced to me this idea that in spite of all the
differences in this country, there really are a lot of things that
bind us together, that we believe very deeply.
I appreciate what the Vice President said about the
First Lady.
I wish she could be here today.
She's getting home
sometime tonight.
But I think that that speech she gave resonated so
powerfully across the world because it was elemental, basic, true,
profound in the simplicity of the things that we all know, things
that we all know we should do, things we all know we shouldn't do and
shouldn't permit if we can stop. And it was a very powerful thing _
because it brought people together.
�Now, I think that's very important today in America
because of the kind of things that are going on. And I just want to
talk very briefly about that and the work we're about to undertake
here.
In many ways, the big trends in America look good.
Economically we have 7 billion more jobs, 2.5 million more
homeowners. We're creating new businesses at a rate of 750,0VO a
year -- by far the highest rate in American history. We have low
inflation, high growth. By any standard, this is about the best
combined economic picture in 20 years. African American unemployment
rate below 10 percent for the first time since the Vietnam War. A
lot of the social indicators are encouraging.
In almost every major
city in America, the crime rate is down, the welfare roles are down,
the food stamp roles are down.
A lot of the cultural things are encouraging. The
divorce rate is down. The abortion rate is down. There are signs
that people are beginning to get together even in troubled places.
The United States has been honored to be a force for peace in the
last three years in Northern Ireland and South Africa and the Middle
East, in Haiti. We even see signs of hope in Bosnia. Today -today, representatives of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia are meeting as a
part of the peace initiative the United States has pushed so hard in
Europe, and we pray for their success. They need to quit killing
each other; it's not that much land involved and there is nothing in
their religious faiths that dictates that kind of bloodletting.
So there is a lot to be hopeful about, a lot of common
ground to celebrate. But if you look at it, you'd never know that to
listen to what we do here. And.I think there is a reason for that
there are two reasons for that. One is the culture around here and
the way we do business, or the way it's been done for years -- I
hadn't been here too long, but I'm still learning about it. And the
larger reasons of what's going on in the world today.
But let me deal with the basic, fundamental issues here.
What works for -- what worked for the bus driver and for Cal Ripken,
showing up for work, having the right attitude, working on the team,
working for tomorrow -- that's what works. What works in a church?
Working together, working for the future around shared values. What
works in a family? What works at a business? Not surprisingly,
people don't like what they see in Washington if they don't see
people working together and working for the future, if all they ever
see is what are they fighting .about today? What is the new partisan
difference that is all of a sudden all the rage?
I think we all have a common interest in balancing the
budget, and I'm glad to see both parties' leadership now committed to
doing that.
For two years, we had a lonely battle here. We took the
deficit from $290 billion down to $160 billion.
It was a one-party
operation. And when that happens, you have to make decisions that in
the details are so controversial it's unsettling to people. When
both parties work together, they can do it better. So I think it's
�great, we're going to balance the budget.
Then the question is how should we do it, because it's
not just a matter of debits and credits, it's also a matter of values
and responsibilities. How you do this defines who you are. And I
would argue to you that this is a much more important process today
than it would have been a generation ago for reasons I will explain
in just a moment.
But if you believe that, then we have to ask: What are
the values? How are we going to provide for our children's future,
especially for their education? What do we owe the elderly in this
country in terms of health care? Seventy-five percent of the people
who are eligible for Medicare live on $24,000 a year or less. What
do we owe to them? What do we owe to people like those veterans of
World War II that we honored in Hawaii just a few days ago, who
literally made the world that we are all living off of now, who set
in motion the circumstances that permitted all of us in the age
groups represented here to flourish? What do we owe to the poor and
to the homeless?
What do we owe? How do our obligations here -- can they
be fulfilled, anyway? What is -- what kind of government do we have
to have to make this stuff work? Yesterday, the Vice President
announced his two-year report on our reinventing government project.
There are 160,000 fewer people working for the government now than
were when I became President. About 400 programs have been
eliminated, many thousands of pages of regulations have been
scrapped. But we've also worked very hard on improving the quality
of government.
Business Week Magazine evaluated all the people -- the
business units in America that depend heavily on being successful on
the phone, great companies like L.L. Bean and Federal Express. And
they said that federal government Social Security Administration had
the most effective, information-laden, courteous phone service of any
major organization in America, which I thought was a remarkable
thing, because we're in pretty high cotton there with those other
companies.
(Laughter.)
But what do we owe to the country in terms of the kind
of government we have and the way it performs? What are our
obligations and responsibilities? How do all these compare with tax
cuts that have been proposed? What do those tax cuts reflect in
terms of our values? There are many different proposals and they're
all different. What do we get out of a balanced budget? I'll tell
you. We get the opportunity to lift the burden of debt off of our
children and grandchildren. We get lower interest rates. We free up
the money that's available to be borrowed by people in the private
sector to create new jobs. We get more growth if we do it right.
But if we're penny-wise and pound-foolish, if we don't
think about our larger values, if we donit also take care of
educating our people and lifting up our children, even the poorest of
�them, then we could wind up with a budget that doesn't do all of
those things. Prosperity really has to grow out of having good,
shared values. We're lucky -- we're big, we're diverse, we've got a
lot of resources. But we still have to do the right things.
If you look at the gentleman who wasa bus driver, God
gave him a good constitution. But a lot of healthy people don't show
up for work every day for 18 years. Mr. Ripken is 6'4" and weighs
220 pounds, and not many people have a body like that. But there are
a lot of people with bodies like that, that miss a lot of baseball
games because they don't take care of it. They don't always do the
right things.
So we have to do the right things. And that's very
important. And it can't just be a mechanical thing.
It can't just
be a political thing.
It can't be just who's got the political power
and who's got the influence to get this or that deal done. This is
an historic obligation we have. And we have to do it in a way that
reflects common sense and that reaches common ground that's higher
ground. That's why what I've tried to say when I talked about the
New Covenant in the last three years.
It's not just a matter of
contracts and deals. This is a -- we're going through a period of
great change. And we have to reach deep down inside for the right
things to do that will bring us together.
Let me say that I -- if ever there was a case of
preaching to the saved, that's what I'm doing today.
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In
more ways than one. A lot of you are involved in ministries that do
this. You not only build the edifice of your churches, you serve the
needs of your people. And that's what we have to do in America. And
we cannot allow the usual partisan, divisive atmosphere which
characterizes our national politics and which does make, frankly --to
defend all the players here, many of whom have been here a lot longer
than I have in Washington -- they think that having these kind of
differences and articulate them in a way that's most favorable to
their constituents is the only way to communicate them across the
vast distance that exists from Washington, D.C. into the homes of the
nearly 260 million Americans who live here, because it's not like
being the pastor of a church or the governor of a small state or the
mayor of a city. They are so far from where their folks are, the way
of doing things here tends to put a greater premium on words than
deeds, a greater premium on positioning and division than production
and teamwork and accomplishment. But that doesn't make it right.
And it doesn't make it acceptable for this time.
So I'm trying to bring a new spirit here.
I'm trying to
deal with a lot'of hot-button issues that need to be dealt with in
the right spirit.
The welfare system needs to be reformed because the
people that are on welfare hate it. Nobody wants to be dependent.
So we should end welfare as we know it, but we ought to be mindful of
the fact that we're doing it because our country will be better off
if people are successful workers and successful parents. We don't
�need a permanently dependent system.
I'm trying to deal with the issue of crime in a
responsible way that punishes criminals more, but also seeks to
prevent crime by giving our young people some things that they can
say yes to as well as say no to.
We're trying to deal with the issue of 'immigration i a
way that says that it's wrong for people to immigrate here illegally.
They may need to do it.
It may be a good thing for their family, but
from our point of view, since we've got folks lined up willing to
wait for years, we have to try to enforce the immigration laws and
control our borders and be disciplined about this. And when we look
at the volume of legal immigration, we have to. look at it in terms of
our ability to maintain a decent standard of living for our own
people and to imagine what it's going to be like over a ten-year
period. But I think to try to blame immigrants for our problems is a
mistake. We're all a nation of immigrants. Nearly everybody came
from somewhere else.
(Applause.)
And, of course, you all pretty well know what I think
abut the affirmative action issue. There are some problems in the
way these programs have been implemented. They ought to be fixed.
There are some of them that don't work right and they ought to be
fixed. And nobody has a stake in America in promoting reverse
discrimination or quotas or giving somebody something they're not
qualified to receive.
But we should make a conscious effort to include all
Americans in the bounty of America. Conscious effort is not the same
thing as giving preference to unqualified people. A conscious effort
is animated by the belief tha~'God put within everybody the capacity
to rise to higher levels, and we need everybody to become what we
ought to be. So let's fix what doesn't work.
But let's don't
pretend that it's a bad thing to try to get the most out of everybody
and to make effort. That's what I believe.
(Applause.)
Let me tell you why I think this is all more important
now than it is normally. Two years ago I recommended a book by a
no'nreligious leader, Stephen Carter. Today I'll recommend another
one.
I've been reading this. This is a fascinating book by a man
named Benjamin Barber, whom I had the privilege to know, called Jihad
Versus McWorld.
Now, let me tell you what the essential argument here
is. Let me tell you why I believe it's important. Mr. Barber is
arguing that democracy and the ability to hold people together and
have reliable, predictable, good lives for people who work hard and
do the right thing is being threatened today, first of all, by the
globalization of the economy which has a lot of benefits for those of
us who have good educations and can benefit from it, with the
movement of money and technology all across the world. But it's
elevating consumerism to even higher and higher levels and promoting
short-term gains. You watch this money -- we watch it every day.
�Billions and trillions of dollars moving across the globe in the
split of an eye just because of an event here, an event there, an
event the other place. It's very hard in those conditions to even
preserve, even in the wealthy, powerful countries the conditions of
stable, ordinary life.
Therefore, you see what happens in America. We have 7
million new jobs, we have all these things that are happening that
are good. But most hourly wage earners are working harder for the
same or less money than they were making 10 years ago. And a lot of
people feel insecure in their jobs because the economy is changing so
much and they have no confidence that if they lose the job they have
they can get another one that is just as good or better.
So we're living in this global economy where there are a
·whole lot of winn~rs. But a lot of people who think they do just
what Cal Ripken and the Virginia bus driver do think they may still
lose, and that's a big problem for America.
If people think they're
willing to show up every day, they're working hard, they're doing
right by their kids, they wouldn't break the law, they wouldn't cheat
the government out of nickel on their taxes, they wouldn't begin to
do anything wrong, and they still may not make it, that's a problem
for America.
The other word -- Jihad, as you know, refers to holy
war, the Arabic concept, Muslim concept of the holy war.
It's not an
anti-Muslim book, by the way.
Islam is a beautiful religion with
great values. What it refers to is, as people face a work that they
cannot control, when they think that democracy is not going to work
for them, that they can't keep the family of the United States or the
family of France or Germany or Russia or Estonia, or you name it,
together, they look -- they are vulnerable, because they're nerves
are raw and they have no sense of certainty, to extreme
manifestations of people who claim to have revealed truth, so that
the likelihood of having more conflicts rooted in ethnic, racial or
religious differences increases perversely as the world becomes more
economically integrated. And he argues, I believe correctly, that it
is even more important today for the United States of America to
succeed, even more important today for democracy to work, even more
important today for the basic values that we just talked about to be
able to made real in the lives of ordinary citizens.
And that's why what we're doing with this budget debate
is so important, and why we have to do it right.
If we don't balance
the budget, we're going to hurt America's future.
If we do it in the
wrong way, we're going to hurt America's future.
About once in 100 years this sort of thing happens. We
are going through a level of change in the way we work and live that
is comparable to the change we went through when we moved from being
an agrarian society to an industrial, more urbanized society. And it
took our country from roughly the end of the 1890s until about 1916
to sort through all that.
I mean, it's a continuing process. But we
basically had to decide what is the responsibility that we have as a
�country, what does the government have to do, how will we deal with
this.
Now we're moving out of that age to a more
information-based, technology-based age. We're moving from the Cold
War to the global economy. We're moving from the possibility of
nuclear war between superpowers to the possibility that terrorists
can carry around biological weapons that kill people in Japanese
subways or make homemade bombs that blow up the World Trade Center or
the federal building in Oklahoma.
Believe me, it's better that we don't have to worry as
much about everybody being wiped out. Let's not kid ourselves. But
it's important to realize that our great country, this family of
America, has forces beyond it economically that are pulling at our
ability to hold everybody together, and in reaction to the insecurity
that is caused and the uncertainty that is caused, there are forces
internally in every great democracy forcing people to be divided
among themselves. That's why I said the other day', do we have to fix
welfare -- yes; affirmative action -- yes; immigration problems -yes.
Is that the cause of the anxiety of the middle class in America
-- no, not really. That's not the real cause. That's not an excuse
not to fix them -- we do. But we need to know what the real cause
is.
And when you're living in a time like this when people
are torn from pillar to post, having those basic values to fall back
on, knowing that there is a church with a larger ministry is
important. But also be humbled enough to know that in a time like
this, when you're moving into a future you can't fully predict,
nobody has all the answers, that's important, too.
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I don't want to embarrass him, but the other -- not very
long ago, I was home in Arkansas, and my pastor, Rex Horne, who's
here, gave a fascinating sermon in which he was talking about how
Jesus treated different kind of people. And h~ pointed out how
humble Christ was in dealing with the leper, the hated Zaccheus, the
woman caught in adultery. He reminded us of the stories of the
Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan in the Bible. And then he said,
you know, the-only people Jesus was really hard on and acted like He
was arrogant to
-- (laughter) -- were the Pharisees and the
Saducees and the religious hypocrites who appeared to have all the
revealed truth. And the people he ran out of the temple because they
got church and state mixed up, too -- they tried to take over the
temple.
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Right?
Now, this is an important lesson, and it had a huge
impact on me, on my level of humility. We all need a good dose of
humility. This is -- it is not given to any of us to fully
understand the future, but we do know we're moving into a different
time with no precedent. And Mr. Barber, he may not be right about
everything, but he's got a fix on it and it's worth thinking about.
And I ask'all of you to think about that and to think of your work-when you see the people in your churches and your synagogues, in your
mosques, who have problems in their lives, ask yourselves, are these
problems the kind of problems that would happen at any age in time,
or are they aggravated by this different period of change through
which we're going, and how can we move together to respond to it.
So I say to you, I hope you will pray for all of us here
in these next 90 days, without regard to our party or our religion,
because we have a hard and difficult job to do. We have to act, we
have to succeed, but we have to do it in the right way for America to
move into the next century with the American Dream alive and well and
with the ability to keep the kind of character and strength that we
celebrated this week not only in the achievement of Cal Ripken, but
in the achievement of the bus driver and all the people that were
cheering because they shared something that we desperately need to
elevate and preserve as long as this country exists.
Thank you, and God bless you.
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RAHM EMANUEL
JEREMY BEN-AMI
TERRY EDMONDS
GAYNOR MCCOWN
DENNIS BURKE
KATHY MCKIERNAN
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JULIE DEMEO @ 456-5392
Attached is the information I promised to forward on Ma:yfield
Woods Middle School for the President's event on Wednesday,
September 13th.
Let me know if you need more.
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September 8. 1995
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Reply for Infonnation for September 13th Event
In answer to your fax from earlier this morning, I hope the following information will be
helpful. H possible may we have an advanced copy of the speech to release to our press. Please
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Mayfield Woods Middle School: Grades 6-8, total enrolhnent 800, minority student
enrollment, 33%.
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Drug Prevention Programs at Mayfield Woods include:
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- Red Ribbon Campaign
- Save a Sweetheart Campaign
- School sponsored drug prevention program
- Health education prevention curriculum
- Student Assistance Programs
- Peer Mediation/Conflict Resolution
-PTA sponsored parent awareness prevention programs and materials
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The Red Ribbon Campaign is done with all of our Howard County public school students,
Kindergarten through grade 8. so all of the Mayfield Woods students participate
with ribbons and activities each year. Some years there is less fanfare. but the Health
Education Office of the Howard County Public School System supplies ribbons and an
activity sheet to every school each year.
Activities include:
- student poetry
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government and red ribbons are distributed for cars.
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All 32 elementary schools and all 15 of the middle ·schools will participate in the Red
Ribbon Campaign.
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schools. It is approached from a comprehensive standpoint which includes components for
students. staff. and community.
Example:
Students - curriculum. Student Assistance Programs
Staff- Employee Assistance Program
Community - ongoing PfA K-12 programs
What you are seeing at Mayfield Woods is nuly indicative of prevention education in the
Howard County public schools. We collaborate with county government. Maryland State
Department of Education, health departments. the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene. and
many other agencies to provide our students and parents with current and appropriate mfonnation.
· We do not pretend to believe that we have all of the solutions to the drug problems in our
county, but collaboration with school, families. and health agencies makes the effon a real
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Thank you, Dr. Bonner, for;that gracious.introduction.
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to<:lay for the release of.the l394 Household Survey on Drug Abuse.
with us today are Dr. Nelba Chavez, Administrator of the
substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Dr.
Alan Leshner~ Director. of the National, Institute .on Drug Abuse.
We are also joined by·Dr. Dan Melnick, Acting Director of·
SAMHSA ',s Office. of Applied Studies -- who is responsible for
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T want to.thank Dr. Bonn~t~ principal of Wilson. for hosting
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underscore the importance of the l994 Household Surv-ey for..the
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illicit drug use have not increased.-- and.casual cocaine use
marijuana use among teenagers has nearly
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it's consequences, last July we launched.an initiative\ based on.a.
simple premise: Every new generation of young people -needs t·o
hear clear, consist~nt, and early anti-drug·me~sage~ from all of
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Weekly Reader -- wilJ be <;iistributed during the ·month of Octobe·r
to more than' 200,.000 classroorns ..arouri.d the country -- reaching
mor~ than 5 million children,, in'English' and Spanish.
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New 11 Tips for Teens 11 . on- marijuana, inhal2mts, and alcoho'l
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:parents who may have experi~enti?d with m;iJ.·d j1J,:m~ t-.h~m.!::P-1 v~.!:: whP.Ti. ·
they were younger.. and would like suggestions about how to discuss
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harm mo.rij,uo.nu.. co.u'oco, --. frqm 'probl.emc:: with learning, memory,
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Administration's comprehensive ant:l-drug strategy.
It also confirms the
House.• Republicans·• _budget:
trP.~t.mP.nt funds and leave
'the midst_ of a resurgence
folly: J. -· the sheer' folly -- of th~
proposa-l to \slash drug prevention-_ and ·
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This is the time·to draw a\line in the ·battle against drugs.
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drugs ._- not. to stick our heads: in the sand ai1d say that the.
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Forturi"ately, this week the Senate GOP has the opportunity to ·
restore preventio:t:J. and treatment funds cut by the House GOP.-·
We' hope they remember that drug prevention 1s a national
priority of the very same order: as clean water, good roads, and,
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Now we have' to make_ the~e women realize that -- after giving_·
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President Clinton is fighting for better education and training--from Head Start and school
lunches to safe schools, higher-standards, and student loans--in order to allow young people to
make_ the most of their lives, and· to proyide to every American the chance to realize the
American Dream.· While supporting deficit reduction, open trade, and job creation, and while
fighting violence that threatens our society, the President has recognized that nothing is more
critical to our nation's future than ensuring that all Americans have· the education and skill's
they need to navigate these changing times. The President has made an unprecedented
coriunitment to strengthening teaching and lealning--expanding and i~proving early childhood
, education. assisting local commuriities in improving their schools, instituting bold new
reforms of adult educ.ation and training programs, and expanding fmancial aid for deserving
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, capital is mobile. education has become the fundamental fault-line in our- standard of living .
.Most Americans have seen their income~ stagnate over the last 15 years; the real. income of
the typical family has ~ctualiy deClined. Yet those with . the most education and training have
bucked·the trend. In 1979: a male college graduate earned 39% more than a man with only a
high school degree.· By 1993. this gap had doubled, and a male college graduate out-earned
his high school graduate·counterpart by 80 percent. In addition, the availability of health
coverage, pension plans. and "other -work-related benefits has ·become Closely correlated with .
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While bnnging the deficit do-wn by' historic·am6unts:..-over $600 billion so far--President
·Clinton' ll.as also made investing in education a top priority;' During the last Congress,
Republi-cans and Democrats together enacted a }listoric series of initiatives to assist families.
communities, schools, ~d colleges to ha~e expanded .educational opportUnity jn America.
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Improving A·merica's Schools Act (signed .10/20/94; passed House 362-132; Senate
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National and Community Service Trust Act (signed 9/21/93; passed House 275-:152;'
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Direct Lending and Pay-as:.. You-Can Loans (signed on 8/10/93. as part of the..
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This year, President Clinton went a step further by proposing incentives--through expansion o(
· IRAs of up to $10.000--for families to save for their children's college education. In
addition. the President has sought to consolidate 7o programs-and put Skiil Grants directly in
the hands of work~rs seeking ~to upgrade their edu~tion and skills.
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�DRAWING THE LINE ON.EDUCATION
Despite the bipartisan efforts last year to expand the, qUality and effective~ess of education,
the current budget debate points to a divide between the President and the Republican ·
Congress over'education--the foundation of our democracy and free enterprise system. Both ·
the President and Republicans believe we must reduce the budget deficit and balance the ·
budget. and both propose deep cuts in discretionary spending to reach this goal. But the
President also believes that in order to create more opportwlity, we must red~ce the education .
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while the President's b:,tlanced budget proposal launches an all-out effort to expand
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· THE EDUCATION GAP BETWEEN THE BUDGETS
The· Republican budget _res~ uti on slashes education and training by $36 billion for 1995 to
- 2002 (including $10 billion in loan benefits to students). On July 24, the House ·
Appropriations Comminee took .the first step· towards making
budget resolution· a reality,
by cuning key education and training initiatives: By contrast, the President's_budget increases
. investment in these same 'areas by $40 billion o~er seven years. As a result, there is a major
education gap between the President's proposal and the Republicans'.
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approach to education and the Republican approaches to education -- from pre-school through
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I. EXPANDING HEAD START
President Clinton has made expanding and improving pre-schooling the staning point for
helping families give the'ir children agood start on the right course~- Republicans would slash
these investments.
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President Clinton already expanded investment in Head Start by $760 million
from 1993 to 1995. Now, he proposes to increase aiUJual funding by $1.?
· billion bv 2002, to reach another 50~000' children. At the same time as he has
expanded Head Start, he has also reformed the \Vay the program wor~ to
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Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee has approved reducing FY
· I 996 funding, for Head Start to over $100 million below the -FY 1995 level and
over S500 million below the President's-request, Up lO 45,000 children would
· be cut off Head Start in 1996 if IlliS is to maintain program quality. Freezing
funding at the reduced level would cut off up- to 180,000 child.ren in 2002
compared to. I 995.
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�II. IMPROVING ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
President-Clinton has lent national support to local schools and~communities ~-orking to
'' ' improve the quality of their education by rigorously. teaching the basics, making sshools safe
and drug-free. promoting increased parental involvement, raising student achievement and.
discipline, gen!ng technology irito the cfassroom. and providing opportunities to go from
school to college or work. Republicans would el.iminate national support for local educational
improvement. leaving studei;tS without crucial resources and assistance they need
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THE GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT: ASSISTING LOCAL
SCHOOLS. President. Clinton Helped To Create This Initiative And Would Provide
$Q96 Ali/lion by 2002 To Upgrade 85,000 SchoolS for 44 Million Children;
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President Clinton helped create Goals 2000, which ·supports state. commuruty,
and school efforts to raise standards of achievement and-discipline.and
encourage stUdents to work hard ~eet'them. Forty-eight states are already
participating in this program. In his· 1996 budget, the President calls for nearly
doubling the program, to almost $700 million. with the tqtal level rising to
· $896 million by 2002. That's enough to support improvements for all 44 .
million ~l:iildren in the over 85,000 public 'schools.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee has approved eliminating
.Goals 2000 entirely--undermining what was once a bipaitisan effort to spur
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TITLE 1: HELPING CHILDREN LEARN THE BASICS. President Clinton
Would Expand It Each fear; Republicans Would Freeze Funding, Depriving Over
One Jfillion Cltilqren of Aid.
. President· Clinton supports Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies,
designed. to provide needed resources to help students -learn the basic subjects in
schooL The progra.ni has been reoriented to give schools more flexibility to
support effective innovations that help all studentS.read and write well and meet·
challenging standards. The President has already incre~ed Title I fuflding by .
$573 million ov~r two years, and he proposes an increase.'of $302 million this
·year. enough to serve 300,000 additional children, With further increases every
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Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee approved a reducing
funding by $1.1 billion in 1996, cutting as many a5 1.1 million children from
the 'program .. These children from our poorest communities would be denied
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SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS. }!resident Clinton Has Consirtently
Supported It; Republicans Would dut It.
President Clinton supports this initiative to make our schools safe from drugs
and. violence. The program funds everything from innovative· anti~violence
education and after-school pro grains to metal detectors ·and security. personneL
The President would maintain funding at $500 million per year.
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percent to $200 million. depriving over
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TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION: GETTING COMPUTERS IN THE
CLASSROOM. Republicans Would ·Gut This Clinton Initiative Which Leverages
Private l•Joney for Teclznofogy in Public Schools.
President Clinton has helped initiate this challe~ge to the private _sector to join
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\Vith schools and colleges to raise stud~nt ~chievement through the tlse of
compute~s and new learning techi1ology in the classroom. A $50 million
federal investment in 1996 will leverage hundr~ds of mil~ions, of dollars in
private support, .
Republicans: The House Appropriations Commi~ee cut this program in half to
$25 million in FY 1996, denyi'ug school districts across the country . the. ability
· to participate in this initiative,· and drastically sloWing the effort to leverage
millions more from the private sector.
SCHOOL-TO-\VORK OPPORTUNITIES . .President Clinton Has Supported A
, New 50-State il-fovement; Republicans Would Stop It In Its Tracks.
President Clinton,, with bipartis~ support, signed' into law the most important
''national program ev~r to help states and localities set up systems to link
FederaL state, and local resources in new effective ways that ensure that'ci.Il
young people--including the 70%
young Americans who dm:t't get four-year
degrees--get the education they need to ob~ good jobs with a future. \All
states have received pliu{rung funds, and eight "leading edge" states are .using
implementation g~ants to create systems that are getting positive reviews from
companies nationwide .. Twenty more states will begin implementationthis
year. President Clinton has proposed increasing support by 60% for FY 1996
to S400 million. bringing to 43 the number of states implementing school to
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President's reque-st by over 50 per:cent· to. $190 million.· This would seriously
hamper efforts of 28 states to complete the 'reforms they started in 1994 and ·
!995: twenty-two additional states would be denied the chance to implement.
their reform plans to raise student. skills.
SUMME-R JOBS. Preside;,t Clinton Supports Work Experiene,es for Youth;
Republicans Would Eliminate These Jobs.
President Clinton recognizes that the summer jobs program is an important
first opportunity to get work ex'perience for many low-income youths,
especially those in inner cities where jobs are scarce. Without these
opportunities. these young people might not. otherwise have any c_hance to learn
skills and workplace behavior during their formative· years.- The President has
· proposed financing over 550,000 jobs in the s~er of 1996 alone.
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this pro'gram. with an $872 million cut from the President's request. In the
summer of 1996 alone this would eliminate this valuable work experience for
over 550.000 urban and rural at.:risk youtil.
·in. INCREASING ACCESS TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Assistance with financ"ial aid to deserving college students is an investment in America's
furme and helps families give their children a chance to make the most of their lives. Now
rriore than ever. post-secondary education and job training are the gateway to America's
· middle class. Studies show .that' fo,r every year of training a person gets after· high school, his
or her earnings rise by 6 to 12· percent. After 15 years in which college costs increased far
faster than inflation but family incomes stagnated, President Clinton has initiat~d historic
efforts to expand college access. Republican proposals would devastate access to post~
?econdary grants and loans, and to job training,. setting back college access by years if not
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President Clinton Offers Oppof1unities to Nearly 50,000 Young People in , .
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Year for People ~f AI/ Ages; Republicans Would Eliminate All of AmeriCorps and
. iWore Titan 750,000 of the Service Opportunities for People of All Ages. ·
President Clinton created AmetjCorps to enable young people t~ earn money
for education by serving .their communities--teaching, caring for the sick, .
making the streets safer. Already 20,000 Americans are serving in
AineriCorps, and neady 50,000 are expected ·next year. /He also fully supports
an additional 1 million service opportunities in Learn and Serve, VISTA, .Faster
Grandparents, and· other progr~s.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee approved eliminating
AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National Ser-Vice and cut opportunities in
other s~rvice' programs. Over .4.3 million· service opportUnities for youth in·
their communities wo'uld be abolished over the next seven years. In FY 1996
alone nearly 50, 000 young Americans from· hard-working, middle class ·'
families will lose the opportunity to serve their com±nunities through ·
AmeriCorps in locally-identified areas of cruci'ar need such as health care, ·.·
so~ial service.' and crime prevention, and td earn art educational award to help
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WORKING FAMILIES. President Clinton Raised the Maximum Grant to a Record
High and Would Increase Annual Funding.by $3.4 Billion by 2002; Republicans
Would Eliminate Up· To 300,000 Students From The 'Program.
President Clinton has supp.or:ted the Pell Grant program. and increased the
. maximum Pell Grant in his 1996 budget by 12%, to its highest level ever,
$2.620. In his new budget, he would increase annual funding by $3.4 billion .
by 2002--enough to reach 960,000 more recipients and increase the maximum
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Republicans: The Hou~e Appropriations Committee approved an increase in
the maximum Pell Grant bY orily '$1 00, to $2440. Furthermol'e, the committee :
approved eliminating about 300,000 students from the program who would
receive award_s between $400 and. $600 under the President's proposaL' For
-millioqs of students, grari.ts make the difference between going to college and
not going, benveen staying in school and droppmg out. ·F_or example, $250
eq~als approximat~ly25% ' .of tuition and fees of community. colleges.
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FAMILIES PAY FOR COLLEGE. Republicans Would Raise College Costs for Up
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President Clinton supports the in-school intere.st exemption, under which four
million need-tested students with Stafford loans· do not have to pay interest
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leaving school and entering repayment.
Republicans in their budget resolution· propose $10 billion in cuts in student
loans. In order ,to achieve that level of savings and preserve unnecessary
payments to banks._ secondary markets. and gtiaranty agencies. they will not·
· only have· to eliminate any subsidy for gradtiate or professional students, but
also hit college students with higher fees--for example, eliminating the six
month grace period for interest after college or raising the origination fees that
every student must pay to get their loans.
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COLLEGE MORE AFFORDABLE. President Clinton Supports Expanding These .
/niti'atives; Republicans Want To Raise the Cost to Students and Reduce Access.
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President Clinton supports expanding the new direct lending program and
· individual education accounts. . Direct lending eliminates billions of dollars in
unnecessary payments to. lenders and others and makes student loans cheaper
and more ~fficient for students. -schools, and taxpayers. With the paSsage of ·
the Student Loan Reform Act, I 04 schools and .over 252,000 students initiated'
·the program in 1995. On July'!, 1995, more than 1,400 schools--representing
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about 40% ,of all loans and the maximum allowed under this year's
authorization--began the second· year on schedule. The President would expand .
' the program to ail schools and studentS. This program is already saving '$6.8.
billion for taxpayers, lowering intere~ rates for students,' and allowing . ·
borrowers to choose flexible repayment arrangements~ including,pay-as-youearn plans through Individual Education Accounts. In time, 20 million c~ent
borrowers and six million new borrowers per year will benefit. . ·
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cap participation 40 percent of all loans. The committee: mark also apprpved
a reduction in direct loan administration funds by over 40 percent in order to
cripple' implem~ntation and to deny the benefits of direct lending to low and .
middle income students. Thes~ actions Will stop the growth of co-st-effective, ·
efficient direct lending in order to· keep unnecessary payn;tentS. flowing to ~
wealthy banks and unnecessary middlemen.
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WHO INVEST IN THEm CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.. President Clinton
Supports A Deduction: With All the Tax Breaks for the Wealthy, Republicans Don't.
President Clinton supports a tax- deduction for nuddle-Class famili~s with
educati~n and job training expenses up t~ $1 0,000.. This ·deduction would
provide tax-favored treatment to 1education similar to the benefits for other
inve.stments like housing and equipment. It invests in those who invest in
themselves and in America.
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Republicans do not support the education and training tax deduction, With its
$20,000 tax cut for the~wealthiest I%, the Contract with America inclu_des tax
breaks for capital gams. gifts and inheritances in excess of $600,000, and the
depreciation of business purchases--but not for education.
·IV. LIFELONG LEARNING
In order to maintain good j~b prospects throughout their lives in a fast-changing economy,
.Americans need -the opportunity to upgrade their education· and skil,ls r(!gularly. President ·
Clinton wants to support lifelong learning by reforming job training_ programs and pu~ing
resources and information directly into wo~kers' hands. Reptiblicaris just want to slashjob
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Supports Skill Grants for America's Workers; Republicans Want a 25% Cut
in Job Training Funds.
President Clinton: Under the adult n;:form proposal, low-income or dislocated
workers (and others) could go to a One-Stop Center for help to get jobs, and learn·
· . about the services and track records of job training programS. Then, they could use
Skill Grants at their own choice among those institutions. The President would
provide 80.0,000 Skill Grants in 1996 alone. For youth training programs, the
President p~oposes to build on and intensify the national reform embodied in the. ·
School-to-Work system to ~erve in-school and out-of-school youth. Youth programs
would .be streamlined and funding'would be consolidated in a $2.9 billion State 'grant,
repl~cing current fragmented efforts under the P~rkins Vocational Educational and Job
Training Partnership Act. In total, the President proposes to increase funding
(excluding Pell' GrantS) by over $2 billion by 2002~ ·
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Republicans: The House Appropriatiorts Committee cut funding by 50 percent below·
the. President's request, and 25 percent below the FY 1995 level: These cuts would
deny reemployment services to 506,'1 00 dislocated workers and deny training
opportunities to 84,000 disadvantaged adults compared with-the Presidenfs request.
Republicans also eliminate over 550,000 job opportunities for disadvantaged youth by
. not. funding the Summer Youth Employment Program. Millions of young people will
lose the' opportunity to develo'p adequate work_ preparation skills and obtain good first
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