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�THE TRIP
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of
THE PRESIDENT
to
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
and
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
April 7-8, 1998
Staff Copy
�Table of Contents
Tuesday, April 7,1998
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Remarks to the Concord Coalition/AARP Social Security Forum
- Event Memo
- Remarks
- Charts
Lunch with Seniors
- Event Memo
Remarks via Satellite to Regional Congressional
Social Security Forums
- Event Memo
- Remarks
Social Security Panel Discussion
- Event Memo
- Overview ofthe Forum
- Participant Background
Photo with the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Debate Team
- Event Memo
«
Missouri Background
- Political Background (including Hot Issues)
- Economic One-Pager
- CEQ Hot Issues
To Be Forwarded
�- Cabinet Affairs Hot Issues
- Accomplishments
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Democratic Business Council Dinner
- Event Memo
- Talking Points
Illinois Background
- Political Background (including Hot Issues)
- Economic One-Pager
- CEQ Hot Issues
- Cabinet Affairs Hot Issues
- Accomplishments
�Table of Contents
Wednesday, April 8,1998
School Construction Event
- Event Memo
- Remarks
To Be Forwarded
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�Tuesday, April 7,1998
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR
TUESDAY,
APRIL
Final
7,1998
Schedule
SCHEDULING DIRECTOR:
STEPHANIE STREETT
HOME:
OFFICE:
202-456-2823
WHCA PAGER:
4033
EVENT COORDINATOR:
A VIVA STEINBERG
HOME:
OFFICE:
202-456-2920
WHCA PAGER:
4022
PRESS DESK:
KAREN BURCHARD
HOME:
OFFICE:
202-395-1039
PAGER:
1-800-SKYPAGE
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WEATHER:
WASHINGTON, DC
Partly cloudy, becoming mostly cloudy by late
afternoon. Winds south to southwest at 5 to 10
knots. Low 36to41. High 63 to 68.
KANSAS CITY, MO
Cloudy with rain showers and thunderstorms.
Winds south to southwest at 15 to 25 knots. Low
45 to 50. High 60 to 65.
April 6,1998 (9:50pm)
Clinton Library Photocopy
�Tuesday, April 7,1998
Schedule ofthe President
for
Tuesday, April 7,1998
Final Schedule
8:25
am
THE PRESIDENT proceeds to the South Lawn
8:30
am
THE PRESIDENT departs The White House via Marine One en
route Andrews Air Force Base
[flight time: 10 minutes]
8:40
am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Andrews Air Force Base
8:55
am
THE PRESIDENT departs Andrews Air Force Base via Air Force
One en route Kansas City International Airport, Kansas City,
Missouri
[flight time: 2 hours, 15 minutes (approximately)]
[time change: -1 hours]
10:10 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Kansas City, Missouri
Greeters:
Mel Camahan, Governor (T)
Representative David Dreier
Representative Karen McCarthy
Jay Nixon, Attorney General
Mayor Carol Marinovich, Kansas City, KS
Katheryn Shields, Jackson County Executive
10:25 am
THE PRESIDENT departs Airport via motorcade en route Penn
Valley Community College
[drive time: 25 minutes]
10:50 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Penn Valley Community College
Greeters:
Dr. Giles, Chancellor, Penn Valley Community College
Dr. Williams, President, Penn Valley Community College
Mayor Reverend Emmanuel Cleaver
April 6,1998 (9:50pm)
�Tuesday, April 7,1998
11:00 am12:00 pm
REMARKS TO THE CONCORD COALITION/AARP
SOCIAL SECURITY FORUM
GYMNASIUM
Penn Valley Community College
Remarks: Michael Waldman
Staff Contact: Gene Sperling
Event Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
OPEN PRESS
Off-stage announcement of The President, accompanied by Governor
Mel Camahan, Senator Rick Santorum, Senator Robert Kerrey,
Representative Earl Pomeroy, and Representative Kenny Hulshof, to
"Ruffles and Flourishes" and "Hail to the Chief."
Governor Mel Camahan introduces The President.
The President makes remarks.
Governor Camahan introduces Senator Rick Santorum.
Senator Rick Santorum gives remarks and introduces Senator Robert
Kerrey.
Senator Robert Kerrey makes remarks and introduces Representative
Kenny Hulshof.
Representative Kenny Hulshof gives remarks and introduces
Representative Earl Pomeroy.
Representative Earl Pomeroy gives remarks.
Governor Camahan makes closing remarks.
The President departs.
12:05 pm
12:45 pm
LUNCH WITH SENIORS
COACH'S LOUNGE
Penn Valley Community College
POOL SPRAY (AT THE TOP)
April 6,1998 (9:50pm)
�Tuesday, April 7,1998
12:50 pm1:30 pm
BRIEFING AND REMARKS VIA SATELLITE TO THE
REGIONAL CONGRESSIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY FORUMS
ROOM 005
Penn Valley Community College
Staff Contact: Larry Stein
Event Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
OPEN PRESS (REMARKS AT LOCATIONS)
CLOSED PRESS
Ken Apfel makes an opening statement.
The President makes remarks.
The President hears from:
Representative Robert Borski
Representative Ben Cardin
Representative Nancy Johnson
Representative Jim Korbe
Representative Jerry Weller
The President responds to the Representatives and makes closing
remarks.
1:30
1:35
pmpm
POLICE AND DRIVER PHOTOGRAPHS
HALLWAY
Penn Valley Community College
1:40
2:05
pmpm
BRIEFING ON PANEL DISCUSSION
PRESIDENTIAL HOLD
Penn Valley Community College
Staff Contact: Gene Sperling
April6,1998 (9:50pm)
�Tuesday, April 7,1998
2:10
3:00
pmpm
SOCIAL SECURITY PANEL DISCUSSION
GYMNASIUM
Penn Valley Community College
Staff Contact: Gene Sperling
Event Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
OPEN PRESS
Gwen Ifill makes introductory remarks and announces the participants
into the room.
The President proceeds to his seat.
The discussion begins, moderated by Gwen Ifill.
The President makes a closing statement.
The President works a ropeline and departs.
3:10
pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Penn Valley Community College via
motorcade en route Crown Plaza Hotel
[drive time: 5 minutes]
3:15
pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Crown Plaza Hotel
3:20
5:00
pmpm
DOWN
THE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE
Crown Plaza Hotel
5:05
pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Crown Plaza Hotel via motorcade en
route Airport
[drive time: 25 minutes]
5:30
pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Airport
Greeters:
5:45
pm
University of Missouri - Kansas City Debate Team
THE PRESIDENT departs Airport via Air Force One en route
Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois
[flight time: 1 hour, 10 minutes]
[time change: None]
April 6,1998 (9:50pm)
�Tuesday, April 7,1998
6:55
pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Chicago, Illinois
Greeters:
Senator Carol Moseley - Braun
Senator Dick Durbin
Brigadier General Harold Koistler
Lynn Keistler
Mary Rose Lorey, Chicago Aviation Commissioner
Patrick Levar
7:10
pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Airport via motorcade en route Private
Residence
[drive time: 25 minutes]
7:35
pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Private Residence
Greeters:
7:40
8:05
pmpm
Lou Weisbach
Ruth Weisbach
Len Barrack, Finance Chairman, DNC
Steve Grossman, National Chairman, DNC
PHOTO RECEIVING LINE
STUDY
Private Residence
Staff Contact: Craig Smith
Event Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
CLOSED PRESS
The President will greet approximately 90 guests for photographs.
April 6,1998 (9:50pm)
�Tuesday, April 7,1998
8:10
9:30
pmpm
DEMOCRATIC BUSINESS COUNCIL DINNER
TENT
Private Residence
Staff Contact: Craig Smith
Event Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
PRINT POOL REPORTER (REMARKS ONLY)
The President proceeds to his table.
Dinner is served.
Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist, performs two songs.
Steve Grossman, Chairman, Democratic National Committee, gives
welcoming remarks and introduces Senator Dick Durbin.
Senator Dick Durbin gives remarks and introduces Senator Carol
Moseley - Braun.
Senator Carol Moseley - Braun gives remarks and introduces Lou
Weisbach.
Lou Weisbach gives remarks and introduces The President.
The President gives remarks and departs.
9:35
pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Private Residence via motorcade en
route Deerfield High School Landing Zone
[drive time: 5 minutes]
9:40
pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Deerfield High School Landing Zone
9:50
pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Deerfield High School Landing Zone
via Marine One en route Meigs Field Landing Zone
[flight time: 15 minutes]
10:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Meigs Field Landing Zone
10:15 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Meigs Field Landing Zone via
motorcade en route Hilton Hotel
[drive time: 5 minutes]
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�Tuesday, April 7,1998
10:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Hilton Hotel
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�Wednesday, April 8,1998
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8,1998
Draft Schedule
SCHEDULING DIRE
PRESS DESK:
JR:
STEPHANIE STREETT
HOME:
OFFICE:
202-456-2823
WHCA PAGER:
4033
KAREN BURCHARD
HOME:
OFFICE:
202-395-1039
PAGER:
1-800-SKYPAGE
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April 6,1998 (10:30pm)
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Wednesday, April 8,1998
Draft Schedule
8:30
8:40
amam
BRIEFING FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION EVENT
PRESIDENT!^ vUITE
HILTON HO ^
Staff Contact: Gene Sperling
8:45
am
THE PRESIDENT departs Hilton Hotel via motorcade en route The
Rachel Carson School
[drive time: 25 minutes]
9:10
am
THE PRESIDENT arrives The Rachel Carson School
9:15
9:25
amam
TOUR "OLD SCHOOL"
THE RACHEL CARSON SCHOOL
Staff Contact: Gene Sperling
Event Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
POOL PRESS
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The President, accompanied by Principal Mayer and Senator Mosely Braun, tour old store room once used as classroom.
THE PRESIDENT departs.
9:30
am
THE PRESIDENT walks across driveway to new school
Greeters:
9:35
9:45
am
am
Principal Kathleen Mayer
Senator Moseley-Braun
Senator Durbin
Representative Luis Gutierrez
Mayor Daley
TOUR NEW SCHOOL
THE RACHEL CARSON SCHOOL
Staff Contact: Gene Sperling
Event Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
April 6,1998 (10:30pm)
�Wednesday, April 8,1998
POOL PRESS
The President tours science classes in new science lab.
9:50 am11:00 am
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION EVENT
COURTYARD
THE RACHEL CARSON SCHOOL
Remarks: June Shih
Staff Contact: Gene SperliEvent Coordinator: Aviva Steinberg
OPEN PRESS
The President, accompanied by Kathleen Mayer and Rita Nicky, are
announced to "Ruffles and Flourishes" and "Hail to the Chief."
Principal Kathleen Mayor makes welcoming remarks and introduces
Mayor Daley.
Mayor Daley makes remarks and introduces Representative Luis
Gutierrez.
Representative Gutierrez makes remarks and introduces Senator Durbin.
Senator Durbin makes remarks and introduces Senator Carol MoseleyBraun.
Senator Moseley Braun makes remarks and introduces Rita Nicky
Rita Nicky makes remarks and introduces the President.
The President makes remarks, works a ropeline, and departs.
11:05 am
THE PRESIDENT departs The Rachel Carson School via motorcade en
route Midway Airport Landing Zone
[drive time: 15 minutes (approx)]
11:20 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Midway Landing Zone
11:30 am
THE PRESIDENT departs Midway Landing Zone via Marine One en
route Airport
[flight time: 15 minutes (approx)]
April 6,1998 (10:30pm)
�Wednesday, April 8,1998
11:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Airport
12:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Chicago O'HARE Airport, Chicago, Illinois
via motorcade en route Andrews Air Force Base
[flight time: 1 hour, 45 minutes (approx)]
[time change: +1]
2 4 pm
:5
THE PRESIDENT arrives Andrews Air Force Base
3:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Andrews Air Force Base via Marine One en
route The White House
[flight time: 10 minutes]
3:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives The White House
3 1 pm:5
4 1 pm
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DOWN
4:15 pm4:25 pm
MILITARY AIDE DEPARTURE PHOTOGRAPH
OVAL OFFICE
Staff Contact: D. Pittard
Event Coordinator: Karin Kullman
Participants:
LTCOL Buzz Patterson
Family Members TBD
4:30 pm
4:45 pm
MEETING
OVAL OFFICE
Staff Contact: Stephanie Streett
4:45 pm6 4 pm
:5
PHONE AND OFFICE TIME
Note: The attire for the Mellon Dinner is Black Tie.
April 6,1998 (10:30pm)
�Wednesday, April 8,1998
7:30
pm
ANDREW MELLON DINNER
WEST BUILDING
National Gallery of Art
Remarks:
Staff Contact: Melanne Verveer
Event Coordinator:
PRESS TBD
Note: The First Lady will attend this event.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
April 6,1998 (10:30pm)
�THE
WilHITE
HOUSE
,
WASHINGTON
April 6, 1998
OPENING REMARKS ON SOCIAL SECURITY TO THE
AARP-CONCORD COALITION FORUM IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
DATE:
LOCATION:
TIME:
FROM:
I.
April 7, 1998
Gymnasium
Penn Valley Community College
3201 Southwest Traffic Way
Kansas City, MO
Event (11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)
Gene Sperling
PURPOSE
To kick off a national forum on Social Security, to lay out the principles that must guide
our efforts, and to listen to members of Congress make comments about Social Security
and potential reform options.
II.
BACKGROUND
As you announced shortly after the State of the Union, the Concord Coalition and the
American Association of Retired People are co-sponsoring a forum on Social Security.
This is the first of a series of non-partisan forums around the country with participation
by lawmakers of both parties. These conferences will culminate in a White House
Conference on Social Security in December after which you will convene the leaders of
Congress to craft bipartisan legislation to strengthen the Social Security system.
At the AARP-Concord Forum, you will reiterate your call in the State of the Union for
the American people to join you in a discussion on Social Security that is aimed at
educating the American people and public officials and at forming a consensus on how
we proceed. You will also lay out the principles that must guide the process by which we
reform Social Security.
You will be introduced by Governor Camahan, the host Governor. After your remarks,
Governor Camahan will return to the podium and then the four participating members of
Congress, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE), Congressman
Kenny Hulshof (R-MO), and Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) ~ who were selected
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�by the congressional leadership - will give individual remarks.
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III.
PARTICIPANTS
Event
POTUS
Governor Mel Carnahan
Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE)
Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Congressman Kenny Hulshof (R-MO)
Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
Several hundred audience members, including 180 active participants who have been
selected by a marketing research firm to represent the region around Kansas City.
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Open Press
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Two-minute video is shown of Kansas City residents discussing Social Security
Off-stage announcement of the President, accompanied by Governor Mel
Camahan, Senator Rick Santorum, Senator Bob Kerrey, Representative Earl
Pomeroy, and Representative Kenny Hulshof, to "Ruffles and Flourishes" and
"Hail to the Chief."
Governor Mel Camahan introduces the President.
The President gives remarks.
Governor Camahan thanks the President and introduces the members of Congress
Senator Rick Santorum speaks and introduces Bob Kerrey.
Senator Bob Kerrey speaks and introduces Representative Hulshof.
Representative Kenny Hulshof speaks and introduces Representative Pomeroy.
Representative Pomeroy speaks.
The President departs.
�VI.
REMARKS
To be provided by speech writers.
�Draft 4/6/98 6:30pm
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS AT SOCIAL SECURITY FORUM
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
April 7, 1998
Acknowledgments: Governor Camehan, John Rother. Tim Penny.
Let me thank the AARP - America's leading voice for the elderly - and the Concord
Coalition - America's leading voice for fiscal responsiblity - for hosting this forum. And let me
thank the Members of Congress, representing the Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority
Leader, and the House and Senate Democratic Leaders.
This is a time of great hope for America. Our economy is the strongest in a generation.
Our social fabric is on the mend. Our leadership in the world is unrivaled. And because we
replaced decades of deficits with five years of fiscal responsibility, within the next year America
will have a balanced budget. Where once there were deficits as far as the eye can see, now we
will have surpluses as far as the eye can see - $1 trillion over the next decade.
Yes, this is a sunlit moment. But it is not a time to rest; it is a rare opportunity to build.
There is an old saying: "The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining." Because of the steps
taken by om generation at the edge of the 21 Century, we have it within our power to build for
the next generation. In the coming century, Americans will live longer and be retired longer.
The challenge of an aging society will affect every aspect of our lives. And our greatest
opportunity and most profound obligation as a nation is to use this moment of prosperity to save
Social Security.
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As you know, in my State of the Union Address, I called on Congress to set aside every
penny of any surplus until we Save Social Security First. Both parties in both chambers of
Congress have joined this call. That is very good news. We have shown the will to set aside the
surplus. In the coming years we must show the will to save Social Security.
I want to do three things this morning. First, I want to explain how I intend to approach
this issue - not just today, but throughout the year. I want to talk about the importance of Social
Security, and the nature of our challenge. And I want to spell out the principles that I believe
must guide any changes to Social Security we may choose to make.
First, let me talk about how we should proceed. We will strengthen Social Security only
if we reach across lines of party, philosophy, and generation - with open minds and generous
spirits. I ask everyone to set aside normal political responses, to listen, and to leam. For far too
long, politicians have called Social Security the "third rail of American politics." This year
we must prove them wrong. I believe this conference, with its wide participation, is a very
hopeful start. I know that on the political calendar, 1998 is an election year. But on the
Social Security calendar, let's resolve that 1998 will be an education year - a year we come
to grip with the problems ofthe system, and come together to find the answers.
I pledge to do what I can to build a climate of broad support for necessary action.
�This issue is so complicated, we need the best ideas - whatever their source. This issue is
so controversial, we need a national consensus on the nature of the problem and the general
direction we must take.
That is why I have asked members of Congress to host a town meeting in his or her
district - and I will be talking by satellite with several of them later today. We will hold two
more forums around the country. We will host a White House conference in December. And in
January, 1 will convene the leaders of Congress to draft a plan to save Social Security.
With this effort, we can forge a consensus on Social Security. It won't be easy - but the
stakes couldn't be higher. Let me tell you why this is so important.
For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more
than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - the duty we owe to our parents,
the duty we owe to each other, the duty we owe to our children and grandchildren, our
determination to move forward as one America.
Missouri's great gift to America, Mark Twain, once said, "I've come loaded with
statistics, for i've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics." So I thought that a
few statistics wouldn't hurt.
Today, 44 million Americans depend upon Social Security. For two thirds of senior
citizens, it is the main source of income, [chart #7] But Social Security is more than just a
retirement program. Today, one out of three beneficiaries are not retirees. They are children and
spouses of working people who die in their prime. They are men and women who suffer from a
disability. So Social Security is a life insurance policy ... a disability policy ... and a rock solid
guarantee of support in old age. That is why we must act with great care as we make needed
repairs to this program, [chart #2]
Since its enactment over 60 years ago. Social Security has changed the face of America.
When President Roosevelt signed the bill creating Social Security, most seniors were poor. As
FDR said, "The aged worn-out worker, after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity,
must look forward in his declining years to a poorhouse." [chart #3] In 1959, more than a third
of all seniors were still poor. But today, thanks to the expansion of Social Security, that number
has dropped to 11%. Even in this prosperous time, if Social Security did not exist, half of elderly
Americans would plummet into poverty.
Today, Social Security is sound. But changes in the way we live and work may erode its
foundations in the future. The Baby Boomers, 76 million of us, are preparing for retirement.
[ "You and that young man "joke re: Gore] By 2030, there will be twice as many elderly
Americans as today. People are living longer, and retiring earlier. And all these trends will
impose heavy strains on the system. [Chart #4] In 1960, there were 5 active workers paying for
each Social Security beneficiary; in 1997, 3.3 active workers; and in 2030, there will be only two
people working for each person drawing a Social Security check.
[chart #5] Here is the bottom line. Today, Social Security is sound. It will remain sound
�for decades. But we must act now if it is to remain soun das the Baby Boomers retire. If we do
not act, by the Year 2029 - 31 years from now - there will only be enough money to pay for
about 75 cents on the dollar of current benefits.
Let me repeat: Social Security is sound. But there is an obligation -- and an opportunity to act to keep it sound. I am determined that we begin now, for the changes necessary will be tar
easier, far simpler, than if we wait until the problem is close at hand. Each $100 billion ofthe
budget surplus, if used for Social Security, could add 1 year or more to the solvency ofthe Trust
Fund. And other changes can be phased in over time.
So, how should we judge proposals to save Social Security? Here are the principles I will
bring to this task.
First, anv reform should strengthen and protect Social Security for the 21" Century. We
cannot abandon the basic core program that has been one of the greatest successes in our nation's
history.
Second, we must maintain the universality and fairness of Social Security. For half a
century, this program has been a progressive guarantee for citizens - and we must keep it that
way.
Third. Social Security must provide a benefit that people can count on. Regardless of the
ups and downs of the economy or financial markets, we must make certain that Social Security
will provide a solid and dependable foundation of retirement security.
Fourth. Social Security must continue to provide financial security for disabled and lowincome beneficiaries. We can never forget the 1 out of three Social Security beneficiaries who
are noi retirees.
Fifth, anv strengthening of Social Security must maintain America's hard-won fiscal
di?gipline.
These are the principles that will guide me on Social Security. They are the principles by
which I will judge possible proposals. And they are the principles that I believe can and should
guide the country as we forge a consensus for reform.
I believe this national effort to strengthen Social Security will call on the best in our
people. It will ask us to rise above partisanship and petty politics. It will ask us to plan for the
future, to be willing to consider new ideas ~ to act, as President Roosevelt said, in a spirit of
"bold, persistent experimentation." It will remind us that there are some challenges that can only
be met as one nation through our national government.
To the older Americans here today, I say - you have nothing to worry about. Social
Security is as strong as it has ever been. To my fellow Baby Boomers, I say - we must act now
to provide for ourselves, but even more, to provide for our children. This is a test for our
�generation, and one we should welcome. To younger people, who may believe you will never
see a Social Security check, I say - that skepticism may have been well founded in the past. But
just as we acted as one nation to put our fiscal house in order, America must provide Social
Security for the future. And we will act as one nation, renewing the ties that bind us across the
generations.
I look forward to hearing from all of you.
###
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Principles for Saving
Social Security First
1. Strengthen and protect Social Security for the 21st
century
2. Maintain universality and fairness
3. Provide a benefit people can count on
4. Preserve financial security for disabled and lowincome beneficiaries
5. Maintain fiscal discipline
�Social Security
is more than a Retirement Program:
One-third of Beneficiaries are not Retirees
Retired workers
27 million
\
Disabled workers and
/
dependents
6 million
Spouses and children
' of retired workers
3 million
Survivors of
deceased workers
7 million
�Social Security is a Crucial
Source of Income for the Elderly
Percent of Elderly Beneficiaries
18%
Social Security is principal source
of income (over 50 percent of income)
Social Security is only
source of income
�NUMBER OF WORKERS PER
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFICIARY
�2.0
0.5
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Today
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will be forwarded
�THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS HIN G T O N
April 6, 1998
REMARKS VIA SATELLITE TO THE
REGIONAL CONGRESSIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY FORUMS
DATE:
Tuesday, April 7, 1998
LOCATION: Room 005, Penn Valley Community
College
TIME:
1:00 pm-l:35 pm
FROM:
Larry Stein (f*
I.
PURPOSE
To deliver remarks to five regional congressional Social Security forums.
II.
BACKGROUND
You are delivering remarks via satellite to five regional congressional Social
Security forums located in Philadelphia, PA, Columbia, MD, New Britain, CT,
Tucson, AZ and South Hollan, IL. The Members of Congress that represent these
cities have set up local forums simultaneously with the forum in Kansas City.
Their goal is to engage Americans in a national debate about the future of Social
Security and to provide a framework where citizens can help policy makers
address this issue.
SSA Commissioner Ken Apfel will make opening remarks and you will follow
with your remarks to the five sites. Upon conclusion of your remarks the
Members of Congress will be recognized in tum to make a brief statement. When
the Members of Congress have completed their statements you will make closing
remarks.
Note: The Members of Congress and their audience are only able to hear your
remarks, not the statements made by the other Members of Congress. It is
important that during your closing remarks you re-cap the highlights of the
comments made by all the Members of Congress.
�IH.
PARTICIPANTS
Rep. Robert Borski (D-PA)
JCC Klein Branch Senior Center
Philadelphia, PA
Audience: Approximately 350 senior citizens.
**Rep. Bob Borski serves on the Older American Caucus and on the
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Rep. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Howard Community College
Columbia, MD (Baltimore suburb)
Audience: Approximately 100 people. Open to the public. Guests include,
Carolyn Colvin, Deputy Commissioner of Social Security Administration;
Margaret Dixon, President of AARP; Bob Hannon, Regional Director of Concord
Coalition.
**Rep. Ben Cardin serves on the Budget Committee, and Ways and Means
Committee.
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT)
New Britain Senior Center
New Britain, CT
Audience: Approximately 150 people. Mostly seniors, but open to the public.
**Rep. Nancy Johnson serves on the Ways and Means Committee, the Steering
Committee on Retirement Security, and is Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus
for Women's Issue.
Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
Buena High School
Tucson, AZ
Audience: Approximately 300 people. Mostly high school seniors, but open to
the public.
**Rep. Jim Kolbe serves on the Appropriations Committee, and is Co-Chair of
the Public Pension Reform Caucus.
Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Hollan Home Retirement Center
South Hollan, IL (South Chicago)
Audience: Approximately 200 seniors citizens.
**Rep. Jerry Weller serves on the Social Security Subcommittee of Ways and
Means.
�IV.
PRESS PLAN
None
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Ken Apfel makes one to two minutes of remarks and introduces the
President.
The President makes five minutes of remarks and acknowledges each
Member of Congress in alphabetical order:
(One minute of remarks each)
Rep. Bob Borski (D-PA)
Rep. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT)
Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
After the five Members of Congress speak consecutively, the President
remarks on all comments and closes.
VI.
REMARKS
To be provided by Speechwriting.
VII.
ATTACHMENTS
None.
�Draft 4/6/98 6:30pm
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
TALKING POINTS FOR
SOCIAL SECURITY SATELLITE FORUMS
KANSAS CITY, MO
April 7, 1998
Good afternoon. This morning I had a chance to talk to a group of people here in Kansas
City about what we must do as a nation to strengthen Social Security for the 21st Century, and I
am looking forward to continuing that talk with you today. I want to start by thanking
Congresswoman Nancy Johnson, and Congressmen Robert Borski. Ben Cardin. Jim Kolbe [coalbee], and Jerry Weller. for holding these town hall meetings across the country.
In addition to hosting these forums, Congressmen Borski and Congressman Cardin are
co-sponsors of key legislation to establish the Save Social Security First Reserve Fund, and
Congressman Borski also supports using any budgetary surplus to invest in the Social Security
program. Congresswoman Johnson has been a strong advocate for Social Security beneficiaries,
and she has urged her fellow Members of Congress to continue to act with fiscal restraint as they
debate what to do with the budget surplus. Congressman Kolbe is one of our foremost experts
on retirement and pension policy, and is the sponsor of a resolution to establish a Joint
Commission on Social Security Reform. And Congressman Weller has been a powerful voice
for protecting the Social Security Trust Fund, and was an original co-sponsor of the Social
Security Preservation Act. Together, you are proving that we can work together in a bipartisan
way to make sure that Social Security is as solid for our children as it was for our parents.
As you know, this year, working together with Congress, we took an historic step to
balance the budget for the first time in 30 years. We have a right to be proud of that
achievement — and we must build on it. In my State of the Union Address, I called on Congress
to set aside every penny of any budget surplus until we Save Social Security First.
Social Security is deeply woven into our nation's social fabric. For 60 years, it has meant
more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our
deepest values - and the duty we owe to one another.
Today, 44 million Americans depend upon Social Security. For two thirds of senior
citizens, it is the main source of income. And one out of three beneficiaries are the children and
spouses of working people who die in their prime, and people with disabilities.
For now, Social Security is sound. But changes in the way we live and work will erode
its foundations in the future. Over the next 30 years, 76 million baby boomers will retire. By
2030, there will be twice as many elderly Americans as today. And if we don't act now, the
Social Security Trust Fund will be depleted by then, and payroll contributions will only cover 75
percent of benefits.
That is why I have challenged our nation to act now to strengthen Social Security for the
21st Century. Here are my principles for meeting this challenge:
�First, any reform should strengthen and protect Social Security for the 21st Century. We
cannot abandon the basic core program that has been one ofthe greatest successes in our nation's
history.
Second, we must maintain the universality and fairness of Social Security. For half a
century, this program has a been a guarantee for every citizen - and we must keep it that way.
Third. Social Security must provide a benefit that people can count on. Regardless of the
ups and downs ofthe economy or financial markets, we must make certain that Social Security
will provide afoundationof retirement security.
Fourth. Social Security must continue to provide financial security for disabled and lowincome beneficiaries. We can never forget the one out of three Social Security beneficiaries who
are not retirees.
Fifth, any strengthening of Social Security must maintain America's hard-won fiscal
discipline.
These are the principles that will guide me on Social Security. They are the principles by
which I will judge possible proposals. And they are the principles that I believe can and should
guide us as we forge a national consensus for reform.
Above all. I believe we will strengthen Social Security only if we reach across lines of
party, philosophy, and generation - with open minds and generous spirits. For far too long,
politicians have called Social Security the "third rail of American politics." This year we must
prove them wrong. I know that on the political calendar, 1998 is an election year. But on the
social security calendar, let's resolve that 1998 will be an education year ~ a year we come to
grip with the problems of the system, and come together to find the answers.
These forums are a very hopeful beginning ~ and I am very pleased to have this chance to
start this vitally important dialogue with all of you here today. This December, we will host a
White House conference on Social Security. And in January, I will convene the leaders of
Congress to draft a plan to save Social Security. I am confident that we will meet this challenge
as Americans always do — by working together, honoring our values, and preserving the solemn
compact between generations that helped build our nation.
And now, I'd like to turn the discussion over to Congressman Borski.
�THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 6, 1998
SOCIAL SECURITY CONVERSATION AT THE
AARP-CONCORD COALITION FORUM IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
DATE:
LOCATION:
TIME:
FROM:
I.
April?, 1998
Gymnasium
Penn Valley Community College
3201 Southwest Traffic Way
Kansas City, MO
Pre-Brief (1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
Event (2:10 p.m. -3:00 p.m.)
Gene Sperling
PURPOSE
To listen and respond to participants at the AARP-Concord Coalition forum on Social
Security.
II.
BACKGROUND
This conversation is the final part of the forum on Social Security co-sponsored by the
Concord Coalition and the American Association of Retired People. Along with
congressional representatives of both parties, you will already have addressed the opening
session of the forum. The audience will then have engaged in a discussion of various
reform options with experts in the field and journalists. This final session is designed to
let the audience interact with you, the congressional representatives, and the experts.
This session is meant to be an informal conversation and Q&A with the audience. Gwen
Ifill, who will moderate the session, will begin by summarizing the previous session and
then go to the audience for a question. You may field any question, but should feel free
to bounce a question to a member of Congress or one of the experts - all of whom will be
seated on stage with you. The congressional representatives are the same as in the
opening session: Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE),
Congressman Kenny Hulshof (R-MO), and Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) ~ all of
whom were selected by the congressional leadership. The experts are Marilyn Moon,
Gary Burtless, Fred Goldberg, and David Walker ~ see background information in your
trip book. Journalists Matt Miller and Susan Dentzer will be in the audience with
microphones to locate questioners.
�III.
PARTICIPANTS
Event
POTUS
Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE)
Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Congressman Kenny Hulshof (R-MO)
Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
Marilyn Moon
Gary Burtless
Fred Goldberg
David Walker
180 participating audience members who have been selected by a marketing research firm
to represent the region around Kansas City.
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Open Press
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Off-stage announcement of the President, accompanied by Senator Rick
Santorum, Senator Bob Kerrey, Representative Earl Pomeroy, and Representative
Kenny Hulshof. The panelists will already be seated on stage.
Gwen Ifill will go to the audience for the first question and pose it to you.
After your response, Ifill will continue to pose questions from the audience to
you, the congressmen, or the experts.
At the end, Ifill will thank you and offer you an opportunity to sum up the day's
proceedings.
VI.
REMARKS
None necessary.
�O V E R V I E W FOR T H E SOCIAL SECURITY FORUM
'
April 7,1998
The Forum is currently scheduled to run from 11:00 am-3:00 pm at Penn Valley Community
College in Kansas City, Missouri on Tuesday, April 7.
STAGING
Audience is seated theater-style in a semi-circle in front of stage on flat gymnasium floor
Main stage is 24" above floor
Two 10' x 15' video screens flank the stage
180 participating audience members sit front and center, and are lit
500 observer audience members are seated behind the 180 and on the wings
AUDIENCE. The Concord Coalition and AARP have selected a demographically-representative
audience of 180 individuals who will ask questions and participate in the forum.
•
At 9:00 am, prior to the forum, Tim Penny, John Rother and Ken Apfel will brief
this portion of the audience (closed-press)
•
An observer audience of roughly 500 will be ticketed.
BASIC FORMAT
Welcomes. The forum opens at 10:50 am with very brief welcomes:
Horace Deets (AARP)
Martha Phillips (Concord Coalition)
Carolyn Lukensmeyer (Americans Discuss Social Security)
Dr. Wayne Giles (Chancellor of the Metropolitan Community Colleges District)
Local Congresswortian Karen McCarthy
There will then be a two-minute video of "people-on-the-street" discussing Social Security
I.
•
First Session (11:00-12:05) - Remarks
Gov. Mel Camahan will introduce the President, who will speak for 15 minutes
•
Gov. Camahan will then return to the podium to introduce the four members of Congress selected by the leadership — who each will speak:
Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE)
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-MO)
•
Gov. Camahan will then close the session
II.
President's Activities During Second Session (12:00-2:00)
The President will be down from 12:00-12:45 (television in hold to watch forum)
Brief from 12:45-1:00 in preparation for satellite feed
�Satellite feeds. From 1:05-l :35, POTUS will conduct a satellite feed to five Social
Security town meetings sponsored by members of Congress in their districts. Allfivetown
meetings will be hooked up at once.
Social Security Administrator Ken Apfel will introduce the President
President will speak for 5 minutes
Each member of Congress will then give 1-2 minute comments:
Rep. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Rep. Robert Borski (D-PA)
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT)
Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
President will then close
•
Following the satellite feed, the President will be briefed from 1:40-2:00 on the panel
discussion that was taking place on stage
Second Session (12:15-1:50) — Presentation and Panel [no POTUS involvement]
Following a short break, the session will open with two brief videos produced by Concord
and AARP. The format will then proceed as follows:
Audience conversation of values of Social Security
•
moderators: Matt Miller and Susan Dentzer (both of US News & World Report)
Overview of major reform options
•
presenters: Miller and Dentzer
Panel discussion on pros and cons of the major reform options, followed by audience
participation with the panel
•
moderator: Gwen Ifill of NBC News (Miller and Dentzer in audience)
•
panelists:
Marilyn Moon (Urban Institute)
Gary Burtless (Brookings Institution)
Fred Goldberg (Skadden Arps; finr. Director of Kerrey-Danforth Comm.)
David Walker (Arthur Andersen; fmr. trustee of Soc. Sec. Trust Fund)
III.
•
Third Session (2:10-3:00) - Conversation on Social Security
After a break, Ifill will moderate a Social Security conversation with the President, the four
members of Congress (Kerrey, Santorum, Pomeroy, and Hulshof), and the four expert
panelists (Moon, Burtless, Walker, and Goldberg).
Ifill will open with question from audience for the President
•
Staging. The President will be seated at the point of a V-shaped tableflankedby the
panelists to stage left and the members of Congress to stage right. Ifill will be on the floor,
and Miller and Dentzer will be in the audience to locate questioners.
•
At the end of this session, Ifill will provide an opportunity for the President to close the
forum with his thoughts.
�CONGRESSIONAL FACT SHEET: SENATOR RICK SANTORUM (R-PA)
Committees:
•
Aging
•
Agriculture,Nutrition, and Forestry
•
Rules & Administration
•
Senator Lott recently appointed Senator Santorum Co-Chair of the Senate Task Force
on Social Security. Senator Santorum will chair the Task Force with Senator Judd
Gregg (R-NH). Five other Republican Senators serve as members of the Task Force;
Abraham (MI), Collins (ME), Gorton (WA), Kyi, (AZ), and Roth (DE).
Social Security, Savings, or Pension Legislation: Bills Sponsored
lh
In the 105 Congress through March 30, 1998, Senator Santorum has sponsored no
Social Security solvency or national savings bills of interest. He has indicated that he
will have a solvency proposal shortly.
Bills Co-Sponsored
S.2, Roth: Bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for
American families. The bill includes provisions for increasing availability of Individual
Retirement Accounts.
S.883, Gregg: Bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage savings and
investment through individual retirement accounts, to provide pension security,
portability, and simplification and for other purposes.
Senator Santorum's Social Security Reform Positions
Although he has not put forward his own formal proposal. Senator Santorum has
indicated his support for reducing the 12.4 percent wage tax to 7.4 percent for all workers
under 50. Those workers would then invest the other 5 percent in mutual funds or other
pension investment vehicles. Upon reaching 65, a worker would be required to use the
investment accounts to purchase an annuity. If the worker's investment account were
greater than the sum needed to purchase an annuity equal to current law Social Security
payments, they would be able to keep the difference. If their investment plan fell short,
the government would make up the difference. He is studying several proposals for
reducing the payroll tax on younger workers by 1 percent but has not decided on a plan
yet. [As reported in the Harrisburg Patriot News March 31, 1998.]
�Notes
"Santorum knows the consequences of being accused of being a foe of Social Security.
In 1994 prior to winning election to the Senate, he told college students that he would
support raising the age for full Social Security benefits to 70, to save money. A blizzard
of attacks on the issue threw his campaign off track and cost him votes." [3/98]
"In the Wolford Senatorial campaign President Clinton singled out Rep. Rick Santorum
as one who wanted to tamper with the retirement for the elderly. Santorum Clinton said,
wants to raise the retirement age to 70 or higher. "Well he can't do that if you don't let
him," Clinton told the crowd." [11/94]
Santorum Quotations on Social Security
Response to President's State of the Union Message (no date)
"Entitlement reform must also be a high priority this year. Without reforms, federal
spending on Social Security and Medicare will take any expected budget surpluses and
quickly tum them into deficits. But reforms must not pass additional burdens to working
families and future generations. Instead, reforms must capitalize on the entrepreneurial
spirit of the American people."
Pressrelease Feb. 3,1998
"Precisely because entitlement reform is one of the most pressing issues confronting the
country
It is imperative that we give serious consideration - now - to viable options,
such as personal investment accounts. Otherwise, we will be forced to resort to
unpalatable ones, such as increasing taxes or cutting benefits..."
"
if the President would like us to safeguard the anticipated budgetary surplus until
we have reformed Social Security, the new spending he calls for in his current FY1999
budget would quickly erode any such surplus. We need a budget that respects the
agreement so carefully reached last summer
so that we can realize the original goals of
that agreement: lower taxes and the start of serious entitlement reform."
Philadelphia Inquirer Story "Substitute for Social Security" Jan. 21, 1998
"Younger workers should be required to invest more of their money in individual
retirement plans and less in Social Security, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum said yesterday.
Santomm proposed diverting 80% of the combined employee-employer contributions
into individual investments."We should give people the opportunity to invest in their own
future
We're going to fall off a cliff, demographically ... You can redesign the system
all you want. It will not work. At some point people are going to lose out a little on what
they're owed. Most of the industrialized nations have realized the jig is up, that they
cannot afford the Social Security system."
�CONGRESSIONAL' FACT SHEET: SENATOR ROBERT KERREY (D-NE)
Committee Assignments
•
Committee on Finance; Subcommittees on Health Care, International Trade, and
Taxation and IRS Oversight
•
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Subcommittees on Production
and Price Competitiveness (Ranking Member) and on Marketing, Inspection, and
Product Promotion
•
Select Committee on Intelligence (Ranking Member)
Legislation
Senator Kerrey has been an active participant in the Social Security reform debate and
has co-sponsored several pieces of reform legislation (including S. 825 in the 104th
Congress, which he co-sponsored with Senator Simpson). The Moynihan plan, which
Senator Kerrev co-sponsored, is the most recent bill supported bv Senator Kerrey and
provides the most accurate indication of hi? current thinking•
Cosponsored S. 1792, the Social Security Solvency Act of 1998. Introduced by
Senator Moynihan (D-NY), the Act would return Social Security to a pay-as-you-go
system by reducing payroll taxes. In addition, the Act would increase the taxable
wage base, reduce annual COLA's to CPI minus 1 percentage point, increase the
retirement age to'70 by 2073, eliminate the retirement earnings test, and create
voluntary retirement savings accounts.
The net effect of the OASDI provisions in the plan is to reduce lifetime Social
Security benefits by about 30 percent. For those who contribute the full amounts to
voluntary individual accounts over an entire working lifetime, total benefits
(including the annuity provided by the individual account) under the
Moynihan/Kerrey plan could be close to current law. But for those who choose not to
contribute to the voluntary individual accounts — who are likely to be
disproportionately from the lower and middle classes — their Social Security benefits
will be reduced by roughly 30 percent with no offset from an individual account. For
this reason, Henry Aaron called the plan the "My Lai" of Social Security reform.
•
Cosponsored S. 425. to establish a Cost-of-Living Board to provide for an accurate
determination of the cost of living. This legislation was introduced by Senator Roth.
•
Consponsored S. Res. 50. to express the sense of the Senate that all cost-of livingadjustments required bv statute should accurately reflect the best available estimate of
changes in the cost of living. This resolution was introduced by Senator Roth.
�Statements
'
In a September 17, 1997 speech entitled Who Owns America?, Senator Kerrey spoke at
length about his vision for Social Security:
"First, what I would do would be to reduce the employee share of the Social Security
payroll tax by 2 percentage points and place the savings in personal investment plans ... I
proposed in the past to do this and we proposed as well to pay for this change while
permanently solving the Social Security solvency problem by bringing the Consumer
Price Index in line with the true cost-of-living, indexing the eligibility age for Social
Security to life expectancy, and a handful of other modest, arcane, and difficult-todescribe changes.
"Second, let's take a tenth of one percent of what we collect in payroll tax, which is about
$4 billion a year and open a $1000 investment account for each of the approximately 4
million babies bom each year in America, and what leads to that conclusion again is the
understanding that the most important variable is the length of time over which savings
occurs. It is that length of time that matters.
"Third, let's take the $500 per child tax credit that was just enacted, make it available to
every American child, and require that it be placed in the child's investment account for
the first five years. Now you may not like any of these changes, but I'm offering them to
suggest to you that there's an easy answer to the problem of the rich getting rich and the
poor getting poor, and that if you think that the problem that needs to be solved, only
through long term savings, are we going to be able to solve. These three changes alone
would give every Afnerican the chance to own a piece of their country."
�CONGRESSIONAL FACT SHEET: CONGRESSMAN EARL POMEROY (D-ND)
Committee Assignments and Caucus Memberships
•
Committee on Budget
•
Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittees on Forestry, Resource Conservation, and
Research and on Risk Management and Specialty Crops
•
Member of the Public Pension Reform Caucus, a group formed in August 1995 by
Congressmen Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) and Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) "to provide Members
of Congress and their staff a bipartisan forum to discuss, research, and examine the
problems confronting the Social Security program and the various options for reform"
•
Member of the New Democrat Coalition, a group formed in late 1996 by
Congressmen Cal Dooley (CA), Jim Moran (VA), and Tim Roemer (IN) and which
describes itself as "moderate lawmakers who have pushed a pro-growth agenda of
fiscal responsibility and education reform"
Legislation and Other Activities
Introduced H.R. 3503. the Retirement Account Portability (RAP) Act of 1998 March 19.
1998. The RAP Act would remove some of the impediments to pension portability by
easing "roll-overs" among private, non-profit, and state and local government pension
plans, by permitting after-tax contributions to be included in such roll-overs, and by
reducing current vesting requirements for employer contributions from five to three years.
Gene Sperling advocated passage of RAP Act this year at Congressman Pomeroy's press
conference to announce the bill's introduction.
Original cosoonsor of H.R. 1656. the Secure Assets For Employees (SAFE) Plan Act of
1997 The SAFE Act - introduced by Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R-CT) - would
permit certain employers to establish and maintain a SAFE annuity (an individual
retirement annuity) or a SAFE trust (a trust forming part of a defined benefit plan), both
to be funded by the employer.
Appointed bv the President to serve as a delegate to the National Summit on Retirement
Savings to be held June 4 and 5 of this vear. Mandated by the SAVER Act, the
National Summit is designed to increase public awareness about retirement savings by
providing information about the types of pension plans that are available. Congressman
Pomeroy was a cosponsor of the House version of the SAVER Act.
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Co-hosted the House Democratic Caucus "alternative" hearing on Social Security on
March 30. 1998. Franklin Raines, Henry Aaron, Hans Reimer (2030 Center), Max
Richtman (National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare), and four
citizens (all of whom were receiving Social Security in one form or another) testified at
�the event.
Statements
In his written testimony for the April 1, 1998 Ways & Means hearing on Congressman
Archer's National Commission bill (H.R. 3546), Congressman Pomeroy stated: "Social
Security is simply the most important and most successful program ever undertaken by
the federal government. Saving the budget surplus to preserve this program must be our
highest priority."
He has expressed reservations about a commission: " I do believe, ... that we must think
long and hard before deciding that a commission, rather than the Congress itself led by
this able Committee, is the best body to develop bipartisan recommendations on Social
Security's future."
In addition, he sharply criticized Congressman Kasich's bill to devote surpluses to
individual accounts (H.R. 3456). Congressman Pomeroy described the bill as "counter to
the Save Social Security First pledge and the aim of comprehensive reform." Moreover,
"We must also remember where the budget surplus Mr. Kasich would spend this year will
come from ~ from excess reserves in the Social Security Trust Fund. So what he is really
proposing to do is to take money out of the current Social Security program -- with all its
strengths for American families -- to initiate an untested experiment in individual
accounts. This plan is quite simply the beginning of the end of Social Security as we
know it."
In his written testimony for a Senate Labor Committee hearing on March 17, 1998,
Congressman Pomeroy stated: "As we debate the reforms necessary to solidify the longterm financing of the program, we must remember the relationship between Social
Security and the private pension system. ... Plain common sense tells us that with
workers being asked to assume more risk in the private pension system now is not the
time to dump substantial additional risk on them through the public pension system.
Instead, we must preserve Social Security's defined benefit safety net." The
Congressman made similar remarks before the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Social
Security last year.
�CONGRESSIONAL FACT SHEET: CONGRESSMAN KENNY HULSHOFF (R9 MO)
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Committees
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Member, Ways & Means, Social Security Sub-Committee
Social Security views
Congressman Hulshof is a freshman member. During his 1996 campaign, he advocated
repeal of the income taxes on benefits paid by higher income seniors on Social Security
benefits that had been enacted in 1983, and expanded in 1993.
Mr. Hulshoff s statements in hearings on Social Security suggest he wants to move
cautiously. At one hearing, he said it was important to discuss options for fixing Social
Security in a non-emotional manner. He has discussed the Chilean system in hearings,
but in a questioning manner. For example, he noted that the Chilean people had no
confidence in their prior Social Security system and were ready for radical change. He
expressed doubt that the American people were ready for radical changes in their Social
Security system.
Mr. Hulshoff has also expressed concern about how people might invest monev placed in
private accounts. He wondered whether it would be invested wisely and what would have
to be done for individuals who do not.
He has not signed on as a co-sponsor to anv Social Security solvency legislation.
�PANELIST FACT SHEET:
GARY BURTLESS
Current Position
Senior Fellow (Economic Studies), The Brookings Institution. Research interests include
publicfinance,aging, saving, labor markets, income distribution, social insurance, and
various other areas.
He is current writing a book entitled Privatizing Social Security: The Troubling Tradeoffs, with Barry Bosworth. The book is expected out this year.
Previous Positions
Before joining the Brookings Institution, Burtless was an economist with both the United
States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the United States Department
of Labor. He was a consultant with the World Bank from 1990 to 1997, and he has been a
consultant for the Social Security Administration since 1986.
He received his A.B. from Yale University in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1977.
Social Security Views
Burtless appears to hold a moderate position on Social Security reform, arguing that the
focus should be on improving the rate of return to younger workers and increasing
national savings, not whether the system is "privatized."
Quotations on Social Security
"Any transition to a private system must overcome a major financial hurdle, liability to
workers who are already retired or who will retire soon...Claimed economic advantages
of privatization can be obtained in either a public or a private retire system; however, in
either case, a short-term consumption sacrifice is needed." [3/97]
A higher rate of return "can be achieved within the current public system by raising
contributions and investing in assets that earn better returns or by introducing a new
private retirement system with individual investment accounts." [3/97]
"It is 'administratively feasible' to require workers and/or their employers to make
contributions to individual retirement accounts....From both an administrative and an
enforcement standpoint, it would make sense to have SSA (or some affiliate of SSA)
collect and invest contributions if the contributory requirement is small (less than 3
percent of covered pay." [2/98]
�PANELIST FACT SHEET:
FRED GOLDBERG
Current Position
Goldberg has been a partner with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Fiom LLP since
1993. He was previously a partner at Skadden, Arps from 1984 to 1986.
Previous Positions
Before rejoining Skadden, Arps, Goldberg held a variety of executive positions and
policy making roles in the Federal government. In 1992, he was the Assistant Secretary
for Tax Policy at the Department of the Treasury. From 1989 to 1992, he was the
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Goldberg also served as Chief
Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service.
Goldberg was the executive director of the Kerrev-Danforth Entitlement Commission.
Social Security Views
According to several sources, Goldberg's views can be inferred from his position as
executive director of the Kerrey-Danforth commission, which recommended modest
individual accounts.
�PANELIST FACT SHE^ET:
DAVID M. WALKER
Current Position
David M. Walker is Partner and Global Managing Director of the Human Capital
Services Practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. He is also a member of the National
Commission on Retirement Policy (a bipartisan commission, comprising leaders from the
public and private sectors, to address the retirement financing challenge).
He is an expert on the relationship of private pension and health insurance programs to
the Federal social insurance programs.
Previous Positions
Walker was a public trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds from 19901295.
He has also served on the Working Group of the Public Trustees, as Assistant Secretary
of Labor at the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration of the Department of Labor
(1985-89), as Acting Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (1983-85).
Mr. Walker is the author of Retirement Security: Understanding and Planning Your
Financial Future, published in October 1996 by John Wiley & Sons of New York.
Social Security Views
At the February 26, 1998, hearing before the House Committee on Ways and Means,
Subcommittee on Social Security, Mr. Walker served as a panel witness. He made
several recommendations:
— Social Security reform should be comprehensive and should occur sooner, rather than
later.
— Increasing the retirement age should be seriously considered.
~ The retirement earnings test should be modified further.
— Any changes to preserve Social Security should be gradual, in order to permit both
employees and employers time to adapt.
Another source has indicated that he is in favor of modest individual accounts, although
we were not able to confirm this view.
�PANELIST FACT SHEET:
MARILYN MOON
Current Position
Dr. Moon serves as one of two public trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust
funds. She is also Economist and Senior Fellow in Health Policy, The Urban Institute.
Previous Positions
Prior to her position at the Urban Institute, Dr. Moon served as the founding Director of
the Public Policy Institute of the American Association of Retired Persons. She has also
worked as a Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, Associate Professor of
Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and as a consultant to the U.S.
Bipartisan Commission for Comprehensive Health Care (the Pepper Commission).
Social Security Views
Moon is a strong advocate of the Social Security program.
In the 1996 book she co-authored. Entitlements and the Elderly: Protecting Promises,
Recognizing Realities, suggestions for entitlement reform include:
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A dollar limit on the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment rather than across-theboard reductions in the COLA;
•
Accelerating the process of raising the eligibility age for full Social Security benefits
(and raising the normal retirement age to 68).
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Moon and her co-authord reject the notion of drastic measures: "it is good policy and
politics to make changes in stages."
Quotations on Social Security
".. .some proponents of changing Social Security into a system of private accounts that
individuals control argue that this is the only way to generate sufficient resources to meet
future needs. This is not so. A wide range of options can resolve thefinancingproblems;
deciding whether to move to a whole new approach ought to be debated on its own merits
rather than on the claim that no other option can work" [10/97]
"...emphasize the importance of Social Security in the lives of most of the nation's
elderly, and how many elderly still subsist at below poverty levels. Any future changes
in the program must protect the most vulnerable ("Entitlements and the Elderly").
�MODERATOR FACTSHEET:
SUSAN DENTZER
Chief Economics Correspondent and Columnist. US. News & Work Report
Biography
Dentzer began her journalistic career with Newsweek and joined U.S. News in 1987. She
is a frequent guest on such T.V. programs as "Nightline, The McLaughlin Group, and
Washington Week in Review", and is a featured analyst on "Frontline". She is a
commentator on the American Public Radio show "Marketplace" and other radio shows
across the U.S. A specialist in the coverage of the economics of health care Susan
Dentzer covered the President's health care initiative extensively.
In her regular column "On the Economy," Ms. Dentzer has written a number of times on
Social Security. She seems to take a balanced approach to the issue, but does expresses a
great deal on concern regarding the impact of reform on low-income workers and
minorities.
MODERATOR FACTSHEET:
MATT MILLER
Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report
Biography
Matt Miller is a nationallly syndicated columnist, and a regular commentator for National
Public Radio's Morning Edition. Miller has written for the New Republic, Washington
Post, New York Times, New Yorker and the Washington Mongthly, and served as served
as a senior advisor to the director of OMB from 1993 to 1995.
MODERATOR FACTSHEET:
GWEN IFILL
Correspondent, NBC News
Biography
Gwen Ifill covers political issues for "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw", "Today", and
"Meet the Press."
She went to NBC from the New York Times, where she was the Congressional
Correspondent and was a White House Correspondent. Prior to the Times, Ifill worked
for the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun and the Boston Herald American.
She is a frequent guest on "Washington Week In Review"
�THE WHITE H O U S E
WASH INGTON
April 6, 1998
PHOTO WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY DEBATE TEAM
DATE:
LOCATION:
TIME:
FROM:
I.
Tuesday, April 7, 1998
Kansas City International Airport
5:15 pm
Maria Echave
Christine Stanek *
PURPOSE
To acknowledge the success of this local debate team who in 1997 won both the Cross
Examination Debate Association and National Debate Tournament Championships. The
first team in history to win both tournaments in the same year.
II.
BACKGROUND
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UMKC scrapped their debate team in the early 70s during a budget crunch but decided to
revive the program in 1986. The debate teamfinished47th out of 250 in their first year
and has ben ranked in the "National Top Ten" nine of the eleven years. This team has won
four national championships in the past four years and has wonfivenational
championships in the team's eleven year history. The team's outstanding eleven year
history was featured in People magazine in the September 29, 1997 issue.
The UMKC debate team has an African American and two women as members of their
team which is highly unusual in the predominately white male sport of debate. Last year's
team captain was African American who also won the individual Debate championship
sponsored by HBCU. He now serves as the team's assistant coach.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Pre-brief Participants
Pre-brief not necessary
Event Participants:
Debate team members and their coaches.
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Open Press
�V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
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You greet the participants and pose for a group photo.
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VI.
You will meet the participants on the tarmac at the Airport
You depart to Air Force One
REMARKS
None required.
VII.
ATTACHMENTS
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Debate team members and coaching staff
�ATTACHMENT I
University of Missouri-Kansas City Debate Team
Coaching Staff:
Linda Collier, Director of Debate
David Kingston, Assistant Director
Myron King, Assistant Coach
Eric Jenkins, Assistant Coach
Debate Team Members;
Jennifer Barker
Mathew Baisley
Scott Betz
Joshua Coffman
Casie Collignon
Tommy Curry
Stephen Green
Laurie Stites
Benjamin White
Adam Whyte
�THE W H I T E H O U S E
WA S H I N G T O N
April 6. 1998
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Craiiz Smith and Linda Moore. Political Affairs
SUBJECT:
Missouri Politics
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS
1992
Clinton
Bush
Perot
1,053.873
811,159
518,741
44%
34%
22%
1996
Clinton
Dole
Perot
1.025.935
890,016
217,188
47%
41%
10%
POLITICAL DATA
Governor:
Senate:
House:
Electoral Votes:
Mel Carnahan (D), 57% in 1996
Christopher (Kit) Bond (R), 52% in 1992
John Ashcroft (R), 60% in 1994
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MISSOURI A T A G L A N C E . . .
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1996 estimated population is 5,359,000, making it the 16th largest state in the country.
31% ofthe state is rural.
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87% of Missourians are white, 11% are African American, 1.2% are Hispanic, and 1%
are Asian.
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56% of Missouri households are married couples. 26% are married couples with children.
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Per capita income is $12,989. Median household income is $26,362.
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14% of Missouri residents are 65 or older.
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41 % of Missouri residents are college educated.
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54% of Missouri's voting age population voted in the 1996 elections, compared to 62%
in 1992.
1996 ELECTION RESULTS
The strong showing by you and Governor Carnahan (D), who defeated State Auditor Margaret
Kelly by a 57%-43% margin, helped secure reelection for all Democrats running on the statewide
�ticket, two of whom were considered to be very vulnerable. At the congressional level, the
Republicans picked up one seat. Rep. Harold Volkmer (D) was defeated in a rematch with
prosecutor Kenny Hulshof (R) by a 52%-48% margin. The House seat left vacant by the death
of Rep. Bill Emerson (R) was won by his wife. Jo Ann Emerson, who ran as an Independent after
she missed the filing deadline for the Republican primary. Rep. Mel Hancock"s (R) retirement
in a solidly Republican district gave the delegation another freshman Republican member. Rep.
Roy Blunt (R). Democrats in the state legislature held their healthy majorities in both Houses.
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
The Republicans currently hold a 6-5 edge in the congressional delegation. The delegation for
the 105th Congress is listed below.
Senator Christopher "Kit'' Bond (R)
Rep. William Clay (D)
Rep. Richard Gephardt (D)
Rep. Karen McCarthy (D)
Rep. Roy Blunt (R)
Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R)
Senator John Ashcroft (R)
Rep. James Talent (R)
Rep. Ike Skelton (D)
Rep. Pat Danner (D)
Rep. Joanne Emerson (R)
The senior Senator from Missouri is Sen. Christopher (Kit) Bond (R), who was first elected to
the Senate in 1986. Sen. Bond was reelected in 1992 with only 52% of the vote. Sen. Bond
previously served as Missouri's governor. He was first elected governor in 1972, and was
defeated for reelection in 1976 only to come back in 1980 and win the governor's race again. He
was the chief Republican sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act. He is up for reelection
in 1998. Senator Bond (R) sits on the Appropriations, Budget. Environment & Public Works, and
Small Business committees.
The junior Senator from Missouri is Sen. John Ashcroft (R), who was first elected in 1994 with
60% ofthe vote. Previously, he was elected governor in 1984 and 1988. Senator Ashcroft (R)
sits on the Commerce, Science & Transportation, Foreign Relations, and Judiciary committees.
Senator Ashcroft (R) is considering a bid for president in 2000 and is courting the radical right
members of his party. He has been your most outspoken critic in the past two months.
Kansas City is represented by Rep. Karen McCarthy (D), who was first elected in 1994 with
57%. She won reelection to Congress 1996 with 67%. Prior to serving in the Congress, she was
chairman of Missouri House Ways and Means Committee and President of the National
Conference of Legislatures in 1994. She serves on the Commerce Committee.
The other representative from Kansas City is Rep. Pat Danner (D), who was first elected in 1992
when she defeated 16-year incumbent Republican Tom Coleman 55%-45%. She won reelection
in 1994 with 66% and in 1996 with 69%. Rep. Danner served in the Missouri Senate from 198292. She now serves on International Relations and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees
in the U.S. House.
As mentioned above. Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R) was elected to his first term in 1996, defeating
incumbent Harold Volkmer by less than 6,000 votes. Rep. Hulshof sits on the House Ways and
Means Committee.
�1998 ELECTIONS
Senator Bond (R). who won election to a second term in 1992 with onh 55°u while outspending
his opponent 4-1. is vulnerable in 19)S due to the man\ negative stories written in the past four years
about his divorce, the alleged squandering ot'his family fortune, and alcohol abuse. All ofthe state's
top elected Democrats, w ith the exception of Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver and Rep. Bill
Clay, have coalesced around Attorney General Jay Nixon (D). the state's highest vote-getter in the
1996 elections. Cleaver believes that Bond has been a very effective champion for Kansas City in
Washington, and has dev eloped a friendship w ith him over the years. Nixon is having trouble with
Clay and some other African American community leaders because of his efforts to end state
inv olv ement in desegregation cases. Nixon is working hard to w in the support of these individuals
and has made significant progress. Though he currently lags about ten points behind Bond, this
could be a very close race.
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No changes are expected in the congressional delegation. All incumbents are seeking reelection and.
at this time, appear to be safe. Democrats tried very hard to recruit a strong candidate to run against
Rep. Hulshof. the most vulnerable of group, but all ofthe top prospects for the race declined.
STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICIALS
Governor Mel Carnahan (D)
Secretary of State Rebecca "Bekki" Cook (D)
Treasurer Bob Holden (D)
Lt. Governor Roger Wilson (D)
Auditor Margaret Kelly (R)
Attorney General Jay Nixon (D)
The Governor of Missouri is Gov. Mel Carnahan (D), who was first elected in 1992. Gov.
Carnahan was reelected in 1996 with 57% of the vote. Gov. Carnahan was elected Lt. Gov.
under then-Gov. John Ashcroft in 1988. Prior to that he served as State Treasurer from 1980-84
and served in the State Legislature from 1962-80. He is considering a race for the Senate in 2000
when Senator Ashcroft's current term ends.
Earlier this year, state Democrats already were bracing for a showdown for governor in 2000
between Treasurer Bob Holden (D), Lt. Governor Roger Wilson (D), and Secretary of State
Bekki Cook (D). Last month, Wilson and Cook announced that they would not make the race,
and most top Democrats immediately threw their support to Holden.
STATE UEGISLATURE
House: 88D-75R
Speaker Steve Gaw (D)
Speaker Pro Tem Jim Kreider (D)
House Majority Leader Gracia Backer (D)
Minority Leader Delbert Scott (R)
Senate: 19D-15R
President (Lt. Gov.) Roger Wilson (D)
President Pro Tem Bill McKenna (D)
Majority Leader Ed Quick (D)
Minority Leader Steve Ehlman (R)
Last spring. Gov. Carnahan (D) vetoed a bill to ban partial-birth abortions and set up a September
showdown with lawmakers who approved the bill by wide margins in the Democrat-controlled
House and Senate. Gov. Camahan stated that the bill failed to allow exceptions if a woman's health
was jeopardized, even though a 1992 Supreme Court ruling reiterated that state abortion laws must
do just that. Carnahan said that the lack of such safeguards makes it bad public health policy and
�unconstiuitional. The sponsor ofthe legislation immediateU promised an attempt to override
Carnahan's veto ofthe ban on partial-birth abortion. The veto put Carnahan. who is pro-choice, at
odds with the Legislature's anti-abortion majoritv. which approved tlie ban bv margins adequate to
override Camahan's veto. However, during the September veto session, one Republican switched
sides to sustain Camahan's v eto. Many observers predict that this same scenario w ill play out again
this year, but will end with an override of Camahan's veto since many ofthe legislators are up for
reelection this vear. The current legislative session began in January and will adjourn mid-May.
KANSAS CITV
Emanuel Cleaver I I (D) was first elected mayor in 1991. becoming the first African American
mayor in the city's history. He was reelected in 1995 to a second term as mayor, and also is
serving his second term as president ofthe National Conference of Black Mayors. Rev. Cleaver
founded the Kansas City Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and
is a national board member of the SCLC and the Democratic National Committee. He is termlimited and will be unable to seek reelection in 1999.
HOT ISSUES
Elections. The day of your trip, cities across the state, including Kansas City, will hold elections
for school board. In addition, Kansas City and the rest of the state will vote on a proposed
constitutional amendment which would allow Kansas City to set its property tax rate above the limit
allowed by the state constitution. This ballot measure was put forth because the funds flowing into
the City from the state as part of last year's desegregation settlement will decrease significantly next
year. With no change in Kansas City's property tax rate, the City's school system would soon go
bankrupt and require state takeover. The state's political, business and education leaders are very
involved in the campaign to pass the measure. It is expected to pass with the overwhelming support
of non-Kansas City residents who believe they are unfairly bankrolling Kansas City's "gold-plated"
schools.
HCFA Waiver. As you know. Governor Carnahan is anxious to receive approval for his
children's health waiver proposal. As of this moment, although HCFA has made no final decision,
there is a possibility that Missouri's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be approved.
The Governor will be in Washington on Thursday to meet with Secretary Shalala to discuss this
issue in more detail.
Federal Judges. Last weekend, the Kansas City Star began an expose on federal judges and
conflicts of interest. Of the three judges appointed by you, only Ortrie Smith has received any
criticism from the paper. Gary Fenner and Nanette Laughrey have not been mentioned. The
expose focused on the Reagan and Bush appointees.
Volunteerism. Kansas City will hold on April 25 its follow-up to your Volunteerism Summit.
Former President Bush is scheduled to attend.
STATE PARTY LEADERS
Joe Carmichael is currently serving as chair ofthe Missouri Democratic Party. Janis Londe is
serving as Vice Chair ofthe party. Governor Camahan. who has taken an active role in maintaining
a strong state party, appointed Carmichael to the chairman's post.
�FOR INTERNA L USE ONE Y - NOT FOR DISTRIB UTION
April 6, 1998
ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN MISSOURI UNDER PRESIDENT CLINTON
President Clinton's strategy to strengthen the economy is based on reducing the federal budget deficit, lowering trade
barriers, and empowering workers, families, businesses and communities to succeed. Here are some of the results for
Missouri after the first 63 months ofthe Clinton Administration:
Improved Economic Conditions in Missouri during the Clinton Administration:
• The unemployment rate has dropped from 6.2% to 4.1 %.
• Missouri has added 306,800 new jobs, or 60,354 per year—compared to 15,800 per year during the previous
administration.
• Missouri has added 260,700 new private-sector jobs, or 51,285 per year-compared to 11,175 per year during the previous
administration.
• Missouri has added 8,400 manufacturing jobs, or 1,652 per year-compared to LOSING 7,700 per year during the
previous administration.
• Missouri has added 33,100 new construction jobs, or 6,511 per year-compared to LOSING 1,525 per year during the
previous administration.
• Homebuilding has increased 4% per year - after DECREASING 4% per year during the previous administration.
• Business failures have dropped 4% per year - after INCREASING 7% per year during the previous administration.
• Bank lending has increased by 4% per year - after DECREASING 1% per year during the previous administration.
• Business lending has increased by 2% per year - after DECREASING 3% per year during the previous administration.
• Consumer confidence has increased 114%.
What President Clinton's Accomplishments Have Achieved for the People of Missouri:
$15,000 OF REDUCED FEDERAL DEBT FOR EVERY FAMILY OF FOUR IN MISSOURI: The national debt will
be more than $1 trillion lower over 7 years than was projected before the passage of the President's economic plan. That's
about $15,000 of reduced federal debt for each family of four in Missouri.
14 TIMES MORE MISSOURI FAMILIES RECEIVE A TAX CUT THAN A TAX INCREASE: As a result of the
expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, 294,982 working families in Missouri will receive a tax cut. This compares to an
increase in the income tax rate for only the 21,439 wealthiest taxpayers in Missouri.
TAX CUT FOR 26,226 SMALL BUSINESSES IN MISSOURI: The President helped entrepreneurs, proprietors, and
other small businessmen and women by expanding the annual expending allowance from $10,000 to $17,500. About 26,226
small businesses in Missouri are likely to benefit from the expansion of the expending allowance this year alone and many
more will benefit over the coming years.
921,000 MISSOURI WORKERS PROTECTED BY FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT: The Family and
Medical Leave Act allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for the birth of a child, to care for a sick family
member, or if they become too sick to work. This law covers about 921,185 workers in Missouri, and protects the jobs of
55,350 workers in Missouri who are likely to use unpaid leave this year alone.
336,200 STUDENTS AND FORMER STUDENTS IN MISSOURI WILL BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM
STUDENT LOAN REFORMS: Approximately 336,200 Missouri borrowers ~ 235,300 current borrowers and 100,900
new borrowers in the next few years - can take advantage of the new direct student loan program by participating directly in
the program or by consolidating guaranteed loans into direct loans. Some will benefit from lower interest rates, and all will
benefit from more repayment options, including income contingent repayment.
�EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
WASHINGTON. D C . 20503
April 6, 1998
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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FROM:
KATHLEEN A. McGINTY
RE:
MISSOURI ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
American Heritage Rivers
We have received 126 American Heritage River nominations from communities across the
country. In Missouri, the Upper Mississippi River, Coldwater Creek, Osage River, and Missouri
River have been nominated. However, the Missouri River nomination has been somewhat
controversial. As a result. Rep. Pat Danner (D-MO) has requested that the portion of the
Missouri that flows through her district, located just north of Kansas City, not be considered as
an American Heritage River. As you know, Rep. Danner's objection to the nomination will bar
that particular section of the Missouri from consideration. The mayor of Kansas City, the
Governor, both Senators, and Rep. Karen McCarthy (D-MO), whose district includes Kansas
City, have not taken a public position on the issue.
This week you will sign an executive order establishing an advisory panel to review all the
American Heritage River nominations and recommend up to 20 rivers for designation. You will
select a total of 10 rivers as American Heritage Rivers soon thereafter.
Recycled Paper
�THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS H I N GTO N
April 6. 1998
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
THURGOOD MARSHALL, JR.
JON P. JENNINGS ^ J T ^ J
SUBJECT:
HOT ISSUES-- KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
School Desegregation Settlement and Funding: Under the terms ofthe recently negotiated
settlement of Kansas City's long-running school desegregation suit, court-ordered state pavments
to Kansas City will end next year, possibly creating a severefinancialcrisis for the school
district. The MO Senate on April 1 approved a bill that would pro\ ide the district with S38
million in annual state aid and allow charter schools in Kansas City and St. Louis: Gov ernor
Camahan recently endorsed the bill, but the MO House has not yet voted on it. Also, on April 7.
Missouri residents will vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow Kansas City to
retain its previously court-ordered property tax rate of 4.96 percent, which would revert to 2.75
percent if the proposed amendment were to fail. (DO Ed)
Firefighter Wage Increase Offered: Kansas City's wage offer to its firefighters' union inched
higher Thursday, but a chasm remains between the sides as contract talks continue. City
negotiators offered firefighters a one-year three percent salary increase instead ofthe two percent
originally proposed. This proposal was the first movement on key compensation issues in nearly
two months negotiations with the city's most powerful municipal union. (DOL)
Mayor's Summit: Mayor Cleaver has been spearheading an effort called the Summit of
Mayors to pursue NAFTA trade corridors. A meeting, requested by the Mayor is scheduled with
the Secretary, the Mayor and representatives from Mexico and Canada. The Mayor has strongly
emphasized the importance of this meeting because the Secretary has been unable to attend two
Summit conferences. (DOT)
DBE Decertification: Mabin Construction Company has been decertified as a DBF bv the
Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). The decertification was based on no inierest
loans and the forgiveness of debt by a white owned prime contractor. Thefinancialrelationship
between the two firms has raised questions concerning minority ownership and control of Mabin
Construction. Mr. Mabin has appealed the decertification to the Department. The Mayor is
assisting Mr. Mabin in his quest to remain certified during the DBE appeal process. (DOT)
�Section 1115 Proposal: On September 2. MO submitted a proposed amendment to a pending
section 1115 demonstration waiver request. The proposed demonstration would expand
Medicaid eligibility to all children up to age 19 with incomes between 200 and 300 percent ofthe
Federal Poverty Level (FPL). HHS delivered a draft programmatic Special Terms and
Conditions to the State on April 3 for review and comment. On March 20. HCFA faxed MO a
budget neutrality proposal, which was discussed with the State on March 27. MO was verydissatisfied with the trend rates HHS proposed, but HCFA and the State have agreed on steps to
be taken which will continue negotiations. (HHS)
Children's Health Insurance Program (Title XXI): MO has submitted a Title XXI proposal
which would extend Medicaid coverage to children up to age 19 in families with income up to
200 percent ofthe FPL. The children in the Title XXI program would have access to all
Medicaid benefits, except non-emergency transportation. Together, the section 1115
demonstration and the Title XXI plan would provide Medicaid managed care to all eligible
children in the State with incomes to 300 percent of the FPL. On March 6, HHS sent the State
questions on their Title XXI plan. As of March 31. the State had not yet responded formally to
questions and the clock was stopped on day 62 of the 90-day review clock. (HHS)
School Board Elections: Five members of Kansas City's nine-member school board will be
elected on April 7. There are ten candidates for the five seats. None of the races appear to be
particularly controversial. (DOEd)
�PRESIDENT CLINTON AND VICE PRESIDENT
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
MISSOURI
GORE'S
EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL:
•
Unemployment Down to 3.8%: The unemployment rate in Missouri has declined from 6.2% to 3.8% since 1993.
•
306.800 New Jobs: 306,800 new jobs have been created in Missouri since 1993 -- an average of 61,360 jobs per
year, compared to an average of just 15,800 jobs per year under the previous administration.
•
263.100 New Private Sector Jobs: Since 1993, 263,100 new private sector jobs have been created -- an average
of 52,620 jobs per year, compared to an average of just 11,175 private sector jobs per year in the previous
administration.
•
14.700 New Manu facturing Jobs: 14,700 manufacturing jobs have been created in Missouri since 1993 — an
average of 2,940 jobs per year. In contrast, an average of 7,700 manufacturing jobs were lost each year during
the previous administration.
•
30.600 New Construction Jobs: 30,600 construction jobs have been created in Missouri since 1993 - an average
of 6,120 jobs per year. In contrast, an average of 1,525 construction jobs were lost each year during the previous
administration.
•
215.000 Have Received a Raise: Approximately 111,000 Missouri workers benefited from an increase in the
minimum wage - from $4.25 to $4.75 - on October 1, 1996. They, along with about 104,000 others received an
additional raise -- from $4.75 to $5.15 -- on September 1, 1997.
•
The Poverty Rate Has Fallen: Nationally, the poverty rate has fallen from 15.1% in 1993 to 13.7% in 1996.
Since the President signed his 1993 Economic Plan into law, the nation has seen the largest three year drop in
poverty in a decade. In Missouri, the poverty rate has fallen 6.6% since 1993. [1996 data]
•
A $500 Child Tax Credit to Help Families Raising Children: To help make it easier for families to raise their
children, the balanced budget includes a $500 per-child tax credit for children under 17. Thanks to President
Clinton, the Balanced Budget delivers a child tax credit to 523,000 families in Missouri.
•
Business Failures Down 3.2%: Business failures have dropped 3.2% per year since 1993, after increasing 26.2%
per year during the previous 12 years.
• ffighest Home Ownership Ever: Home Ownership in Missouri has increased from 65.2% to 70.4% since 1992
and it is now the highest on record.
•
Home Building Up 3.5%: Home building has increased by an average of 3.5% per year since 1993, after falling
over 3.8% per year during the previous administration.
•
Over 40.00 of Reduced Federal Debt for Every Family of Four: The national debt will be more than $2.5 trillion
lower in 2002 than was projected before passage of President Clinton's economic plan. That's over $40,000 of
reduced federal debt for each family of four in Missouri.
EXPANDING A CCESS TO EDUCA TION:
•
Over $73.3 Million in Head Start Funding: In FY97, Missouri received $66.8 million in Head Start funding
benefitting 14,900 children. This year, Missouri will receive $73.3, an increase of $6.5 million over 1997.
President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal will increase Head Start funding for Missouri's children by an
additional $5.3 million.
•
S8.4 Million in Goals 2000 Funding: This year [FY98], Missouri receives $8.4 million in Goals 2000 funding.
President Clinton's FY99 budget proposes to increase Goals 2000 funding by an additional $280,000. This
money is used to raise academic achievement by raising academic standards, increasing parental and community
involvement in education, expanding the use of computers and technology in classrooms, and supporting highquality teacher professional development.
•
$7 Million for Technology Literacy : This year [FY98], Missouri receives $7 million for the Technology Literacy
Challenge Fund which helps communities and the private sector ensure that every student is equipped with the
computer literacy skills needed for the 21st century. President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal will raise funding
for technology literacy by nearly $800,000 over FY98.
•
$125.9 Million for Students Most in Need: Missouri receives $125.9 million in Title I Grants (to Local
Education Agencies) providing extra help in the basics for students most in need, particularly communities and
schools with high concentrations of children in low-income families [FY98]. President Clinton's FY99 budget
proposes to increase funding for Title I Grants by $7.9 million to aid Missouri's students.
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$135.7 Million in Pell Grants: This year [FY98], Missouri will receive $135.7 million in Pell Grants for lowincome students going to college, an additional $26.4 million over last year. With this increase, a total of 75,600
Missouri students will benefit, 4,400 more than the previous year. And President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal
increases Pell Grant funding to $140.3 million.
Nearly 1.800 Have Served in Missouri through AmeriCorps: Since the National Service program began in 1993,
nearly 1,800 AmeriCorps participants, working in 198 different programs, have earned money for college while
working in Missouri's schools, hospitals, neighborhoods or parks [through 3/98].
Tuition Tax Credits in Balanced Budget Open the Doors of College and Promote Li felong Learning: The
balanced budget includes both President Clinton's $1,500 HOPE Scholarship to help make the first two years of
college as universal as a high school diploma and a Lifetime Learning Tax Credit for college juniors, seniors,
graduate students and working Americans pursuing lifelong learning to upgrade their skills. This 20% tax credit
will be applied to thefirst$5,000 of tuition and fees through 2002 and to the first $10,000 thereafter. 119,000
students in Missouri will receive a HOPE Scholarship tax credit of up to $1,500. 146,000 students in
Missouri will receive the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit.
FIGHTING CRIME AND VIOLENCE:
•
Crime Falls in Missouri Cities: Since 1992, serious crime has fallen 5% in Kansas City and 5% in St. Louis
[1996 data].
•
7.705 More Police: The President's 1994 Crime Bill has funded 1,705 new police officers to date in communities
across Missouri [through 3/98].
•
$2.6 Million to Combat Domestic Violence: Through the Violence Against Women Act, Missouri used $2.6
million in federal funds last year [FY97] to establish more women's shelters and bolster law enforcement,
prosecution, and victims' services. Missouri received $2.3 million under VAWA in FY96.
•
$1.144.965 in Grants for Battered Women: This year [FY98], Missouri will receive $1,144,965 in HHS's Family
Violence Prevention Program grants to assist women and children fleeing domestic abuse, an additional
$202,000 increase over last year. President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal increases HHS's Family Violence
Prevention Program grants to nearly $1.2 million.
•
$9.5 Million to Keep Drugs & Violence Out of Missouri's Schools: Missouri receives $9.5 million in FY98 for
the Safe & Drug Free Schools Program, which invests in school security and drug prevention programs.
MOVING MISSOURI RESIDENTS FROM WELFARE TO WORK:
•
$1.344 Fewer People on Welfare: There are 81,344 people on welfare in Missouri now than there were at the
beginning of 1993 ~ a 31% decrease [through 9/97].
•
Child Support Collections Up 59%: Child support collections have increased by over $97 million ~ or 59% ~ in
Missouri since FY92 [through FY96].
•
Missouri Receives $20 Million in Welfare-to-Work Grants: In FY98, Missouri will receive $20 million in
welfare-to-work state formula grants, helping Missouri prepare welfare recipients for work and to place them in
jobs. Part of the President's comprehensive efforts to move recipients from welfare to work, this funding is
included in the $3 billion Welfare-to-Work Jobs Challenge Fund signed into law in the 1997 balanced budget.
INVESTING IN MISSOURI'S HEAL TH:
•
Health Care for Uninsured Children: The balanced budget includes the largest single investment in health care
for children since the passage of Medicaid in 1965 - an unprecedented $24 billion over five years to cover as
many as five million children throughout the nation. This investment guarantees the full range of benefits ~ from
checkups to surgery ~ that children need to grow up strong and healthy. It ensures that prescription drugs,
vision, hearing, and mental health coverage now offered at the state level are extended to millions of uninsured
children. To expand health coverage to more uninsured children in Missouri the Balanced Budget provides
$51.7 million in 1998.
•
Helping Missouri Women and Children with WIC: The Clinton Administration is committed to full funding in
the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Last year in Missouri,
12,642 more women and children in need received health and food assistance than in 1994.
March 1998
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More Toddlers Are Being Immunized: As a result of the President's 1993 Childhood Immunization Initiative,
childhood immunization rates have reached an historic high. According to the CDC, 90% or more of
America's toddlers in 1996 received the most critical doses of each of the routinely recommended vaccines surpassing the President's 1993 goal. In Missouri in 1996, 92% of two-year olds received the vaccines for
diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis; 89% received the vaccine for polio; 87% received the vaccine for measles, and
91% received the vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae B, the bacteria causing a form of meningitis.
$6.4 Million in Rvan White Funds: Since President Clinton took office, funding for the Ryan White CARE
Act has increased by 159% nationwide. In FY97, Missouri communities received $3.3 million in Ryan White
formula award funds and $3.1 million in supplemental funds to care for people living with HIV and AIDS.
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT:
•
9 Toxic Waste Sites Cleaned Up: Since 1993, the EPA has completed 9 Superfund toxic waste cleanups in
Missouri, in Ballwin, Imperial, Moscow Mills, Times Beach, Cape Girardeau, Liberty, Springfield, Republic, and
Amazonia [through 1/98]. Only 2 sites were cleaned up during the previous twelve years combined.
•
Revitaliiing 4 Brownfields in Missouri: Part of the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to clean up
Brownfields, the EPA has designated four communities in Missouri ~ Kansas City, St. Louis, Wellston, and
Bonne Terre ~ for environmental clean-up and economic revitalization. These projects are intended to jumpstart local clean-up efforts by providing funds to return unproductive, abandoned, contaminated urban
properties to productive use.
SPEARHEADING URBAN AND RURAL RENEWAL EFFORTS:
•
$28 Million to Kansas City: The Greater Kansas City area was designated an Enterprise Community in
December, 1994, and was awarded $3 million to create more jobs, housing, and economic opportunity for city
residents. It was later declared an Enhanced Enterprise Community and awarded an additional $25 million for
similar efforts.
•
$6 Million to Other Missouri Communities: Additionally, East Prairie and St. Louis were both designated
Enterprise Communities, and were awarded $3 million each to create economic opportunity for area residents.
•
Expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Will Help Develop 3.900 To 4.700 New A ffordable Housing
Units in Missouri Over the Next 5 years. In January, the Vice-President announced the Clinton-Gore
Administration's proposed 40-percent expansion ofthe Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. If enacted, it will mean
an additional 3,900 - 4,700 quality rental housing units for low-income American families in Missouri during the
next five years.
March 1998
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�DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
CHICAGO DINNER
HONORING PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
DATE: Tuesday, April 7,1998
LOCATION: Residence of Lou and Ruth Weisbach
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
FROM: Fran Katz, DNC Finance Director
L
PURPOSE
This is a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.
H.
BACKGROUND
This event is a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. Guests attending
the dinner will become members of the Democratic Business Council.
UL
PARTICIPANTS
Please see attached list of participants.
IV.
PRESS PLAN
The remarks are open to one print reporter and will be audio fed to the pool press.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Call time for guests attending the dinner.
YOU are greeted by DNC Chair Steve Grossman, DNC Finance
Chair Len Barrack, and dinner hosts Lou and Ruth Weisbach.
YOU stage for a photo receiving line
with the guests (35 photos, approximately 70 guests).
YOU are seated at a table for dinner.
Ramsey Lewis performs two songs.
PROGRAM
Steve Grossman delivers remarks and introduces Senator Carol Moseley-Bmun.
Senator Carol Moseley-Braun delivers remarks and introduces Lou Weisbach.
Clinton Library Photocopy
�Lou Weisbach delivers remarks and introduces YOU.
YOU deliver remarks.
YOU depart
VI.
REMARKS
Your remarks are provided by speechwriting.
�DBC Dinner 4/7/98
Acknowledge: Sen. Mosely-Braun: Sen. Durbin:
Len Barrack [BARE-eck] (Natl,financeChair);
Steve Grossman; Gary LaPaiik_[La-Pell],
(outgoing Dem. Party Chair of 111); Hosts L o u and
Ruth Weishbach [Weiss-bach]; Co-chairs:
Mike Cherry, and Howard Tullman.
•Less than 700 days to 21st Century, time
to build America within reach, strengthen
Nation for 21st Century: Over 15M new
jobs: Unemp 4.7% - 25 yr low; core inflat.
lowest in 30 yrs; crime ^ 5 yrs in a row,
welfare rolls 27 yr low; fam. income *
$2,200; real wages **; mid. class taxes lowest
in 20 yrs; record homeownership.
• An Economy that offers Opp: Bal Bud;
Save SS; min wage. Edu: Last yr: - - HOPE,
Pell, Ed IRA's, loans. Now; Ayg class size
18 with 100k new teachers: modem schools;
standards, Ed. Emp Zones, no social
promotion. Trade: 1/3 growth, record
exports; training dislocated; fast track; IMF.
• A Society Rooted in Responsibility:
Hlth Care BQR, Medicare Buy-in- Tobacco;
FMLA: Child Care: Quality. Safety.
Affordability: Juv. Crime; drugs, welfare.
• A Nation that lives by Community:
CFR/Free TV; IRS; Clean Water, food
safety, climate change; One America• The Future: 21st Century Research Fund.
�April 6, 1998
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Craig Smith, Minyon Moore, and Angelique Pirozzi
SUBJECT:
Illinois Political Briefing
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS
1992
Clinton
2,453,350
49%
Bush
1,734,096
34%
Perot
840,515
17%
1996
Clinton
Dole
Perot
POLITICAL DATA
Jim Edgar (R)
Governor:
Dick Durbin (D)
U.S. Senate:
Carol Moseley-Braun (D)
10D/ 10R
U.S. House:
State Senate:
28D/31R
State House:
60D/58R
Electoral Votes:
22
2,341,744
1,587,021
346,408
54%
37%
8%
64% in 1994
54% in 1996
53% in 1992
RECENT PRINCIPAL TRAVEL
*
The President and The Vice President were in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois for an event at
the University of Illinois the day after the State of the Union Address on January 28, 1998.
*
The First Lady was last in Chicago on October 27, 1997 for her 50th birthday
celebration.
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
Senator Dick Durbin (D)
Representative Bobby Rush (D-l)
Representative Bill Lipinski (D-3)
Representative Rod Blagojevich (D-5)
Representative Danny Davis (D-7)
Representative Sidney Yates (D-9)
Representative Jerry Weller (R-l 1)
Representative Harris Fawell (R-l3)
Representative Thomas Ewing (R-l5)
Representative Lane Evans (D-l7)
Representative Glenn Poshard (D-l9)
Senator Carol Moseley Braun (D)
Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-2)
Representative Luiz Gutierrez (D-4)
Representative Henry Hyde (R-6)
Representative Phillip Crane (R-8)
Representative John Edward Porter (R-10)
Representative Jerry Costello (D-l2)
Representative Dennis Hastert (R-l4)
Representative Donald Manzullo (R-l6)
Representative Ray LaHood (R-l8)
Representative John Shimkus (R-20)
�STATE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
Governor:
Jim Edgar (R)
Lt. Governor:
Bob Kustra (R)
Attorney General:
Jim Ryan (R)
Secretary of State:
George Ryan (R)
State Comptroller.
Loleta Didrickson (R)
Senate President:
James "Pate" Philip (R-23)
Senate Democratic Leader: Senator Emil Jones (D-14)
Speaker of the House:
Michael Madigan (D-22)
House Republican Leader.
Lee A. Daniels (R-46)
1998 GUBERNATORIAL RACE
With Goverpor Jim Edgar (R) retiring. Secretary of State George Ryan (R) announced in September
of last year that he would seek the Republican Party's nomination for Governor. He billed himself
as the right person to continue Edgar's work, and touted his ability to work with leaders on both sides
of the isle. However, Ryan's opposition to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment in 1982 while
serving as House speaker and his long standing support for restrictions on abortion, run the risk of
alienating moderate suburban Republican women. To counter that Ryan asked freshman state
Representative Corinne Wood (R) to join him on the Republican ticket as his candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. Ryan, who is anti-choice, is looking to Wood, who is pro-choice, to be a spokeswoman
on breast cancer and other health issues and concerns important to women. Some critics question
whether her short time in the Legislature gives her enough experience for an office that would put
her next in line for the Governor's office.
Congressman Glenn Poshard (D-l9) won the Democratic nomination for Governor receiving 38%
ofthe primary vote, defeating former Attorney General Roland Burris (D) with 30%, former Justice
Department official John Schmidt (D) with 25%, and former U.S. Attorney Jim Burns (D) with 6%.
Poshard guaranteed himself a $100,000 bank loan to his campaign last month, allowing him to take
in more than $313,000 since the start of the year. Poshard, who has a large downstate base, has
raised more than $1.3 million since entering. However, he will begin the general election at a
disadvantage as the Republican nominee Secretary of State George Ryan, has $5 million in his
campaign fimd.
1998 SENATE RACE
In the Republican primary for the nomination to face Senator Carol Moseley-Braun ~ considered
perhaps the nation's most vulnerable Senate incumbent- state Sen. Peter Fitzgerald dug deep into his
personal fortune to saturate the state's media markets with aggressive, hard-hitting spots that targeted
his Republican rival, state Comptroller Loleta Didrickson, and compared her voting record to that
of Moseley-Braun.
Dismissed by many as too conservative to be competitive and opposed by Republican leaders such
as former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole, Fitzgerald
received 52% to the moderate Didrickson's 48% in the primary.
�Now, basking in the earned media attention from his insurgent win, Fitzgerald is off the air.
Moseley-Braun will likely file next week with around $500,000 in her campaign account.
An internal poll conducted for the Braun Committee directly after the March 13th primary found that
Senator Carol Moseley-Braun got 44%, Fitzgerald got 37% and 19% are undecided. She also got
78% of the Democratic vote and 56% of the African-Ameri can vote.
1998 STATEWIDE RACES
Lieutenant Governor. Lieutenant Governor Bob Kustra (R) followed Governor Edger's (R) lead
and announced he would not run for re-election. Democratic primary candidates are moderate
downstate Democrat Mary Lou Keams (D) and former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Pat Quinn
(D). The Illinois Election Board decided today that Keams was the official winner by 1500 votes.
Quinn is likely to fight it.
Attorney General. Attorney General Jim Ryan (R) who briefly explored a bid for the Senate, is
seeking re-election despite having been hospitalized for cancer treatment. City Treasurer Miriam
Santos (D) won the Democratic nomination for Illinois Attorney General. Santos is of Puerto Rican
descent, and is thefirstHispanic and the second woman elected to citywide office. She was endorsed
pre-primary by the Illinois Democratic Party and in addition Mayor Daley also offered a rare, preprimary, political endorsement of Santos.
Secretary of State. As noted above. Secretary of State George Ryan is running for Governor,
leaving open the Secretary of State post. Former state Representative and '96 Senate nominee Al
Salvi (R) defeated Deputy House Minority Leader Robert Churchill (R) garnering 53% of the primary
vote for the Republican nomination.
Cook County Recorder of Deeds Jesse White (D) defeated Tim McCarthy (D), a former Secret
Service agent who was shot and wounded in 1981 during a failed assassination attempt on former
President Ronald Reagan. White won the party's nomination with about 55% of the vote.
Comptroller. Dan Hynes (D), son of Democratic Party heavyweight Tom Hynes (D), announced
his candidacy for state Comptroller. Hynes was the Political Director for the Clinton/Gore '96 Illinois
re-election campaign. There was no Democratic challenge for Hynes in the primary on March 17.
On the Republican side, Chris Lauzen beat Harry Seigle 52% to 48%.
Treasurer. Incumbent Judy Baar Topinka (R) is running for reelection. The Mayor of Orland Park,
Dan McLaughlin (D) defeated the Mayor of Calumet City Jerry Geneva (D) garnering 58% of the
primary vote for the Democratic nomination.
CONGRESSIONAL RACES
CD/01-Bobby Rush (D)
3rd Term-85%
Democrat Caleb Davis lost resoundingly against 3rd term incumbent Bobby Rush in the March 17
primary. Rush defeated Davis 89 to 11 percent.
�On the Republican side, Marlene Ahimaz was unopposed. Ahimaz will face Rush in November.
Rush is heavily favored to return to Washington for a 4th term.
The South Side Chicago district has been solidly Democratic since 1934, when it switched from the
party of Lincoln to supporting New Dealers. The district has been represented by some famous
Chicagoans, among them former mayor Harold Washington (D) and now former Black Panther and
Ward Alderman Bobby Rush. All seems to have been forgiven in the 1st district, though « he
finished in 1996 with 85 to 13 percent against Republican challenger Noel Naughton.
CD/02-Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D)
1st full Term-94%
One Republican has filed to take on Jackson this cycle - he is Robert Gordon. Jackson is heavily
favored to return to Washington for a sophomore term.
The 2nd includes parts of the old South Side of Chicago and some of the suburban areas dominated
by middle-class blacksfleeingthe public schools and urban life. Jackson was first elected in a special
election in 1995 when the then-officeholder, Democratic Rep. Mel Reynolds, left office to serve a
prison sentence. The district is solidly Democratic, and the only challenge to Jackson would come
from within the Democratic party.
CD/03-William Lipinski (D)
8th Term-65%
Republican Robert Marshall won the three-way GOP primary, taking 49 percent against Arthur Jones
(12 percent) and Karl Roth (38 percent). The results ofthe March 17 contest mean Marshall will face
Lipinski in November.
Lipinski was unopposed on the Democratic side.
The 3rd district is the westernmost area of Chicago and includes some older ethnic neighborhoods
in the urban areas of western Chicago and some affluent areas in the suburban comers of Cook
County. Lipinski's 1994 and 1996 challenger, real estate developer Jim Nalepa (R), fared well in
1994, losing by less than ten percentage points. But the margins in 1996 were wider, giving Lipinski
a 33 percentage point victory over Nalepa.
CD/04-Luis Gutierrez (D)
3rd Term-94%
Neither candidate for the 4th faced opposition in the state's March 17 second-in-the-nation primary.
Gutierrez ran unopposed on the Democratic side, and John Birch faced no opposition from other
Republicans — the two will face off in November.
The district is overwhelmingly Democratic. YOU beat Bob Dole here in 1996, 80 to 14 percent;
Gutierrez won re-election that year with 94 percent.
�CD/05-Rod Blagojevich (D)
1st Term-64%
The freshman incumbent will face AJan Spitz (R) in November.
Republicans might try to retaliate for the loss of the most vulnerable incumbent in the nation in 1996,
ex-Rep. Michael Flanagan (R) in ex-Rep. Dan Rostenkowski's (D) north Chicago district, but they
aren't likely to have much luck in a traditionally Democratic district.
CD/06-Henry Hyde (R)
12th Term-64%
With Republican Robert Wheat now off the ballot, Hyde, the House Judiciary chairman, will get a
free ride in both the primary and general in 1998.
Hyde's Cook and DuPage Counties district is suburban and affluent and has returned Republican
Hyde to Congress since 1974. He's become well known for his riders to Appropriations
subcommittee bills, the "Hyde Amendment," which denies federal funding for abortion to Medicaid
recipients. Now in the majority, Hyde chairs the Judiciary Committee. He does well among his
conservative constituents, and won in 1996 with 64 percent against Democrat Stephen De La Rosa's
33 percent.
CD/07-Danny Davis (D)
1st Term-82%
Davis sailed past Democratic primary challenger Wilner Jackson in the March 17 contest. The victory
leaves Davis with no opposition in November.
Davis found that the third time was the charm in his bid to come to Washington from retiring Rep.
Cardiss Collins's (D) majority-black west side Chicago 7th district. Davis twice tried to topple the
incumbent in the 1980s, but was unsuccessful. In 1996, Davis topped 13rivalsfor the Democratic
nod, in the general, he scored 83 percent.
CD/08-PhiIip Crane (R)
15th Term-62%
Rep. Phil Crane appeared to have.been unaffected by controversial remarks he made about African
nations just days before ballots were cast. He coasted to victory over 32-year-old investment banker
David McSweeney in his primary, rolling up 65 percent of the vote.
The 8th is conservative, a populated "edge city" to Chicago, it occupies much of the northeast corner
ofthe state. In both 1992 and 1994, Crane withstood fierce challenges from both inside and outside
of his party. Many in the district, including the conservative Chicago Tribune felt that Crane was not
vigorously carrying the banner for the district, or the state. Now that the GOP has the majority,
Crane ranks second on Ways and Means, and chairs the subcommittee on trade (important for this
district, home to the headquarters of Sears, Kemper Insurance and Motorola and others).
�CD/09 - Sidney Yates (D)
24th Term - 63%
Pro-choice state Representative Jan Schakowsky (D) won a tough, 3 way, open-seat primary.
In the lakefront Chicago 9th, Schakowsky, who campaigned as a liberal, scored an even more
impressive win over two men, state Sen. Howard Carroll and venture capitalist J.B. Pritzker.
Schakowsky, who is best known for her campaign to putfreshnesslabels on food, will be the odds-on
favorite to win the November contest in the heavily Democratic district, which has been held by Yates
for nearly half a century.
Schakowsky told supporters that her gender played a decisive role in the race. "People were
interested in having a woman's voice in the House of Representatives," she said, according to the
Chicago Tribune. "Now the men's club delegation to the US House of Representatives will have a
woman's voice." While Schakowsky took 45 percent of the vote to clinch the Democratic nod,
Carroll took 35 percent and Pritzker garnered 21 percent.
CD/10 - Porter (R)
10th Term - 69%
Porter gets a free ride from both sides in 1998, he faces neither a primary nor a general election
challenger.
CD/11 - Jerry Weller (R)
2nd Term - 52%
Attorney Gary Mueller won the March 17 Democratic primary against Steve Barach. Earlier, 1996
nominee Clem Balanoff withdrew from the contest so that Mueller would have a clear shot at the
Democratic nod. Barach's presence on the ballot prevented that, but Mueller pulled through, taking
61 percent to Barach's 31 percent.
Mueller will face sophomore Rep. Jerry Weller in November. Weller won an important battle this
Congress when he secured a coveted slot on the Ways and Means Committee, something he will be
able to tout on the campaign trail. Nonetheless, he will have to work hard to maintain this swing
district that went for YOU by a 13-point margin last year.
CD/12 - Jerry Costello (D)
6th Term - 72%
In Costello's Belleville-based 12th district. Bill Price, the Republican son of former Congressman Mel
Price (D-IH), took his party's nod with 60 percent of the vote over Christian school administrator Gail
Kohlmeier, who got 40 percent. Costello took 87 percent of the vote over his Democratic primary
challenger, Kenneth Wiezer.
CD/13-Harris Fawell (R) is retiring
6th Term-60%
The Democratic nod went to Susan Hynes, who ran unopposed in the state's March 17 primary and
is a small businesswoman who took 40 percent against Fawell last year. Hynes will face Judy Biggert,
the winner of the six-way GOP primary.
�The moderate Biggert, assistant Minority Leader of the state House, took 45 percent of the vote.
Conservative state Rep. Peter Roskam, Biggert's chief competitor, took 40 percent of the vote, while
the other four candidates scored a collective 16 percent. Biggert campaign manager Kevin Artl said
his candidate's win showed that moderates were still a force in Illinois politics.
"I think Judy's message is clear - that moderates do have a following and do have a base," Artl said,
adding that voters were also attracted to Biggert's "fiscal conservatism."
Biggert, 61, also overcame an onslaught of attacks from outside groups, including the Christian
Coalition and Gary Bauer's Campaign for Working Families.
Biggert will be heavily favored to win what will be an all-female general election in the conservative
13th, located in the western Chicago suburbs.
CD/14-Dennis Hastert (R)
6th Term-64%
Hastert is faced no opposition in the March 17 GOP primary, but in November the six-term
incumbent will square off against Democrat Robert Cozzi, a retired computer engineer.
CD/15-Thomas Ewing (R)
4th Term-57%
Democratic State Representative Laurel Prussing (D), the 1996 nominee, has filed for a rematch with
Ewing. Neither Ewing nor State Representative Laurel Prussing (D) face opposition in their
respective primaries, and as was the case last cycle, Ewing is the overwhelming favorite for
November.
CD/16-Don Manzullo (R)
3rd Term-60%
Donald Gaines (D) is the nominee. Manzullo is favored to take the seat easily against Gaines in the
November general.
CD/17 - Lane Evans (D)
8th Term - 52%
Republicans are once again targeting Evans, who they point out is one of a handful of Democrats
across the country whose re-election numbers decreased in 1996 despite the coattails of President
Clinton.
Evans is likely to face a rematch in 1998 against Mark Baker (R), a former TV anchor from the
southwest portion of the 17th Congressional district, bordering Missouri. Evans beat Baker 52 to
47 percent.
Evans is a 15-year House veteran who took the seat of ex-Rep. Tom Railsback (R) in 1982 after
Railsback was ousted by a more conservative candidate in the primary. The ranking Democrat on
the Veterans Affairs Committee, Evans won by wide margins in the early 1990s, when there was
agricultural unrest in the largely rural northwestern Illinois district.
�The candidates are evenly paced in their fundraising efforts. Evans has $133,000 in the bank, Baker
$115,000.
CD/18 - LaHood (R)
2nd Term 59 %
LaHood faces neither a Democratic nor a Republican challenger for the 1998 cycle.
CD/19 - Glenn Poshard (D) is running for Governor
4th Term - 67%
Democratic nominee David Phelps holds a 12-point lead over GOP pick Brent Winters in the race
to replace gubernatorial candidate Rep. Glenn Poshard, according to a survey taken for his campaign.
According to the poll, conducted by Cooper & Secrest Associates Feb. 1 and 2 (well before the
March 17 primary) of 516 likely voters, Phelps, a conservative state Representative, would beat
Winters, the two-time GOP nominee, 41 to 29 percent.
The poll also showed Phelps with 75 percent name identification, better than Winters's 54 percent.
Phelps beat Jerry Eckl (D) with 83 percent of the Democratic vote in the primary; Winters topped
banker Jerry Berg (R) with 56 percent of the vote.
Phelps's polling memo also contends that Poshard will have significant coattails in his southeastern
Illinois 19th district, claiming that 90 percent of district went for the pro-life Democrat in the
gubernatorial primary.
Phelps certainly tracks Poshard on a number of issues, and is described by Democrats as "pro-life,
pro-gun, and pro-labor." He is also well known outside the political arena as a member of "The
Phelps Brothers," a gospel singing group he performs in with his brothers.
Winters took 32 percent in the 1996 campaign against Poshard, compared to 42 percent in 1994. The
district is competitive and went for YOU by 7 points in 1996.
CD/20 - Shimkus (R)
1st Term - 50%
Early on, David Loebach (D) was forced to abandon his candidacy after a supervisor informed him
that a run for the house violated the Hatch Act because part of his salary was drawnfromfederal
funds. The seat was held by Sen. Dick Durbin (D) for 14 years before he made his successful bid for
the Senate. Shimkus won the seat when Durbin made that move.
Attorney Rick Verticchio (D) received enough write-in votes March 17th to qualify him for a
November ballot spot. Democrats needed 641 votes to get Verticchio on the ballot. He received
more than 3,000 votes.
�HOT ISSUES
Third Airport Debate
Chicago O'Hare is one of the busiest airports in the nation, causing noise, pollution, and increased
crime but also brings in economic wealth to the area. The gubernatorial candidates are debating
whether to build a new airport or expand O'Hare. Republican candidate Secretary of State George
Ryan (R) is strongly in favor for building a third airport in south suburban Peotone and for signing
a pledge of no new runways at O'Hare. Most Republicans are for the Peotone location. Ryan
advocates purchasing 2,600 acres of land in Peotone for a start-up airport with five gates and two
runways that could expand to suit future needs. Democratic candidate Rep. Glenn Poshard (D)
favors a third airport but is not sure Peotone is the correct location. Poshard calls for a regional
consensus of residents, businesses, and state taxpayers before building a third airport. Poshard also
refused to consider a permanent legislative ban on construction. Mayor Daley tacitly favors a third
airport but is against the Peotone location. He generally does not favor any third airport which will
in any way slight O'Hare or Midway.
Senator Carol Moseley Braun (D) supports a third airport at Peotone. State Senator Peter Fitzgerald
(R), Republican Senate nominee, also supports a third airport. Representatives Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D)
and Henry Hyde (R) sponsor a coalition called Partnership for Metropolitan Chicago's Airport
Future, a group joined by some suburbs which supports construction of a third airport near Peotone
and a ban on further expansion at O'Hare. Jackson believe a third airport at Peotone will bring jobs
to the South Side of Chicago.
Bilingual Education
After three hours of heated, tearful and even nasty debate, the Chicago Board of Education on
February 25th unanimously approved a crackdown that seeks to limit bilingual classes to three years.
They accused board President Gery Chico of falling away from his Mexican roots. New statistics
from the board indicating that the longer Spanish-speaking students are in the program, the worse
they perform in the their native language. Spanish language reading tests show that eighth-graders
in the program read in Spanish atfifth-gradelevels-more than three years lower than the national
averages. The plan limits bilingual education classes to three years, but allows for an extra year if
needed, and even more time in special cases. Mayor Daley is for Bilingual education as the Latino
vote will most likely be the swing vote for his mayoral race next year.
Ongoing Issue of Police Corruption and Brutality
Residents of Chicago are speaking out against the wave of police brutality that they claim has
occurred throughout the city. On March 30, an informal hearing, attended by about 300 people, was
convened by the Greater Chicago Committee Against Police Brutality. At least 20 people there gave
personal testimony of mistreatment at the hands of Chicago police. Recently, an Austin District
police officer pleaded guilty to federal racketeering and weapons charges. There arefiveofficers
charged. The FBI is also investigating the possible involvement of two high-ranking Chicago officers
and several detectives in a jewelry theft ring operating in at least three states. In a response to the
situation, Chicago has hired a new police chief, media savvy Terry Hillard.
�ILLINOIS AT A GLANCE
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The current unemployment rate in Illinois is 5.3% in 1996.
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The most recent estimate of Illinois' population is just less than 12 million, making
Illinois the 6th most populous state in the nation.
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74.8% of Illinois residents are White, 14.6% are African-American, 7.9% are Hispanic
and, 2.4%) are Asian/Pacific Islander.
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13% of Illinois residents are 65 years of age or over.
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Median household income is $32,252 in 1996.
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46% have a bachelor's degree.
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ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN ILLINOIS UNDER PRESIDENT CLINTON
President Clinton s strategy to strengthen the economy is based on reducing the federal budget deficit, lowering trade
barriers, and empowering workers, families, businesses and communities to succeed. Here are some of the results for Illinois
after the first 63 months of the Clinton Administration:
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Improved Economic Conditions in Illinois during the Clinton Administration:
• The unemployment rate has dropped from 7.2% to 4.6%.
• Illinois has added 551,300 new jobs, or 108,452 per year -- compared to 26,800 per year during the previous
administration.
• Illinois has added 523,300 new private-sector jobs, or 102,944 per year -- compared to 18,700 per year during the previous
administration.
• Illinois has added 49,700 new manufacturing jobs, or 9,777 per year ~ after LOSING 12,900 per year during the previous
administration.
• Home building has increased by 2.8% per year - after DECREASING 4.8% per year during the previous administration.
• New business incorporations have increased 3.6% per year.
• Business lending has increased 5.9% per year -- after DECREASING 7.0% per year during the previous administration.
• The Help Wanted index has increased 50.6%.
• Consumer confidence has increased 113.2%.
What President Clinton's Accomplishments Have Achieved for the People of Illinois:
$15,000 OF REDUCED FEDERAL DEBT FOR EVERY FAMILY OF FOUR IN ILLINOIS: The national debt will be
more than $1 trillion lower over 7 years than was projected before the passage of the President's economic plan. That's
about $15,000 of reduced federal debt for each family of four in Dlinois.
8 TIMES MORE ILLINOIS FAMILIES RECEIVE A TAX CUT THAN A TAX INCREASE: As a result of the
expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, 599,271 working families in Illinois will receive a tax cut. This compares to an
increase in the income tax rate for only the 79,214 wealthiest taxpayers in Illinois.
TAX CUT FOR 53,060 SMALL BUSINESSES IN ILLINOIS: The President helped entrepreneurs, proprietors, and othe
small businessmen and women by expanding the annual expensing allowance from $10,000 to $17,500. About 53,060 sma
businesses in Illinois are likely to benefit from the expansion of the expensing allowance this year alone and many more wi
benefit over the coming years.
2,185,000 ILLINOIS WORKERS PROTECTED BY FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT: The Family and
Medical Leave Act allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for the birth of a child, to care for a sick family
member, or if they become too sick to work. This law covers about 2,185,099 workers in Dlinois, and protects the jobs of
131,268 workers in Illinois who are likely to use unpaid leave this year alone.
1.26 MILLION STUDENTS AND FORMER STUDENTS IN ILLINOIS WILL BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM
STUDENT LOAN REFORMS: Approximately 1.26 million Illinois borrowers -- 880,000 current borrowers and 380,000
new borrowers in the next few years - can take advantage of the new direct student loan program by participating directly in
the program or by consolidating guaranteed loans into direct loans. Some will benefit from lower interest rates, and all will
benefit from more repayment options, including income contingent repayment.
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ILLINOIS HOT ISSUES
Napalm Shipping
The Chicago and northwest Indiana environmental communities are threatening legal action and
protests over a plan for the Department of the Navy to ship twenty-two tons of napalm from
California to a Pollution Control Industries (PCI) hazardous waste disposal facility in East
Chicago, Indiana. The agitation stems from concerns over an existing PCB contamination issue
at the PCI facility and additional environmental justice concerns.
CEQ is working with the Department ofthe Navy and EPA to assure that no napalm shipments
commence until EPA determines that the PCB contamination safety issue at the recipient facility
has been remedied. However, due to lack of documentation, EPA has been unable to make a
decision on whether or not PCI has adequately decontaminated the facility. Meanwhile, the
Navy itself has inspected the facility and believes that decontamination is complete. It plans to
begin shipments as early as Thursday, April 9. Our discussions with the agencies continue.
Regarding the environmental justice concerns, EPA has begun an analysis to determine if the
napalm would be of even greater harm to this community than other hazardous wastes.
The Navy and EPA are currently working together to conduct immediate community outreach to
advise the public of the limited risks of napalm, the process being planned, and the safety
precautions being followed. While such public outreach may be helpful, providing the
information at the same time that the trains are on their way to East Chicago may give rise to
more community objections.
If asked about the issue, you should say that:
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The agencies are working together to resolve any contamination issues at the facility;
We are doing all we can to make sure that public health and safety are protected; and
We hope to have the situation resolved as quickly as possible.
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�American Heritage Rivers
We have received 126 American Heritage River nominations from communities across the
country. In Illinois, the Kaskaskia, Upper Mississippi, Ohio, and Chicago-Illinois Rivers have
been nominated. Governor Edgar and Mayor Daley jointly nominated the Chicago and Illinois
Rivers, and both Senators and every Member from the state have expressed support for
designation. However, the nomination has become somewhat controversial downstate due to
agricultural interests' concern about private property rights. To allay concerns, CEQ staff
traveled to Bloomington last month and met with representatives from more than 75 agricultural
groups to discuss the initiative further. As a result of these educational efforts, the Illinois Com
Growers and the Illinois Farmers Union have come out in support of the initiative.
This week you will sign an executive order establishing an advisory panel to review the
American Heritage River nominations and recommend up to 20 rivers for designation. You will
select a total of 10 rivers as American Heritage Rivers soon thereafter.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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HOT ISSUES-CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Children's Health Insurance Program (Title XXI): On April 1. HHS approved the IL Title
XXI Program, which was submitted on January 6. The state has elected to implement Title XXI
through an expansion ofthe Medicaid program. The program will cover children from birth
through age 18 in families with income up to 133 percent ofthe Federal poverty level (FPL) and
will simultaneously expand coverage to pregnant women up to 200 percent ofthe FPL. The
State anticipates that the program will serve an additional 40.400 children. The state has also
established a legislative task force to make recommendations for expanding health benefits
coverage to targeted low income children up to 200 percent of FPL. (HHS)
Airport Issues: Controversy continues around expansion of O'Hare or building a new airport in
Peotone (south Chicago suburbs). Mayor Daley remains adamantly opposed. Congressmen
Hyde and Jackson have come out in support of a new airport, claiming it will provide new jobs.
The Governor also supports a new airport. (DOT)
Welfare-to-VVork: On March 25. Mayor Daley and business leaders announced a new Business
Partners program to encourage companies to hire welfare recipients. The program will provide
training for welfare recipients and help them find work. The initiative will also address problems
related to child care, transportation, and workers retained in menial, low-paying jobs. (DOL)
Jobless Rate Falls: The IL jobless rate fell to 4.6 percent in February, the IL Department of
Employment Security reported. The number of workers in the state rose to an all-time high of
5.4 million. The jobless rate in metropolitan Chicago fell in February to 4.9 percent. The
number of workers on payrolls in the nine-county Chicago market rose to more than four million.
(DOL)
Ford Motor Company Sued: A lawyer is seeking class action status of a lawsuit alleging
sexual harassment, racial discrimination and retaliation at two Ford Motor Co. plants in the
Chicago area. Keith Hunt and other lawyers won more than Sl million for nine Ford workers in
a similar case in January. Six complaints tiled against the company are pending with the Lqual
Employment Opportunity Commission. (DOL)
�Bilingual Education Plan: In February, the Chicago school board adopted a new bilingual
education policy. The controversial policy limits the amount of time limited-English proficient
students may spend studying subjects other than English in their native language to three years,
with an optional fourth year in the program for those who have not mastered English. Special
support services can continue for a fifth year. DOEd's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has
received a number of inquiries from people who were under the impression the policy created a
rigid "three years and out" standard. OCR has received no formal complaints about the policy,
which has received significant press attention. (DOEd)
�PRESIDENT
CLINTON AND VICE PRESIDENT
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
ILLINOIS
GORE'S
EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL:
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Unemployment Down to 4.9%: The unemployment rate in Illinois has declined from 7.2% to 4.9% since 1993.
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549.100 New Jobs: 549,100 new jobs have been created in Illinois since 1993 -- an average of 109,820 jobs per
year, compared to an average of just 26,800 jobs per year in the previous administration.
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520.000 New Private Sector Jobs: Since 1993, 520,000 new private sector jobs have been created - an average
of 104,000 jobs per year, compared to an average of just 18,700 private sector jobs per year in the previous
administration.
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52.200 New Manufacturing Jobs: 52,200 new manufacturing jobs have been created since 1993 - an average of
10,440 jobs per year. In contrast, an average of 12,900 jobs that were lost each year under the previous
administration.
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44.500 New Construction Jobs: 44,500 construction jobs have been created in Illinois since 1993 ~ an average
of 8,900 jobs per year. In contrast, an average of 2,725 construction jobs were lost each year during the previous
administration.
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430.000 Have Received a Raise: Approximately 158,000 Illinois workers benefited from an increase in the
minimum wage - from $4.25 to $4.75 ~ on October 1, 1996. They, along with about 272,000 more, received an
additional raise -- from $4.75 to $5.15 -- on September 1, 1997.
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Home Building Up 2.8%: Home building has increased by an average of 2.8% per year since 1993, after falling
over 4.8% per year during the previous administration.
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The Poverty Rate Has Fallen: Nationally, the poverty rate has fallen from 15.1% in 1993 to 13.7% in 1996.
Since the President signed his 1993 Economic Plan into law, the nation has seen the largest three year drop in
poverty in a decade. In Illinois, the poverty rate has fallen 1.5% since 1993. [1996 data]
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A $500 Child Tax Credit to Help Families Raising Children: To help make it easier for families to raise their
children, the balanced budget includes a $500 per-child tax credit for children under 17. Thanks to President
Clinton, the balanced budget delivers a child tax credit to 1,163,000 families in Illinois.
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Over 40.00 of Reduced Federal Debt for Every Family of Four: The national debt will be more than $2.5 trillion
lower in 2002 than was projected before passage of President Clinton's economic plan. That's over $40,000 of
reduced federal debt for each family of four in Illinois.
EXPANDING ACCESS TO EDUCA TION:
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Over $185 Million in Head Start Funding: In FY97, Illinois received $ 170 million in Head Start funding
benefitting 33,900 children. This year, Illinois will receive over $185 million, an increase of $15.4 million over
1997. President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal will increase Head Start funding for Illinois's children by an
additional $12.5 million.
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$19.8 Million in Goals 2000 Funding: This year [FY98], Illinois receives $19.8 million in Goals 2000 funding.
President Clinton's FY99 budget proposes to increase Goals 2000 funding by an additional $850,000. This
money is used to raise academic achievement by raising academic standards, increasing parental and community
involvement in education, expanding the use of computers and technology in classrooms, and supporting highquality teacher professional development.
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Nearly $18 Million for Technology Literacy: This year [FY98], Illinois receives nearly $18 million for the
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund which helps communities and the private sector ensure that every student is
equipped with the computer literacy skills needed for the 21st century. That's almost twice the $9.1 million
Illinois received last year. President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal will raise funding for technology literacy by
$320,000 over FY98.
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$325.3 Million for Students Most in Need: Illinois receives $325.3 million in Title I Grants (to Local Education
Agencies) providing extra help in the basics for students most in need, particularly communities and schools with
high concentrations of children in low-income families [FY98]. President Clinton's FY99 budget proposes to
increase funding for Title I Grants by nearly $1 million to aid Illinois's students.
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$259.6 Million in Pell Grants: This year [FY98], Illinois will receive $259.6 million in Pell Grants for lowincome students going to college, an additional $50.3 million over last year. With this increase, a total of 144,100
Illinois students will benefit, 8,300 more than the previous year. And President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal
increases Pell Grant funding to $268.3 million.
March 1998
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Nearly 2.900 Have Served in Illinois through AmeriCorps: Since the National Service program began in 1993,
nearly 2,900 AmeriCorps participants, working in 227 different programs, have earned money for college while
working in Illinois's schools, hospitals, neighborhoods or parks [through 3/98].
Tuition Tax Credits in Balanced Budget Open the Doors o f College and Promote Li felong Learning: The
balanced budget includes both President Clinton's $1,500 HOPE Scholarship to help make thefirsttwo years of
college as universal as a high school diploma and a Lifetime Learning Tax Credit for college juniors, seniors,
graduate students and working Americans pursuing lifelong learning to upgrade their skills. This 20% tax credit
will be applied to the first $5,000 of tuition and fees through 2002 and to the first $10,000 thereafter. 308,000
students in Illinois will receive a HOPE Scholarship tax credit of up to $1,500. 379,000 students in Illinois
will receive the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit.
FIGHTING AND VIOLENCE:
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3.892 More Police: The President's 1994 Crime Bill has funded 3,892 new police officers to date in communities
across Illinois [through 3/98].
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Crime Falls 6% in Illinois: Since 1992, serious crime has decreased 6% statewide. [1996 data].
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Over 55 Million to Combat Domestic Violence: Through the Violence Against Women Act, Illinois was
allocated $5.2 million last year federal funds this year [FY97] to establish more women's shelters and bolster law
enforcement, prosecution, and victims' services. Illinois received $4.6 million under VAWA in FY96.
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Over $2.5 Million in Grants for Battered Women: This year [FY98], Illinois will receive over $2.5 million in
HHS's Family Violence Prevention Program grants to assist women and children fleeing domestic abuse, an
additional $435,200 increase over last year. President Clinton's FY99 budget proposal increases HHS's
Family Violence Prevention Program grants to $2.6 million.
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Over $22.4 Million to Keep Drugs & Violence Out of Illinois Schools: Illinois receives $22.4 million in FY98
for the Safe & Drug Free Schools Program, which invests in school security and drug prevention programs.
MOVING ILLINOIS RESIDENTS FROM WELFARE TO WORK:
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129.082 Fewer People on Welfare: There are 129,082 fewer people on welfare in Illinois now than there were
at the beginning of 1993 -- a 19% decrease [through 9/97].
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Child Support Collections Up 33%: Child support collections have been increased by over $60 million ~ or
nearly 33% -- in Illinois since FY92 [through FY96].
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Illinois Receives $48.6 Million in Welfare-to-Work Grants: In FY98, Illinois will receive $48.6 million in
welfare-to-work state formula grants, helping Illinois prepare welfare recipients for work and to place them in
jobs. Part of the President's comprehensive efforts to move recipients from welfare to work, this funding is
included in the $3 billion Welfare-to-Work Jobs Challenge Fund signed into law in the 1997 balanced budget.
INVESTING IN ILLINOIS'S HEALTH:
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Health Care for Uninsured Children: The balanced budget includes the largest single investment in health care
for children since the passage of Medicaid in 1965 ~ an unprecedented $24 billion over five years to cover as
many as five million children throughout the nation. This investment guarantees the full range of benefits - from
checkups to surgery ~ that children need to grow up strong and healthy. It ensures that prescription drugs,
vision, hearing, and mental health coverage now offered at the state level are extended to millions of uninsured
children. To expand health coverage to more uninsured children in Illinois the balanced budget provides $123
million in 1998. This compares to the 1995 Republican plan vetoed by President Clinton that would have denied
health coverage to 92,300 children in Illinois.
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Helping Illinois Women and Children with WIC: The Clinton Administration is committed to full funding in the
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Last year in Illinois, 9,378
more women and children in need received health and food assistance than in 1994.
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More Toddlers Are Being Immunized: As a result of the President's 1993 Childhood Immunization Initiative,
childhood immunization rates have reached an historic high. According to the CDC, 90% or more of
America's toddlers in 1996 received the most critical doses of each of the routinely recommended vaccines ~
surpassing the President's 1993 goal. In Illinois in 1996, 94% of two-year olds received the vaccines for
diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis; 89% received the vaccine for polio; 90% received the vaccine for measles, and
91% received the vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae B, the bacteria causing a form of meningitis.
March 1998
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$15.7 Million in Rvan White Funds: Since President Clinton took office, funding for the Ryan White CARE
Act has increased by 159% nationwide. In FY97, Chicago received an $8.2 million Ryan White formula
award and a $7.5 million supplemental grant to care for people living with AIDS and HIV.
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT:
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5 Toxic Waste Sites Cleaned Up: Since 1993, the EPA has completed 5 Superfund toxic waste cleanups in
Illinois, in Taylorville, Pembroke Township, LaSalle, Marshall, and Wauconda [through 1/98]. This is more than
the number of sites cleaned up in Illinois during the previous twelve years combined (4).
•
Revitalizing 5 Brown fields in Illinois: Part of the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to clean up
Brownfields, the EPA has designated five communities in Illinois - Chicago, East St. Louis, West Central
Municipal Conference, Cook County, and the State of Illinois ~ for environmental clean-up and economic
revitalization. These projects are intended to jump-start local clean-up efforts by providing funds to return
unproductive, abandoned, contaminated urban properties to productive use.
SPEARHEADING URBAN RENEWAL EFFORTS:
•
$100 Million to Chicago: Chicago was designated an Empowerment Zone in December 1994 and was awarded
$100 million to create more jobs, housing, and economic opportunity for city residents. As part of this project,
First Chicago has initiated a $100,000 pilot program to help 75 to 100 qualified families buy their first homes.
•
$6 Million to Other Illinois Communities: Additionally, East St. Louis and Springfield were both designated
Enterprise Communities, and were awarded $3 million each for similar job creation efforts.
•
Expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Will Help Develop 5.800 To 7.000 New Affordable Housing
Units in Illinois Over the Next 5 years. In January, the Vice-President announced the Clinton-Gore
Administration's proposed 40-percent expansion ofthe Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. If enacted, it will mean
an additional 5,800 - 7,000 quality rental housing units for low-income American families in Illinois during the
next five years.
March 1998
�THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 6, 1998
TOUR AND REMARKS ON SCHOOL MODERNIZATION
AT THE RACHEL CARSON SCHOOL IN CHICAGO
DATE:
LOCATION:
TIME:
FROM:
L
April8, 1998
Courtyard
Rachel Carson School
5516 S. Maple wood
Chicago, IL
9:15 to 11:05
Gene Sperling & Bob Shireman
PURPOSE
To highlight the need for school construction and renovation. In addition to this event,
there are about 20 other events in cities across the country, responding to the VPOTUS
call for community forums on school construction. VPOTUS will be hosting a
conference call with all the sites at noon Central time.
IL
BACKGROUND
The Rachel Carson School provides an opportunity to see both the "before" and "after" of
a school modernization effort, because a new building was recently added, and the old
one remains and is still being used (though is not as overcrowded). This highlights the
importance of your school construction initiative to help school districts and States
improve learning through modem classrooms.
As you know, your FY 99 Budget proposes Federal tax credits to pay interest on nearly
$22 billion in bonds to build and renovate public schools. These tax credits are provided
~ in lieu of interest — to purchasers of two types of bonds: $19.4 billion in School
Modernization Bonds (a new proposal), and a $2.4 billion expansion of the Qualified
Zone Academy Bonds (created last year by Rep. Rangel). Treasury estimates that the
revenue loss associated with the bonds would be $5 billion over 5 years and more than
$11 billion over 10 years.
Senator Moseley-Braun has offered a version of the Administration's proposal as an
alternative to the Coverdell Education Savings Account legislation, which will be the
Senate's first item of business when Congress returns on April 20. This will be the first
�time that Congress has voted on or in relation to your FY 99 school construction
proposal.
In announcing the allocation of bond authority to cities and States, VPOTUS on February
14 called for a series of community forums on school construction, and a national
symposium on school design in the fall. Today, about 20 of these forums will be taking
place around the country, and will be part of a conference call with VPOTUS at noon
(Central time). The results of the forums will feed into the planning ofthe national
symposium in the fall (the date is not yet set).
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Event
POTUS
Principal Kathleen Mayer
Student [tbd]
Senator Moseley-Braun
Senator Richard Durbin
Congressman Luis Gutierrez
Mayor Richard Daley
Teacher Rita Nicky
Several hundred parents and students from the school
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Open Press
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
The President arrives Rachel Carson School.
Principal Kathleen Mayer and student [tbd] guide the President through the "old''
school.
The President greets Mayor Daley, Sens. Moseley-Braun and Durbin, and Rep.
Gutierrez in second floor classroom; they join the tour.
Daley, Moseley-Braun, Durbin and Gutierrez enter storage room that was a
classroom. The President enters room with student [tbd], to hear student's
description of classes held in the room. Other elected officials join photo op.
The President departs building and walks across driveway to "new" school.
�The President tours science lab, talks with students about the new building,
and/or about a physics experiment they will be carrying out.
Off-stage announcement of Mayor Daley, Sens. Moseley-Braun and Durbin, and
Rep. Gutierrez.
Off-stage announcement of the President, accompanied by Principal Kathleen
Mayer and Teacher Rita Nicky, to "Ruffles and Flourishes" and "Hail to the
Chief."
Principal Kathleen Mayer makes welcoming remarks and introduces Mayor Daley
Mayor Daley makes welcoming remarks and introduces Rep. Gutierrez.
Rep. Gutierrez makes remarks and introduces Senator Durbin.
Senator Durbin makes remarks and introduces Senator Moseley-Braun.
Senator Moseley-Braun introduces the President.
The President gives remarks, works a ropeline, and departs.
VI.
REMARKS
To be provided by speech writers.
�School Construction Event Remarks
will be forwarded
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<p>Michael Waldman was Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 1995-1999. His responsibilities were writing and editing nearly 2,000 speeches, which included four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. From 1993 -1995 he served as Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination.</p>
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