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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): foia Number: S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Davis, Mark, Files Subseries: Subject File, 1989-1991 OA/ID Number: 13874 Folder ID Number: 13874-006 Folder Title: Claudine Schneider Fundraiser, 11/20/89 Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 19 2 6 7 PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND 1079 liam F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R) Elected 1978; b. Apr. 4, 1929, Warren; home, Warren; Johns Hopkins U., B.A. 1951, U. of VA, LL.B. 1965; Presbyterian; RHODE ISLAND married (Julia). Career: Navy, 1951-55; Adv. Dept., New Process Co., 1955-62; Practicing atty., 1965-75, 1977-78; Chf. Cnsl., Econ. Devil Admin., U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1975-77. Auturbulent a political history as any in the country can be found in the tidy little city-state of Rhode Island. A successful trading community since the 1600s, a leader in manufacturing since Offices: 2160 RHOB 20515, 202-225-5121. Also 315 S. Allen St. Samuel Slater replicated from memory an English water-powered cotton textile mill in Ste. 219, State College 16801, 814-238-1776; and 805 Pennbank Powtucket in 1791, Rhode Island also had its beginning as an upstart community, a refuge for Bldg., Warren 16365, 814-726-3910. elligious dissenters, "the sewer of New England," as the orthodox Cotton Mather put it. Rhode Committees: Government Operations (3d of 15 R). Subcommit- hiland profited from slavery (two-thirds of America's slaves arrived on ships owned by Rhode tee: Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (Ranking Mem- Hinders) and war (the state boomed during the Civil War), while it carried its dissenting ber). Public Works and Transportation (4th of 20 R). Subcommit- Indition into politics. Rhode Island refused to pay for the Revolutionary war, declined to send tees: Aviation (Ranking Member); Investigations and Oversight: Surface Transportation. Select Committee on Aging (21st of 27.R) delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and delayed joining the Union till the other 12 Subcommittees: Health and Long-Term Care; Human Services titles had, prompting George Washington to say, "Rhode Island still perseveres in that impolitic, unjust-and one might add without much impropriety-scandalous conduct, which ings seems to have marked all her public counsels of late." In the 1840s, conflict between hard money ADA ACLU COPE CFA LCV ACU NTLC NSI COC merchants and soft money farmers resulted in two state governments and what is known now as 25 59 CEI 43 64 38 63 53 100 86 38 Dorr's War. 24 - 41 36 - 43 — - 73 48 And just over 50 years ago, Rhode Island had the closest thing America has had to a political purnal Ratings tevolution. The textile industry and later manufacturing, notably costume jewelry, attracted thousands of immigrants to Rhode Island, from French Canada, Ireland and Italy, and by the 1988 LIB - 1988 CONS 1987 LIB - 1987 CONS 34% 65% mnly 1900s, this erstwhile colony of dissident Protestants had become the most heavily Catholic - 33% - 66% 39% state in the nation. The Yankee Republicans had some success in appealing to Catholics, - 60% 44% - 56% 34% - 65% 37% - 63% running French Canadians for high office for example; but national events-Al Smith's candidacy in 1928, when he carried Rhode Island, and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt- moved the Catholics toward the Democrats. Then came the revolution: in 1935, the Democrats $ FOR 5) Ban Drug Test AGN 9) SDI Research FOR under Governor Theodore Green, although they had won only 20 of the 42 state Senate seats, Amdt AGN 6) Drug Death Pen FOR Reduc 10) Ban Chem Weaps AGN refused to seat two Republicans. With the lieutenant governor's tie-breaker they voted AGN 7) Handgun Sales FOR 11) Aid to Contras Clsng Notice FOR FOR Democrats into the seats and proceeded, within 14 minutes, to declare the state Supreme Court 8) Ban D.C. Abort $ FOR 12) Nuclear Testing AGN seats vacant, abolish state boards that controlled Democratic cities, strengthen the power of the sults governor and reorganize state government so as to get rid of Republicans. William F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R) 105,575 This was a body blow to Rhode Island's "Five Families"-the Browns, Metcalfs, Goddards, (62%) Howard Shakespeare (D) ($336,675) 63,476 (37%) y William F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R), unopposed ($106,463) Lippitts and Chafees-who owned or ran many of the textile mills, the Rhode Island Hospital Trust (one of the state's largest banks), the Providence Journal, the Rhode Island School of William F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R) 79,595 (55%) ($695,266) Design and the state Republican Party. Rhode Island politics has operated ever since in the Bill Wachob (D) 63,875 (45%) ($577,853) beckwash of the Green revolution of 1935. The Democrats, winning the lion's share of votes from Rhode Island's 64% Catholic majority, have won most elections, starting with Theodore Green who in 1936, at age 69, was elected to the first of his four terms as U.S. Senator. From 1940 to 1980, Democrats won every election for the U.S. House. And in 1988, this was Michael Dukakis's best state in the union. But Republicans have been able to capitalize on scandal and on the power of the Five Families to win some elections at the top of the ticket, the most notable example being John Chafee, elected governor and Senator three times each. Rhode Island's competitive and, if not violent, then sometimes scandalous politics has continued to operate in pretty much the same way even as the state's economy has vastly changed. For years the unions remained politically powerful, but they represent fewer and fewer workers; the state's economy was quietly upgraded from blue-collar to white-collar, from textiles to high-tech; the electorate, instead of being a mass of Catholic factory workers pressed into meighborhoods of three-story three-family houses, has become comfortably affluent and subur- 1080 RHODE ISLAND RHODE ISI RHODE ISLAND - Congressional Districts, Countles, produce economic growth, rejected the Greenhouse Compact by almos County Subdivisions (Towns), and Places - (2 Districts) # 1984 referendum. Instead, the state took another turn in policy 71* 72" Governor Edward DiPrete, who despite some perils of Pauline political KEY office and helped to set the state's course ever since. c BRISTOL COUNTY LEGEND c 1 BARRINGTON 2 Congressional district number Governor. DiPrete has had some considerable achievements. He go 2 BRISTOL & MASSACHUSETTS Congressional district boundary NEWPORT COUNTY Place of 100 000 or more inhabitants lure to pass a 16% cut in the state income tax, got the strikers' unemplo 42" 1 Portsmouth HARRISVILLE 2 MELVILLE North Cumberland Place of 50 000 to 100.000 inhabitants repealed the state gift and estate tax and restructured the state unen Place of 25,000 to 50.000 inhabitents 3 NEWPORT EAST PASCOAG Burrillville State capital underlined system. He also established a state Partnership for Science and Te 4 Jamestown Indicates place is coextensive Smithfield 0 5 JAMESTOWN Lincoln with county subdivision funding for education, Head Start and other children's programs and PROVIDENCE COUNTY Glocester 1 WOONSOCKET 5 newspapers saying "If you want to talk business in Rhode Island, tall GREENVILLE 2 CUMBERLAND HILL 6 Governor." 3 VALLEY FALLS PROVIDENCE 4 CENTRAL FALLS Johnston DiPrete's problem in 1988 was not his policies but scandal. In July 1 5 PAWTUCKET 6 NORTH PROVIDENCE D 7 EAST PROVIDENCE CONNECTICUT Foster Scituate DiPrete, three of his family members and a close adviser had made $2 n PROVIDENCE D 2 CRANSTON there was a messy Department of Environmental Management in WARWICK favoritism and impropriety. DiPrete's image as a modest family man WEST WARWICK 3 BRISTOL was cast into doubt, and Democrat Bruce Sundlun, a rich entreprenet Coventry KENT 1986, attacked fiercely. But DiPrete recovered, and enough doubts were East West Greenwich abilities and past that DiPrete was able to eke out a modest victory. In 19 North NEWPORT TIVERTON economy growing and an unemployment rate well under the national a Exeter Tiverton heavily Democratic legislature faced issues like crime, drugs, medicare South dilemma. The basic course of state policy seemed set. DiPrete seems lik Kingstown 531 Little HOPEY Compton Possible opponents include Providence Mayor Joe Paolino, Warwick Ma VALLEY Richmond Hopkinton KINGSTON former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht (who lost to John Chafee WASHINGTON ASHAWAY Middletown opponent, Bruce Sundlun. NEWPORT Charlestown WAKEFIELD- PEACEDALE NARRAGANSETT PIER Senators. It must strike anyone as odd that heavily Catholic and ethn BRADFORD WESTERLY Westerly Narragansett blue-blooded Protestant Senators. Both of them, Democrat Claiborne P Chafee, have had unusual careers. Pell, first elected to the Senate in senior politician. His father was congressman from New York for a ter (keen SCALE Atlantic 10 20 Kilometers Roosevelt, and minister to Portugal and Hungary-important listening p of World War II. Pell himself served as a foreign service officer for sever MEN 10 20 Miles Bellevue Avenue in Newport, where you find the Vanderbilt and A YORK New Shoreham (Rhode Island's Five Families tend to live on Providence's College Hi N places on Rhode Island Sound; the oceanfront palaces of Newport wer Yorkers.) He is now what he always wanted to be, chairman of the Se BUREAU OF THE CENSUS U.S. Department of Commerce Committee. 71* 4 72" Congressional districts established April 9. 1982 all other boundaries are as of January 1. 1980. It is obligatory in Washington to deprecate Pell's political skills. H aristocratic accent, seems remote and diffident, uses corny old phrases an his colleagues around his standard. Yet there is evidence that if he wears ban. There was a pause in growth when the Newport Navy base closed in 1973, and for a who an iron fist inside. He has gotten everything he wanted in politics, and by that attracted everyone's attention. But by the early 1980s, both parties were ready with wayse competition this tough little state could offer. In the 1960 Democratic p adapt to change and build for the future. Governor Dennis Roberts and former Governor, Senator and U.S. Attor The voters responded unfavorably to the Democrats' ideas and favorably, at least so far. McGrath; this was the first time since Green's governorship that a can those of the Republicans. Both parties, including Democratic Governor (1976-84) Garrali Democratic organization was beaten. One opponent in that race called - agreed that Rhode Island's high taxes and pro-labor laws (since the 1930s union members comi promptly went out and got the endorsement of the bakers' union. In 19 collect unemployment benefits while on strike) were stifling the state's economy. Garraln was going Republican for President, Pell faced John Chafee, then a po response was a commission of business and civic leaders which under the guidance of business and Secretary of the Navy. Although Chafee began ahead, Pell turned the consultant Ira Magaziner (who as an undergraduate had helped restructure Brown University. won again. It is worth noting that Pell holds the seat won by Theodore ( the 1970s) produced the Greenhouse Compact, a kind of state industrial policy that would a was 69, a seat that a generation of Rhode Island politicians assumed wo government to encourage and incubate industry. But the voters, perhaps concerned that 5 Green, who chaired Foreign Relations himself, retired in 1960 at age $250 million package would lead to higher taxes, perhaps skeptical of government's ability elected to serve a total of 30 years in that seat, longer than Green, and RHODE ISLAND RHODE ISLAND 1081 RHODE ISLAND - Congressional Districts, Counties, imduce economic growth, rejected the Greenhouse Compact by almost an 80%-20% margin in County Subdivisions (Towns), and Places - (2 Districts) 1984 referendum. Instead, the state took another turn in policy by electing Republican 71° Edward KEY fice and helped to set the state's course ever since STOL COUNTY LEGEND c Governor. DiPrete has had some considerable achievements. He got the Democratic legisla- BARRINGTON S3 2 Congressional district number BRISTOL MASSACHUSETTS Congressional district boundary ture to pass a 16% cut in the state income tax, got the strikers' unemployment benefits abolished, VPORT COUNTY Place of 100 000 or more inhabitants Portsmouth HARRISVILLE Place of 50 000 to 100,000 inhabitants repealed the state gift and estate tax and restructured the state unemployment compensation MELVILLE North Place of 25 000 to 50,000 inhabitents NEWPORT EAST PASCOAG stem. He also established a state Partnership for Science and Technology and increased Burrillville State capital underlined Jamestown Indicates place is coextensive Smithfield with county subdivision funding for education, Head Start and other children's programs and he ran ads in national JAMESTOWN Lincoln OVIDENCE COUNTY Glocester newspapers saying "If you want to talk business in Rhode Island, talk to a businessman: The WOONSOCKET 5 GREENVILLE 6 Governor." CUMBERLAND HILL VALLEY FALLS PROVIDENCE Johnston CENTRAL FALLS 7 DiPrete's problem in 1988 was not his policies but scandal. In July 1988, it was revealed that PAWTUCKET NORTH PROVIDENCE CONNECTICUT Foster Scituate PROVIDENCE EAST PROVIDENCE 2 CRANSTON MASSACHUSETTS DiPrete, three of his family members and a close adviser had made $2 million in a land deal; also there was a messy Department of Environmental Management incident that smacked of Invoritism and impropriety. DiPrete's image as a modest family man and honest businessman WARWICK WEST WARWICK WRS cast into doubt, and Democrat Bruce Sundlun, a rich entrepreneur who had lost badly in BRISTOL Coventry KENT 1986, attacked fiercely. But DiPrete recovered, and enough doubts were raised about Sundlun's East abilities and past that DiPrete was able to eke out a modest victory. In 1989, with Rhode Island's West Greenwich conomy growing and an unemployment rate well under the national average, DiPrete and the NEWPORT TIVERTON Exeter Tiverton heavily Democratic legislature faced issues like crime, drugs, medicare fees and the right-to-die dilemma. The basic course of state policy seemed set. DiPrete seems likely to run again in 1990. South Kingstown Little HOPE Compton Possible opponents include Providence Mayor Joe Paolino, Warwick Mayor Francis X. Flaherty, VALLEY Richmond former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht (who lost to John Chafee in 1988) and his 1988 Hopkinton KINGSTON WASHINGTON Middletown ASHAWAY apponent, Bruce Sundlun. NEWPORT Charlestown WAKEFIELD- Senators. It must strike anyone as odd that heavily Catholic and ethnic Rhode Island has two PEACEDALE NARRAGANSETT PIER BRADFORD >blooded Protestant Senators. Both of them, Democrat Claiborne Pell and Republican John Westerly Narragansett Chafee, have had unusual careers. Pell, first elected to the Senate in 1960, is now the state's senior politician. His father was congressman from New York for a term, a friend of Franklin (kean SCALE Roosevelt, and minister to Portugal and Hungary-important listening posts-in the early years Atlantic 0 10 20 Kilometers if World War II. Pell himself served as a foreign service officer for several years, then settled on MEN 10 20 Miles Bellevue Avenue in Newport, where you find the Vanderbilt and Auchincloss "cottages." YORK (Rhode Island's Five Families tend to live on Providence's College Hill, with comfy summer New Shoreham N places on Rhode Island Sound; the oceanfront palaces of Newport were built mostly by New Workers.) He is now what he always wanted to be, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations BUREAU OF THE CENSUS apartment of Commerce Committee. 71* 72° It is obligatory in Washington to deprecate Pell's political skills. He has an old-fashioned districts established April 9. 1982 all other boundaries are as of January 1, 1980 aristocratic accent, seems remote and diffident, uses corny old phrases and seems unable to rally colleagues around his standard. Yet there is evidence that if he wears a velvet glove, there is a pause in growth when the Newport Navy base closed in 1973, and for a while iron fist inside. He has gotten everything he wanted in politics, and by whipping the toughest everyone's attention. But by the early 1980s, both parties were ready with ways to competition this tough little state could offer. In the 1960 Democratic primary, he beat former e and build for the future. Governor Dennis Roberts and former Governor, Senator and U.S. Attorney General J. Howard esponded unfavorably to the Democrats' ideas and favorably, at least so far, to McGrath; this was the first time since Green's governorship that a candidate endorsed by the epublicans. Both parties, including Democratic Governor (1976-84) Garrahy Democratic organization was beaten. One opponent in that race called Pell a "cream puff"; he ode Island's high taxes and pro-labor laws (since the 1930s union members could promptly went out and got the endorsement of the bakers' union. In 1972, when Rhode Island loyment benefits while on strike) were stifling the state's economy. Garrahy's was going Republican for President, Pell faced John Chafee, then a popular former governor commission of business and civic leaders which under the guidance of business Secretary of the Navy. Although Chafee began ahead, Pell turned the campaign around and Magaziner (who as an undergraduate had helped restructure Brown Universityin again. It is worth noting that Pell holds the seat won by Theodore Green in 1936 when he duced the Greenhouse Compact, a kind of state industrial policy that would use 69, a seat that a generation of Rhode Island politicians assumed would soon become open; encourage and incubate industry. But the voters, perhaps concerned that the Green, who chaired Foreign Relations himself, retired in 1960 at age 93. Pell has now been ackage would lead to higher taxes, perhaps skeptical of government's ability to elected to serve a total of 30 years in that seat, longer than Green, and he will be 71 when it RHODE ISL 1082 RHODE ISLAND Chafee tends to be rather liberal on cultural and foreign policy issu comes again in 1990. As Chairman up of Foreign Relations, Pell has not been a powerhouse. He has done work northern. on lavorite of the New Right; he supports the ABC child care bill and comparable to William Fulbright's hearings on Vietnam or Richard Lugar's antification law. Yet, easy-going and popular, he won a leadersh Philippines. Pell's instincts are dovish-toward the Democrats' disarmament position, floor, norma elections-chairman of the Republican Conference-over the someti Jake Garn of Utah, 28-25. He continues to hold that post. ization of diplomatic relations with Cuba, banning nuclear weapons on the ocean confrontation For all his popularity in Rhode Island, where he won his first sta banning environmental alteration as a weapon of war-at a time when the more policies of the Reagan Administration produced the INF Treaty, which Pell supported Chafee was nearly defeated for reelection in the recession year of 19 which the Senate ultimately ratified 93-5 but with some reservations. The ranking obstros challenge in 1988. In 1982, former attorney general and state A the committee is Jesse Helms, with his own right-wing agenda, his willingness to Michaelson denounced Reaganomics and drew 49% against Chaf on nominations and his lack of interest in bipartisan cooperation; and Pell does not have a Governor Richard Licht, nephew of the Democrat who beat Chafe attacked Chafee for his social security and medicare votes, and charge majority on the committee. But Pell has had his successes. His opposition to contra in succeeded, though he was not a lead player on the issue; the opponents had a majority to have his beachfront house included in a federally protected area, and Committee seat to give tax breaks to rich friends. Licht showed gr House, not the Senate. He saw the Senate vote South African sanctions. Pell's other major legislative interest is education. He is the second ranking Democral education Chafee in fundraising-a formidable task. But he was unable to be Labor and Human Resources and for years has chaired the subcommittee in charge of reputation, and Chafee's support from environmentalists and his li He made a particular mark in setting up a grant program for attacked needy college economic issues sustained him with many swing voters. In the end, Ch programs. university students; these Pell grants, as they are now officially called, were should ask Ric-an impressive score in the number one Dukakis state. Presidential politics. Rhode Island in 1988 was the number one Duk: fully by the Reagan Administration. Those who disdain Pell's political talents of thousands gave him 56% of its votes in the general election, more than Massach other Senators have their name on a program that sends money to tens of federal market may have gone for Bush, but the Providence media market (v many families in their states every year. He has also been one of the main promoters the arts and of ocean research (Rhode Island's license plates call it the "Ocean State"). and and New Bedford, Massachusetts) voted for Dukakis. The ancestral I After Chafee's challenge, Pell was reelected with 75% and 73% in 1978 in the nearly two-thirds of Rhode Islanders who are Catholics played respectively. Although Congresswoman Claudine Schneider declined to take him on Dukakis's record of encouraging economic development of smaller Ne which Rhode Island has some. Dukakis's liberal stands on cultural is she was reported in early 1989 to be seriously considering the race. But Pell shows no quitting, and he continues to make the rounds of Rhode Island political with meetings the liability. Some might suppose that Catholics here would dislike Dukal christenings and backyard gatherings, quietly and politely keeping in touch and other family issues. In states where Catholics are a beleaguered mil ethnic and Catholic voters whom polls indicate have warm feelings toward him. Schmel find N in shurch positions. But in Rhode Island, where they are a big major would be a strong candidate, but it's not clear that she or any other Republican will (lege; and the mostly Irish clergy has never had a commanding pow Italian and French Canadian Catholics whose family traditions are ofte "cream puff" when the 1990 results are in. Senator John Chafee is Rhode Island's most successful Republican politician fourth in the - prous. Even so, he has had his setbacks: he was defeated when he sought a when Sex in Rhode Island's presidential primary, held the same day as Massacl lowest turnout in the nation, a vestige of the days when Democratic pal years. in 1968, and he lost to Pell in 1972. He came back, however, in 1976 the Democra governor John Pastore retired, profiting from then-Governor Philip Noel's defeat in they don't (Gary Hart won here in 1984), but few Rhode Islanders b Senate primary by a Cadillac dealer who ran a self-financed campaign but exhausted The People: Est. Pop. 1988: 995,000; Pop. 1980: 947,154, up 5.1% 1980- -40% of U.S. total, 42d largest. 13% with 1-3 yrs. col., 15% with 4+ yrs. col. resources. Chafee's popularity comes from a solid, pleasant personality and from his liberal be stands Wagle ancestry: 13% Italian, 8% French, English, Irish, 7% Portuguese issues. On economics, while he is not always a solid conservative, he cannot hostile taken Noottish, Swedish, Russian. Households (1980): 72% family, 37% with chil many for Democrat either. On the Finance Committee he is a critic of greenmail, 1176 housing units rented; median monthly rent: $158; median house valu and a "golden parachutes"-all populist stands, though somewhat vulnerable to the trade charge. (1980): 704,303; 2% Black, 2% Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin. Registered they entrench incompetent managements or oldtimers like the Five Families. On law. party registration. has been inclined toward free trade positions and supported the 1988 trade IMA Share of Federal Tax Burden: $3,818,000,000; 0.43% of U.S. total, Chafee is most active on environmental issues. He was the chief packager in the Senature water projects bill that President Reagan vetoed in 1986, and cooperated with the Environments Democratic Time Share of Federal Expenditures Total Non-Defense bringing it forward and getting it passed over Reagan's veto in early 1987. On his fellow Public Works, where he is ranking minority member, Chafee worked with Final Expend $3,567m (0.40%) $2,768m (0.42%) Mid Grants 644m (0.56%) 641m (0.56%) England Republican Robert Stafford, now retired, to get a stronger Superfund that reauthorize the Clean Air Act. He works hard on clean water as well, making sure products Ria Natury/Wages 503m (0.37%) 205m (0.31%) Plants to Indiv 1,848m (0.45%) 1,779m (0.46%) Island gets its share of funds. He worked on the 1988 ocean dumping critical law and Mocurement 489m (0.26%) 61m (0.13%) commercial fishing vessel safety act. In return, environmentalists provided and 1988. support.) Newarch/Other 84m (0.22%) 82m (0.22%) in money and volunteers, for Chafee in his tough reelection fights of 1982 RHODE ISLAND RHODE ISLAND 1083 n in 1990. Chafee tends to be rather liberal on cultural and foreign policy issues and is anything but a n of Foreign Relations, Pell has not been a powerhouse. He has done nothing Avonte of the New Right; he supports the ABC child care bill and the 1988 plant closing William Fulbright's hearings on Vietnam or Richard Lugar's work on the infication law. Yet, easy-going and popular, he won a leadership post after the 1984 Il's instincts are dovish-toward the Democrats' disarmament position, normal Hirions-chairman of the Republican Conference-over the sometimes intense and abrasive nmental alteration as a weapon of war-at a time when the more confrontations and omatic relations with Cuba, banning nuclear weapons on the ocean floor, like Garn of Utah, 28-25. He continues to hold that post. for all his popularity in Rhode Island, where he won his first statewide election in 1962, Reagan Administration produced the INF Treaty, which Pell supported and was nearly defeated for reelection in the recession year of 1982 and faced a vigorous te ultimately ratified 93-5 but with some reservations. The ranking Republicat fallenge in 1988. In 1982, former attorney general and state AFL-CIO counsel Julius tee is Jesse Helms, with his own right-wing agenda, his willingness to obstruct Michaelson denounced Reaganomics and drew 49% against Chafee. In 1988, Lieutenant d his lack of interest in bipartisan cooperation; and Pell does not have a reliable Governor Richard Licht, nephew of the Democrat who beat Chafee for governor in 1968, e committee. But Pell has had his successes. His opposition to contra stircked Chafee for his social security and medicare votes, and charged that he used influence ugh he was not a lead player on the issue; the opponents had a majority in all the his beachfront house included in a federally protected area, and that he used his Finance Senate. He saw the Senate vote South African sanctions. Committee seat to give tax breaks to rich friends. Licht showed great energy and matched major legislative interest is education. He is the second ranking Democrat Chalee in fundraising-a formidable task. But he was unable to besmirch the Republican's an Resources and for years has chaired the subcommittee in charge of education reputation, and Chafee's support from environmentalists and his liberal positions on some made a particular mark in setting up a grant program for needy college and sooomic issues sustained him with many swing voters. In the end, Chafee won with 55% of the ints; these Pell grants, as they are now officially called, were attacked unsucces an impressive score in the number one Dukakis state. agan Administration. Those who disdain Pell's political talents should ask how Presidential politics. Rhode Island in 1988 was the number one Dukakis state in the nation. It ators have their name on a program that sends money to tens of thousands of him 56% of its votes in the general election, more than Massachusetts; the Boston media states every year. He has also been one of the main promoters of federal aid 10 market may have gone for Bush, but the Providence media market (which includes Fall River ocean research (Rhode Island's license plates call it the "Ocean State") and New Bedford, Massachusetts) voted for Dukakis. The ancestral Democratic preference of e's challenge, Pell was reelected with 75% and 73% in 1978 and 1984 the nearly two-thirds of Rhode Islanders who are Catholics played some role here; so did though Congresswoman Claudine Schneider declined to take him on in 1984 Dukakis's record of encouraging economic development of smaller New England mill towns, of d in early 1989 to be seriously considering the race. But Pell shows no signs which Rhode Island has some. Dukakis's liberal stands on cultural issues were not much of a e continues to make the rounds of Rhode Island political meetings and of ability. Some might suppose that Catholics here would dislike Dukakis's positions on abortion backyard gatherings, quietly and politely keeping in touch with the mostly andother family issues. In states where Catholics are a beleaguered minority, they do often cling holic voters whom polls indicate have warm feelings toward him. Schneider schurch positions. But in Rhode Island, where they are a big majority, they don't feel under g candidate, but it's not clear that she or any other Republican will find Pell and the mostly Irish clergy has never had a commanding power over the state's mostly hen the 1990 results are in. Illian and French Canadian Catholics whose family traditions are often anticlerical rather than Chafee is Rhode Island's most successful Republican politician in the last 50 he has had his setbacks: he was defeated when he sought a fourth term Rhode Island's presidential primary, held the same day as Massachusetts's, has some of the and he lost to Pell in 1972. He came back, however, in 1976 when Senator as owest turnout in the nation, a vestige of the days when Democratic party bosses had sway. Now tired, profiting from then-Governor Philip Noel's defeat in the Democratic they don't (Gary Hart won here in 1984), but few Rhode Islanders bother to vote anyway. y a Cadillac dealer who ran a self-financed campaign but exhausted most of his larity comes from a solid, pleasant personality and from his liberal stands on The 140% of U.S. total, 42d largest. 13% with 1-3 yrs. col., 15% with 4+ yrs. col.; 10.3% below poverty level. People: Est. Pop. 1988: 995,000; Pop. 1980: 947,154, up 5.1% 1980-88 and dn. 0.3% 1970-80; economics, while he is not always a solid conservative, he cannot be mistaken Single ancestry: 13% Italian, '8% French, English, Irish, 7% Portuguese, 2% Polish; 1% German, ither. On the Finance Committee he is a critic of greenmail, hostile takeovers. Smittish, Swedish, Russian. Households (1980): 72% family, 37% with children, 59% married couples; chutes"-all populist stands, though somewhat vulnerable to the charge that 11.2% housing units rented; median monthly rent: $158; median house value: $47,000. Voting age pop. (1980): 704,303; 2% Black, 2% Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin. Registered voters (1988): 548,758; no ompetent managements or oldtimers like the Five Families. On trade issues, he toward free trade positions and supported the 1988 trade law. party registration. active on environmental issues. He was the chief packager in the Senate of the 1988 Share of Federal Tax Burden: $3,818,000,000; 0.43% of U.S. total, 40th largest. that President Reagan vetoed in 1986, and cooperated with the Democrats in d and getting it passed over Reagan's veto in early 1987. On Environment and 1988 Share of Federal Expenditures Total Non-Defense Defense here he is ranking minority member, Chafee worked with his fellow: New can Robert Stafford, now retired, to get a stronger Superfund and to Total Expend $3,567m (0.40%) $2,768m (0.42%) $860m (0.38%) Si/Lcl Grants 644m (0.56%) 641m (0.56%) 2m (1.98%)' lean Air Act. He works hard on clean water as well, making sure that Rhode Salary/Wages 503m (0.37%) 205m (0.31%) 298m (0.31%) are of funds. He worked on the 1988 ocean dumping law and produced 1 Pymnts to Indiv 1,848m (0.45%) 1,779m (0.46%) 69m (0.37%) vessel safety act. In return, environmentalists provided critical support, both Procurement 489m (0.26%) 61m (0.13%) 489m (0.26%) inteers, for Chafee in his tough reelection fights of 1982 and 1988. Research/Other 84m (0.22%) 82m (0.22%) 2m (0.22%) 1088 RHODE ISLAND RHODE ] establishment. But he was at the right place at the right time, and in November 1988 beat house-painter-turned-congressman; she came back and won in 1980 Germain and became the first Republican elected to Congress in the 1st District in 50 years Beard's weaknesses; her four reelection wins, by increasing ma Can he stay there? He got a seat on the Armed Services Committee, which has some local importance, and he says he wants to emphasize issues like acid rain, global warming, and serious ocean prohibit construction of Navy ships abroad. She was one of the ( strengths. In her first term, she voted against Reagan budget dumping-popular here and notexactly a New Right agenda. But he's certain to have necessful in 1983, to kill the Clinch River breeder reactor. She has opposition. Wolf has said he will run again and seems to have the capacity to be a; serve ssues-popular in this ocean-conscious district-and claims some o candidate, and some of the Democrats who supported St Germain or were simply too coward Umiting ocean dumping and promoting the protection of endangere to oppose him may run too. Certainly this is a seat that both parties expect to be serious well on hazardous waste and the Civil Rights Restoration Act. contested. Schneider is generally given the label of liberal Republican, but The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 480,700, up 1.3% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 474,429, dn. 2.8% units 1970-1 votes with market-oriented Republicans, and her interest in new app Households (1980): 71% family, 35% with children, 58% married couples; 45.3% housing 2% her to vote for Newt Gingrich, a conservative similarly interested median monthly rent: $157; median house value: $48,600. Voting age pop. (1980): 357,096; 1989 race for whip. Schneider considered running against Senator C 2% Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin. early 11 1989 the talk was that she was likely to do so in 1990. Her own 112,949 (57%) Dukakis (R) witnessed by her rousing reelection victory; but Pell is also ex 1988 Presidential Vote: 83,140 (42%) Bush (D) Doaten a highly popular Republican, his current colleague John Cha in November 1990, but he seems in good health, and Schneide rationale for replacing a Senator with whom most Rhode Islanders h: Rep. Ronald Keith Machtley (R) Elected 1988; b. July 8, 1934, Johnstown, PA; home, Portsmer Bewever, she will almost certainly run and might very well be th U.S. Naval Academy, B.S. 1970, Suffolk U. J.D., 1978; Protestion Democratic attorney general James E. O'Neal is rumored to be Chneider does decide to challenge Pell. married (Kati). Career: U.S. Navy, 1970-75; Practicing atty. 1978-88. The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 494,200, up 4.5% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: Offices: 1123 LHOB 20515, 202-225-4911. Also 200 Main touscholds (1980): 74% family, 38% with children, 60% married couples Pawtucket 02860, 401-725-9400. exidian monthly rent: $159; median house value: $45,700. Voting age pop Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin. Committees: Armed Services (21st of 21 R). Subcomm Military Personnel and Compensation; Readiness. Small Buts 1988 Presidential Vote: Dukakis (D). 112, (18th of 18 R). Select Committee on Children, Youth and Bush (R) 94,6 (12th of 12 R). Claudine Schneider (R) Elected 1980; b. Mar. 25, 1947, Clairt Rosemont Col., U. of Barcelona, Spair Roman Catholic; divorced. Group Ratings and Key Votes: Newly Elected Career: Founder, RI Cmtee. on End Election Results servation Law Foundation, 1973-78; Ronald K. Machtley (R) 105,506 (56%) on Providence TV, 1979-80. 1988 general Fernand J. St Germain (D) 84,141 (44%) Offices: 1512 LHOB 20515, 202-22 1988 primary Ronald K. Machtley (R), unopposed Cranston 02910, 401-528-5020. Fernand J. St Germain (D) 85,077 (58%) 1986 general John A. Holmes Jr. (R) 62,397 (42%) Committees: Merchant Marine and Subcommittees: Fisheries and Wildlife ronment; Oversight and Investigation ence, Space and Technology (3d of 19 Resources, Agriculture Research a SECOND DISTRICT Member); Science, Research and Tec The 2d Congressional District is the western half of Rhode Island. While the 1st includest like on Aging (8th of 27 R). Subcommitt mill towns, the 2d has most of its population in working and middle-class suburbs Care. and Warwick, which despite their Anglo-Saxon names are inhabited mostly by people Retings Italian, French and Portuguese surnames. Some of Providence's rich suburbs are alsolete ADA to a very marginal degree this is Rhode Island's more Republican district. ACLU COPE CFA LCV ACU 80 NTLC Its Congresswoman since 1980 has been Republican Claudine Schneider. She got her 71 73 91 81 17 72 53 politics by opposing a nuclear plant and running a losing race in 1978 against Edward 69 57 I 26 I E ISLAND RHODE ISLAND 1089 at the right place at the right time, and in November 1988 beat Si e-painter-turned-congressman; she came back and won in 1980. That victory she may owe to first Republican elected to Congress in the 1st District in 50 years. leard's weaknesses; her four reelection wins, by increasing margins, she owes to her own got a seat on the Armed Services Committee, which has some local trengths. In her first term, she voted against Reagan budget cuts and sponsored a law to wants to emphasize issues like acid rain, global warming, and ocean ruhibit construction of Navy ships abroad. She was one of the leaders in the fight, finally nd notexactly a New Right agenda. But he's certain to have serious wccessful in 1983, to kill the Clinch River breeder reactor. She has specialized in environmental he will run again and seems to have the capacity to be a serious sues-popular in this ocean-conscious district-and claims some of the credit for the 1988 laws Democrats who supported St Germain or were simply too cowardly miting ocean dumping and promoting the protection of endangered species. She has worked as 00. Certainly this is a seat that both parties expect to be seriously on hazardous waste and the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Schneider is generally given the label of liberal Republican, but on economic issues she often eswith market-oriented Republicans, and her interest in new approaches and ideas prompted 86: 480,700, up 1.3% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 474,429, dn. 2.8% 1970-80. mily, 35% with children, 58% married couples; 45.3% housing units rented; vote for Newt Gingrich, a conservative similarly interested in new ideas, in the March median house value: $48,600. Voting age pop. (1980): 357,096; 2% Black, 989 race for whip. Schneider considered running against Senator Claiborne Pell in 1984, and in in origin. arly 1989 the talk was that she was likely to do so in 1990. Her own popularity statewide is high, witnessed by her rousing reelection victory; but Pell is also exceedingly popular and has Dukakis (R) 112,949 (57%) Bush (D) 83,140 (42%) beaten a highly popular Republican, his current colleague John Chafee, before. Pell will turn be November 1990, but he seems in good health, and Schneider needs to come up with a nitionale for replacing a Senator with whom most Rhode Islanders have no quarrel. If he retires, tley (R) nwever, she will almost certainly run and might very well be the favorite to win. Already, Elected 1988; b. July 8, 1934, Johnstown, PA; home, Portsmouth, Democratic attorney general James E. O'Neal is rumored to be interested in this seat if U.S. Naval Academy, B.S. 1970, Suffolk U. J.D., 1978; Protestant; Schneider does decide to challenge Pell. married (Kati). Career: U.S. Navy, 1970-75; Practicing atty. 1978-88. The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 494,200, up 4.5% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 472,725, up 2.4% 1970-80. Households (1980): 74% family, 38% with children, 60% married couples; 37.0% housing units rented; Offices: 1123 LHOB 20515, 202-225-4911. Also 200 Main St., median monthly rent: $159; median house value: $45,700. Voting age pop. (1980): 347,207; 3% Black, Pawtucket 02860, 401-725-9400. Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin. Committees: Armed Services (21st of 21 R). Subcommittees: Military Personnel and Compensation; Readiness: Small Business M Presidential Vote: Dukakis (D) 112,174 (54%) (18th of 18 R). Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families Bush (R) 94,621 (46%) (12th of 12 R). Rep. Claudine Schneider (R) Elected 1980; b. Mar. 25, 1947, Clairton, PA; home, Narragansett; Rosemont Col., U. of Barcelona, Spain, Windham Col., B.A. 1969; Roman Catholic; divorced. otes: Newly Elected Career: Founder, RI Cmtee. on Energy, 1973; Exec. Dir., Con- servation Law Foundation, 1973-78; Producer, pub. affairs prog. on Providence TV, 1979-80. Id K. Machtley (R) 105,506 (56%) ($385,402) and J. St Germain (D) 84,141 (44%) ($801,289) Offices: 1512 LHOB 20515, 202-225-2735. Also 30 Rolfe Sq., Id K. Machtley (R), unopposed Cranston 02910, 401-528-5020. and J. St Germain (D) 85,077 (58%) ($848,082) Committees: Merchant Marine and Fisheries (6th of 17 R). A. Holmes Jr. (R) 62,397 (42%) ($340,458) Subcommittees: Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Envi- ronment; Oversight and Investigations (Ranking Member). Sci- ence, Space and Technology (3d of 19 R). Subcommittees: Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment (Ranking CT Member); Science, Research and Technology. Select Committee District is the western half of Rhode Island. While the 1st includes many on Aging (8th of 27 R). Subcommittee: Health and Long-Term nost of its population in working and middle-class suburbs like Cranston Care. spite their Anglo-Saxon names are inhabited mostly by people with Irish, Group Ratings tuguese surnames. Some of Providence's rich suburbs are also here, and CEI ree this is Rhode Island's more Republican district. ADA ACLU COPE CFA LCV ACU NTLC NSI COC since 1980 has been Republican Claudine Schneider. She got her start in 1988 80 71 73 91 81 17 53 10 38 26 1987 72 - 69 57 - 26 - - 60 34 nuclear plant and running a losing race in 1978 against Edward Beard, CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER FUNDRAISER WARWICK, R.I. ROCKY POINT PALLADIUM NOV. 20, 1989 6:00 P.M. THANK YOU, CLAUDINE, JOHN [CHAFFEE], ED [DIPRETE] AND RON [MATCHLEY]. AND LET US ALL GIVE A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE WOONSOCKETT HIGH SCHOOL BAND. ((AND I JUST HAVE TO SAY, I'M PLEASED TO VISIT THE ROCKY POINT PALLADIUM. YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE BEEN TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK IN YEARS. IN FACT, I WANTED TO RIDE THE CORKSCREW, BUT THE SECRET SERVICE WOULDN'T LET ME.)) 11 BUT IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK IN THE HOME OF so MANY GREAT RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN LEADERS -- SENATOR CHAFEE, GOVERNOR DIPRETE AND CONGRESSWOMAN CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER. - 2 - SINCE THE FIRST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC, THE RHODE ISLAND BRAND OF LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN MARKED BY A TENACIOUS, FIERCE, INDIVIDUALISM. THIS LITTLE STATE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FRIEND OF DISSENT, A MECCA FOR MAVERICKS, AND A HOME FOR THE SELF-RELIANT. RHODE ISLAND IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE, PERSONIFIED BY THE STATUE ATOP YOUR CAPITOL -- THE VERY IMAGE OF THE INDEPENDENT MAN. BUT IT IS ON BEHALF OF AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN THAT I HAVE COME TO PROVIDENCE TONIGHT. I AM HERE TO STAND BY A GREAT LEADER FOR RHODE ISLAND AND AMERICA. I AM HERE FOR MY FRIEND, CLAUDINE. 11 AND IT'S INTERESTING -- PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON AND RHODE ISLAND NEVER REFER TO HER AS CONGRESSWOMAN SCHNEIDER. SHE IS, TO US ALL, JUST CLAUDINE, A DOWN- TO-EARTH LADY WHO STILL MAKES HER OWN CLOTHES. - 3 - BUT APPROACHABLE AS SHE IS, MAKE NO MISTAKE -- CLAUDINE IS A CHAMP. AFTER ALL, SHE WAS THE WINNER OF THE NIKE CAPITAL CHALLENGE 5K FOR FIVE YEARS IN A ROW. THIS IS THE PACE CLAUDINE HAS SET IN THE HOUSE, ALWAYS AHEAD OF THE PACK, ALWAYS OUT IN FRONT. AND THIS IS THE PACE SHE IS SETTING FOR THE FUTURE. SOMETIMES, PACE-SETTERS RUN ALONE. SOMETIMES, CLAUDINE DISAGREES WITH HER PARTY. BUT WITH CLAUDINE, I CAN ALWAYS BANK ON ONE THING. I ALWAYS KNOW EXACTLY WHERE SHE STANDS -- RIGHT BY HER PRINCIPLES. CLAUDINE IS A PACE-SETTER WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT. SHE WAS A SPONSOR OF LEGISLATION TO REDUCE HAZARDOUS WASTE AT THE SOURCE, TO GIVE COMPANIES INCENTIVES TO RECYCLE, BECAUSE SHE KNOWS THAT IT IS EASIER TO PREVENT TOXIC WASTE THAN IT IS TO CLEAN IT UP. 11 - 4 - CLAUDINE WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN THE PASSAGE OF THE OCEAN DUMPING LAW -- -- CRITICAL IF WE ARE TO CLEAN UP THE SHORELINES OF AMERICA. SHE HAS WORKED HARD TO HALT THE CONTINUING TRAGEDY OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION. AND SHE HAS BEEN AMONG THE FOREMOST GUARDIANS OF THOSE RARE AND WONDERFUL SPECIES ENDANGERED BY MAN AND HIS CHAINSAWS. (CLAUDINE, LOOKING OVER YOUR COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS, I ALSO NOTICED YOU'RE A LEADING MEMBER OF THE FISHERIES SUBCOMMITTEE ... so I'M SURE YOU'LL BE PLEASED TO HEAR THAT WITH MY RECORD AS A FISHERMAN, NO SPECIES ARE ENDANGERED BY ME.))\\ - 5 - BUT I DO SHARE HER CONCERN FOR THE FUTURE OF ENDANGERED SPECIES, AND THAT IS WHY MY ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED A BAN IN JULY OF THE IMPORTATION OF AFRICAN ELEPHANT IVORY INTO THE UNITED STATES. 11 I ALSO SHARE YOUR CONCERN FOR THE QUALITY OF THE WATER WE DRINK, THE AIR WE BREATHE, AND THE FUTURE OF OUR LAND. AND IT IS OUT OF THIS CONCERN THAT I ASKED THE EPA AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON THOSE WHO POLLUTE OUR WATERS AND OUR BEACHES. WE ARE DETERMINED TO FIGHT TOXIC AIR EMISSIONS. AND WE CAN BE GRATEFUL THAT THE EPA HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO BE MORE AGGRESSIVE IN ENFORCING THE CLEAN-UP OF HAZARDOUS WASTE. BUT WE ARE LEARNING THAT NO NATION CAN SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT BY ITSELF. POLLUTION RESPECTS NO BORDERS; POLLUTION IS A WORLD PROBLEM; AND ONLY A WORLD SOLUTION WILL STOP IT.\\ A WORLD SOLUTION CAN BEGIN WITH THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION. so WHEN I MEET PRESIDENT GORBACHEV IN MALTA, I WILL SEEK HIS ACTIVE COOPERATION IN CLEANING UP THE ENVIRONMENT.\\ - 6 - AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT, WE'VE GOT TO CLEAN UP OUR STREETS -- BY FIGHTING THE SCOURGE OF DRUGS AND ITS ACCOMPLICE, VIOLENT CRIME. OUR CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE TO AVOID DRUGS, THROUGH A VIGOROUS ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN IN THE SCHOOLS. USERS AND ADDICTS DESERVE A CHANCE TO GO CLEAN THROUGH TREATMENT. BUT SOCIETY ALSO DESERVES A CHANCE, BY SENDING DRUG DEALERS WHERE THEY BELONG -- TO DO TIME -- HARD TIME.\ AND I KNOW THAT CLAUDINE AGREES. LAST MAY, I ASKED CONGRESS TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR OUR DRUG EDUCATION AND PREVENTION EFFORTS BY NEARLY $1.1 BILLION -- A 16 PERCENT INCREASE. BUT I AM ALSO ASKING FOR INCREASES IN MY CRIME AND IN MY DRUG PACKAGES FOR MORE POLICE, MORE PRISONS AND MORE PROSECUTORS. AGAIN, SOCIETY DESERVES A CHANCE. 11 AND I CHALLENGE CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION NOW AND PASS MY CRIME LEGISLATION. - 7 - THERE ARE SO MANY CHILDREN IN AMERICA WHO DESERVE A CHANCE, AND ARE NOT GETTING IT, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LEARNING TO READ, LEARNING TO WRITE, LEARNING FOR WORK. THAT IS WHY I WAS PLEASED TO JOIN GOVERNOR DIPRETE AND HIS COLLEAGUES IN THE STATES IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, TO JOIN IN A COMPACT TO IMPROVE OUR SCHOOLS THROUGH THE PRINCIPLES OF CHOICE IN EDUCATION, MORE FLEXIBILITY FOR STATES AND FOR TEACHERS, AND INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY. THERE ARE OTHERS IN AMERICA WHO ALSO DESERVE A CHANCE. AND so I AM PROUD TO ASK FOR THE REAUTHORIZATION OF THE COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS. I AM ALSO PROUD TO ENDORSE THE HATE CRIMES BILL TO IDENTIFY AND FIGHT BIGOTRY. BUT, WE MUST GO ONE STEP FURTHER -- WE MUST END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE DISABLED. 11 AND, OF COURSE, CLAUDINE HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF SECURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF US ALL. MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID: "INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE." IN THIS SPIRIT, CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER IS SUCH A FERVENT ADVOCATE OF THE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES AND WOMEN. SHE BELIEVES THAT INJUSTICE TO ANY AMERICAN, IS AN INJUSTICE TO ALL AMERICANS. - 8 - WE HAVE ALL SEEN HOW THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE RESHAPING THE WORLD. AND, BECAUSE OF THIS CHANGE, AT NO TIME IN THE LONG HISTORY OF THE POSTWAR YEARS HAS DIALOGUE BEEN MORE IMPORTANT BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS. so I WILL GO TO MALTA TO CONTINUE OUR DIALOGUE WITH PRESIDENT GORBACHEV. BUT, AS I WORK WITH HIM, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT AMERICAN AND SOVIET LEADERS AT ALL LEVELS ARE INVOLVED IN FRANK AND MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE. WE CAN ALL BE GRATEFUL FOR CLAUDINE, BECAUSE SHE HAS PERFORMED AN INVALUABLE SERVICE, BY ORIGINATING A LIVE NETWORK SHOW THAT ALLOWS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO HAVE A CANDID EXCHANGE ON ISSUES FROM ARMS CONTROL TO THE ENVIRONMENT WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN THE SUPREME SOVIET. so CLAUDINE, YOU HAVE BEEN A LEADER IN THE ENVIRONMENT, IN THE WAR ON CRIME AND DRUGS, IN ADVANCING CIVIL RIGHTS AND IN PROMOTING A DIALOGUE WITH THE SOVIETS. IS IT ANY WONDER THAT YOUR FUTURE IS BRIGHT WITH PROMISE? - 9 - YOU HAVE MADE A GREAT CONGRESSWOMAN. AND I HAVE TO SAY -- YOU'D MAKE A GREAT SENATOR. III AMERICA NEEDS YOUR ENERGY, YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR LEADERSHIP -- THE LEADERSHIP OF A PACE-SETTER, NOT A FOLLOWER. THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TO RHODE ISLAND. GOD BLESS YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. # # # Davis/Martin Title: Claudine Nov. 17, 1989 Draft: Five PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, WARWICK, R.I. ROCKY POINT PALLADIUM 6:00 p.m. Monday, Nov. 20, 1989 Thank you, Claudine, John and Ed. ((Acknowledgements -- Phil Terzian and Charles Bakst) ) And let us all give a special thanks to the Woonsockett High School Band. 11 ( (And I just have to say, I'm pleased to visit the Rocky Point Palladium. You know, this is the first time I've been to an amusement park in years. In fact, I wanted to ride the Corkscrew, but the Secret Service wouldn't let me.) ) 11 But it's great to be back in the home of so many great Rhode Island Republican leaders -- Senator Chafee, Governor DiPrete and Congresswoman Claudine Schneider. \\ Since the first days of the Republic, the Rhode Island brand of leadership has been marked by a tenacious, fierce, individualism. This little state has always been a big friend of dissent, a mecca for mavericks, and a home for the self-reliant. Rhode Island is, and will always be, personified by the statue atop your Capitol -- the very image of the Independent Man. But it is on behalf of an independent woman that I have come to Providence tonight. I am here to stand by a great leader for Rhode Island and America. I am here for my friend, Claudine. And it's interesting -- people in Washington and Rhode Island never refer to her as Congresswoman Schneider. In fact, 2 if you were to call her that, many at first wouldn't know who you were talking about. She is, to us all, just Claudine, a down-to- earth lady who still makes her own clothes. But approachable as she is, make no mistake -- Claudine is a champ 11 After all, she was the winner of the Nike Capital Challenge 5K for five years in a row. This is the pace Claudine has set in the House, always ahead of the pack, always out in front. And this is the pace she is setting for the future. Sometimes, pace-setters run alone. Sometimes, Claudine disagrees with her party. But with Claudine, I can always bank on one thing. I always know exactly where she stands -- right by her principles. Claudine is a pace-setter when it comes to the worldwide struggle to preserve and protect the environment. She was a sponsor of legislation to reduce hazardous waste at the source, to give companies incentives to recycle, because she knows that it is easier to prevent toxic waste than it is to clean it up. Claudine was also instrumental in the passage of the Ocean Dumping law -- critical if we are to clean up the shorelines of America. She has worked hard to halt the continuing tragedy of tropical deforestation. And she has been among the foremost guardians of those rare and wonderful species endangered by man and his chainsaws. ( (Claudine, looking over your committee assignments, I also noticed you're a leading member of the Fisheries subcommittee 3 So I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that with my record as a fisherman, no species are endangered by me. ) ) But I do share her concern for the future of endangered species, and that is why my administration announced a ban in July of the importation of African Elephant Ivory into the United States. I also share your concern for the quality of the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the future of our land. That is why I have asked the EPA and the Justice Department to crack down on those who pollute our waters and our beaches; that is why I am determined fight toxic air emissions with my Clean Air proposal; and that is why I instructed the EPA to be more aggressive in enforcing the clean-up of hazardous waste. But we are learning that no nation can save the environment by itself. Pollution respects no borders; pollution is a world problem; and only a world solution will stop it.\\ A world solution can begin with the United States and the Soviet Union. So when I meet President Gorbachev in Malta, I will seek his active cooperation in cleaning up the environment And while we're at it, we've got it to clean up our streets -- by fighting the scourge of drugs and its accomplice, violent crime. I believe that children deserve a chance to avoid drugs, through a vigorous anti-drug campaign in the schools. I believe that users and addicts deserve a chance to go clean through treatment. But I also believe that society deserves a chance, by 4 sending drug dealers where they belong -- to do time -- hard time. \\ And I know that Claudine agrees. Last May, I asked Congress to increase funding for our drug education and prevention efforts by nearly $1.1 billion -- a 16 percent increase. But I am also asking for increases in my crime and in my drug packages for more police, more prisons and more prosecutors. Again, society deserves a chance. And I challenge Congress to get off the dime and pass my crime legislation. There are so many children in America who deserve a chance, and are not getting it, because they are not learning to read, learning to write, learning for work. That is why I was pleased to join Governor DiPrete and his colleagues in the states in Charlottesville, to enact a compact to improve our schools with the principles of choice in education, flexibility for states and for teachers, and to bring accountability. There are others in America who also deserve a chance. And that is why I am proud to ask for the reauthorization for the Commission on Civil Rights. I am proud to endorse the Hate Crimes Bill to identify and fight bigotry. And I believe we must go one step further -- we must end discrimination against the disabled. And, of course, Claudine has been at the forefront of securing the civil rights of us all. Martin Luther King said: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." And that is why Claudine Schneider is such a fervent advocate of the 5 rights of minorities and women. She believes that injustice to any American, is an injustice to all Americans. We have all seen how the winds of change are reshaping the world. And, because of this change, at no time in the long history of the postwar years has dialogue been more important between the superpowers. That is why I am going to Malta, to continue our dialogue with President Gorbachev. As I work with him, it can only be helpful for all the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union to keep in touch. That is why I am grateful for Claudine, because she has performed an invaluable service, by originating a live network show that allows Members of Congress to have a candid exchange on issues from arms control to the environment with their counterparts in the Supreme Soviet. So Claudine, you have been a leader in the environment, in the war on crime and drugs, in advancing civil rights and in promoting a dialogue with the Soviets. Is it any wonder that your future is bright with promise? You have made a great Congresswoman. And I have to say -- you'd make a great Senator. \\\ America needs your energy, your spirit and your leadership --- the leadership of a pace-setter, not a follower. Thank you for inviting me to Rhode Island. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. # # #