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SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
Monday, June 10, 1991
10:00 am
B Arrive White House
South Lawn
10:00 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
10:30 am
Media Interview
(15 min)
Oval Office
(Fitzwater)
(TAB A)
10:45 am
Personal Staff Time
(15 min)
Oval Office
11:00 am
Staff Time
(15 min)
Oval Office
(Fitzwater)
(TAB B)
11:15 am
Media Interview
(20 min)
Oval Office
(Fitzwater)
(TAB C)
11:45 am
Staff Time
(10 min)
Oval Office
(Demarest)
(TAB D)
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(60 min)
Oval Office
EPA Administrator
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(30 min)
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(30 min)
Oval Office
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Photo Opportunities
(20 min)
(TAB E)
Oval Office
1. Departing USSS Agents (3)
(Zamaria)
2. Gordon Freesman (Zamaria)
3. LTCOL Dallas D. Diederich
(Bateman)
2:50 pm
Personal Staff Time
(25 min)
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2:00 p.m.
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(Holiday)
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3:45 pm
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4:15 pm
Administrative Time
(45 min)
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Members of Congress
(McClure)
(TAB G)
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10:20
Trude Feldman In
10:33 Fitwates In
10:45
Feldman Out
10:55
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11:00
Scowcreft, Gates. Fitzwater, Roger Porter, In
11:07
Sununu In
11:16
Jim Geistenzang. David Lauter/In
11:43
sowcroft out
11:45
Sununu out
11:50
Dorance smilh, Dave Demarest In, Card In
12:01
Sununu In
12:07
Smidh, Denarest out
12:09
William Reilly In
12:10
Scowcroft In
1:05
Scowcroft, Sununu, Reilly Out
1:11
Sununu In
1:26
Sununu Out
1:30
Brady (sec.) In
2:02
Sunanu, Martinez, Scowcroft, Holiday In
2:06
Brady Out
2:36
Martinez, Holiday Scowcroft out
2:45
Sunnnu out
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5:00 pm
3:00
Photo Ops out
3:57
Sec. Cheney, scowcroft In
4:40
Cheney, Scowcroft out
1
INVESTING IN THE FUTURE
2
ENHANCING ECONOMIC GROWTH
P/FILE- Brief for L.A. Tims
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GREATER TO INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
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OPPORTUNITY
Economic and Domestic Agenda
Legislative Accomplishments
Largest budget deficit reduction legislation in the
nation's history reducing Federal borrowing requirements
by almost $500 billion over the next five years;
Most significant clean air legislation in history;
Major reform and expansion of child care including largest
increase ever in resources for poor families;
The Americans with Disabilities Act, the most significant
civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of
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First major reform of the legal immigration system in 25
years;
Affordable housing legislation that moves toward a new
emphasis on home ownership;
Future
A comprehensive farm bill with greater reliance on market
forces;
Invoto
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First legislation since 1977 to increase the minimum wage
including for the first time a training wage;
Educ
Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement
institutions.
National education goals, produced in partnership with the
"II PA To
Edupat
Act to safeguard depositors and stabilize America's thrift
Other Accomplishments
Industrials
Nation's governors, and America 2000, a strategy to meet
these goals by the end of the decade. Championed new
ideas such as educational choice and alternative
certification.
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Extension of the fast track authority for negotiating
international trade agreements. Uruguay Round, North
America Free Trade Agreement and Enterprise for the
Americas.
First comprehensive drug strategy and a seventy percent
increase in Federal resources to combat drug abuse.
Signature
Vetoed twenty-one bills without being overridden once.
an. Researg the med the # clou bill
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Current Proposals
Surface Transportation Act to strengthen significantly the
Nation's transportation infrastructure;
Crime Bill to combat violent crime and enhance the ability
of police to ensure the safety of all Americans.
Banking Legislation to help ensure the continued strength
of our Nation's financial system.
National Energy Strategy, a comprehensive and balanced
plan for a secure, efficient, and environmentally sound
energy future.
Medical malpractice reform to reduce the cost and increase
the quality availability of health care.
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
P-
June 10, 1991
MEETING WITH
fyi.
ADMINISTRATOR, EPA, WILLIAM REILLY
DATE: June 10, 1991
Bob Gates
LOCATION: Oval Office
TIME: 12:00-1:00 PM
will not
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT B be here
I. PURPOSE
(Bill Knnws)
To hear Administrator Reilly's report on his June 2-5 trip,
undertaken at your request, to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
II. BACKGROUND
Administrator Reilly held discussions with senior officials
dealing with oil and environmental issues and toured oil
spill sites off Saudi Arabia and the oil fires in Kuwait.
After the initial oil spill in January, a Coast Guard-led
interagency team provided key support to Saudi Arabia in
establishing a response plan. We are now coordinating our
activities through the International Maritime Organization
(IMO).
NOAA is coordinating U.S. efforts to monitor the effects of
the Kuwait oil fires. International coordination is being
provided by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO),
with which we are cooperating closely. In addition, the
Public Health Service is working with the World Health
Organization (WHO).
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are keen to keep the U.S. involved
but want our activities to be part of the IMO, WMO and WHO
efforts.
III. PARTICIPANTS
See Tab B
IV. PRESS PLAN
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V. SEQUENCE
After your introductory remarks, Administrator Reilly will
brief you on his trip.
Attachments
Tab A
Points to be Made
Tab B
Participants
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
POINTS TO BE MADE FOR MEETING WITH
ADMINISTRATOR REILLY
Welcome back. I look forward to hearing your impressions on
your trip to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
PARTICIPANTS
The President
John H. Sununu, Chief of Staff
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security
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Robert M. Gates, Assistant to the President and Deputy for
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DATED MATERIAL
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1991
FI
The New Intellectuals at the Fed
speeches, have their staffs conduct
Alan Greenspan is
Fed's vice chairman, they are: W. Lee
research and write scholarly papers,
Hoskins, a Milton Friedman disciple who
write papers of their own and circu-
heads the Cleveland Federal Reserve
boss. But three
late comments on colleagues' work.
Bank and frequently dissents from major-
The three are also considered adept
ity decisions, and Wayne D. Angell, a Fed
others are helping
at interacting with their colleagues
governor and contrarian who has taken
both in the office and socially.
stands that have earned him first the label
The idea that the Fed could let
forge a new order.
of a dove, later that of a hawk.
inflation creep up a little in order to
Mr. Mullins, who is 45, and Mr. Hoskins,
bring down unemployment was a pol-
who is 50, were children in the prosperous,
icy staple of the 1960's. The tandem
low-inflation Eisenhower era and came of
By SYLVIA NASAR
rise of inflation and unemployment in
age in the restless 1960's. Mr. Angell, who
the 1970's killed that thought. "Not
is 61. was raised in the Depression and
AST July, when the Federal Reserve
only do I think there is no long-term
Dust Bowl years on a Kansas farm and
trade-off between inflation and
Board's powerful Federal Open Mar-
was a wheat farmer and state legislator.
ket Committee met to decide the cen-
growth, but I think there is no short-
He taught economics at a Baptist college
tral bank's next move in managing the
term trade-off either," said Mr. Mul-
before becoming a central banker.
lins. "If we drove down short-term
nation's money supply, a new member,
At the Fed, the new consensus generally
Fed governor David W. Mullins Jr., did not
interest rates aggressively now. we
favors the kind of steady-as-she-goes,
hesitate to speak up.
would drive up long-term rates, mak-
hard-money policies that central bankers
On the eve of the meeting. which is
ing the recession longer."
pursued back in the Eisenhower and Ken-
always conducted in strict secrecy and in
That inflation is ultimately fueled
as formal a manner as a Japanese Kabuki
by excessive money growth is a mon-
nedy years. when inflation rarely crept
play. there were signs that the nation's
etarist notion that is now all but gos-
over 2 percent and home mortgage rates
banks were becoming unusually reluctant
pel within the Fed. Mr. Mullins, Mr.
stayed south of 6 percent.
to make loans to business The worry was
Hoskins and Mr. Angell - as well as
"I don't think there are broad philosoph-
that credit-starved companies would be
Mr. Greenspan all agree that the
ical differences at the Fed." Mr. Mullins
forced to slash spending. weakening the
Fed should gradually lower the
said. Debates mostly concern assess-
already-sluggish economy The F.O.M.C
growth of M2, the broad measure of
ments of the economy and how best to
had to decide whether to nudge interest
the money supply, to roughly the
implement monetary policy, not goals or
rates down, a move that would loosen
same rate as the growth of the econo-
the long-run course that has been set.
my's productive capacity.
credit and might keep the er onomy from
The new consensus. heavily influenced
slowing more The risk was tha: easier
by recent academic research and modern
Matching deeds to words, the Fed
credit might fan inflation fears and push
theories of finance and rational expecta-
has nudged down its targets for mon-
up long-term interest rates.
tions. is a far cry from the one that domi-
ey supply growth since the mid-
Mr. Mullins. by his own account waded
nated the 1970's. when the Fed was sup-
1980's. Actual growth in the past four
posed to smooth out the ups and downs of
years has averaged half the pace of
right in He argued that lowering the Fed.
the American economy, and began to
the prior four and month-to-month
eral funds rate. the rate that banks pay for
zigs and zags have shrunk sharply.
overnight loans. would not amount to a
crumble in the 80's. In practical terms,
shift toward easier money. The banks
that policy meant slamming on the brakes
"The focus on M2 targets is indica-
credit squeeze was having the same effect
by raising interest rates when the econ-
tive of more systematic policies and
on the economy as if the Fed were tighten-
omy boomed and inflation took off and
less fine-tuning than in the past." said
hitting the monetary accelerator by lower-
John B. Taylor of the President's
ing the money supply To keep money
supply growth on its intended course. he
ing interest rates when the economy start-
Council of Economic Advisors.
maintained. the Fed needed to loosen up a
ed to slump and unemployment rose.
The big test, of course. is whether
bit His argument helped persuade the
In the new consensus, inflation is Ene-
inflation and long-term interest rates
my No. 1. "There is widespread agree-
come down as the recession ends. Fed
committee The funds rate was lowered by
ment that stable prices are at all times the
officials hope that will be the payoff
a quarter of a point.
The ways of the Fed often appear ar-
goal of monetary policy," said H. Erich
of the past four years' policies. At the
cane But to the economists. bankers and
Heinemann. chief economist at Laden-
moment, long-term interest rates still
stock and bond traders who track the
burg. Thalmann, a brokerage. Some cred-
reflect investors' worries that infla-
secretive board's every twist and turn,
it the outspokenness of Mr. Hoskins and
tion will stay stuck at around the 4
last July's deliberations provided a
percent rate of the past few years.
glimpse of the ideas and attitudes that are
Mr. Angell on price stability for the
fact that most F.O.M.C. members,
If in the past Fed policy debates
shaping a broad new intellectual consen-
could be framed in terms of mone-
sus about the Fed's goals: making infla-
including Mr. Mullins, now support
tary doves pitting themselves against
tion-fighting the top priority.
legislation mandating that Fed policy
monetary hawks, in the Greenspan
To be sure, Alan Greenspan, the Fed
pursue near-zero inflation.
The consensus also embraces the
Fed the doves are gone. Now. it's
chairman. IS the dominant figure at the
various breeds of anti-inflation hawk
institution. But the Fed IS far from the
idea that "monetary policy should
In one debate. monetarists like Mr.
monolith it sometimes appears and Mr.
focus on maximizing long-term eco-
Hoskins argue that monetary policy
Greenspan, more than most chairmen in
nomic growth' as Mr. Angell puts it.
the past, encourages other F.O.M C. mem-
It holds that economic growth comes
should not be geared to the dollar's
from an anti-infiation policy.
foreign-exchange value. Others. like
bers to air their views Those inside and
The Fed's change in thinking is
Gary Stern, president of the Minne-
outside the Fed frequently mention three
being crafted within the purview of
apolis Fed, favor fixed exchange
people on the 19-member committee
the F.O.M.C., which consists of Mr.
rates, which means coordination of
whose intellectual arguments and pursua-
Greenspan and the SIX other Fed gov.
monetary policy with other countries
sive skills have become key 10 forging the
A more basic issue concerns how
ernors. plus the presidents of the 12
central bank's philosophical underpin-
regional Federal Reserve banks, who
much the Fed should give up its dis-
nings - and broad policy
share four votes
cretion over setting its goals and
Besides Mr. Mullins a Harvard Busi-
Influential members. notably Mr
strategies. Reflecting a consensus II'
ness School finance whiz and former
Mullins. Mr. Angell and Mr. Hoskins,
academia, a growing minority within
Treasury official who has been nominated
shape the consensus through presen-
the Fed, including Mr. Hoskins be-
bv the Bush Administration to become the
tations at the meetings. They give
lieves that monetary policy should be
conducted as much as possible as
cording to rules. "Rules let the public
CON
THE
judge whether the Fed is doing what
Volcker, then the Fed chairman, by
inflation, Mr. Hoskins is a more de-
it says it is. That increases credibil-
forcing through a cut in the Fed dis-
vout monetarist than most of his col-
ity," said Art Rolnick, research direc-
count rate against Mr. Volcker's
leagues and a firm believer in argu-
tor at the Minneapolis Fed.
wishes. The two later agreed to post-
ing not what is politically possible but
But there is dissent. Mr. Mullins,
pone the rate cut until Mr. Volcker
what he considers best. He regularly
for example, does not believe that any
could persuade Germany and Japan
writes papers and gives talks 0. pet
simple rule can work for long. Gerald
to lower their inter-
subjects, which include the folly of
Corrigan, president of the New York
est rates as well.
Fed fine-tuning, the limits of inter-
Fed and as such the most powerful of
A bit of a gadfly,
vention to manipulate the value of the
the regional bank presidents, believes
Mr. Angell sees him-
dollar in foreign-exchange markets
that future crises are unpredictable
self as a contrarian
and that the Fed cannot afford to
and is proud of it. He
limit its options.
calls it a survival
skill of a Great
Plains farmer who
Wayne D. Angell
has "got to be a pes-
A monetarist who refuses to be
simist in good times
swaved by pragmatism alone.
and an optimist in
bad." As a doctoral
student at the Uni-
versity of Kansas,
he never considered
embracing Keynes-
W
AYNE D. ANGELL spent the
:960's growing wheat on a
ianism, the domi-
Kansas farm, teaching eco-
nant 1950's econom-
nomics at a Baptist college and serv-
IC theory. 'The fact
ing in\the state legislature. He traces
that it was the popu-
his intellectual economic roots back
lar thing to be
to the Depression. born as he was in
meant I couldn't be
1930. The idea that the private mar-
one, he said.
ket could break down sparked my
Mr. Angell dis-
and the superiority of the Fed adher-
enthusiasm for economics." he said
sented last fall on
ing to rules for monetary policymak-
recently The more I learned, the
easing
interest
ing rather than exercising wide dis-
rates, arguing that
cretion.
more I realized the Depression could
because a real es-
Mr. Hoskins formed most of his
have been avoided."
Mr Angell. a father of four, a
tate downturn and not an excessive
views early in life and never saw
grandfather several times over and
inventory buildup contributed to the
much reason to revise them.
pilot of his own plane became a Fed
then-unfolding recession. the Fed
The son of a California state high-
governor in 1986 in the midst of the
should ease more slowly than the
way patrolman and a motor vehicles
farm crisis. It strengthened his con-
bond market expected. Why? Such a
department administrator. Mr. Hos-
victions about the horrible damage
policy would cool bond investors' in-
kins was raised in Los Angeles's San
flation fears and allow longterm
Fernando Valley He married his
that inflation and high interest rates
can inflict
rates. which affect real estate. to fall.
high school sweetheart, earned three
Mr. Angell's father was one of the
Besides arguing for sound money
degrees in economics at the Universi-
few prosperous Dust Bowl farmers
and free markets, Mr. Angell has
ty of California at Los Angeles and
during the Depression. The 12-acre
agitated for a system of rules based
became an ardent admirer of free
on commodity prices that would be
markets and monetarist doctrine in
farm that Wayne. then 14, and his
older brother Charlie started up has
used to guide monetary policy. AV-
graduate school.
grown to 3,300 acres. The Angell
though he has failed to convince his
He was a student of Armen Al-
brothers also acquired three small
colleagues that the Fed should try to
chian, a brilliant and original econo-
stabilize commodity prices, at least
mist who influenced Milton Friedman
banks in the 1970's and 1980's. After
Wayne lost a Republican Senate pri-
some financial experts outside the
and consistently emphasized the role
Fed accept that commodity prices
of free markets. He was one of the
mary in 1978, he started a consulting
business to help banks hedge against
can provide early warnings of infla-
first to explode the myth that infla-
interest rate risk. "I couldn't have
tionary or deflationary pressures
tion speeds economic growth.
come to the Fed without that experi-
"Every bond trader tracks commod
Today, Mr. Hoskins. who hasn't
ence.' he said.
ity prices," said Lawrence Kudlow,
missed a ski season in 20 years. still
Considered an intellectual omni-
chief economist at Bear Stearns.
refers to his favorite radio station
the National Public Radio. as "Na-
vore, Mr. Angell is a monetarist with
a touch of supply-side ferver for low-
W. Lee Hoskins
tional Pink Radio." says that Mr.
er capital gains taxes. He remembers
Friedman's 1962 "Capitalism and
An advocate of zero inflation and
the first time he heard Milton Fried-
Freedom" changed his life. and re.
man lecture, in 1958: 'The guy made
a devout monetarist.
veals, with a grin, that his first vote in
a Presidential election was cast in
so much sense."
1964 for a candidate who lost big
Mr. Angell, whose economics train-
ing. financial expertise and regular
That was the year, of course. that
Barry Goldwater, the conservative
tennis game with chairman Green-
span give him clout, has had an im-
pact largely by force of personality
W
LEE HOSKINS likes to
Republican, was swept under by a
stick to his guns - again and
Lyndon Johnson landslide.
and a stubborn refusal to be swayed
again and again. He has cast
He is closely involved in the bank's
by pragmatism alone. He is a man
more dissenting votes than virtually
research department and regularly
who spent years agonizing over
any other F.O.M.C. member At the
writes papers and gives talks on pet
whether his calling lay in the\minis-
same time he is carefu) to point out
subjects: zero inflation the limits of
try or in teaching.
that his differences with monetary
monetary policy and deposit insur-
policies since he joined the Green-
ance reform.
span Fed in October 1987 have all
Within months of his arrival at the
been "around the edges." In general.
Fed. Mr. Angell and then-vice chair-
he said, "I am very satisfied with
Mr. Hoskins has more influence
man Manuel Johnson nearly pro-
what we have done."
within the F.O.M.C than his purist
voked the resignation of Paul
The most vocal advocate of zero
positions on many issues might sug-
gest an outgrowth. partly. of his
covr
skill in analyzing changing economic
high I.Q.'s, Mr.
conditions and his calm. courteous
Mullins is also lik-
delivery.
able and adept at
He is very much a Fed insider. He
framing appealing
was research director at the Phila-
arguments. His at-
delphia Fed until 1979, then became
titude
toward
chief economist at the PNC Financial
monetary policy is
Corporation before joining the Cleve-
that "It's a skill,
land Fed in 1987. He has served as
not an ideology.
president of the National Association
What's involved is
of Business Economists, a post also
practical manage-
once held by Alan Greenspan. And his
ment and judge-
stint as a business forecaster in be-
ment. It's a pro-
tween Fed jobs lends him the air of
cess of reading the
someone who has been around.
indicators and try-
Mr. Hoskins also spends more time
ing to come up
than most regional Fed presidents on
with a plan that
his bank's operations, which range
can get everyone
from clearing checks to selling sav-
on board."
ings bonds. "I take strong positions
Mr. Mullins, an
and running the bank well adds to my
avid sailor, has an
credibility,' he said.
ambitious agenda
at the Fed. For
David W. Mullins Jr.
starters, he's hav-
ing Fed research-
Exceptionally bright and adept at
ers look into finan-
cial market indica-
traming appealing arguments.
tors that could
help steer mone-
tary policy. He thinks that option
prices can be used to gauge the
VID W. MULLINS JR., an in-
amount of uncertainty in the financial
D
'ense. fast-talking bachelor.
markets. Uncertainty, along with ex-
caes not expect to be relegated
pectations of future inflation, helps
10 regulatory duries at the Fed. a
set long-term bond rates. Distin-
frequent fate of the No. 2. As he puts
guishing between rate movements
It. Throughout my career. 1 have
based on uncertainty and those based
focused on big. important problems."
on inflation worries could help the
Indeed early in his career. as a
Fed judge the financial markets' re-
Harvard Business School professor.
action to policy changes.
hr tackled the Penn Central bank-
He also wants to investigate new
rupicy one of history's largest. As an
ways for the Fed to implement mone-
assistant Treasury Secretary from
tary policy. "The Fed has been imple-
1986 to 1990. he helped design the
menting policy the same way ever
savings and loan bailout. Before that,
since the invention of the central
he and Robert R. Glauber. a colleague
bank." he said. "There have been
at Harvard. served on the Brady
enormous innovations in financial
Commission to study stock market
markets. We should be doing R.&D."
reform after the 1987 crash.
At Treasury, Mr. Mullins experi-
What prompted him. while at
mented with stretching out the life of
Treasury 10 put his name in the hat
bonds. introducing 40-year issues.
to: a Fed position? At the Fed, he
Mr. Mullins. criticized for pursuing
said. "You sit down in small groups
"blue sky" ideas and ignoring politi-
and argue and then the world
cal realities when he joined Treasury,
changes At Treasury. you argue and.
admits his weakness. "As someone
if you're lucky. you get to be in the
who likes to come up with a lot of
Rose Garden when the bill is signed."
ideas, I make a lot of mistakes," he
said. He refers to the toaster in his
Watergate apartment, a gift from
Ever since he left home in Fayette-
Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Bra-
ville Ark. for Yale University, Mr.
dv 10 commemorate a Mullins pro-
Mullins has managed to be where the
posal 10 have savers pay for bank
action IS As a Yale graduate, he
deposit insurance. The plan, he said,
found himself in the midst of the
"caused a terrible conflagration." To
explosive new field of modern 11-
avoid getting burnt again, he said, "I
nance. "The mid-60's were the go-go
spend a lot of time talking to people,
years on Wall street. the years of
inside and outside the Fed."
Jimmy Ling and LTV and Charlie
Bluhdorn and Gulf & Western Don-
aldson. Lufkin & Jenrette was hiring
half of my classmates." And as a
graduate student at the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. he stud-
red under Franco Modigliani. a
Keynesian who later won a Nobel
Prize for. among other things. helping
10 invent modern finance theory.
Few doubt Mr. Mullins's ability to
influence his Fed peers Exceptional
IV bright even at an institution full 01
cart
THE
Inflation Settles Down
Percent change in the consumer price index, excluding food and
energy. Seasonally adjusted. Inset shows latest 12 months.
14%
0.8%
'90
'91
12
10
0.2
8
6
4
2
0
'60
'65
'70
'75
'80
'85
'90
Source: Department of Labor
As the Fed Squeezes Money Growth
Percent change in M2, a measure of the amount of money in the
United States economy.
14%
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
'60
'65
'70
'75
'80
'85
'90
Source Federal Reserve
The New York Times
REASURY
NEWS
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irtment of the Treasury 0 Washington, D.C.
Telephone 566-2041
As Prepared for Delivery
CONTACT: CHERYL CRISPEN
Embargoed until 11:30am EST (4:30pm London)
202/566-2041
April 15, 1991
REMARKS BY THE HONORABLE
NICHOLAS F. BRADY
U.S. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
AT
THE SPECIAL SESSION ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
London, England
Thank you. It is indeed an honor to address such a
distinguished group.
The sweeping developments in Europe over the past few years
provide the backdrop for our discussions here today. The
political and economic reforms underway throughout Eastern
Europe, the reunification of Germany, and the accelerated pace of
integration in the European Community, have brought with them
distinct challenges as well as great opportunities for Europe and
the world community.
our belief is that we can overcome these challenges and take
advantage of the opportunities if we build on 2 few guiding
principles.
First, the rise of democracy reflects the power and enduring
appeal of freedom, self-determination, economic openness, and
free enterprise.
Second, we live in a highly integrated global system in
which economic power is shared among us. Increasingly, national
policies have international implications, and international
developments impact our policies at home. We should question
whether the old distinctions between internal and external
policies have become outdated and counterproductive.
A decade of prosperity based on economic growth has brought
with it expanding responsibilities for us all. A world of
twenty-four hour global communications, instantaneous funds
transfer and interdependent economies is necessarily a world of
increased responsibility sharing.
NB-1218
2
The unique success of the international response to Iragi
aggression demonstrates how a common cause widely agreed to can
advance our shared interests. We need to extend this spirit to
the economic challenges before us.
As we face the challenges ahead we recognize the need for
funds for Eastern Europe, German reunification, Latin America,
and for the rebuilding of the Middle East. To do all these
things we need a positive, operational framework. This framework
can only be based on sustained, low inflationary growth.
First and foremost, each of us needs to pursue fiscal and
monetary policies that support low-inflationary growth and strike
an appropriate balance between domestic objectives and
international obligations.
In reaching that balance, we should act on the risks as they
are today, not ES they were in times past. Today, there are
indications of slowing growth in a number of countries. Although
there are signs the U.S. economy is emerging from its slowdown,
the pace of expansion in numerous West European economies is
decelerating. In these circumstances, we must continue to be
vigilant against inflation but recognize that the greatest need
we face today is for strong, low-inflationary growth in the
industrial world. The policy coordination process remains 2 most
effective tool to meet this challenge.
In addition, we must accept the challenge of strengthening
the global trading system and make E success of the Uruguay
Round. It is too important for all of us not to receive the
political support it deserves.
0: course, the final measure of our success will not 26
embracing these objectives in the abstract, but implementing them
in practice. Solid economic growth in the major European
economies is 2 necessary precondition for solid growth elsewhere
in the world. The EBRD will have an integral part to play in
this process. As Europe increasingly speaks with one voice, WE
look forward to continuing and strengthening our partnership.
However, the transition within Europe contains a special problem
from our perspective. We should not be asked to accept the
lowest common denominator that emerges from EC debate as the
basis for international negotiation. And we cannot be asked to
negotiate the same issue twice -- once with the EC as as whole and
then again with the individual member states.
The challenges are large. But the potential rewards are
greater. We must succeed.
Thank you.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
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. 1991
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To: Phil Brady
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Phil:
Yale has asked if they could name their business school
after me.
It is a graduate School started really by Bill Donaldson.
Yale is embarking on a major fund raising drive. I am sure
they feel naming the school for me would be tremendously
beneficial. I worry about haviong my name used for fundraising,
but it is a nice honor. Yale's presidnet approached Lou Walker,
uncle, on this.
ALso I wonder if this would intyerfere with Bush Library
though the donors won't overlap that much.
Please discuss with Boyden > itold Lopu thast there might be
some policy about accepting tribute like this whiule in office --
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
tehn I thought of Midlands George Bush school.
Advise please !!!
GB
June 10 1991
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
June 6, 1991
Mr. President:
Lou Walker would like you to call him MONDAY -- he wants to
talk to you about a conversation he had w/ Benno Schmidt.
LOU WALKER: 207-967-8080
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News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1991
6:00 a.m. EDT EDITION
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Bush Urged To Resist 'Nuclear Blackmail' -- Senate leaders Sunday
urged President Bush to take a cautious approach in dealing with
President Gorbachev on aid and arms control, and one senator
accused the Soviet leader of using "a new form of nuclear
blackmail."
(Washington Times)
Iraq Moves To Normalize Labor, Political Laws -- The Iraqi
government has canceled wartime labor laws and renewed pledges to
open up the political system to greater freedoms, newspapers
reported Sunday.
(AP)
NATIONAL NEWS
Dole: Time To 'End The Politics' On Civil Rights -- Sen. Dole said
Sunday it is time for both parties to stop playing politics with
civil rights and forge a compromise on the job discrimination bill.
(AP)
Dole Wants 'Luxury Tax' Repealed -- A tax on luxury items has had
a greater impact on middle-income Americans than expected and
should be repealed, says Sen. Dole.
(AP)
NETWORK NEWS (Sunday evening)
PHILIPPINES VOLCANO -- The U.S.
Air Force has ordered the
evacuation of 16,000 military
personnel, dependents and
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-1
civilians from Clark Air Base.
NATIONAL NEWS
A-8
CONGRESS/'100 DAYS' -- Lawmakers
have five days to pass a crime
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
bill and a transportation package
to meet the President's deadline;
TALK SHOWS
C-1
they're not going to make it.
U.S.-SOVIETS -- Leading senators
said President Bush shouldn't
rush to reach an arms agreement
before any Moscow summit.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
PHILIPPINE VOLCANO FORCES EVACUATION OF U.S. AIR BASE
MANILA -- The Air Force Sunday began evacuating thousands of
Americans from a major air base after a nearby volcano, dormant for
more than 600 years, spewed hot ash and rocks in what was seen as
a prelude to a major eruption.
A spokesman at Clark Air Base, 50 miles north of Manila and
10 miles east of the erupting volcano, Mount Pinatubo, said the
evacuation of "all nonessential personnel" started at 5 a.m. by
road to Subic Bay Naval Base He said the move was triggered
by a "slight increase in seismic activity" at the volcano
overnight.
(William Branigin, Washington Post, A1)
Americans Fleeing Philippine Volcano Land In Traffic Jam
OLONGAPO, Philippines -- Americans toting their personal
belongings fled an erupting volcano in the Philippines Monday, only
to face a two-mile traffic jam leading to the sanctuary of Subic
Bay.
(Romeo Ranoco, Reuter)
U.S. WILL DISCUSS CYPRUS WITH TURKEY AND GREECE
Believing the time might be diplomatically right, the Bush
Administration has embarked on a new but low-key push to ease
tensions over the divided island of Cyprus.
U.S. officials are not overly optimistic about solving the
dispute, but they said in interviews that conditions are in place
for a fresh approach to the problem
"Our ability to speak candidly with both sides has improved,"
a senior Administration official said
"We'd like to do all we could to help," the senior official
said. "We're not going to assume responsibility for something we
can't deliver."
(Warren Strobel, Washington Times, A7)
BUSH CAUTIONED ON RUSHING ARMS TREATY
Sens. Dole And Nunn Oppose Haste To Meet Summit Deadline
Senate leaders cautioned President Bush Sunday against running
to complete a strategic arms agreement before a summer summit with
President Gorbachev.
"I don't think we ought to try to meet any artificial
deadlines," said Sen. Dole on CBS's "Face the Nation."
Sen. Nunn expressed concern that arms control negotiators will
"end up making some mistakes" if they speed a pact in time for the
summit. "I'd rather see them go ahead with the summit without
rushing the negotiators," he said on "Meet the Press. If
A U.S. official said privately Saturday that a summit "won't
happen in June and it may not happen in July."
(AP, Washington Post, A18)
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White House News Summary
Monday, June 10, 1991 -- A-2
Bush Urged To Resist "Nuclear Blackmail'
Senate leaders Sunday urged President Bush to take a cautious
approach in dealing with President Gorbachev on aid and arms
control, and one senator accused the Soviet leader of using "a new
form of nuclear blackmail.
"I think he'd (Bush) like to have
a START agreement," said Sen. Dole. "He would like to indicate
that we have made some progress. I think there's real efforts now.
I think it's back on the front burner, as opposed to where it was.
Maybe they can do it."
But Sen. Bradley said the U.S. should not buckle to Soviet
pressure on arms as leverage for aid. Gorbachev, in his Nobel
Peace Prize acceptance speech last week, said a peaceful
coexistence could be threatened if Western nations failed to give
the Soviets aid.
"It is an attempt at a new form of nuclear blackmail: 'Give
us money or we won't be able to control our nuclear weapons, said
Bradley.
(J. Jennings Moss, Washington Times, A1)
Democracy For Dollars?
A "grand bargain" to transform the Soviet economy with Western
money in exchange for democratic reforms is being completed amid
controversy this week by Harvard professors and a Soviet economist.
The $150 billion plan has been criticized by Vice President
Quayle as a "non-starter" and by former President Nixon as possibly
hindering "the cause of democracy."
But its main author said over the weekend that the plan is
essential to Western security and has been misconstrued by
conservatives. "What we're talking about is a highly conditioned
economic assistance to support radical political and economic
reforms," said professor Jeffrey Sachs, who inspired the
blueprint
The project, he told The Washington Times, is "in
no shape or form an attempt to bail out Gorbachev or prolong the
agony of the system. I have no wish to prop up a crumbling
regime. "
He rejected criticism of the project in the U.S., saying, "I
wish the conservatives were constructive and not destructive." He
complained of the "stupidity of some people who think that reforms
can be carried out without money."
(Andrew Borowiec, Washington Times, A1)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Arms Talks: A Warm-Up," by Thomas Friedman,
appears in The New York Times, page A1.
YELTSIN PLANS VISIT TO THE U.S. AT END OF JUNE
MOSCOW -- Boris Yeltsin said he plans to visit the U.S. if he
wins Wednesday's elections for the Russian republic presidency and
that he has received an official invitation to go to South Korea.
The planned visits were a direct symbolic challenge to
President Gorbachev
Yeltsin also differed Sunday with Gorbachev on asking for
enormous aid from the west, saying: "I don't want to ask for
(large) help from the West
"
Yeltsin did not give a date for his planned trip to the U.S.,
but a source at the Russian Information Agency said "probably the
end of June."
(Gerald Nadler, UPI)
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White House News Summary
Monday, June 10, 1991 -- A-3
STRAUSS SELECTION CONSIDERED COUP
President Bush gets a "two-fer" with his choice of Robert
Strauss as ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Not only does he gain a shrewd wheeler-dealer, he also gets
an influential Democrat in his corner for the 1992 presidential
campaign
Strauss's willingness to join Bush's Administration with the
election only 17 months away sends a powerful signal to moderate
and conservative Democratic voters that the President is a
Republican they can feel comfortable supporting
DNC Chairman Brown greeted the appointment with enthusiasm.
He called for more bipartisanship in U.S. foreign policy, saying,
"It will improve with greater Democratic participation."
Privately, however, Brown has to figure the wily Strauss has
concluded Democrats have no chance of unseating Bush.
(Richard Benedetto, USA Today, 2A)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Strauss Must Cut Ties To Win Post," by the AP,
appears in The Washington Times, page A5.
'FREE CHINA' RADIO BACKED BY SENATORS
White House, Beijing Indicate Disapproval
A bipartisan coalition on the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee supports a measure that envisions creating a broadcast
network that would promote freedom and democracy in China.
The proposal, which is attached to the State Department's
authorization bill, has stirred indignation in Beijing and
disapproving frowns from the Bush Administration.
Sen. Biden, the main sponsor of the bill to create the
network, which some advocates call Radio Free China, said, "The
democratic ideal is alive in China, and we should not shrink from
encouraging it."
"This is going to be an interesting part of the whole China
debate," said John Ritch, a Biden aide on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff. "It's going to be hard to oppose it.
Who could be against spreading the word of human rights when we
have a billion people under tyranny?"
The measure, whose chief cosponsor is Sen. Hatch, would not
establish a radio network right away, but would set up a commission
to study costs, foreign policy implications and feasibility
Guoqing Chen, spokesman at the Chinese Embassy here, said his
government regards the proposal with "grave concern and a strong
indignation.
The State Department, asked for its view of the bill, took
more than a week to decide what to say. Spokesman David Denny said
Friday that the "scarce resources" available "would be best devoted
to boosting VOA's signal in China and thus improving its
audibility." He said VOA's daily audience is "tens of millions,
including key decision-makers in the Chinese government."
(George Lardner, Washington Post, A16)
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White House News Summary
Monday, June 10, 1991 -- A-4
CHINA STEPS UP ATTACK ON WESTERN JOURNALISTS
BEIJING -- China stepped up its attack on foreigners and
especially Western journalists Monday, accusing them of fomenting
disturbances around the second anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen
Square crackdown.
"Some foreign enemies of socialist China and a very few of the
elite leaders of the turmoil who escaped the country hate the
stability, prosperity and development of Beijing and the whole
nation,' the official People's Daily said. In a signed article
the Party newspaper said: "They are full of anger, full of hate
and they are impatient
"
The newspaper attacked Western wire services and others for
sending squads of reporters to the university district during
the anniversary. It accused Western reporters of fabricating and
distorting reports
Trouble-making foreign students were in
collusion with reporters, the newspaper said.
(Reuter)
CHINA TO EASE UP IF TAIWAN DISCUSSES UNIFICATION
TAIPEI -- China is willing to ease is diplomatic offensive
against Taiwan if the island agrees to discuss reunification with
the mainland, an influential legislator of Taipei's ruling
Nationalist Party said Sunday.
Lin Yu-siang, who returned from a private visit to Beijing
last week, said Chinese officials had indicated they might stop
blocking Taiwan's efforts to join international bodies such as the
GATT. "The issue of Taiwan's international status can be resolved
through talks," Lin quoted Sun Xiaoyu, deputy director of the
Taiwan Affairs Office of China's State Council, as saying.
(Reuter, Washington Times, A7)
U.S. FEELS UNEASY AS BEIJING MOVES TO SELL NEW ARMS
BEIJING -- Western diplomats and experts are concerned by
indications that China is seeking to increase its share of the
world market for missiles.
The Chinese military, the experts say, may begin shipments of
two new kinds of missiles to Syria and Pakistan, and perhaps to
other countries as well. The new missiles, which are said to be
more accurate than the Soviet-designed Scuds used in the Gulf War,
are thought to be at the end of the development stage and could be
deployed soon.
(Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, A1)
CHINESE LEADER TO VISIT MIDDLE EAST
BEIJING -- Premier Li Peng will visit Kuwait and as many as
five other Middle East nations next month on a tour apparently
designed to assert China's role in the region after the Gulf War,
Beijing-based diplomats said Monday.
Western diplomats said the trip would be scrutinized closely
for signs of renewed Chinese arms sales in the region
Middle Eastern diplomats said the planned tour, to begin about
July 2, will take Li to Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and
may also include stops in Jordan and Syria
The diplomats said
that among Li's objectives will be reinforcing trade and economic
relations.
(David Schweisberg, UPI)
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IRAQ MOVES TO NORMALIZE LABOR, POLITICAL LAWS
BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government has canceled wartime labor
laws and renewed pledges to open up the political system to greater
freedoms, newspapers reported Sunday
The report on wartime labor laws appeared in al-Thawra, the
organ of the Baath Party. It said the ruling Revolutionary Command
Council on Saturday lifted laws restricting the freedom of
government workers imposed during the 1980-88 war with Iran.
Meanwhile, the government daily al-Jumhuriya quoted Vice
President Taha Yassin Ramadan as saying that the government would
soon revise laws on political parties and press freedom.
(John Rice, AP)
KUWAITI PANEL TO REVIEW COLLABORATOR VERDICTS
KUWAIT CITY -- The Kuwaiti government announced it has set up
a panel to review all verdicts issued by a martial law court trying
hundreds of accused collaborators -- an attempt to head off
criticism of the fairness of the politically charged trials.
Justice Minister Sammar made the announcement in Sunday's
editions of the state-controlled newspaper al-Fajr al-Jadid one day
after a five-judge tribunal handed down its first death
sentence
Hours before the verdict, U.S. Ambassador Gnehm, in the
sternest warning yet to Kuwait by a U.S. official, told a gathering
of Kuwaiti businessmen that Kuwaitis "must not let hatred and
prejudice replace the traditional values of the Kuwaiti people.
It is unclear whether the strongly worded speech triggered the
Justice Minister's announcement.
(John Arundel, UPI)
Kuwait/Gnehm
U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait Gnehm warned Kuwait to exercise
fairness in its politically charged trials of accused
collaborators.
"No matter how emotionally difficult it is, Kuwaitis must now
champion justice and fairness for all people in Kuwait in the same
way the entire world stood for those principles for Kuwaitis, " he
said. "To do otherwise will give Saddam Hussein a success of evil
proportions."
(UPI)
SAUDIS WITHHELD MISSILES TO SPARE CIVILIANS
Saudi Arabia was poised to fire missiles in retaliation for
Iraqi Scud attacks during the Gulf War, but did not do so because
the weapons are inaccurate and would have killed civilians,
according to the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
"When our cities were hit and civilians were killed and
wounded, no doubt it was part of our contingency plans, " Prince
Bandar bin Sultan said in an interview with The Washington Times.
"King Fahd ruled out that option because of the fact that you
cannot control it (the missiles) accurately."
(Bill Gertz, Washington Times, A3)
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ISLAMIC RIGHT PETITIONS FOR ROLE IN SAUDI RULE
RIYADH -- A group of prominent Saudi religious conservatives
has petitioned King Fahd for a consultative assembly that could act
independently of the royal family and, in an implicit criticism of
the family, it demanded an end to corruption and abuse of
"influence.
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"Right now the pot is bubbling, not boiling," said Khalid
Maeena, editor of the English-language Arab News. "The war brought
into focus so many things. It raised our consciousness and
gave us an opportunity for soul-searching. All sections of society
are having this experience." (Caryle Murphy, Washington Post, A13)
ISRAEL WANTS FINAL WORD ON PALESTINIAN TEAM AT PEACE TALKS
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Shamir said Israel would insist
on veto power over Palestinian representatives to proposed Middle
East peace talks. He confirmed Sunday that Israel would accept
Palestinians as part of a Jordanian delegation. However, he told
reporters, "I don't want to say exactly how the Palestinian part
of the Jordanian delegation will be formed. It is clear that we
are counting on Jordan to form the delegation, but we must agree
to the Palestinian component. "
Shamir also revealed Sunday that President Bush asked Israel
to freeze settlements in the occupied territories in return for
U.S. agreement to Israeli demands on procedural matters. He gave
no indication if he had accepted the compromise.
(Marjorie Olster, Reuter)
Israel Erects New Peace Hurdle
Prime Minister Shamir, who last week rejected President Bush's
call for compromise, Sunday raised new obstacles to peace talks
Foreign Minister Levy tried to put the best possible face on
the official response: "We haven't closed the door. We are
continuing clarifications with the United States."
But State Department aides were sobered by Shamir's negative
response Sunday. Also Sunday: Faisal Husseini, the Palestinian
leader who has three times met with Secretary Baker, was attacked
by a mob of Jewish settlers outside a Jerusalem court. The crowd
cursed Husseini, spat on him, tried to strike him, and threw stones
at his car.
(Johanna Neuman, USA Today, 5A)
EDITOR'S NOTE: ""Excitement's Gone' From Mideast Peace Effort,"
by Marilyn Greene, appears in USA Today, page 8A.
DE KLERK SAYS SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE WITH AFRICA SET TO BOOM
JOHANNESBURG -- President de Klerk said after a ground-
breaking visit to Kenya that African resistance to trade with South
Africa was crumbling as fast as apartheid.
"It's like a dam wall breaking. If we can bring a successful
visit to two more important countries in Africa we will have turned
things around, II he told reporters
Kenyan President Moi and de Klerk met for three hours Saturday
and again Sunday. Moi hailed de Klerk at a, banquet for his "bold
decision of initiating a process of dismantling apartheid in South
Africa."
(Brendan BOyle, Reuter)
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REPORT: AFRICAN STATES READY TO LIFT SOUTH AFRICAN SANCTIONS
JOHANNESBURG -- The Organization of African Unity last week
privately agreed to a timetable to lift sanctions against South
Africa as the nation prepares to end apartheid formally in three
weeks, said a published report that contradicted the group's
statements last week.
Quoting ANC foreign affairs spokesman Thabo Mbeki, the Sunday
Times newspaper said African heads of state had agreed to phase out
sanctions starting in July -- provided South Africa fulfilled four
basic conditions
Mbeki said its four conditions include release of all
political prisoners, no more political trials, full indemnification
of political exiles and repeal of "repressive" legislation. All
four points are theoretically in hand in South Africa
He said
disagreement at the conference was mainly over timing.
(UPI)
PLOT AGAINST CHAMORRO DETECTED, AUTHORITIES SAY
MANAGUA -- Security agents have discovered plots to
assassinate President Chamorro and her top aide, reports said.
Antonio Lacayo, Chamorro's chief policymaker, told Managua
newspapers that state security organizations have uncovered plans
to kill him and Chamorro.
"There are plans against another government official," the
Barricadad and El Nuevo Diario newspapers Sunday quoted Lacayo as
saying. He did not name the other official or reveal any other
details. "It would seem that some people are interested in getting
rid of certain government officials,' he said. "It isn't good to
say anything more."
(UPI)
U.S. CHANGES DEBT STATUS CALCULATION
Method Improves Economic Standing
Good morning America. You're still the world's greatest
"debtor nation, but your balance sheet looks $382.3 billion better
today than it did last week.
It's all because of a change in the way the Commerce
Department calculates the difference between what Americans own
overseas and what foreigners own in this country.
While the new method improves the international economic
standing of the U.S., the nation's balance sheet with the rest of
the world still is at least $281.4 billion in the red -- more than
any other nation.
(Stuart Auerbach, Washington Post, A8)
U.S. WOULD SHIFT WORLD BANK LENDING TO PRIVATE BUSINESS
The Bush Administration is pushing the World Bank to shift the
bulk of its lending from Third World governments to help private
business
After a quiet struggle that lasted for months,
officials said Charles Dallara, assistant treasury secretary for
international affairs, agreed last week to. support a $1 billion
boost in capital for the International Finance Corp., the small
section of the bank that already lends to private companies
The U.S. government, the largest stockholder, would have to
pay in about $50 million a year for five years as its share of the
$1 billion capital increase, bank spokesman Mark Constantine said.
(Carl Hartman, AP)
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NATIONAL NEWS
DOLE: TIME TO "END THE POLITICS' ON CIVIL RIGHTS.
Sen. Dole said Sunday it is time for both parties to stop
playing politics with civil rights and forge a compromise on the
job discrimination bill.
But Dole said there are some Republicans and some Democrats
who "like the politics of it. They don't want to change anything."
"Democrats want to attack us as, quote, 'racist, and we want
to go out there and say they're for quotas, he said on CBS's "Face
the Nation.' "We ought to settle it," he said.
Dole said there is more room for compromise than last year
Dole said he came away Friday from a meeting with President Bush
"convinced that the President has an open mind" about a civil
rights proposal
Dole called three compromise bills offered by Sen. Danforth
and eight fellow Republicans "a constructive effort to find some
way out of this impasse (and) end the politics on each side of
civil rights.
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Sen. Nunn, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," said he will
give Bush "the benefit of the doubt" until he sees how the White
House responds to the Danforth compromise. The White House has
previously rejected attempts by big business to broker a solution
and overtures from Capitol Hill, he said.
"If they stiff that (Danforth) effort," Nunn said, "then I
would tend to agree with Gephardt," [who accused Bush of seeking
political gain from racial division]. (AP, Washington Post, A12)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Called Complacent, NAACP Looks To Future, by Paul
Delaney, appears in The New York Times, page A14.
DOLE WANTS 'LUXURY TAX' REPEALED
A tax on luxury items has had a greater impact on middle-
income Americans than expected and should be repealed, says Sen.
Dole.
The assessment was intended "to soak the rich," he said on
"Face the Nation.' "It turned out the rich happened to be the
middle class that the Democrats say they're trying to help," he
said. "A lot of middle class people are losing their jobs now and
the tax is not bringing in as much money.
"
Dole, who blamed Rep. Gephardt for insisting the provision be
included in the budget legislation. said he would offer a bill this
week to repeal the tax
He didn't offer details, but said he
would "find an offset" to make up for revenue lost in repealing the
tax. "Leave it to me, I'll find a loophole we can close,' he said.
Dole said he hadn't consulted with Bush Administration officials
about his proposal
"The Republican recession, not the tax, is causing people to
lose jobs, said Gephardt in a telephone interview.
(Denise Cabrera, AP)
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Luxury Tax Proves A Flop As Buyers, Jobs Disappear
"Soaking the rich" by raising taxes on yachts and high-priced
foreign cars is backfiring.
The luxury taxes are blamed for a drastic slump in sales and
for the layoffs of thousands of blue-collar workers by boat
builders and car dealers.
The rich avoid the soaking by not buying the way they once
did, and the luxury tax revenue isn't as big as expected
"If you tax something out of existence, you're not going to
collect any revenue, says Sen. Breaux. "This is more of a jobs
issue than a tax issue. "
"It's total nonsense," said Sen. Chafee, one of many lawmakers
pushing to repeal the yacht tax. He believes the yacht tax could
sink America's bat-building industry. "The people you penalize are
the people making the boats," Chafee said
"We called it a luxury tax and that made a lot of people feel
good, said Breaux
"It's really a blue-collar tax. And it's
hurting."
(Major Garrett, Washington Times, A1)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "Slight Uptick In Hiring Indicates The Recession
May Be Winding Down, by David Wessel & Albert Karr, appears in The
Wall Street Journal, page A1.
"May Employment Report Supports Recovery," by Mark Memmott, appears
in USA Today, page 1B.
"Main Street Sees Glimmer Of Recovery," by Mark Memmott & Ellen
Neuborne, appears in USA Today, page 1B.
SNARLS EXPECTED IN ROAD-FUND BATTLE
Key Senators Threatening To Filibuster
In a battle that may pit Republicans against Democrats and the
West against the East, the Senate opens debate this week on a five-
year, $105 billion transportation program.
With key senators already threatening to join a filibuster,
the debate may be contentious.
While some say the Bush Administration's proposal would hinder
much-needed mass transit improvements, others say the alternative
sponsored by Sen. Moynihan would unfairly distribute federal
highway aid
Moynihan faces an old-fashioned legislative brawl
from a dozen or more states who say his proposal fails to correct
inequities in the current formula for distributing federal highway
aid.
"That's my first, second and third battle, and none of the
rest of the things matter,' said Sen. Bond
"We are getting
dealt out, not given fair play, says Sen. Sanford.
The first action Tuesday will be a move by the Senate majority
to stop a filibuster that Bond, Sen. Warner and others began last
week to force a compromise.
(James Harney & Paul Clancy, USA Today, 5A)
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PRIMARIES COULD WIDEN RIFT BETWEEN DEMOCRATS
A bitter ideological split among Democrats, driven by racial
and economic issues, threatens to further divide the party during
the battle for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination.
"It'll get hotter. It'll get worse. It's not going to go
away, said Elaine Kamarck, a Democratic political analyst.
"There's a basic division within the party."
(Donald Lambro, Washington Times, A4)
HARKIN SEEKS SUPPORT FROM DISABLED IN BID FOR PRESIDENCY
LOS ANGELES -- Sen. Harkin is working in California on his
plan to convert his support from handicapped groups into a
successful presidential campaign appealing to the 43 million
Americans with disabilities.
Harkin hopes his sponsorship of the recently enacted Americans
with Disabilities Act will give him a ready-made grassroots
organization if he decides to seek the Democratic nomination.
"I think if I can get the nomination I can beat George Bush,"
he said Sunday in an interview. "His support is paper-thin, a mile
wide and an inch deep."
(Eric Kramer, UPI)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "As Candidates Wait To Run, Cash Waits To Follow,"
by Richard Berke, appears in The New York Times, page A12.
MORE PEDIATRICIANS SPURN MEDICAL CASES
Study Raises Questions About Ability of Care For Poor Children
The proportion of pediatricians willing to treat Medicaid
patients is declining, according to a new study, and one of the
authors said the findings call into question whether the increasing
number of children Congress has made eligible for Medicaid will
receive the care legislators intended.
The study found many pediatricians disgruntled by the low fees
they make treating poor patients. In 1989, state Medicaid programs
on the average paid pediatricians less than two-thirds of the fees
they would have received from private patients, it said
The study found that between 1979 and 1989, the proportion of
pediatricians who saw no Medicaid patients jumped from 15 percent
to 23 percent, and the proportion who limited the number they saw
increased from 26 percent to 39 percent.
(Spencer Rich, Washington Post, A4)
NRC OFFICIALS WARN OF PROBLEMS AT YANKEE ROWE N-PLANT
BOSTON -- The reactor vessel at Yankee Rowe, the nation's
oldest operating nuclear plant, is brittle with use and could
rupture, two NRC staff members warn.
One official said the situation is "extremely serious and very
dangerous" and could lead to an accident involving a large release
of radiation, The Boston Sunday Globe reported.
The official was identified only as a senior NRC official with
responsibilities for nuclear plant safety.
(AP)
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HOUSE PANEL CHAIRMAN PRESSES MILITARY
TO USE B-2 BOMBER INSTEAD OF COSTLY A-X
The chairman of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee
is pressing the military to consider using the B-2 bomber as an
alternative to the costly A-X stealth aircraft sought by the Navy.
The option outlined by Rep. Murtha would rely on adapting the
B-2 to a more conventional role. The B-2 would then be used
to fly ahead of carrier-based Navy aircraft.
A total of 50 B-2's could be built as a base force, Murtha
said. Though this is significantly more than the 15 bombers the
House has been willing to support so far, Murtha argued that
adapting the B-2 may prove cheaper than plugging into the
development of a new, highly sophisticated next-generation plane
with the same stealth characteristics.
Murtha has raised the issue privately with Secretary Cheney,
and his House subcommittee asked the JCS to assess the costs of
adapting the B-2 and whether a "stand-alone A-X is truly
needed.
"The Navy goes crazy when I mention it, but I think
it's something that could well work," said Murtha.
(David Rogers, Wall street Journal, A4)
PENTAGON CAUTIOUS ON HEALTH COST MANAGEMENT
A California company that says it has significantly cut the
costs of running a Pentagon health insurance program in California
and Hawaii will announce today that it has won a five-year, $134
million contract to provide a similar service to military families
in the New Orleans area.
But a Pentagon spokeswoman said Defense Department officials
remain unconvinced that having private contractors manage its $3.2
billion Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed
Services is the best way to control the program's soaring costs.
The Pentagon prefers making military hospital commanders
responsible for all the health costs of military families around
their facilities, spokeswoman Susan Hansen said.
(Bill McAllister, Washington Post, A9)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Law Forces Pentagon To Purchase And Store Metal
It Doesn't Want, by Bob Davis, appears in The Wall Street Journal,
page A1.
POWELL GETS FIFTH STAR --- BY NEW YORK MAYOR
NEW YORK -- Gen. Powell was given a promotion to five-star
general Sunday by Mayor Dinkins -- but he turned it down.
At a dinner honoring some 120 Congressional Medal of Honor
recipients who will march in New York's victory parade Monday,
Dinkins said that Powell would get his fifth star
The four-
star general demurred in his speech, saying, "The mayor was kind
to jest about five-star generals but as Norm and I are fond of
telling everyone, as long as we've got five-star privates of the
kind we have, we don't need any five-star generals."
Defense Department spokesman Pete Williams, who attended the
dinner, told Reuters, "The mayor is speculating. The process is
that Congress would have to enact legislation. There is
legislation pending in the Congress, but I don't know how far it's
gotten."
(Andrea Privitere, Reuter)
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CHENEY, SCHWARZKOPF AND POWELL CHEERED AND JEERED IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK -- Secretary Cheney and Gens. Schwarzkopf and Powell
-- who will be the stars of the city's ballyhooed ticker-tape
parade Monday -- were received with a mixture of cheers and jeers
in appearances in New York Sunday.
The big three of the Gulf War were interrupted by protesters
as they gave readings during a memorial interfaith service at
Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A group of about 150
people picketed outside the church throughout the two-hour service.
Cheney, Powell and Schwarzkopf were interrupted eight times
by anti-war protesters, whose shouts of "murderer" and "shame,
shame" echoed in the cavernous Episcopal cathedral. About 1,800
people attended the service, well below the 3,000 organizers
expected
In Powell's speech, which was met with an ovation, he said the
victory celebrations were positive for the nation. "It's gone
beyond Desert Storm. It's gone back to our veterans of Vietnam
and even Korea. It's had a galvanizing effect
made us proud,"
Powell said.
Schwarzkopf focused his remarks on the valor of the
Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. But he ended the speech
saying: "We're looking forward to tomorrow."
In his speech, Cheney hailed the men and women who served in
the Gulf War, saying: "Tomorrow is for them."
(Andrea Privitere, Reuter)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Make Him Talk," appears in "Inside the Beltway,"
The Washington Times, page A6.
FORMER POW SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT TO KILL AGAIN
FALLON, Nev. -- Lt. Jeffrey Zaun, taken prisoner by Iraq and
shown on television during the Gulf War
says he now has second
thoughts about war.
"I don't ever want to kill anybody again. This country didn't
get to see the cost of the war. I did, he said.
"People think, 'Hey, we went in there and just kicked ass,
but they didn't see the Iraqi mothers get killed," Zaun said in
an interview published Saturday in the Lahontan Valley News and
Fallon Eagle Standard
Although other POWs disagree, Zaun said, he believes Iraqi
guards beat their prisoners to get information, not just to injure
them. "All in all, I didn't feel they were the bloodthirsty,
amoral people we had heard they were," he said.
(AP)
IMPROVED PATRIOT MISSILE TO BE TEST-FIRED
BOSTON -- Prototypes of a new generation of Patriot missile
designed to shoot down "stealth" aircraft as well as cruise and
tactical missiles will be field-tested next month, defense industry
sources said Sunday.
The new missile, dubbed the Patriot Growth Missile, is
designed to have double the range and altitude of the existing
Patriot, and be able to home in on smaller and faster targets,
including radar-evading stealth aircraft, the sources said.
(Reuter, Washington Post, A6)
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WAR EXPOSED RIVALRIES, WEAKNESSES IN MILITARY
Communications, Intelligence Flaws Cited
While the U.S. military has labored successfully in recent
years -- under the mandate of federal law -- to overcome long-
standing service rivalries and improve both wartime and peacetime
coordination among the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the
Gulf War exposed continued shortcomings from war planning to
intelligence-gathering. Senior military commanders say cooperation among the services
has improved vastly since the much-publicized glitches of the 1983
Grenada invasion. They say the services are now using the
experiences of the Gulf War to focus on deficiencies that slowed
operations and could have resulted in serious problems against a
more aggressive enemy force
"We did okay in the Persian Gulf because Saddam Hussein
stopped at the Saudi border," said a Pentagon official. "You can
bet the Saddam Husseins of the world have learned not to give us
six months next time.
Senior U.S. military officials say they were most concerned
during the initial days of the Gulf crisis about the vulnerability
of Saudi Arabia.
(Molly Moore, Washington Post, A1)
CHERISHED HILL JUNKET VIRTUALLY GROUNDED
Congress has virtually grounded itself for this year's Paris
Air Show, normally a favorite junket, and several members say the
adverse publicity surrounding Chief of Staff Sununu's taxpayer-
paid excursions is a big reason.
"I don't think anybody wants to get beat up" by the news
media, said Rep. Fascell.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris said only two members are expected
at the June 13-23 show and that one of them, Sen. Simpson, is
President Bush's official representative
Sen. Nickles said he believes the sparse attendance "has a lot
to do" with news stories about Sununu's travels on government
airplanes.
(Larry Margasak, AP, Washington Post, A9)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Air Congress' Cancels Flight To Paris Air Show,"
by Carleton Bryant, appears in The Washington Times, page A3.
NATIONALLY TOUTED PROGRAM LOSES STUDENTS IN FIRST YEAR
MILWAUKEE -- The nation's first program using state tax
dollars to send poor children to private schools finished its first
year with nearly a quarter fewer students than it started with
John Witte, a University of Wisconsin professor who is
studying the school choice program, said the drop was mostly due
to normal fluctuations in attendance.
(Michelle Williams, AP)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Testing Students," interview, appears in USA
Today, page 11A.
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SCIENTISTS HAIL 'SUPERB' SHUTTLE FLIGHT
CAPE CANAVERAL -- The shuttle Columbia's seven astronauts
sailed into the second half of their nine-day medical research
mission Monday with scientists on Earth already calling the flight
a "superb" success.
"So far, we've accomplished every objective that we've had,
plus some," program scientist Ron White said Sunday by telephone
from Houston. "We're certainly over the 100 percent mark by a
reasonable amount. I couldn't plan for a better mission no matter
what I did."
(William Harwood, UPI)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Jellyfish In Space Swimming Circles," appears in
USA Today, page 3A.
FAMILY FRIEND NAMED GATEKEEPER FOR BUSH
President Bush has a new traveling companion: long-time
family friend Bill Farish.
Farish, 27, is taking over as Bush's personal aide from Bruce
Caughman, an Air Force major who's been in charge of the
President's wallet, briefcase, trinkets and minute-to-minute
schedule for 10 months.
Tradition dictates Farish, who spent a month shadowing
Caughman, keep a low profile as gatekeeper. The White House
wouldn't even make him available for a photo.
(Jessica Lee, USA Today, 2A)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Under Revamping, FDA To Review Many Dormant
Proposals On Safety," by Philip Hilts, appears in The New York
Times, page A15.
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NETWORK NEWS
(Sunday evening, June 9, 1991)
PHILIPPINES/VOLCANO
CBS's Connie Chung: Late word tonight from the Philippines that the
U.S. Air Force has ordered the evacuation of 16,000 military
personnel, dependents and civilians from Clark Air Base. The
reason: a volcano only 10 miles away that's erupting for the first
time in six centuries, blasting molten rocks high into the sky.
The evacuees are being taken to the Subic Bay Naval Base. Earlier,
Air Force planes were flown out of Clark, 60 miles from Manila.
(CBS-Lead)
NBC's Fritz von Klein reports the evacuation will proceed by a
convoy of trucks and cars, and will take nearly six hours to
complete.
(NBC-Lead)
ABC's Nathan Thomas reports the explosion filled the sky with ash
and sent a river of lava 60 miles an hour down one side of the
mountain. Volcanologists say this is just the beginning.
(ABC-Lead)
PRESIDENT'S CHALLENGE
NBC's Garrick Utley: A big political fight is building in Congress
and at the White House. It is about President Bush's challenge to
Congress to pass key parts of his legislation within 100 days. The
deadline is this Friday. The specific issues are crime and
transportation, but there is more to it than that.
NBC's Jim Miklaszewski: Here at the White House, it's T minus five
days and counting. Lawmakers have five days to pass a crime bill
and a transportation package to meet the President's deadline.
They are not going to make it. The President threw down the
gauntlet at his Gulf War victory speech March 6.
(President Bush: "If our forces could win the ground war in 100
hours, then surely the Congress can pass this legislation in 100
days.")
And the countdown began.
(President Bush, following March 6: "Congress is running out of
time
And so far, 85 days have passed, and neither house has
chosen to take up our crime package
Surely, the U.S. Congress
can pass a crime bill in what's left of that 100 days."
But that was more of a taunt than a challenge. Bush knew last week
it would be all but impossible for lawmakers to meet the deadline.
If everything went perfectly, the Senate might pass a
transportation bill and start to consider a crime package this
week. There's no chance the House could pass either bill by
Friday.
(Sen. Dole: "The House has a different calendar there, because
they're not doing much of anything on the present challenges.")
But Senate Democrats charge it was Republicans who held up a
transportation bill.
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Miklaszewski continues:
(Sen. Moynihan: "If that happened
the
President
just
won't
get
his bill on time, he may not get the bill ever. And then we'll all
wonder: What did we do?")
And the entire crime package took a temporary back seat to debate
over the Brady gun control bill. No excuse, say White House
officials, who accuse Congress of a copout. President Bush says
he's frustrated by congressional inaction, but Democrats claim he's
contributed to the stalemate. Bush has vetoed 21 bills Congress
has passes and sent to the White House. One leading Democrat says
any Congress-bashing now would be a new low in political cynicism.
(Sen. Mitchell: "I think it would be a little obvious for the
President to set a deadline, Republicans to prevent us from meeting
a deadline and then the President to criticize us for not meeting
the deadline.")
But today, the President's chief of staff was setting the stage to
take on Congress right up to the deadline.
(Gov. Sununu: "It's a quarter of the crime bill. We'd like the
rest of it. Maybe Congress will act before the 100 days are up.")
One White House official says Congress can always pass something
like national broccoli week, but chokes up on the tough stuff.
President Bush will be pushing that idea this week and all the way
through next year's presidential campaign.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Bashing Congress has always worked for
Presidents. It worked for Harry Truman; I suspect it will work for
George Bush. What we're seeing is the Republicans trying to
sharpen the differences between the two parties going into the 1992
campaign. And the truth of the matter is, it wouldn't matter how
much time Bush gave Congress to pass his program, because they are
so far apart philosophically, they would never pass his program.
So they'll pass their own version and then he'll veto those bills
and they fail to override the veto, and what you have is
gridlock. It's the price we pay for having divided government.
And truth be told, both sides share some part of the blame.
Utley discusses the issue with Mitchell and Miklaszewski:
Utley: I imagine many people watching this evening are shaking
their heads and saying: It's just more of the same partisan
squabbling. Is the White House concerned that many voters are just
turning off government and politics all together?
Miklaszewski: No. In fact, the White House hopes that's exactly
what will happen. The Democrats have accused the President of not
having a domestic agenda. Now, by turning the tables, by saying
Congress can't get its act together, President Bush sees this as
a winner out there in the hinterland, where it counts.
Utley: Are the Democrats worried about losing political
credibility, about the system losing credibility?
Mitchell: They're worried about that because they will be blamed.
They are the institution -- the Congress -- that is blamed if
government doesn't work, and it's very easy for the President to
blame them. That's why we saw the Democrats try to come forward
with their anti-recession package. But they couldn't even agree
among themselves that it was pretty much a joke.
(NBC-2)
White House News Summary
Monday, June 10, 1991 -- B-3
SOVIET RELATIONS
Chung: Leading senators said today President Bush shouldn't rush
to reach an arms agreement before any Moscow summit. On the other
hand, they said lack of an agreement shouldn't scuttle the meeting.
CBS's Randall Pinkston: President Bush is being urged to go ahead
and meet Gorbachev despite Secretary Baker's failure Friday to
agree with the Soviets on a plan to reduce long-range missiles.
(Sen. Nunn: "They have plenty of other issues to discuss. They've
got regional issues to discuss around the world, they've got other
future arms-control issues to try to lay down.")
(Sen. Dole: "It would be worthwhile, in my opinion, but of course
that's a judgment the President's going to make.")
President Bush initially delayed meeting with Gorbachev because of
the Persian Gulf War, lack of progress on arms control, and the
Soviet repression of the Baltic states. But in recent weeks, Bush
has sent positive signals: easing trade limitations, agreeing to
invite Gorbachev to next month's London economic summit, and
nominating Robert Strauss for U.S. ambassador to the Kremlin, a
Democrat with a reputation for cutting deals. But despite the
growing bipartisan agreement of the need for closer ties to the
Soviets, some members of Congress are uneasy about Gorbachev's top
priority: Blatant demands for massive Western financial assistance.
(Sen. Bradley: "We need that taxpayer dollar in this country
dealing with the problems of America, not being sent to the Soviet
Union when they have yet to reform.")
(Sen Nunn: "If we just pour money in there, which I do not favor,
that will be like pouring it into the big black hole in space.")
(Sen. Dole: "Whatever we do, it's got to be based on not what they
promise, but what they do, and whether they treat the other
republics fairly.")
On Wednesday, Boris Yeltsin is expected to be elected president of
Russia. That will complicate things for the White House, which is
already trying to strike a balance between working closely with the
Soviet republics while not undermining Gorbachev's ability to cut
deals in arms control.
(CBS-6)
ABC's Carole Simpson reports the Soviet Union's top banking
official was in Switzerland today, appealing for massive technical
assistance from the West and pushing an unprecedented debt-
rescheduling plan.
ABC's Kathleen DeLaski reports two Democratic senators today said
Gorbachev's dire warning last week in Oslo sounds like a threat.
(Sen. Bradley: "It is an attempt at a new form of nuclear
blackmail: Give us money or we won't be able to control our nuclear
weapons.")
A high-level Soviet delegation said it might take $250 billion to
ensure a peaceful transition to a market economy. Vice President
Quayle called cash aid for the Soviets a non-starter. Most
Republicans and Democrats agree. Surprisingly, though, a member
of the Soviet Central Committee said today his country doesn't
expect money from the West any time soon.
(Igor Malashenko on This Week with David Brinkley: "What Gorbachev
is looking for now, he is asking for the direct participation of
the West, of the U.S., in the Soviet domestic reform.")
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DeLaski continues: Some observers say the Administration is
reluctant to get deeply involved with a man whose reputation for
reform is still tenuous.
Simpson reports Yeltsin today condemned Gorbachev for seeking
handouts from the West and promised a more dignified push for
economic reform if he is victorious Wednesday.
(ABC-3)
ISRAEL
Chung: Prime Minister Shamir rejected U.S. attempts to gain
concessions in Middle East peace efforts and is pushing in a
different direction. Israel says it will not attend a peace
conference until there is agreement on Palestinian participation.
CBS's Barry Petersen reports the Israeli cabinet was silent today,
a silence that gave support to the government's refusal to
compromise on the peace talks. Those who might have disagreed with
Shamir said nothing. Those who talked put the best face on the
situation
The Israeli position seems clear: If the Americans
need a compromise to get the peace process launched, more power to
them, as long as that compromise comes from somebody else.
(NBC-5, CBS-2)
Simpson: Prime Minister Shamir said today President Bush has made
him an offer: If Israel freezes new settlements in occupied Arab
lands, Israeli conditions for convening a Middle East peace
conference will be met.
(ABC-7)
NORIEGA/PRESIDENTIAL SUBPOENA
ABC's Mark Potter reports Manuel Noriega and his lawyers are
planning a novel defense. In court documents, they claim drug
trafficking charges against Noriega were manufactured by the U.S.
government to oust him for his refusal to commit Panamanian
soldiers to an invasion of Nicaragua during the Contra war.
Noriega's attorney, Frank Rubino, says many of the prosecution
witnesses smuggled drugs for the U.S. government to buy guns for
the Contras, and then made false drug charges to federal
prosecutors to frame Noriega.
(Rubino: "These people that are testifying for the Justice
Department are, in fact, CIA operatives. These are people that
were flying dope for the CIA. The truth is now coming out via
documents.")
Richard Gregory, the former prosecutor who drafted the indictment,
says the drug charges against Noriega are solid.
(Gregory: "It is not unusual for a defendant to come in and say the
CIA made me do it. What is unusual is when they can prove it.")
In an attempt to prove their claim that Noriega never was involved
in drug dealing -- and, in fact, assisted the DEA and U.S.
intelligence -- defense lawyers may try to subpoena President Bush
about his role as CIA director in 1976, when he met with Noriega.
(ABC-6)
HOSTAGES
Utley reports today is the start of Thomas Sutherland's seventh
year of captivity in Lebanon.
(NBC-6)
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White House News Summary
Monday, June 10, 1991 -- B-5
JORDAN
Chung reports Jordan today criticized Israel, saying it is blocking
U.S. attempts to settle the conflict. Meanwhile, King Hussein
welcomed in a new national charter today, inaugurating the first
formal multi-party system in Jordan's history.
(CBS-3)
PALESTINE
ABC's Dean Reynolds reports on Palestinians turning on each other.
Some have formed vigilante groups, terrorizing the very community
they are supposedly trying to liberate. The slaying of accused
collaborators is their specialty. Most Palestinians understand
nothing would help Israel more than to have the uprising turn into
a suicidal gang war.
(ABC-8)
PAPAL TRIP
Chung reports Pope John Paul returned to Rome today after urging
Poles to not lose heart in the move toward democracy. He also met
with leaders of Poland's Jewish community, speaking out against
increasing anti-Semitism in his homeland.
(NBC-3, CBS-4)
YUGOSLAVIA
Chung reports thousands of Yugoslavs demonstrated in Belgrade today
to demand the resignation of Serbia's communist government.
Opposition leaders charged the communists are isolating Serbia
against the rest of Yugoslavia.
(CBS-5)
KUWAIT
Chung reports Kuwait today set up a high-level panel to review
verdicts of the controversial martial-law courts. An alleged
collaborator was sentenced to death yesterday, and the U.S.
ambassador warned the world is watching Kuwait's human rights
performance.
(CBS-7)
SOUTH AFRICA
CBS's Mike Sullivan reports on whites who are deserting President
de Klerk in growing numbers and turning to a major black
nationalist party that is the main rival to Nelson Mandela's
African National Congress. The defectors think South Africa's
ruling National Party has a limited future and are uneasy about the
African National Congress' socialist policies and alliance with the
communists. Perhaps most importantly, whites are beginning to look
to a future without a white-run government.
(CBS-8)
YOUTH PROGRAM
CBS's James Hattori reports on two Dallas police officers who run
a saddle club in Dallas' inner city. It's a way to get kids off
the streets. Since the club was founded eight years ago, some 200
kids have learned to groom, feed and ride the club's horses. The
club teaches the basic worth ethic and the importance of an
education.
(CBS-11)
-end of B-Section-
ABC -- THIS WEEK WITH DAVID BRINKLEY
Moderator: David Brinkley. Panel: Sam Donaldson, George Will.
Guests: James Billington, Librarian of Congress; followed by Igor
Malashenko of the Soviet Union's Central Committee; followed by
Sen. Moynihan and Sen. Bradley.
On Soviet relations:
Brinkley:
Gorbachev wants money
Should we give him some?
Billington:
I think we should become engaged. We
are
the
principal model by which they measure themselves
We're the
only continent-wide civilization that's built democracy in a multi-
cultural context
But I think it's a mistake to think that we
should go through the central government
It's the grassroots
elements that we ought to be relating more to
Brinkley: Can [the Soviets] be capitalists?
Billington: I think they can. I think they already are to some
degree
They've had a chance to talk things out, and there's
now a consensus realization -- even Gorbachev accepts it -- that
they have to move to a market economy
Donaldson: If we don't channel our aid through the central
government
how do we do it?
Billington: I don't think it's just the local governments [we
should deal with]. I think it's the private sector, the emerging
civil society that we ought to be relating to
Donaldson: How important is it who runs the central government of
the Soviet Union? And should Gorbachev be the person that we
continue to back?
Billington: I don't think it's that important
What's really
important is, what are the processes of change that are at work?
Brinkley: Gorbachev
said if he does not succeed in his attempts
to reform Soviet society, it will affect the prospect of a peaceful
world in the future. Tell me what that means.
Malashenko:
I think without Gorbachev, there are two major
alternatives going back to a totalitarian system or going
to disintegration and chaos. And actually, he is trying
desperately to find a new way
Brinkley: Is this third way a capitalist, market-oriented society?
Malashenko: I would say yes. But it's a simplistic answer because
you had a totalitarian system in this country for more than seven
decades and you cannot change it just overnight or just in 500 days
or whatever.
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Brinkley:
What do you think we should do at this point in
response to Mr. Gorbachev's plea for help from the West?
Bradley: I think that we should be at the table to further reduce
military expenditures that will free up money for Mr. Gorbachev
and the Soviet Union. I think that we should also be willing to
provide some technical assistance for how they get to a market-
oriented economy, some humanitarian aid, if there's a problem like
in Armenia with the earthquake. But I do not think that we should
be sending massive amounts of taxpayer aid to the Soviet Union.
Moynihan:
For one year, the President has had a trade agreement
with the Soviet Union on his desk. With a stroke of the pen, he
could send it to us and then the Soviets would have most favored
nation treatment in tariffs. And what would follow would be pure
capitalist transactions between private parties here and whomever
there, buying and selling, no American federal government aid at
all. But we can't bring ourselves to say: Yeah, I guess they need
that
Bradley: No President, no chancellor of West Germany, no president
of France can tell business people to invest in the Soviet Union
in order to lose money. The Soviet Union has to make the changes
domestically that will attract that capital.
Moynihan:
I think
our institutions -- Central Intelligence
Agency -- always estimated the Soviet economy as vastly greater
than, in fact, it is
will: Gorbachev deplores the violence used in the Baltics and
elsewhere, although it's his government doing it. Gorbachev
deplores the continued 25 percent of the GNP given to military
spending, although it's his government that's doing it. In your
estimation, what is Gorbachev's role in Gorbachev's government?
Bradley:
I think that he avoids taking responsibility for acts
that are clearly his responsibility
Donaldson: Is [Strauss] a good nomination? What does it do to the
Democrats next year?
Bradley: I think that Ambassador Strauss clearly has a good record
as a trade negotiator, but I think his position as ambassador to
the Soviet Union really is going to depend on what is Bush's
attitude. What is Bush going to do?
When it comes to MFN, the legitimate question to ask is:
What do you want to buy from the Soviet Union? What do they
produce that you want to buy?
Moynihan: Don't you want to find out?
Bradley: And the answer is: Very little.
will:
It is possible to read the acceptance speech for the Nobel
Peace
Prize as a blackmail note, saying: Give us money or
something horrible is going to happen to world peace. Is this the
post-Cold War rhetoric from Gorbachev? What did he mean?
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Bradley:
It is an attempt at a new form of nuclear blackmail:
Give us money or we won't be able to control our nuclear weapons.
The fact of the matter is the Soviet military has the capacity and
the determination to control nuclear weapons
I don't think we
should exaggerate this fear, and I don't think that we should be
blackmailed by the threat.
Roundtable discussion: With Brinkley, Donaldson, Will and Cokie
Roberts.
On Strauss nomination:
Brinkley: Is this a good appointment?
Donaldson: I think it's wonderful from the standpoint of Bush, and
I think maybe for the country, too
Second, he's got the
greatest gift for gab in the world. I mean, he'll sit over there
and he'll charm them, if he can.
Roberts: The policy is the President's policy and I do think
this
is clearly somebody who can pick up the phone and say: So George,
here's what's happening in the Soviet Union. It's a much more
direct channel.
will: Let me give my theory
Bob Strauss
A terrible idea
as ambassador. The best man to be ambassador is
Jim Billington.
If not Jim Billington, Richard Pipes of Harvard
Roberts:
[The nomination] does send a signal about where the
direction is headed
When you send the former trade
representative, you're clearly sending the signal that you're ready
to start trade.
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NBC -- MEET THE PRESS
Moderator: Garrick Utley. Panel: Al Hunt of The Wall Street
Journal; Tim Russert, NBC Washington bureau chief. Guest: Sen.
Nunn.
On Gulf War:
Utley: Obviously, we want to welcome the troops back home, but do
you think that perhaps it's a case of patriotic overkill?
Nunn: No, I really don't. I think it's good for our country and
I think it's good for the morale of our military
I think it
might be a good idea to honor our men and women in the military
every year and to remember them in peacetime, as well as in
wartime
Utley: Looking back
do you regret that decision [to vote against
war]?
Nunn: No, I don't, because I made it conscientiously. I made it
based on an analysis of all the facts. I made it after listening
to the experts that I had -- and still regard as the most
knowledgeable in foreign affairs
President Bush and his team
of people deserve great credit for holding the coalition together,
which was a considerable difficulty.
Utley: Has [the vote] hurt you politically, do you think?
Nunn: I think any time you take a hard stand on a vote, it hurts
politically
But if you get to the point [that] you make your
judgment on whether we ought to go to war on whether you're going
to drop six or eight or 10 points in the polls, then I think it's
time to turn in your Senate badges and go back home
I have no
regrets about it at all
Hunt: One thing you and Bush did agree on in March, you both
agreed that Saddam Hussein would be out of office pretty soon
You both were wrong.
Nunn: I'd be surprised if he lasted until the end of this year
Hunt: Specifically, what should the U.S. do now to try to make sure
he doesn't stay in power?
Nunn:
Now it's much more complicated and complex
We have
a difficult problem with sanctions
The
longer
we
keep
the
sanctions in effect now, the more difficult it is for them to pay
for their own food and medicine, which they desperately need, and
it also is difficult for them to begin making the reparations to
help the Kuwaitis and to pay for what they did during the war.
On Soviet relations:
Utley: Should the President go to Moscow without [the START treaty]
nailed down?
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Nunn:
I
believe
with the ambiguities and all the difficulties
with the conventional agreement now being apparently clarified -
- if those indeed have been clarified and if we have a framework,
as the White House is now saying, where nothing is left on START
but a few little details -- then I do not see any reason not to go
forward with the summit
The problem is, if you push [Bush and Gorbachev] together and
say everything has got to be wrapped up
the danger is they will
then turn to the arms control negotiators and say: By golly, we
want to get together by July 15. Now, wrap this thing up
And
then they' 11 end up making some mistakes. So I'd rather see them
go ahead with the summit without rushing the negotiators. They
got plenty to talk about, and I think we can reach a START
agreement pretty soon.
Russert: One, should we give the Soviets aid? Two, what kind of
conditions should be placed on giving that aid -- before, during
or after giving such aid?
Nunn: I think that we ought to be very careful about imposing all
sorts of economic conditions
But if the U.S. is in a position
of telling the Soviets how to run their economy -- and that is
perceived in the Soviet Union everything that starts going wrong
over there
is going to tend to be blamed on the U.
I would much prefer to see two tracks. One track, the
conditional
economic
aid
should be international in nature. It
should come through the IMF and the World Bank, multinational kinds
of organizations that are accustomed to putting conditions on aid.
The second track would be bilateral. And that track -- I think
certainly what happens in the Baltics and human rights and all of
that -- makes a big difference
But I think we need to pick
out areas where the U.S. and the Soviet Union have a mutual
interest.
Russert: What about cutting off aid to Cuba? And two, reducing
the percent of GNP the Soviets spend on military
Would you ask
them to make progress on those two conditions?
Nunn: I think in terms of the international community, those two
conditions should certainly be discussed in considerable detail
Even if they continue aid to Cuba, which I hope they cut off, we
still will have an interest in helping them convert their military
and in developing their oil and gas
Private enterprise can't
go over and make deals with the Soviets if we have got 45
conditions and every time one of them is not met, we jerk the rug.
On civil rights:
Hunt: Last week
Gephardt said Bush was the first President in
the civil rights era who wanted to tear us apart for political
gain. Do you agree with that?
Nunn: I'm going to wait on that verdict to see whether the White
House makes a deal and works with Sen. Danforth and others who are
dealing in good faith. If [the Administration] stiffs that effort,
then I would tend to agree with Gephardt. At this stage, though,
I'd give the President the benefit of the doubt.
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Hunt: Do you expect to see the Senate pass an affirmative action
bill this year?
Nunn: I think the Senate will pass an overturning of the court
decisions
I do not think we will pass a quota bill
Utley: Do you
think [the Democrats] can come up with a candidate
and a program that can win in '92?
Nunn: Yes, I do. But we have a big road ahead of us. It's going
to be tough to beat any incumbent, and President Bush has a lot of
popularity now. But I don't think he's invulnerable
Utley: Is Sam Nunn part of that formula?
Nunn:
As a candidate, I have not developed that burning desire
necessary. If I do at some point in the future, I may be a
candidate.
Roundtable discussion: With Utley, Russert and Hunt.
Utley: Yesterday, at the big parade in Washington, the Republican
Party had cameras out there getting material for the '92 campaign
films. Are we seeing the outline of this campaign?
Russert: The commercials are coming. A top political adviser to
President Bush told me the other day the '92 campaign has begun.
There will be three central issues: Kuwait, quotas and crime
Utley: The Kettering Foundation did a survey which was released
this past week and has attracted a lot of attention. It's not that
people are so apathetic. They feel frustrated, they're just cut
off in the process, from the establishment, from the media.
They're not getting it.
Hunt: They really think politics doesn't matter to them. And
they're terribly disaffected. And I think Tim is absolutely right:
That will be the strategy and it may well work for the Bush
campaign on the Presidential level. It won't work on any other
level. And what you will end up with is more divided government
and more disenchantment on the part of the public.
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CBS -- FACE THE NATION
Moderator: Bob Schieffer. Guest: Sen. Dole.
On civil rights:
Schieffer: Would you be for something like Sen. Danforth has
proposed?
Dole: I think it's another option
We have to keep in mind,
though, Sen. Danforth was not for the President's proposal last
year, and neither were all but one of the nine co-sponsors. So
there hasn't been that much change
Schieffer:
You're convinced that the President himself is still
keeping an open mind about the Danforth proposal?
Dole: I'm convinced that the President has an open mind about a
civil rights proposal
I do see, even on the Democratic side -
- Sen. Kennedy speaking in the Senate last week, Speaker Foley
after the bill was passed but not enough to override a veto -- they
were both saying: Well, maybe we can still find some common
ground. They were not saying this last year, so I think there's
a willingness on the part of all parties to try to handle this
But I must say that I know some members of my party and others of
the other party like the politics of it. They don't want to change
anything.
Schieffer: Neither you nor the president is going to -- at this
point, anyway -- reject [the Danforth proposal] out of hand?
Dole: No
Certainly not
They have some very good
Republican co-sponsors. They're thoughtful people, but there are
a lot of thoughtful people who disagree with the Danforth approach.
So we're going to try to work it out.
On taxes:
Schieffer:
Do you think there ought to be some kind of tax
relief for middle-income Americans?
Dole: Yeah, and one way to do it is to repeal the Gephardt luxury
tax
Schieffer: Have you talked to the White House about that?
Dole: I haven't talked to the White House, but I intend to
introduce a bill this week to repeal all the [Gephardt] taxes
On Soviet relations:
Schieffer: Should the President go to a summit with Mr. Gorbachev
if he does not have an agreement on strategic arms?
Dole: I'm not so certain that we have to have a START
agreement finished before there's some meeting.
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Schieffer: What about aid to the Soviet Union?
Dole: ...I think if we talk about aid we ought to start dealing
directly with the republics, not always with the central
government, not always with Gorbachev, because he has to respond
to the army, the Communist Party, the bureaucrats
And we have
two bills pending now in the Congress that would permit that, and
they have wide bipartisan support.
Schieffer: How do you deal with Boris Yeltsin without offending
Gorbachev?
Dole: I think it's the maturity of the relationship. When
Gorbachev comes to the United States, he meets with Democrats, he
meets with the leaders of the Congress. That doesn't offend
President Bush
Those who are on the other side of
Gorbachev begin to understand that we're going to continue our
relationship with Gorbachev, but we're not going to foreclose
meeting with other republic leaders, trading with other republic
leaders, giving direct aid to other republics
We don't want
to bring down Gorbachev
I think we could bring him down. I'm
not certain we can save him, regardless of the amount of aid we
give him.
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THE McLAUGHLIN GROUP
Moderator: John McLaughlin. Panel: Fred Barnes, Jack Germond, Pat
Buchanan, Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal.
On Soviet Aid: Will the West give Gorbachev aid?
Buchanan: If he's talking $30 billion, he's out of his mind
Bush doesn't have the political constituency to conduct any bailout
of the Soviet Union
Bush will have a firestorm on his hands
in the Republican Party and he will also find Democrats like Sen.
Bradley and others leading the charge against him. It ain't going
to happen.
Barnes: Gorbachev is playing his public game about as badly as
possible
He's trying this intimidation game by saying: I'm
entitled to the money
That is not going to work. Bush isn't
going to knuckle under that
The fact is, the window is open
in the Soviet Union [for the West to mandate reform].
Germond: The idea that he's going to get massive aid is
ridiculous
I think there's an opportunity he will get some
aid
Gigot: The President understands -- even Jim Baker understands -
- that offering a big aid package up there on the Hill would just
give the Democrats a chance to get to the right.
Buchanan: Bush is playing with political dynamite if he tries to
funnel money to a regime that's doing that [repressing human
rights]
There is a deep division in this Administration --
Barnes: There is not a deep division in this administration.
Nobody wants to give the money, but they don't want to publicly
embarrass Gorbachev.
On the Strauss nomination: What signal does the Strauss nomination
send, and to whom?
Barnes: It sends one to Baker that says: I'm handling Soviet
affairs, not you
It sends a message to Gorbachev that says:
Look, I'm sending a guy who's going to deal with you politically,
and if you do the right thing, we can work out a deal
Germond: It also sends a message to the American business
community
that there are going to be opportunities in the Soviet
Union
The complaints you heard have come largely from the
right, who say we should have sent another career diplomat
there
A career diplomat in this situation could not help but
see the Soviet Union through the prism of the Cold War. We have
to get out of that mindset, and having this kind of appointment
does it.
Buchanan: Strauss is a deal-cutter
Bush wants to work out all
these deals -- IMF, World Bank and all this sort of thing.
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On civil rights: Will Congress be able to produce a civil rights
bill President Bush will sign?
Germond: Bush obviously hopes not. He's looking for the issue, not
the bill.
Gigot: The problem with the Democrats and this bill is they haven't
sold the country on it. The country doesn't want this bill.
There's no groundswell
And I'm not so sure the Danforth
compromise is going to work out
Barnes: The Democrats have handled this thing so poorly. They
ought to know now how to handle Bush. And you don't do it by
calling him a racist, by saying he's worse than Bull Connor and
George Wallace
They've really made him mad.
Germond: The fact of the matter is Bush is a benign nice guy as
President. As a candidate, he's a pit bull. If you can run and
get elected with Willie Horton, you're not going to be afraid to
run on a civil rights bill. That is racist.
PREDICTIONS
Barnes: Senate Democrats have decided to fight Bush's
nomination to the National Council on Humanities. She's a neo-
con
Bush will fight it, but it's up in the air.
Germond: The hot Democratic conservative candidate is going to be
Bill Clinton.
Gigot: The White House will finally stop blackmailing -- or
attempting to blackmail -- Greenspan to lower interest rates, and
will renominate him within two weeks.
McLaughlin: Tom Harkin will seek the Presidency.
###
INSIDE WASHINGTON
Moderator: Gordon Peterson.
Panel: Carl Rowan, Charles
Krauthammer, Strobe Talbott, Elizabeth Drew.
On civil rights: Who's winning this battle?
Talbott: Bush is. He's got the Democrats on the defensive
He's managed to make himself the champion of the many people in
this country who are resentful not only about quotas, which is a
phony issue, but about affirmative action, which is a very real
issue.
Drew: Circumstances may force Bush to moderate fairly soon. And
if he doesn't moderate his performance, I'm not sure it's going to
look so good in the long run.
Rowan:
I tip my hat to the people in the Congress who would
rather lose than stoop to [Bush's] kind of tactic.
Krauthammer: It's clear from the reaction to the debate in Congress
that the country wants and needs a national debate on the
issue
and it's going to have it in 1992
Rowan:
Ronald Reagan perfected this business of the white
backlash. Nobody, since Wilson was in the White House, has played
it as meanly as Bush, and it is not constructive
Drew: It doesn't help when a President exploits that issue to his
own political advantage, rather than try to be a healer, as
Danforth is.
Talbott: A lot of people who are clearly liberal and by no means
racist have very, very profound questions about the consequences
of affirmative action
It's not just whites
A lot of
blacks have too, because they feel affirmative action has
stigmatized them.
Krauthammer:
I think to accuse people who are against [a civil
rights bill] of being racist and demagogues, I think is demagoguery
of itself.
On Soviet aid: Is the U.S. moving toward massive aid?
Krauthammer: The Administration is resisting that, I think
correctly, at least for now. Because all they're getting right now
are promises, and we've had promises in the past.
Talbott: Incidently, the White House was not thrilled with what the
Vice President had to say publicly [about Soviet aid]. It was much
starker and more negative than Bush himself wants to be on this
issue
Drew: We will help them. Not by massive infusions of money, but
by bringing them more into the Western economic system by giving
them more technological aid, technical assistance in all kinds of
areas
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Monday, June 10, 1991 -- C-12
Rowan: I'll be doggoned if I can figure out why we ought
to dish out a lot of aid when we can't rebuild our bridges, we
can't teach our children how to count. We've got cities going
bankrupt, we've got hungry children here
Krauthammer: If we have an opportunity to support a democratic
regime in Russia that ultimately will become potentially an ally,
we should invest anything it costs. But only with Yeltsin and
democrats, and not with Gorbachev if he resists reform.
On Strauss nomination: Is he a good choice?
Drew: I think he is an inspired choice
I can't think of a
better guy to throw his arm around Gorbachev's shoulders
Rowan: Strauss is the kind of guy who can wind up in bed with
Gorbachev and Yeltsin at the same time.
Talbott: I'd feel better about the appointment if he knew something
about the Soviet Union. Let's just hope he's surrounded by a cadre
of real experts.
On health care:
Drew:
I would say what was presented this week by Sen. Mitchell
and Sen. Kennedy and so one was a starting point. There are a lot
of problems with it
The interesting thing is the
Administration appears to have decided not to join the game because
they don't feel they can come up with one that really can compete.
Talbott: The difference between this and the civil rights issue is
that the Democrats may have some running room
Rowan: What's going on in this country is outrageous, and I think
you will see that we are moving rapidly toward a universal health
care system.
Krauthammer: The Democrats' proposal, which I think is a good
start, is inadequate in one large respect: It tries to hide the
real cost
It's going to add to the cost of any employer who
wants to hire an employee, which means it will produce less jobs.
I don't think a health care bill which is going to produce
unemployment is a good idea. If we're going to have it, let's have
it open, out front, and let's have it paid by the taxpayer, as in
Canada.
-end of News Summary-
Last Week
CONGRESSIONAL
A contentious House debate on a
civil rights bill highlighted last week's ac-
MONITOR
tion on Capitol Hill. But it was only one
of several significant pieces of legislation
that drew House or Senate attention.
Supporters of the space station Free-
dom won a big victory when the House
C
voted to include $1.9 billion for the
project in the fiscal 1992 spending bill for
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the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
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Housing and Urban Development and a
number of independent agencies, includ-
ing NASA.
This Week in Congress
Besides that measure, the House
passed. two other fiscal 1992 spending
bills. And the Senate passed a measure
that would allow the seven regional Bell
Floor debates are expected to heat
In a compromise worked out be-
telephone companies to compete in the
$35 billion-a-year telephone equipment
up in both chambers this week.
tween House Democrats and the admin-
The House will take up a foreign aid
istration last week, lawmakers would
manufacturing market.
authorization bill for fiscal 1992-93 that
have the right to make four more ap-
House Floor Action
would overturn an administration ban on
pointments to a council already being es-
Civil Rights. The big question
assistance to international organizations
tablished by the Education Department.
when the House took up a civil rights bill
that provide abortions and abortion
This would be in addition to the four
(HR 1) was not whether the Democratic-
counseling.
members of Congress already slated to be
And the Senate may turn to a multi-
backed version would pass, but whether
part of the group. The size of the council
year highway. reauthorization bill if back-
supporters would get enough votes to
would grow from 24 to 32 members.
ers get enough votes to cut off debate on
show they could override an expected
Intelligence. On Tuesday, mem-
a motion to take up the bill.
veto by President Bush.
bers will consider a fiscal 1992 authoriza-
The House also plans to work on a
The measure passed by a 273-158
tion bill (HR 2038) for the intelligence-
fiscal 1992 authorization bill for the gov-
margin, far short of the roughly 290 votes
gathering operations of the government,
needed for an override.
ernment's intelligence-gathering offices,
including the CIA.
The vote was the culmination of an
including the CIA.
Foreign Aid. The House on Tuesday
At the committee level, Appropria-
will also consider a bill (HR 2508) that
often bitter and partisan debate over the
tions panels on both sides of the Hill will
intent of the bill. Bush and other Repub-
would authorize $13.3 billion for foreign
work on fiscal 1992 spending bills and
aid programs in fiscal 1992-93. Members
licans charged that businesses would
other committees will work on measures
expect to finish work on the bill Thursday.
have to institute hiring quotas to protect
ranging from abortion counseling to
Debate is likely to become intense
themselves from provisions of the bill
Puerto Rico's political future.
over provisions in the bill relating to aid
that would make it easier for employees,
or prospective employees, to sue busi-
for family planning organizations.
House Floor
The bill includes language that
nesses for job discrimination.
Money Laundering. On Monday,
would overturn current government pol-
Democrats accused Bush of using the
members will consider a bill (HR 26) that
icy that prohibits U.S. aid from going to
bill for political purposes. They included
would impose stiff new penalties on
international family planning organiza-
in the measure language specifically bar-
banks and bank officers convicted of
tions that provide abortions and abortion
ring the use of quotas.
laundering money.
By a 152-277 vote, members rejected
counseling.
The bill would authorize banking
The bill also would earmark $20 mil-
regulators to revoke the charter or ap-
lion for a U.N.-administered fund that
See LAST on p. 4
point a conservator for an institution
gives family planning assistance to 140
convicted of money-laundering schemes.
developing nations.
Bank officers could face a lifetime ban
Republicans opposed the language in
In This Issue
from working in a financial institution if
committee arguing that it would allow
convicted.
funds to be directed to China, which they
THIS WEEK
I
House and Senate lawmakers
say conducts forced abortions and ster-
LAST WEEK
1
reached a consensus on money launder-
ilization programs.
TODAY
ing penalties last year, but last-minute
District of Columbia. On Tuesday,
Committee Listings
7
add-ons to the bill and election-eve poli-
House members will also consider a bill
News Events
7
FUTURE
tics killed the measure in October.
(HR 2123) that would establish a formula
Senate Committees
7
Education Standards. Members
for determining the annual federal pay-
House Committees
12
on Monday will also begin consideration
ment to the District of Columbia.
Conference Committees
18
of a bill (HR 2435) that would establish a
The bill would set the annual federal
Other Events
18
National Council on Education Stan-
payment to the city at 24 percent of lo-
STATUS CHARTS
dards and Testing.
cally generated revenue for fiscal 1993-95
FY92 Appropriations
20
The bipartisan council would review
and would authorize $630 million in fed-
House Floor
21
proposals to institute nationwide educa-
Senate Floor
22
tion standards and testing.
See THIS on p. 6
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Congressional Monitor
Monday, June 10, 1991
House Committee Staff Changes
The Monitor periodically reports on changes in key staff
Children, Youth and Families
positions at congressional committees.
Danielle Madison has become the minority staff director, replac-
The following list contains some changes in key House
ing Dennis Smith, who left to be the minority staff director for the
District of Columbia Committee. Madison was with the California-based
committee staff assignments in the last few months.
A similar list of Senate committee staff changes appeared in
group Focus on the Family before assuming her current position.
the June 3 issue of the Monitor.
Education and Labor
Marian Chafee has joined the minority staff at the full committee
Aging
to work on education issues. She replaces Lisa Morin, who has gone to
Yvonne Santa Anna has moved to the Senate Veterans' Affairs
work at the Office of Management and Budget. Chafee recently returned
Committee, leaving a vacancy at the Aging Committee. Santa Anna, who
to the United States after working in South America.
was the professional staffer for the majority in charge of health issues,
Mary Jane Fiske is retiring from the full committee's minority
will be doing the same work for the minority in her new position.
staff after 12 years. As a professional staffer, she covered human re-
sources issues. No replacement has been named.
Agriculture
Michael Lance, the minority legislative associate for the
Numerous changes among subcommittee chairmen have brought a
Postsecondary Education Subcommittee has left. His replacement,
spate of majority staff reassignments. Jean Margaret Smith has
Rose DiNapoli, most recently with the National Endowment for the
taken over as staff director of the Domestic Marketing, Consumer Rela-
Arts, worked on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act five
tions and Nutrition Subcommittee, replacing Julia Paradis, who has
years ago as a staffer for Rep. Tom Coleman, R-Mo.
moved to the full committee. Smith had been a legislative assistant on
the personal staff of Rep. Robin Tallon, D-S.C., who is the new chairman
Energy and Commerce
of the subcommittee. Paradis will continue to focus on food stamp and
Longtime investigator Michael F. Barrett Jr. has left the Over-
dairy issues at the full committee level.
sight and Investigations Subcommittee, where he served for 21 years. He
Krysta Harden, who was the administrative assistant in the per-
was chief counsel and majority staff director for the last 10 years. He left
sonal office of Rep. George Hatcher, D-Ga., has become staff director for
to open up a private law office. He was replaced by Reid Stuntz, who
the Peanuts and Tobacco Subcommittee. Hatcher chairs the subcommit-
has served as a majority counsel on the subcommittee since late 1988.
tee. Dean Mitchell has assumed the administrative assistant spot in
Stuntz came to the committee from the Washington, D.C., office of
Hatcher's office. He had been a staff consultant at the Domestic Market-
Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman.
ing Subcommittee, which Hatcher chaired.
David Schooler, who was a majority counsel at the Energy and
Keith Pitts, who was the legislative director to Rep. Charlie Rose,
Power Subcommittee, has new responsibilities as staff director for the
D-N.C., is now a staff consultant at the Department Operations, Re-
Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness Subcommittee.
search and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee. Rose is the new chairman
He will work for the new chairman of the panel, Rep. Cardiss Collins, D-
at the subcommittee. Pitts replaces Skip Stiles who accompanied
III. Schooler replaced David Keaney, who has moved to the full com-
the panel's former Chairman George E. Brown Jr., D-Calif., to the
mittee to serve as a majority counsel on health issues.
Science Committee.
On the Republican side, Michael Regan has joined the full com-
Rep. Tom Coleman of Missouri, who is the ranking Republican on
mittee as a minority counsel. He will focus on telecommunications and
the committee, has brought Dennis Lambert on board as minority
consumer privacy issues. From 1986-87 Regan served on the staff of the
staff director. Lambert had been an executive assistant on Coleman's
Senate Judiciary Committee and comes to the committee from the law
personal staff since 1985.
firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand.
Nandan Kenkeremath has also come on board as a minority
Armed Services
counsel. He will specialize in environmental and hazardous materials
Joel Resnick has filled a new professional staff position on the full
issues, including the reauthorization of the Resource Conservation and
committee. Resnick will handle military personnel and some strategic
Recovery Act. He had worked at the Environmental Protection Agency
force issues, including the B-2 stealth bomber and the Strategic Defense
for over six years.
Initiative (SDI). Resnick had worked for more than 10 years at Science
Applications International Corp., in Tysons Corner, Va., where he did
Government Operations
contract research on national security issues.
Don Gray has left the Environment Subcommittee, where he was
Ken Luongo is a new professional staff member on the Seapower
chief investigator for the majority, to head the water program at the
Subcommittee. Luongo focuses on conventional weapons and SDI-re-
Environmental and Energy Study Institute in Washington, D.C. He has
lated issues. He worked for Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., as a legislative
been replaced by Jim Aidala, who was the director of policy develop-
assistant. Luongo replaces Joe Cirincione, who left to be deputy staff
ment at the Institute for Alternative Agriculture in Greenbelt, Md.
director for the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Legis-
At the Legislation and National Security Subcommmittee, Joe
lation and National Security.
Cirincione has been hired as a professional staffer for the majority. He
At the Readiness Subcommittee, Gary Pulliam has been named to
will work on defense issues in a newly created position. Cirincione was
be the staff representative for Chairman Earl Hutto, D-Fla., a new
the professional staffer on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on
position. Pulliam continues in his role as administrative assistant to
Seapower. where he focused on the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Hutto.
Ilene Rosenthal has left her position as minority counsel for the
Jeanine Esperne is a new minority professional staff member on
full committee and gone to work in the Department of Justice's Criminal
the Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Facilities Panel. Esperne,
Division, where she will focus on money laundering. Rosenthal handled a
who came to the panel from the Strategic Defense Initiative Organiza-
variety of issues. She has not been replaced.
tion at the Defense Department, will work on the authorization of
Christina Tellalian has replaced Jeff Albrecht as minority
Energy Department defense programs. She replaces Jeff Schwartz,
counsel for the Employment and Housing Subcommittee. Tellalian had
who is the new executive assistant to the chairman and chief executive
worked as a legislative assistant for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.,
officer of Xsirius, a small, high-tech firm in Arlington, Va.
where she handled transportation, education and veterans issues.
New to the minority staff at the Research and Development Sub-
Albrecht has left the Hill.
committee is Cindy Lovett. She fills a new position as a professional
Ken Salaets, the minority's professional staffer for the Govern-
staff member. Lovett most recently was the legislative director for Rep.
ment Activities Subcommittee, has left to work in the public relations
Robert W. Davis, R-Mich.
department of the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers
Christopher Williams has taken a new position as a professional
Association. Salaets has not been replaced.
staffer for the minority at the Military Construction Subcommittee. He
Steven McMillan has replaced Wayne Cimons as the minority
comes to the panel from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he
staffer on the Human Resources Subcommittee. McMillan had been
spent four years working on strategic arms control issues and SDI.
legislative director for Rep. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo. Cimons has gone to
Williams will work on base closing and strategic issues for the minority.
the Food and Drug Administration's Legislative Affairs Department.
Y
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Timothy Schoettle is a new legislative assistant for the majority at
Intelligence
the Postal Operations and Services Subcommittee, where he will work
Paula Scalingi has been hired as a professional staffer for the
on health and social security issues. He had been an intern in the office
committee to work on arms control issues. She comes from the Arms
of James H. Scheuer, D-N.Y.
Control and Disarmament Agency, where she served on the U.S: delega-
Beneva Schulte is a new staff assistant for the majority at the
tion negotiating the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. She also worked
Civil Service Subcommittee. She follows pay equity and employment
on arms control issues for the CIA.
issues. She recently received a masters in public policy from George
Another new professional staffer is Margaret Sullivan, who is
Washington University. She replaced Kelly O'Brien, who left the Hill.
handling oversight and evaluation issues. Sullivan had worked in the
personal office of Rep. Nicholas Mavroules, D-Mass., where she was
Public Works and Transportation
responsible for defense issues.
Paul Schlesinger, who was committee staff director under former
The two new positions resulted from a staff reorganization last year.
Chairman Glenn M. Anderson, D-Calif., left to become a partner in the
local law firm of Alcalde, Rousselot & Fay.
Interior and Insular Affairs
Debra Gebhardt has moved from the Public Buildings and
In the wake of the retirement of longtime Chairman Morris K.
Grounds Subcommittee to the Water Resouces Subcommittee as a mi-
Udall, D-Ariz., a reorganization is taking place at the committee. Several
nority professional staff member, accompanying her boss Rep. Tom
full committee staff members have retired, including general counsel
Petri, Wis., who is the ranking Republican on the panel. She has worked
Lee McElvain, minerals and lands consultant William Shafer and
for the committee since 1987.
professional staff member Henry Myers.
Gebhardt's slot on the Public Buildings panel has been taken by
In addition, the Office of the Chairman - where several Udall staffers
Ruth Van Mark. Van Mark comes from the personal staff of Rep.
were employed while Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., served as vice chairman
James M. Inhofe, R-Okla., where she had been legislative director since
- has been eliminated. Miller is now chairman of the committee.
1989. Inhofe is the ranking member on the subcommittee.
Daniel Beard, staff director since 1984 at the Water, Power and
Jeff Shoaf is a new professional staff member for the minority at
Offshore Energy Subcommittee, has taken over as full committee staff
the Surface Transportation Subcommittee. He had been a legislative
director. He has brought Richard Meltzer on board as general counsel.
assistant to Rep. Bud Shuster, Pa., the subcommittee's ranking Republi-
Meltzer comes to the committee from the Washington, D.C., office of the
can. Shoaf replaced Scott Lowry, who moved to the Washington office
Chicago law firm of Winston & Strawn, where he was a partner specializ-
of new Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican.
ing in natural resources and tax law. Meltzer worked on Capitol Hill,
Kathy Coffman, a longtime staffer for Rep. Ron Packard, R-Calif.,
from 1975-79, for former Rep. Abdner Mikva, D-Ill.
has joined the minority staff at the Investigations and Oversight Sub-
Dean Tousley has joined the Energy and the Environment Sub-
committee, where Packard is the new ranking Republican. She replaces
committee staff as a counsel. He will work with new Chairman Peter H.
Ray Mock. She comes to the subcommittee from Packard's personal
Kostmayer, D-Pa. Tousley had previously worked as an attorney at the
office, where she has worked since 1984, most recently as a legislative
Washington, D.C., law firm of Harmon, Curran & Tousley.
assistant.
Judiciary
Science, Space and Technology
Ray Smietanka has become the minority counsel for the Adminis-
The new chairmanship of George. E. Brown Jr., D-Calif., has re-
trative Law Subcommittee after serving in the same capacity for the
sulted in a raft of majority staff changes at the committee. Radford
Criminal Justice Subcommittee. Before Smietanka, the position had
Byerly Jr., who worked for the committee from 1975-1987, is the new
been long vacant.
chief of staff. Pete Didisheim, four-year administrative assistant in
At the newly formed Crime and Criminal Justice Subcommittee,
Brown's personal office, has become deputy chief of staff.
Lyle Nirenberg has been named minority counsel. Previously, he had
Skip Stiles Jr. has become legislative director moving over from
been a fellow at the House Select Narcotics Committee, concentrating
the House Agriculture Committee's Departmental Operations Sub-
on issues related to drug supply and demand.
committee, where he had been staff director since 1987. Michael
Minority counsel Cordia Strom has moved from the International
Rodemeyer has been appointed chief counsel of the committee. He had
Law Subcommittee to the full committee, where she will work on issues
been staff director of the Science Committee's Natural Resources Sub-
relating to the implementation of the 1990 Immigration Reform Act. She
committee, which is now the Environment Subcommittee.
has been replaced by Carmel Fisk, who comes from the International
Rick Borchelt, formerly director of media for the National Acad-
Foundation for Electoral Systems, where she monitored elections in
emy of Sciences, is the panel's new press secretary. The former Commu-
other countries.
nications Director Patricia Garfinkel, a 15-year committee veteran,
will remain at the committee to focus on speechwriting.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
John Holmfeld, a 20-year veteran on the committee, retired in
John Cullather, a 14-year Hill veteran, recently joined the major-
April. He was the committee's science consultant. No replacement has
ity staff of the Merchant Marine Subcommittee, where he has been
been named.
working on the subcommittee's investigation of the Desert Storm sealift
operation. He returns to Merchant Marine as a professional staff mem-
Ways and Means
ber after a stint at the Public Buildings and Grounds Subcommittee of
There have been several changes in the majority staff at the House
the House Public Works and Transportation Committee. He had previ-
Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures. Kath-
ously worked at the Merchant Marine Committee for 12 years.
leen O'Connell, formerly with the Congressional Budget Office, will be
Laurie Wilkerson has joined the Coast Guard and Navigation
an economist with the subcommittee in a newly created position.
Subcommittee as a majority counsel. She comes to the subcommittee
Three new attorneys have joined the tax staff:
after working for more than two years in the Washington, D.C., office of
Kathleen Nilles, formerly of the Washington law firm of Groom &
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a Los Angeles-based law firm. She fills a new
Nordberg, will be specializing in banking and partnership issues, among
position.
other things. She replaces Susan Rogers, who has joined the Washing-
Mark Ruge has joined the minority staff as deputy staff director.
ton, D.C., office of the Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie.
He came to the committee from the personal staff of ranking Republican
Carol Kulish came to the staff from Shaw, Pittman, Potts &
Robert W. Davis, Mich. Former minority chief counsel Duncan Smith
Trowbridge, a Washington, D.C., law firm. She will handle issues relat-
III has left to join the Washington, D.C., law firm of Dyer, Ellis, Joseph
& Mills.
ing to bonds, replacing Rosina Barker, who left to join the Washing-
ton, D.C., law firm Ivins, Phillips & Barker.
Mildeen Worrell, formerly of the law firm Sutherland, Asbill &
Post Office and Civil Service
Brennan in Washington, D.C., will handle pension issues. She replaces
Roger Blacklow is the new deputy staff director for the majority
Peg Henry, who has joined the Washington office of Arter & Hadden, a
at the Postal Personnel and Modernization Subcommittee. He previ-
law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio.
ously worked at the National Association of Letter Carriers as a special
The committee's chief economist, Wendell E. Primus, has as-
assistant on legislation. He replaces Brad Mims, who left the panel to
sumed the additional title of majority staff director at the Human
work in the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Government Relations.
Resources Subcommittee.
Mims is responsible for legislation relating to the Air and Space Museum
Former Staff Director Deborah G. Colton has moved to the full
and the proposed African-American Museum.
committee, where she is assistant to the chairman.
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LAST WEEK from p. 1
Fire Prevention. By a 326-5 vote,
The Banking Committee last week
the House approved a bill (HR 2042) to
also approved a bill (S 1194) that would
a GOP version that would have over-
authorize $26 million in fiscal 1992 for a
authorize $21 billion for mass transit pro-
turned only two of the six 1989 Supreme
federal program designed to combat and
grams through fiscal 1996, including
Court decisions Democrats sought to re-
reduce the risk of fires.
about $3.8 billion in fiscal 1992. The
verse. Also rejected, by a 152-277 vote,
The program was created in 1988 and
measure will be folded into the broader
was an amendment by Edolphus Towns,
focuses on developing fire-retardant cloth-
highway bill when it is taken up.
D-N.Y., and Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo.,
ing and construction materials.
that, unlike either the Democratic-passed
House Committee Action
measure or the GOP alternative, would
Senate Floor Action
Appropriations. Three House
not have imposed caps on punitive dam-
Baby Bells. The Senate passed, 71-
Appropriations subcommittees met last
ages for cases dealing with sex discrimi-
24, a bill (S 173) that would pave the way
week to mark up fiscal 1992 spending mea-
nation and certain cases of religious bias.
for regional Bell telephone companies to
sures, leaving only two subcommittees -
Appropriations Bills. The House
enter the telephone design and manufac-
District of Columbia and Transportation
passed fiscal 1992 spending bills for the
turing market, which they- are currently
- that need to mark up their bills.
legislative branch, defense programs and
prohibited from entering.
By voice vote, the Interior Subcommit-
for the Departments of Veterans Affairs
The bill would allow the so-called
tee approved a $13.2 billion draft fiscal
(VA) and Housing and Urban Develop-
Baby Bells to compete with their former
1992 spending bill - a 12.9 percent in-
ment (HUD) and some independent agen-
parent, AT&T, which dominates the $35
crease over last year's $11.7 billion bill.
cies. Members have now passed five of the
billion domestic market for communica-
About half the money in the bill
13 spending bills, putting them ahead of
tions equipment.
would go to programs in the Interior De-
last year's pace. (See box, this page)
Opponents of the measure contend
partment, including $1.4 billion for the
Congressional Spending. By a 308-
that it would squelch competition, espe-
National Park Service and $1.6 billion for
110 vote, members passed a $1.8 billion bill
cially if the Baby Bells were to combine
the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(HR 2506) to pay for the operations of the
efforts to increase their market share.
Another $178 million each would be
House of Representatives and related
Highway Bill. Senate Majority
appropriated for the National Endow-
agencies.
Leader George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, tried
ment for the Arts and the National En-
About $709 million was provided for
to begin floor action on a $105 billion five-
dowment for the Humanities, up from
the House, including $80 million for con-
year reauthorization bill (S 1204) for fed-
the fiscal 1991 levels of $175 million and
gressional mailings - a $21 million in-
eral surface transportation programs. But
$171 million, respectively.
crease over fiscal 1991, but lower than
members didn't get far on the measure
Members also included in the bill a
previous election years.
because opponents of the bill's formula
one-year extension on the moratorium on
When the Senate takes up the bill, it is
that determines how monies from the
oil and gas drilling off most U.S. shores.
expected to add about $500 million for its
Highway Trust Fund are allocated to
The Labor, Health and Human Ser-
operations.
states were able to block action.
vices (HHS), and Education Subcommit-
Defense Programs. A $270.6 billion
John W. Warner, R-Va., argued for
tee, meeting in closed session, approved a
measure (HR 2521) to pay for Defense
revisions to the funding formula, saying
spending measure that, for the first time
Department programs passed the House
that allocations should be more equitable
in many years, provides funds for most
by a 273-105 vote.
among all the states. The trust fund is
programs that are not yet authorized.
By a 155-229 vote, the House rejected
financed primarily by a tax on motor fuels.
Because the House bill contained no
an amendment by Barney Frank, D-Mass.,
to strike $260 million in the bill earmarked
for research and development of the rail
garrison MX missile system.
House: Quick Pace on Spending Bills
The funding measure generally tracks
the defense authorization bill (HR 2100),
If progress on appropriations bills is any indication, last year's budget deal is
which the House passed on May 22.
working like a charm.
VA-HUD. Members expected a close
With the decisions on how much could be spent on defense, international affairs
vote on whether funding for the space
and domestic discretionary programs already made, the House Appropriations
station would remain in the fiscal 1992
Committee has been able to make considerable progress already on the 13 regular
$81.2 billion VA-HUD spending bill (HR
fiscal 1992 spending bills. The committee is well ahead of last year's pace.
2519). But an amendment providing $1.9
Eleven of the subcommittees have already marked up their measures, compared
billion for the station was approved easily,
to just one at this time a year ago. The Transportation and District of Columbia
subcommittees are the only panels that have yet to mark up their bills.
240-173.
The spending bill passed, 363-39.
House action on the spending measures is also well ahead of last year. Members
Critics of the space station com-
have already approved five of the bills. Last year, the first appropriations bill
plained that its costs continue to rise, while
didn't pass the House until June 19.
its potential benefits have been limited by
If the House is able to keep up the pace, it may be able to pass all 13 bills by
a redesign that, ironically, had been or-
June 30 - a deadline that has been met only once in the last 30 years. That was in
1988, which, not coincidently, was the last time Congress and the White House had
dered to keep costs down.
The VA-HUD Appropriations Sub-
worked out a budget deal in advance of taking up the appropriations bills.
committee voted May 15 to terminate the
Here are the five appropriations bills the House passed, along with the date
program and the full Appropriations Com-
they passed last year:
1991
1990
mittee agreed.
But the House decided to restore the
Energy and Water (HR 2427)
May 29
June 19
station to its fiscal 1991 level - $1.9 bil-
Military Construction (HR 2426)
May 30
July 30
lion. The funds were offset by holding total
Legislative Branch (HR 2506)
June 5
Oct. 21
NASA spending to its fiscal 1991 level and
Veterans-HUD (HR 2519)
June 6
June 28
cutting more than $200 million from a
Defense (HR 2521)
June 7
Oct. 12
public housing program.
Monday, June 10, 1991
Congressional Monitor
Page 5
money for many programs, subcommittee
has to the bill (HR 2507), which would
overturn an administration policy that
Chairman William H. Natcher, D-Ky.,
reauthorize expired programs of the Na-
prohibits U.S. overseas aid to private
had found himself at a disadvantage in
tional Institutes of Health.
family planning organizations that pro-
negotiations with the Senate Appropria-
By a 17-26 vote, the panel rejected a
vide or promote abortion as a method of
tions Committee in recent years. Natch-
Republican amendment to strike the fe-
family planning.
er's Senate counterpart, Tom Harkin, D-
tal tissue language from the bill.
Republicans have said the language
Iowa, had argued that since only the
Education Council. A dispute be-
will cause the measure to be vetoed.
Senate bill addressed funding for those
tween the Bush administration and
The, bill also includes a provision
programs, its view should prevail, with-
House Democrats over a national educa-
mandating the use of U.S. ships for foreign
out compromise.
tion council was resolved last week when
aid, such as in the transportation of grain.
This year, Natcher reportedly de-
both sides compromised.
Veterans Bills. Before approving a
cided to provide funds for all unau-
By a 36-0 vote, the House Education
bill (HR 153) that would authorize the
thorized programs except Title X family
and Labor Committee approved a bill
U.S. Court of Veterans' Appeals to call
planning programs. Title X funding will
(HR 2435) that included the agreement.
for an annual judicial conference, the
probably be a battleground for abortion
A bipartisan council already being for-
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
and abortion counseling provisions later
mulated by the administration would re-
voted, 8-4, to delete House-passed lan-
in the year.
view whether to institute nationwide
guage to authorize a $7,000 raise for the
The subcommittee has been given
education standards and testing.
six associate judges on the court.
$201.9 billion to spend in fiscal 1992.
House Republicans had opposed the
The pay raise would have put the
On Friday, the Agriculture Sub-
creation of a new council, as the Demo-
judges' salaries on the same level as that
committee gave approval to a $50.4 bil-
crats proposed. For their part, Democrats
of judges on federal appeals courts. The
lion bill that would provide about $38
argued that Bush's council did not go far
court hears appeals from veterans who
billion for mandatory programs as well as
enough in determining whether national
have been denied benefits.
$12.5 billion in discretionary funds.
standards and testing should be adopted.
'Approved by voice vote in a closed
The compromise would give Con-
Base Closing Commission
session, the measure amounts to about a
gress the right to make four more ap-
In a move sure to anger many key
3.5 percent cut over fiscal 1991 spending.
pointments to the Education Depart-
members of Congress, the Defense Base
Reportedly, the measure includes
ment's council, in addition to the four
Closure and Realignment Commission
money for the embattled crop insurance
members of Congress already slated to be
Friday reaffirmed its intention to con-
system, which received $586 million in
chosen. The size of the council would be
sider a proposal to reorganize the Army
fiscal 1991. When the panel marked up
expanded from 24 to 32 members.
Corps of Engineers.
last year's version, it voted to terminate
Federal Layoffs. The federal gov-
When Defense Secretary Dick Che-
the program, saying it was too costly and
ernment would be required to give 60
ney on April 12 presented his proposed
unworkable. Later in the year, lawmakers
days advance written notice to federal
list of military bases to be closed, he de-
on the subcommittee and the House Ag-
employees before laying them off, under
liberately omitted a planned reorganiza-
riculture Committee reached a compro-
a bill (HR 1341) approved 4-1 by the
tion of the Army Corps of Engineers.
mise to preserve it. Panel members didn't
House Post Office Subcommittee on Hu-
Unlike the bases on Cheney's list,
drop the program this year, but report-
man Resources.
the Army Corps of Engineers falls under
edly agreed to scale it back.
Supporters of the measure say fed-
the jurisdiction of the House Public
The measure also funds crop support
eral workers should be given more time to
Works and the Senate Environment and
programs and several nutrition initia-
search for employment or to enroll in job
Public Works committees - not the
tives, such as food stamps and the
training and placement programs. Cur-
Armed Services panels.
Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
rently, federal agencies must give 30 days
Cheney wanted proposed changes in
program.
written notice before layoffs.
the structure of the Corps of Engineers to
Federal Compliance. By a 42-1
be dealt with separately.
votè, the House Energy and Commerce
Senate Committee Action
The commission also voted to keep
Committee approved a bill (HR 2194)
Abortion Counseling. The Senate
the Navy's strategic homeport at Staten
that would require the federal govern-
Labor and Human Resources Committee
Island, N.Y., on the list of bases to study
ment to obey the same environmental
voted, 12-5, to approve a bill (S 323) that
for closure. In their most contentious de-
laws as the private sector.
would overturn a recent Supreme Court
bate of the day, commission members de-
The Environmental Protection
ruling that upholds an administration
leted the four other homeports from the
Agency would be given the authority to
policy banning abortion counseling at
list. But they voted 6-1 to keep the
levy fines against federal facilities to
federally funded family planning clinics.
Staten Island facility on the list for fur-
compel the cleanup of toxic wastes. The
Two Republicans - James M.
ther review.
bill would clear up a legal dispute over
Jeffords of Vermont and Nancy Landon
whether current law allows states to pe-
Kassebaum of Kansas - joined all 10
Politics
nalize the federal government for envi-
panel Democrats in approving the bill.
Wofford-Thornburgh Battle Set.
ronmental infractions.
The measure would require federally
After two months of speculation, Attor-
Members added language to the bill
funded family planning clinics to offer
ney General Dick Thornburgh an-
that would protect federal employees
pregnant women who receive health care
nounced last week that he plans to run
from being held liable for violations of
under Title X of the Public Health Ser-
for a Senate seat from Pennsylvania.
environmental law.
vice Act of 1970 information on all op-
He'll face appointed Democratic
Fetal Tissue. A measure that in-
tions - including abortion - regarding
Sen. Harris Wofford, who won his party's
cludes language that would overturn a
their pregnancies.
nomination for the November ballot on
Bush administration ban on research using
Foreign Aid. By a 9-0 vote, the Sen-
June 1.
tissue from aborted fetuses was approved
ate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on
After GOP Sen. John Heinz died in
by the House Energy and Commerce Com-
International Economic Policy approved
an April plane crash, Thornburgh was
mittee on a party-line, 27-16, vote.
a draft bill to authorize foreign aid pro-
viewed as the strongest Republican can-
The fetal tissue language is only one
grams in fiscal 1992-93.
didate to fill the last three years of
of several objections the administration
Included in the bill is language to
Heinz's term.
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Monday, June 10, 1991
The bill would also overturn a Su-
monwealth status.
THIS WEEK from p. 1
preme Court ruling handed down last
Work on the bill was delayed in late
eral funds in fiscal 1992.
month that upheld an administration
February when some panel members said
Members will also consider a bill (HR
policy banning federally funded family
they did not want to rush into a, decision
1720) that would allow the Department
planning clinics from offering abortions
that might lead to Puerto Rican statehood.
of Health and Human Services to work
and abortion counseling.
Members said they did not detect a
more closely with the District of Colum-
Under the bill, a federally funded
large enough majority in Puerto Rico for
bia government to improve services in
family planning clinic would be required
either statehood or continued common-
the District for the mentally ill.
to offer pregnant women who receive
wealth status, the two leading choices.
health care under Title X of the Public
The referendum would not be bind-
Senate Floor Action
Health Service Act of 1970 information
ing, and Congress would have to pass im-
Highway Bill. On Tuesday, mem-
on all options - including abortion -
plementing legislation.
bers hope to begin consideration of a
regarding their pregnancies.
State Department. The Senate
$105 billion, multi-year authorization bill
Similar legislation (S 323) was ap-
Foreign Relations Committee on Tues-
(S 1204) that would renew a host of-fed-
proved in the Senate Labor and Human
day will mark up draft legislation to au-
eral highway programs.
Resources Committee last week.
thorize State Department programs in
Members first will vote to cut off
Boat User Fee. The House Mer-
fiscal 1992-93.
debate, to clear the way for the bill to be
chant Marine and Fisheries Committee
Panel members expect to debate how
formally considered.
on Wednesday will mark up legislation
to fix a bug-riddled U.S. Embassy in
Members from both parties have at-
(HR 534) that would repeal a user fee to
Moscow. The House on May 15 passed
tempted to delay action on the bill, arguing
be levied on recreational boaters.
legislation (HR 1415) that would autho-
that it includes an unfair funding formula
The fee was included in last year's
rize $130 million in fiscal 1992 to resolve
that determines how allocations to states
deficit-reduction bill and is supposed to
the problem. The House bill would leave
are made from the Highway Trust Fund.
raise $127 million this fiscal year.
it up to the State Department to deter-
Anti-Crime Bill. If work is com-
Depending on the boat's size, the fee
mine whether to tear the entire embassy
pleted on the highway bill, members intend
could range from $25 to $100 per boat.
down and build a new one or adopt a so-
to turn to a large anti-crime package' (S
called Top Hat approach, which would
618). Among other things, the bill would
Senate Committee Action
replace the two top stories of the embassy
restrict the sale of assault weapons.
Energy and Water. The Senate
with four secure floors.
Majority Leader George J. Mitchell,
Energy and Water Appropriations Sub-
D-Maine, plans to include language that
committee on Tuesday will mark up a
would authorize $40 million in grants to
draft $22 billion bill to provide funding
CONGRESSIONAL
states to meet the costs of running back-
for federal energy and water projects in
MONITOR
ground checks on gun buyers.
fiscal 1992.
States would have to conduct back-
Debate is expected over funding of
ground checks - similar to checks that
the superconducting super collider
Managing Editor: Brian Nutting
were envisioned by the backers of gun-
project in Texas. Scientists plan to use
Senior Editor: Robert Healy
control legislation (HR 7) that passed the
the super collider to study the origins of
News Editors: Christine C. Lawrence, Amy
House on May 8 - to be eligible for a
matter by smashing atoms together at
Stern
high speed.
Senior Reporters: Thomas Galvin, Richard
grant.
But critics contend that the escalat-
Sammon
Mitchell also wants to include lan-
guage that would require states to work
ing cost of the super collider is crowding
Reporters: Elizabeth A. Palmer, Andrew
Taylor, Sheldon P. Yett
jointly with the FBI in creating a na-
out a host of less expensive and poten-
Editorial Assistants: David Masci, Bill Weiss
tional criminal records database.
tially more useful projects.
Last year's crime package died in a
A companion spending bill (HR
conference committee on the eve of ad-
2427) that passed the House on May 29
Published by Congressional Quarterly Inc.
journment when House-Senate differ-
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Chairman: Andrew Barnes
ences could not be settled.
nificantly less that the $534 million re-
Vice Chairman: Andrew P. Corty
quested by the administration.
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full House Appropriations Committee on
mark up a draft authorization bill for
Tuesday will mark up draft legislation to
foreign aid programs for fiscal 1992-93.
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Page 7
Meetings & Events Scheduled Today
Senate Committees
News Events
municipal representatives. Second of three
days.
12:45pm Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel,
MEETING NAITONAL
ICBM MODERNIZATION &
300 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, Va. (except
EDUCATION GOALS
ARMS CONTROL
where noted) June 10
Senate Labor Committee
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis will
Contact: Beverly McFarland, 202-429-1965,
The full committee (Chairman Kennedy, D-
sponsor a series of breakfast seminars for
or the hotel, 703-892-4100
Mass.) will hold-a hearing on proposals for the
members of Congress and staff working on
Highlights
federal government to help in setting and
defense-related issues. At the session today
12:45pm: Non-voting District of Columbia Delegate
Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., will discuss
to the House Eleanor Holmes Norton delivers the
achieving national education goals.
2pm SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. June 10
"Defense and ICBM Mobility as Benefits for
luncheon address. Washington Room, mezzanine
level
Deterrence in the Emerging Strategic
Environment."
8am to 9am, Capitol Hill Club June 10
House Committees
AID TO EDUCATION
Contact: Peter Huessy at 202-463-7942
Committee for Education Funding will
sponsor a meeting with Jeff Faux, president of
MATCHING CORPORATE DOCUMENTS
HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE
the Economic Policy Institute, to discuss the
FOR TAX COLLECTION
need for an increased investment in education.
Generations United, a national coalition on
House Government Operations Committee
2pm to 3:30pm, 555 New Jersey Ave. N.W.,
inter-generational issues and programs, holds a
Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Af-
AFT conference room June 10
conference titled, "Beyond Medicaid: Building
fairs Subcommittee (Chairman Barnard, D-
Contact: 202-543-6300
a Health Care System for all Ages." Co-spon-
Ga.) will hold a hearing on an Internal Revenue
Note: There is a $50 charge for this event. For
sors are the American Association of Retired
reservations and information call the number
Service program to improve tax collection by
Persons, Children's Defense Fund, Child Wel-
listed above.
matching financial documents for all
fare League and National Council on the Aging.
corporations.
First of two days.
2pm 2154 Rayburn Bldg. June 10
10am, Washington Marriott Hotel, 1221
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Witnesses scheduled: Fred Goldberg - Commis-
22nd St. N.W. June 10
AND REPORTS
sioner, IRS; Richard Fogel assistant comptroller
general, GAO
Contact: Peggy Laramie, 202-728-4752, or
No set time: The Federal Reserve releases
the hotel, 202-872-1500
selected interest rates and assets and liabilities
Congressional highlight
of commercial banks.
7pm: Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., and Dr. James
PRESIDENTS EXECUTIVE
Todd of the American Medical Association de-
2pm: The Student Loan Marketing Associa-
EXCHANGE COMMISSION
bate the health care needs of low income and
tion prices a monthly short-term floating rate
House Government Operations Committee
disabled Americans
note offer.
Employment and Housing Subcommittee
2:30pm: The Agriculture Department re-
(Chairman Lantos, D-Calif.) will hold a hearing
leases the weekly report on grain and soybean
on the elimination of the President's Commis-
WOMEN VOTERS CONFERENCE
export inspections, including the USSR and
sion on Executive Exchange.
The League of Women Voters holds "Coun-
China.
10am 2247 Rayburn Bldg. June 10
cil 91: Take Back the System," its biennial
4pm: The Agriculture Department releases
Witnesses scheduled: Rep. Livingston, R-La.;
meeting of all state League presidents and
the weekly crop progress report.
Betty Heitman former executive director, Presi-
dent's Commission on Executive Exchange; Pat-
rick McFarland inspector general, Office of
Personnel Management; Bernard Unger - direc-
tor, Federal Human Resource Management Is-
sues, General Government Division, GAO; Mary
Wiesemann special counsel, U.S. Office of Spe-
Senate Committees Future Listings
cial Counsel
Agriculture,
Field Hearings
Appropriations
Nutrition &
224-3471
MONTANA WILDERNESS
Senate Energy Committee
Forestry
FULL APPROPS COMMITTEE MARKUP
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
224-2035
Senate Appropriations Committee (D-
Subcommittee (Chairman Bumpers, D-Ark.)
W.Va.) will mark up draft fiscal 1992
will hold a field hearing on legislation (S 72) to
AGRICULTURE NOMINATION
appropriations.
designate certain land on the Kootenai and
Time & room TBA tentative June 12
Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
Lolo National Forests in Montana as
Committee (Chairman Leahy, D-Vt.) will hold
Agenda: energy and water development approps
wilderness.
a confirmation hearing on the nomination of
8am Missoula, Mont. June 10
Ann Veneman to be deputy assistant secretary
FY92 COMMERCE, JUSTICE APPROPS
of Agriculture.
Subcommittee Hearing
10am SR-332 Russell Bldg. June 12
Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
Related Agencies Subcommittee (Chairman
House Education and Labor Committee
DAIRY SUPPLY
Hollings D-S.C.) of Senate Appropriations
Postsecondary Education Subcommittee
Committee will hold hearings on fiscal 1992
Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) will hold field hear-
appropriations for programs under its
Committee (Chairman Leahy, D-Vt.) will hold
ings on the reauthorization of the 1965 Higher
jurisdiction.
a hearing on dairy supply management options.
Education Act.
10am S-146 Capitol June 12
9:30am & 1:30pm SR-332 Russell Bldg. June
9am Akron, Ohio June 10
Witness scheduled: James Baker III Secretary of
19
State
New listing
Revised listing
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Monday, June 10, 1991
Senate continued
Senate Armed Services Committee will con-
Witness scheduled: Charles Bowsher - comptroller
tinue hearings on the fiscal 1992-93 defense
general, General Accounting Office
authorization (S 1066), focusing on the defense
FY92 DEFENSE APPROPS
nuclear facilities safety board and Energy De-
Subcommittee Markup
partment restart issues.
LENDER LIABILITY
Defense Subcommittee (Chairman Inouye,
2pm SR-222 Russell Bldg. open/will close
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Af-
D-Hawaii) of Senate Appropriations Commit-
June 12
fairs Committee (Chairman Riegle, D-Mich.)
tee will mark up fiscal 1992 appropriations for
Witnesses scheduled: John Conway - chairman,
will hold a hearing on lender liability. The
programs under its jurisdiction.
Defense Nuclear Safety Board; Edson Case
hearing will focus on how much responsibility
Time & room TBA July 16
member, Defense Nuclear Safety Board; John
banks should bear when borrowers violate
Agenda:
Crawford member, Defense Nuclear Safety
hazardous waste laws.
July 16: subcommittee markup
Board; Andrew Egeenberger - member, Defense
July 18: committee markup
Nuclear Safety Board; Herbert Kouts member,
10am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. June 12
Defense Nuclear Safety Board; Richard Claytor
Witness scheduled: L. William Seidman - chair-
assistant secretary of Energy
man, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FY92 ENERGY AND WATER APPROPS
Subcommittee Markup
ARMED SERVICES NOMINATIONS
Energy and Water Development Sub-
Senate Armed Services Committee (Chair-
committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La.)
man Nunn, D-Ga.) will hold confirmation hear-
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES ACT
of Senate Appropriations Committee will mark
ings on pending nominations.
Securities Subcommittee (Chairman Dodd,
up fiscal 1992 appropriations for programs
10:30am SR-222 Russell Bldg. June 13
D-Conn.) of Senate Banking, Housing and
under its jurisdiction.
Agenda:
Urban Affairs Committee will hold a hearing
2pm SD-128 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
Gen. Gordon Sullivan to be chief of staff, Army
on the government securities act.
Lt. Gen. Carl Mudy Jr. to be commandant of the
2pm SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. June 12
Marine Corps
FY92 LEGISLATIVE APPROPS
Subcommittee Markup
Legislative Branch Subcommittee (Chair-
CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION
man Reid, D-Nev.) of Senate Appropriations
FY92-93 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
TIED AID
Committee will mark up fiscal 1992 appropria-
Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence
International Finance, and Monetary Pol-
tions for programs under its jurisdiction.
Subcommittee (Chairman Exon, D-Neb.) of
icy Subcommittee (Chairman Sarbanes, D-
Time & room TBA date TBA
Senate Armed Services Committee will con-
Md.) of Senate Banking, Housing and Urban
Note: Action may be scheduled on very short notice
tinue hearings on the fiscal 1992-93 defense
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on Ex-
authorization (S 1066), focusing on chemical
port-Import Bank's tied aid policies, including
defense and chemical demilitarization issues.
foreign aid given on condition recipient buys
FY92 FOREIGN OPS APPROPS
2pm SR-222 Russell Bldg. June 13
certain U.S. products or services.
Subcommittee Hearings
Witnesses scheduled: William Inglee - deputy
10am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
Foreign Operations Subcommittee (Chair-
assistant secretary of Defense; Billy Richardson
man Leahy, D-Vt.) of Senate Appropriations
deputy assistant to the Undersecretary of Defense
Committee will hold hearings on fiscal 1992
for Acquisition; Susan Livingstone - assistant
appropriations for programs under its
secretary, Army
jurisdiction.
IMF QUOTA INCREASE
2:30pm SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
International Finance, and Monetary Pol-
NAVAL FORCE ISSUES
Agenda and witnesses scheduled: Security Assis-
icy Subcommittee (Chairman Sarbanes, D-
tance in the Post-Cold War Era: Reginald
FY92-93 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Md.) of Senate Banking, Housing and Urban
Bartholomew under secretary of State for inter-
Projection Forces and Regional Defense
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the
national security affairs; Lt. Gen. Teddy Allen
Subcommittee (Chairman Kennedy, D-Mass.)
International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota
director, Defense Security Assistance Agency
of Senate Armed Services Committee will con-
increase. The IMF has asked the U.S. to
tinue hearings on the fiscal 1992-93 defense
increase the amount of money it contributes to
authorization (S 1066), focusing on naval force
the development agency.
issues.
Armed Services
3pm SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. June 25
9:30am SR-222 Russell Bldg. June 14
Witness scheduled: David Mulford - undersec-
Witnesses scheduled: Robert Hale Congressional
224-3871
retary of the Treasury
Budget Office; Lawrence Garrett - Navy Secre-
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
tary; Adm. Frank Kelso - chief, Naval Operations
June 11
STEALTH FIGHTER INSPECTION
Field Hearing
Senate Armed Services Committee (Chair-
WOMEN IN COMBAT
man Nunn, D-Ga.) will hold a closed field
Manpower and Personnel Subcommittee
hearing to inspect the B-2 stealth bomber, the
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) of Senate Armed
F-117A stealth fighter and the YF-22 tactical
Services Committee will hold a hearing to
Budget
aircraft and other special access programs.
review the policy on women serving in combat
224-0642
2:15pm Andrews Air Force Base, Va. closed
roles.
June 11
Time & room TBA June 18
MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT FOR
EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
Field Hearing
PERSIAN GULF WAR
Senate Armed Services Committee (Chair-
Banking, Housing
Senate Budget Committee (Chairman Sas-
ser, D-Tenn.) will hold a field hearing on
man Nunn, D-Ga.) will hold a hearing to review
"Waste and Abuse in Medicare Reimburse-
the conduct of the Persian Gulf War.
& Urban Affairs
ment for Durable Medical Equipment and
9am SH-216 Hart Bldg. June 12
Supplies."
Witness scheduled: H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
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commander in chief, U.S. Central Command
2pm Legislative Plaza, Nashville, Tenn.
June 17
RESOLUTION TRUST CORP.
Witnesses scheduled: Rick Taylor, Roy Williams
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Af-
Durable Medical Equipment suppliers; James
NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY ISSUES
fairs Committee (Chairman Riegle, D-Mich.)
Cottos, Larry Morry representative of Office of
FY92-93 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
will hold a hearing on the organizational struc-
the Inspector General, Health and Human Ser-
Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence
ture of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
vices Department, Atlanta, Ga.; Representative of
Subcommittee (Chairman Exon, D-Neb.) of
10am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
Equicor
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ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
provide refunds to natural gas consumers who
hearing on broadcasters' public interest
have been overcharged.
obligations.
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 19
Commerce,
9:30 SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 20
Science &
PUBLICLANDS
DRIFTNET FISHING
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
Transportation
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
Subcommittee (Chairman Bumpers, D-Ark.) of
tion Committee (Acting Chairman Kerry D-
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com-
224-5115
Mass.) and the National Ocean Policy Study
mittee will hold a hearing on pending
will hold a hearing on driftnet fishing and
legislation.
FCC NOMINATION
legislation (S 884) to require the president to
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 20
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
impose economic sanctions against countries
Witnesses scheduled:
tion Committee (Acting Chairman Inouye D-
that fail to eliminate large-scale driftnet fish-
S 477 - to afford congressional recognition of the
Hawaii) will hold a confirmation hearing on the
ing. 9:30 SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 21
National Atomic Museum at Kirtland Air Force
renomination of James Quello to be a member
Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the official
atomic museum of the US Government under the
of the Federal Communications Commission.
9am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 13
SPECTRUM REVENUES
aegis of the Department of Energy, and to provide
a statutory basis for its betterment, operation,
Communications Subcommittee (Chairman
maintenance, and preservation.
Inouye, D-Hawaii) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
S 628 to conduct a study of certain historic
PUBLIC B'CASTING NOMINATIONS
ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
military forts in the state of New Mexico. S 772 -
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
hearing on revenues from additional radio
to designate the Chaco Culture Archaeoloical
tion Committee (Acting Chairman Inouye D-
spectrum allocations.
Protection Sites.
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 25
S 855 to amend the act entitled "An act to
Hawaii) will hold a confirmation hearing on the
authorize the erection of a memorial on federal
nominations of Caroline Bacon, Martha Bu-
land in the District of Columbia and its environs
chanan and Sheila Tate to be members of the
to honor members of the armed forces of the
board of directors of the Corporation for Public
NATIONAL TOURISM POLICY
United States who served in the Korean War."
Broadcasting.
Foreign Commerce and Tourism Sub-
S 867 to provide compensation to individuals who
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 13
committee (Chairman Rockefeller, D-W. Va.)
lost their land or mining claims to the U.S.
of Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
government for the establishment of the White
tion Committee will hold a hearing on national
Sands Missile Range.
WEATHER SERVICE MODERNIZATION
tourism policy.
S 1117 to establish the Bureau of Land Manage-
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
2pm SR-253 Russell Bldg. July 10
ment Foundation.
tion Committee (Chairman Hollings, D-S.C.)
and the National Ocean Policy Study will hold
a hearing on modernization of the National
RAIL SAFETY
HAWAII PUBLIC LANDS
Weather Service and to consider pending legis-
Surface Transportation Subcommittee
Field Hearing
(Chairman Exon, D-Neb.) of Senate Com-
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
lation 98; S 916)
Subcommittee (Chairman Bumpers, D-Ark.) of
10am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 18
merce, Science and Transportation Committee
will hold a hearing on reauthorization of rail
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com-
safety programs.
mittee will hold field hearings on Hawaii public
COASTAL ENHANCEMENT
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. July 16
lands issues.
10am State Capitol, Honolulu, Hawaii July 1
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
&2.
tion Committee (Acting Chairman Breaux D-
Witnesses scheduled:
La.) and the National Ocean Policy Study will
hold a hearing on legislation (S 49) to establish
Energy & Natural
Proposal to designate the Ka Iwi shoreline on the
Island of Oahu as a unit of the National Park
an Ocean and Coastal Resources Enhancement
System
Fund and a Coastal Zone Impact Assistance
Resources
To examine the operation and status of the U.S.S.
Fund, to require the secretary of Commerce to
Arizona on the 50th anniversary of the attack on
provide states and local governments with
224-4971
Pearl Harbor
block grants from moneys in the funds, and for
other purposes.
MINING CLAIMS
10am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 19
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La.) will
Environment &
hold a hearing on pending legislation to modify
PUBLIC BROADCASTING
provisions in current law that allow individuals
Public Works
REAUTHORIZATION
to file mining claims on federal lands without
Communications bcommittee (Chairman
having to pay royalties to the government.
224-6176
Inouye, D-Haw of Senate Commerce, Sci-
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
Agenda:
OZONE DEPLETION
ence and Tax portation Committee will hold a
S 433 the Mining Law Reform Act of 1991
Environmental Protection Subcommittee
hearing the reauthorization of the Corpora-
S 785 - Establish a commission to study existing
(Chairman Baucus, D-Mont.) of Senate Envi-
tion for Public Broadcasting.
laws and procedures relating to mining
ronment and Public Works Committee will
Time TBA SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 19,
hold a hearing on ozone depletion.
11am SD-608 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
ENERGY COMMITTEE MARKUP
FTC NOMINATION
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
Committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La.) will
KUWAIT OIL FIRES
tion Committee (Acting Chairman Bryan, D-
meet to consider pending business.
Gulf Environmental Task Force (Chairman
Nev.) will hold a confirmation hearing on the
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 12
Lieberman, D-Conn.) of Senate Environmental
nomination of Dennis Yao to the Federal Trade
and Public Works Committee will hold a hear-
Commission.
ing on the oil well fires in Kuwait and the
2pm SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 20
CONSUMER REFUNDS
Persian Gulf oil spill.
NATURAL GAS OVERCHARGES
10am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
Energy Regulation and Conservation Sub-
Witnesses scheduled: William Reilly adminis-
PUBLIC INTEREST OBLIGATIONS
committee (Chairman Wirth, D-Colo.) of Sen-
trator, EPA; Red Adair The Red Adair Com-
Communications Subcommittee (Chairman
ate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
pany; Henry Kendall - Union of Concerned Scien-
Inouye, D-Hawaii) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
will hold a hearing on legislation (S 933) to
tists
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FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
arms control; Merle Goldman Boston Univer-
INDEPENDENT SOCIAL SECURITY
sity; Curt Goering deputy executive director,
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Senate Finance Committee (Chairman
Amnesty International
Toxic Substances, Environmental Over-
Bentsen, D-Texas) will mark up proposed leg-
sight, Research and Development Subcommit-
islation to remove the Social Security Adminis-
CHANGES IN THE SOVIET UNION
tee (Chairman Reid, D-Nev.) of Senate Envi-
tration from the Health and Human Services
European Affairs Subcommittee (Chairman
ronment and Public Works Committee will
Department and establish it as an independent
Biden, D-Del.) of Senate Foreign Relations
hold a hearing on electric and hybrid vehicle
agency.
Committee will hold hearings on changes in the
technologies.
10am SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. date TBA
Soviet Union.
2:30pm SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
Note: This markup will be rescheduled after the
Memorial Day recess.
10am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 19
Agenda: Future of the Soviet economy; Jefferey
Sachs economics department, Harvard Univer-
MUNICIPAL POLLUTION CONTROL
sity; Graham Allison John F. Kennedy School of
U.S.-JAPAN TRADE TALKS
CLEAN WATER REAUTHORIZATION
Government, Harvard University; Cambridge,
International Trade Subcommittee (Chair-
Environmental Protection Subcommittee
Mass.; Robert Hormats vice president, Goldman
(Chairman Baucus, D-Mont.) of Senate Envi-
man Baucus, D-Mont.) of Senate Finance
Sachs and Company, New York, N.Y.; Marshall
Committee will continue hearings on progress
Goldman associate director of Russian Research
ronment and Public Works Committee will
made in the Structural Impediments Initiative
Center, Harvard University; Stanley Fischer
hold a hearing on municipal pollution control
talks between the United States and Japan.
former chief economist, World Bank; Roger Rob-
proposals included in legislation (S 1081) to
Structural impediments are non-tariff factors,
inson former senior director, International Eco-
reauthorize the Clean Water Act.
nomic Affairs, National Security Council
such as financial and distribution systems, that
9:30am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
have the effect of inhibiting free trade between
nations.
AMBASSADORIAL NOMINATIONS
DESALINIZATION RESEARCH
Time TBA SD-215 Dirksen Bldg date TBA
Note: Hearings began April 15 and were recessed
Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Act-
Water Resources, Transportation and In-
subject to the call of the chair.
ing Chairman Sanford, D-N.C.) will hold a
frastructure Subcommittee (Chairman Moyni-
confirmation hearing on pending nominations.
han, D-N.Y.) of Senate Environment and Pub-
2:30pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 25
lic Works Committee will hold a hearing on
NOMINATIONS:
legislation (S 481) to authorize research into
Foreign Relations
Mary Ann Casey to be ambassador to the Demo-
water desalinization and water reuse.
cratic and Popular Republic of Algeria
10am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. June 19
224-4651
John Thomas McCarthy to be ambassador to the
Republic of Tunisia
Robert H. Pelletreu Jr. to be ambassador to the
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
Arab Republic of Egypt
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas Platt to be ambassador to the Islamic
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will mark up pending
Republic of Pakistan
Finance
legislation.
10am & 2pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
224-4515
Agenda:
S-- authorizing U.S. foreign assistance programs
Governmental
for fiscal 1992-93
CAPITAL FLIGHT FROM
S-- authorizing the activities of the State De-
LATIN AMERICA
partment for fiscal 1992-93
Affairs
Deficits, Debt Management and Interna-
224-4751
tional Debt Subcommittee (Chairman Bradley,
D-N.J.) of Senate Finance Committee will hold
MOSCOW EMBASSY
INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRAFFICKING
a hearing on the impact of capital flight on
Terrorism, Narcotics and International Op-
Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga-
Latin American debt and development pros-
erations Subcommittee (Chairman Kerry, D-
tions (Chairman Nunn, D-Ga.) of Senate Gov-
pects. The hearing will focus on the extent of
Mass.) of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
ernmental Affairs Committee will hold a hear-
capital flight from the region, its causes and
will hold a closed hearing on construction plans
ing on problems posed by international arms
effects, and policy options to reverse it.
for the new, unfinished U.S. Embassy in
trafficking.
2pm SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. June 12
Moscow.
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 12
8:30am S-116 Capitol Bldg. closed June 11
DUTY ENFORCEMENT
TAX BILLS
U.S.-SOVIET MARITIME TREATY
Oversight of Government Management
Taxation Subcommittee (Chairman Boren,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Act-
Subcommittee (Chairman Levin, D-Mich.) of
D-Okla.) of Senate Finance Committee will
ing Chairman Biden, D-Del.) will hold a hear-
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will
hold a hearing on a series of miscellaneous tax
ing on the agreement between the United
hold a hearing on the enforcement of anti-
States and the Soviet Union on the Maritime
bills.
dumping and countervailing duties.
10am SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. June 12
Boundary, signed at Washington, June 1, 1990
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
Agenda:
(Treaty Doc. 101-22).
S 90 Modify tax-exempt bond and depreciation
2pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
rules with respect to infrastructure facilities
Witnesses scheduled: Sen. Stevens, R-Alaska; Ed-
INSURANCE INDUSTRY FRAUD
S 150 Treat bonds issued for section 501(c)(3)
win Williamson legal advisor, State Department;
organizations in a manner similar to government
Carl Olsen State Department Watch,
Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Northridge, Calif.
(Chairman Nunn, D-Ga.) of Senate Govern-
bonds
S 267 - Prohibit a state from imposing an income
mental Affairs Committee will continue hear-
tax on the pension or retirement income of
ings on fraud in the insurance industry.
individuals who are not residents or domiciliaries
TWO YEARS AFTER TIANANMEN
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 18 & 26
of that state
East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommit-
S 284 Amend the Internal Revenue Code with
tee (Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) of Senate
respect to the tax treatment of payments under
life insurance contracts for terminally ill individ-
Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hear-
ing on the situation in China two years after the
EPA ENFORCEMENT
uals
S 649 Amend the Internal Revenue Code to repeal
government crackdown on pro-democracy
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
the luxury tax on boats
demonstrators at Tiananmen Square.
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will hold a hearing
S 913 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code to
9:30am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
on the enforcement methods of the Environ-
increase the amount of bonds eligible for certain
Witnesses scheduled: Sen. Simon, D-Ill.; Gary
mental Protection Agency.
small issuer exceptions
Milhollin director, Wisconsin project on nuclear
9:30am Sd-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 19
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CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION
ment, the research arm of the Education
REAUTHORIZATION
Department.
Constitution Subcommittee (Chairman Si-
10am SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
IRS COMPUTER MODERNIZATION
mon, D-Ill.) of Senate Judiciary Committee
& PROCUREMENT
will hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Civil Rights Commission.
BREAST CANCER IN
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will hold a hearing
10am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. June 12
MID-LIFE WOMEN
on the Internal Revenue Service computer
Aging Subcommittee (Chairman Adams, D-
systems, focusing on modernization and
Wash.) of Senate Labor and Human Resources
procurement.
FULL COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee will hold a hearing on breast cancer
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 25
Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Bi-
as it affects mid-life women.
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
April 25.
den, D-Del.) will meet to discuss pending
Time TBA SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. June 20
business.
10am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
Indian Affairs
DNA TESTING
224-2251
Constitution Subcommittee (Chairman Si-
EXECUTIVE LIFE
JURISDICTION OF
mon, D-III.) of Senate Judiciary Committee
INSURANCE CO. FAILURE
INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS
and Civil and Constitutional Rights Sub-
Labor Subcommittee (Chairman Metzen-
Senate Indian Affairs Committee (Chair-
committee (Chairman Edwards, D-Calif.) of
baum, D-Ohio) of Senate Labor and Human
man Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold hearings on a
House Judiciary Committee will hold a joint
Resources Committee will hold a hearing on
recent Supreme Court ruling on the adminis-
hearing on issues relating to DNA testing.
the failure of the Executive Life Insurance
tration of justice in Indian country and on
1:30pm 2226 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
Company.
legislation (S 962 & S 963) to confirm the
Time TBA SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. June 20
jurisdictional authority of tribal governments
over all indians, regardless of tribe, in Indian
STRENGTHENING CRIME CONTROL
country.
Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Bi-
9am SR-485 Russell Bldg. June 12
den, D-Del.) will continue hearings on legisla-
tive proposals to strengthen crime control.
CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH
10am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. June 18
Senate Labor and Human Resources Com-
NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISORY
mittee (Chairman Kennedy, D-Mass.) will hold
COMMISSION OVERSIGHT
a hearing on legislation (S 924) to establish a
Senate Indian Affairs Committee (Chair-
program of categorical grants to states for
man Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold an oversight
comprehensive mental health services for chil-
hearing on some states' reluctance to work with
dren with serious emotional disturbance.
the National Native American Advisory
Time TBA SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. Date TBA
Commission.
9am SR-485 Russell Bldg. June 19
Labor & Human
Resources
FEDERAL RECOGNITION
224-5375
OF MOWA INDIANS
Veterans' Affairs
Senate Indian Affairs Committee (Chair-
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
224-9126
man Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold a hearing on
TO HEALTH CARE
legislation (S 363) to provide federal recogni-
tion of the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians of
Senate Labor and Human Resources Com-
VETERANS' DISABILITY
Ala.
mittee (Chairman Kennedy, D-Mass.) will hold
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
hearings on universal access to health care and
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will hold a hear-
2pm SR-485 Russell Bldg. June 26
health care cost containment.
ing on pending legislation.
10am SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. June 11, 12
9:30am SR-418 Russell Bldg. June 12
Agenda:
Intelligence
S 775 - increase the rates of compensation for
veterans with service-connected disabilities and
the rates of dependency and indemnity com-
224-1700
pensation for the survivors of certain disabled
INTELLIGENCE MATTERS
NURSING HOMES
veterans
Senate Select Intelligence Committee
Aging Subcommittee (Chairman Adams, D-
S 127 increase the rates of compensation for
(Chairman Boren, D-Okla.) will meet to con-
Wash.) of Senate Labor and Human Resources
veterans with service-connected disabilities and
sider pending intelligence matters.
Committee will hold a hearing on nursing
the rates of dependency and indemnity com-
2:15pm SH-219 Hart Bldg. closed June 12
pensation for the survivors of certain disabled
homes.
veterans.
10am SD-608 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
Judiciary
224-5225
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
MIDDLE EAST
OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
DRUG TRAFFICKING
RESEARCH & IMPROVEMENT
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will mark up
Caucus on N Scies (Chairman Biden, D-
Education, Arts and Humanities Sub-
pending legislation.
Del.) of Sex Mudiciary Committee will hold a
committee (Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) of Senate
9:30am SR-418 Russell Bldg. June 26
hearin, problems posed by Middle East
Labor and Human Resources Committee will
Agenda:
drug trafficking.
compensation legislation
hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the
Veterans Reemployment Rights legislaiton
10am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. June 11
Office of Educational Research and Improve-
hospice care legislation
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hold a field hearing on agricultural credit
Aging
issues.
Banking, Finance
9am Lubbock, Texas June 17
& Urban Affairs
PERFORMANCE OF THE U.S.
ADMINISTRATION ON AGING
225-4247
Human Services Subcommittee (Chairman
Downey, D-N.Y.) of House Select Aging Com-
Appropriations
REGULATION OF FOREIGN BANKS
mittee will hold a hearing on whether the U.S.
225-2771
House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
Administration on Aging has been fulfilling its
Committee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas) will
mandate.
FULL APPROPS COMMITTEE MARKUP
hold a hearing on federal regulation of foreign
9:30am 2167 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
House Appropriations Committee (Chair-
banks and proposed revisions to the Interna-
Witnesses scheduled:
man Whitten, D-Miss.) will mark up draft
tional Banking Act.
PANEL 1: Kevin Moley - assistant secretary for
fiscal 1992 appropriations.
10am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
Office of Management and Budget, Department
9:30am 2360 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
Witnesses scheduled:
of Health and Human Services
Agenda:
PANEL: Alan Greenspan - chairman, Board of
PANEL 2: Eleanor Chelimsky assistant comptrol-
June 11: HR- FY92 commerce, justice, state
Governors; Federal Reserve System; David
ler general, Program Evaluation and Method-
approps (cleared subcommittee May 30)
Mulford under secretary of Treasury for inter-
ology, GAO
national affairs
PANEL 3: Herb Sanderson director, Ark. Office
Note: Action on any of the following may be
PANEL: Vincent Conlon acting superintendent of
on Aging and Adult Services; Neetu Dwahan-
scheduled on very short notice
banking, New York State Department of Bank-
Gray director, Baltimore Area Agency on Aging;
Date TBA:
Eleanor Morris former program director, Ad-
HR- FY92 foreign operations approps (cleared
ing; Lawrence Uhlick executive director and
counsel, Institute for International Bankers
ministration on Aging
subcommittee May 29)
HR- - FY92 treasury-postal approps (cleared
subcommittee May 29)
HR- FY92 labor, HHS, educ. approps (cleared
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
DO-IT-YOURSELF PENSIONS
subcommittee June 6)
Economic Stabilization Subcommittee
Retirement, Income and Employment Sub-
HR- FY92 interior approps (cleared subcommit-
(Chairman Carper, D-Del.) of House Banking,
committee (Chairman Hughes, D-N.J.) of
tee June 6)
Finance and Urban Affairs Committee will
House Select Aging Committee will hold a
hold a hearing on the Defense Production Act.
hearing on the effectiveness of do-it-yourself
The hearing will focus on: the provisions of S.
pensions.
FY92 TRANSPORTATION APPROPS
347, the Senate's long term authorization bill
10am 345 Cannon Bldg. June 13
Subcommittee Hearings
passed earlier this year.
Transportation and Related Agencies Sub-
10am 2222 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
committee (Chairman Lehman, D-Fla.) of
House Appropriations Committee will hold
Agriculture
hearings on fiscal 1992 appropriations for pro-
HUD INSPECTOR GENERAL'S
grams under its jurisdiction.
REPORT TO CONGRESS
225-2171
10am and 2pm 2358 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
Housing and Community Development
& 12
GOVERNMENT
SPONSORED
Subcommittee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas)
10am 2358 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
of House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
ENTERPRISES
Agenda:
Conservation, Credit and Rural Develop-
Committee will hold a hearing to receive the
June 11: National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-
ment Subcommittee (Chairman English, D-
semi-annual report of the Department of Hous-
istration
Okla.) of the House Agriculture Committee will
June 12: (10am) Washington Metropolitan Area
ing and Urban Development's Inspector
hold a hearing on a report by the secretary of
Tranist Authority (2pm) Urban Mass Transpor-
General.
the Treasury and the General Accounting Of-
tation Administration
2pm 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
June 13: Urban Mass Transportation Administra-
Witness scheduled: Paul Adams inspector gen-
fice on government sponsored enterprises.
tion
eral, department of Housing and Urban Develop-
9:30am 1300 Longworth Bldg. June 11
,
ment
FRUIT & VEGETABLES
Armed Services
IMF QUOTA INCREASE
MARKETING CHALLENGES
International Development, Trade, Finance,
Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations
225-4151
and Monetary Policy Subcommittee (Chair-
and Nutrition Subcommittee (Chairman
man Oakar D-Ohio) of House Banking, Fi-
Tallon, D-S.C.) of House Agriculture Commit-
ARMS CONTROL AGENCY
nance and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a
tee will hold a hearing on production and
Readiness Subcommittee (Chairman
hearing on the Treasury Department request
marketing challenges facing the U.S. fruit and
Hutto, D-Fla.) of House Armed Services Com-
for a quota increase of $12.2 billion for the
vegetable industries.
mittee will hold a hearing on legislation (HR
International Monetary Fund.
9:30am 1302 Longworth Bldg. June 12
2474) to authorize the Arms Control and Disar-
10am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
mament Agency for fiscal 1992-93.
Witness scheduled: David Mulford undersec-
2pm 2212 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
retary of the Treasury for International Affairs;
AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORP
Witnesses scheduled: Maj. Gen. Robert Parker -
Conservation, Credit and Rural Develop-
director, On-Site Inspection Agency, Defense De-
ment Subcommittee (Chairman English, D-
partment
BANK OF NEW ENGLAND FAILURE
Okla.) of the House Agriculture Committee will
House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
hold a hearing to review the status of the
Committee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas) will
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.
hold a hearing on the the failure of the Bank of
9:30am 1300 Longworth Bldg. June 13
New England.
PERSIAN GULF WAR
10am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
House Armed Services Committee (Chair-
Witnesses scheduled:
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
PANEL: James Barton deputy director for Wash-
man Aspin, D-Wis.) will hold a hearing on on
Field Hearing
ington operations, Office of the Comptroller of
the conduct of the Persian Gulf War.
Conservation, Credit and Rural Develop-
the Currency; Joseph Hooks senior bank exam-
2pm 2118 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
iner, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency;
ment Subcommittee (Chairman English, D-
Witness scheduled: H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Martin Marasco - bank examiner, Office of the
Okla.) of the House Agriculture Committee will
commander in chief, U.S. Central Command
Comptroller of the Currency; John Cockerham
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netta, D-Calif.) will hold a hearing on the fiscal
9:30am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. June 12, 13
condition of state and local governments.
Time TBA 2175 Rayburn Bldg. June 18, 19
9:30am 210 Cannon Bldg. June 13
Agenda & Witnesses Scheduled:
bank examiner, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Witnesses scheduled:
June 12: Stafford Loan programs
PANEL: Walter Connolly, Jr. - former chairman
PANEL: Paterick Sweeney - National Conference
PANEL 1: Rep. Petri, R-Wis.
and CEO, Bank of New England Corp.; Weston
of State Legislatures; Donald Fraser - National
PANEL 2: Patricia Smith - director of legislative
Howland Jr. president, Blackstone Management
Corp. and former chairman, audit committee,
League of Cities; Raymond Scheppach executive
analysis, American Council on Education;
director, National Governor's Association
Thomas Butts associate vice president for gov-
Bank of New England; Lawrence Fish chairman
PANEL: Steven Gold - director, Center for the
ernment relations, University of Michigan at Ann
and CEO, New Bank of New England; Lawrence
Kelley executive vice president, New Bank of
Study of States, State University of New York at
Arbor; Joe Belew president, Consumer Bankers
Albany; Edward Gramlich - Institute of Public
Association, Arlington, Va.; Rev. John Whalen -
New England
Policy Studies, University of Michigan; John
chairman, University Support Services, Herndon,
Shannon - senior fellow, Urban Institute; John
Va.; Donald Saleh - director of financial aid and
COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT
Yinger - Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
student employment, Cornell University, Ithica,
House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
N.Y.
Committee (Chairman Gorzalez, D-Texas) will
June 13: Graduate programs; John Childers -
hold a hearingon the of the Community
deputy assistant secretary of Education for
Reinvestment Act 1977 act requires bank
Children, Youth &
Higher Education Programs; John D'Arms dean,
school of graduate studies, University of Michi-
regulators to 1941 estitutions on their willing-
gan at Ann Arbor; Peter May - mathematics
ness to lend Oneir communities. While draft-
Families
professor, University of Chicago; Laura Shanner
ing legislation to restructure the banking in-
Javits Fellow, Georgetown University; Jerome
dustry,
the
Financial
Institutions
226-7660
Pollitt - dean of graduate studies, Yale Univer-
Subcommittee adopted several amendments
sity; Denise Purdie - executive director, Council
that would exempt many banks from the law.
FATHERS IN
on Legal Education Opportunity; Richard Hope
10am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 18
THE WORKPLACE
director, minority advancement, Woodrow Wil-
son National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton,
House Select Children, Youth and Families
N.J.; Frank Morris Sr. dean of graduate studies
Committee (Chairman Schroeder, D-Colo.) will
and research, Morgan State University, Balti-
BANK RESTRUCTURING
hold a hearing on creating a family-friendly
more, Md.; Thomas Cole - president, Clark-
House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
workplace for fathers.
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.; Betty Levine
Committee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas) will
9:30am 2118 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
executive vice president, Association of American
hold a hearingon the restructuring of the bank-
Law Schools
ing industry. The hearing will focus on propos-
als by Rep. Schumer.
10am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 18
Education &
JTPA AMENDMENTS
Field Hearing
Labor
Employment Opportunities Subcommittee
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
(Chairman Perkins, D-Ky.) of House Educa-
BANK RESTRUCTURING
225-4527
tion and Labor Committee will hold a field
House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
hearing on proposed amendments to the 1982
Committee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas) will
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
Job Training Partnership Act.
mark up proposed legislation to restructure the
Field Hearings
1pm Bellmawr Community College, Bell-
banking industry.
Postsecondary Education Subcommittee
mawr, N.J. June 17
Time TBA 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 19, 20,
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) of House Education
25,27
and Labor Committee will hold field hearings
on the reauthorization of the 1965 Higher
BUSH EDUCATION PROPOSAL
Education Act.
Elementary, Secondary and Vocational
HAZARDOUS WASTE LAWS
9am Akron, Ohio June 10
Education Subcommittee (Chairman Kildee,
Policy Research and Insurance Subcommit-
9am Pleasant Hill, Calif. June 14
D-Mich.) of House Education and Labor Com-
tee (Chairman Erdreich, D-Ala.) of House
Time TBA Ann Arbor, Mich. June 17
mittee will hold a hearing on President Bush's
Banking Committee will continue hearings on
Time TBA New Brunswick, N.J. June 21
education proposals, called 'Education 2000.'
issues related to lender liability under federal
Time & room TBA June 18
and state hazardous waste laws.
Time and room TBA July date TBA
ELECTRONIC MONITORING
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
IN THE WORKPLACE
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
June 4.
Labor-Management Relations Subcommit-
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY
tee (Chairman Williams, D-Mont.) of House
Health and Safety Subcommittee (Chair-
Education and Labor Committee will hold a
man Gaydos, D-Pa.) of House Education and
Budget
hearing on legislation (HR 1218) to prevent
Labor Committee will mark up legislation (HR
potential abuses of electronic monitoring in the
1063) to establish and office of construction
workplace.
safety and to improve inspections, investiga-
225-7290
10am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
tions, reporting and recordkeeping on con-
Witnesses scheduled:
struction sites.
BUDGET POLICY ISSUES
PANEL 1: Morton Bahr president, Communica-
Time & room TBA June 19
House Budget Committee (Chairman Pa-
tions Workers of America
netta, D-Calif.) will hold a hearing on "Choos-
PANEL 2: Lou Maltby director, National Task
ing Our Future: Tomorrow's Society Demands
Force on Civil Liberties in the Workplace, Ameri-
CHILD ABUSE
and Policy Choices Today."
can Civil Liberties Union, New York, N.Y.; Ellen
9:30am 210 Cannon Bldg. June 12
Bravo associate director, 9 to 5, Milwaukee,
Select Education Subcommittee (Chairman
Witnesses scheduled: Maratha Farnsworth Riche
Wis.; Richard Barton - senior vice president,
Owens, D-N.Y.) of House Education and Labor
director of policy studies, Population Reference
government affairs, Direct Marketing Associa-
Committee will hold a hearing on child abuse.
Bureau; Henry Aaron - director of economic
tion, addtl witnesses TBA
Time & room TBA June 25
studies, Brookings Institution; Jessica Mathews
PANEL 1:
vice president, World Resource Institute; Robert
McCord executive director, Congressional Insti-
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
tute for the Future
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
COMPENSATION ACT
Postsecondary Education Subcommittee
Labor Standards Subcommittee (Chmn
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) of House Education
Murphy, D-Pa.) of House Education and Labor
FISCAL CONDITION OF STATE
and Labor Committee will continue hearings
Committee will hold a hearing on the Federal
& LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
on the reauthorization of the 1965 Higher
Employees Compensation Act (FECA) of 1916.
House Budget Committee (Chairman Pa-
Education Act.
Time & room TBA Rayburn Bldg. Date
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oversight hearing on the Food and Drug Ad-
(Chairman Berman, D-Calif.) of House Foreign
ministration (FDA) and to review the findings
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on legis-
of the Edwards Commission, which studied
lation (HR 2254) to direct the secretary of
TBA
FDA activities.
State to seek an agreement from the Arab
Note: This hearing was previously scheduled for
10am 2322 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
May 9.
countries to end certain passport and visa
policies.
9:30am 2200 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
RAIL SAFETY
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP
Select Education Subcommittee (Chairman
Transportation and Hazardous Materials
Subcommittee (Chairman Swift, D-Wash.) of
CURRENT EVENTS IN ETHIOPIA
Owens, D-N.Y.) of House Education and Labor
Committee will mark up pending legislation.
House Energy and Commerce Committee will
Africa Subcommittee (Chairman Dymally,
Time & room TBA Date TBA
hold a hearing on reauthorization of federal rail
D-Calif.) of House Foreign Affairs Committee
Agenda:
safety programs.
will hold a hearing on recent events in Ethiopia.
HR- for the protection of Abandoned Infants
9:30am B-352 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
Time & room TBA June 18
HR- respite care
POLITICAL ADVERTISING
EXTENSION OF PREFERENTIAL
Telecommunications and Finance Sub-
TRADE STATUS FOR CHINA
Energy &
committee (Chairman Markey, D-Mass.) of
Joint Hearing
House Energy and Commerce Committee will
Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
Commerce
hold an oversight hearing on campaign finance
(Chairman Solarz, D-N.Y.) and International
and political broadcast advertising reform pro-
Economic Policy and Trade Subcommittee
225-2927
posals.
(Chairman Gejdenson, D-Conn.) and Human
9:30am 2123 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
Rights and International Organizations Sub-
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
committee (Chairman Yatron, D-Pa.) of House
FAMILY PLANNING
Foreign Affairs Committee will continue joint
Health and the Environment Subcommit-
RECYCLED WASTE
hearings on the president's request to renew
tee (Chairman Waxman, D-Calif.) of House
MARKET DEVELOPMENT
"most favored nation" preferential trade status
Energy and Commerce Committee will mark
Transportation and Hazardous Materials
of the People's Republic of China.
up legislation (HR 2585) to reauthorize federal
Subcommittee (Chairman Swift, D-Wash.) of
Time & room TBA date TBA
family planning assistance programs. The pro-
House Energy and Commerce Committee will
posal would overturn the so-called "gag rule"
hold a hearing on the development of markets
that bars family planning clinics that receive
for recycled waste.
federal funds from counseling women on
9:30am 2359A Rayburn Bldg. June 13
Government
abortion.
10am 2123 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
Operations
PESTICIDES IN FOOD
Health and the Environment Subcommit-
225-5051
tee (Chairman Waxman, D-Calif.) of House
EXON-FLORIO
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
COMPARING U.S. &
Commerce, Consumer Protection and Com-
hearing on legislation (HR 2342) to regulate
CANADIAN HEALTH CARE
petitiveness Subcommittee (Chairman Collins,
pesticide chemical residues in food.
House Government Operations Committee
D-III.) of House Energy and Commerce Com-
Time & room TBA June 19 & 20
(Chairman Conyers, D-Mich.) will continue
mittee will hold a hearing on draft legislation to
hearings on the efficiency and effectiveness of
reinstate and strengthen the Exon-Florio pro-
the U.S. and Canadian health care systems.
visions of the expired 1988 Trade Act. Exon-
9:30am 2154 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
Florio gives the administration, for national
Foreign Affairs
security reasons, the authority to block foreign
takeovers of U.S. firms.
225-5021
MISPROMOTION OF
10am 2203 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
DRUGS AND MEDICAL DEVICES
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
Human Resources and Intergovernmental
IN KUWAIT
Relations Subcommittee (Chairman Weiss, D-
NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY
Joint Hearing
N.Y.) of House Government Operations Com-
Energy and Power Subcommittee (Chair-
Human Rights and International Organiza-
mittee will hold a hearing on problems that
man Sharp, D-Ind.) of House Energy and
tions Subcommittee (Chairman Yatron, D-Pa.)
arise when drugs and medical devices are
Commerce Committee will hold hearings on
and Europe and the Middle East Subcommit-
promoted for non-approved uses.
formulating a national energy strategy.
tee (Chairman Hamilton, D-Ind.) of House
9:30am 2247 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
10am 2123 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a joint
10am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
hearing on human rights abuses in post-war
10am room TBA June 19, 25 & 26
Kuwait.
EFFECTIVENESS OF
Agenda:
10am 2172 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
HUD REFORM ACT
June 12: Pump labeling and octane cheating: HR
Employment and Housing Subcommittee
219 to provide consumers with additional in-
(Chairman Lantos, D-Calif.) of House Govern-
formation concerning the octane rating of gaso-
HAITIAN SUGARCANE WORKERS
ment Operations Committee will hold a hear-
line; HR (-) - The Octane Display and Disclo-
Joint Hearing
ing on the effectiveness of the Housing and
sure Act
Human Rights and International Organiza-
June 13: Hydro and oil pipeline regulation: HR
Urban Development Reform Act.
tions Subcommittee (Chairman Yatron, D-Pa.)
1301 to implement the National Energy Strat-
10am 2247 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
egy; HR 1543 The Comprehensive Energy Policy
and Western Hemisphere Affairs Subcommit-
Act of 1991
tee (Chairman Torricelli, D-N.J.) of House
June 19: Global warming
Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing
WASTE PILOT
June 25: Coal
on Haitian sugarcane workers in the Domini-
PLANT READINESS
June 26: Electricity regulation
can Republic.
Environment, Energy and Natural Re-
1pm 2200 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
sources Subcommittee (Chairman Synar, D-
Okla.) of House Government Operations Com-
FDA OVERSIGHT
mittee will hold a hearing on the operational
Health and the Environment Subcommit-
PASSPORT POLICIES
readiness of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
tee (Chairman Waxman, D-Calif.) of House
OF ARAB COUNTRIES
(WIPP) project.
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold an
International Operations Subcommittee
9am 2203 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
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Agenda:
sources Subcommittee (Chairman Miller, D-
June 11:
Calif.) of House Interior and Insular Affairs
HR 284 to establish requirements relating to
Committee will meet to consider pending
POSTAL SERVICE DIVERSIFICATION
federally funded child care services.
business.
Government Information, Justice and Agri-
HR 542 bill to prohibit foreign interests from
culture Subcommittee (Chairman Wise, D-
owning concessions in units of the National Park
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 13 & 25
W.Va.) of House Government Operations Com-
System.
HR 571 to repeal the concessioner preferences of
mittee will hold a hearing on the status of the
the National Park Services Concessions Policy
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
U.S. Postal Service's diversification into non-
Act, to require that concessions be awarded pur-
Field Hearing
mail activities.
suant to a competitive bidding process.
Insular and International Affairs Sub-
9:30am 2247 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
HR 943 to foster competition among concession-
committee (Chairman de Lugo, D-VI) of House
ers, to improve management of concessions con-
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
sistent with the preservation of resources and the
purposes of the National Park System.
hold a field hearing on U.S.-Northern Mariana
H Con Res 14 Concurrent resolution expressing
relations.
Hunger
the sense of the Congress regarding the awarding
Time TBA San Francisco, Calif. June 17
226-5470
of contracts in units of the National Park System.
H Con Res 20 Concurrent resolution expressing
the sense of the Congress regarding the awarding
AIDS & CHILDREN IN
MINING CLAIMS
of concessions at units of the National Park
DEVELOPING WORLD
Mining and Natural Resources Subcommit-
System.
House Select Hunger Committee (Chair-
tee (Chairman Rahall, D-W. Va.) of House
June 18:
man Hall, D-Ohio) will hold a hearing on the
HR 2032 - to designate the Nez Perce National
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
threat AIDS poses to children in the developing
Historical Park in the State of Idaho.
hold heaings on legislation (HR 918) to change
world.
HR 2436 to expand the Fort Necessity National
provisions in current law that allow individuals
9:30am 2253 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
Battlefield.
to file mining claims on federal lands without
Witnesses scheduled: Dr. Michael Merson direc-
June 25:
having to pay royalties to the government. The
tor, World Health Organization, Global Program
HR 2274 - to better protect and manage certain
bill also would eliminate a provision that allows
on AIDS; Richard Bissell - assistant adminis-
redwood forests by adding lands to the Six Rivers
those who have filed a claim and discovered
trator, Agency for International Development;
National Forest and by designating the Headwa-
minerals the right to take effective title to the
Dr. Milton Amayun manager for international
ters Forest Wilderness.
land for as little at $2.50 an acre.
health programs, World Vision Relief and Devel-
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 18 & 20
opment.
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
NUCLEAR WASTE/WIPP
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
Energy and the Environment Subcommit-
Intelligence
House Interior and Insular Affairs Commit-
tee (Chairman Kostmayer, D-Pa.) of House
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
tee (Chairman Miller, D-Calif.) will mark up
225-4121
mark up legislation (HR -), relating to the
pending legislation.
operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg June 19 & 26
INTELLIGENCE BUSINESS
Note: The markup session scheduled for June 12
(WIPP), a facility in New Mexico for the
has been canceled.
House Select Intelligence Committee
disposal of nuclear waste. Although the plant
(Chairman McCurdy, D-Okla.) will meet to
has been completed it has not yet begun to
consider pending business.
operate because of a dispute between the New
SUBCOMMITTEE BUSINESS:
9:30am H-405 Capitol Bldg. closed June 11
Mexico and federal governments.
PUBLIC LANDS
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 12
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
REORGANIZATION
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
House Select Intelligence Committee
will meet to consider pending business.
PUBLICLANDS
(Chairman McCurdy, D-Okla.) will continue
10am 340 Cannon Bldg. June 20 & 27
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
closed hearings on the organization of the
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
intelligence community.
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
SUBCOMMITTEE BUSINESS:
10am H-405 Capitol Bldg. closed June 11
will mark up pending legislation.
OVERSIGHT
10am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
General Oversight and California Desert
Agenda:
CRITICAL SKILLS
HR 543 - to establish the Manzanar National
Lands Subcommittee (Chairman Lehman, D-
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS
Historic Site in the state of California
Calif.) of House Interior and Insular Affairs
Legislation Subcommittee (Chairman Ken-
HR 2351 - to authorize a study of nationally
Committee will meet to consider pending
significant places in Japanese-American history.
business.
nelly, D-Conn.) of House Select Intelligence
Committee will hold a hearing on critical skills
HR 1448 to allow the city of Pocatello, Idaho, to
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 25
use certain lands for a correctional facility for
scholarship programs within the intelligence
women.
community.
HR 1216 to modify the boundaries of the Indiana
COAL DUST
10am H-405 Capitol Bldg. closed June 12
Dunes National Lakeshore.
HR 2325 to protect the Salt Creek River corridor
Mining and Natural Resources Subcommit-
in Porter County, Ind.
tee (Chairman Rahall, D-W. Va.) of House
HR 770 -bill to authorize the establishment of a
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
Interior &
memorial at Custer Battlefield National Monu-
hold an oversight hearing on coal dust sampling
ment to honor the Indians who fought in the
mines and on the current technology available
Insular Affairs
Battle of the Little Bighorn.
to reduce coal dust levels.
HR 847 -to redesignate Custer Battlefield National
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 27
Monument as the Little Bighorn National Battle-
225-2761
field Park.
HR 848 to authorize the establishment of a
PUBLIC LANDS
memorial at Custer Battlefield National Monu-
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
ment to: honor the Indians who fought in the
Judiciary
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
Battle of the Little Bighorn.
225-3951
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
will hold a hearing on pending legislation.
SUBCOMMITTEE BUSINESS:
SEMI-AUTOMATIC
10am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 11
WATER & POWER
ASSAULT WEAPONS
10am 340 Cannon Bldg. June 18 & 25
Water, Power and Offshore Energy Re-
Crime and Criminal Justice Subcommittee
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House continued.
Hertel, D-Mich.) of House Merchant Marine
following subcommittee hearing (above) 311
and Fisheries Committee. will hold a joint
Cannon Bldg. June 11
hearing on legislation (HR 12) to improve the
(Chairman Schumer, D-N.Y.) of House Judi-
Agenda:
quality of coastal recreation waters.
Proposed changes in the General Accounting Office
ciary Committee will hold a hearing on prob-
2pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. June 12
Personnel System
lems associated with semi-automatic assault
HR 2270 amend certain provisions of title.5, U.S.
weapons.
Code, relating to the Senior Executive Service.
10:30am 2237 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
BUDGET FOR MARITIME AGENCIES
Merchant Marine Subcommittee (Chair-
POST OFFICE COMMITTEE
FILM PRESERVATION
man Jones, D-N.C.) of House Merchant Ma-
BUSINESS
AND RESTORATION
rine and Fisheries Committee will mark up
House Post Office and Civil Service Com-
Intellectual Property and Judicial Adminis-
pending legislation.
mittee (Chairman Clay, D-Mo.) will hold a
tration Subcommittee (Chairman Hughes, D-
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. June 13
meeting to consider pending business.
N.J.) of House Judiciary Committee will hold a
Agenda:
9:45am 311 Cannon Bldg. June 12
hearing on legislation (HR 2372) to aid in the
HR 1464 authorize appropriations for fiscal year
preservation and restoration of motion pic-
1992 for the Maritime Administration
tures.
COLUMBUS QUINCENTENARY
10am 2226 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
JUBILEE COMMISSION
OPERATING DIFFERENTIAL
Census and Population Subcommittee
SUBSIDIES
(Chairman Sawyer, D-Ohio) of House Post
DNA TESTING
Merchant Marine Subcommittee (Chair-
Office and Civil Service Committee will holdan
Joint Hearing
man Jones, D-N.C.) of House Merchant Ma-
investigative hearing on the activities of the
Civil and Constitutional Rights Sub-
rine and Fisheries Committee will hold an
Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee
committee (Chairman Edwards, D-Calif.) of
oversight hearing on operating differential sub-
Commission.
House Judiciary Committee and Constitution
sidies in the liner trade.
2pm 304 Cannon Bldg. June 12
Subcommittee (Chairman Simon, D-III.) of
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. June 19
Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a joint
hearing on issues relating to DNA testing.
ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
1:30pm 2226 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
IN CENSUS
Narcotics Abuse
Field Hearing
Census and Population Subcommittee
ANTITRUST MODIFICATION
& Control
(Chairman Sawyer, D-Ohio) of House Post
OF INSURANCE BUSINESS
Office and Civil Service Committee will hold a
Economic and Commercial Law Sub-
226-3040
field hearing to review the role of local govern-
committee (Chairman Brooks, D-Texas) of
ment in the census.
House Judiciary Committee will hold'a hearing
ANDEAN DRUG STRATEGY
2pm San Diego, Calif. June 15
on legislation (HR 9) to modify the antitrust
Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and
exemption applicable to the business of
Control (Chairman Rangel, D-N.Y.) will hold a
insurance.
hearing on the Andean drug strategy, a series of
2:30pm 2141 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
administration initiatives designed to reduce
Public Works
the flow of drugs in the Andean region.
2pm 2203 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
Witnesses scheduled: Bob Martinez director,
& Transportation
Merchant Marine
Office of National Drug Control Policy; Melvyn
225-4472
Levitsky assistant secretary of State for interna-
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
tional narcotics
& Fisheries
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Public Buildings and Grounds Subcommit-
225-4047
tee (Chairman Savage, D-III.) of House Public
Post Office &
Works and Transportation Committee will
ANWR DRILLING
meet to consider pending business.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and
Civil Service
10am 2253 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
Agenda:
the Environment Subcommittee (Chairman
225-4054
HR 1654 - to provide for construction and lease-
Studds, D-Mass) of House Merchant Marine
purchase acquisition, on government-owned land,
and Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on
of a building to provide housing for the Environ-
POSTAL SAFETY
mental Protection Agency in the Research Trian-
the potential impacts of oil and gas activities
Postal Personnel and Modernization Sub-
gle Park, N.C.
within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on
committee (Chairman Hayes, D-III.) of House
Pending resolutions
the fish and wildlife resources and the wildlife
Post Office and Civil Service Committee will
of the area.
hold a hearing on safety in the postal service.
10am & 1:30pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. June
9:30am 311 Cannon Bldg. June 11
CLEAN WATER
11
Water Resources Subcommittee (Chairman
Nowak, D-N.Y.) of House Public Works and
GAO PERSONNEL SYSTEM
Transportation Committee will continue hear-
4
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
Civil Service Subcommittee (Chairman Si-
ings on the 1972 clean water act.
BOAT USER FEE REPEAL
korski, D-Minn.) of House Post Office and
Time & room TBA dates TBA
House Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Civil Service Committee will hold a hearing on
Committee (Chairman Jones, D-N.C.) will
proposed legislation to change the General
mark up legislation (HR 534) to repeal the
Accounting Office Personnel System
Coast Guard User fee on recreational boats.
1:30pm 311 Cannon Bldg. June 11
Science, Space &
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. June 12
Technology
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
BEACH CLOSURES Fisheries and Wildlife
CIVIL SERVICE PERSONNEL
225-6371
Conservation and the Environment Sub-
Civil Service Subcommittee (Chairman Si-
committee (Chairman Studds, D-Mass) and
korski, D-Minn.) of House Post Office and
CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Oceanography, Great Lakes and the Outer
Civil Service Committee will mark up pending
NEW MATERIALS
Continental Shelf Subcommittee (Chairman
legislation.
Technology and Competitiveness Sub-
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
FAMILY PRESERVATION ACT
House Science, Space and Technology
Human Resources Subcommittee (Acting
Committee (Chairman Brown, D-Calif.) will
Chairman Downey, D-N.Y.) of House Ways
committee (Chairman Valentine, D-N.C.) of
hold a hearing on global climate change.
and Means Committee will hold a hearing on
House Science, Space and Technology Com-
Time & room TBA Date TBA
legislation (HR - Family Preservation Act of
mittee will hold a hearing on new materials as a
1991) that would revise and expand child
critical technology. The hearing will focus on
welfare, foster care and adoption programs.
the role of the federal government to facilitate
10am B-318 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
the development and commercialization of ma-
Small Business
1pm B-318 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
terials and processing techniques.
9:30am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. June 11
225-5821
U.S.-CHINA TRADE
MINORITY SMALL
Trade Subcommittee (Chairman Gibbons,
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
BUSINESS PROGRAMS
D-Fla.) of House Ways and Means Committee
The Environment Subcommittee (Chair-
House Small Business Committee (Chair-
will hold a hearing on U.S.-People's Republic
man Scheuer, D-N.Y.) of House Science Space
man LaFalce, D-N.Y.) will hold a hearing on
of China trade relations, focusing on Most-
and Technology Committee will mark up pend-
minority small business programs, focusing on
Favored-Nation trade status.
ing legislation.
a report by the Commission on Minority Busi-
9:30am 1100 Longworth Bldg. June 12
9:30am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
ness Development.
Agenda:
Agenda:
10am 2359 Rayburn Bldg. June 12
HR 2212 - Regarding the extension of most-fa-
HR 1538 - to establish a national electric vehicle
Witnesses scheduled: Mitchell Stanley associate
vored-nation treatment to the products of the
research, demonstration, and commercialization
deputy administrator, Small Business Adminis-
People's Republic of China
program for the United States.
tration; Joshua Smith chairman, Commission on
HR 2468 - Regarding the extension of most-fa-
HR 585 - to establish a national policy for the
Minority Business Development; Joseph Lira -
vored-nation treatment to the products of the
conservation of biological diversity.
Minority Business-Development Agency, Depart-
People's Republic of China
HR 2082 to conserve the diversity of fish, wildlife,
ment of Commerce
HR 2188 - Deny the People's Republic of China
and biological systems in the U.S.
most-favored-nation trade treatment
HR 2381 -Deny the People's Republic of China
most-favored-nation trade treatment
POPES VIEWS ON
FEDERAL FIRE SAFETY
H J Res 262 - Disapprove extension of nondiscrimi-
CAPITALISM & FREE ENTERPRISE
Science Subcommittee (Chairman Boucher,
natory treatment (most-favored-nation treat-
House Small Business Committee (Chair-
D-Va.) of House Science, Space and Technol-
ment) to the products of the People's Republic of
man LaFalce, D-N.Y.) will hold a hearing on
China
ogy Committee will hold a hearing on federal
the Pope's recent encyclical endorsing free
fire safety.
enterprise but noting certain deficiencies in
9:30am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. June 18
capitalism.
MEDICARE FRAUD,
Time and room TBA tentative June 18
WASTE AND ABUSE
Witnesses scheduled: Michael Novak American
Health Subcommittee (Chairman Stark, D-
TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS
Enterprise Institute; John Steinbruner
Calif.) of House Ways and Means Committee
Technology and Competitiveness Sub-
Brookings Institution; Archbishop Rembert
committee (Chairman Valentine, D-N.C.) of
Weakland U.S. Catholic Conference
will hold a hearing on fraud, waste and abuse in
the Medicare program.
House Science, Space and Technology Com-
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. June 13
mittee will hold a hearing on technology in the
schools.
9:30am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. June 18
Veterans' Affairs
CUSTOMS SERVICE OVERTIME PAY
225-3527
Oversight Subcommittee (Chairman,
Pickle, D-Texas) of House Ways and Means
RCRA R&D
The Environment Subcommittee (Chair-
VA PHARMACY CONTROLS
Committee will hold a hearing on the abuse of
man Scheuer, D-N.Y.) of House Science Space
Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee
overtime compensation at the U.S. Customs
(Chairman Evans, D-III.) of House Veterans'
Service.
and Technology Committee will hold a hearing
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the
9:30am B-318 Rayburn Bldg. June 13
on the reauthorization of the research and
development provisions of the Resource Con-
effectiveness of the Department of Veterans
servation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Affairs (VA) pharmacy drug controls and VA
9:30am 2318 Rayburn Bldg June 20
prescription form controls.
U.S. INTERNATIONAL
9am 334 Cannon Bldg. June 19
COMPETITIVENESS
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
man Rostenkowski, D-III.) will hold a series of
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
VA TRANSITIONAL EMPLOYMENT
hearings on the factors, including trade and tax
BASIC RESEARCH
Science Subcommittee (Chairman Boucher,
Education, Training and Employment Sub-
issues, affecting U.S. international competi-
committee (Chairman Penny, D-Minn.) of
tiveness and on the current and prospective
D-Va.) of House Science, Space and Technol-
House Veterans' Affairs Committee will hold a
state of the nation's competitiveness.
ogy Committee will hold a hearing on the role
of basic research in economic competitiveness.
hearing on programs for transition assistance
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. June 18, 19, 20;
10am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. June 20
for veterans.
July 16, 17, 18 & date TBA
9:30am 334 Cannon Bldg. July 18, 25
Witnesses scheduled:
Note: One hearing was originally scheduled for
June 18: Alan Greenspan chairman, Board of
June 27.
Governors, Federal Reserve System; Carla Hills
COMPUTER SECURITY
U.S. trade representative; Robert Mosbacher
Technology and Competitiveness Sub-
secretary of Commerce
committee (Chairman Valentine, D-N.C.) of
June 19: Michael Boskin chairman, Council of
House Science, Space and Technology Com-
mittee will hold a hearing on computer
Ways & Means
Economic Advisers
June 20: Kenneth Gideon assistant secretary of
225-3625
the Treasury for tax policy; Fred Goldberg
security.
commissioner, Internal Revenue Service
9:30am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. June 25
July 16: Members of Congress
MEDICARE DRUG BENEFIT
July 17 & 18: Public witnesses
Health Subcommittee (Chairman Stark, D-
Date TBA: Nicholas Brady secretary of the
LANDSAT
Calif.) of House Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
House Science, Space and Technology
will hold a hearing on legislation to expand
Committee (Chairman Brown, D-Calif.) will
Medicare Part B to include a prescription drug
hold a hearing on Landsat technology.
benefit.
ENTERPRISE ZONES
9:30am Rayburn Bldg. June 26
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. June 11
Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee
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Conference Committees
(Chairman Rangel, D-N.Y.) of House Ways
and Means Committee will hold a hearing on
DEFENSE PRODUCTION
Sections 203 through 206 of the Senate amend-
enterprise zones.
ACT EXTENSION
ment: Dingell, Markey, Collins, Lent, Rinaldo
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. June 25, July
Conferees will meet on legislation 991)
From the Committee on Judiciary for the purposes
11
to extend authorization of the Defense Produc-
of Section 5 of the House bill and Section 104 of
Agenda:
tion Act.
the Senate amendment: Brooks, Edwards, Fish
HR 11 Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
From the Committee on Ways and Means for the
Time and room TBA date TBA
to provide tax incentives for the establishment of
purpose of Sections 202 through 204 of the Senate
Senate conferees: TBA
tax enterprise zones
amendment: Rostenkowski, Gibbons, Jenkins,
House conferees:
HR 23 Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
Archer, Crane
From the Committee on Banking, Finance and
to stimulate employment in, and to promote
Urban Affairs for the purposes of Sections I-8 of
revitalization of, economically distressed areas
the House bill and Title 1 of the Senate amend-
designated as enterprise zones, by providing Fed-
ment: Gonzalez, LaFalce, Oakar, Vento, Carper,
CFTC REAUTHORIZATION
eral tax relief for employment and investments
Wylie, Ridge, Paxon
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR 707)
Other proposals relating to the creation of tax
From the Committee on Banking, Finance and
to to improve the regulation of futures trading
enterprise zones
Urban Affairs for the purpose of Title II of the
and authorize appropriations for the Commod-
Senate amendment: Gonzalez, Annunzio, Neal,
ity Futures Trading Commission.
Oakar, Schumer, Carper, Wylie, Leach,
Time and room TBA date TBA
REVISION OF SOCIAL SECURITY
McCollum, Roukema
Senate conferees: Leahy, Boren, Heflin, Conrad,
DISABILITY INSURANCE
From the Committee on Energy and Commerce for
Lugar, Dole, Cochran
Social Security Subcommittee (Chairman
the purposes of Section 8 of the House bill and
House conferees: TBA
Jacobs D-Ind.) of House Ways and Means
Committee will hold a hearing on the need for
structural revision of the Social Security dis-
ability insurance.program.
2pm B-318 Rayburn Bldg June 25
Other Events
EXECUTIVE LIFE INSURANCE
FAILURE
The Monitor has received notice of the
in the International Effort to Combat Money
Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee
following events scheduled to take place in
Laundering."
(Chairman Rangel, D-N.Y.) of House Ways
Washington. Associations, non-profit organiza-
8am to 9:30am, American Bar Association,
and Means Committee will continue hearings
tions and public interest groups who wish to
1800 M St. N.W. June 11
on issues related to the Executive Life Insur-
have events listed in the section should send
Contact: 202-331-2260
ance Company of California and New York,
pertinent information to: The Congressional
which and was placed under court-ordered
Monitor, Other Events Editor, 1414 22nd St.
conservatorship in April 1991. The hearings
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. Notices must
LONG-TERM HEALTH CARE
will include a review of activities of federal
include a telephone number. Notices may be
American Health Care Association will
regulatory agencies, such as the Pension Bene-
transmitted by facsimile to 728-1862, attn:
sponsor a congressional conference. The focus
fit Guaranty Corporation, and of state agencies
Robert Healy. Only events related to Congress
will be on long-term care needs and financing.
that regulate insurance. Tax issues will not be
can be listed. Deadline is Noon. For further
9am, Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill June 11 &
covered.
information call 202-887-8686.
12
10an 1100 Longworth Bldg. June 27
Contact: Norma Blankenship 202-898-2836
Witnesses scheduled: representatives of Pension
Agenda:
Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Department of
ICBM MODERNIZATION &
June 11:
Labor, other invited witnesses
ARMS CONTROL
Louis Sullivan secretary of Health and Human
Services
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis will
Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine
sponsor a series of breakfast seminars for
June 12:
members of Congress and staff working on
Sen. John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
CHARITY CARE STANDARDS
defense-related issues.
Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo.
FOR HOSPITALS
8am to 9am, Capitol Hill Club June 10, 11,
Note: There is a charge of $250 for this event, for
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
13; May and June dates TBA
reservations call the number listed above
man Rostenkowski, D-Ill.) will hold a hearing
Contact: Peter Huessy at 202-463-7942
on pending legislation to establish standards
Agenda:
for charity care for tax-exempt hospitals.
June 10: Defense and ICBM Mobility as Benefits
BUDGET ENFORCEMENT
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. July 10
for Deterrence in the Emerging Strategic Envi-
National Economists Club will sponsor a
Agenda:
ronment: Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo.
luncheon meeting to hear Barry Anderson,
HR 790 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code to
June 11: The Emerging Soviet Strategic Threat:
require tax-exempt hospitals to provide sufficient
Rethinking the U.S. Response: Sen. John Warner,
assistant director for budget of the Office and
R-Va.
Management and Budget, discuss "The Budget
charity care and community benefits
HR 1374 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code to
June 13: An Emerging Strategic Nuclear Consen-
Enforcement Act's Influence on the Fiscal 1992
clarify the requirement that hospitals provide
sus: Stability in the Emerging International Envi-
Budget."
certain emergency medical care in order to be
ronment: Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga:
Noon, Montpelier Dining Room, Madison
exempt from income tax
June date TBA: The Politics of Strategic Modern-
Bldg., Library of Congress, 101 Independence
ization in the Post Cold War Era: Some Enduring
Ave. S.E. June 11 (This event was originally
Realities II: Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis.
scheduled for June 4)
C
1
Note: This series is limited to members of Congress
Contact: 703-532-9048
and their staff working on defense-related issues.
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
Reservations are required, call Peter Huessy at
members and $14 for non-members. For reserva-
Note
202-463-7924
tions call the number listed above.
The offices of all members of Congress
DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING
SHORT-LINE RAIL ISSUES
and all congressional committees and sub-
Criminal Justice Section of the Interna-
Women's Council on Energy and the Envi-
committees may be reached by calling (202)
tional Law Committee of the American Bar
ronment and Women's Transportation Semi-
224-3121.
Association will sponsor a breakfast program
nar will sponsor a breakfast meeting with
on "The Search for Drug Dollars: New Trends
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Gail
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Other continued.
comments on the problem.
NAM
11:45am to 2pm, SR-325 Russell Bldg. June
1331 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
13
Suite 15-North Lobby
McDonald.
Contact: Audra Singer 202-223-2226
Washington, D.C. 20004-1703
7:45am to 9am, National Press Club, 524
Participants: Dr. Antonia Novello surgeon gen-
ATTN: Betty Williams
14th St., N.W. June 12
eral; Sen Tom Harkin, D-Iowa; Rep. Bill Richard-
Contact: Maureen Healey 202-371-5204
son, D-N.M.; Dr. Bernadine Healey director,
Note: There is a charge for this event of $12 for
National Institutes of Health; Reps Pat Schroe-
U.S.-CANADA TRADE POLICY
members and $15. for non-members. For reserva-
der, D-Colo., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine co-
Canadian-American Business Council will
tions send a check, made payable to WCEE, to:
chairs, Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues;
sponsor a luncheon meeting to hear Minister
Maureen Healey
Dr. Lawrence Shulman director, NIAMS; Dr. T.
Society of the Plastics Industry/WCEE
Counsellor of the Canadian Embassy William
Franklin Williams director, NIA
1275 K St. N.W.
Dymond discuss fast-track procedure for a
Suite 400
Note: Reservations are required. Call number listed
North American trade agreement.
above.
Washington, D.C. 20005
Noon, Four Seasons Hotel 2800 Pennsylva-
nia Ave. June 19
Contact 301-365-2961
ARMS CONTROL ISSUES
WOMEN'S ROLE IN
Note: There is a charge for this event of $30 for
GULF CONFLICT
Lawyers Alliance for World Security will
members and $40 for non-members. For reserva-
Women in Defense will sponsor a Flag Day
sponsor a luncheon meeting to hear Rep. Peter
tions call the number listed above.
reception to hear Capt. Gloria Nickerson dis-
Kostmayer, D-Pa, discuss arms control issues
cuss her role in the Gulf conflict as a member of
including: recent initiatives in Meddle East;
Special Operations Forces.
recent congressional activity in arms control;
DEMOCRATS PROSPECTS FOR '92
5pm to 7pm, Army-Navy Country Club, 2400
Levine bill; arms control with Soviets, non-
American League of Lobbyists will sponsor
South 18th St., Arlington, Va. June 12
proliferation issues.
a luncheon meeting to hear Sen. Charles S.
Contact: Ms. Jones-Chambers 703-527-6145
12:30pm, La Colline restaurant, 400 North
Robb, D-Va., chairman of the Democratic Sen-
Note: There is a $15 charge for this event. For
Capitol St. N.W. June 13
atorial Campaign Committee, discuss the pros-
reservations call the number above no later than
Contact: Laura McGough 202-296-6054
pects for the Democrats in 1992 elections.
June 5
Note: There is a $15 charge for this event. For
Noon, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400 New Jersey
reservations and information call the number
Ave. N.W. June 20
listed above.
Contact: Patti Jo Baber 703-960-3011
POLITICS OF GARBAGE
Note: There is a charge for this event of $35 for
Citizens for the Environment will sponsor a
members and $45 for non-members. For reserva-
seminar on "The Politics and Science of Gar-
WATER QUALITY 200
tions call the number listed above.
bage: Exploring Waste Management Policies in
Environmental and Energy Study Institute
America."
will sponsor a briefing on a new report on water
7:45am to 5pm, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400
quality problems confronting the United
New Jersey Ave. N.W. June 13
States. The report was developed by a coalition
TRADE POLICY CHANGES
Contact: Anna McCollister 202-488-7255
of 86 government, industry, environmental,
(Media inquiries to Sedef Onder 202-863-7692)
academic, scientific and professional
National Economists Club will sponsor a
Congressional highlight:
organizations.
luncheon meeting to hear David Walters, chief
economist in the Office of the U.S. Trade
Noon: Luncheon address: Sen. Steven Symms, R-
10am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. June 14
Contact: Don Gray 202-628-1400
Representative discuss' "Trade Policy Changes
Idaho
Over the Next Year."
Noon, Montpelier Dining Room, Madison
HOSTAGE CRISIS &
FEDERAL RESERVE REVISION
Bldg., Library of Congress, 101 Independence
Ave. S.E. June 24
THE 1980 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
National Economists Club will sponsor a
Contact: 703-532-9048
Fund for New Priorities will sponsor a
luncheon meeting to hear Rep. Byron Dorgan,
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
congressional colloquy to explore possibility
D-N.D., discuss he proposal the increase the
members and $14 for non-members. For reserva-
that there were private deals arranged on the
accountability of the Federal Reserve System.
tions call the number listed above.
fate of hostages in Iran in 1979-80, and that
Noon, Montpelier Dining Room, Madison
those dealings affected the outcome of the 1980
Bldg., Library of Congress, 101 Independence
presidential election.
Ave. S.E. June 18
9am to 1pm SD-G50 Dirksen Bldg. June 13
Contact: 703-532-9048
CHINA & MFN
Contact: Robert Vandivier 202-675-2329
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
Agenda:
members and $14 for non-members. For reserva-
TRADE STATUS
9am: Opening
tions call the number listed above.
Washington International Trade Associa-
9:10am: Statements by former U.S. embassy hos-
tion will sponsor a luncheon meeting to hear
tages
James Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to the
9:30am: PANEL: Was the 1980 presidential election
People's Republic of China, discuss the signifi-
held hostage? What is Known? What needs to be
HEALTH CARE
cance of most-favored-nation trade status for
Known?
SYSTEM REFORM
China.
10:45am: PANEL: How Could it Happen and, If It
National Association of Manufacturers will
Noon to 2pm, Parkview Room, Hotel Wash-
Did, What Does It Mean?
sponsor an issues breakfast to hear Secretary of
ington, 515 15th St. N.W. June 26
11:45am: PANEL: What Should Congress Do?
Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan
Formal Investigation? Specific Questions to Ask;
Contact: 202-293-4193
discuss health care system reform.
Broader Legislative Reform
Note: There is a charge for this event of $15 for
8:30am to 10am, Capital Hilton Hotel,
12:55pm: Wrapup
members and $30 for non-members. For reserva-
Presidentail Ballroom, 16th & K Sts. N.W.
tions send a check to:
June 19
Washington International Trade Association
OSTEOPOROSIS ISSUES
Contact: 202-637-3115
19900 L St. N.W.
Note: There is a charge for this event of $35 for
Suite 250
National Osteoporosis Foundation will
members and $45 for non-members. For reserva-
Washington, D.C. 20036
sponsor an event to recognize individuals who
tions send a check, made payable to NAM Issues
Reservations are confirmed on receipt of payment.
have worked on osteoporosis issues and to hear
Briefing Breakfast, to:
No telephone reservations are accepted.
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Status of Appropriations - Fiscal 1992
Week of June 10
LABOR/HHS/EDUC
House: 225-3508; Senate: 224-7283
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 21
House subcmte markup completed:
June 6
FULL COMMITTEE
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
April 25
House: 225-2771; Senate: 224-3471
House full cmte markup scheduled:
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Agenda:
House: 225-5338; Senate: 224-7338
Foreign operations:
date TBA
Treasury-postal:
date TBA:
Bill No:
HR 2506
Commerce-State:
June 11
House subcmte hearings completed:
March 7
Interior:
date TBA
House subcmte markup completed:
May 22
Labor-HHS:
date TBA
House full cmte markup completed:
May 30
Senate full cmte markup scheduled:
Passed House:
June 5
Agenda:
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
April 25
Energy & water:
June 12
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
AGRICULTURE
House: 225-3047; Senate: 224-7255
House: 225-2638; Senate: 224-7240
Bill No:
HR 2426
House subcmte markup completed:
June 7
House subcmte hearings completed:
March 21
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
April 26
House subcmte markup completed:
May 15
House full cmte markup completed:
May 22
Passed House:
May 30
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE,
& THEJUDICIARY
TRANSPORTATION
House: 225-3351; Senate: 224-7277
House: 225-2141; Senate: 224-7245
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 17
House subcmte markup completed:
May 30
House subcmte hearings scheduled:
June 11, 12, 13
House full cmte markup scheduled:
June 11
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
May 16
Senate subcmte hearings scheduled:
June 12
TREASURY/POSTALSERVICE
DEFENSE
House: 225-5834; Senate: 224-6280
House: 225-2847; Senate: 224-7255
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 18
Bill No:
HR 2521
House subcmte markup completed:
May 29
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 9
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
April 25
House subcmte markup completed:
May 22
House full cmte markup completed:
June 4
Passed House:
June 7
VA, HUD & INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
House: 225-3241; Senate: 224-7211
Bill No:
HR 2519
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 3
House: 225-5338; Senate: 224-7236
House subcmte markup completed:
May 15
House full cmte markup completed:
June 3
Passed House:
June 6
ENERGY & WATER DEVELOPMENT
House: 225-3421; Senate: 224-7260
Bill No:
HR 2427
FY91 SUPPLEMENTAL- NON-MILITARY COSTS OF DESERT STORM
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 10
Bill No:
HR 1281
House subcmte markup completed:
May 15
House full cmte markup completed:
May 22
House full cmte markup completed:
March 5
Passed House:
March 7
Passed House:
May 29
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
May 16
Senate full cmte markup completed:
March 14
March 20
Senate subcmte markup scheduled:
June 11
Passed Senate:
HR 1281 conference completed:
March 21
Conference report adopted in Senate:
March 22
Conference report adopted in House:
March 22
FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Signed by the president:
April 10
House: 225-2041; Senate: 224-7209
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 22
FY91 SUPPLEMENTAL COSTS OF DESERT STORM
House subcmte markup completed:
May 29
Bill No:
HR 1282
Senate subcmte hearings scheduled:
June 11
House full cmte markup completed:
March 5
Passed House:
March 7
Senate full cmte markup completed:
March 14
INTERIOR
Passed Senate:
March 19
House: 225-3081; Senate: 224-7233
Conference completed:
March 21
Conference report adopted in Senate:
March 22
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 9
Conference report adopted in House:
March 22
House subcmte markup completed:
June 6
Signed by the president:
April 10
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Appropriations continued.
FY91 SUPPLEMENTAL-KURDISH AID FUNDS
Bill No:
HR 2251
House full cmte markup completed:
Note: House full committee did not mark up the bill. Defense
Subcommittee and Foreign Operations Subcommittee both completed
markup on May 2. Bill was then brought to the floor by unanimous
consent
Passed House:
May 9
Senate full cmte markup completed:
Note: Senate full committee did not mark up the bill. It went directly
to the floor when it was received from the House
Passed Senate:
May 9
Conference completed:
May 21
Conference report adopted in Senate:
May 22
Conference report adopted in House:
May 22
House Floor Action
Week of June 3
Thursday, June 6:
HR 2519
FY92 VA-HUD appropriations passed 363-39
Monday, June 3:
Under suspension of the rules:
Friday, June 7:
HR 2042
Authorize appropriations for activities under
HR 2521
FY92 Defense appropriations passed 273-105
the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act
of 1974 passed 326-5
S 483
Taconic Mountains Protection Act of 1991
passed 316-15
HR 2312
Make certain technical and conforming
Week of June 10
amendments to the Follow Through Act and
the Head Start Transition Project Act passed
by voice
Monday, June 10:
HR 2313
Amend the School Dropout Demonstration
Assistance Act of 1988 to extend authoriza-
Convenes at noon
tion of appropriations through fiscal year
Under suspension of the rules:
1993 passed by voice
HR 26
Require the federal depository institution
HR 476
Designate certain rivers in the state of Michi-
regulatory agencies to take additional en-
gan as components of the National Wild and
forcement actions against depository institu-
Scenic Rivers System passed by voice
tions engaging in money laundering begin
HR 990
Authorize additional appropriations for land
consideration
acquisition at Monacacy National Battlefield,
HConRes 142 Extend an invitation to the International
Maryland passed by voice
Olympic Committee to hold the 1998 winter
HR 1642
Establish in the state of Texas the Palo Alto
Olympic games in Salt Lake City, Utah begin
Battlefield National Historic Site passed 323-8
consideration
HR 1323
Amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by
HR 2435
Establish a National Council on Education
designating certain segments of the Alle-
Standards and Testing begin consideration
gheny River in the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania as a component of the National Wild
and Scenic Rivers System passed by voice
Tuesday, June 11:
S 292
Expand the boundaries of the Sanguaro Na-
tional Monument passed by voice
Convenes at noon
HR 2038
Authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1992
for intelligence activities of the U.S. govern-
ment, the Intelligence Community Staff, and
Tuesday, June 4:
the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement
HR 1
Civil Rights Revision began consideration
and Disability System begin consideration
HR 2508
Amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to
rewrite the authorities of that act in order to
Wednesday, June 5:
establish more effective assistance programs
and eliminate obsolete and inconsistent pro-
HR 1
Civil Rights Revision passed 273-158
visions, amend the Arms Export Control Act
HR 2506
FY92 Legislative Branch appropriations
to redesignate that act as the Defense Trade
passed 308-110
and Export Control Act, authorize appropria-
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sary for the delivery of mental health ser-
House Floorcontinued.
vices in the District begin consideration
Wednesday, June 12 &
tions for foreign assistance programs for
Thursday, June 13:
fiscal years 1992 and 1993 begin consider-
HR 2508
Amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to
ation
rewrite the authorities of that act in order to
Call of the District of Columbia calendar
establish more effective assistance programs
HR 2123
Amend the District of Columbia Self-Govern-
and eliminate obsolete and inconsistent pro-
ment and Governmental Reorganization Act
visions, amend the Arms Export Control Act
to establish a predictable and equitable
to redesignate that act as the Defense Trade
method for determining the amount of the
and Export Control Act, authorize appropria-
annual federal payment to the District of
tions for foreign assistance programs for
Columbia begin consideration
fiscal years 1992 and 1993 continue consider-
HR 1720
Amend the Saint Elizabeth's Hospital and
ation
District of Columbia Mental Health Services
Act to permit the Secretary of Health and
Human Services to enter into an agreement
with the Mayor of the District of Columbia
Friday, June 14:
with respect to capital improvements neces-
Not in session
Senate Floor Action
Week of June 3
Week of June 10
Monday, June 3:
Monday, June 10:
S 173
Permit the Bell Telephone Companies to con-
Convenes at 10am
duct research on, design, and manufacture
Pro forma session
telecommunications equipment began consid-
eration
Tuesday, June 11:
Convenes at 9am
S 1204
Federal surface transportation highway re-
Tuesday, June 4:
authorization continue consideration
S 173
Permit the Bell Telephone Companies to con-
A vote on cloture (cut off debate) on the motion
duct research on, design, and manufacture
to proceed to consideration of S 1204 is sched-
telecommunications equipment continued
uled for today.
consideration
Outlook
Wednesday, June 5:
S 250
Establish national voter registration proce-
S 173
Permit the Bell Telephone Companies to con-
dures for federal elections ("Motor Voter")
duct research on, design, and manufacture
S 618
Violent Crime Control Act of 1991
telecommunications equipment passed 71-24
S 12
Cable Television Consumer Protection Act
S 596
Provide that federal facilities meet federal
and state environmental laws and require-
ments and to clarify that such facilities must
comply with such environmental laws and
Thursday, June 6:
requirements Federal Facility Compliance Act
S 1204
Federal surface transportation highway re-
of 1991
S 341
authorization began consideration
National Energy Security Act
S 279
Amend the Motor Vehicle Information and
Cost Savings Act to require new standards
for corporate average fuel economy (CAFE)
Friday, June 7:
S2
Adult literacy improvement
Not in session
S 5
Family and Medical Leave
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SEXL OF STATE THE UNITED THE GTHE IDENT
Brent:
June 10th
Brady today raised with me several items that also come under the
headsing of your business. Please discuss.
1. The thought that we might want to have an EC meeting
anticipating the failure of the Uruguay Round. In other words
should we contemplate several other groupings such as an Asia
Trade Zone etc.
My first reaction was it would be very damaging to let the
word be about that we expected the Uruguay round to fail. I also
told him we were planning a Carla meeting to discuss all this.
2. He asked me what I thought about a G-7 ministerial
(finance) to get a common line for our London meeting on Soviet
requests for funding etc. Also to talk "growth, low interest
rates etc".
Please discuss at your convenience.
GB
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SECRETARY CHENEY
GENERAL SCOWCROFT
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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June 10, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTORS
FROM:
BARRIE TRON
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
SUBJECT:
WEEKLY PUBLIC AFFAIRS PACKAGE
Enclosed for your information and distribution are various speeches and
statements delivered last week by President Bush. This package includes:
1)
a signed proclamation for Flag Day and National Flag Week, 1991;
2)
remarks to the National Federation of Independent Businesses;
3)
remarks to the National Education Goals Panel Meeting;
4)
remarks to the Governors Education Policy Advisors and Chief State
School Officers;
5)
remarks in announcing the nomination of Robert Strauss as Ambassador
to the Soviet Union;
6)
remarks by the President and Prime Minister Jugnauth of Mauritius;
7)
remarks to the 134th Annual Southern Baptist Convention;
8)
remarks at the swearing-in ceremony of Henry Catto as Director of the
United States Information Agency; and
9)
remarks at a ceremony honoring the Drug-Free School Recognition
Program.
For further information, please contact Kristen Gear, Associate Director of
Public Affairs at (202) 456-2483.
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
The President
Monday, June 10
President Bush will attend a reception for select Members of Congress.
Tuesday, June 11
President Bush will participate in teleconferences with the annual meeting of the
Public Broadcasting Service and the National Advertising Conference of the American
Advertising Federation. Later in the day, the President, along with Secretary
Alexander, will travel to Seaford, Delaware where he will participate in a GED
Graduation Ceremony for a night school class at Seaford High School.
Wednesday, June 12
President Bush along with Vice President Quayle will meet with President Alfredo
Cristiani of El Salvador. After the meeting, the President, the Vice President and
Secretary Baker will have a working luncheon for President Cristiani. In the evening,
the President will speak on the South Lawn about the domestic challenges facing
America.
Thursday, June 13
President Bush will be joined by Secretary Sullivan to announce an HHS initiative
about Childhood Immunization in the Rose Garden. Afterwards, President and Mrs.
Bush and Secretary Sullivan will participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the
new wing of the District of Columbia Hospital for Sick Children. Later in the day,
the President will sign the Baltic Freedom Day proclamation. In the evening,
President and Mrs. Bush will attend the President's Dinner. Vice President Quayle
and Secretaries Baker, Cheney, Derwinski, Kemp, Madigan, Sullivan, and Watkins
will also attend the dinner.
Friday, June 14
President and Mrs. Bush will depart for Los Angeles, California where the President
will deliver the commencement address at the California Institute of Technology.
Sunday, June 16
While in California, President and Mrs. Bush will participate in an Asian-Pacific-
American Salute. In the evening, they will attend the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Dinner.
The Vice President
Tuesday, June 11
Vice President Quayle will join Secretary Watkins at a briefing on initiatives for the
exploration of Mars and the development of a permanent lunar base on Mars.
Following the briefing, the Vice President, Watkins and Admiral Truly, Director of
NASA, will participate in a press conference announcing the release of the Space
Exploration Initiative Synthesis Group report on these initiatives.
AT THE AGENCIES.
AGRICULTURE:
On June 10, Secretary Madigan will be interviewed by Judy Woodruff of the
MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour for a documentary called "Eat Smart," scheduled to air in
the fall of 1991. On June 13, Madigan will address the 1991 Farm Women's Forum.
COMMERCE:
On June 12-13, Secretary Mosbacher will travel to Vienna to meet with Austrian
Chancellor Franz Vranitzky and Minister of Economic Affairs Wolfgang Schuessel.
He will also address the Conference on American Business Opportunities in the
Danube Basin.
EDUCATION:
On June 10, Secretary Alexander will meet with the Einstein Congressional Fellows, a
group of four graduate students and scholars. On June 11, the Secretary will
address the Business Roundtable. On June 12, Alexander will travel to New York
City to meet with the editorial boards of the New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal and Newsweek. On June 13, Alexander will meet with the editors of The
New Republic. Later, he will attend a meeting of the National Center on Education
Statistics. On June 14, the Secretary will travel to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to address
the Governor's Conference on Business and Education Partnerships.
ENERGY:
On June 12, Secretary Watkins will address the dedication ceremony of the Naval
Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue. On June 13, Watkins will attend a breakfast of
the Western States Senate Coalition. Later, Watkins will address the Municipal
Officials Conference.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES:
On June 9, Secretary Sullivan will travel to Boston to address the commencement
ceremony at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. On June 11, Sullivan will
address the National Immunization Conference. Later, he will travel to Atlanta to
address the Opportunity Industrialization Centers, headed by the Reverend Leon
Sullivan. That evening, Sullivan will attend a reception for Donnell Thomas and
Joseph Murray, who received the Nobel prize for their work in biomedical research.
On June 12, Sullivan will address the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.
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That evening, Sullivan will address the Washington Academy of Surgery and the
American College of Surgeons.
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT:
On June 11, Secretary Kemp will participate in a television program for C-SPAN on
the Administration's HOPE initiative. On June 12, Kemp will address the Free
Congress Foundation. On June 14, the Secretary will travel to Dallas to address the
National Center for Policy Analysis, a free market think tank. Later, Kemp will
address the National Committee of College Republicans.
INTERIOR:
On June 9-15, Secretary Lujan will travel to Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to
build support for the President's Enterprise for the Americas Initiative.
LABOR:
On June 11, Secretary Martin will travel to Rome to meet with Italian Minister of
Labor Franco Marini. While in Rome, Martin will also meet with U.S. Ambassador
Peter Secchia. On June 12, Martin will meet with Italian Foreign Minister Gianni
DeMichelis. On June 14, Martin will travel to Geneva to address the International
Labor Organization (ILO) Conference. Later, she will address the American
International Club of Geneva.
STATE:
On June 11, Secretary Baker will travel to Princeton, New Jersey to address the
commencement ceremony at Princeton University. On June 13, Baker will hold
bilateral meetings with Tunisian Minister of Affairs Habib Ben Yahim.
TRANSPORTATION:
On June 11, Secretary Skinner will meet with British Airways Chief Executive Officer
Collan Marshall. On June 12-13, Skinner will travel to Minneapolis to meet with
Northwest Airlines senior executives and tour airline facilities. He will also meet with
officials at the Minneapolis Airport. On, June 15, the Secretary will participate in
local "Race for the Cure" activities.
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TREASURY:
On June 11, Secretary Brady will join Administrator Reilly and Bank of America Vice
President Peter McPherson at a press conference to announce the bank's participation
in a private debt-for-nature agreement to preserve threatened rain forests in Mexico
and other Latin American countries.
UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE:
On June 12, Ambassador Hills will travel to Toronto, Canada to participate in a
trilateral ministerial meeting with Canadian Minister of International Trade Michael
Wilson and Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development Jaime Serra.
VETERANS AFFAIRS:
On June 10, Secretary Derwinski will travel to Pennsylvania to accompany Senator
Arlen Specter on a tour of VA medical centers in Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre,
Pittsburgh and Lebanon. On June 11, Derwinski will travel to Miami to address the
opening ceremony for the National Veterans Wheelchair Games. On June 14,
Derwinski will travel to Chicago to meet with local veterans groups. On June 15,
Derwinski will travel to Cleveland to address the Ukranian American Veterans
convention.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY:
On June 10, Administrator Reilly will participate in an interview with Hobart Rowen
of the Washington Post. On June 11, Reilly will participate in an interview with Stan
Krock of Business Week magazine. On June 13, Reilly will participate in an
interview with the Associated Press.
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY:
On June 10, Director Martinez will address the National Law Enforcement Council.
Later, he will participate in an interview on "Larry King Live." On June 12, Martinez
will travel to Baltimore to address the Jamaican Organized Crime Conference. While
in Baltimore, Martinez will address the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
REPORTS:
The Department of Commerce will release the following reports:
-- June 13, the retail sales figures for May.
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- June 14, the U.S. Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales report for April.
The Department of Labor will release the following reports:
-- June 13, the Producer Price Indices for May 1991.
-- June 14, the Consumer Price Index for May 1991.
The Federal Reserve Board will release the following report:
-- June 14, figures on industrial production and capacity utilization for May.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 7, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT SWEARING-IN CEREMONY OF
HENRY CATTO AS DIRECTOR OF UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
The United States Information Agency
Washington, D.C.
10:14 A.M. EDT
delighted to be over here for this occasion, the formal swearing-in,
THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for that warm welcome. I'm just
do for your country. I want to salute, of course, Henry Catto and
and also to give me the opportunity to thank all of you for what you
this very important agency.
Jessica: Leonard Marks is out here -- one of the former directors of
I'm delighted to stand at the side of my friend of
long-standing, Henry Catto. I'm pleased that so many of his friends
First, let me also salute Dick Carlson, the Director of the VOA.
and family could be with us here to share in this special day.
(Applause.) Dick has piloted the Voice during five, I think, of its
most fascinating years, and done it well. I am just delighted that
he has agreed to serve as an ambassador for our country. His service
side. to the public will continue, and I'm very proud that he'll be at my
I'm also pleased to announce that his successor, as the
proud legacy of the Voice, and I'm talking about, now, Chase
new director, is a man who I know will uphold this extraordinarily
he was formerly an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a former
Untermeyer. (Applause.) He's now an Assistant to the President, but
journalist: he was an elected official in Texas -- and in his coming
into this job, clearly he will be following a long line of
know he'll do very, very well.
distinguished Americans. So he'll need your help, and with it, I
here, because I wanted to recognize the talented professionals of
And of course, I really wanted to have this occasion over
USIA. One of the reasons that I'm here today is to thank all of you
Desert Shield and Desert Storm. I know many of you put in an awful
for an awful lot, but especially for your dedicated service during
lot of hours. For many, it was a "round the clock" effort. The
expertise of your people in the field, the fine Gulf War pamphlets
that you produced -- all the extra hours behind the microphone at VOA
and in USIA's TV studios -- helped us get the word out, helped people
in the Middle East and around the world separate fact from fiction
about Iraq's aggression and the intentions of Saddam Hussein. We
were up against an enormous propaganda machine from various quarters
overseas. And I think that you all distinguished yourselves with
great honor and great credit to the United States of America. So
thank you from this grateful heart. (Applause.)
this agency, USIA's key role in the Gulf comes as no surprise. Since
To those of us who know the history, the proud legacy of
the time President Eisenhower created USIA nearly 40 years ago
has played an integral role in American foreign policy. USIA is
then in the midst of the Cold War and conflict -- public diplomacy
founded on the belief, the certainty, if you will, that ideas matter:
especially to this nation -- a nation founded on the idea of freedom.
The Cold War was itself, in the deepest sense, a war of
ideas. In that war, USIA acted as America's advocate, spreading the
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message of democracy and freedom, doing it in a very convincing way
spreading the message of human rights and human dignity. That went
behind the Iron Curtain, got past the jammers' wall of noise, and
into every corner of closed societies around the world.
And today, at long last, thank God, the Cold War has
drawn to an end. The Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, the monument of
lies posing as truth -- all were reduced to ruins by the undeniable
power of an idea: That all people everywhere must be free.
Each of you shares in this great triumph of the human
spirit. But your work -- I'm sure you all know -- is far from over.
Just as millions drew hope from this American idea -- so now the
American example speaks to people the world over: in the developing
countries seeking to unleash the power of free enterprise, to the
nations now engaged in the difficult business of democracy-building
-- everywhere that men and women still struggle to be free. There's
still this example -- the American example -- that we must get out.
Today, more than ever in our world of instantaneous communication --
when images, ideas and information cross the globe at the speed of
light -- the work you do at USIA advances our national interest.
Your broadcasts, your exchanges, the overseas libraries
and publications, the programs to teach English -- all tell America's
story to the world: Who we are. How we live. And, perhaps most
important -- what we believe in.
That is America's nessage. You here at USIA take
America's message to the world. You tell the story that the world
still wants to hear.
Let ne just close now with the business at hand -- a
personal note about my dear friend and your new Director. Back on
August 2nd -- the day that the Iraqi tanks first rolled into Kuwait
-- both Margaret Thatcher and I were scheduled to take part in an
Aspen Institute conference out in Colorado -- Aspen, Colorado.
We were also to be Henry's guests at their ranch in
Aspen. It turned out to be quite a memorable "working visit," as
some of you may remember. I saw firsthand at that critical moment,
though, Henry's understanding of a complicated situation, his
unerring judgment, his unquestioned expertise -- and above all, his
unswerving devotion to principle, as he and I discussed, of the Iraqi
invasion.
Everyone who knows this man will agree that his
considerable strength will serve him well in this proud new post as
Director of USIA.
So once again, my sincerest thanks to all of you for your
warm welcome, and much more important than that, for what you do. I
expect over here you wonder if we over at the White House even know
you exist at times. Maybe you're better if you don't know you exist
at times. But I really -- when Henry suggested we could come over
here, it gives me an opportunity to thank you in the best way I
possibly can for your dedicated service to the greatest country on
the face of the Earth. Now, it is with great pleasure that I will
witness the swearing-in of Ambassador Henry Catto as Director of
USIA. Thank you. (Applause.)
(The oath is administered.)
DIRECTOR CATTO: Mr. President, Justice Kennedy, USIA
colleagues here in Washington, and watching throughout the globe on
Worldnet or listening on the Voice of America. Spring, sir, is the
season of new beginnings. Two springs ago in May of 1989, I had the
experience of presenting my credentials to Queen Elizabeth at
Buckingham Palace. Thanks to you, Mr. President, for two years I had
the honor to represent our country in the United Kingdom.
That experience reinforced a belief of mine. I've
learned a little something about diplomacy over the years; and if I
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have, it's that public diplomacy is an indispensable component of an
effective foreign policy.
Scholars call ours the Information Age. The Industrial
Age was defined by the steam engine, by the dynamo, by the electronic
grid. The current epoch is defined by new techologies -- by
computers, by matellites, by silicon chips. In the Information Age,
public diplomacy is not only valuable, it is essential to any
prolonged success in world affairs.
You mentioned, Mr. President, in your remarks, the events
of August 2nd. I think it would interest everyone here to know that
at one point, half of Prime Minister Thatcher's Cabinet were former
USIA international visitors. Your public display of unity and
determination at that critical moment were crucial in shaping world
opinion about the need for an international response to the Iraqi
invasion.
The Gulf conflict was the first international crisis,
unmistakably, of the Information Age. And appropriately, the men and
women of the U.S. Information Agency did themselves proud. And proud
they should be, Mr. President. As the coalition took shape, the
USIA's public affairs and public information officers on six
continents explained America's goals and diplomatic efforts.
Our Worldnet facilities at American enbassies throughout
the globe made it possible for foreign journalists to interview by
satellite the men and women shaping American policies in the Gulf and
on other issues.
Meanwhile, here in Washington, the USIA's foreign press
center helped American-based foreign journalists by providing
briefings, press releases and press conference facilities.
And all the while, people of the Voice of America did
their jobs brilliantly. They got the news, they told it straight.
That is their job to tell it like it is.
Equally important, and also all the while, our exchange
programs for scholars and teachers went on, and our AmParts lecturers
made tour after tour, and our USIS centers around the globe helped
those eager to learn more about America. And if I may say so, nobody
could do those things better, either. No one could do them better
than USIA.
Once upon a time, a wise man was asked the secret of
happiness. He responded: Find a mission in life and take it
seriously. Mr. President, the men and women of the United States
Information Agency have a mission. They carry and transmit to a
world that hungers for America's story -- our news the best of our
culture, information about our policies -- an understanding of our
way of life. That is our mission -- to be America's information
agency in the Information Age. We do, and we will, take that mission
seriously.
Mr. President, thank you for the honor you have done Be
and for the thrill you've given us all by paying us a visit here
today. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
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10:30 A.M. EDT
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 7, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN CEREMONY HONORING THE DRUG-FREE SCHOOL RECOGNITION PROGRAM
The Rose Garden
11:20 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Welcome. Welcome all to the Rose Garden.
No roses, but it's the Rose Garden. (Laughter.) Now, please be
seated. And thank you all for coming. Well, listen, it's a great
pleasure to see all of you here. And it's a pleasure to be with our
Drug Policy Director Bob Martinez, doing a great job in the antidrug
campaign across this country; our very able Attorney General Dick
Thornburgh standing next to ne; and Lamar Alexander here, our new
Secretary of Education, who's excited the country with our program
for America 2000 -- a good look at revolutionizing education.
And I'm just delighted -- is David Kearns going to be
here? I heard that he might, but I don't see him out there. So I'll
leave out our new Deputy Secretary over at Education, David Kearns,
who's also a key member of our team.
But I'm pleased to see a lot of the students here today.
That's important at an event like this one because all the damage
drugs can do -- what's worse is that drugs rob you of your future --
and our future. Frankly, our future as a nation is robbed. And it's
in your hands.
With our thoughts fixed on our future and before we
begin, let me briefly mention two foward-looking actions taken in the
House of Representatives yesterday. The House provided funding for
two of this administration's top priorities: Space Station Freedom
-- that's America's pioneering effort to establish a permanent
presence in space, thus keeping us on the cutting edge of science and
research and development -- and the HOPE Program, to expand
opportunities for home ownership to people who now live in public
housing. And each program is a way -- a prime example of how we can
shape America's future for the better.
This is the fourth year we've hosted the Drug-Free School
Recognition Program. And this year, the schools we honor come from
every corner of America, near and far. One stands not far from here,
up 16th Street, D.C.'s own Abraham Lincoln Junior High School.
(Applause.) I see they brought us some fans along today. That's the
way it should be. (Applause.) Others come, literally, from as far
away as the North Pole -- North Pole High School in Fairbanks,
Alaska. (Applause.)
Now, I'm sure all of you know about America's 2000
Strategy that I've referred to -- to transform, literally transform
American schools and move the nation toward achieving the six
ambitious national education goals that we've set. for ourselves,
working in close conjunction with the nation's governors. We've set
a target for our students to be first in the world in math and
science by the year 2000. We want to increase the graduation rate to
90 percent. We will ask our students to demonstrate a competence in
five core subjects as they progress from fourth grade to graduation.
And many times, the last goal we mention is safe,
disciplined and drug-free schools. It may be last, but it is
certainly by no means the least important. We can't hope to give any
student a sound education -- a decent shot at the future -- if drug
users and drug dealers roam the halls of our schools. And for this
reason, drug-free schools are a top priority of our America 2000
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decreasing illegal drug use among America's students. And each of
We've made some progress. We have made some progress in
continue. the schools gathered here today helps ensure that this progress will
The 56 schools we honor represent 28 states and the
District -- District of Columbia. These include public and private
senior highs.
schools, large and small, rural and urban, elementary, junior and
But for all your differences, there's one thing in common
-- there's a common matrix here: You're winning the battle. In a
society where our children often get mixed messages on drug use,
you're sending a clear signal: You draw the line against drugs.
Take Washington Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
For some kids walking to Washington Middle School every morning means
running an urban gauntlet -- threading their way through gang turf.
But when they get to school, they're in a new world -- they enter
another world. Washington Middle School is off-limits to gangs. It
hosts more than a dozen student support groups -- places where kids
deadly experimentation with drugs.
can turn to escape the peer pressure that often pushes them into this
that teaches everything from English to how to be a better parent.
And then, there's Washington's Parent Center -- a program
And I've heard about banners on the wall there that say it all: It's
easier to build a child than repair an adult."
-- in a sense, it's a team victory, for the teachers, the
When a school succeeds as all of yours are succeeding
wider community outside the classroom.
administrators, for the students, but also for the parents and the
I said this: "Across this nation, we must cultivate communities
When I unveiled our America 2000 Strategy back in April,
where children can learn -- communities where the school is more than
a refuge, more than a solitary island of calm amid chaos." And I
challenged every city and town across our country to become an
America 2000 community by doing four things: Adopt the national
education goals; devise a community-wide plan for reaching them;
establish a report card to measure progress; and fourth and finally,
to create and support what I call a new American school. If there's
that one word is commitment.
one word that defines what it takes to be an America 2000 community,
Kenedy High School in Kenedy, Texas, understands that
kind of community commitment. Four years ago, a Kenedy kid -- a
Kenedy student died from drug abuse. The school vowed to turn that
tragedy into hope; and a small Texas town declared its own war on
drugs. Student leaders at Kenedy formed what they called a SWAT team
-- Students With A Target -- to spread this antidrug message. Even
more important, the community outside the school closed ranks to deny
drug users a safe haven. It's working. Kenedy's success comes from
community involvement: a commitment on the part of every adult,
every shopkeeper, every community leader, every parent never to look
the other way when kids use drugs.
Washington and Kenedy and all the other schools here
today prove that when it comes to stopping drugs, we can fight back.
an example that other schools can follow.
By creating a drug-free environment where students can learn, you set
And so, once again, it has been a real pleasure to
welcome you to the White House. Congratulations to each and every
one of you for your fine work. And may God bless our country as we
wage this heroic fight.
Thank you all very, very much. (Applause.)
END
11:29 A.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 3, 1991
FLAG DAY AND NATIONAL FLAG WEEK, 1991
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
We call her "Old Glory," but the splendor of our flag is
ever new, and the principles for which she stands are timeless.
When adopted by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, our
flag became the symbol of a Nation that was founded on the
conviction "that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Throughout our Nation's history, brave and selfless Americans
have labored and sacrificed to defend these ideals, and in
every generation they have given renowed meaning to our flag.
Earlier in this century President Woodrow Wilson noted that
the American flag "is the embodiment not of a sentiment but of a
history
Indeed, this is what sets the flag apart from
other American symbols -- no other standard has been carried
into battle by generations of American heroes; no other banner
recalls the extraordinary achievements of our farmers and
workers; and no other emblem symbolizes to more people what
America means to the world. For millions of people around the
globe, the Stars and Stripes has been a symbol of freedom,
strength, and opportunity -- a sign of safe haven and hope for
the future. For countless others, it has been a sign of help
and comfort a symbol of the traditional generosity and
compassion of the American people toward the poor, the hungry,
and the dispossessed.
Although our annual observance of Flag Day is rich in
emotion, it is not an exercise in mere sentimentalism. It
is a day of proud yet meaningful reflection on our national
experience and purpose -- an occasion made all the more
significant this year by the 200th anniversary of our Bill of
Rights and by the outstanding performance of our troops in the
liberation of Kuwait.
To commemorate the adoption of our flag, the Congress,
by a joint resolution approved August 3, 1949 (63 Stat. 492),
designated June 14 of each year as Flag Day and requested the
President to issue an annual proclamation calling for its
observance and for the display of the flag of the United States
on all government buildings. The Congress also requested the
President, by joint resolution approved June 9, 1966 (80 Stat.
194), to issue annually a proclamation designating the week in
which June 14 occurs as National Flag Week and calling upon all
citizens of the United States to display the flag during that
week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 14, 1991,
as Flag Day, and the week beginning June 9, 1991, as National
Flag Week. I direct the appropriate officials of the government
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to display the flag of the United States on all government
buildings during that week. I urge all Americans to observe
from their homes and other suitable places.
Flag Day, June 14, and Flag Week by flying the Stars and Stripes
I also urge the American people to celebrate those days
from Flag Day through Independence Day, also set aside by the
public gatherings and activities at which they can honor their
Congress (89 Stat. 211) as a time to honor America, by having
country in an appropriate manner, including publicly reciting
America. the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
third
day of
June, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth.
GEORGE BUSH
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 3, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES
The Capitol Hill Hyatt Regency
Washington, D.C.
1:04 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very, very much for that
welcome. Listen, I should be the one clapping to thank you all for
the fantastic support that NFIB has given to this administration as
we work towards common goals.
First, let me thank John Sloan not just for the
introduction, but for the leadership he has given to these sound
business principles. I'm also very pleased that with us here, with
John and me here on this platform is Pat Saiki. She has joined our
team in the administration, having been a key member of it when she
was in the Congress, and she already has brought new energy to the
Small -- the SBA. And we're very proud of her. And I know you will
enjoy working with her.
Let me warn you ahead of time -- I gave four commencement
addresses last week. And if I lapse into saying things like, "Your
future lies ahead of you," -- (laughter) -- or "You're at a
crossroads in your life," you'll know exactly why. (Laughter.)
Actually, my favorite commencement line of all comes from
that great philosopher, Woody Allen. (Laughter.) That's right --
Woody Allen. He once told a graduating class, "Mankind is at a
crossroads. Down one path is despair and utter hopelessness. Down
the other, total destruction." (Laughter.) Then he goes on and
finishes, "Let's hope your generation has the wisdom to choose
correctly." (Laughter.)
Well, this is one place I don't have to worry about that.
You offer something other than hopelessness and destruction and
despair. You create opportunity and hope.
You've played a leading role -- and I don't say this just
in passing; I mean it -- you've played a leading role in helping this
administration advance the cause of free markets and economic growth.
And thanks for helping us win some important victories in the
Congress -- victories in pushing back this endless flow of mandated
programs -- mandated parental leave now -- (applause) -- and helping
us in pushing for parental choice in child care, a wonderful step
forward for our country that strengthens the family of the United
States. And thanks for helping us persuade Congress to preserve a
crucial device for securing free and fair international trade -- the
fast track procedures.
And now, we need your help in securing civil rights
legislation that ensures the most basic civil right of all: the
right of all people to pursue their dreams without fear of
discrimination or fear of unfair lawsuits.
In that regard, I notice some of the buttons out there.
I like the buttons. And I don't know anybody who disagrees with that
sentiment, as a matter of fact. (Applause.) You've got mine, as a
matter of fact.
Calvin Coolidge once told a gathering of newspaper
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editors that "the chief business of the American people is business."
And that much-maligned quote contains an important truth. We are an
enterprising people, and our economy thrives because people with
ideas establish businesses like yours. They risk money. They risk
comforts. They risk failure. And they achieve greatness.
The government can help advance the cause of economic
freedom in three ways. First, it can promote it. It can create an
environment that enables entrepreneurs to flourish -- especially the
men and women who run small businesses.
Our economic growth package offers a series of positive
inducements to growth. We want to bring down the tax on capital
gains. That reform won't just reduce the cost of capital --
(applause) -- but to reform. And it won't just reduce the cost of
capital, it will encourage investors to risk money on new businesses
-- therefore, expanding job opportunities for all Americans,
including small businesses. It also will encourage people to sell
assets such as real estate that they won't sell now because the taxes
are too high.
This administration also is determined to put a lid on
the growth of federal spending. (Applause.) Last year's
controversial budget agreement -- the largest deficit reduction
program in history -- imposed real, long-term caps on spending. You
now see members of Congress trying to retreat from the spirit of that
agreement, urging us to raise taxes so they can buy political pork.
No way. Congress must keep its word. (Applause.) Congress must
keep its word. And if it doesn't, I will veto spending bills that
violate the caps and violate our budget accord. (Applause.)
Our growth package also includes a comprehensive set of
long-overdue banking reforms. These reforms are designed to bring
our banking system up to date and to make banks, large and small,
stronger and better able to serve their customers. The business
community, particularly yours -- the small business community --
needs strong banks that can provide much needed financing for jobs
and for economic growth.
This administration believes in free and fair trade. In
an age of international economic competition, we cannot afford --
simply cannot afford to shield ourselves from competition, or to lose
the vast benefits that free and fair trade will produce. We will use
the fast track procedures to pursue three vital trade agreements:
the Uruguay Round of the GATT talks, the North American Free Trade
Agreement, and the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. These
agreements would open the world to American products -- and would
create fantastic opportunities for American businesses.
We also want to create a work force that can propel
America into the 21st century; to make that 100 years the next
American century. Our America 2000 Strategy for Education lays out a
series of bold challenges: to create better and more accountable
schools that parents can choose; to reinvent the American school by
developing a new generation of American schools; to turn our land
into a nation of students -- and in the process, me into a computer
genius. (Laughter.) But no one's too old to learn. That's part of
our fundamental thesis. And to create communities where learning can
happen.
I understand the vital importance of a well-educated work
force to the small business sector in particular. You depend on
schools to educate our kids. You don't have the resources to provide
remedial education. You depend on schools to provide sensible
measures of educational achievement. That's one of the reasons we
are developing a series of voluntary national achievement tests.
I'll be talking today to groups -- when I leave here I'll
go over to speak to one of them -- to groups that are voluntary
national achievement tests.
I'll be talking today to groups -- when I leave here,
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I'll go over to speak to one of them -- to groups that are helping us
develop sound educational goals and measurements. And you can be
sure that I'll stress that their business will give a big boost to
America's businesses.
But it's not enough just to encourage growth.
Government's second role must be to remove some of the obstacles that
it has created. Regulations cost the economy at least $185 billion
-- that's billion dollars -- last year. That's $1,700 for every
taxpayer. The government generated 5.3 billion hours' worth of
paperwork during the same period. I think that we can all agree we
don't need this much paperwork and regulation. (Applause.) You've
seen the volumes of regulation. Maybe the Surgeon General can help
-- (laughter) -- make them put a warning label on the Federal
Register: Do not attempt to lift this unless your last name's Arnold
Schwarzenegger. (Laughter.)
The Vice President's Council on Competitiveness has
zeroed in now on regulations that turn would-be Edisons into
paper-pushers. It helps weigh the costs and the benefits of
regulation, so that when the government issues rules, it will produce
more benefits than red tape.
Health care costs also have become a major factor for
many businesses. Although some people think it makes sense to
establish our own brand of federally mandated national medical care,
I disagree, strongly. (Applause.) And we have offered reforms to
hold down medical costs without reducing the amount of available
medical care. Some encourage people to take care of themselves.
others encourage people to resolve disputes with doctors instead of
hauling everyone involved off to court. Too many of our medical
dollars go to pay off lawyers -- with all respect to you guys out
there. (Applause.) Our medical money ought to pay for healing, not
suing. (Applause.)
And thirdly, this administration will fight legislative
proposals that threaten small business -- that threaten the heart and
soul of our economic system.
We will resist mandated benefits programs. (Applause.)
You know them all too well -- Washington's one-size-fits-all
solutions to problems that come in all sizes and shapes.
We will also oppose striker replacement legislation.
(Applause.) The bills in Congress, believe me, could have
catastrophic consequences for small businesses, regardless of whether
they have union representation. As you know, small business creates
most of our jobs in this country. A survey published just last week
showed that firms with 100 or fewer employees generate 58 percent --
58 percent of our new jobs.
And finally -- and this is timely -- we will fight for a
civil rights bill that pursues the cause of civil rights -- the cause
of equal opportunity. Our civil rights package -- and you haven't
read anything about it because the debate is being dominated by the
Democrats that control the Congress -- takes dead aim at those who
discriminate unfairly. But it also encourages people to work
together, rather than employing quotas or other devices. (Applause.)
Encourages them to work in the name of equality, instead of inviting
people to squabble and to feud.
You know, let me talk from the heart here. I have been
accused of playing politics -- playing election politics with this
issue. And very frankly, it's the other way around -- and it has
been for some time.
My opponents won't even consider my civil rights bill.
They keep changing theirs to attract different blocks of voters.
Their obvious move to convert the bill into a "women's issue" is just
plain, pure politics -- a politics of selective inclusion and
exclusion. Our bill would properly protect women's rights --
everyone's rights.
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The beltway interest groups and their spokepersons want
to make me accept or veto a quota bill. And the fact is we have
tried to compromise, but not to accept quotas. And at one point last
year, we had an agreement that would bring all sides together. But
the beltway interest groups refused: They wanted a political win.
They wanted to grind me into the political dirt.
And we have a good record on civil rights. And we had a
good history of fair play. And I want a fair, strong
antidiscrimination bill that will guarantee worker's rights, women's
rights, workplace rights, but will not create quotas. (Applause.)
And P.S. -- P.S. -- (laughter) -- I want a bill that will help all
working men and women and not one that will produce a bonanza for
avaricious lawyers. And now you know my position. (Applause.)
If you listen to these talk shows you wouldn't even know
we have a civil rights bill up there. (Laughter.) You see the same
ones, hey? (Laughter.)
Today, you have my word: Whatever happens to this bill
-- and I feel this in my heart -- I will continue to work for racial
harmony and fair play and against discrimination in the workplace.
We want to build a society of shared hopes and helping
hands -- a society in which all benefit from growth and prosperity.
We want to make this kind of society a good society -- the
hallmark of our administration.
In closing, let me say that this administration will not
waver in its devotion to free enterprise. All of us here know that
no experience can match the scary thrill of striking out and starting
a business. Nothing better tests your mettle. And as we prepare to
launch ourselves into the next American century, we must do the three
things I've outlined today: We must encourage enterprise; sweep away
unnecessary barriers to growth; and fend off attempts to place chains
on entrepreneurs.
We want a free society, a just society, a fair society.
But we also want a society brightened by growth and hope. And you
know, each in your own way, in your own communities, you promote that
dream every day. And we will encourage you every single step of the
way.
Thank you. May God bless you all. And may God bless the
United States of America. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
1:22 P.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 3, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL MEETING
The Grand Hyatt Hotel
Washington, D.C.
1:30 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, Governor
Romer. And what I really wanted to do is to come over and join my
colleagues from the Department of Education -- particularly our
Secretary -- in thanking this busy and distinguished group of
governors who are taking the lead on our educational reform.
Roy, at the outset, thank you, sir, as Chairman. And let
me say, we are enthused over your concept of this interim council --
very much so -- and delighted that you and Carol are willing to
undertake that commitment.
I'm pleased to be here with the National Education Goals
Panel as you tackle tough work on behalf of the entire country. And
all of us feel that you're doing a great job. And I want especially
to thank the governors who spent 50 much of the past year traveling
-- as Roy said -- around the country and traveling to Washington to
deal with this challenging assignment. We all owe a great debt to
Governor Romer and to his colleagues for their important work on this
panel. And so thank you all very, very much.
You know, there are only a few moments in our lives when
we are called upon to join a crusade, and I honestly believe this is
one of them. We have a crisis in American education and we've simply
got to do something about it.
I just came from a meeting with the National Federation
of Independent Businesses -- NFIB. And I talked to them about
economic growth -- something we can't achieve without an educated,
motivated work force. Education is vital to everything we are and
everything we can become. But look at the facts. Eight years ago,
the National Commission on Excellence in Education published its
powerful indictment of our schools. And yet today, ours is still --
remember -- a "Nation at Risk."
And at the same time, we remain devoted to education. If
you talk to parents, you'll hear that nothing is more important. No
nation on Earth believes as deeply as we do in the value and the
importance of education. People from coast to coast have begun the
hard work of educational reform.
I had an inspiring day with Lamar out in Minnesota the
other day. You could just feel their commitment to revolutionary new
methods in this one little corner of our great country.
The nonpartisan federal-state -- and let me emphasize
that word again, nonpartnership -- federal-state partnership brought
this issue to the forefront of the national agenda a couple of years
ago. And we brought the nation's governors together -- or they came
together with us -- for an unprecedented education summit at the home
of Thomas Jefferson, a true Education President. The governors
weren't worried about their place in history. They came to work.
And as they did, a compact emerged -- one that rests not on flowery
promises, but on a challenge to raise our expectations and achieve
concrete results.
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We resolved then to become an America of tougher
standards, higher goals, and bigger dreams. And five months later,
after reaching out to educators and parents and civic leaders, the
governors and I adopted six national education goals for the year
2000. This audience is familiar with them, but let me click them
off: readiness for school; school completion; student achievement.
and citizenship; science and math supremacy; adult literacy and
lifetime learning; and safe, drug-free schools.
And these goals were in our minds. as we developed one of
the administration's most exciting initiatives -- a comprehensive
educational reform challenge known as America 2000. America 2000
calls for a revolution in American education. It challenges all
Americans to raise expectations, to pledge genuine accountability
and, above all, to create a new generation of American schools. It
sets out to transform a nation at risk into a nation of students.
And it urges everyone to make our communities places where learning
will happen.
And now we're here with a team that figures prominently
in the America 2000 game plan -- the National Education Goals Panel.
The panel's charge is to hold us accountable. It will report on the
nation's and the states' progress toward meeting our education goals.
In meetings with educational experts and in regional forums across
the country, this, again, nonpartisan panel has already launched a
national dialogue about how to measure our own educational progress.
I know that the members were hard at work earlier today,
defining the first education report card to the nation. And they'll
issue that report in September, on the second anniversary of the
Education Summit. This and subsequent reports, will do more than
simply monitor our progress. They will use our new national
standards. They will supply clear direction to our efforts. And
they will help promote accountability and promote excellence.
This panel's work will hold a mirror up to the nation and
force us to take an honest look at ourselves and at our schools. And
when we look in that mirror, we'll see that our actions can -- and
will -- make a difference.
So that's where we are right now -- poised to rise to the
challenge. But there's something else. National assessment of
educational progress, known as NAEP, is about to release a report.
It will tell us what we already know, that we have work to do. It
will show that the level of student performance varies widely across
the country and that we're not measuring up.
I want to talk directly to every parent, student,
teacher, and administrator, and elected official in this country.
When you see the NAEP -- N-A-E-P -- when you see the NAEP report,
view it as evidence that we need high national standards to serve as
an incentive for every student. View it as a personal call to
accountability and to action. This panel will. It will use this
assessment as its benchmark -- a reminder of what we must achieve.
It will take a long time. For instance, this panel's
charge is for a decade. And it will take a lot of tough work. It
will take energy and determination and imagination. But those are
the building blocks of the American spirit.
But we're armed for this battle. Fortunately, our kids
give us a great secret weapon. They are the best natural resource of
any nation on Earth. We've seen our young people perform in the
Persian Gulf and we've seen what they can do. And they inspire us to
reinvent our educational system. We must forge a system worthy of
them. We've got to create a system that will help them compete in
the world of the 21st century, and one that will let them be the very
best in that world. They can be the best, and they will be the best.
Teachers -- bless them -- also provide an incredible
resource -- like teacher Danford Sakai of Waiakea High School. He
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summed up what we need in this battle when he called for,
"Commitment, caring, common sense, communication, and courage."
I really, Governor Romer, want to thank this panel on
behalf of the country. Your meeting certainly makes this an
important day -- a concrete beginning and pledge of commitment. You
are our navigator, guiding us toward this new world of standards of
excellence in education.
And as we prepare to confront what may be the most
pressing crisis of our society, a favorite quote comes to mind.
"Whatever you can do -- or dream you can do -- begin it. For
boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
We can respond to that call together. We can dream bold
dreams and unleash the power and magic that are, indeed, the genius
of the American spirit. And that's how we can reinvent American
education.
Thank you all very much for giving your time to your
country in this manner. We are very, very grateful to you. And may
God bless our country. Thank you so much. (Applause.)
END
1:50 P.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 3, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO GOVERNORS EDUCATION POLICY ADVISORS
AND CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS
Indian Treaty Room
old Executive Office Building
4:45 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: This is what we call in the White House a
cameo appearance. In, out. (Laughter.) But we have our new Deputy
Secretary, number two in the department, David Kearns here. I want
to tell you something about him. He was the former Chief Executive
of Xerox, and he comes to this big job, but with a total dedication
and commitment to education. And I think it says a wonderful thing
to our country that a man with his extraordinary business
achievements -- all the time, incidentally, when he was in that job
he was constructively engaged in helping our schools and helping
education -- but here he is now working hand-in-hand with our very
able Secretary, who all of you know and to whom I just once again
express my real appreciation for the job he and this fantastic team
we've got over there at the Department is doing.
I'm not here, though, to talk about what the center can
do for the people. That's not the way we're going to reform
education in this country. What I want to do is talk about or just
thank you for what you are doing and what we're counting on you to do
as we reach out to achieve our national education goals, goals that
were established in a totally nonpartisan way by the governors;
unanimously adopted by the governors.
Governor Romer was going to come on over here today,
Governor Campbell with him on our Education Panels of the Governors
Association. But they're actively involved in another meeting which
the three of us attended not so many minutes ago. And I say that
because they wanted to be here, too. But we're grateful to Governor
Romer of Colorado, Governor Carroll Campbell and the others that are
participating on the Governors Panel.
Lamar and I were talking -- he said, well, look, remind
these people that they're the ones that stand at the center of this
crusade to reform the American schools and to reach the six national
goals that you all are familiar with, and reach them by the year
2000. It's a strong agenda, a tough agenda in some ways. But all of
us are determined that, with your help, we can do it.
So what we talk about in the America 2000 strategy you
put into action, and the ideas for implementing a lot of our strategy
has got to come from you all and thousands like you across this
country. It can't succeed; we cannot dictate from Washington. I am
not anti-Washington. I am not antibureacracy. We've got some
wonderful people who have given their lives in these departments, but
this program, America 2000, cannot succeed if we try to do it from
Washington itself.
And so we've got to spread the message. And along those
lines I'm going over to Delaware next week -- I think with Lamar; I
hope -- to attend a graduation for graduates of an adult education
program. One of our goals, as you know, is you're never too old to
stop learning. And by going there we hope that this will put some
focus on the program -- many of you are already involved in that kind
of education -- give a boost to what you're doing, and maybe in the
process, get some good ideas as to how we can do it better.
Then the following week, I go by to Colorado and see
Governor Romer, who's our chairman really of the governors of this,
in the education field, talking about the role of community in
education. Once again, community in education, because we simply,
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dedicated though I know our people are here, can't get it done
without a sense of community. Governor Romer and his colleagues in
the Colorado 2000 effort are going to hold meetings in 176 locations
across the state in a single night. I don't think he'll be at all of
them, but nevertheless (laughter.) He's a good man, but not that
good.
And that's an impressive effort. I cite it because it
builds on this theme of participation that is absolutely essential.
And we hope that kind of thing will happen all across the country.
And so we've urged all cities and states to take a few simple, common
sense steps to get the reform going in whatever way they feel they
can be most effective. First, they have to adopt the goals for
themselves -- the national education goals. And as some of you know,
there may be resistance here and there. But look at them carefully;
put them all together, and I think you'll think it's the right
approach or the right program for the country.
And the approaches, they may well vary. They have to
adopt these goals. They've got to devise a community-wide strategy
to meet them; develop a report card system to assess progress towards
the goals; and then be willing to create and support a new school.
One of the aspects of this that Lamar has me fired up the
most about is citizens and communities starting from scratch -- and
we haven't done it well enough yet -- and creating new schools. And
hopefully we'll be able, with the effort of David and Lamar, to
supplement those efforts with some funds to get these things going in
the different states.
But it's a wonderful concept. And some may need longer
school terms. Some may want to have varied hours. Some may want
different curricula whatever it is. But that's the genius of it,
the diversity of it. And I think it's an exciting project.
I think you can stimulate the kinds of local activities
that you need, that we need, and I know you will. So I really want
to say thanks. Lamar told me you all are disproportionately involved
for American citizens, so in some ways, I'm singing and preaching to
the choir. But the choir can get out there and get others in phase
and get them creating.
And of all the things that we're trying to do -- we're
trying to clean up the streets, and help with the neighborhoods, and
Barbara and I are trying to at least in some tiny way say how
important we think family is. And we're trying to deal with the
Soviet Union, and all of these things that you have the privilege of
doing as President. But there's nothing that I feel more excited
about or more -- whose importance I think is priority than this
program of America 2000.
So I've told the Secretary that I want to help in every
way possible. And I mean it. And Barbara has already, in my view,
set a pretty good example in her own way in terms of reading and the
emphasis on that, and helping kids. But she's a point of light. You
all are points of light. And we're going to do what we should do in
terms of legislation and all of that, but I need your help. The
country needs your help -- your leaders. And I'm very grateful to
those of you who are already out there doing the Lord's work in
helping these young kids of ours.
Thank you very, very much. (Applause.)
In order to feel that you're never too old to learn, I'm
going off to a lecture on Andrew Jackson's presidency. And I expect
I'll be better informed when I finish. But I will now turn this
podium over to Lamar and to David. And, again, with my sincere
thanks to all of you; thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
4:53 P.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 4, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN ANNOUNCING THE NOMINATION OF
ROBERT STRAUSS AS AMBASSADOR TO THE SOVIET UNION
The Rose Garden
11:07 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Let me just say that I am delighted to
announce my intention to nominate an old friend and an experienced
diplomat, Robert Strauss, to be our next Ambassador to the Soviet
Union.
Bob Strauss has taken on difficult and delicate
assignments in the past for presidents of both parties. I know that
he's the right man to represent the United States in this fantastic
period of change in the Soviet Union. And at this moment, we are
considering any number of ideas to foster democratic reform, to
foster economic change in the Soviet Union. And at the same time,
the status of East-West relations is being redefined by the emerging
democracies of Eastern Europe and by President Gorbachev.
We have an important role in leading and defining a new
world order in which the United States and the Soviet Union continue
to work cooperatively for the betterment of mankind. And I, frankly,
can think of nobody, no one more qualified or more talented to bring
to this representation what we need: contacts with high officials, a
knowledge of America, a guarantee that two ships -- big ships,
important ships -- won't pass in the night for lack of understanding.
And I'm very proud that he will be our representative to the Soviet
Union during this important -- I would say, critical period.
And, Bob, I just can't tell you how grateful I am to you
and I ought to say to Helen, too, your wife, for being willing to
undertake this important assignment. It's a wonderful thing for our
country. And I am confident. that this appointment will be
well-received by your many friends on both sides of the aisle of the
United States Senate, of the Congress, and certainly by the American
people. So thank you for suiting up once again, and I believe it's a
wonderful thing for the United States. Thank you for being willing
to do this.
Now, please say a word, if you will. And then we'll get
the Secretary.
MR. STRAUSS: I have no statement to make other than a
week ago, if anyone had told me I would be standing here, I would
have thought they were crazy. I spent the last several days in
consultation with the President and with the Secretary of State and
with Helen Strauss, I might add. And I have concluded that this --
if there is a role I can play, I'm delighted to play it with the
Secretary of State and with this President.
I enter this administration as a Democrat, as all of you
know. It's a nonpolitical appointment, if ever there was one and
could be one, and I certainly will come out a Democrat. And in the
meantime, I'll do my damnedest, Mr. President, to represent this
nation as you and the Secretary would want me to.
I'll take a question or two later on after the Secretary
says something, if you like.
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SECRETARY BAKER: Mr. President, Ambassador Strauss, let
me simply echo, Mr. President, what you've said with respect to this
appointment. We are extraordinarily pleased that Ambassador Strauss
is willing to undertake this responsibility. It is a real plus for
America; it's a plus for the American people; it is a plus -- a big
plus for the relationship between -- the developing relationship and
the emerging and continually positively forward-moving relationship
between the United States and the Soviet Union.
THE PRESIDENT: Bob, thank you. And I have an 11:15
a.m., but if you want to fire a couple of questions at --
Q
Mr. President, are we going to have a summit at the
end of the month?
Q
Mr. President, are you going to Moscow at the end of
the month?
THE PRESIDENT: We're talking about that all in the next
couple of days here. I have no comments on any of these stories
right now. I want to keep the focus on this wonderful new
appointment. And Bob will take some questions. And I don't know
whether -- Jim, do you want to stay with him?
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Are you going to Moscow for the summit before he's
confirmed?
Q
Mr. Strauss, do you find the Soviet report on what
happened in Lithuania last winter running counter to what the U.S.
administration would like to see out of the Soviet Union?
MR. STRAUSS: I'm not going to take any substantive
questions, obviously, until my confirmation comes before the Senate
and hopefully is approved. And then I'll be glad, as I have
throughout my career, to answer them as forthrightly and candidly as
I can.
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Does your appointment handcuff congressional
Democrats in terms of criticizing U.S. policy towards the Soviet
Union?
MR. STRAUSS: I don't think my appointment handcuffs
anybody from criticizing anyone they want to on anything. No
appointment I've ever had in the past does, and I don't think this
does. The Democratic Party, the Democrats on the Hill have been very
supportive, I think, in general, and certainly as supportive as the
Republicans on the Hill have of the President's policies.
Q
Did you consult with any Democratic leaders about
taking this?
MR. STRAUSS: I consulted with no one about taking it
except Helen Strauss. I consulted with her around the clock for the
last four days.
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Mr. Strauss, will you give us your opinion please of
Gorbachev's leadership?
Q
Do you expect to be confirmed in time to go to the
summit possible at the end. of the month?
MR. STRAUSS: Absolutely not. I've just gotten into
this, but to tell you the truth, I have to disengage myself from some
major responsibilities which I will do as promptly as I can.
Q
How long?
MR. STRAUSS: My guess it would take 60 to 90 days to get
my papers in and get everything in shape and be ready for hearings.
Our daughter is expecting a baby in early September, and
I'm sure Helen Strauss is not about to leave this country until that
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baby is born. So we'll just see. I have to figure those things out.
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You don't expect to take this job then until the end
of the summer?
MR. STRAUSS: Well, I -- in the first place, I don't know
-- the normal confirmation process is about 90 days, so you can
figure it out.
Q
Why do you think President Bush chose you? Did he
say what he wanted from you?
MR. STRAUSS: Well, I guess it pleased my ego, and I'm
not going to embarrass myself by saying it here, but President Bush
led me to believe that he felt I was the person who could serve this
nation in this role at this time; that my being from the other party,
if anything, was an advantage, not a disadvantage. I'm old-fashioned
enough, as you know and many of you know, I am old-fashioned enough
to believe still that politics does end at the water's edge, and
believe that I can serve in the tradition of others who have made
that step.
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When were you last in the Soviet Union? Have you
visited there recently?
MR. STRAUSS: About two years ago. I haven't been there
Q
Not as an official, but as a private citizen?
MR. STRAUSS: That's correct. I haven't been there
officially at all.
Q
Without discussing substantive issues, could you
give us your generic assessment of Gorbachev's leadership and the
status of U.S.-USSR relations?
MR. STRAUSS: No, I will not. I will only tell you this:
I have had occasion to be with Mr. Gorbachev in rather small settings
on two or three occasions since he's -- in the last few years, and I
have found the ability to communicate with him is good and the
rapport was good. And, as you know, I know of the rest -- also know
the rest of the hierarchy, a good deal of them, and I look forward to
serving there.
Q
Given your background, does this signal -- did the
President give you any kind of charge or signal that he wants to see
a new emphasis on trade placed between the countries?
MR. STRAUSS: The President discussed his interests on a
whole range of -- the economic, political and otherwise. And we had
broad-ranging discussions, and I have no concern about the commitment
of this administration and my own feelings.
Q
What kind of a signal do you think it sends to the
Soviets that the President is sending to them as his emissary the
former leader of his opposition party?
MR. STRAUSS: I think the President feels that this sends
a very good message to the Soviets and the Europeans, Japanese, and
others. And people know we have been friends and I have been
particularly a friend of the Secretary of State for a long time. I
was laughing this morning, talking to Helen -- I said, you know, it's
sort of funny, Bush and I carved our friendship out of -- I once ran
a campaign as Chairman of the Democratic Party and chairman of the
campaign which removed a sitting Republican president where he was in
the leadership of that campaign, and four years later he ran a
campaign that removed a sitting Democrat for president. And we were
each chairmen of our campaigns. If our friendship survived that and
strengthened, I'm sure it will this, too.
Q
Mr. Strauss, if I could ask -- apparently you're
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saying it gives an impression of bipartisanship to which the
Europeans and the Soviets by you're taking this --
MR. STRAUSS: I didn't say that.
Q Well --
MR. STRAUSS: I hope it does. I didn't say that.
Q
Well, how is it an advantage to the President to
have a Democrat there?
MR. STRAUSS: You'll have to ask the President that.
He'll speak for himself.
Q
But you said earlier that you thought --
MR. STRAUSS: I said I think the President felt -- has
sent the correct message, the message he wanted to be sent. And you
can ask him what he meant by that and he'll speak for himself, as he
always does.
Q
Do you believe that the United States has an
enormous stake in Gorbachev's staying in power?
MR. STRAUSS: Well, I'd just like to -- of course, I do.
I think we have a stake in that, a major stake in it -- and assisting
in every way we can with reforms that hopefully will take place in
that country. And I hope to play a constructive role in that.
I'll take one more question.
or
Mr. Strauss, do you feel that you've been charged to
lead a Marshall Plan for the Soviet Union?
MR. STRAUSS: I do not feel anything right now. I
haven't been charged with doing a darn thing except getting confirmed
right now.
Q
Was the belief in Gorbachev's commitment to reform
do you think part of the criteria for the President selecting you?
MR. STRAUSS: Yes, I do.
Thank you very much. I'll see more of you and you've
been gracious. It's nice to be back here with you. Thank you.
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11:20 A.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 5, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND PRIME MINISTER JUGNAUTH OF MAURITIUS
UPON DEPARTURE
The South Lawn
1:23 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Prime Minister, it is an honor for us
-- our whole team, all of us -- to welcome you to the White House on
this, your first official visit to Washington. I understand you have
with you some of your business community, and I look forward to
greeting them when this little ceremony is over.
Your visit comes at a time of tremendous change -- for my
country and yours -- and for all the world. We've seen a new faith
in freedom sweep the globe -- it's taking hold on every continent.
This new "discovery" of free enterprise and free
government across Africa vindicates the path that Mauritius has
followed since the very first days of its independence. On the
island of Mauritius, democracy has deep roots. Pluralism flourishes
in a free and open multiparty system. And the free market is widely
recognized as the engine of growth and development.
Mr. Prime Minister, under your leadership Mauritius has
experienced almost a decade of unprecedented economic growth. The
challenge for Mauritius now is to diversify its economy -- to ease
the exclusive dependence on the export of one product -- and I'm
pleased that we had a chance to talk about that today. The key is
creating a pro-investment climate -- and here, Mauritius has made a
strong beginning with its Export Processing Zone. Gross earnings
generated by this zone, this EPZ, now surpass earnings from
Mauritius' traditionally dominant sugar industry. The EPZ is
responsible almost single-handedly for slashing unemployment,
providing the people of Mauritius with new opportunity and new hope.
Mr. Prime Minister, let me repeat here what I said in our
meetings today. The United States applauds the course you have
chosen. We stand ready to help. We will tailor our assistance
programs to meet Mauritius' new needs, to help your nation develop
new markets and industries. But we know that
government-to-government programs alone cannot unlock your nation's
tremendous potential for growth. So we must build ties between our
private sectors. And I am pleased that this September, the Agency
for International Development and OPIC -- our Overseas Private
Investment Corporation -- plan an investment mission to Mauritius to
develop promising opportunities for American industry.
Under the terms of the Lome Convention, Mauritius does
enjoy access to European markets, to the Middle East and Asia and, of
course, to the continent of Africa. Geography has made Mauritius a
gateway to growth. There is every reason that Mauritius -- the
"start of the Indian Ocean" -- can turn its potential to prosperity
in the years ahead.
In addition to the issues of increased trade and
investment, I reviewed with Prime Minister Jugnauth world affairs of
urgent concern -- in particular, our common security concerns in the
Indian Ocean. I stressed the tremendous value to Mauritius, to its
neighboring nations, to the international community as a whole -- of
the American military presence in the region, as demonstrated so
clearly in Operation Desert Storm.
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and continent of Africa. And from our view, sir, this was a far-reachin the
We talked about the Middle East. We talked about
very constructive dialogue that we had here today.
but we are linked across that vast distance by a common faith in
Our two peoples are separated by thousands of miles --
freedom -- and by that faith, to a common future as friends.
White House and to Washington. May God bless you all. And thanks
welcome you and your able assistants -- your teammates here -- to the
So once again, sir, it has been my real pleasure to
for coming our way. (Applause.)
matters. appreciated the opportunity given to me today to discuss with
PRIME MINISTER JUGNAUTH: Mr. President, I very deeply
of importance to our two countries and pertinent issues you
mutual interest to the United States and Mauritius -- two countries of
which for share very many common ideals of freedom, democracy, respect
human rights, peace, justice and equality.
pleasure. on behalf of the government and people of Mauritius and in
On this historic occasion, it gives me the greatest
my own name, to convey to the wonderful people of the United States
of America our warmest greetings, our very best wishes and the
I expression of our admiration and friendship. To you, Mr. President,
world. convey our highest respect as the inspiring leader of the free
Our talks were conducted in a friendly atmosphere as
Mauritius naturally as leaves come to the tree. This is but normal. Although
is on the other side of the world, in the middle of the
as the Americans, democratic traditions, a free press, an
Indian do Ocean, we do share so many COMMON ties. We Mauritians enjoy,
independent judiciary, and a free market system.
In the 23 years of our independence, Mauritius has
system. Mauritius, like the United States of America is a
conducted regular and free elections in a multiparty parliamentary
pot of many races and religions. Our people, too, worked hard melting and
international community now calls an economic miracle nation.
transformed a bare country from a land of opportunity to what the
A lot of the success comes from our dedication to
educating our people. We, therefore, applaud, Mr. President, your
literacy rates in the world. And we continue to provide for better
efforts as the Education President. We have one of the highest
access to higher education and specialized training free of cost to
values. will not in its material search become oblivious of human
that our students. At the same time, we are trying to develop a society
said ideals so eloquently expressed during your Inaugural Address own when
This, again, reminds us, Mr. President, of your
that, I quote, "America's success would be measured by the need you
not to be more driven to succeed than anyone around us, but to
silk, but of better hearts and inner souls."
celebrate the quieter, deeper successes that are not made of gold and
the situation in the Persian Gulf, and we are happy to note that
In our consultations with you, Mr. President, we reviewed
permanent peaceful settlement is in the offing. I congratulate the a
allied nations under your able leadership in their efforts to
demonstrate that aggression shall not be allowed to succeed.
for the future that international cooperation is given paramount
In the new world order that is developing it augurs well
as demonstrated in recent United Nations' concerted action in the
importance in allowing consultations and dialogue to promote peace,
of Africa, Southern Africa, the Middle East, or elsewhere, can be
Gulf crisis. It is in this spirit that problems, whether in the Horn
successfully resolved.
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Mr. President, we Mauritians are, however, very much
concerned about recent events in South Africa. Such events --
namely, continued violence and postponed agendas -- unfortunately
raise doubts about the future of the negotiations process. We appeal
for the immediate cessation of hostilities. We feel that Mr. Mandela
and Mr. Buthelezi should aim at bringing unity among the black
communities. A united leadership would bring about a dismantlement
of apartheid sooner. President de Klerk, Mr. Mandela, and Mr.
Buthelezi have a tryst with destiny to build a united, democratic,
nonracial South Africa.
I share, Mr. President, your vision of this new world
order. I trust this can serve as a guide for the Indian Ocean region
also. As a small but inalienable country, we want to ensure peace in
the area. That is why we support the move for the Indian Ocean to be
a zone of peace and also the establishment of a nuclear free zone in
the region.
The process of demilitarization embarked upon by you, Mr.
President, and President Gorbachev should be encouraged to its
logical conclusion. It is obvious, therefore, that the Chagos
Archipelago should be returned to Mauritius, its rightful owner.
We also had much to talk about international trade in
general, and Mauritius trade in particular, the key to our continued
economic development and long-term prosperity. I am confident that
our two largest exports -- sugar and textiles -- will continue to
obtain reasonable and sustained access into the U.S. market. We are
ready, willing and prepared to continue to supply the highest quality
products to the United States of America. Mauritius looks forward to
successful diversification programs, while attracting foreign
investments in new areas, for example, medium and high technology,
manufacturing, tourism, banking, shipping and computer technology.
I'm reminded of Napolean Bonaparte's maxim that "a leader
is a dealer in hope." Your leadership proves it. Like you, Mr.
President, we have a vision. A vision that as, old rivalries
disappear, as we build new consensus among world leaders, we can
create a future world that will be rid of environmental pollution,
we'll see an end to famine, provide universal access to health care,
establish better standards of living for all, encourage free trade
and ensure peace.
Mr. President, I'm proud to say that Mauritius is a great
little country wherein there is unity in the richness and splendor of
diversity and wherein peaceful coexistence is not a mere blueprint,
but a living reality. We have been referred to as a United Nations
in miniature. So, indeed, we are. But our people have great hearts
and great visions for ourselves and for the peoples of the world,
united in freedom and true democracy -- the democracy and democratic
life that Americans and Mauritians enjoy fully.
Mr. President, we Mauritians are a peace-loving and
hardworking people. We're also a sophisticated people. In our
humble but strong contributions to the free world, we naturally
expect tangible gestures of encouragement from the stalwarts of
freedom led by the wonderful American people. Our success deserves
special attention and further encouragement, for, after all, we, too,
wish and work towards the advent of true democracy throughout the
world. In this context, an economically stronger and more prosperous
Mauritius would become an ongoing example to prove that the
democratic way of life is the best way of life. Mr. President, I
rely on you to help Mauritius to achieve this.
Before closing my remarks, I should like to express my
unflinching support to you, Mr. President, in your ceaseless and
dedicated efforts to safeguard world peace and promote democracy
everywhere. We are touched by the warnth of the hospitality that has
been extended to no and my delegations since our arrival. I shall
treasure these great moments of my visit. I wish to extend our
deepest appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to the great people
of the United States of America for having invited us to visit the
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and stay as useful as it has been pleasant. Thank you very much, our indeed
sanctuary of freedom that your country is and for having made
God bless you and God bless America. (Applause.)
those kind words. I appreciate it.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much and thank you for
END
1:37 P.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Atlanta, Georgia)
For Immediate Release
June 6, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN ADDRESS TO THE 134th ANNUAL SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, Georgia
11:44 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very, very much. Thank all
of you. And Dr. Chapman, Morris, a fellow Texan, pride of Wichita
Falls and the rest of the country. And Dr. Bennett, I salute you,
sir. You came down today with one who's serving well our principles
overseas, and that is a son of Atlanta, Paul Coverdell, Director of
the Peace Corps, who's with us -- one of Georgia's favorite sons. I
salute him.
The last time -- and we were talking about this on the
long way up the stairs over here: this is a tremendous auditorium --
the last time I attended a Southern Baptist Convention was in 1982.
Too long ago. But never so long that I'd lose touch with the
rock-solid values of this community -- (applause) -- qualities that
make it uniquely American. Strong but compassionate, proud but not
boastful, decent and giving -- and as Morris said, believing strongly
in family, bearing an enduring belief in freedom, an abiding faith in
the love of God and, yes, in the power of prayer. (Applause.)
Everywhere you turn, it seems, American values are
ascendant around the world. Look at Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union: there, places of worship long stood silent and subdued,
forced underground by the iron fist of the state. But now, the
churches, the synagogues and the mosques buzz with life: reclaimed
by the people, joyfully emerging to proclaim their faith anew.
(Applause.)
In Africa and Asia and Latin America, your ministries
flourish and spread the word of God around the world.
And even in the heat of the Persian Gulf, nearly 200
Southern Baptist chaplains reported that well over 1,000 conversions
among the servicemen and women of Operation Desert Storm had taken
place -- (applause) -- and some solemnified with poncho-lined holes
in the sand serving as makeshift baptistries.
Southern Baptists have been doing quiet but crucial work
-- engaging in countless acts of kindness and compassion, spreading
the freedom. word of God, demonstrating the profound power of religious
And you've held to faith where others may have lost it --
gained in numbers where others haven't -- and made a difference where
others couldn't. You prove that the flower of faith can bloom
anywhere -- that no matter how hard the journey, no matter how or
humble a surroundings, God's love provides. (Applause.)
During the Gulf crisis, Barbara and I and much of this
nation -- I think, in this instance, most of this nation -- found
guidance and comfort in prayer. And throughout the struggle, your
prayers sustained us. And so I want to thank you all and ask that
you keep -- as Norris generously said -- those in the decision-making
process, keep us in your prayers.
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You know, I've confessed this to Dr. Chapman and a few
others -- leaders in the Southern Baptist movement -- and for me,
prayer has always been important, but quite personal. You know us
Episcopalians. (Laughter.) And like a lot of people, I've worried a
little bit about shedding tears in public or the emotion of it. But
as Barbara and I prayed at Camp David before the air war began, we
were thinking about those young men and women overseas. And I had
the tears start down the cheeks, and our minister smiled back. And I
no longer worried how it looked to others. (Applause.) Here we go.
(Applause.)
And I think that, like a lot of others who had positions
or responsibility in sending someone else's kid to war, we realize
that in prayer what mattered is how it might have seened to God.
Above all, after all the months of praying and asking
for God's guidance -- I thought it important to thank God for
sustaining our nation through this crisis. And that led to three
National Days of Thanksgiving and Prayer, which I really believed
strengthened our wonderful nation. (Applause.)
You know, for too long, too many have worried that we
Americans have weakened the two fundamental pillars supporting our
society -- our families, and our faith. (Applause.)
But while the cynics pay sense some kind of "religious
resurgence" over the last two or three years, they've always been a
lagging indicator of American life. host of us have never had to get
our faith in God back, because we never lost it. (Applause.)
In a recent survey, 40 percent of Americans named "Faith
in God" the most important part of their lives. Only two percent
selected, "A job that pays well."
In this Dicentennial year of the Bill of Sights, we would
do well to pause and reflect on religion's roots in our society, and
our society's roots in religion.
The founding fathers thought long and carefully about the
role of religion and government in our society. And it's no accident
that among all of the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment --
freedoms of speech, of the press, of assembly, of petition -- the
first was the freedom of religion. And that's why the story of &
little girl named Monette Rethford, out in Norman, Oklahoma, is now
getting national attention.
A fifth-grader in public elementary school, Monette likec
to read her Bible under a shade tree during recess. No teachers
involved, no disruption of the school activities -- just Monette and
then, from time to time, a handful of friends who joined her,
voluntarily, to share their faith and discuss how it touched their
daily lives.
Yet school officials told Monette that her prayer group
was illegal on school property -- an "unlawful assembly." They
forgot that the First Amendment was written to protect people against
religious intrusions by the state -- not to protect the state from
voluntary religious activities by the people. (Applause.)
I would add this: that the day a child's quiet,
voluntary group during recess becomes an "unlawful assembly,"
something's wrong.
In that spirit, once again I call on the United States
Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment permitting voluntary
prayer back into our nation's schools. (Applause.) You see, let's
put people first -- and allow them the freedom to follow their faith.
Putting people first also means making sure government
allows people to make their own decisions --, and that means giving
parents and families the right to choose the kind of chilo care that
they want for their kids. Choice in child care. (Applause.)
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Just today we are publishing regulations that will
provide the first vouchers for child care. Ano finally, low-income
parents will have the chance to choose where their kids get child
care -- including religious settings and with religious instruction.
(Applause.) Just on my way over here this morning, here in Atlanta,
I visited a church-based child care center where children receive
first-class care -- regardless of their parents' religion, background
-- or income. We fought a long time to preserve choice for parents.
And today, it truly becomes a reality at least in child care.
(Applause.)
We want to extend the concept of choice to include
schools. Every family should have the freedom to choose a school for
a child. (Applause.) Our efforts for choice in schools seek to put
power in parents' hands. We trust them to make the right decisions
for their kids. And some argue that choice will make bad schools
worse. Our new Secretary of Education doesn't agree with that, and I
don't agree with that. I am confident that choice will make even the
bad schools better. They'll have to compete. (Applause.)
And something more -- one of our national education goals
-- we believe that kids should be safe to walk the streets -- any
streets. Schools should also be free from the fear of crime and the
despair of drugs. (Applause.) And if you detect a note of
frustration in what I'm about to say, you're a good psychiatrist,
because it's true.
Back on March 6th, I challenged the Congress of the
United States to pass a tough crime bill in 100 days -- to keep our
streets safe. And yet, the leadership has failed to make crime a
priority issue. We submitted our first crime bill more than two
years ago -- and nothing has happened. Surely the United States
Congress can pass a crime bill in what's left of that 100 days.
(Applause.)
There's another issue before the Congress that's the
question of human life, the question of abortion -- a difficult and a
deeply emotional decision for all Americans. The question and
we've faced it before is whether the American taxpayer should pay
for abortions. And honest people of goodwill, I'm sure, differ on
this question, but I firmly oppose federal funcing of abortions,
except where the life of the mother is endangered. (Applause.)
Since 1981 the federal government has determined that taxpayer funds
should be used for abortion only in this most narrow of
circumstances.
And whatever we've learned over the last few decades,
it's clear that America is a nation that no longer lacks a moral
vocabulary. Ideals like decency and virtue are no longer subject to
scorn.
And I'd ask that you hold fast to the Southern Baptist
ideal of "a free church in a free state." (Applause.) Hold fast to
protect -- and, Morris, once again, in his generous introduction,
spoke of this -- to protect all faiths in freedom, ano holo fast to
protect our most essential unit of life, the family. (Applause.)
As I look at our social agenda, ano as Barbara and I talk
about it and worry about it in the wonderful setting of the White
House, we keep saying, "What can we do?" Privileged as we are to
serve this great country, what can we do to strengthen family life in
America? It is essential to our well-being.
Let me close with a story -- well, let me just make a
couple of other remarks. (Laughter and applause.) Not many. I
mentioned family, so let's ask ourselves in child care and education
ano crime legislation: Are we doing all we can to preserve faith anc
family? And, if not, we've got to do more. Only when we protect and
preserve our most cherished ideals and institutions, does government
by the people serve the people.
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We are, as ever, "One nation under God." No nation
better reconciles diversity of faith with unity of purpose. And as
new challenges confront us -- we must draw on that strength -- and
work to build a nation united in its commitment to decency and
opportunity, to freedom, to family, and to faith. (Applause.)
Now to this story about a Kurdish family -- Mikail and
Safiya Dosky -- who escaped from Iraq over a decade ago. During
their perilous journey across the Iranian border, they became
separated from their two-year-old daughter, Gilavesh. Mikail and his
out. wife made it; the child left behind. Their daughter did not make it
After settling in America, Mikail, the father, kept
trying to get his daughter out of Iraq, even traveling there himself,
but to no avail. And just a few weeks ago, the cad, Mikail, got a
phone call from an American helicopter pilot in Turkey -- one of our
heroes. This pilot had been flying supplies to save the lives of
these Kurdish refugees when he got a note from Gilawesh -- now, this
child, now 18 years old -- asking him to call her parents in America.
Be did -- and Mikail's friends at the First Baptist Church in
Alexandria, Virginia, helped him get to Turkey and bring his daughter
back. And after thousands of miles, thousands of days, and thousands
of collars, Mikail and Gilawesh arrived in America Tuesday night --
where (Applause.) years of Borrow were washed away with tears of joy.
what a testament to the power of faith and hope and love
-- all of which God provides in abundance. In war and peace, as I've
mentioned above, faith provides our solace, our shield and our
shelter. I understand what Lincoln talked about when he said many
times he went to his knees as President of the United States. And as
the Paalmist wrote, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present
help in touble." God's light leads us forward. And today, as
always, let us pray for His continued guidance and His grace.
Thank all of you for your commitment, your leadership,
your love, and your prayers. And may God continue to bless this land
with freedom and peace.
Thank you all very, very much. (Applause.)
END
12:08 P.H. EDT
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because you took that advice?
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1. How does your new world order apply to the Mideast?
What's your vision for the Mideast ?
2. IF you could influence one factor, or the actions of one leader (in the Mideast )
in this equation, what would you do, how, and who would be the leader?
3. King Hussein told me that if anyone could bring about peace in the area,
it would be you. So what are your chances of being the first president to achieve
that goal, and how can it be achieved?
4. How far would you lean on Israel to join a conference as far as reducing our
aid to them; for example, aid for absorption of Russian Jewish immigration
and/or additional aid for proposal in Congress to reduce equal motive
corresponding amounts for West Bank settlements
5. Israel said the (officially sanctioned settlements were built for security reasons.
Why don't you accept their explanation?
If Arabs are permitted to live in Israel wi th (full) citizenship rights, why
can' t the reverse be true? (open land)
6. "hy do you regard the settlements as the biggest obstacles to peace when there
are also major obstacles put fay the Arabs? I.E. want to wipe out Israel Etc.
7. How can you cure the defect in your personal relations with Shamir?
Is it personality, or policy?
between you
8. What will your arms control proposal mean in detail for Israelis and for the
supply of US arms for them?
9. How significant is China' S agreement to attend theArms Control conference?
10. Is it true that China is helping to re-arm Iraq? If so, how can it be halted?
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8 a. How do you reply to charges that your (Mideast) arms control initiative is
ambiguous or puzzling?
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11. Syria and LebaMon signed an agreement, but with 40,000 Syrian troops on
Lebanon soil isn' t that a threat to "srael?
12. If the Soviets renew major arms shipments to Syria, what impact will that have
on prospects for peace?
13. How has the outcome of the war helped prospects to free the hostages in Lebanon?
Will Iran now assist in freeing them?
14. How can you put to rest reports about your role theReagan campaign on =
in 1980
the hostage question
would a non partisan investigation help similar to the
Warren Commission?
15. If a peace conference can't soon be convened, will you drop the matter or ry
to pursue anothear course? If so, what?
remain concerned about
16. why do you suppose that Israelis and some American Jews are
critical
your Mideast policies?
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There is a persistent feeling in the world Jewry that you' re anti Israel.
HOW would you respond to this charge?
17. Can you understand Israel' S reluctance to permit the United Nations a
role in the peace process as long as the U.N. is on record as defining Zionism
as a form of racism?
18. Do you sense any element of Biblical prophecy in the current situation?
19. Do you think Armageddon between Isvacl=and its Arab neighbors is inevitable,
OR
be avoidable if not, how can it be avoided ?
20. What else would you want to say on the present situation in the Mideast
visa vis yours or Jim Baker' S efforts and/or progress?
What' S the greatest stumbling block preventing progress?
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What finally convinced you to go from sanctions to military in the Persian.
Gulf war?
What role can the Soviets now play in the Mideast?
C Comments on Pollard jail sentence for Spying.
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What do you consider secure boundaries for Israel?
Japan is honoring the Arab boycott against Israel. How can the U.S.
persuade Japan to trade with Israel?
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Is there a special Bush Plan for the Mideast?
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(and the clash between us
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still be concerned about the Mideast =
Isn' t there less # danger?
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons
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Shouldn't there be two sets of negotiations
1. arms control
2. political peace process
How do you see these 2 sets of negotiations working together consecutively or
simultaneously?
Would you consider preducing Jonathan Pollard's prison term and / or his now
having a trial?
Was it political vengeance, as he charges or what's your
comment on his situation?
1) What has your mother meant to you over the years? How has she
enhanced your life?
She has meant everything to me over the years. She and my
father were very close. They set a wonderful example for their
children. She would discipline us and then love us, put her arms
around us. She would set an example. She did not want us to be
selfish. She did not want us to talk about ourselves, whether it was
in sports or in life generally. She took pride when we did accomplish
something. If I'd score a goal, mother would be the one to cheer me
on. She set an example when we were very young by being a great
competitor, but always a great sport. She would always pick up the
guy that was hurt. She would always reach out by example and show
what kindness meant and caring meant. She has enhanced my life by
being an example of everything that is good, everything that is for
this family the Christian ethic.
2)
I can't state the single most important advice she gave me,
but I would say that she tried to teach us to be unselfish and to
care about the other person. As an adult--she didn't give me much
advice; and, as President she has given me none. But I've always
had the feeling she was in my corner supporting me no matter what the
decision. As a teenager, for example, I think she would have been
delighted if I hadn't gone into the Navy on my eighteenth birthday,
preferring that I go to college. But she supported me one hundred
percent once the decision was made.
2a)
I don't know how my Presidency has changed because of advice
mother gave me, but I know that I often think of her advice on the
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fundamentals--being tolerant, turning the other cheek, caring about
people, standing against discrimination and for fair play. And also
she embraced the philosophy of the so-called "points of light"
approach--helping someone else.
3)
I think I have answered the question about what I learned
from her that's helpful in being President, but: it's a value system.
If there's anyone that understands the value of family, the benefit
of strong family, it is mother. She reaches out to the great-
grandchildren, just as she did to her sons and daughter.
4) What are some of the values, ethics and principles she tried to
instill in you?
think I mentioned those above--kindness, caring,
unselfishness, adherence to principle, turning the other cheek, and
certainly faith in God. Everyone that knows her knows that she is a
dedicated, faithful, church-going person who tries to live by the
teachings of the Ten Commandments.
5)
I have nothing to add as mother reaches her 90th birthday,
except to say we love her. I try to call her regularly, and I love
to talk to my children and grandchildren about her. She is still the
moral leader of our family. And all of us--her own brothers and
sister, her many nephews and nieces and grandchildren and great-
grandchildren--know that.
6)
Yes, I'd like to live to be ninety, and more. No, she did
not give me any advice on how to live a long and fruitful life.
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Section A, Page 4 / Fort Worth Star-Telegram Tuesday A.M., January 22, 1991
Not one to run
Bushsticks to his guns, says ex-Marine he saved
BY HOLLACE WEINER
"We saluted him, Todd recalled.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Moitgonry Ward.
"I shook his hand. He extended his
FORT WORTH - A Marine
hand back and said, 'Glad to do it,
Bi 194 the was at Bougainville,
veteran, rescued from enemy fire
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over the South Pacific in 1945 by a
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slang for Marine."
young lieutenant named George
Todd, whose right hand still trem-
ouflaged Jpanese troops.
Bush, said yesterday the baby-faced
bles from a war wound, believes the
Tolds 2d Marine Air Group OC-
Navy pilot who saved his life has
cupiel !he beach. With axes and
same sort of esprit de corps and
never backed down in battle.
bulldczersthe Marines carved out a
fortitude are necessary to wage to-
"He never did run from it, and he
day's war in the Persian Gulf.
landing often used by pilots
was just a little skinny-faced airman
statiored a aircraft carriers such as
"It's the same deal, though the
at that time," recalled 67-year-old
the Sai Jainto, where Bush was
Al Todd, a Fort Worth insurance
planes are going at a faster speed,"
assignel.
he said, reminiscing from the living
agent and former Marine gunner
Tod(wathen 22 and considered
room of his Meadowbrook home in
who, shared a makeshift landing
himselh tyical Marine who would
east Fort Worth.
strip in the Solomon Islands with
"stand" and speak out." Bush,
Bush and his squadron.
A man with balding white hair
then 20,wa quieter and less visible
and clear blue eyes, Todd has
"I have knock 'em out of
than theavrage fighter pilot.
packed away his wartime medals,
the air and turn around and get an-
"He vasit as big as most. He's
lent out his Marine scrapbook and
other one of 'em,' Todd said, recall-
skinny, "Tdd recalled. doesn't
can't find the letters Bush has sent
ing the air war that pitted Marine
come on strog at first. He was not a
thanking him for help on the cam-
and Navy dive-bombers and fight-
showoff. Heind of talked not loud,
paign trail.
ers against Japanese Zeroes.
but quiet-spken.'
He's reluctant to dwell on the
"George has my vote.
However, a serviceman messed
Fort Worth Star-Telegram MALLISON
past.
"When somebody knocks a Zero
up while Buswas in command, the
"It's kind of hard to replay all
Al Todd, also seen in photo, recalls Lt. George Bush knocking a Zero off his tail in 1945
off your tail, you feel loyalty," said
rebuke was sift.
the onetime Marine master ser-
that," he said, preferring to focus on
"If somebdy made a mistake,
the present.
a mission. That's the only time I ever
wartime rescuer. During the presi-
"Bush is not a backslapper,"
geant. "He strafed the Japanese pi-
while he wasp there, if somebody
"Now George, he's done well, I
saw George read somebody off in
dential campaign, he buttonholed
Todd said. "He's a hand-holder.
lots that were on our tail. Otherwise,
needed their utt chewed out, Bush
front of the entire bunch."
think, coming up from a lieutenant
his clients with a persuasive pitch
Once you meethim and are around
I wouldn't have been here."
wasn't going twait until next year,"
and now he's the commander in
Todd declined to repeat or even
for Bush.
him awhile, he kind of stands out for
After the rescue over the Solomon
Todd said, gnning. "It would be
chief. I think he's doing a good job.
paraphrase the president's lan-
He doesn't often tell customers
some reason."
Island atoll of Munda, Todd's
right away so hey would remember
I'm sorry I can be with him. I'm not
guage.
why he's such an ardent Bush fan.
it."
Todd wouldn't be surprised if
squadron of SBD scout bombers
going to go over there and volunteer
"He chewed him out and said,
He last saw Bush two years ago at
Bush travels from the White House
and Bush's squadron of F4U attack
The chewinout Todd witnessed
at this age."
'When we get done, I want to see you
a political money-raiser in Westo-
to the war front to visit the troops, as
planes landed on the beach at Bou-
occurred whelBush spotted a pilot
In 1942, at age 19, Todd did enlist
at headquarters.'
ver Hills. He doesn't think the can-
he did last Thanksgiving. The for-
gainville, a jungle island with an
trying to quala beer before a run.
Since those days in the South Pa-
didate was aware of who he was.
airstrip of packed sand topped with
- a month after Pearl Harbor. He
"This pilot ad a beer in his hand
mer Navy pilot might like to inspect
left his home in Boyd and his job as a
cific, Todd has made it a point to
"Bush probably remembers him
the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder.
netting.
and was tryin to drink it," Todd
catalogue division manager with
shake Bush's hand at political rallies
as a Marine," said Nina, Todd's
Todd added: "He might just get in
recalled. "Thewere fixing to go on
and attend local fund-raisers for his
postwar bride of 44 years.
a plane and fly with 'em."
5 SITE
June 10, 1991
Patty:
Re: My Burial instructions.
Addenda:
I want the song "Last full Measure of Devotion" sung by
a good male soloist at any church or memorial service.
X
Gravestone- the plain stones we see at ARlington.
Iwould like my navy number on it on the back of iit. I believe it
is 0173464 (ask Don)
ALso on the stone in addition to what I already
requested:
He loved Barbara very much
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
INSTRUCTIONS For Reading the Bush Ancestral Table which Follows:
Once you have found your common ancestor on this table and
wish to do further research on a particular branch, you may
consult the Bibliography at the back of this enclosure and
ask for the specific books from your library.
In this table, the President is No. 1, his parents are Nos.
2 & 3, his grandparents Nos. 4-7 (paternal 4 &5, maternal
6 & 7), great-grandparents Nos. 8-15 (patrilineal great-grand-
father No. 8, matrilineal great-grandmother No. 15), great-
great-grandparents Nos. 16-31, great-great-great-grandparents
Nos. 32-63, great-great-great-great-grandparents Nos. 64-127,
great-great-great-great-great-grandparents Nos. 128-255, and
great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent. Nos. 256-511.
Males, other than the President himself, have even numbers;
females, odd numbers. For the parents of any ancestor, double
his or her number for the father, and than add one for the
mother.
For any ancestor's child, divide the ancestor's number by two
and drop halves.
Full dates and places are provided, when known, for the birth,
death, and marriage of each ancestor (note the exception in the
following paragraph) places before dates. After each forebear,
following a comma, is his or her birthplace, then birthdate, a
dash, and then place and death date. After death dates for
men follows a comma and then a marriage place and marriage date.
Former or later wives of male ancestors are omitted; former or
later husbands of female ancestors are included, since the
latter often thus married or died bearing different surnames.
Although no rigid pattern is followed and user convenience is
here the guide, when towns are known counties are usually
omitted (pertinent cited sources usually designate counties,
however, in case two towns or areas in a single state may have
the same name), and when towns or cities are listed repeatedly
in the same table states are often omitted.
Eighth generation ancestors of presidents born in the nineteenth
century, and ninth generation ancestors of presidents born in
the twentieth century, who usually lived themselves in the
seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries (and if New Englanders
married before 1700, are listed in Clarence Almon Torrey's New
England Marriages Prior to 1700), receive somewhat condensed
treatment. Following each such ancestor are birth and death
years (in parentheses if both are known), principal place of
residence, or if an immigrant, English or other place origin
and eventual colonial residence, and then, following male
ancestors, a marriage year. Little biographical information is
given--a few occupations or offices, some colleges, "Rev." for
ministers but no military titles or indications of war service.
Other notes--dates of "flourishing" (fl.), of wills and/or
probate if no death date is available, etc.--should be self-
explanatory.
As for "slash years" (Jan.- - Mar. pre-1752) and Quaker dating, I
have followed my sources. Particularly frustrating, however, are
dates without places. Some are undoubtedly taken from tombstones
and family Bibles; other dates, with places, however, can
undoubtedly be confirmed with further research.
SOURCE: Ancestors of American Presidents, by Gary Boyd Roberts.
Copyright, Gary Boyd Roberts, 1989.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society
101 Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
(Permission to use this material from the book was granted to the
White House by the author.)
REAGAN AND BUSA ANCESTOR TABLES
24. George E. Walker, prob. Burlington, N. J. C. 1797-near
Bloomington, Ill. 28 Oct. 1864, Baltimore, Md. 22 May 1821
25. Harriet Mercer, Md. C. 1802-near Bloomington 24 Oct. 1869
26. Joseph Ambrose Beaky, Emmitsburg, Md. 14 June 1818-on the
Mississippi River (on the steamship "Minnehaha") 27 Jan. 1858,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1 June 1840
27. Mary Ann Bangs, Philadelphia 15 June 1817-living 1876, m.
(2) Joachin Elder
28. William Gault Wear, b. Blount Co., Tennessee 11 Dec. 1817,
m. Cooper Co., Missouri, 2 Nov. 1837
29. Sarah Amanda Yancey, Glasgow, Kentucky 11 June 1819-Cooper
Co. 4 Dec. 1879
30. John James Holliday, Pike Co., Mo. 23 July 1819-St. Louis 18
Sept. 1881, Randolph Co., Mo. 9 May 1843
41. GEORGE BERBERT WALKER BUSH
31. Lucretia Green Foree, b. Ry. C. 1824
32. Timothy Bush, Jr., prob. Lebanon, Conn. 1 Apr. 1766-Roches-
1. GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, b. Milton, Massachusetta 12
ter 4 May 1850; Penfield, N. Y. 26 July 1791
June 1925 1924, Rye, New York 6 Jan. 1945 Barbara Pierce, b. Rye 8 June
33. Lydia Newcomb, 28 Apr. 1763-Penfield 14 Sept. 1835
34. Dr. Sanford Smith, Stonington, Conn. 27 Feb. 1760-Scipio,
parents
N. Y. 15 June 1815
2. Prescott Sheldon Bush, U. S. Senator from Connecticut,
Columbus, Ohio 15 May 1895-New York City, N. Y. 0 Oct. 1972,
35. Priscilla Whippo, Cambridge, N. Y. C. 1763-Pottetown, Pa.
Kennebunkport, Maine 6 Aug. 1921
26 Aug. 1838
3. Dorothy Walker, b. near Walker's Point, York Co., Me. 1 July
36. Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay, Concord, Mass. 10 Jan. 1778-
1901
Concord 18 May 1856, Cambridge, Moss. (int.) 31 July 1803
4. Samuel Prescott Bush, Brick Church, New Jersey 4 Oct. 1063-
37. Barriet Howard, Boston 27 Mar. 1782-Cambridge, Mass. 27
Columbus, Ohio 8 Feb. 1948, Columbus 20 June 1894
July 1847
parents
5. Flora Sheldon, Franklin Co., Ohio 17 Mar. 1872-"Watch
38. John Shellman, Jr., Fredericktown, Md. 5 May 1756-Savannah,
Rill," Rhode Island, 4 Sept. 1920
Ga. 17 April 1830, Savannah 19 June 1794
6. George Herbert Walker, St. Louis, Missouri 11 June 1875-New
39. Clarissa Montfort, b. Amelia Co., Va., d. 1845
York, N. Y. 24 June 1953, 17 Jan. 1899
40. Michael Sheldon (according to Thomas H. Sheldon's burial
8. Rev. James Smith Bush, Rochester, N. Y. 15 June 1825-Ithaca,
N. Y. 11 Nov. 1889, New York, N. Y. 24 Feb. 1859
grandparents
great-great-great-grandparents
record)
7. Lucretia [Loulie] Wear, St. Louis, Mo. 17 Sept. 1874-
Biddeford, Mo. 28 Aug. 1961
41. Mary (according to Thomas H. Sheldon's burial record)
42. James Uncles, Bradford, England 5 Aug. 1794-Columbus 25
Jan. 1835, Franklinton, Ohio 26 Sept. 1816
9. Harriet Eleanor Fay, Savannah, Georgia 29 Oct. 1829-Boston,
43. Elizabeth (Betsey) Criswell/Kiswell, b. Lancaster, Pa.
Mass. 27 Feb. 1924
44. Samuel Berrick Butler, Bennington, Vt. 12 Feb. 1785-Colum-
10. Robert Emmet Sheldon, Tiffin, Ohio 1 June 1845-Columbus 21
bus 13 Dec. 1851, Waterford, N. Y. 26 June 1806
Jan. 1917, Columbus 24 Feb. 1869
45. Judith Livingston, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 4 Sept. 1785-Colum-
bus 28 Feb. 1858
11. Mary Elizabeth Butler, Columbus 15 July 1850-Columbus 16
Jan. 1897
46. Levi Pierce, Rehoboth, Mass. 8 June 1797-1838, Rehoboth 9
Mar. 1818
12. David Davis Walker, near Bloomington, Illinois 19 Jan.
1840-Rennebunkport 4 Oct. 1918, St. Louis, Mo. 25 Dec. 1862
47. Betsey S(lade?) Wheeler, Rehoboth 30 Hay 1800-Columbus 23
Feb. 1881
13. Martha Adela Beaky, Emmitsburg, Maryland 1 June 1841-living
1906
48. Thomas Walker, of Philadelphia & Burlington, N. J., d. C.
14. James Autchenson Near (II), Otterville, Mo. 30 Sept. 1838-
1785 1798-1800, m. St. Andrew's Church, Clifton, Bristol, England 22 Feb.
St. Louis, Mo. 14 June 1893, St. Louis 4 Dec. 1866
15. Nannie E. Holliday, C. 1848-25 Feb. 1942
49. Catharine McLelland, m. (2) Robert Hodgson
16. Obadiah Newcomb Bush, 28 Jan. 1797-en route from California
50. John Mercer, m. Cecil Co., Md. (license) 11 Oct. 1793
51. Rebecca Davis
C. 1851, Rochester 8 Nov. 1821
17. Harriet Smith, Cambridge, N. Y. 12 May 1800-Cincinnati,
52. Joseph Beaky of Emmitaburg, Md.
Ohio 21 June 1867
53. Catharine Shriner, b. Pa.
18. Samuel Howard Pay, Cambridge, Mass. 21 July 1804-Brooklyn,
54. Elijah Keeler Bange, Stratford, Conn. 4 June 1780-Phila-
delphis 13 Sept. 1856, Philadelphia 29 Oct. 1807
grandparents
N. Y. 16 Aug. 1847, Savannah, Ga. 5 July 1825
19. Susan Shellman, Savannah, Ga. 20 Feb. 1808-12 Jan. 1887
55. Eather Stackhouse, Philadelphia 17 Oct. 1787-Philadelphia
27 Sept. 1819
20. Thomas R. Sheldon, Providence, R. I. 12 May 1818-Franklin
Co., Ohio 22 Nov. 1854, Franklin Co. 21 Jan. 1844
56. James Butchenson Weir, 30 Sept. 1789-Mo Apr. 1832, Knox-
ville, Tenn. 27 Oct. 1812
21. Martha Uncles, Columbus, Ohio 7 Jan. 1824-Columbus 9 July
57. Elizabeth Gault
1912, m. (2) William Merion, Jr.
22. Courtland Philip Livingston Butler, Clinton, N. Y. 8 March
58. David Yancey of Barren Co., Ry., m. Albemarle Co., Va. 27
March 1815
1813-Columbus 9 Aug. 1891, Buffalo, N. Y. 16 Dec. 1840
59. Mildred Field
23. Elizabeth Slade Pierce, Providence, R. 1. 22 March 1822-
Columbus 1 Mar. 1901
60. Joseph Holliday, Ky. 15 Sept. 1789-Monroe Co., Mo. 17 Dec.
1870, Bourbon Co., Ky. 18 March 1816
ANCESTORS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
BUSH ANCESTOR TABLE
61. Nancy R. McCune, Bourbon Co. 16 June 1799-Mo. 1834
113. Mary C. 1758-Dade Co., Mo. C. 1848
62. Peter Foree, m. Henry Co., Ky. 18 May 1816
114. Jonathan Gault of Knoxville, Tenn.
63. Eliza Dawson
115.
64. Timothy Bush, d. Springport, N. Y. C. 1815, Hebron, Conn. 12
116. Jechonias Yancey, m. Albemarle Co., Va. 14 Oct. 1793
Apr. 1759
117. Mildred Wood
65. Deborah House, Lebanon, Conn. 6 Apr. 1742-Springport C.
118. John Field, m. Albemarle Co., Va. 11 Sept. 1795
1819
119. Sally Wood
66. Daniel Newcomb, Hebron 29 Nov. 1729-Hebron ante 1789,
120. William Holliday, Rathfriland, Down, Ireland C. 1755-
Wethersfield, Conn. C. 1754
Harrison Co., Ky. between 20 Dec. 1811 & Apr. 1812
67. Elizabeth May, very prob. Wethersfield 3 Dec. 1730-Hebron
121. (probably) Martha Patton
shortly post 1789
122-125.
68. Ephraim Smith, Stonington 5 Oct. 1704-Stonington 24 Mar.
126. Samuel Dawson (acc. DAR 19316, 23452)
1774, Stonington 3 Jan. 1743/4
127. --- Montjoy or Mountjoy (acc. DAR 19316, 23452)
69. Lucy Stevens, Stonington C. 1717-Pottstown 4 May 1806
128. (possibly) Richard Bush, d. Bristol, R. I. 27 Sept. 1732,
70-71. ---
int. 25 Jan. 1726
72. Jonathan Fay, Jr., Westboro, Mass. 21 Jan. 1752-Concord 1
129. (possibly) Mary Fairbanks, 22 Aug. 1699-Bristol 7 May 1743
June 1811, Concord 6 Dec. 1776
130. John House, Little Compton, R. I. 8 Dec. 1715-Hebron 4 July
73. Lucy Prescott, Concord 24 Apr. 1757-Concord 10 Oct. 1792,
1805, Lebanon 6 Sept. 1739
sister of Dr. Samuel Prescott (1751-c. 1777), who completed Paul
131. Deborah Guile, 26 June 1715-15 Aug. 1783
Revere's "Midnight Ride" of 19 Apr. 1775
132. Obadiah Newcomb, Edgartown, Mass. C. 1695-Hebron 4 May 1761
74. Samuel Howard, Boston, Mass. C. 1752-Boston Jan. 1797,
133. Abigail ---, C. 1693-Hebron 9 May 1757
Boston int. 3 Apr. 1777
134. Hezekiah May, Roxbury, Mass. 14 Dec. 1696-Wethersfield 5
75. Anna Lillie, Boston C. 1760-Andover, Mass. Dec. 1804
Sept. 1783, Wethersfield 27 Apr. 1721
76. John Shellman/Schellman, Germany C. 1723-Frederick Co., Md.
135. Anna Stillman, Radley, Mass. 6 Apr. 1699-Wethersfield 7
25 Sept. 1816, Frederick Co. C. 1748
great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
Nov. 1767
77. Maria Margareth Fout/Fought/Fauth, Frederick Co., Md. 14
136. John Smith, Watertown, Mass. 13 July 1672-Stonington 8 May
Jan. 1732-Frederick Co. 6 Oct. 1795
1739, ante 1695
78. Robert Munford/Montfort, d. Amelia Co., Va. between 9 Sept.
137. Susanna ---, C. 1669-Stonington 28 Sept. 1746
1771 & 1778, m. Amelia Co. (bond) 11 Feb. 1755
138. Benry Stevens, Jr., Stonington 20 Nov. 1681-living 1749/50,
79. Anne Brodnax of Charles City Co., Va., d. post 1780-82
Plainfield, Conn. 2 Mar. 1708/9
80-87.
139. Elizabeth Pellows, Ipswich, Mass. 14 Sept. 1685-living 1741
88. Rev. Nathaniel Butler (so identified in DAR application
140-143.
paper 134906), Cumberland, R. I. 14 June 1761-29 Sept. 1829, 12 June
144. Jonathan Fay, Westboro, Mass. 21 Nov. 1724-Westboro 3 Mar.
17--
1800, 25 June 1746
89. Sarah Herrick (so identified in DAR application paper
145. Joanna Phillips, Stoneham, Mass. 17 May 1729-Westboro 10
134906), 21 Feb. 1764?-c. 1823
June 1788
90. Gilbert James Livingston, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 14 Oct. 1758-
146. Dr. Abel Prescott, Concord 7 Apr. 1718-Concord 22 Oct. 1805,
Rome, N. Y. 7 April 1833, Troy, N. Y. 28 Feb. 1779
C. 1742
91. Susannah Lewis, prob. Poughkeepsie 25 Mar. 1761-Saratoga,
147. Abigail Brigham, Sudbury, Mass. 31 Dec. 1723-ante 12 June
N. Y. 27 July 1822
1777
92. Isaac Pierce, Rehoboth, Mass. 22 Sept. 1763-Rehoboth 26
148. Ebenezer Howard, Boston 12 Oct. 1730-Boston between 15 June
Nov. 1849, Rehoboth 7 Oct. 1782
1782 & 13 Apr. 1784, int. Boston 26 Apr. 1750
93. Anna Fitch, Swansea, Mass. 1 Mar. 1763-Rehoboth 15 Nov. 1809
149. Martha Goffe, d. Boston shortly ante 25 Apr. 1808
94. Jarvis Wheeler, Rehoboth 22 Sept. 1774-Rehoboth 3 Mar.
150. John Lillie, Boston 8 Aug. 1728-will proved Boston 19 Apr.
1852, Rehoboth 12 Feb. 1797
1765, Boston 16 Aug. 1754
95. Sarah Horton, Rehoboth 28 Dec. 1777-Rehoboth 13 May 1856
151. Abigail Breck, Boston 19 June 1732-Boston 28 Oct. 1819, m.
96-99.
(2) Samuel Harris
100. Robert Mercer, Jr., b. St. Stephen's, Cecil Co., Md. 22 Dec.
152-153.
1737
154. Baltis/Balthazar Fout/Fought/Fauth, d. Frederick Co., Md.
101.
---
between 29 Apr. & 23 May 1751, C. 1721
102. Richard Davis, b. Cecil Co., Md. C. 1745 (acc. to Pittman &
155. Susanna Bocher, Lomersheim, Wuerttemberg 25 July 1703-
Walker)
Frederick Co., Md. 11 Feb. 1773, m. (2) Caspar Apple
103.
---
156. James Munford, d. Amelia Co., Va. between 16 Mar. & 25 Apr.
104. Victor Emanuel Bechi of Md. (acc. to Pittman & Walker)
1754, - 1727/8
105-107.
157. Elizabeth Bolling, Prince George Co., Va. 17 Dec. 1709-post
108. Lemuel Bangs, Harwich, Mass. 31 Dec. 1739-Portage, N. Y. 9
1754, prob. m. (2) John Bannister
May 1824, C. 1774-75
158. Edward Brodnax, d. prob. Charles City Co. Va. C. 1749
109. Rebecca Keeler, Ridgefield, Conn. 29 Apr. 1751-Grand River,
159. Mary Brown
Upper Canada 24 Feb. 1812
160-175.
110. Amos Stackhouse, 4 5th Mo. 1757-5 4th Mo. 1825, Mt. Holly,
176. Benjamin Butler, Barnstable, Mass. 18 Dec. 1727-Middletown
N. J. 14 1st Mo. 1779
Springs, Vt. C. 1800, Cumberland, R. I. 14 Jan. 1757
111. Mary Powell, 9 7th Mo. 1763-15 7th Mo. 1841
177. Susanna Whiting, b. Wrentham, Mass. 14 Sept. 1734
112. Jonathan Weir, C. 1750-60-Blount Co., Tenn. C. 1832
178. Samuel Herrick (so identified in DAR application paper
ANCESTORS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
BUSH ANCESTOR TABLE
134906), Coventry, Conn. 2 April 1732-Springfield, N. Y. C. 1797-98,
Norwich, Conn. 26 Feb. 1754
260. Nathaniel House, d. 1763, Lebanon, Conn., = 1710
179. Silence Kingsley (so identified in DAR application paper
261. Hannah Davenport (1686-1769), Little Compton, R. I.
134906), b. Easton, Mass. 30 Aug. 1727
262. Israel Guild (1690-1766), Dedham, Mass. & Lebanon, Conn., =
1715
180. James Livingston, Esopus, N. Y. 29 March 1728-prob. Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. 2 June 1790, Poughkeepsie 11 Nov. 1751
263. Sarah George (c. 1695-post 1732), Dorchester, Mass.
181. Judith Newcomb, Lebanon, Conn. 31 May 1733-31 Aug. 1808
264. Simon Newcomb (c. 1665-1744/5), Kittery, Me., Edgartown,
Mass., & Lebanon, Conn., - C. 1687
182. Richard Lewis of Poughkeepsie, m. C. 1758
265. Deborah --- (c. 1664-1756)
183. Susanna Vanderburgh, bp. Poughkeepsie 1 June 1725
266-267.
184. Rev. Nathan Pierce, Swansea, Mass. 21 Feb. 1716-14 Apr.
1793, Rehoboth 6 Oct. 1737
268. John May, Jr. (1663-c. 1729-30), Roxbury, Mass., - 1684
269. Prudence Bridge (1664-1723)
185. Lydia Martin, Rehoboth 17 July 1718-21 Dec. 1798
186. William Fitch, m. Swansea 26 Apr. 1752
270. George Stillman (c. 1654-1728), Hadley, Mass. & Wethers-
field, Conn., - C. 1686
187. Hannah Bourn, b. Swansea 8 Oct. 1730
271. Rebecca Smith (c. 1668-1750)
188. Jeremiah Wheeler, Rehoboth 23 Mar. 1731-Rehoboth 26 Feb.
1811, Rehoboth 4 Jan. 1753
272. Daniel Smith, Jr. (1642-1681), Watertown, Mass., - 1668
273. Mary Grant, d. post 1681
189. Submit Horton, d. Rehoboth 18 Apr. 1778
274-275.
190. Comfort Horton, Rehoboth 29 Mar. 1743-Rehoboth 14 June
1805, 8 Dec. 1768
276. Henry Stevens, d. C. 1726, Stonington, Conn.
277. Elizabeth Gallup, living 1736
191. Joanna Wood, Swansea 29 Aug. 1750-29 Apr. 1813
192-199.
278. Ephraim Fellows (c. 1641-post 1710), Ipswich, Mass., &
Plainfield, Conn., - C. 1683-84
200. Robert Mercer, b. Cecil Co., Md. 19 Dec. 1696-living 1727,
St. Stephen's, Cecil Co. 1 Aug. 1727
279. Anne Cross (c. 1651-post 1710), widow of Thomas Marshall
280-287.
201. Ann Mounce, b. Cecil Co. 9 Jan. 1702
202-203.
288. John Fay (III) (1700-1732), Westboro (earlier Marlboro,
later Northboro), Mass., . 1721
204. Thomas Davis, b. Cecil Co. C. 1710, m. St. Stephen's, Cecil
Co. 9 Jan. 1734/5
289. Bannah Child (c. 1700-02-1788), Watertown, Mass., m. (2)
Samuel Lyscomb
205. Rebecca Gregory
206-215.
290. Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1745/6), Charlestown & Southboro,
great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
Mass.
216. Joseph Bangs, Harwich, Mass. 30 Jan. 1713-Oblong, N. Y. C.
1757, Barnstable, Mass. 18 Sept. 1735
217. Thankful Hamblen, Barnstable 6 Aug. 1715-living 1768
great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
a
291. Mary Smith (1697/8-post 1745/6)
e
292. Dr. Jonathan Prescott, Jr. (1677-1729), Concord, Mass., =
I
1701
218. Elijah Keeler, Ridgefield, Conn. 17 Mar. 1727-living 1790
219. Sarah
293. Rebecca Bulkeley, b. 1681
220. James Stackhouse, Bucks Co., Pa. 11 11th Mo. 1725/6-Phila-
294. John Brigham, Jr. (1680-1729), Marlboro & Sudbury, Mass.
295. Martha d. 1734
delphia 16 8th Mo. 1759, Philadelphia 13 9th Mo. 1750
a
221. Martha Hastings, 27 4th Mo. 1722-23 6th Mo. 1806
e
296. Amos Howard, b. prob. 1696, prob. Lynn & Boston, Mass., =
1721
222. John Powell
I
223. Susanna Bryan
297. Judith Wallingford, b. 1699/1700, Bradford, Mass.
224. (prob.) Hugh Weir of Rockbridge Co., Virginia, will dated 3
298. prob. John, b. 1678, Samuel, b. 1683, Joseph, b. 1685,
Aug. 1779
William, b. 1687, or Ebenezer, b. 1692/3, sons of John & Hannah
225-231.
(Sumner) Goffe of Boston, Mass.
299.
232. Jeremiah Yancey of Albemarle Co., Va. C. 1748-c. 1788
233. Margaret (said to be Mullins)
300. Theophilus Lillie (1690-1760), Boston, Mass., = 1725
301. Hannah Ruck (1702-c. 1767)
234. William Wood, d. Albemarle Co., Va. between 15 Apr. & Sept.
1808, brother of Jease Wood, 238 below
302. John Breck (III) (1705-1761), Boston, Mass., = 1727
303. Margaret Thomas (1708/9-1765)
235. Martha ---, d. post 15 Apr. 1808
304-309.
236. Robert Field of Albemarle Co., Va.
237. (said to be) --- Green
310. George Bocher of Lomersheim, Wuerttemberg (& Pa. & Md.?)
311. Margareth
238. Jesse Wood, Sr., will dated Albemarle Co. 2 Jan. 1824,
brother of William Wood, 234 above
312. Robert Munford, d. prob. Prince George Co., Va. C. 1735, =
C. 1701
239.
240. Samuel Holliday of Rathfriland, Down, Ireland, b. C. 1710
313. Martha Kennon of Conjuror's Neck, Henrico Co., Va.
241. Janet Adair, b. Roth, Down, Ireland C. 1714
314. Robert Bolling, Jr., Charles City Co., Va. 25 Jan. 1682-
242-251.
Prince George Co. post 1728 (son of Robert Bolling & his 2nd wife,
252. Henry Dawson (acc. DAR 19316, 23452, but prob. not Henry
Anne Stith; the 1st wife of Robert Bolling, Sr., was Jane Rolfe,
Dawson, 1748-c. 1811-15, of Tyrone, Pa., Maysville, Ky., & Champaign
granddaughter of Pocahontas), Charles City Co. 27 Jan. 1706
& Clark Cos., Ohio)
315. Anne Cocke, Charles City Co. C. 1688-Prince George Co. C.
1749
253. Sandford (acc. DAR 19316, 23452)
254-257.
316. William Brodnax, Godmersham, Kent 28 Feb. 1675-Charles City
Co. 16 Feb. 1727, - post 1700
258. (possibly) Jeremiah Fairbanks (1674-1735), Dedham, Mass. &
Bristol, R. I., - 1698
317. Rebecca Champion, C. 1677-Charles City Co. 19 Dec. 1723,
widow of Edward Travis
259. (possibly) Mary Penfield, b. 1678, Lynn, Mass.
318-351.
ANCESTORS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
BUSH ANCESTOR TABLE
352. Israel Butler (c. 1696-ante 1757), Tisbury, Mass., - 1725
445. Elizabeth Perdue
353. Elizabeth Blossom (1705-1734/5), Barnstable
446-471.
---
354. Ephraim Whiting (1699-1788), Wrentham, Mass. to Cumberland,
472. (said to be) Col. John Field, Culpeper Co., Va.-Battle of
R. I., - 1731
Point Pleasant 10 Nov. 1774, C. 1748
355. Abigail Mason, d. 1749, Norton to Wrentham
473. (said to be) Anna Clark, not a sister, as often alleged, of
356. Daniel Berrick, b. 1708, Preston & Coventry, Conn., = 1731
the explorers George Rogers Clark and William Clark
357. Elizabeth Rust (1713-1741), Coventry
474-479.
358. Samuel Kingsley (III) (ante 1693-c. 1730), Bridgewater 6
480. Adam Holliday of Rathfriland, Down, Ireland, b. C. 1680
Easton, Mass., = C. 1714
481. Jane Macomson, b. C. 1688
359. Mary
482-503.
1352-359 depend on the identifications of 88-89 & 178-79 in
504. (perhaps, although doubtful) George Dawson, b. C. 1704,
DAR application paper 1349061
Montgomery Co., Va. & Tyrone, Pa., - C. 1740
360. Gilbert Livingston (1690-1746), Kingston, N. Y., - 1711
505. (perhaps, although doubtful) Anne Lowe of "Bowlingly,"
361. Cornelia Beekman (1693-1742)
Queenstown, Md.
362. Thomas Newcomb (c. 1691-92-c. 1761), Edgartown, Mass. to
506-511. ---
Lebanon, Conn. to Pleasant Valley, N. Y., . 1720
363. Judith Woodworth, b. C. 1701, Little Compton, R. I. to
* *
Lebanon
364-365.
366. Henry Vanderburgh (c. 1685-c. 1750), NYC to Poughkeepsie, -
1710
367. Magdalena Knight of Brooklyn
368. Mial Pierce (1692-1786), Rehoboth, - 1711
369. Judith Round (c. 1687-1744), Swansea
370. Ephraim Martin (1676-1734), Swansea & Rehoboth, = 1699
371. Thankful Bullock (1681-1762), Rehoboth
great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents
372-373.
374. William Bourn, Jr. (1704-post 1752), Rehoboth & Swansea, -
1729
375. Mary Sheffield, b. 1701, Tiverton, R. I.
376. James Wheeler, Jr. (1697-1740 or 1753), Rehoboth, - 1716
377. Elizabeth West, b. 1694
378. Thomas Horton (1698?-1733), brother of 380 below, Swansea &
Rehoboth, - 1721
379. Kexiah Carpenter (1697-1763), m. (2) John Barney
380. Jonathan Horton (c. 1695-1774), brother of 378 above,
Rehoboth, - 1725
381. Ann Millard (1708-1751)
382. Rev. Jabez Wood, Jr. (1719/20-1793), Middleborough, Mass.
to Warren, R. I. to Guilford, vt., - 1748
383. Joanna Short, b. 1715, Rehoboth & Swansea
384-399.
---
400. Thomas Mercer, of Cecil Co., Md. by 1671
401. Elizabeth ---
402. Christopher Mounce of Cecil Co., Md.
403. Martha ---
404-407.
408. William Davis of Cecil Co., Md.
409. --- Angell
410-431.
432. Samuel Bangs (1680-1750), Harwich, Mass., - 1703
433. Mary Hinckley (1678-1741)
434. Ebenezer Hamblen (1683-1736), Barnstable, Mass., - 1710
435. Thankful Hamblen (1689-1768)
436. Joseph Keeler (c. 1683-1757), Norwalk & Ridgefield, Conn.,
- C. 1705
437. Elizabeth Whitney (c. 1684-1763)
438-439.
440. Robert Stackhouse (1692-1788), Bristol & Berwick, Pa.
441. Margaret Stone
442. Samuel Hastings
443. Hary Bill
444. Isaac Powell, - 1729
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
GAF
E. F. Waterman & D. L. Jacobus, The Granberry Family & Al-
lied Families (1945)
AB
N. G. Parke II & D. L. Jacobus, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ack-
GDMNH
C. T. Libby, Sybil Noyes, & W. G. Davis, Genealogical Dic-
ley & His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (1960)
tionary of Maine & New Hampshire (1928-1929, reprint 1972)
AL
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt (1963)
GDNE
James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Set-
ALR
Carl Boyer, 3rd, Ancestral Lines Revised (1981)
tlers of New England, 4 vols. (1860-62, last reprint 1986)
APP
Virginia M. Meyer & J. F. Dorman, Adventurers of Purse &
GDRI
J. O. Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island
Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 3rd ed. (1987)
(1887, reprint with additions & corrections from TAG,
AR 6
F. L. Weis & W. L. Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots of 60 New
1969)
England Colonists, 6th ed. (1988)
GGE
H. F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England (1901-1907,
AS
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Annis Spear (1945)
reprint 1969)
AT
ancestor table
GKFFC
Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Filson Club His-
BG
E. B. Summer, Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake & Clarissa Ma-
tory Quarterly (1981)
tilda Glidden with 90 Allied Families (1948)
GKFR
Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the
BH
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Bethia Harris (1934)
Kentucky Historical Society, 2 vols. (1981)
BMV
C. E. Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County,
GLIF
Genealogies of Long Island Families from The New York Gene-
Massachusetts, Volume III, Family Genealogies (1925, re-
alogical & Biographical Record, 2 vols. (1987)
print 1966)
GM
F. F. Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin & Lucy
BP
Belle Preston, Bassett-Preston Ancestors (1930)
(Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (1915)
BPF2
Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of Amer-
GMF
Genealogies of Mayflower Families from The New England His-
ica, 2nd ed. (1981)
torical & Genealogical Register, 3 vols. (1985)
BTGC
Boston Transcript Genealogical Column
GMNJ
Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey
BW
Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families & Descendants of the
GPFPGM Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families from The Pennsylvania
Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, 2nd ed., 1860
Genealogical Magazine, 3 vols. (1982)
(reprint 1978)
GPFPM
Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families from the Pennsylvania
CCAD
L. E. deForest, Our Colonial & Continental Ancestors: the
Magazine of History & Biography, 1 vol. (1981)
Ancestry of Mr. & Mrs. Louis William Dommerich (1930)
GVFT
Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly His-
CFSSA
S. P. Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of
torical & Genealogical Magazine, 4 vols. (1981)
America, 2nd ed. (1958, reprint 1965)
GVFVM
Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine
CH
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Charity Haley (1916)
of Bistory & Biography, 5 vols. (1981)
CP
Vicary Gibbs, etc., The [New] Complete Peerage, 13 vols.
GVFWM
Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William & Mary
(1910-1959)
College Quarterly Magazine, 5 vols. (1982)
CW
G. W. Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, vols.
GWF
C. W. Bowen, The History of Woodstock, Connecticut: Genea-
3 & 4 (1923), reprinted as Genealogies of the Early Fami-
logies of Woodstock Families, vols. 2-3 (1930), 4 (1932),
lies of Weymouth, Massachusetts (1984)
5 (1933), 6 (1936), 7-8 (1943)
DAB
Dictionary of American Biography, 20 vols. plus index, 1928-
HB
E. B. Summer, Ancestry & Descendants of Amaziah Hall & Betsey
1937, & eight supplements (to deaths through 1970) & index
Baldwin (1954)
guide, 1944-1988
HGM
J. E. Stillwell, Historical & Genealogical Miscellany: Early
DG1,2 Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, vol. 1
Settlers of New Jersey & their Families, 5 vols. (1903-
(1943), vol. 2 (1931)
1932, reprint 1970)
DSGRM The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine
HH
D. L. Jacobus & E. F. Waterman, Hale, House & Related Fami-
DSSAY Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbooks
lies Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (1952, reprint
DW
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes (1959)
1978)
EA
The Essex Antiquarian
RSA
David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury,
EIHC
Essex Institute Historical Collections
Massachusetts, vols. 1-4 (1897-1919, reprint in one vol.,
E01,2
English Origins of New England Families from The New England
1982)
Historical & Genealogical Register, 1st Ser. (3 vols.,
HSF
J. R. Boddie, Historical Southern Families, 23 vols. (1957-
1984), 2nd Ser. (3 vols., 1985)
1980)
ESR
G. B. Blodgette & A. E. Jewett, Early Settlers of Rowley,
HSPVS
Harleian Society Publications, Visitations Series
Massachusetts (1933, reprint 1981)
HVG
Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies (1891, re-
FCW
Frederick Chester Warner, The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda &
print 1959)
John Warner (typescript, 1949, bound at NEHGS in 5 vols.)
JIC
N. D. Thompson & R. C. Anderson, A Tribute to John Insley
FD
Julia L. F. Bunce, Some of the Ancestors of the Rev. John
Coddington on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of
Selby & His Wife Clara Winchester Dana (1948)
the American Society of Genealogists (Association for the
FM
E. E. Salisbury, Family Memorials, 2 vols. (plus an appendix
Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, Ltd., Occasional
vol. of charts) (1885)
Publication No. One, 1981)
FNE
Ernest Flagg, Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New Eng-
JN
W. G. Davis, Ancestry of Joseph Neal (1945)
land (1926, reprint 1973)
KW
J. C. Frost, Ancestry of Evelyn Wood Keeler, Wife of Willard
FSA
Jonathan Pearson, Contributions for the Genealogies of the
Underwood Taylor (1939) (known as the Keeler-Wood genea-
First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, 1630-1800
logy)
(1872, reprint 1978, originally vol. 4 of Joel Nunsell,
LBNS
Lineage Book, National Society of the Daughters of the Amer-
Collections on the History of Albany, 1871)
DAR
ican Revolution, 166 vols. (1895-1939, covering members
who joined through 1921)
ANCESTORS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LDBR
H. H. d'Angerville, Living Descendants of Blood Royal, 5
SAWE
H. R. Stiles, The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connec-
vols. (1959-1973)
ticut, vol. 2, Genealogies & Biographies (1904, reprint
MAF
L. E. & A. L. deForest, Moore & Allied Families: the Ances-
1975
try of William Henry Moore (1938)
SB
W. C. Sprague, Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mas-
MCS 3 Arthur Adams, Frederick Lewis Weis & Walter Lee Sheppard,
sachusetts, 1640-1850, Including the Modern Towns of Ran-
Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 3rd ed. (1979)
dolph & Holbrook & the City of Quincy (microfilm, NEHGS,
MD
The Mayflower Descendant
1984)
MF1-3 Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of
SE1,2 Nora E. Snow & Myrtle M. Jillson, The Snow-Bstes Ancestry,
the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620,
2 vols. (1939)
vol. 1 (L. M. Kellogg, ed. 1975: Eaton, S. Fuller, White),
SH
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958)
vol. 2 (R. M. Sherman, ed. 1978: Chilton, More, Rogers),
SHG
J. L. Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard
vol. 3 (A. B. Harding, ed. 1980: Soule)
University, vols. 1-3 (1642-89) (1873-1885), & Sibley's
MFIP
Mayflower Families in Progress (four generation pamphlets
Harvard Graduates, vols. 4-17 (1690-1771) (1933-1975)
of Mayflower progeny to C. 1720, 1986-present) (covering
SM1,2 M. L. & W. L. Holman, Ancestry of John Harrington Stevens &
to date, among presidential forebears, Billington, Cooke,
His Wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 vols. (1948-1952)
Priest & Warren)
SP
Sir J. B. Paul, The Scots Peerage, 9 vols. (1904-1914)
MP
Mayflower passenger
SS
James William Hook, Lieut. Samuel Smith, His Children & One
MQ
The Mayflower Quarterly
Line of Descendants & Related Families (1953)
MSR
Mayflower Source Records: Primary Data Concerning South-
TAG
The American Genealogist
eastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, & the Islands of Nantuc-
TCB
Dwight Brainerd & D. L. Jacobus, Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers
ket & Martha's Vineyard, from The New England Historical
Brainerd (1948)
& Genealogical Register (1986)
TF
E. B. Summer, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine,
N&Q
Notes & Queries
& 90 Allied Families (1959)
NAW
Notable American Women, 1607-1950, A Biographical Diction-
TG
The Genealogist (New York & Salt Lake City, 1980-present)
ary, 3 vols. (1971), & Notable American Women: the Modern
TGM
The Genealogical Magazine
Period: a Biographical Dictionary (1980)
TM
R. M. Tingley, Some Ancestral Lines; Ancestors of Guilford
NCAB
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 76 vols. (1-63
Solon Tingley & His Wife Martha Pamelia Meyers (1935)
[63-N], & current volumes A-M), 1888-1984
TVG
The Virginia Genealogist
ND
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis (1956)
UGHM
The Utah Genealogical & Historical Magazine
NEHGR The New England Historical & Genealogical Register
VGE
Lothrop Withington, Virginia Gleanings in England: a Consol-
NGSQ
National Genealogical Society Quarterly
idation of Articles from the Virginia Magazine of History
NH
D. L. Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, 3 vols. (ori-
& Biography (1980)
ginally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine,
VHG
J. B. Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies (1954)
vols. 1-8, 1922-33), 1974
VVR
Virginia vital Records from The Virginia Magazine of History
NYGBR The New York Genealogical & Biographical Record
Biography, The William & Mary College Quarterly, & Ty-
OF1-3 D. L. Jacobus, History & Genealogy of the Families of old
ler's Quarterly (1982)
Fairfield, vol. 1 (17th century) (1930), vols. 2-31 (18th
VWR
Virginia Will Records from The Virginia Magazine of History
cent.) (1932) (reprint 1976)
& Biography, The William & Mary College Quarterly, & Ty-
PA
M. L. Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury & John
ler's Quarterly (1982)
I Sargent Pillsbury, 2 vols. (1938)
WB
Josephine C. Frost; Ancestors of James Wickham & His Wife
PC
E. A. Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-
Cora Prudence Billard (1935)
1691 (1986)
WC
T. B. Wyman, The Genealogies & Estates of Charlestown, Mas-
PCG
L. R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877
sachusetts, 1629-1818 (2 vols., 1879, reprint 1982)
(1877), & M. I. Gozzaldi, Supplement & Index (1930) (both
WCPDD
G. E. McCracken, The Welcome Claimants: Proved, Disproved &
reprinted 1986)
Doubtful, with an Account of Their Descendants (Publica-
PG
N. G. Parke II & D. L. Jacobus, The Ancestry of Rev. Nathan
tions of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, Number 2)
Grier Parke & His Wife Ann Elizabeth Gildersleeve (1959)
(1970)
PGM
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine
WV
Clayton Torrence, Winston of Virginia & Allied Families
PH
W. G. Davis, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947)
(1927)
PHSVS Publications of the Harleian Society, Visitations Series
PK
presidential kinsmen
PM
Putnam's Monthly Historical Magazine
PMHB
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography
PS
Sidney Perley, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, vol. 1,
1626-1637 (1924), vol. 2, 1638-1670 (1926), vol. 3, 1671-
1716 (1928)
PW
ancestor shared by The Princess of Wales
RD
royal descent
RM
Josephine C. Frost, Ancestors of Welding Ring & His Wife
Ida Malvina Mailler (1935)
SAW
H. R. Stiles, The History & Genealogies of Ancient Windsor,
Connecticut, 1635-1891, vol. 2, Genealogies & Biographies
(1892, reprint 1976)
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Thompson Walker of Woodbridge, Conn., Mrs. H. D. Pittman & Mrs. R. K.
200 GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
THE BUSH FAMILY
Capt Timothy Bush
=
Deborah House
of Lebanon, Connecticut
(1742-1819)
(c1735-1815)
Timothy Bush Jr
=
Lydia Newcomb
(1766-1850)
(1763-1835)
Obadiah Newcomb Bush
=
Harriet Smith
(1797-1851)
(1800-1867)
Rev James Smith Bush
It
(2) Harriet Eleanor Fay
(1825-1889)
(1829-1924)
Samuel Prescort Bush
=
Flora Sheldon
(1864-1948)
(1872-1920)
Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush
=
Dorothy Walker
(1895-1972)
(1901- )
Prescott Sheldon
Nancy Bush
Jonathan James
William Henry Trotter
Bush Jr
(1926- )
Bush
Bush
(1922-
)
TTI Alexander
(1931- )
(1938-
)
Ellis It
m Patricia Lee Redfeam
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
=
Barbara Pierce
41st President of USA
(1925- )
1989-
(1924-
)
George Walker
John Ellis
Neil Mallon
Marvin Pierce
Robin Bush
Dorothy Walker
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
(dau)
Bush
(d young)
m
Le Blond
Bush and his wife Barbara
in New Orleans for the 1988 Republican Convention
Messing tree
breaks down after
THE BUSH I
Timothy--no
documentation
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
President United States of America
Born June 12 1924, Milton, Massachusetts
SENATOR PRESCOTT SHELDON BUSH
SAMUEL PRESCOTT BUSH
Born Columbus Ohio 1895. Studied Yale University
Found wealth in railroads and steel in
Served inus Government during World War]
Columbus, Ohio. Born Brick church
Senator for Connecticut 1952-1963
New Jersey 1863. Served in U.S.
Government during World Warl
Died 1948
ORADIAHBUSH 1797
REVEREND JAMES BUSI!
Born Vermont 1795
Studied Yale University
Merchant of Rochester
Minister at Orange,
New York
New Jersey.
CAPTAIN TIMOTHY BUSH JR.
brother of Oradiah,
fought British in war of 1812
CAPTAIN TIMOTHY BUSU
(Same person
Indian fighter 1755-1757
TIMOTHY BUSH
Captain. in George Washingtonsarm
Rochester, New York
during American Revolutionary
War. Norwich, Vermont 1772,
Died 1850
Cayuga County, New York
1809. Died 1815
REYNOLD (REGINALI BUSH
not documented past
Emigrated on the ship
JOSEPH BUSH this
"LION to Cambridge
Middleton, Connecticut
Massachusetts, USA.
Died 1749
1631
Massachusetts remained homefor
threegenerations of puritan farmers.
8
JOHN BUSH
higher
Yeoman farmer of Messing
probability
Near Colchester, Essex,
was
British Isles
Richarc
Bush
of
MESSING
AMERICA
Bristol
Rhode
Island
JOHN BUSH
purchased land in Messing 1443
THOMAS BUSH
of Messing named in his father's deed 1443
JOHN BUSH
of Messing died 1509 - left a Will
ROBERT BUSH
farmer of Bourghiers Hall in Messing
died 1542 - left a Will
JOHN BUSH
of Messing died before his father
ROBERT BUSH
fined for catching the Lord of the Manor
of Messing's pigeons with a net, 1533
bought land in Feering 1535 - died 1558 - left a Will
RENOLD BUSH
the elder - lived in Messing and Feering
had no children by 1st wife Joan (died 1579)
he died 1602 leaving a will
had 4 children by 2nd wife Judith.
(his eldest son, John, was baptised at Messing 1594)
his youngest son was:
RENOLD BUSH
the younger - baptised at Feering 1600
emigrated with wife Elizabeth (Clemence) - married 1625
to Cambridge, Massachusetts 1632 (proprietor there 1641)
JOHN BUSH
living with his father
in' Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1655
JOSEPH BUSH
cannot be
X
born Cambridge, Massachusetts 1654
documented
JOSEPH BUSH
X
of Middletown, Connecticut died 1749
CAPTAIN TIMOTHY BUSH
fought in the French and Indian War 1755-57
moved to Vermont 1772
Captain in the American Revolutionary War
fought the British 1776-80
moved to Cayuga Co., New York, 1809, died 1815
TIMOTHY BUSH
ok
junior, of Rochester, New York, died 1850
OBADIAH BUSH
ok
born Vermont circa 1795/6; merchant of Rochester, New York
Rev'd. JAMES SMITH BUSH
ok
Episcopalian Minister at Orange, N.J.
born Rochester, New York, 1825
graduated Yale 1844
SAMUEL PRESCOTT BUSH
ok
Steel manufacturer in Columbus Ohio
born New Jersey 1863 died Columbus 1948
ok
PRESCOTT SHELDON BUSH
U.S. Senator graduated Yale, 1917
born Columbus, Ohio, 1895
died Greenwich, Connecticut, 1972
ok
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
President of the United States
born Milton, Massachusetts, 1924
graduated Yale 1948
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Eli S. Jacobs
Suite 1800
375 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10052
Monday AM-6arly
CAMP DAVID
6-10-91
Dear Eh,
we went, we saw; and
though the Keys lost, then
evening conquired Minon
League ball at its best.
Everyone for was most
hospitable and I really
relaxed out there.
bcc: Bridget Montagne
Now, bach to the
real (unreal ?) would
sincerely. G
MONDAY
June 10, 1991
12:20 p.m.
by
PHONE CALL FROM BUCKY BUSH:
Did you see the interview last night with President Nixon?
Very interesting report
Nixon was asked if he plans to run in 1996 and he said
"yes"
the reporter replied "HONESTLY!???"
-
and Nixon replied: : "No, -- just the way I ran in 72. "
p,
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
MR. PRESIDENT
Mr. Ethan Shepley
returned your call
last evening
p
her
9th
is
Heo almost great dead guy!
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
Document Originally
Attached to
Following Page
Monday, June 10
Patty:
Bert Walker called. He wanted the President to know 2 things:
Ethan Shepley is very sick and only has 2 weeks to live
LW
His phone number is 314/997-7065
4
address: 215 Graybridge Raod
St. Louis, Missouri 63124
(he's a cc4 in priv)
2.
Hal Erwin can't do the golf game on the 26th. Bert Walker
said he is writing a letter to the President saying that he can
set it up for K port in August.
Bridget
possible
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Hugh Schindel
106 Oakmont Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21740
PASSIVAL THE THE UNITED
16-01-9
CAMP DAVID
STATE
Dear Hugh,
I loved my night
the Ball Paul and ovranly
at the Keys' fans did too. Thanks
for part in a great
eveny your of R.R. It invigorated
me, 20 weh SEE I
return to D.C. all
charged up.
Thanks 20 mel
bcc: Bridget Montagne
GBl
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Eli S. Jacobs
Suite 1800
375 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10052
Monday AM-6arly
CAMP DAVID
6-10-91
Dear Eh,
we went, we saw; and
though the Keys lost, then
evening conquired Minon
League ball at its best.
Everyone for was most
hospitable and I really
relaxed out there.
bcc: Bridget Montagne
Now, bach to the
real (unreal ?) would
sincerely. Go
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Wally Moon
Manager
Frederick Keys
Post Office Box 3169
Frederick, MD 21701
bcc: Bridget Montagne
CAMP DAVID
6-10-91
Rear walms.
As an old = Moon
1
fan I Just wanted you
to know how muh I
enjoyed bery out there
satudg. I in song I
didn't get to say "Hi"
to you ael the players;
but, other than that, it was
a great night at the
ballpach. I love the game.
Good Luch, as Bad
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Keith Upton
General Manager
Frederick Keys
Post Office Box 3169
Frederick, MD 21701
CAMP DAVID
June 10 the 91
Dear Keith,
Thank to your and to
all the Keys organization
for taking me out to the
ball gam". - It was a
totally relaxed night at
you monditud ball park.
bcc: Bridget Montagne
To you. the team, the fans
my since thats,
Cy Tal
Mr. M. J. Grove:
7050 Catalpa Road
Frederick, MD 21701.
CAMP DAVID
6-10-91
Dear P-t Grove,
It's early Mondy AM
in a few united I
and chopper back down to D.C.
I 90 back, I just much
Before to tell you how Grove
I engoyed I copecially enjoyed Mr.
want my night at
Park- out chat, You and on
put the icing for
the Grove cake. Thank you at have.
maling we feel n so
Viva the "T" Vivathikey
viva frandsleps. Viva the
USA.
sincerely
Groye Burly, bsc,
bcc: Bridget Montagne
Weather
Sunny and warm today with
hight Dear 90. Fair toolght.
lows near 60. Western Mary.
land weather and national
The Frederick Post
Good morning!
Reform must come from
within. Dot from without You
cannot legislate for virtue.
A-2
James Cardinal Gibbons
map on page
1991. The Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing Company
Vol. 81-No. 154
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25'
Bush goes out to the ballpark
But it's no simple task when you're the president
By NANCY LUSE
Mr. Bush was accompanied to the
News-Post Staff
game against the Durham Bulls by
his teen-age grandson, George P.
After Saturday morning's mam-
Bush, who initially was scheduled to
moth parade in Washington, he
take batting practice with the Keys.
wanted a simple night out at a
Schedul
problem.
ever,
ballpark. Things are seldom simple,
canceled
workout.
though, when you're president of the
president made big point of
United States.
say
he
had
tting
cage
Hours before the Keys' game and
alled
at
Ca
David,' the
President Bush's arrival, a
all
esidential retue
near
Thurmont,
army of Secret Service agents
Mr. Kirk said.
some of them perfectly obvio
He also said the preside
combat boots and radio wires
"very, very impartial" when
ing out of their ears- padded around
to cheer g one team over
Grove Stadium checking security.
Unfor ately, the home m didn't
Metal detectors were Ins illed at
give
Bush much to for. He
two of the gates
for long
More the end of the fifth Inning
lines snaking back
arking lot,
Durham leading
He didn't
filled with fans puze
by
the
goings.
ass much in the next innings as
on until they got Ins)
the Keys too an hellacking.
"It's a name the poor guy can't
go
The preside
ssed
sually
in
out," said one man in the crown
slacks and
Avy blu jacket,
7,912
top!
ven as he crane
arrived at the
dlum in time to hear
neck
on
ith everyone
ase
to
the
Cato
barbershop group
catch limpse.
sing
Star-Spangled Banner,'
But with all the visit logistical
givin
double thumbs up signal
President Bush and Peter Kirk, an owner of the Frederick Keys,
trappings, Peter Kir of the
whe they finished. He sat in a
try to catch a ball thrown for the president to autograph.
owners of the minor league team,
balcony seat outside a skybox, his
said the P dent told him,
eet comfortably propped on the
McW Inney has a baseball that's
really enjoy
d he would
railing.
feet, passing his memento among the
"very pecial."
back."
At seve
times, Mr. Bush
kids on his team for them to try on.
Mr.
acknowledg
Othe mostly kids, immediately
scheduled to attend
the overwhelmingly
"I'm going to frame it. probably.
a Key
last summer, but rain
seized offering up balls,
I'll treasure It forever. It's not
friendly
instead him to Hagerstown to
gloves, and scraps of paper to be
everyday you get something from the
Kevi
hinney of Lovetts lle
watch the Suns. He re rted is the
Va. standing beneat) the
signed Secret Service agents had to
commander-in-chief," he said.
only president to h.
ittended
step and play the heavies when it
If there was one disappointed
present, Ing at him with
minor league baseball
hes.
too much.
person at the park It had to be head
bing a purchased baseb 11.
"He's
erson
likes base-
Staff Sgt. Dan Ort, stationed at
chef Matt Jagger who was looking
Bus aled for him to thr
ball,"
sa
Fort Detrick and coach of the base's
forward to cooking something special
Mr
sush
a
ms to like Fr
a
motion,
was it OK. I
Orange Cannonballs, a Little League
for Mr. Bush who, It turned out, had
"I
eric
unty.
played
golf
twic
vant
to
shot,
Mr
team, was able to make a trade of his
eaten dinner before the game.
did
year at Hony Hills Country Club
said.
turned
bright orange baseball hat for the
Mr. Jagger named off all the pos-
near Ne Market and
one
guards and said It was
president's white Desert Storm cap.
sibilities from his kitchen, from crab
golfing trip he ate di at Jug
The fan made the toss the
cakes to barbecued beef. "And no
esi-
Bridge Seafood outside " rederick.
"After three tries he caught it,"
dent scrawled his all an Mr.
broccoli," he quipped about Mr.
Sgt. Ort said of the toss of nearly 20
Bush's least favorite vegetable.
Watching the Keys on Saturday, President Bush shares a
skybox seat with M.J. Grove and his wife Noreen.
Game a reunion
Actually, Mr. Grove - whose
for president
financial contribution resulted in
having Frederick's minor league
Above, President Bush waves to the crowd below his skybox seat
baseball stadium named after his
From Staff Reports
during Saturday night's visit. Seated at left is Keys owner Peter Kirk.
father, Harry Grove has ties to
When he and his wife shared a
several members of the president's
Grove recalled of his visit, seated in
the Yale team. "His father was a
skybox Saturday night with the
family.
the stadium restaurant just after Mr.
baseball player, too," and many in
president, it wasn't the first time
Mr. Bush's late father, an
Bush left in an elaborate motorcade
his family were athletic, Mr. Grove
of police vehicles.
said.
M.J. Grove met George Bush.
Investment banker, "gave me my
There was that time several
first job," Mr. Grove said, and three
Asked if he refreshed the presi-
years ago in Texas, but even
"He seemed very relaxed," Mr.
of the president's uncles attended
dent's memory about seeing him,
further back, Mr. Grove was
Yale when he did.
Grove said. "He was following the
now 66, as a 2-year-old, Mr. Grove
around in Kennebunkport, Maine,
play" of the game and enjoyed
"We talked about the family.
chuckled. "I think I told him. He's
talking baseball.
when the president was a toddler.
I asked about his mother," Mr.
pretty good on his math" and figured
Mr. Bush was a first baseman for
out how long ago that was.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON D.C.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reilly
316 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
early carly- thu bach
CP
THE UNITED
to realits! 6-10-91
CAMP DAVID
THE
P
SEAL
STATES
Dear Libby,
Mamushka ?? Anyway
I love it. Jeb, our 7 year
dd. arel I love. it. we
explored it. I still
thule that's Mel
Laird on the outside.
It was great zeeing
you and the beautiful ones
here yestudy -
Con Afects.
bcc: Bridget Montagne
by B/
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON D.C.
Mr. Joe L. Allbritton
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Riggs National Bank
11th Floor
800 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20074-0405
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Mr. Terry L. Randall
1301 W. Washington Street
Hagerstown, MD 21741
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lows near 60. Western Mary.
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Bush goes out to the ballpark
But it's no simple task when you're the president
By NANCY LUSE
Mr. Bush was accompanied to the
News-Post Staff
game against the Durham Bulls by
his teen-age grandson, George P.
After Saturday morning's mam-
Bush, who Initially was scheduled to
moth parade in Washington, he
take batting practice with the Keys.
wanted a simple night out at a
Scheduling problems, however,
ballpark. Things are seldom simple,
canceled the workout.
though, when you're president of the
"The president made a big point of
United States.
saying he had a batting cage
Hours before the Keys' game and
installed at Camp David," the
President Bush's arrival, a small
presidential retreat near Thurmont,
army of Secret Service agents -
Mr. Kirk said.
some of them perfectly obvious in
He also said the president was
combat boots and radio wires dangl-
"very, very impartial" when it came
ing out of their ears - padded around
to cheering one team over the other.
Grove Stadium checking security.
Unfortunately, the home team didn't
Metal detectors were installed at
give Mr. Bush much to cheer for. He
two of the gates, making for long
left before the end of the fifth inning
lines snaking back to the parking lot,
with Durham leading 7-0. He didn't
filled with fans puzzled by the goings-
miss much in the next four innings as
on until they got inside.
the Keys took an 8-1 shellacking.
"It's a shame the poor guy can't go
The president, dressed casually in
out," said one man in the crowd of
slacks and a navy blue jacket,
7,912 people, even as he craned his
arrived at the stadium in time to hear
neck along with everyone else to
the Catoctones barbershop group
catch a glimpse.
sing "The Star-Spangled Banner,"
But with all the visit's logistical
giving a double thumbs up signal
President Bush and Peter Kirk, an owner of the Frederick Keys,
trappings, Peter Kirk, one of the
when they finished. He sat in a
try to catch a ball thrown for the president to autograph.
owners of the minor league team,
balcony seat outside a skybox, his
said the president told him, "he
feet comfortably propped on the
railing.
McWhinney has a baseball that's
really enjoyed it and he would be
feet, passing his memento among the
"very special."
back."
At several times, Mr. Bush
kids on his team for them to try on.
Mr. Bush was scheduled to attend
acknowledged the overwhelmingly
Others, mostly kids, immediately
"I'm going to frame it, probably.
a Keys game last summer, but rain
I'll treasure it forever. It's not
friendly crowd.
seized the idea, offering up balls,
Instead sent him to Hagerstown to
gloves and scraps of paper to be
everyday you get something from the
Kevin McWhinney of Lovettsville,
watch the Suns. He reportedly is the
Va., was standing beneath the
signed. Secret Service agents had to
commander-in-chief," he said.
only president to have attended
step in and play the heavies when it
If there was one disappointed
president, waving at him with a hand
minor league baseball games.
became too much.
person at the park it had to be head
holding a newly purchased baseball.
"He's a person who likes base-
Mr. Bush signaled for him to throw
Staff Sgt. Dan Ort, stationed at
chef Matt Jagger who was looking
ball," Mr. Kirk said.
Fort Detrick and coach of the base's
forward to cooking something special
it.
Mr. Bush also seems to like Fred-
Orange Cannonballs, a Little League
for Mr. Bush who, it turned out, had
"I made a motion, like was it OK. I
erick County. He played golf twice
didn't want to get shot," Mr.
team, was able to make a trade of his
eaten dinner before the game.
last year at Holly Hills Country Club
McWhinney said. "He turned to his
bright orange baseball hat for the
Mr. Jagger named off all the pos-
near New Market and, after one
guards and said it was OK."
president's white Desert Storm cap.
sibilities from his kitchen, from crab
golfing trip, he ate dinner at Jug
cakes to barbecued beef. "And no
The fan made the toss, the presi-
Bridge Seafood outside of Frederick.
"After three tries he caught it,"
dent scrawled his signature and Mr.
broccoli," he quipped about Mr.
Sgt. Ort said of the toss of nearly 20
Bush's least favorite vegetable.
Watching the Keys on Saturday, President Bush shares a
skybox seat with M.J. Grove and his wife Noreen.
Game a reunion
Actually, Mr. Grove whose
for president
financial contribution resulted in
having Frederick's minor league
Above, President Bush waves to the crowd below his skybox seat
baseball stadium named after his
during Saturday night's visit. Seated at left is Keys owner Peter Kirk.
From Staff Reports
father, Harry Grove - has ties to
When he and his wife shared a
several members of the president's
Grove recalled of his visit, seated in
the Yale team. "His father was a
skybox Saturday night with the
family.
the stadium restaurant just after Mr.
baseball player, too," and many in
Mr. Bush's late father, an
Bush left in an elaborate motorcade
his family were athletic, Mr. Grove
president, it wasn't the first time
investment banker, "gave me my
of police vehicles.
said.
M.J. Grove met George Bush.
Asked if he refreshed the presi-
There was that time several
first job," Mr. Grove said, and three
"He seemed very relaxed," Mr.
years ago in Texas, but even
dent's memory about seeing him,
of the president's uncles attended
Grove said. "He was following the
now 66, as a 2-year-old, Mr. Grove
further back, Mr. Grove was
Yale when he did.
play" of the game and enjoyed
chuckled. "I think I told him. He's
around in Kennebunkport, Maine,
"We talked about the family.
talking baseball.
when the president was a toddler.
pretty good on his math" and figured
I asked about his mother," Mr.
Mr. Bush was a first baseman for
out how long ago that was.
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Peter Kirk
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Chairman
Frederick Keys
One Centre Park
Columbia, MD 21045
CAMP DAVID
June 10, 1991
Dear Petu
It's carly monday
Morning. As I head bach
to the real would I just
want, once again, to thank at
for a grat night tell
the you ball pach. I cuit
you how meh I enjoyed the it
all- the frendy crowd,
great outdoors seats, the
total relaxation. I hope I
don't impore when we
drop in but I like mion
league ball - So obviously do
the Keys fam.
May mg thank-
G Bul
June 10,1991
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Hugh Schindel
106 Oakmont Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21740
CATE a THE UNITED THE
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STATE
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Terry L. Randall
1301 W. Washington Street
Hagerstown, MD 21741
PASSIDAY THE OF THE UNITED
6-10-91
CAMP DAVID
NO
SEAL
STATES
Dear Terry,
May Thanks far
Satudy night. Shert heaven.
A great ball park, perfect
weatter and warm hospitality. Faubatu
GyBel Bl
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Peter Kirk
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Chairman
Frederick Keys
One Centre Park
Columbia, MD 21045
CAMP DAVID
June 10, 1991
Dear Petu
It's carly monday
Morning. As I head bach
to the real would I just
once again, to thank at
want, for a grat night till
the you ball pach. I cuit
you how meh I enjoyed the it
all- the frendy crowd,
great outdoors seats, the
total relaxation. I hope I
don't impore when we
drop Lic but I like mission
league ball - So obviously do
the Keys fam
May my thank. -
G Buil
White House News Summary
Monday, June 10, 1991
11:30 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
G-7/GORBACHEV (London/AP) -- Britain will invite Mikhail Gorbachev
to come to London at the end of next month's G-7 summit, Foreign
Secretary Hurd said. "He is not going to come as a supplicant and
he is not expected to receive a check under the plate,' Hurd said
in an interview with the AP. "That's not the nature of the
meeting." Hurd said the invitation would be issued "within the
next day or so."
MIDEAST/ISRAEL (Jerusalem/Reuter) -- Israel said it was sending
Foreign Minister Levy to the U.S. Tuesday to explain its rejection
of a personal appeal by President Bush to show flexibility in
Mideast peacemaking. "He (Levy) isn't going to deliver a special
message, but should he be asked, he will explain the stance of the
Israeli government and the state of Israel,' Prime Minister Shamir
said. "There are differences of opinion. So what? The friendship
between us and the United States cannot be denied, cannot be
negated. In spite of all the differences we will muster the
strength in the end to overcome together all the differences we
have now," Shamir said.
IRAQ (Athens/UPI) -- Iraqi troops loyal to Saddam Hussein launched
an offensive against Shiite Muslim rebels taking refuge in the
marshes of southern Iraq, sparking fear of a massacre, Iranian news
reports and Shiite spokesmen said. In a dispatch monitored in
Athens, Tehran Radio said Iraqi government troops used tanks,
armored personnel carriers and helicopter gunships in the early
morning offensive.
HOSTAGES (Beirut/AP) -- Amid heavy security, the second-ranking
official in Britain's Foreign Office began a freedom-seeking
mission for Western hostages by meeting with the wife of a
countryman kidnapped two years ago. Foreign Office Minister Hogg
said after his 45-minute meeting with Sunny Mann, wife of retired
airline pilot Jack Mann, that "there are grounds for careful
optimism." As that meeting occurred, Austria's President Waldheim
was on a visit to Iran, the first by a Western head of state since
the Islamic revolution. Waldheim laid a wreath at the tomb of
Ayatollah Khomeini. Austrian press reports said Waldheim would
seek the release of the Western hostages.
NUKES/NORTH KOREA (Vienna/Reuter) -- North Korea has agreed to sign
an accord later this year that will open its controversial secret
nuclear plant to international inspection, the International Atomic
Energy Agency said.
PAKISTAN/U.S. WEAPONS (Islamabad/AP) -- The U.S. has offered to
supply Pakistan with conventional weapons used in the Gulf war in
exchange for guarantees the Pakistanis will not develop or obtain
nuclear arms, Pakistani news reports said.
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White House News Summary
Monday, June 10, 1991
3:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
HEALTH CARE (Reuter) -- A coalition of 50 health industry CEOs
announced it will support new taxes to help solve the nation's
health care problems for the poor. But in a two-and-a-half page
proposal by the Health Care Leadership Council aimed at solving the
nation's health care problems, the group rejected a national health
care plan. "I feel very strongly and the Health Care Leadership
Council feels very strongly we must expand the (Medicaid) system
broadly to bring under it all those who live below the poverty
line," said David Jones, chairman and CEO of Humana Inc., at a news
conference. The expanded care would be provided from "specific
taxes," which the group declined to specify.
ABORTION (Concord, N.H./UPI) -- Officials of Planned Parenthood of
Northern New England said they would give up $612,000 a year in
federal funds rather than comply with regulations that forbid
discussion of abortion as an option for pregnant women. "Once
again, a largely male leadership makes a decision for women, the
real burden of which will fall in disproportionate numbers on poor
women and women of color," said the Rev. Gene Robinson, assistant
to the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire.
IRAQ/REPARATIONS (U.N./AP) -- Iraq pleaded with the U.N. to grant
a two- to five-year grace period before it must begin paying
reparations for occupying Kuwait. The latest appeal was expected
to be rejected. Iraqi Ambassador al-Anbari argued that financial
data on Iraq's ability to pay are incorrect. He said in a letter
to Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar that Iraq will not be able
to feed its people, repair allied bombing damage and pay
compensation for at least five years.
KUWAIT (Reuter) -- Kuwaiti Ambassador al-Sabah defended his
country's delay of elections, extension of martial law and conduct
of trials of alleged collaborators. He said in an appearance on
NBC's "Today" show that elections had been delayed until October
1992 so that the government could first "get the country back in
shape." Asked why elections should not be held sooner to allow
people in the country to help make decisions on rebuilding, the
envoy said there are already people making those decisions. State
Department spokeswoman Tutwiler noted continued U.S. concerns about
human rights in Kuwait and said, "It's something we will continue
to press on, and something that we care a lot about."
YELTSIN/PRAVDA (Moscow/Reuter) -- Radical Boris Yeltsin was
denounced in Pravda as disloyal, authoritarian and incompetent.
"This socio-psychological portrait of Boris Nikolayevich. shows
that his actions and decisions are predictable only in one thing -
- their unpredictability, the article said. "His ideas change so
easily that one can scarcely identify any of his convictions."
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
BACKGROUND BRIEFING
BY
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL
June 10, 1991
The Briefing Room
1:08 P.M. EDT
MR. DAVIDSON: Good afternoon. Welcome to the briefing
in advance of the official working visit of President Cristiani of El
Salvador to the White House. The briefing, as usual, is on
BACKGROUND, and our briefer's remarks should be attributed to a
Senior Administration Official. But, as usual, for your information
but not for publication or broadcast, I can let you know that our
briefer today will be the Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs Bernard Aronson. He'll have some opening
remarks and then be available for your questions. And I also have a
background paper to pass out to you, if you don't mind the
interruption.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: President Cristiani of El
Salvador will be coming for an official working visit with President
Bush June 12th. He'll be arriving June 11th. He'll have his own
program of meetings at Blair House and elsewhere with members of
Congress, members of the Cabinet, members of the press, business
executives interested in El Salvador.
This official working visit had actually been scheduled
for several months, and when the President became ill and at a time
when it looked like there might be some other meetings, it was put on
hold. And then, obviously, when the President's schedule permitted
it was rescheduled.
I'll say a little bit about President Cristiani and our
relationship with him and then take questions.
As you know, President Cristiani was elected on a first
valid victory in early 1989. He pledged in his inaugural address to
seek a negotiated political settlement to the war in El Salvador and
promised to meet at any time and any place without preconditions with
the guerrillas. There were three negotiating sessions held in 1989
-- in September, October and November. The government attended all
three. The FMLN failed to attend in November. Instead they
launched, as you remember, a massive offensive into the cities that
failed to rally the Salvadoran population behind them, but cost about
35,000 Salvadoran lives.
Subsequent to that, a new negotiating process began --
this time under the mediation of the Secretary General of the United
Nations. That was in a response to a request from the Central
Americans presidents, who asked for such mediation.
The two sides met first in Geneva in April 1990 and
agreed to a basic statement of purpose for the negotiations. And
then in May of 1990, they met in Caracas and laid out an agenda for
the talks. And those negotations have been proceeding since that
time. The most recent session was concluded in Caracas. Let's see,
the date was what? June 2nd. In the negotiations themselves, a
significant number of agreements have been reached between the
parties, and the United Nations has already begun to implement some
of those agreements.
In July of 1990, the government of El Salvador and the
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FMLN signed a human rights accord which sets up a defined set of
regulations to protect human rights, governs conduct of the military,
and it creates what is really unprecedented in Latin America, and
that is a U.N.-appointed monitoring group that will go to El Salvador
and actually oversee the implementation of this accord. The United
Nations will dispatch approximately 170 observers to El Salvador July
1st, if not earlier, to implement this accord. And that decision has
been ratified by the -- called for by the Security Council of the
United Nations in a unanimous vote which was held last month.
Secondly, President Cristiani last year appointed a
commission made up of all of the legal political parties in El
Salvador spanning from the communist party on the left to the ARENA
Party, which is the governing party. Although those parties reflect
the very, very different proportion of the vote based on the previous
elections, each political party was given an equal vote on this
commission. And that commission agreed to far-reaching reforms in
the voter registration process and the electoral system, including
the expansion of the actual governing body of El Salvador -- the
National Assembly from 60 seats to 84 seats.
As a result of those reforms, this past March the left
parties in El Salvador, which are the Democratic convergants, on the
one hand, which is a coalition of leftish parties and the UDN, which
is the communist party, won a total of nine seats in the El
Salvadoran National Assembly. And this past April, when the new
Assembly took office -- April 30th, I guess, or May 1st actually --
May 1st, Ruben Zamora, who is the leader of the Democratic
Convergance, which is a coalition of leftist parties, was elected
Vice President of the National Assembly with the support of the ARENA
Party.
The other significant reforms and agreements that the two
sides have reached to date involved four areas: human rights,
electoral reform, military reform, and constitutional reform. We
have a fact sheet that we will distribute to you which detail these
agreements. I'll just touch on a few of the items they agreed on,
but it's in this sheet that we will distribute.
This was in last April, the two sides agreed to set up a
new, essentially, attorney general for human rights to be selected by
a two-thirds vote of the legislative assembly. They agreed to
establish a Truth Commission to investigate major human rights cases
since 1980. That Truth Commission will act independently, may remit
cases for prosecution and will be appointed by the Secretary General
of the United Nations. They agreed on further reforms of the
electoral system in particular the establishment of an expanded
Supreme Electoral Tribunal which will oversee all future elections
and which will include representatives of the four top vote-getting
political parties in the last presidential election and one
independent member.
In the area of military reform, they agreed to strengthen
the civilian authority of the President over the military. They
agreed to separate out all police and security forces from the armed
forces and put them under a separate civilian ministry. They agreed
to create a new civilian-led national police force. They agreed to
separate out the intelligence unit from the military and put that
under a separate civilian-led ministry. They agreed to limit the
cases that can come under military justice to those that strictly
pertain to military matters.
In addition, the government has already agreed to reduce
significantly the size of the armed forces once a cease-fire has been
established and the FMLN has been demobilized. The two sides have
agreed, in principle, to the estabilishment of an evaluation
commission whose members will be recommended by the Secretary General
and appointed by the President which will review the records of all
military officers in El Salvador and recommend those who should be
retained and those who should not on standards that include and
emphasize human rights conduct.
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The government has agreed to dissolve and disband several
infantry battalions and all civil defense forces.
On the judicial front, they also agreed to increase the
budget of the judiciary and to change the manner by which Supreme
Court judges will be selected in order to increase their
representativeness.
Nevertheless, the two sides have not yet reached
agreement on the remaining issues even though the remaining issues
are not as significant as those they already agreed to in terms of
the number and the breadth.
The two sides have agreed to meet again sometime in the
-- toward the -- end of the second week in June in a location as yet
to be announced.
Despite this progress, the FMLN has launched new
offensive activities in El Salvador. They have carried out a
systematic campaign of blowing up the electrical power system and
electrical power lines. The principal victims of this, of course,
are poor people who lose their electricity and working people who
lose their jobs.
They've also on two occasions fired mortar rounds against
the First Brigade headquarters, which is located near population
centers. On both occasions, the FMLN mortars landed in the homes of
private citizens and killed them.
The other point I would emphasize, which is often
neglected in any coverage of El Salvador, is that under President
Cristiani El Salvador has the best economic record in Central
America. And this is despite a war which, as I mentioned, has
systematically destroyed the economic infrastructure of the country
and obviously discouraged foreign investment.
But President Cristiani has put in place a far-reaching
set of structural economic reforms, did away with price controls,
export taxes, ended a centralized marketing system for commodities,
freed up prices, allowed the exchange rate to float. As a result,
the Salvadoran economy last year improved 3.4 percent, which is the
best in Central America and is the largest increase since 1978.
The President obviously looks forward to meeting with
President Cristiani. He has enormous respect for President
Cristiani's leadership. I think the President will want to hear
President Cristiani's views about the peace process, how the United
States can be supportive of that process. He will obviously want to
hear about economic issues and other bilateral matters. And we look
forward to a very warm and constructive meeting.
0
Why is he coming? And also why do you think the
rebels are still -- are they trying to jockey for position, or is
this a real threat again? Have they renewed this civil war?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: President Cristiani is
coming, just as the heads of state of friendly countries throughout
the world come on official working visits, to discuss bilateral
relations with an important friend. There's nothing out of the
ordinary for the President for have an official working visit with a
leader of Latin America, as you well know. This is probably the 16th
or 17th since the President has been in office. Usually the
scheduling has something to do with the time when the President has
been elected and how much time passes, because others were elected
earlier. But this is a normal official working visit between two
close allies.
As to your question about the FMLN, our impression is
that whenever progress is made at the bargaining table, the FMLN
wrongly believes that it has to demonstrate that it didn't reach
agreement out of a perceived military weakness, so they step up
violence in El Salvador. The civil war has never ended. The FMLN
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continues to wage war in El Salvador. They also recently renewed
threats of assassination and violence against elected mayors in a
number of rural areas in El Salvador, intimidating them and urging
them to step down. They seem to believe that violence is necessary
to make progress at the bargaining table. I would submit that the
records suggest that progress can be made at the bargaining table by
staying at the bargaining table.
The FMLN has resisted most calls for frequent meetings.
They have usually been the first to leave and the party most
resistant to scheduling a new meeting quickly after the previous
meeting.
Q What are the remaining issues?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: The principal issues
involve military reform, the composition of the evaluation commission
that I mentioned which will oversee the professionalization of the
armed forces and insist on strict human rights standards for those
who will stay in the new restructured armed forces police. There are
also a whole series of issues involving the modalities of the
cease-fire separation of forces, the areas in which the FMLN will
congregate during the cease-fire, the calendar under which the
reforms are carried out and the demobilization of the FMLN is carried
out, and also what political activity the FMLN will be permitted to
engage in before they demobilize during the cease-fire.
Q
President Cristiani has made clear that he would
like the remaining impounded, for lack of a better word, American aid
released. What will President Bush tell him?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: You are speaking for
President Cristiani. I guess he's given you that --
Q I am quoting from the op-ed page piece he wrote in
The Washington Post.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: We have made it clear
that the second half of the fiscal '91 military assistance will be
obligated and delivered based on three criteria. First is the
security needs of the country. And obviously, the more the FMLN
steps up violence violent attacks on El Salvador the more the
government needs to defend itself. The second criteria will be the
progress we see in the negotiations. And the third will be progress
on the Jesuit case.
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Progress on the Jesuit case?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Yes, maam.
Q
Will you discuss that, please?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Sure. The eight
military officers and enlisted men who have been indicted for the
murders themselves are currently facing trial. The Supreme Court has
denied their petition for habeas corpus, which would have dismissed
the case. The Supreme Court has rejected that petition. The judge
had scheduled an eight-day period to submit any new evidence that
might pertain to the trial. However, in part, at the urging of some
private attorneys who represent the Jesuits in El Salvador, he has
extended that period for three months. It's normally eight days, but
he wants to permit any evidence that they may develop to be available
for three months.
In addition to those eight defendants, four other members
of the armed forces have been indicted on charges of either perjury
or obstruction of evidence in the case, and they have not yet been
scheduled for trial. Under the current process, as a result of the
judges extending the time for new evidence, the defendants will
probably go on trial sometime toward the end of August of this year,
though obviously, as in our own system, those dates are not always
fixed. It depends on the legal processes.
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Q
How many El Salvadorans do you have in here
temporarily under some arrangement -- they come in an work so many
years and then they go back? And is the State Department encouraging
that?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: There's no such program
that meets that description. For Salvadorans, that's equivalent to
the Mexican program. Salvadorans come under normal immigration
procedures. However, under legislation passed last year, I believe,
the Salvadorans were permitted to extend for a -- I believe, about a
year and a half period under temporary protected status. That was an
amendment, I believe, that Senator DeConcini and Congressman Moakley
sponsored.
As far as the numbers, I couldn't give you an accurate
number. I would refer you to INS on that. But at various times the
figure of 10 percent to 15 percent has been estimated of the
Salvadoran population living in the United States. Salvadoran
population is roughly 6 million people, but those are very rough
figures and I would urge you to talk to INS for an accurate figure.
Q
Do you all encourage that the State Department?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Do we encourage what?
2 Coming in temporarily like that?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: We don't encourage or
discourage. We treat Salvadorans under normal --
2
Did you support that when the bill came up?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: The President signed
that into law -- that particular amendment.
Q
Yes, but I say, did you all support that when it was
before Congress?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I'm not sure, but it was
part of legislation that the President signed into law.
Q
What money remains impounded?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Well, no money actually
remains impounded and no money is being held up, but the Congress in
the Fiscal 1991 legislation authorized and appropriated $85 million.
We're required under law to hold back $5 million of that and not
release it under an amendment that's been in the bill for a long
time, and that pertains to completion of certain human rights cases.
Approximately $40 million of that $80 million -- roughly $40 million
of that $80 million has not yet been obligated. But that is not --
that does not mean it's being impounded. It's not -- it's the same
as any other money in this fiscal year that has not yet been
obligated or delivered.
Q
What kind of weapons would we send --
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: It's not something --
maybe let somebody else have a --
Q
Again on the question of the Jesuit case, could you
character in the past the administration has expressed some
dissatisfaction with the progress. Could you characterize how the
administration views the progress up to date? And a follow-up
question on that would be, U.S. Army Major Buckland is due to testify
soon. Could you explain perhaps what you expect his role to be in
the development of the case?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I'll answer both
questions. As far as the Jesuit case, we welcome and support the
efforts of the court to move along the trial of the eight key
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defendants and we think that the Supreme Court's decision to deny the
habeas corpus petition was a positive step. It clearly indicated
that at least at that level the Supreme Court felt that there was
sufficient evidence to move forward toward trial. We want to see
every stone unturned in the investigation of this case and ultimately
the prosecution.
There were questions raised both in the Moakley report
and in a letter from the Minister of Defense to the judge that we
think still need to be exhaustively answered. So we think that there
is clearly some progress. The rap against El Salvador used to be
that nobody -- no officer is ever accused of a human rights abuse --
in this instance, the highest ranking officer at the time. Colonel
Benevides is one of the accused and he's going to go to trial with
others who are alleged to have committed this crime with him.
But we think some questions still have to be answered.
So we're not entirely satisfied, and we want to see further progress,
and we continue to press for that very vigorously. As for Major
Buckland, we made him available to the judge during this eight-day
period. And he was standing by to testify. The judge did not choose
to ask him to testify during that eight-day period. Now whether he
will do so in this extended period remains to be seen. But we will
make him available at any time the judge chooses to interview him
again.
Q
Has the administration made any decisions yet on
what it will do about what it will propose to do on replacing the
helicopters that the Salvadoran military has that are wearing out?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: We've had some
conversations of a preliminary nature with the Congress. This is
really a question of planning ahead. The helicopters that they're
currently using are of an older generation that's no longer in the
active duty use of our own armed forces, and spare parts are
difficult to obtain for that reason. And there is a certain expected
wear and tear and life expectancy of these aircraft. And over a
period of a year they are going to be -- it's going to be necessary
to replace them. Obviously, we hope that well before then there will
be a cease-fire and an end to this war, which would obviate the need
to face this question.
But for planning purposes, because it takes anywhere from
eight months to a year to train the crews and to put in the orders
for new aircraft, we've had to begun to address that question. But
no decision has been made.
Q
Do you have a '92 military aid request for El
Salvador, and, if so, what is the status of efforts on the Hill to
impose conditions?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: We've requested the same
FMF military aid to El Salvador this year, as last year -- $85
million. The Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman
Torricelli, has deferred action on that request until September in
order to give the peace process a further chance to evolve and
hopefully succeed. Chairman Obey of the House Foreign Operations
Subcommittee has essentially, though with a few minor changes,
resubmitted the legislation that existed last year which withheld the
second half of the money on certain conditions that both the
government and FMLN had to meet.
We think that and Congressman Obey was part of that
decision to defer until September. We think that that was a very
positive contribution by members of the House to the peace process
because the peace process is at a very delicate stage, and the
leaders of the House obviously recognize that the United States has
to speak with one voice at this time and that sending mixed signals
or new signals to either party could be very damaging to the peace
process and the House members do not want to send such signals. We
hope that Senator Dodd will also put the interest of the peace
process first in his actions in the Senate Foreign Relations
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Committee tomorrow.
Q
But if we spend for military weapons, is that in
addition to the money the foreign aid money?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Well, it is a part of
our foreign aid request. We provide about three times as much
economic assistance, which is both balance of payment support and
then development assistance, as we do military assistance and all of
together is part of our foreign assistance request to the Congress.
2 What kind of weapons besides helicopters -- what
kind of weapons do they need?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Do they need?
Q What kind are we sending?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I couldn't give you a
detailed list right now. They use M-16 rifles and ammunitions. They
have armored vehicles. They have helicopters. They have fixed-wing
aircraft. Mostly ammunition and provisions and supplies and food is
what the United States supplies.
Q Who initiated this latest decision to reschedule?
You said it was scheduled, put on hold, rescheduled. I'm under the
impression that the fact that the monies have been put up until
September have made the Salvadorans initiate this trip.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: No, you couldn't be more
wrong. In the first case, the trip was scheduled months before any
such decision. The decision to put it back on the schedule was made
before the House decision. And finally the House decision was made
in consultation with the administration in part at our request. And,
in fact, the letter was sent to the chairman of the Western
Hemisphere Subcommittee urging this action. So for all three of
those reasons, your impression is mistaken.
I And second, Dodd's decision to introduce policy
cutting aid 50 percent is opposed by the administration?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I don't know what
provision you're speaking of. Are talking about his bill last year,
or --
Q
He is planning on introducing new legislation,
cutting 50 percent or -- basically, the same as last year.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Well, we haven't seen
any final copy of what Senator Dodd may submit tomorrow. He has not
chosen to share that with the administration, unfortunately. But we
would note that the entire Democratic leadership of the House who are
involved in El Salvador, obviously, believe that to play politics
with El Salvador's military aid at this time could damage the chance
to end the war in that country, and they chose to put peace first.
And we hope whatever Senator Dodd does, he also chooses to put peace
first.
2
-- positive of this decision by the House leaders
means that you're going to agree with the request not to disperse any
of the $90 million that are in the private line for El Salvador?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: First of all, I don't
believe they asked us not to disperse funds that are in the pipeline.
I think they asked us not to disperse the second half of the Fiscal
'91 military aid that had been withheld under the 1991 Foreign
Assistance Act, which the President released in January of 1991 under
the provisions of that act. And as I said, the President has not had
a chance to respond to that letter.
So obviously, I don't want to preempt his decision, but
our policy has been that we will obligate and deliver that assistance
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based on the three criteria that I mentioned to you. There is a very
easy way for that aid to be used for peaceful purposes, and that is
for the FMLN to agree to a cease-fire, and then that aid can be
channeled under the provisions of the legislation to support a
cease-fire and to help combatants on both sides of the war demobilize
and return to civilian productively.
We would very much prefer to use the aid for that
purpose, but so long as the FMLN is stepping up the war and killing
civilians as well as killing Americans, as they did in January, we
are going to give the government of El Salvador the necessary means
to defend its own citizens and the American citizens who are in that
country and who are also at risk by FMLN activity.
Q The ARENA party once had a fairly unsavory
reputation. Can you talk about what the U.S. now considers its role
in El Salvadoran politics? And if all of the killing is being done
by the FMLN, are you satisfied none of the parties on the right are
behind any bloodshed at this point?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: The ARENA party was
chosen by a first ballot majority in April '89 -- March of 1989 to
lead the country. And the ARENA party at that time had also enjoyed
a majority in the National Assembly. In the last election, ARENA won
slightly under 50 percent, but was by far the leading vote-getter.
So, obviously, that party enjoys significant support of Salvadorans.
One of the myths about ARENA is that it is a party only
of the wealthy. In fact, ARENA also has a populist base and many
campesinos and working people support it. It's also the case that
there was a time in Salvadoran history when some elements associated
with ARENA were also associated with human rights abuses. We see no
evidence, nor has any evidence been presented in recent years in
human rights reports that we have seen -- though there may be
something that I never read -- but most of the human rights reports
that we see that linked ARENA as a political party to human rights
abuses. But I don't want to suggest that the FMLN is the only source
of violence or human rights abuses in El Salvador.
Clearly, there's been a history of human rights abuse and
death squad activity that was associated with the violent
antidemocratic right in El Salvador. That has been reduced
considerably over the last 10 years, but it hasn't been eliminated.
And we equally condemn that violence and want to see it stop. We try
to use our aid to reduce it and stop it wherever we have such
influence. I think the human rights reforms that President Cristiani
has already agreed to in the bargaining table, the changes in the
make-up of the Supreme Court, the creation of an attorney general for
human rights, the expansion of the electoral system, the creation of
a U.N. human rights monitoring force in El Salvador which will deploy
in three weeks, I think will make a significant contribution toward
improving human rights.
Frankly, the best way to create a climate where human
rights will be respected, in addition to those structural reforms,
will be to end the war, and we're strongly committed to that goal.
Q
There are reportedly rumblings among some army
members because there's been progress in the peace talks so far. And
do you see any danger to Mr. Cristiani, who is a moderate, from that
quarter -- elements in the armed forces of El Salvador?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: President Cristiani,
from all appearances, has the full support of the high command of the
armed forces and the armed forces institution itself. A member of
the high command, Colonel Vargas, actually serves on President
Cristiani's negotiating team in the peace talks and has made a
significant contribution. Obviously, on a human level, it is very
difficult for any institution that is in the middle of a war who's
daughters and brothers and sisters and mothers have been assassinated
by the FMLN to see that group being treated as deserving of any
consideration at all in the way of political accommodations.
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When I went to El Salvador a year ago, following the
bombing of the Fenastras Union, I was introduced to a Colonel who's
21-year-old daughter was shot to death on her birthday by the FMLN
while the government and the FMLN were sitting at the bargaining
table in San Jose in October. So, obviously, it is not easy for that
institution to see the FMLN apparently escaping any responsibility
for their human rights crimes and violence while their institution is
held accountable for its abuses or problems.
But despite that, I think this -- we have no worries
about support for President Cristiani. And I think every group and
institution in El Salvador knows President Crisitiani has President
Bush's full support and that the United States only provides
assistance of the kind we provide to democratically-elected
governments. And any effort to change that would obviously lead to a
termination of U.S. assistance.
Why don't you make that the last question.
Q In terms of the peace talks, what do you see as a
greater obstacle, reaching a political accord or actually determining
the -- what you called the modality of the cease-fire? I've talked
to some rebels who say that, for instance, they claim to control
about a third of the country and they say that they want to -- if
they're going to lay down their arms, they're going to lay them down
in place and protect that territory that they dominate.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: First of all, the FMLN
has agreed to -- in the Geneva agreement of April 1990, which set up
the peace talks, they agreed that the ultimate goal was their
peaceful reincorporation into the democratic constitutional process
of El Salvador. That means that they recognize that they don't
control or have any legitimate political authority in any part of
Salvador's territory. Now, de facto they operate in some parts of El
Salvador more consistently than in other parts, though that also
depends on what the armed forces is doing at any given point.
I think that it's, frankly, a false distinction to
separate the technical aspects of the modalities of the cease-fire
from political agreements because, as your question implies, the
technical aspects of a cease-fire have political meaning. And the
rebels, the guerrillas, want to have the largest size areas they can
designate in order to claim that they have popular support in those
areas and have -- represent a significant political force in the
country. The government, which is the constitutional authority of
the country, obviously wants to say these are guerrillas and they
don't control any territory. What they'll agree to at the bargaining
table will be up to the parties.
But I think that those issues have political meaning and
they are going to be tough, just as the political agreements will be
tough. But I would note --
Q
Would it be acceptable to government to cede
territory?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: To cede territory?
Q
To recognize that it is under rebel control:
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I don't think they're
willing I don't want to speak for them, but my understanding of
their position is that they don't cede territoriality to the FMLN.
And, frankly, I don't think the FMLN is claiming territoriality as a
political idea -- political authority -- any longer. But they are
fighting over the size of the zones that they will deploy to during
the cease-fire. And that has a certain political meaning. But I
think the issue of territoriality is beyond the parties.
Having said that, I think that anybody who has watched El
Salvador, known the history of this country, has to take note of just
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how far the sides have come in the last year at the peace talks. But
the reforms that I mentioned that they agreed to in April were passed
unanimously in the National Assembly with a vote of every single
political party, the National Assembly in which ARENA held the
majority. The election of Ruben Zamora as the vice chairman of the
assembly was voted, I believe, unanimously. When I first went to El
Salvador in 1983, Ruben Zamora was on the death list and wasn't
allowed in the country. Now he's the elected vice chairman of the
National Assembly. So this country has changed enormously.
In some ways, the closer they get, the harder it gets.
We think that the FMLN, frankly, is unwilling to settle quickly.
They want to stretch out the process every -- as I said earlier, the
government has agreed to meet nonstop until all the remaining issues
are arrived at and a cease-fire is reached. And the FMLN continually
insists on two-, three-week delays between sessions.
But the country wants peace. The United States supports
the peace process. And even though some things are uncertain, I
think that El Salvador -- the war is going to end. The question is
how quickly.
Q
Are we closer to peace today than we were ten years
ago?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: We're closer to peace
than we were 10 months ago. Yes -- the answer to both questions is
yes. Thank you.,
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Bush goes out to the ballpark
But it's no simple task when you're the president
By NANCY LUSE
Mr. Bush was accompanied to the
News-Post Staff
game against the Durham Bulls by
his teen-age grandson, George P.
After Saturday morning's mam-
Bush, who Initially was scheduled to
moth parade in Washington, he
take batting practice with the Keys.
wanted a simple night out at a
Schedul
problem.
ever,
ballpark. Things are seldom simple,
canceled
workout.
though, when you're president of the
president made big point of
United States.
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combat boots and radio wires
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ing out of their ears- padded around
to cheer 18 one team over
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give
Bush much to chee for. He
two of the gates
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filled with fans puze
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sing
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givin
double thumbs up signal
President Bush and Peter Kirk, an owner of the Frederick Keys,
trappings, Peter Kir of the
whe
they finished. He sat in a
try to catch a ball thrown for the president to autograph.
owners of the minor league team,
balcony seat outside a skybox, his
said the dent told him,
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really enjoy
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feet, passing his memento among the
"very pecial."
back."
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times, Mr. Bush
kids on his team for them to try on.
acknowledg
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scheduled to atte.
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gloves and scraps of paper to be
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team, was able to make a trade of his
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bright orange baseball hat for the
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McWanney said. turned
near Ne Market and,
president's white Desert Storm cap.
sibilities from his kitchen, from crab
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guards and said It was OK
golfing trip. he ate di; at Jug
cakes to barbecued beef. "And no
The fan made the toss the resi-
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dent scrawled his sit Mr.
broccoli," he quipped about Mr.
Sgt. Ort said of the toss of nearly 20
Bush's least favorite vegetable.
Watching the Keys on Saturday, President Bush shares a
skybox seat with M.J. Grove and his wife Noreen.
Game a reunion
Actually, Mr. Grove - whose
for president
financial contribution resulted in
having Frederick's minor league
Above, President Bush waves to the crowd below his skybox seat
baseball stadium named after his
pm Staff Reports
during Saturday night's visit. Seated at left is Keys owner Peter Kirk.
father, Harry Grove - has ties to
he and his wife shared a
several members of the president's
Grove recalled of his visit, seated in
the Yale team. "His father was a
skybox Saturday night with the
family.
the stadium restaurant just after Mr.
baseball player, too," and many in
president, it wasn't the first time
Mr. Bush's late father, an
Bush left in an elaborate motorcade
his family were athletic, Mr. Grove
M.J. Grove met George Bush.
investment banker, "gave me my
of police vehicles.
said.
There was that time several
first job," Mr. Grove said, and three
Asked if he refreshed the presi-
"He seemed very relaxed," Mr.
years ago in Texas, but even
of the president's uncles attended
dent's memory about seeing him,
further back, Mr. Grove was
Grove said. "He was following the
Yale when he did.
now 66, as a 2-year-old, Mr. Grove
around in Kennebunkport, Maine,
play" of the game and enjoyed
chuckled. "I think I told him. He's
"We talked about the family.
talking baseball.
when the president was a toddler.
I asked about his mother," Mr.
pretty good on his math" and figured
Mr. Bush was a first baseman for
out how long ago that was.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Keith Upton
General Manager
Frederick Keys
Post Office Box 3169
Frederick, MD 21701
CAMP DAVID
June 10 the 91
Dear Keith,
Thank to your and to
all the Keys organization
for taking me out to the
ball gam" - It was a
totally relaxed night at
you wordwful ball park.
bcc: Bridget Montagne
To you. the team, the fans
my since thats,
Cy Tal