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Originally Processed With FOIA(s):
FOIA Number:
2009-0166-S
2009-0166-S
FOIA
MARKER
This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
OA/ID Number:
90626
Folder ID Number:
90626-003
Folder Title:
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 [1]
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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
01a. og
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
10/15/91
(b)(6)
personal information] (4 pp.)
01b. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone Calls with Nick Brady
10/15/91
(b)(1)
(1 pp.)
01c. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone Calls with Jon Bush Re:
10/15/91
(b)(6)
Specter [redaction of personal information] (1 pp.)
02. Memo
From President Bush to Lawrence S. Eagleburger (1 pp.)
10/15/91
(b)(1)
S
03. Memo
From James A. Baker, III to President Bush (2 pp.)
10/14/91
(b)(1)
S
04. Summary
Heads of State Correspondence Summary (1 pp.)
n.d.
(b)(1)
C
05a. Memo
From Brent Scowcroft to President Bush (1 pp.)
10/12/91
(b)(1)
&
05b. Letter
From George Bush to Anand Panyarachun, Prime Minister of the
n.d.
(b)(1)
Kingdom of Thailand (2 pp.)
05c. Letter
From Anand Panyarachun, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of
07/12/91
(b)(1)
Thailand to President Bush (5 pp.)
05d. Memo
From W. Robert Pearson to Brent Scowcroft (1 pp.)
08/26/91
(b)(1)
&
Page 1 of 2
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 [1]
Pinksheet Number:
dw2315
OA/ID Number:
90626-003
Date Closed:
7/30/2013
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
05e. Letter
From George Bush to Anand Panyarachun, Prime Minister of the
n.d.
(b)(1)
Kingdom of Thailand (2 pp.)
05f. Cable
Cable Number: 200347Z Jul 91 (5 pp.)
07/20/91
(b)(1)
C
06a. Note
Handwritten notes of meeting with Finance Minister Qassim
n.d.
(b)(1)
[double-sided] (1 pp.)
06b. Note
Handwritten notes of meeting with Sheikh Isa bin Sultan al
n.d.
(b)(1)
Khalifa (2 pp.)
06c. Note
Handwritten notes during meeting with Sheikh Isa bin Sultan al
n.d.
(b)(1)
Khalifa [one page double-sided] (4 pp.)
06d. Talking Points Points to be Made during the Plenary Meeting with the Amir of
n.d.
(b)(1)
S
Bahrain [index cards] (11 pp.)
Page 2 of 2
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 [1]
Pinksheet Number:
dw2315
OA/ID Number:
90626-003
Date Closed:
7/30/2013
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
Tuesday, October 15, 1991
7:55 am
Photo with Jack and Jean Stein
Oval Office
(5 min)
(Sununu)
8:00 am
Intelligence Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:15 am
National Security Briefing
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:45 am
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
9:15 am
Domestic Update
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Sununu)
9:30 Marlin
9:45 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
10:00 am
B Arrival Ceremony for the
South Lawn
(30 min)
Amir of Bahrain
OPEN
(Scowcroft)
(TAB A)
10:30 am
Meeting with the Amir
Oval Office/ 3 Waves
(80 min)
(Scowcroft) (Distributed Separately)
Cabinet Room
12:00 pm
Luncheon with the Amir
State Dining
(75 min)
(Scowcroft)
(TAB A)
Room
1:15 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(60 min)
2:15 pm
The President and Mrs. Bush
South Lawn
depart for Dedication of the
OPEN
National Law Enforcement
Officers Memorial
(Demarest)
(TAB B)
2:55 pm
Arrive White House
South Lawn
3:00 pm
Photo with the new President
Oval Office
(5 min)
of the Order Sons of Italy
Wares
3:17 In
in America
3:31 out
(Demarest)
(TAB C)
UNP 10/11/91
6:00 pm
3:05 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
3:20 pm
Staff Time
Oval Office
(10 min)
(Fitzwater)
(TAB D)
3:30 pm
Meeting with Hearst Newspapers
Roosevelt Room
(30 min)
Publishers and Editors
(Fitzwater)
(TAB E)
4:00 pm
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
4:30 pm
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
7:30 POTUS In
1:05 Depart East room (POTUS + Amir)
7:52
Sunanu In
see Tab B
1:08 POTUS brds Farewell to Amis (Jouth Portico)
7:58
Jack Stein In
1:11 POTUS In Oval
8:04
Stein Out
2:15 POTUS Out to South Grounds
8:05
Scowcroft, Gates, Peters
3:01 POTUS. Arrives Soulh Grounds/3.02 3:02 POTUS In
Sununce In
3:05 sununu In
8:19
Scowcroft out
3:11 Sununu out
8:22
Peters Out
3:17 Zuzolo, Riccelli, Piccigallo, P010 In
VPOTUS In
3:31
"
8:24
"
8:28
Gates Out
3:33 Fitzwates, Porter, Darman, suranu, out
8:35
Sununu out
Smith (Dorance). Gary Foster, scowcroot In
8:40
Sununu In
3:40 All Out POTUS to Roosevelt Room
8:50
VPOTUS Out
4:17 POTUS invites all to oval for individual
photos.
8:55
Sunvence Out
9:10
surmine In
4:25 All Out
9:14
porter, Darran, card In
4:27 card In
9:15
Sununu Out
4:34 Card Out
9:21
Junuau In
4:44 Sununu In
9:24 Sununu Out
5:15 Sunnnu Out
9:29 Sununu In
5:20 scowcroft In
9:54 Card, Daroran Porter Out
5:35 scowcroft act
9:57 POTUS out to Dip Room
6:02 Card In
PO:00 POTUS arlives Dp Room
6:07 Sunnnu In
10:32 PORIS, Amir In Dual
6:09 M'Clure In
10:50 POTUS, AMIS out to Cabinot Roan.
6:16 Fitzwater, Rogich, Dorance Smith In
12:02 POTUS. Amir In oval
6:29 All out.
UNP 10/11/91
12:09 POTUS, Amir out to Residence
6:34 POTUS Out to Res. 6:00 pm
12:12 POTUS, Amir In Residence
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 15 October 1991
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0730
South Grounds
0731
Oval Office
0959
South Grounds
1028
State Floor
1033
Oval Office
1055
Cabinet Room
1205
Oval Office
1212
South Grounds
1216
State Floor
1307
South Grounds
1311
Oval Office
1418
South Grounds
1420
Depart South Grounds via Motorcade
1424
Arrive National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
1456
Depart National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
via Motorcade
1500
Arrive South Grounds
1503
Oval Office
1539
Roosevelt Room
1619
Oval Office
1835
Residence
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01a. og
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
10/15/91
(b)(6)
personal information] (4 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 [1]
Date Closed:
7/30/2013
OA/ID Number:
90626-003
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 15
19²91
,
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
PLACED
DISC
NAME
ACTION
OUT
7:05 AM
7:07
MRS. PATRICIA A. PRESOCK
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-456-6508
TLKD-OK
INC.
XXX
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
7:07 AM
7:08
GENERAL BRENT SCOWCROFT
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 653
TLKD-OK
INCX
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
RUT
7:18 AM
7:21
SECRETARY NICHOLAS F. BRADY
BANGKOK, THAILAND
NO NUMBER AVAILABLE
INC
RMH
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
INC
PM
BUT
7:59 AM
MR. JOHN BUSH
TLKD WITH MRS.
INC
(b)(6)
PATRICIA A. PRESOCK.
RM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
8:33 AM
8:38
MR. FREDERICK D. McCLURE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 609
INC
RM
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
8:47 AM
8:53
SENATOR ROBERT C. BYRD
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-2848
MXX
RMH
TLKD-OK
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 15
PRESIDENT BUSH
, 1991
TIME
NAME
PLACED
DISC
ACTION
OUT
8:55 AM
8:57
MR. FREDERICK D. McCLURE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 609
TLKD-OK
NNC
PMK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
8:58 AM
SENATOR HARRY M. REID
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-3542
PRESUS CA.
NNC
RM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
8:58 AM
9:08
SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
CAR PHONE
NO NUMBER AVAILABLE
TLKD-OK 9:06 A.M.
INC
RM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
8:59 AM
9:02
MR. C. BOYDEN GRAY
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 764
TLKD-OK
INC
XRM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
9:08 AM
9:19
SENATOR ROBERT J. DOLE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 806
TLKD-OK 9:16 A.M.
ING
XXX
XRM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
9:10 AM
9:13
MR. FREDERICK D. MeCLURE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 609
INC
TLKD-OK
XRM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 15
, 1991
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
XM
SENATOR SAM NUNN
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-0735
TLKD-OK 12:03 P.M.
HNC
12:02 PM
12:08
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
SENATOR DAVID L. BOREN
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK 1:20 P.M.
NNC
12:04 PM
1:22
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
GOVERNOR JOHN H. SUNUNU
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 686
PRESUS CA.
INC
12:10 PM
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MR. JOHN BUSH
MRS. PATRICIA A.
PRESOCK TLKD WITH MS.
(b)(6)
CAROL HARVEY IN MR.
ING
1:44 PM
OUT
AM
JOHN BUSH'S OFC.
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MR. WILLIAM BUSH
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK
INC
3:07 PM
3:15
OUT
AM
INC
PM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 15
, 1991
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
PLACED
DISC
ACTION
OUT
XM
MR. C. BOYDEN GRAY
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 764
TLKD-OK
INC
3:15 PM
3:17
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AMH
MR. FREDERICK D. McCLURE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 610
TLKD-OK 4:28 P.M.
INC
4:26 PM
4:31
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MR. THOMAS LUDLOW ASHLEY
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-393-1158
TLKD-OK
INC
4:34 PM
4:38
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AMX
SENATOR HARRY M. REID
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-3542
TLKD-OK 5:02 P.M.
IMR
4:46 PM
5:05
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AMX
SENATOR ROBERT. J. DOLE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 806
TLKD-OK 4:56 P.M.
HXC
4:54 PM
4:59
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XAM
SENATOR BOBERT J. DOLE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 806
TLKD-OK 5:06 P.M.
INC
5:05 PM
5:10
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 15
1991
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
IDXIT
XXX
MR. JOHN E. BUSH
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK
INC
5:17 PM
5:18
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MR. JOHN BUSH
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK
INC
5:20 PM
5:24
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MR. KENNETH RAYNOR
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK
INC
5:45 PM
5:48
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AMX
JUDGE CLARENCE THOMAS
(b)(6)
PRESUS CA.
HACK
6:17 PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XXM
SENATOR ROBERT J. DOLE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 806
TLKD-OK 6:28 P.M.
INC.
6:25 PM
6:29
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XM
SENATOR STROM THURMOND
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-7722
TLKD-OK 7:26 P.M.
INC
6:28 PM
7:28
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 15
, 1991
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
XM
SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-9012
TLKD-OK 8:28 P.M.
NNC
6:28 PM
8:31
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AMK
SENATOR JOHN C. DANFORTH
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-1402
TLKD-OK 6:35 P.M.
NNC
6:28 PM
6:36
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
SENATOR ORRIN HATCH
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-224-7064
TLKD-OK 6:51 P.M.
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
XNE
6:28 PM
6:57
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MR. KENNETH DUBERSTEIN
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
202-728-1100
TLKD-OK 6:42 P.M.
INC
6:28 PM
6:43
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
SENATOR ALAN K. SIMPSON
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK 6:57 P.M.
INC
6:51 PM
7:01
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AMX
MRS. PATRICIA A. PRESOCK
RES: ARLINGTON, VA.
enroute
Residence Fairfay
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 7-3804
TLKD-OK 7:09 P.M.
HNCX
7:07 PM
7:10
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 15.
. 1991
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
PLACED
DISC
ACTION
OUT
XM
BERNARD CARDINAL LAW
RES: BRIGHTON, MA.
617-782-2544
TLKD-OK
INC
8:50 PM
8:55
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
October 15 , 1991
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
AM
No Calls
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01b. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone Calls with Nick
10/15/91
(b)(1)
Brady (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 [1]
Date Closed:
7/30/2013
OA/ID Number:
90626-003
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44.U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information I(a)(4) of the PRA}
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRAJ
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
Presidential Phone Calls
DATE: 10-15-91
TIME:
845 A
incoming/outgoing
WITH:
Sen Byrd
SUBJECT:
told you includ to vote for in
up til Thirday had speed
Improved by Hill
intend to von agant him
serious cloud on him now
was forhun (told we only it will
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
change but now "I in for Consurator
Hominee n but big choud
over Thousand
FOLLOW UP 142 will he continued !!
5 want to call you
Thoroughly detrot leah
close call
notin.,Pluired by
groups - not by polls
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
All NEW supported Hill
only friends Hall of
Thomas supported by
those who knewbrth
Thomas and Hel
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Bush Library Photocopy
Document Originally
George Bush Handwriting
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Previous Page
Presidential Phone Calls
DATE:
10-15-
TIME:
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incoming/outgoing
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October 15, 1991
The President and Mrs. Bush telephoned Judge Clarence Thomas from
the Oval Office at 6:20 p.m. October 15. They spoke for five
minutes.
President Bush said, "Congratulations. You did fine. You are a
wonderful inspiration and you had the overwhelming support of the
American people.
"You have a lifetime of service to your country ahead. Well
done."
Mrs. Bush got on the telephone and offered her congratulations to
Judge Thomas and Mrs. Thomas.
The conversation ended at 6:25 p.m.
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October 15, 1991
1. John Bush called to wish you well today on the Thomas nomination.
No need to return the call.
(When you had free time at 1:30, I returned the call, but John
was out -- so I had the operator give you credit for returning the call.)
2
Jerry Weintraub called to send his best wishes on the Thomas
nomination. He'll be on the golf course all day -- no need to
return the call.
13. Boren is on his way to the office. Won't arrive until after noon.
(No phone in his car.) I left word for the operators to forward
his call to the Residence and the Usher's office will interrupt your
luncheon.
4. 2:20 p.m. Please call John Sununu as soon as you return to the
Oval Office. It is urgent that you call Rudman, but talk to
Sununu first.
5. 3 p.m.
Please call Bucky Bush -- has a "very interesting piece
of information"
Patty
10/15/91
11:10 a.m.
Mr. President:
Per Fred McClure:
-- Exon and Dixon publicly in favor
-- Robb spoke w/ Sununu saying he's on board
-- Sununu talked to Nunn
Nunn needs to talk to you personally
Sununu told Nunn you would call after Bahrain
(Nunn will be in his office all day)
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CALLS FROM YESTERDAY (10/14/91)
-- Senator David Boren
replace there at 9 AM
(in Kansas)
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-- Senator Joseph Lieberman
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News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1991
6:00 A.M. EDT EDITION
NATIONAL NEWS
WHITE HOUSE SEES VICTORY IN VOTE ON THOMAS TODAY -- The Senate
Tuesday night is expected to resolve the long, bitter fight over
Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, with no
indication that Thomas's support has been seriously eroded by last
weekend's extraordinary hearings on sexual harassment charges
against him. (Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, UPI)
THOMAS AWAITS VERDICT AS WHITE HOUSE SCRAMBLES TO PRESERVE SUPPORT
-- Clarence Thomas awaited Tuesday night's verdict on his
confirmation as the White House battled to preserve Senate support
against last-minute defections by Democratic backers.
(Washington Times, USA Today, Newsday, AP, UPI, Reuter)
WINNERS, LOSERS IN THOMAS BATTLE MAY TAKE TIME TO EMERGE, EXPERTS
SAY -- Tuesday's Senate vote will determine whether Clarence Thomas
wins a Supreme Court seat. But analysts indicate it may be harder
to decide the long-term political winner of the nastiest fight in
memory.
(Dallas Morning News)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
PEACE CONFERENCES INVITATIONS COULD GO OUT EARLY, BAKER SAYS --
Moscow and Washington may soon issue invitations to a Middle East
peace conference even before negotiations with Israel, the Arab
states and the Palestinians over the talks' structure and content
are concluded, Secretary Baker said Monday.
(Boston Globe)
NETWORK NEWS (Monday evening)
THOMAS NOMINATION -- ABC's
count in the Senate shows
52 senators will vote to
confirm Judge Thomas, and
NATIONAL NEWS
A-1
fifty-six percent of the public
believe Thomas was telling
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-8
the truth.
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
THOMAS NOMINATION/PRESIDENT --
President Bush's attack strategy
TALK SHOWS
C-1
includes a pressure campaign on
undecided senators. But Bush
refused to say Monday whether he
supports the attacks on Anita
Hill's credibility and mental
state.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
NATIONAL NEWS
WHITE HOUSE SEES VICTORY IN VOTE ON THOMAS TODAY
Two Key Democratic Senators Reaffirm Support
The Senate Tuesday night is expected to resolve the long,
bitter fight over Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme
Court, with no indication that Thomas's support has been seriously
eroded by last weekend's extraordinary hearings on sexual
harassment charges against him.
"We think we have the votes to win," said Marlin Fitzwater,
although President Bush planned to play it safe by making a call
to a half-dozen wavering senators before the scheduled 6 p.m. vote.
Fitzwater's view was underscored on Capitol Hill by two key
Democrats, Sens. Johnston and DeConcini, who reaffirmed their
support for Thomas and predicted he will be confirmed, although
possibly by a close vote.
"I found the hearings were inconclusive and the burden of
proof to overcome a presumption in favor of Judge Thomas was not
met," said DeConcini.
"His life, what he's done, his record, is simply not
consistent with the charges,' Johnston said
Sen. Boren appeared to indicate he was leaning toward voting
for Thomas during a speaking engagement in Kansas. A Boren aide
quoted the senator as saying he was still reviewing the record and
adding: "If there is substantial doubt, I feel that you resolve
that doubt in favor of the accused.
None of the 13 [Democrats who earlier supported Thomas] said
the were switching as a result of the hearings. Nor was there any
word from a handful of other Democratic senators who had never
taken any position on Thomas's nomination
Sen. Dole said he thought Thomas would be confirmed by a
"fairly comfortable" margin
Public opinion polls taken over the weekend showed support for
Thomas and a tendency to believe him rather than Anita Hill
"In a case of this vast magnitude, where so much is riding on
our decision, the Senate should give the benefit of the doubt to
the Supreme Court and the American people, not to Judge Thomas,"
Sen. Kennedy said. (Helen Dewar & Ann Devroy, Washington Post, A1)
Bush Confident On Thomas Vote; Key Senators Silent
With three brutal days of testimony behind it, the U.S. Senate
prepared Tuesday to make one of the most excruciating decisions it
has ever faced -- amid growing indications that it will confirm
Judge Thomas for a lifetime seat on the nation's highest court,
despite allegations of sexual harassment lodged against him by
Anita Hill
At her press conference at the University of Oklahoma, Anita
Hill said that she was glad to be back home, but added that she had
been "deeply hurt" by the "personal attacks" made by Judge Thomas's
defenders. She denounced the Senate Republicans for inventing
"every 15 minutes" a new theory on why she had come forward to tell
her story. None were based on "an iota of evidence," she said.
(David Savage & Douglas Jehl, Los Angeles Times, A1)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-2
Bush Confident Thomas Will Be Confirmed
President Bush, exuding confidence that his nominee Clarence
Thomas will be confirmed, arranged "to work the telephone" Tuesday
as the deadline neared for the Senate's crucial vote
Bush indicated that he felt that Thomas had ridden out the
storm and rallied strong support despite allegations of sexual
harassment. "I am very pleased with the way the support all across
the country is holding strong for Judge Thomas," Bush said Monday.
"It is important to note that among Afro-Americans, black
Americans, that the support is very, very strong, and I think
highly important. If
Meanwhile, presidential aides were adamant
that a counter attack campaign to discredit Anita Hill did not
originate in the White House. "We absolutely had nothing to do
with it," said one aide.
(Helen Thomas, UPI)
Bush Turns Up The Pro-Thomas Volume
President Bush Monday stepped up pressure on Southern
Democrats -- considered the key in Tuesday's vote on Clarence
Thomas -- by noting strong support among black Americans for
Thomas
A USA Today poll Sunday showed black respondents backed
Thomas by 65%-18%, with 19% undecided.
(Debbie Howlett & Jessica Lee, USA Today, 3A)
DEMOCRATS FAILED TO PROTECT HILL FROM GOP
Senate Democrats offered Anita Hill little protection from a.
slashing campaign orchestrated by the White House to impugn her
character and portray her as a perjurer after she testified
Friday
The GOP blitz, hastily organized by White House aides
after what they considered devastating testimony by Hill last
Friday, was judged so successful at the White House that sources
who earlier had feared disaster were confidently predicting Monday
night that the Senate will vote to confirm Thomas Tuesday
An Administration official confirmed the hard-line tactics
were adopted late Friday. "It was pretty dismal around here, the
official said. "She was quite credible. She put on a good show,
and it was difficult to come to terms with."
(Jack Nelson, Los Angles Times, A8)
THOMAS'S FATE UNCERTAIN IN FINAL HOURS
The Senate entered the final hours of the Clarence Thomas
confirmation ordeal Tuesday with the fate of the nominee in the
hands of a few Democrats who had previously supported him
Sens. Exon and Lieberman said they were still undecided.
(David Wiessler, UPI)
Tally of Pro-Thomas, Undecided Supporters
Forty-one Republicans have announced their support or told
GOP leaders they will vote for confirmation. Two GOP senators,
James Jeffords and Bob Packwood, said they would vote against the
nomination.
(AP)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-3
Thomas Awaits Verdict As White House Scrambles To Preserve Support
Clarence Thomas awaited Tuesday night's verdict on his
confirmation as the White House battled to preserve Senate support
against last-minute defections by Democratic backers
Several Democratic senators who had supported or were leaning
toward Thomas voiced their indecision.
"I was really disturbed over the events this weekend that I'm
literally, entirely in the undecided category,' said Sen. Dodd
"I'm as pained and perplexed as the rest of America,' Sen.
Lieberman said. "If I conclude she (Hill) was telling the truth,
I don't think I could vote for Judge Thomas."
An anonymous Senate Democratic aide identified four Democrats
who were most likely to withdraw their support for Thomas: Sens.
Exon, Fowler, Dixon and Lieberman
"I haven't changed my mind yet and I might not change, Sen.
Shelby said.
(William Welch, AP)
Final Act of Clarence Thomas Drama Set For Tuesday
The final act of one of Washington's intense political dramas
takes place Tuesday when the Senate votes on the nomination of
Clarence Thomas
Sen. Danforth said he thought the outcome was too close to
call. "I rate it as a toss-up," said Danforth
"My hunch is yes, he will be (confirmed), but it won't be near
the majority it would have been two weeks ago," said Sen.
DeConcini
Public opinion polls seemed to be leaning toward Thomas. An
ABC New poll released Monday said more Americans were inclined to
believe Thomas than Anita Hill and 56% now favored his nomination.
(Robert Green, Reuter)
Thomas Expected To Win Senate OK
Clarence Thomas should win his showdown vote in the Senate
Tuesday and attain a seat on the Supreme Court, Republican and
Democratic supporters said Monday.
They forecast the confirmation of Thomas with 52 to 58 votes
in the Senate
"Polls tend to scare some of these willy-nillies up here,"
said Sen. Hatch. "If they (the polls) were against him, there
might be more difficulty." (Major Garrett, Washington Times, A1)
Thomas Showdown Today
Neither side is claiming certain victory Tuesday as 100
Senators arrive at the final, explosive vote over Clarence
Thomas
"My guess is that he'll get (a vote) in the 50s," says Sen.
Leahy.
(Judi Hasson, USA Today, 1A)
The Final Vote
According to spokesmen Monday for Sens. Fowler and Nunn,
the two Democrats so far are continuing to support Thomas.
(Timothy Clifford & Gaylord Shaw, Newsday)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-4
HEARINGS APPEAR TO INCREASE SUPPORT FOR
THOMAS AMONG BLACK COMMUNITY
NEW YORK -- The last three days of acrimonious Senate hearings
appear to have increased support for Clarence Thomas among the
black community.
An ABC News-Washington Post poll, conducted over the weekend
made public Monday, showed that 56% of all Americans surveyed said
they supported Thomas's nomination.
Thomas's support was strongest among blacks, with 70% backing
his nomination, as compared to 50% of whites.
Another weekend poll, conducted by The Los Angeles Times, said
51% overall believed the Senate should confirm Thomas. Broken down
by race, the figures showed 61% of blacks backed Thomas's
confirmation while only 50% of whites said he should be confirmed.
Likewise, a USA Today poll taken Sunday night showed 63% of
blacks thought Thomas should be confirmed, compared to 55% of
Americans overall.
(George Curry, Chicago Tribune)
SURVEY FINDS MOST OF PUBLIC BELIEVES NOMINEE'S ACCOUNT
After three days of televised inquiry into an accusation that
Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed an aide, Americans still
favor the Judge's confirmation by a ratio of two to one, according
to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll
Asked whose account they believed more, twice as many of those
who were polled said Thomas's as said Anita Hill's. There was
little difference in response between blacks and whites. But
Republicans were more inclined to believe Thomas than were
Democrats
The poll taken Sunday showed that 45% of those surveyed
favored his confirmation, while 20% opposed it
Asked whom they believed more, Hill or Thomas, 58% said Thomas
and 24% said Hill.
(Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times, A1)
BUSH STRESSING BLACK SUPPORT
The White House is playing up black support for Clarence
Thomas in hopes of compelling Southern Democrats to vote for
Thomas, according to Bush Administration officials
The Administration was highlighting polls showing overwhelming
support from blacks for Judge Thomas in a scramble to out-shout
traditional liberal and black civil rights leaders who oppose
Thomas.
(Paul Bedard, Washington Times, A1)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-5
WINNERS, LOSERS IN THOMAS
BATTLE MAY TAKE TIME TO EMERGE, EXPERTS SAY
Tuesday's Senate vote will determine whether Clarence Thomas
wins a Supreme Court seat. But analysts indicate it may be harder
to decide the long-term political winner of the nastiest fight in
memory
Says Democratic pollster Geoff Garin: "There will be a
backlash against both sides. And I would guess the biggest
backlash will be against whichever side prevails on the Senate
floor.
"
Thomas Mann, the director of governmental affairs at the
Brookings Institution, said President Bush could be the winner
regardless of the outcome Tuesday night
If Thomas loses, Mann explained, "the right is outraged and
Republicans are outraged so there's a lot of intensity and energy
on the right. And judging from the polls, a large number of blacks
will be outraged. Bush will have been given grounds for denouncing
the Senate, the unfairness of the process and taking advantage of
people's cynicism and distaste for Congress. "So a loss for Thomas
ends up being a political plus for the Republicans and President
Bush. If Thomas wins, he added, "feminist groups and parts of the
civil rights coalition are aggrieved. But the President looks like
a winner who pulled it out, and he doesn't have to go through the
travail of another fight. (Carl Leubsdorf, Dallas Morning News)
THOMAS 'LYNCHING' GIVES BOTH PARTIES 1992 AMMUNITION
Both political parties may find advantages in the Senate
"lynching" of Clarence Thomas by raising sexism and racism as the
issues that will divide the parties and the electorate going into
the 1992 elections. "Even if the polls seem to show the American
people may support Thomas, the (sexism) issue is going to be
nuclear for the next election cycle, whether or not he gets
confirmed," said Mark McKinnon, a Democratic political
consultant
Democrats sense that, after abortion, this is the most
powerful issue to drive the gender gap. They will go big for
sexual harassment, so the first big shot for the '92 election will
see Democrats try to divide America by gender."
Some national surveys show that while about half the white
voters support Thomas, up to 70% of black Americans said he should
be confirmed. In what may prove to be a preview of the GOP
strategy for 1992, Alex Castellanos, Republican media consultant,
said, "This may be minor, but it is the beginning of opportunities
for Republicans with minorities."
(Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, A10)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-6
STAFFERS PAID WELL TO 'DIG UP DIRT'
The dramatic Senate hearings into allegations of sexual
harassment by Clarence Thomas again brought into sharp focus the
power of unelected staffers who often drive Congress' agenda
Ricki Seidman, recently hired as chief investigator for the
Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, was hired in early
summer by Sen. Kennedy to "dig up dirt" against Bush Administration
nominees, particularly those for federal judgeships, congressional
sources said Monday
Seidman discovered Anita Hill and, with
the help from James Brudney, another Labor and Human Resources
Committee staffer, convinced Hill to sign a confidential sworn
affidavit against Judge Thomas.
(George Archibald & Michael Hedges, Washington Times, A1)
ANOTHER FORMER ASSISTANT TOLD
PANEL OF 'SEXUAL INTEREST' BY THOMAS
A former assistant to Clarence Thomas alleges that the Supreme
Court nominee "inspected and auditioned" attractive female office
workers and demonstrated sexual interest.
Sukari Hardnett, a special assistant to Thomas at the EEOC
from 1985 to 1986, wrote to members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee but was not invited to testify at his confirmation
hearings.
"Women know when there are sexual dimensions to the attention
they are receiving," she said. "And there was never any doubt
about that dimension in Clarence Thomas's office."
In a letter to the panel and in an interview Monday with AP,
Hardnett said she did not allege sexual harassment by Thomas but
felt an "unpleasant" atmosphere existed in the office because of
his behavior toward certain black women.
(William Welch, AP)
JUDGE'S NOMINATION TROUBLED BEFORE HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS
Foes Earlier Claimed More Than 40 Votes Against Him
The uproar over Anita Hill's sex harassment allegations
against Judge Thomas has largely obscured difficulties that the
nomination encountered even before the complaints were aired
The "danger of his being confirmed," said court analyst Bruce
Fein, "is that the court will become an object of ridicule rather
than respect.
"
Fein also said it was likely that "given the volcanic nature
of some of his (Thomas's) statements" attacking his opponents, he
would be obliged to recuse himself from deciding cases in which
they were active litigants. "He would almost be a part-time
justice."
But other experts, such as Chicago Law School Dean Geoffrey
Stone said neither Thomas nor the court would suffer long-term
damage if Thomas were confirmed.
"Since the public thinks he's innocent," Stone said, there
should be no long-term fallout.
(Al Kamen & Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, A5)
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HILL'S DEPARTURE FROM LAW FIRM DISPUTED
Sen. Danforth, in a last minute attempt to question the
credibility of law professor Anita Hill, said Hill had been urged
to leave her law firm in 1981. But the affidavit from a former
partner at the firm was immediately challenged by two other former
partners, who said it was not true. Danforth Sunday released an
affidavit by John Burke, who said he urged Hill to leave the law
firm of Wald, Harkrader and Ross in 1981 after giving her a
critical six-month evaluation. But Burke's version was immediately
disputed by two other former partners [Robert Wald and Donald
Green] at the firm.
(Jim McGee, Washington Post, A5)
BUT SERIOUSLY
L. Brent Bozell, an architect of the hard-hitting and
controversial advertising campaign supporting Clarence Thomas, said
that in the worst-case scenario -- defeat of the nominee -- "it is
absolutely imperative that the White House cut this kinder, gentler
stuff and fire presidential adviser Ken Duberstein.
"I think Judge Thomas is going to win, but it will be no
thanks to Duberstein," Bozell said.
("Inside The Beltway," Washington Times, A6)
EUROPEAN PRESS RIPS INTO NATION'S POLITICS
Newspaper editorial writers across Europe have been perplexed
and appalled by the three-day spectacle of the hearings into sexual
harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas. A front-page
editorial Monday in Le Monde attributed the controversy to American
puritanism. Britain's liberal Guardian said seating Judge Thomas
"would mire the court in everlasting controversy."
(AP, Washington Times, A8)
BLACK CAUCUS CREATES PANEL ON EDUCATION
The Congressional Black Caucus has established a national
commission to study federal education policies, propose
alternatives and stimulate efforts in black communities to promote
learning. The National Citizens Commission for African-American
Education immediately issued a broadside that criticized President
Bush for his education plan and congressional Democrats for not
offering a comprehensive alternative
One
of
the
commission's
first statements, released this weekend, said Bush's plan did not
offer "immediate relief" to public school systems suffering from
recent state and local budget cuts
In
a
separate
statement,
the panel endorsed Bush's "America 2000" communities, local or
state coalitions mobilized to reach national education goals, and
urged black citizens to participate.
(Kenneth Cooper, Washington Post, A21)
BROWN SAYS HE WILL ENTER RACE MONDAY
Edmund "Jerry" Brown said Monday he will formally announce his
candidacy for president next Monday at Philadelphia's Independence
Hall
Brown accused President Bush of trying to "pack the court
ideologically."
(Dan Balz, Washington Post, A10)
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
BAKER, KING HUSSEIN DISCUSS PALESTINIANS; PLO GROUP IN AMMAN
AMMAN -- Secretary Baker conferred with King Hussein Monday
night about persuading Palestinians to take part in a joint
Jordanian-Palestinian delegation that would represent the
Palestinian cause at a Middle East peace conference
The presence here of a PLO group, led by a senior adviser to
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, prompted optimism that the Palestinians
will agree to join the delegation by the time Baker ends his
current trip to the Middle East. At a news conference with Hussein
following their meeting Monday night, Baker sought to prod the
Palestinians by warning that Washington 's patience has distinct
limits. "The bus is not going to come by again," Baker said. "The
Palestinians have more to lose from this process than anyone else."
Baker and Hussein dodged questions about what the PLO
representatives were doing here. Baker said it did not surprise
him that they are in Amman, but he added: "It is not our objective
to get Israel into a dialogue with the PLO."
(John Goshko, Washington Post, A18)
PEACE CONFERENCES INVITATIONS COULD GO OUT EARLY, BAKER SAYS
AMMAN -- Moscow and Washington may soon issue invitations to
a Middle East peace conference even before negotiations with
Israel, the Arab states and the Palestinians over the talks'
structure and content are concluded, Secretary Baker said Monday.
"Although we have resolved a lot of the differences, there are
some that we may not, ultimately, be able to resolve with any
degree of finality," Baker acknowledged in Cairo. "At some point,
we will have to consider the issuance of invitations."
An official traveling with Baker said later that Presidents
Bush and Gorbachev want to issue invitations to the conference by
Monday to convene it no later than Oct. 31
"I think everyone agrees that they would get together in order
to achieve a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict,
based on U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338," Baker said
in Cairo.
(Mary Curtius, Boston Globe)
PLO MOVES TO OK PALESTINIAN PARTICIPATION IN PEACE TALKS
AMMAN -- The PLO moved Monday toward granting approval for
Palestinian representatives to join in peace talks with Israel, but
not before making the political point that even though it will be
denied a seat at the planned peace conference, the PLO remains an
off-stage power. Senior officials from PLO headquarters in Tunisia
met in Amman Monday with Jordanian officials to discuss the make-
up of a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. The talks were in
preparation for a meeting Wednesday of the PLO's Central Council
to make a final decision on Palestinian participation
King Hussein, meeting with reporters after his talks with
Secretary Baker, appeared confident that the PLO would give its
approval. And he said Jordan is satisfied with U.S. assurances
about the peace conference, the first country to say SO.
(Terry Atlas, Chicago Tribune)
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U.N. SAYS IRAQ WAS BUILDING H-BOMB AND BIGGER A-BOMB
Iraq's efforts to build a hydrogen bomb, described last week
by the U.N., were further along than generally believed and would
also have sharply increased the destructiveness of its atomic
bombs, according to weapons experts and U.N. documents.
(William Broad, New York Times, A1)
SECURITY COUNCIL DRAFTS PLAN FOR MONITORING IRAQI OIL SALES
U.N. -- As Iraq vowed to fight the U.N. trade embargo, the
Security Council's sanctions committee Monday disclosed intricate
procedures to monitor future oil sales and the distribution of food
and medical supplies. The plan, expected to be approved Tuesday,
takes the U.N. into uncharted waters in administering contracts and
monitoring pipelines.
(Reuter, Washington Post, A18)
45 DAYS TO NEGOTIATE ARISTIDE'S RETURN, GOVERNMENT SAYS
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haiti's interim prime minister said the new
government is willing to negotiate the return of President Aristide
but said new elections will be held if no agreement is reached
within 45 days
The limits imposed by the country's constitution mean "we have
45 days for negotiations with the international community," Prime
Minster Honorat said.
"And if negotiations fail we go to elections. We can't accept
the embargo because Haiti is too poor," he said.
(Roosevelt Jean-Francois, UPI)
HAITI'S ENVOY: OUSTED PRESIDENT MIGHT AGREE TO MAKE CHANGES
Deposed President Aristide might be willing to allow changes
in his government and remain abroad for a while if the Haitian
congress will recognize his presidency, the Haitian ambassador to
the U.S. said Monday
Ambassador Jean Casimir told reporters at the embassy the
Aristide might be willing to allow replacement of some of his
ministers if the country's congress would recognize him as
president. Coup leaders might be allowed to leave the country, he
said.
(AP, Washington Post, A18)
HAITIAN DEPUTIES OK ARMY-BACKED PREMIER
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The Chamber of Deputies, watched over by
heavily armed soldiers, scraped together a quorum on its fourth try
Monday and ratified the military-installed provisional president's
choice of prime minister.
(Michael Tarr, Washington Times, A9)
MOSCOW RESERVES ARE 'CLOSE TO ZERO'
BANGKOK -- The chairman of the Soviet State Bank said Monday
that Moscow's currency reserves are nearly gone.
Viktor Geraschenko told reporters Monday that Soviet hard
currency reserves are "close to zero," although he offered no
figures.
(Robert Reid, Washington Post, C3)
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RICH STATES READY TO HELP MOSCOW OVER CASH CRUNCH, SOURCES SAY
BANGKOK -- The G-7 are prepared to help the Soviet Union over
a short-term cash crisis, but first want to determine how bad the
problem'is, monetary sources said Tuesday.
"A contingency mechanism is now in place,' said an anonymous
G-7 source
The sources said the G-7 still had not agreed on how best to
help the Soviet Union over any short-term cash crunch, whether by
temporarily allowing it to defer payments on some of its foreign
debt or by extending it a short-term bridge loan backed by gold,
or by some combination of the two.
One source said the U.S. was pushing for both options,
although this could not be confirmed.
(Rich Miller, Reuter)
BRADY SAYS SOVIET PACT ON UNION IS THE KEY TO AID
BANGKOK -- Secretary Brady said Monday that an agreement on
the relationship between the Soviet republics and the central
government would be a breakthrough toward financial aid from the
West.
"That's the key that will unlock the door toward
assistance," Brady said in an interview
Overall, Brady was
sober Monday in assessing how difficult it will be for the West to
shore up the faltering Soviet economy and help preserve the union,
and how much work the Soviets themselves have to do before the West
can act.
(James Sterngold, New York Times, A3)
SOVIETS TO CUT TROOPS IN KURILS
30. Percent Reduction Announced As Japanese Visit
MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union will withdraw 30% of the more than
7,000 troops it has stationed on the Kurils, the disputed islands
that Japan claims are part of its territory, a Soviet official said
Monday
The troop reduction is a unilateral step, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Vitaly Churkin said at a news conference
Churkin also announced the Soviet Union will lift visa
restrictions so that Japanese citizens may travel freely to the
islands, and that free-enterprise zones will be created, giving
preference to Japanese firms.
(AP, Washington Post, A16)
NO PEACE FORMULA IN SIGHT FOR CYPRUS
NICOSIA -- Two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall,
progress toward reuniting another divided nation remains as
stubborn as ever, despite the public intervention of President Bush
and persistent U.S. pressure behind the scenes
U.N. Secretary General Perez de Cuellar reported Turkish
Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash "stated that each side possessed
sovereignty, which it would retain after the establishment of a
federation, including the right of secession, and sought extensive
changes in the text of ideas that were discussed."
That, he said, contradicted long-standing Security Council
resolutions binding the world body to preserve "the sovereignty,
independence and territorial integrity of the republic of Cyprus."
(David Jones, Washington Times, A9)
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Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-11
THATCHER COMMENTS ON PROPOSAL TO TRY U.S. 'QUESTION TIME'
Rep. Gejdenson has found an admirer of his plan to transport
the British "Question Time" to the House of Representatives:
Margaret Thatcher.
Gejdenson wants Cabinet members to appear individually before
the full House once a month and answer questions on Administration
policy for two hours. He says it is a matter of "accountability."
("short Takes,' Washington Post, A21)
BUSH FIGHTS NEW CURBS ON NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS
Despite concerns about the nuclear arms programs launched by
Iraq and other countries, the Bush Administration is quietly
seeking to head off efforts in Congress to clamp down on U.S.
exports of products or technology that can be used in manufacturing
such weapons.
In a letter to Congress last week, the Administration declared
that it opposed legislation that would strengthen the existing
system of U.S. export controls for nuclear-related technology.
(Jim Mann, Los Angeles Times, A1)
CHENEY ATTENDING NATO SESSION
Secretary Cheney is attending NATO's first major meeting held
since President Bush announced his plan to rid Europe of an entire
class of nuclear weapons.
The session, to be held in Sicily on Thursday and Friday, will
focus on how the remainder of NATO's nuclear forces "can be shaped,
molded and adapted to reflect the changed security requirement" in
Europe following the demise of the Warsaw Pact, a senior defense
official said.
The anonymous official said alliance defense ministers will
"consider reductions to NATO's nuclear stockpile over and above
those the President has stated we will already take."
(AP)
U.S. COMMANDERS SEE NEW CHALLENGE:
SLOWING RETREAT FROM EUROPE
STUTTGART
--
General Galvin and his top commanders already
have set in motion an exodus from Europe. They "owned," in
military parlance, 326,414 U.S. troops when Galvin took command
here four years ago. By 1995, according to current plans, the
troop level will be down to about 150,000.
But that is where U.S. military commanders would like to draw
the line
"The first half of the 20th century was a pretty bad
half when it came to fighting and dying, Galvin said. "The second
half hasn't been as bad
And the reason is that we have managed
to keep a stable Europe
Apart from a strong U.S. presence in
Europe, Galvin said, "the only other strategy you could have would
be Fortress America. I mean, you could go home and leave Europe
to itself, but we know that didn't work. It didn't work before.
We doubt it would work again.
"
"I have had Germans tell me
Germans are better people with Americans around,' General Robert
Oaks, commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe, said. "And if you talk
to other countries, they would say NATO is a better place with
Americans here."
(Barton Gellman, Washington Post, A16)
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Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-12
ROCKET LAUNCHES SDI PROBE IN SPACE
CAPE CANAVERAL -- A small rocket carried up "star wars"
experiments for the Pentagon early Monday.
The Defense Department said the mission appeared to be
successful.
(Combined Dispatches, Washington Times, C3)
MOBUTO CEDES SOME POWER IN ZAIRE
KINSHASA -- President Mobuto Sese Seko Monday accepted a
cabinet dominated by opposition figures, a development marking his
first significant surrender of power in 26 years of often
autocratic rule.
(Todd Shields, Washington Post, A1)
CHINA MAY REJECT ZION RESOLUTION
NEW YORK -- China is ready to renounce the 1975 U.N.
resolution that equates Zionism with racism, World Jewish Congress
representatives who met with high-ranking Chinese political leaders
said Monday.
(Reuter, Washington Times, A3)
CENTRAL STATE BECOMES SOVEREIGN
SARAJEVO -- Yugoslavia's republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina
declared itself sovereign Tuesday, laying the groundwork for
possible secession from the troubled federation.
(AP)
CUBA NODS, HESITANTLY, TO WORK-FOR PROFIT
Communist Congress Allows Plumbers And
Other Trades To Take Up Private Enterprise
MIAMI -- Cuba's ruling Communist Party, impelled by a failing
economy, Monday accepted a measure of domestic capitalism by
agreeing to allow handymen, plumbers, carpenters and other trades
people to work for their own profit.
(Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, A14)
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NETWORK NEWS
(Monday evening, Oct. 14)
THOMAS NOMINATION
ABC's Peter Jennings: Most of the shouting appears to be over, at
least for now. And tomorrow night at this time, the political
establishment in Washington will not be surprised if the headline
is, Judge Thomas Confirmed To The Supreme Court For Life. In the
Senate tonight, our count shows that 52 senators will vote to
confirm him -- not overwhelming by any means, but enough if no one
changes their mind between now and then. And the arithmetic in the
Senate appears to reflect public opinion: 56 percent of the
public, in our latest poll, believe Clarence Thomas was telling the
truth during these last few extraordinary days. Judge Thomas was
in seclusion in his home in Virginia today. Prof. Hill returned
to her home in Norman, Oklahoma.
ABC's Jim Wooten: She was back home among friends. Despite the
hours of testimony against her, questions raised about her
credibility and her character, she still seemed exuberant,
confident, proud.
(Hill: "I was trying to do my duty as an ordinary American
citizen, and I simply told the Senate investigators the truth.")
In the Capitol Anita Hill left behind, support for Judge Thomas
seemed to be solidifying. Sen. Johnston, who had planned to vote
yes on Thomas before the hearings, said they hadn't changed his
mind. And so said Sen. DeConcini.
(Sen. DeConcini: "I have found that as a result of these hearings,
that it is inconclusive, and that the burden of proof to overcome
the presumption in favor of Judge Thomas was not met to justify
changing this senator's vote.")
Three other Democrats -- Breaux, Nunn and Hollings -- are said to
have made the same decision, as the massive public response to the
hearings continued today. Thousands of phone calls and telegrams
-- yea and nay on Judge Thomas -- flooded Senate offices, as his
chief defenders put their own spin on the hearings that captivated
the country.
(Sen. Danforth: "For the two days that he was before the
committee, the testimony of Clarence Thomas was absolutely
consistent. That cannot be said of the testimony of his accuser.")
But the hours and days of testimony from both sides led other
senators to conclude that both were telling the truth.
(Sen. Hatch: "And if you believe both of them, anybody who
believes in this country and believes in our system of
jurisprudence and our system of fairness will give Clarence Thomas
the benefit of the doubt.")
That principle -- a presumption of Thomas' innocence unless proven
guilty -- may be the definitive factor in tomorrow's vote. Sen.
Biden certainly made it definitive in the hearings.
(Sen. Biden: "To me, the presumption is with you. It is my
opinion it should be with you, until all the evidence is in and
people make a judgment.")
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Wooten continues:
All that evidence included an extraordinary and often lurid tale
of her accusations, his denials, unyielding support for her charges
from her friends, splendid character references from his. And
when, in the wee hours this morning, Prof. Hill and Judge Thomas
decided against making yet another appearance before the committee,
it was finally over.
(Biden: "This entire proceeding is ended.")
All that remained then was for the senators to make up their minds
on how they'l vote tomorrow, and bring down the curtain on a most
extraordinary moment in the United States Senate.
(Sen. Leahy: "Have you ever enjoyed bringing the gavel down more
than now?"
Biden: "No.")
And either way it goes tomorrow -- confirmation or rejection
-- the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill experience is something the
Senate and perhaps the country will remember for generations to
come, like a bad dream.
(ABC-Lead)
Jennings discusses the nomination with ABC's Brit Hume:
Jennings: A lot of people think that the White House orchestrated
the Thomas offense. Whether they did or whether they didn't, they
must be fairly happy with it today.
Hume: The President spent the weekend at Camp David, and his
advisers were only too happy to have him out of town during some
of her testimony and all that went forward over the weekend. When
he returned early this afternoon, he indicated that he indeed was
quite happy with what he'd been reading in the overnight polls,
which turned out much as you described a short time ago. At the
moment, they're optimistic that he does have enough votes. They
know, as you do, that there could be some slippage, so they know
it isn't over.
(ABC-2)
Jennings discusses the nomination with Sen. Johnston:
Jennings: On what basis did you make your decision?
Johnston: Course of conduct. His course of conduct was not
consistent with the charge, nor was her course of conduct. Had she
been the victim of this kind of outrage, I don't believe she
would've pursued him to the EEOC, or gone with him to the EEOC.
And certainly, she would not have made this series of telephone
calls, one of which, for example, was: Just called to say hello;
sorry I missed you last week. An outraged person doesn't do that
kind of thing.
Jennings: So in short order, you believe he's telling the truth
and she's a liar?
Johnston: That's right. This is really not, at bottom, a case of
sexual harassment. It's a case of who do you believe. It's a case
of which witness is telling the truth.
Jennings: In your view, is there still any cloud at all over Judge
Thomas?
Johnston: Certainly, there's a charge, which is not obviously
definitively answered. But I think if Judge Thomas is confirmed,
then two or three years from now, he will judged by the quality of
his opinions and not by this charge. This will be forgotten
history.
Jennings: If there are still some unanswered questions, why
confirm a man for life?
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Johnston: Because I think that he showed himself to be qualified.
And I announced two weeks ago that he was qualified. Then this
charge comes along, which is inherently unbelievable. It's
counter-intuitive, and I think she bears the burden of proving it.
If we're to deny any person a position of trust based upon a
relatively unsubstantiated charge, then a lot of people in this
country could be the victim of unsubstantiated charges.
Jennings: Were you at all surprised or impressed when a number of
her friends came forward and said that at the time she alleged this
harassment to have taken place, that she told them it had taken
place.
Johnston: I found them to be very credible witnesses, and frankly,
I believed them.
Jennings: How can you believe them and not her?
Johnston: I believe that she told them that at the time, but she
didn't tell the details of it. But I simply think that what she
told at the hearings was not correct, was not proved.
(ABC-3)
Jennings: We presume that again today at work or at home, the
hearings were the topic of conversation. America, it seems, has
been transfixed by all this. Millions of adults who don't normally
watch television on the weekend were watching this weekend.
ABC's Bob Jamieson: Television projected the drama in the Senate
Caucus Room onto a nationwide stage, the battleground for public
opinion. And for the 28 hours it was conducted, the hearing was
a spectacle few could resist.
(Thomas: "Let me describe my relationship with Anita Hill.")
When Clarence Thomas began his defense as the hearings opened
Friday morning, the daytime television audience increased
dramatically, by about a third. But that was still much smaller
than it would be Friday night, in prime time. It stayed that way
for Anita Hill's accusation.
(Hill: "He spoke about acts that he'd seen in pornographic films,
involving such matters as women having sex with animals."
Because Senate Republicans had convinced the Democratic majority
to hear those accusations before questioning Judge Thomas, his
answers were heard in prime time.
(Thomas: "As far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for
uppity blacks who in any way dane to think for themselves.")
That angry rebuke was seen by a prime-time audience of 27 million
homes on ABC and NBC, triple the audience watching baseball on CBS.
On Saturday, usually cartoon time for children, adults took over
the TV sets while Judge Thomas completed his testimony. And the
audience was 25 percent larger than normal. The corroborating
witnesses -- many counted on to end, or at least lessen, confusion
created by the hearings -- appeared on Sunday. The three networks
did not cover most of their testimony, but PBS did, and its
audience quadrupled last night. Public opinion polls today suggest
that while the television coverage riveted the public, it did not
dramatically change people's opinions of whether Judge Thomas
should be confirmed, or help them decide who was telling the truth.
(Hatch: "He has a right to face the accuser and everything that
accuser says. And if he doesn't -- ")
Denounced as un-American, as a circus, as a disgrace, the hearings
may not have changed many minds. But it did ignite a vigorous
public debate over the issue of sexual harassment, which many
believe the senators lost sight of in the process.
(ABC-4)
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Jennings: The hearings also ignited a debate about race, brought
out by Judge Thomas himself when he said this amounted to a
lynching for uppity blacks. It's not clear if that argument is
holding much water in the black community. But there is a sense
among African-Americans that whatever the Senate decides on Judge
Thomas, somehow they will be hurt.
ABC's Al Dale reports students at Clark Atlanta University, a
predominantly black college, are not sure whether Thomas or Hill
is telling the truth. But many of them worry that the public
bloodletting between two successful Afro-Americans will hurt the
larger community and will harm other blacks who may aspire to high
positions.
(ABC-5)
Jennings: We're going to use our poll again to take a look at the
broader question of sexual harassment and the often very different
perceptions of men and women.
ABC News-Washington Post Poll
Is sexual harassment a
problem on the job?
YES
74%
NO
21%
Percentage of respondents who
said the problem is widespread.
WOMEN
76%
MEN
58%
(ABC-6)
ABC's Judy Mueller reports some women say it's not that simple to
communicate their discomfort when men come on too strong. There's
also the question of where to draw the line. But men complain that
some women flirt, and that can be misinterpreted.
(ABC-7)
NBC's Tom Brokaw: Tonight, it does appear that public opinion and
a Senate majority are tilting toward confirmation of Clarence
Thomas. But with 24 hours until the vote, nothing is certain. And
when the vote is counted, this ordeal will not be over, for there
are too many unresolved issues beyond the charges of sexual
harassment -- too much anger, too much anguish. For her part,
Anita Hill went home tonight to the University of Oklahoma, her
supporters cheering her arrival like a political candidate. She
read a statement, insisting the charges were not made up.
(Hill: "I came to Washington because I was asked by the Senate.
I did not initiate this investigation which led me to these
hearings. I was trying to do my duty as an ordinary American
citizen, and I simply told the Senate investigators the truth. The
only personal benefit that I have received from this experience is
that I have had an opportunity to serve my country. I was raised
to do what is right and can now explain to my students firsthand
that despite the high costs which may be involved, it is worth
having the truth emerge. It is only through the support that I
received from my family, friends, my church, and each and every one
of you, that I was able to survive the ordeal of the past few days.
I have been deeply hurt and offended by the nature of the attacks
on my character.")
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Brokaw continues:
(Hill: "I had nothing to gain by subjecting myself to the process.
In fact, I had more to gain by remaining silent. The personal
attacks on me, without an iota of evidence, were particularly
reprehensible, and I felt it necessary to come forward to address
those attacks. I would like to thank all of you, every one of you
in this room today, those of you who have offered words of
encouragement, words of faith and words of support during this
difficult period. I am hopeful that others who have suffered
sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but
instead will find the strength to speak up about this serious
problem. I am so glad to be home.")
Prof. Hill would only read her statement. She would not submit to
questions. Meanwhile, in Washington, the countdown is on now for
tomorrow night's Senate vote on the Thomas confirmation to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
(NBC-Lead)
NBC's Andrea Mitchell: It will all boil down to a few undecided
Democratic senators, who are under heavy political pressure from
both sides.
(Biden: "This entire proceeding is ended.")
At 2 o'clock this morning, the ordeal was finally over.
(Leahy: "Have you ever enjoyed bringing the gavel down more than
now?"
Biden: "No.")
The hearings are over, but the clashing testimony is still echoing
through the Capitol. Phones in the Capitol were jammed, calls
running heavily in favor of Thomas. Hundreds of pages of testimony
were being printed, so that the rest of the Senate could read the
Judiciary Committee's transcripts. Could anyone still be truly
undecided?
(Sen. Dodd: "I was so disturbed over the events this weekend that
I'm literally, entirely in that undecided category. And I'll have
to pull everything together tonight, and hopefully by this evening
or tomorrow morning, make a final cut at it.")
Another potential swing vote, Sen. Boren, still sounded sympathetic
today.
(Sen. Boren: "This is America. We do fundamentally believe that
a person is innocent until proven guilty, whoever that man or woman
happens to be.")
Several Democrats who had endorsed Thomas reaffirmed their support.
(Johnston: "It's just like any law [inaudible]. The question is
who's telling the truth, and I simply believe that it was
overwhelmingly in favor of Judge Thomas.")
(DeConcini: "The burden of prrof to overcome a presumption in
favor of Judge Thomas was not met to justify changing this
senator's vote.")
With public opinion polls showing Thomas heavily favored, women's
groups threatened retaliation at the polls.
(Kate Michelman, National Abortion Rights Action League: "We are
on the eve of a very important election year, and women will
remember this vote. And we are sending that message to senators,
because this is very serious.")
Thomas' supporters need only five more Democratic votes out of a
pool of 16 Democratic senators who say they're undecided. And the
momentum is going his way.
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NBC's John Cochran: Hardball tactics may have saved the Thomas
nomination, but the last thing anyone here at the White House wants
to do is take credit for a strategy that included attacking Anita
Hill. Returning from Camp David, the President just didn't want
to talk about it.
(Reporter: "Sir, did you personally approve the idea of the
attacks on Anita Hill?")
Bush avoided talking about what worked for Thomas, but he said
something worked.
(President Bush: "It's important to note that among Afro-
Americans, black Americans, that the support is very, very strong.
That is significant and I think highly important.")
The President's upbeat assessment is far different from the gloom
that descended on the White House Friday, after Hill's powerful
testimony. The President's legal adviser, Boyden Gray, and other
aides frantically tried to reverse the momentum.
(TV coverage: President Bush with Mr. Gray and Gov. Sununu.)
The turning point came when Thomas himself hit back.
(Thomas: "And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as
I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.")
Although some White House aides regretted the racial references,
the President did not.
(President Bush: "I think when he put his finger on kind of
stereotypical images, I think that hit home to a lot of people.")
White House aides believe the racial charges frightened the
Democrats on the committee and left the field wide open for
Republicans and pro-Thomas witnesses to undermine Hill's
credibility.
(Sen. Specter: "Because it is my legal judgment, having had some
experience in perjury prosecutions, that the testimony of Prof.
Hill in the morning was flat-out perjury.")
(J.C. Alvarez, Thomas witness: "She was a very hard, tough woman.
She was opinionated, she was arrogant.")
(Hatch: "Assuming the position we've taken is true, then she
either has a psychological reason or she lied.")
President Bush is said to be convinced that the Thomas nomination
was a goner, until Thomas and his supporters took the gloves off.
(NBC-3)
Brokaw discusses the nomination with Sen. Mitchell:
Brokaw: All of this follows the Keating Five, the unpaid
restaurant bills, the bounced checks, and now we have a national
movement of limiting terms of people who serve in public life. How
are you going to reverse the damage?
Mitchell: Congress has never been popular with the American
people. There's always been a skepticism about elected officials,
but I think you're right. Now it has reached cynicism, mistrust,
distrust, and I think it's important that we do reverse it. I
think there are several things we can do. Change the ways in which
campaigns are run, reduce the amount and length of spending,
address the real issues confronting the country -- jobs, economic
growth, education, health care -- and try to avoid the things that
have caused the bad responses, the things to which you referred in
your question.
Brokaw: Once this vote is over, will it require some kind of a
bipartisan summit, maybe even between you and the White House?
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Mitchell: I'm going to review the entire process here in the
Senate to see if we can't deal with these controversial matters in
a way that is more fair in reality and more fair in perception.
I think it's very important that we address serious charges. This
was, after all, a very serious charge by a very credible person,
and it seems to me it had to be addressed. Whether it can be done
in a better way is something we're going to look at. We also want
to keep in mind that contrary to the current myth, there's nothing
new about this. This has been going on for a long time. This is
not a very recent development. That's all the more reason to
address it, in my mind.
Brokaw: Has this country been divided up too much into special-
interest groups -- left and right -- who drive the political
process?
Mitchell: That's obviously a matter of concern. I don't think
it's just the special-interest groups. Your own show just now
indicated how the White House organized and orchestrated an effort
to discredit Anita Hill as a way of gaining support for Judge
Thomas. The question is, how far are people willing to go to gain
their ends in the political process? That's another thing I'm
going to address in the Senate tomorrow and in the weeks to come.
Brokaw: What about the role of the press in all this? I know a
lot of people on Capitol Hill feel that the press is only out for
the sensational or the titillating.
Mitchell: There's no doubt about that. But the reality is, we
have to address it on our own responsibility. The press was
critical in one case when we weren't public, now they're critical
that we were public. I don't think we can blame our problems on
the press, whatever their concerns, which are obviously to generate
and point out controversy. We've got problems of our own. We have
to address them in our own way and do the best we can to confront
these issues squarely, thoroughly and publicly, but in a way that
is, and is perceived as, fair.
(NBC-4)
Brokaw: Two people, two stories. Is one telling the truth, the
other lying? For Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, it may not be
quite this simple. There are the issues of fantasy and repression
to consider.
NBC's Robert Bazell: Since the hearings began, the senators and
others have been using psychological terms to try to escape the
conclusion that somebody is simply not telling the truth. Some
critics of Clarence Thomas have suggested that he actually may be
repressing, forgetting his behavior from several years ago.
(Sen. Heflin: "The issue of fantasy has arisen.")
The term "fantasy" cropped up soon after Anita Hill started
testifying, implying that she may believe what she's saying, even
if it is not true.
(Danforth: "I think that there are occasions when people say
something that they believe to be true. Certain people sometimes
have things going on in their heads which didn't necessarily
happen, and they could be very, very convincing in saying that.")
Professionals say that people who behave that way suffer serious
psychiatric problems.
(Henry Paul, Karen-Henry Clinic: "If in fact it was a fantasy and
the person truly held that it was believable and believed by that
person, it would imply serious psychiatric disturbance.")
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Bazell continues:
(Robert Spitzer, New York Psychiatric Clinic: "What we're talking
about is that something did not happen, and she now has a firm
conviction, and has had it for many years. This is not just a
fantasy, this is a delusion. And that's a symptom, and it has to
be part -- for me to understand it -- it has to part of a mental
disorder. There's no mental disorder that I know of that is
consistent with this, given the totality of the clinical picture
that we've heard.")
As for Thomas, could he be forgetting something that happened?
(Spitzer: "I think that is a possibility. I think more likely,
if the events actually have occurred, what the person does is they
minimize the significance of it and they tell themselves, look, I
didn't really do such a terrible thing.")
The conclusion from all this is that psychiatry is not going to
rescue the Senate from having to decide whether Thomas or Hill is
telling the truth.
Brokaw discusses the nomination with Bazell:
Brokaw: What about all those professionals you talked to today?
Are they as perplexed as the rest of us about this?
Bazell: I don't think they're so perplexed. I think that the view
of most professionals is that there is not a lot of reason to
disbelieve Anita Hill, either on the basis of psychiatric terms.
Perhaps she's lying, but if she's lying, she's a very sick person,
and that's the conclusion I heard from almost everybody today.
(NBC-5)
NBC's Mike Boettcher reports the public is blaming various sides
for this fiasco. Everyone is disgusted by the hearings, and many
have ideas to prevent this from happening again.
(NBC-6)
CBS's Dan Rather: The most bizarre Supreme Court nomination
process in the history of the country is coming to an end.
Republican operatives in Washington tonight are practically
celebrating, because they believe Supreme Court nominee Clarence
Thomas will be confirmed. They believe he has the votes. The U.S.
Senate's showdown balloting is scheduled for tomorrow evening. It
could be close, but President Bush has been told his man will win.
CBS's Bob Schieffer: The calls jammed every switchboard on Capitol
Hill, but it's down to the arithmetic now, and for the first time
since the vote was postponed last Tuesday, Sen. Dole said Thomas
would be confirmed.
(Sen. Dole: "When the vote's cast tomorrow -- and it will be at
6 o'clock tomorrow -- there'll be a lot of debate, but my view is
that he'll be confirmed with a fairly comfortable margin.")
Thomas needs 51 votes to be confirmed, and Dole expects 41 of the
Senate's 43 Republicans to vote for Thomas. But confirmation rests
on whether most of the 13 Democrats who came out for Thomas before
Prof. Hill's charges, stick with him. And today, several of them,
including Boren, Dixon and Hollings, said they're reconsidering.
(Hollings: "I've got a deep concern about the whole thing. It's
tough. You've got some very convincing witnesses on both sides.")
But DeConcini reiterated support for Thomas, as did Johnston, who
said Prof. Hill's allegations just didn't add up.
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Schieffer continues:
(Johnston: "It's a question of who's telling the truth, and I
simply believe that it was overwhelmingly in favor of Judge
Thomas.")
Whatever the outcome, Thomas' sponsor said something has to change.
(Danforth: "No political agenda, however laudatory, justifies the
destruction of a human being.")
It is impossible at this point to say exactly what the vote is
going to be. But Dole seldom predicts victory unless he has the
votes to back it up. And the public opinion polls are running
strongly in Thomas' favor. So every sign here tonight is that
Thomas is going to be confirmed after all.
(CBS-Lead)
Rather: President Bush's attack strategy includes a pressure
campaign on undecided senators. But Mr. Bush refused to say today
whether he supports the attacks on Anita Hill's credibility and
mental state.
CBS's Susan Spencer: As we have said, the White House does feel
it has the votes for Clarence Thomas. Nobody is very interested
in criticism about how it got them. The critics' main charge: In
trying to save Thomas' character, the White House was willing to
destroy Anita Hill's, using the issue of race in the process.
(Janell Byrd, NAACP: "If you watched the hearings, you watched how
Anita Hill was attacked. But Judge Thomas, coming in alleging that
the Senate was being racist and that it was a lynch-mob
mentality.")
White House aides deny any unfair attack. They're readily
conceding that they worked closely with Republicans to cast doubt
on Hill's credibility. Publicly, Mr. Bush has stayed at arms'
length from anything resembling an attack on a woman's character.
But as if to remind everyone of Judge Thomas' charge of racism, the
President did today casually bring up race.
(President Bush: "I am very pleased with the way the support all
across the country is holding strong for Judge Thomas. It's
important to note that among Afro-Americans, black Americans, that
the support is very, very strong.")
The spin from the vote counters tonight is that this whole campaign
is working. The pitch to wavering Democrats: He's decent, she
couldn't prove anything, and look at those polls.
Rather discusses the nomination with Spencer:
Rather: What about the reports that the President himself
organized and ordered the "go after her" strategy?
Spencer: You have to remember that George Bush wants Clarence
Thomas on the Supreme Court very badly. He's put his prestige on
the line. He has repeatedly said that Thomas is the best person
to be on the Supreme Court. There's not, I think, any hard
evidence that he personally micro-managed this strategy, but the
White House is clearly willing to play hardball on this. (CBS-2)
Rather: The latest CBS News-New York Times Poll out tonight
indicates the vast majority of Americans watched at least some of
the hearings this weekend. Whether they watched or not, the poll,
taken last night, found more than twice as many people believing
Clarence Thomas as Anita Hill.
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CBS's Jerry Bowen: It was hot off the presses in San Francisco
this morning, served up with coffee on the Seattle waterfront: the
controversy with more questions than answers, the conflict that
challenges common sense at every turn. The wind-burned fisherman
who believed the professor:
(Unidentified man: "When a woman, at her age [inaudible], that man
is guilty to me, as far as I'm concerned.")
The sex-harassment victim who trusts the judge:
(Unidentified woman: "It just didn't seem to me like she was
telling the truth, just from watching her.")
In Salt Lake city, the longtime Mormon supporter of Hatch,
questioning his judgment:
(Jackie Nicholes: "Annoyed and concerned that he would allude to
the idea that Anita Hill, as well as other people, are dreaming of
fantasy and don't know real reality from a myth or a dream.")
In gritty, up-against-the-gangs Compton, California, at the only
NAACP chapter to support Thomas, people still can't believe a black
woman is his accuser.
(Helen Henson, NAACP, Compton Chapter: "I feel she has betrayed
us 100 percent.")
But on the essential question, more than twice as many respondents
to the poll say they would likely believe Thomas if they were
forced to choose.
CBS News-New York Times Poll
Do you believe Thomas or Hill?
THOMAS
58%
HILL
24%
Even if doubts remain in the end,
should Thomas get the benefit of
the doubt and be confirmed?
YES
56%
NO
35%
In Hollywood today, where the Thomas-Hill story challenges any
theatrical release, the question is about the system, the kind of
government that airs its dirty laundry in prime time.
(Sean David, producer: "In fact, it's big stuff and it still seems
like the only country where it gets hauled out and wrestled with.")
And in Montana's Big Sky country, rancher Jim Allman wrestled with
his thoughts, wondering if there isn't a better way.
(Allman: "If this is democracy today, it needs a tremendous
overhaul.")
It is the American democracy -- tonight, as always, a work in
progress.
(CBS-3)
Rather: Anita Hill is back home in Oklahoma tonight after her
Senate testimony in Washington. She is not taking questions this
evening, but a short time ago, she did make a statement.
CBS's Bob McNamara: Anita Hill's neighbors taped a "Welcome Home"
to her garage door this morning. And back in Oklahoma, after an
emotional, personal and political ordeal -- and polls saying more
men and women believe Clarence Thomas than they do her by 2 to 1
-- Hill's arrival at a University of Oklahoma news conference had
a campaign rally appearance.
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McNamara continues:
(Hill: "Words simply cannot express the kind of anguish that I
have experienced over the past several days.")
Hill took no questions, and said why she had to speak out.
(Hill: "It was suggested that I had fantasies, that I was a
spurned woman, and that I had a martyr complex. I will not dignify
those theories, except to assure everyone that I am not imagining
the conduct to which I testified.")
Like Clarence Thomas, Hill said the hearings changed her.
(Hill: "I have been deeply hurt and offended by the nature of the
attacks on my character. I had nothing to gain by subjecting
myself to the process. In fact, I had more to gain by remaining
silent. The personal attacks on me, without an iota of evidence,
were particularly reprehensible.")
Anita Hill wants her life to go back to being as normal as
possible. But getting there depends on the Senate now, and a long
trip over time.
(CBS-4)
CBS's Rita Braver:
(Biden: "Is it possible there's life in outer space?"
Witness: "It's possible.")
That exchange between Biden and a Clarence Thomas backer was final
proof that the hearings had indeed drifted into the twilight zone,
where one bizarre event followed another. Taboos were broken,
beginning with Anita Hill's anguished, X-rated testimony.
(Hill: "He referred to the size of his own penis as being larger
than normal. And he also spoke on some occasions of the pleasures
he had given to women with oral sex.")
Next, Clarence Thomas introduced the touchy topic of race, even
though his accuser was a black woman.
(Thomas: "That kind of language has been used about black men as
long as I've been on the face of this earth. And these are charges
that play into racist, bigoted stereotypes.")
Things were so topsy-turvy that Hill's supporters, mostly liberals
who usually hate lie-detector tests, were bragging that she took
and passed one.
(Charles Ogletree, Hill attorney: "Our concern is then to put this
issue straight to Prof. Hill.")
It was conservatives who attacked the polygraph ploy.
(Hatch: "Exactly what a two-bit, slick lawyer would try to do in
the middle of something as important as this.")
And finally, here's what happened when a man who accused Anita Hill
of fantasizing about relationships with men, was asked about a
charge that he himself had harassed another woman.
(Sen. Metzenbaum: "You confronted her in the hall, in front of an
elevator and kissed her on the mouth and told her that she would
enjoy working with you very well."
John Dogget: "I did not do any of the things that she alleged."
Biden: "Excuse me, let me interrupt for a minute."
Dogget: "I'm pissed off.")
And that, quite frankly, is the general response to one of the
weirdest episodes in congressional history.
(CBS-5)
MIDDLE EAST/SECRETARY BAKER
Jennings reports Secretary Baker is in Jordan. Attendance at a
peace conference has not yet been worked out, but Baker apparently
thinks he's getting closer.
(NBC-7, ABC-10)
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IMMIGRANTS/GREEN CARD
ABC's Chris Bury reports the Postal Service says it has processed
2 million applications and has another 4 or 5 million to go in the
immigration jackpot, which began at midnight last night. The first
40,000 qualified entrants will receive a green card.
(CBS-6, NBC-10, ABC-9)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Jennings reports the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Aung San Suu
Kyi, the leader of Burma's opposition party. However, she remains
under house arrest.
(CBS-11, NBC-8, ABC-11)
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ABC -- THIS WEEK WITH DAVID BRINKLEY
Moderator: David Brinkley. Panel: Sam Donaldson, Barbara
Walters. Guests: Sen. Mitchell, Sen. Dole, Sen. Hatch, Sen.
Mikulski.
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Hatch.
Walters: Is Prof. Hill lying?
Hatch:
I've been in enough litigation in my lifetime as a trial
lawyer before I came here. The worst witness that you have to face
is someone who has absolutely convinced themselves that they're
telling the truth. And I have to tell you that I know that
Clarence Thomas is telling the truth
I believe she believes
she's telling the truth. But the story is too pat. There are
these special aspects of the story that indicate that it's been
contrived
I suspect that what happened here is that she has
been badly used. She got snared because the certain committee
staffers
Walters:
At what point was she telling the truth to the FBI?
Was there any sexual harassment?
Hatch: I don't believe that she was telling the truth.
Brinkley:
Do you think he'll be confirmed?
Hatch: I think he'll be confirmed
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Mikulski.
Mikulski:
I believe that the process has been soured from Day
1, from the White House deciding that this was a campaign strategy
rather than a nomination process, the negative ads placed against
senators to the way Prof. Hill's allegations were handled to where
we are now.
Brinkley: So what's wrong? What do we need to change?
Mikulski:
I would hope that whoever is nominated next for the
Supreme Court doesn't have spin doctors, doesn't have handlers,
but can come straight forward and away.
Walters: If there is any doubt about Judge Thomas
should he be
confirmed?
Mikulski: I believe the three criteria for going on the court is
to be a person of character, legal competence and preserve certain
rights
That's why I pressed for a delay, so that Judge Thomas
could have a chance to say what was his situation, so that if he
is confirmed, he goes on without a cloud over him. If he doesn't
go on, it is because he has still had the opportunity to articulate
his own situation.
Brinkley: Do you think he'll be confirmed?
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Mikulski: I think it's difficult to say
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Dole, Sen. Mitchell.
Donaldson: Do you think that Anita Hill's testimony has to be
impeached rather substantially in order to get the votes you need,
or can there just be some shadow of a doubt?
Dole: I think it's sort of a mix
I think [Sen. Biden] laid
it out last night. He said that there's a presumption that goes
with Clarence Thomas. Unless there is some convincing proof to
the contrary, then Clarence Thomas should be the winner. I mean,
that's my interpretation of what Sen. Biden said.
Mitchell: I think the issues go beyond just the confirmation of
Judge Thomas or not. I think we have to look now to see if it's
not possible to review the entire process of nomination and
confirmation, to see if it can be at least put in a posture where
we can consider material that may be explosive, but do it in a way
that isn't as controversial or possibly harmful.
Donaldson: I'm asking you now what the test should be for Clarence
Thomas on this particular issue.
Mitchell: I don't think a decision should be made solely on this
issue.
I think it should be on the broader issue of
qualification
Walters: Do you know if the undecided Democrats have decided?
Mitchell: No, I do not
I have not discussed with any of them.
I have not, throughout this process, sought to canvas views on any
large scale.
Walters: What do you think of what Sen. Hatch said about that
Prof. Hill was
to a degree, duped, that she was using stereotypes
and that he doesn't feel in that way that what she said was
convincing?
Mitchell: I don't share that view. She came across to me as a
very credible, thoughtful person, and I think the defense that Sen.
Hatch has mounted is itself not credible
Walters: You feel she's telling the truth?
Mitchell: It's very difficult to tell. I think we all ought to
wait and hear all of the testimony
Walters:
If there is any doubt
what does a senator do? Do
you, with a doubt, vote for him?
Mitchell: I think that it's a conscious call for each senator
I don't think you can adopt a standard that says if a serious
allegation is raised that is unprovable or cannot be disproved,
that by itself automatically casts a sufficient cloud to compel a
negative vote. I think that is an unfairly and unnecessarily high
standard.
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Dole:
I do think he should have the benefit of the doubt
I think there are going to be enough [votes] to make it go over
the doubt.
Donaldson: If he goes on the court, what's his frame of mind going
to be like?
Dole: My view is he'll change
But he is a strong person.
He's overcome difficult matters before.
Brinkley: Every member of the Judiciary Committee has said: I
did not leak this document
and neither did my staff
Do you
believe a senator always knows what his staff is doing?
Mitchell:
The answer is "no." But let me tell you, in my
office I have a specific policy that if anybody leaks anything or
inappropriately releases information, they are immediately
discharged, no ifs, ands or buts. Therefore, there have been no
leaks, even no accusation of leaks
Donaldson: Surely you'd agree with Sen. Mitchell in his
suggestion that regardless of how a senator decides this issue,
the wider issue of total confirmation and ability to serve on the
bench should control the vote?
Dole: That's true. Yeah, no doubt about it
If there is a
doubt, we give Clarence Thomas the benefit of that doubt.
POLITICAL DISCUSSION
On the Thomas hearings: Hodding Carter joins the panel.
Brinkley: [If the] charges are true, should he be confirmed?
Walters: No.
Carter: Absolutely not.
Donaldson: Of course he shouldn't, if the charges are true. And
even if they're not true, then the wider issues of the way you
would have voted otherwise should still be on the table.
Brinkley: Do you think he will be confirmed?
Walters: If the senators don't know the answer, I'm going to fudge
this.
Donaldson: As of today, he wouldn't be confirmed.
Carter: I think he'll be confirmed.
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NBC MEET THE PRESS
Moderator: Garrick Utley. Panel: Andrea Mitchell, R.W. Apple.
Guests: Sen. Simpson, Sen. Simon, Sen. Kassebaum.
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Simpson, Sen Simon.
Apple: What would you think of the idea of senior people in the
Senate, from both parties, and the President talking over key
nominees in private before all this starts?
Simon: Absolutely. And we are dealing only with the consent side
of this. The advice side of it has been ignored by the White
House
Apple: What do you think the President would think about that?
Simpson: I don't know. But I like the idea and I also have
suggested myself we should have an executive session -- the
principals on the committee and no staff and the nominee and no
handlers
Simon:
I
think
that
a public service has been performed by
Anita Hill -- whether you agree with her testimony or not or
believe it or not -- in elevating this issue
Utley: When it is over, is there going to be a vote on Tuesday
for Clarence Thomas?
Simpson: Without question. You'd have to get unanimous consent
to get rid of the order, and no one's going to do that. We're
going to do it.
Utley: And what's the result going to be, in your view?
Simpson: He's going to prevail.
Simon: I think that is probable. It's not quite as certain as
Alan indicates
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Kassebaum.
Utley: Earlier this week, you said you still leaned to supporting
Judge Thomas. Do you still stand at that position?
Kassebaum: Yes, I do. I think it's important, having announced
my support for him before this latest allegation, to stay with that
until the hearings are complete. I suppose that for myself, unless
there is really further corroborating evidence of a strong nature,
one has to ask themselves: Do we see a nominee destroyed just by
evidence of one person? And will that be strong enough to change
votes?
Mitchell: If the evidence were strong enough, wouldn't one case
of such vile sexual harassment be enough to cause you to vote
against a nominee?
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Kassebaum: It depends, I think, on further corroborating
evidence
At this point, I don't think it's strong enough
What would bother me the most is that for the charges she brings
why didn't she leave? The charges don't quite match the
actions
Apple:
What you're saying, in effect, is that you don't
believe Prof. Hill. Is that right?
Kassebaum: No. That isn't correct. I think she makes a very
powerful statement. I think she speaks with conviction as well
I am not sure that in their own minds, they are not speaking the
truth. Through a prism of 10 years, there can be various
interpretations I would just like to make a comment, though,
on something that did trouble me that Judge Thomas brought up,
implying racism. That's a very sensitive and very tragic charge,
I think, because I don't believe it is that. I don't think it
really is high-tech lynching
Utley:
Are you saying that your fellow Republicans really were
out of line on this in supporting Thomas' position?
Kassebaum: Well, I think it's a mistake.
POLITICAL DISCUSSION
On the Thomas hearings:
Apple: I don't think we will ever have this kind of confirmation
proceeding again. I think there will be changes. I think some of
them are going to have to be initiated by the Senate. I think some
of them are going to have to be initiated by the White House. But
I think the level of nausea in the country at what has gone on is
sufficient that there actually will be a bit of reform.
Mitchell:
It seems to me, as long as you have divided
government and ideological divisions and battles over these
nominees, if a nominee is going to come to the Senate and not talk
about his or her beliefs and about the substance and back away from
views, then that opens the door to all of these personal
charges
Apple: They may get to the bottom of [the leak], but nothing much
will happen to change. If there's one thing that leak
investigations do, it's run into the sand.
Utley: Was it proper to leak, in this case?
Mitchell: I think that the Hill is furious about the leak, that
both sides are furious about the leak. But I think that misses the
point about how the Judiciary Committee handled the initial
allegations and didn't take opportunities to go question her
privately or in executive session and avoid this incredible mess.
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CBS -- FACE THE NATION
Moderator: Bob Schieffer. Guests: Sen. Danforth, Sen. Leahy,
Sen. Specter, Hill attorney Charles Ogletree.
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Danforth.
Danforth:
I think that one thing that's happened in the last
week to Clarence Thomas -- and he said this to me -- is that he
really doesn't care that much how the vote comes out. The Supreme
Court was something that was a great honor for him, but now,
whether he gets to the Supreme Court or whether he stays where he
is, he wants his life back. That's what's important.
Schieffer: Do you think it's possible that Professor Hill thinks
she's telling the truth?
Danforth: I think it's possible, but I want to say that I'm not
an expert, I'm not a psychiatrist
I think that it is possible
that she believes this
A number of psychiatrists have come
forward and said that there is a disorder where people who are in
employment situations can fantasize
I do know this: Whatever
happened to trigger this didn't come out of the blue. It was
prompted by Senate staffers. It was prompted by these interest
group people
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Leahy, Sen. Specter, Charles
Ogletree.
Ogletree: I want to say to Sen. Specter: I was offended by his
comments
to sit there in the middle of a hearing as a fact-
finder and make an allegation of perjury during the course of a
fact-finding hearing
I have never heard a prosecutor ever
imply perjury in the course of a proceeding
Specter:
When I was questioning a witness yesterday and got
into the issue of Prof. Hill's testimony, it was in a very, very
careful way. And the issue here is one of credibility, and there
are very significant indicators of lack of credibility by Prof.
Hill
Leahy:
If Prof. Hill was lying, as a lawyer, she would have
concocted a far, far better story than this. The fact of the way
the story is, it has to ring true and it comes down to this basic
question: What could she conceivably gain by lying about this?
THE McLAUGHLIN GROUP
Moderator:
John
McLaughlin.
Panel:
Fred
Barnes,
Morton
Kondracke, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page.
On the Thomas hearings:
McLaughlin: Has the tide turned in Thomas' favor?
Page: I think the tide did turn with his [Friday] evening prime
time testimony
He came across very powerfully and emotionally.
Forget the issues, he just made an emotional appeal
Barnes:
He turned the tide a lot more than [Page] let on
Clift:
He is not answering the charges. He's used the entire
day to run against something that really isn't there
I think
she is largely telling the truth
Kondracke: You could not possibly say who is telling the truth for
sure on the basis of these two things
The answer is yes [the
tide has turned]. If you can't tell -- on the basis of what you've
heard, which one's lying -- then you really have to say that the
charges are not true, because he's innocent until proven guilty,
and therefore, senators will have to go back to what they would
have done before these charges came up.
Clift:
It seems to me if he were an experienced jurist, if he'd
ever written an opinion that was notable, that we wouldn't be so
upset with what is a marginal issue. But senators who want to vote
against him have plenty reason
Using racism when civil rights
organizations oppose him, when his accuser is black and when he
himself has walked away from the civil rights movement and
affirmative action, is really intellectual dishonesty.
Kondracke: I think it's highly speculative what [Hatch] said, that
she dreamed this up from case law and that it came out of "The
Exorcist." I think the best argument that Specter
made was that
she made no contemporaneous records whatever. She kept detailed,
minute records of her time, her work and all that, lest she be
fired for some reason. But on the item that she thought she might
be fired on account of, namely the sexual harassment, she kept no
records. She told no one specifically in detail
Barnes: I think there is emerging here
growing evidence -- you
couldn't prove it now, but I think it'll be credible by the end of
these hearings -- that her motives are these: frustration, revenge
and shame
This is my theory, anyway: She comes to Washington,
her plans and hopes and ambitions of working under Thomas are
frustrated, she leaves to a lesser law school in 1983. Along the
way, she invents a tale of sexual harassment and tells a couple of
friends to hide her embarrassment of not doing well
Clift:
To imagine that a woman sits and makes records to
herself -- memorandum concerning sexual harassment -- is totally
absurd
White House News Summary
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- C-8
Kondracke: What Fred is saying is that it's more like the
equivalent of an academic Tawana Brawley, that she made one false
statement, and then she got gradually deeper and deeper into false
statements
Clift: She has done nothing to suggest she has a credibility
problem, whereas Thomas has done a lot to suggest that he can lie
pretty easily. His performance in those initial hearings, when
asked questions about Roe V. Wade, he insisted he'd never even
discussed the topic. There isn't an adult in this country that
hasn't discussed that issue.
Barnes:
She didn't want to testify, because she knew her story
was untrue, and she wanted to do it anonymously. Finally, she was
forced to testify, and she embellished it all along.
McLaughlin: How would you vote if you were voting today?
Page: Against.
Barnes: He is faced with a monstrous lie. I would vote for him.
Clift: Against.
Kondracke: I would have voted for him before. I'd vote for him,
for now.
McLaughlin: I say yes.
###
INSIDE WASHINGTON
Moderator: Gordon Peterson. Panel: Charles Krauthammer, Carl
Rowan, Juan Williams, Tina Gulland.
On the Thomas hearings:
Peterson: Can Thomas' nomination survive this?
Williams:
I
don't
know
I do have a lot of praise for the
people involved. There's a high human toll here.
Rowan: Only if they destroy the woman's credibility entirely
Krauthammer: It changes every hour. As of Friday night, Thomas
was dead. As of Saturday noon, he was revived. As of [Saturday
night], he does not have the votes, but who knows what lurks
between now and 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Rowan:
Here's Thomas, who has gone for half of his life saying
to blacks, don't go around blaming racism. He gets in trouble and
all of the sudden, he's saying, they're doing this to me because
I'm a black man
I don't think he can sell it.
Williams:
I don't think anyone, even people who don't fully
agree with her story, believe that [Hill is part of a
conspiracy]
Krauthammer:
I think [Hill] is a remarkable witness, probably
one of the great witnesses of all time
There's her
presentation on the one hand. On the other hand is the evidence.
I do not think she responded to the obvious questions people have:
Why did she follow Thomas to another job?
This is not a witness
who does not have problems.
Rowan:
Open season? If you know anything about history, it was
open season on Thurgood Marshall for the 2nd Court of Appeals
It was open season on Hainsworth
It was open season on Abe
Fortas
I don't like to see this campaign to make Thomas a
martyr. And I can tell you, if I had that lead, I would've gone
public with it, because the greater disgrace would have been for
this stuff never to come out.
Peterson: What about his credibility? Do you believe him when he
says he never discussed Roe V. Wade, even with his wife?
Krauthammer: There is political lying, which every politician in
the country does
This is very different. This is denying that
an event in his life actually happened. That's a whole different
lying.
Rowan: I absolutely do not believe Thomas. I believe the
conversations took place. I think he's lying and she may be
overdramatizing a few aspects of it. But I think the woman is
telling the truth, because there is just no evidence that's she's
come out of Fantasy Island or that she's a sociopath.
-елош-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- C-10
Gulland:
Sen. Hatch's efforts to say that Hill fabricated
things by reading 10th Circuit opinions
was so offensive and so
strained everyone's credibility that the real issue then is him
against her. And the him is a man whom we have to believe had
never discussed Roe V. Wade, hadn't even watched his chief accuser
on television on Friday afternoon. That's hard to believe.
Krauthammer: Just because a guy dances around the issue of
abortion does not make him either weird or a pathological liar.
This is an unbelievable connection that's you're making
Gulland:
I think it's essential that the factual issue of
whether Thomas sexually harassed Hill has got to be separated from
this other separate, distinct -- though very important public issue
-- of the problem of sexual harassment across the country
Krauthammer:
This issue is roaring over Washington. It's
roaring over this country, and it's landing on the head of one man.
He has become the surrogate for all of the resentments and all of
the real injuries that women have had over these years
Williams:
When you have the leak and the leak comes after all
the consideration, the leak becomes the issue because it is so
purposely political, and that is what corrupts.
Peterson: Has the press been irresponsible in this story?
Krauthammer: I don't think SO. If you get a leak of something so
inflammatory and so important, you release it. I don't think that
the press, as the conduit, is responsible here.
-end of News Summary-
Vidaily
This Week
CONGRESSIONAL
The Senate vote today on the nomi-
nation of Judge Clarence Thomas to be
MONITOR
an associate justice of the Supreme Court
will cap a week of extraordinary attention
on the nominee.
The scheduled 6 p.m. vote follows
new hearings last week in the Senate Ju-
C
diciary Committee, centering on allega-
tions that Thomas sexually harassed a
Tuesday, October 15, 1991
Volume 27, Number 157
former worker, Anita Hill, while at the
Education Department and the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission.
But Congress plans to devote consid-
Last Week In Congress
erable attention to several other impor-
tant measures, as well:
The House this week will consider a
comprehensive anticrime bill and a six-
A late-breaking controversy over alle-
comfortable margin, but his confirmation
year reauthorization of highway programs.
gations that Supreme Court nominee Clar-
was imperiled by allegations that he made
The Senate is expected to try to over-
ence Thomas made improper sexual com-
improper sexual comments to Anita Hill,
ride President Bush's veto last Friday of
ments to a female ex-employee dominated
an attorney who worked for him at both the
a measure (S 1722) to extend unemploy-
the attention of Capitol Hill last week.
Education Department and the Equal Em-
ment benefits to the nation's jobless.
In an abbreviated work week, the
ployment Opportunity Commission.
Conference negotiations will continue
Senate was supposed to vote on the
The charges surfaced over the week-
on a fiscal 1992 spending bill for the Inte-
nomination on Tuesday, but the revela-
end of Oct. 5-6 and, under pressure, the
rior Department and related agencies
tions led to a delay in the vote. On Fri-
Senate postponed its scheduled Oct. 8 vote.
and will begin on the spending bill for the
day, the Senate Judiciary Committee re-
On Friday, both Thomas and Hill
Departments of Labor, Health and Hu-
opened its examination of the
appeared before the Senate Judiciary
man Services, and Education.
nomination, hearing from Thomas and
Committee. In a forceful tone, Thomas
Here are other important issues on
his accuser, law professor Anita Hill.
denied that he had ever discussed sex
the agenda for the week:
In the House, lawmakers approved
with Hill. "I will not provide the rope for
conference agreements on three fiscal
my own lynching or for further humilia-
Senate Floor Action
1992 spending bills and passed legislation
tion," he said.
Civil Rights. Later in the week,
that would toughen laws against vertical
"No job is worth what I've been
Senate leaders may try to bring up a civil
price-fixing.
through," Thomas said. "Confirm me if
rights bill (S 1745) that is continuing to
President Bush vetoed legislation (S
you want. Don't confirm me if you are so
evolve under the leadership of John C.
1722) that would have provided up to 20
led. But let this process end."
Danforth, R-Mo. The bill, a top priority
additional weeks of compensation to
Hill, who first made the allegations
for many on this year's domestic agenda,
workers whose unemployment benefits
last month and whose statements to the
would make it easier for women and mi-
have been exhausted. (Details, p. 2)
FBI were known only by committee
norities to combat discrimination in the
Soviet Trade Pact. President
members before last week, told the panel
workplace.
Bush sent a revised U.S.-Soviet trade
on Friday that Thomas repeatedly asked
The Senate last week had scheduled
agreement to Capitol Hill that was modi-
her for dates and made graphic com-
a cloture vote for today on a motion to
fied to reflect the new independence of
ments about pornographic films and his
bring the bill to the floor. But Majority
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. It would
own sexual prowess.
Leader George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, de-
grant to the Soviets most-favored-nation
"His conversations were very vivid,"
layed that vote on the request of Dan-
trade status, which would drastically re-
Hill said. "He spoke about acts that he
duce many U.S. tariffs on Soviet goods.
had seen in pornographic films involving
See THIS WEEK on p. 5
The three Baltic states, which broke
such matters as women having sex with
free from the Soviet Union after the
animals and films showing group sex or
failed August coup, would be given favor-
rape scenes."
In This Issue
able trade status in separate agreements.
Thomas expressed bewilderment at
Bad Check Controversy. The
the charges. "I have been wracking my
THIS WEEK
1
House leadership laid the groundwork for
LAST WEEK
1
brains and eating my insides out trying to
TODAY
an ethics investigation of members who
think of what I could have said or done to
Committee Listings
6
wrote bad checks to the House Bank, which
Anita Hill to lead her to allege that I was
News Events
7
the House two weeks ago voted to close.
interested in her in more than a profes-
FUTURE
Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, who chairs the
sional way."
Senate Committees
7
ethics committee, excused himself from
In his opening statement, Chairman
House Committees
10
the case because he wrote bad checks.
Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., addressed
Conference Committees
15
Matthew F. McHugh, D-N.Y., will chair
criticism that the committee had mishan-
Joint Committees
15
the panel during the probe.
dled the allegations by not disclosing
Other Events
16
them during the initial confirmation
STATUS CHARTS
Thomas Nomination
FY92 Appropriations
19
hearings.
House Floor
21
Clarence Thomas had appeared set to
Senate Floor
22
win a seat on the Supreme Court by a
See LAST WEEK on p. 2
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Tuesday, October 15, 1991
Unemployment Benefits Bill Veto
LAST WEEK from p. 1
Will Test Bush's Perfect Record
"I am deeply sorry that our actions
President Bush last Friday vetoed a $6.4 billion measure (S 1722) that would have
in this respect have been seen by many
provided extended benefits to the nation's unemployed who had exhausted their 26
across this country as a sign that this
weeks of state benefits. The measure would have provided an additional seven weeks
committee does not take the charge of
of unemployment benefits to workers in 30 states and the District of Columbia in
sexual harassment seriously," Biden said.
which unemployment is less than 7 percent; an extra 13 weeks to those in 14 states in
"We emphatically do."
which unemployment is between 7 and 8 percent; and 20 additional weeks to workers
Ranking Republican Strom Thur-
in six states where the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent.
mond, S.C., said that the hearings were
Bush said the measure would break the 1990 budget pact because it did not provide
difficult for the committee as well as
for offsetting spending cuts or additional revenues to pay for the added benefits.
Thomas and Hill. "But our duty is clear,"
The 65-35 vote by which the Senate cleared the bill was less than the two-thirds
he said, "We must find the truth."
that would be needed to override a veto, giving the White House confidence that the
The hearings continued Saturday
veto will stick. Congress has failed to override any of Bush's previous 22 vetoes.
and Sunday, ending at 2 a.m. Monday
Here is a list of Bush's 23 vetoes during his 33 months in office:
morning. Members heard from friends of
Hill, who said that she had told them she
1989
was being sexually harassed, and from
women who had worked for Thomas, who
Bill
Bill Description
Date
Outcome*
said that he was a decent man and could
not possibly have done what Hill alleged.
HR 2
Minimum Wage Increase
June 13
House sustained, 247-178
A final showdown between Thomas
S
J
Res
113
FS-X Plane Codevelopment
July 31
Senate sustained, 66-34
and Hill was averted by mutual agreement.
H J Res 390
Thrift-bailout Bill
Enrollment Requirements
Aug. 16
No override attempt
Appropriations
HR 2990
Labor, HHS, Education
The House last week approved con-
FY 1990 Appropriations
Oct. 21
House sustained, 231-191
ference agreements on three fiscal- 1992
spending bills. Of the 13 regular spending
HR 3026
District of Columbia
bills, three have been signed into law,
FY 1990 Appropriations
Oct. 27
No override attempt
another three are en route to the White
HR 2939
Foreign Aid
House, the three approved last week by
FY 1990 Appropriations
Nov. 19
No override attempt
the House await Senate action before be-
HR 3610
District of Columbia
ing shipped to the White House, and four
FY 1990 Appropriations
Nov. 20
No override attempt
others are not as far along on their legis-
HR 1231
Eastern Airlines Strike
lative journeys.
Resolution
Nov. 21
House sustained, 261-160
Agriculture, Nutrition. A House-
Senate agreement on a $52.5 billion mea-
HR 1487
State Dept. Authorization
Nov. 21
No override attempt
sure 2698) that would provide $11.6
HR 2712
Chinese Immigrant Status
Nov. 30
House overrode, 390-25
billion for agriculture programs and more
Senate sustained, 62-37
than $32 billion for nutrition initiatives
won voice vote approval from the House.
1990
The measure would provide about $32
billion for nutrition, including $23.4 billion
Bill
Bill Description
Date
Outcome*
for food stamps and $2.6 billion for the
HR 2364
Amtrak Authorization
May 24
House overrode, 294-123
Women, Infants and Children program.
Senate sustained, 64-36
About $46 million would be provided
HR 20
Hatch Act Amendments
June 15
House overrode, 327-93
for the Wetlands Reserve Program for
Senate sustained, 65-35
50,000 acres in five states - less than half
HR 770
Parental/Medical Leave
June 29
House sustained, 232-195
the amount the Bush administration
wanted. The program pays farmers to take
HR 4328
Textile Import Quotas
Oct. 5
House sustained, 275-152
wetlands out of agriculture production.
H J Res 660 Continuing Appropriations
Oct. 6
House sustained, 260-138
Transportation. The House also ap-
S 2104
Civil Rights
Oct. 22
Senate sustained, 66-34
proved, 374-49, the conference report on
HR 4638
Orphan Drug Amendments
Nov. 8
No override attempt
a fiscal 1992 measure (HR 2942) for fed-
eral transportation programs.
S 321
Indian Preference Act
Nov. 16
No override attempt
In addition to appropriating $14.3
HR 4653
Export Controls Authorization Nov.
16
No override attempt
billion, the measure would raise the ceil-
HR 3134
Relief of Joan R. Daronco
Nov. 16
No override attempt
ing on spending from the Highway Trust
Fund to $16.8 billion, up from $14.5 bil-
1991
lion in fiscal 1991.
The measure contains language that
Bill
Bill Description
Date
Outcome*
would mandate random drug tests for
HR 2699
District of Columbia
transportation workers in safety-sensi-
FY 1992 Appropriations
Aug. 17
No override attempt
tive jobs.
Military Construction. The House
S 1722
Unemployment Benefits
Oct. 11
also approved, by voice vote, the House-
*Veto overrides require a two-thirds majority vote of both houses.
Senate conference agreement on a fiscal
'Similar provisions were included in HR 5316, signed on Dec. 1 (PL 101-650)
1992 spending measure (HR 2426) for
military construction. The $8.5 billion
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Congressional Monitor
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LAST WEEK from p. 2
retailer conspired to set prices and cut off
utilities. The measure, which would ex-
supplies to the discounter.
empt wholesale power producers from
bill would provide for construction
By a 218-195 vote, members ap-
terms of the 1935 Public Utilities Hold-
projects at domestic and overseas mili-
proved an amendment that would specify
ing Company Act, is intended to spur
tary bases.
that no one could win a lawsuit against a
competition and efficiency in electricity
The measure would provide $225 mil-
defendant "so small in the relevant mar-
production.
lion for the NATO infrastructure account,
ket as to lack market power."
S&L Bailout. The House Banking
$133.8 million less than President Bush
State Department. The House
Financial Institutions Subcommittee
requested. The account pays for construc-
cleared for the president legislation (HR
voted, 20-16, to approve draft legislation
tion projects at bases used by the alliance.
1415) that would authorize the activities of
that would provide an additional $80 bil-
Interior Spending. House and Sen-
the State Department for fiscal 1992-93.
lion to close failing thrifts.
ate negotiators on the fiscal 1992 appro-
The House-Senate compromise mea-
The measure would also restructure
priations bill (HR 2686) for the Interior
sure would authorize $5.6 billion for fis-
the management team in charge of the
Department and related agencies met
cal 1992. Included in that figure is $130
bailout. The Resolution Trust Corpora-
twice last week but were unable to com-
million for a U.S. embassy in Moscow.
tion, which is currently overseen by the
plete work on resolving differences be-
The bill leaves it up to the State Depart-
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
tween their two bills.
ment to decide whether to use the money
would become an independent agency with
Conferees did not take up whether to
to build a new embassy or to overhaul a
a new chief executive officer at its head.
mandate an increase in the amount the
facility that was built in the 1980s but
On a 16-18 vote, the panel rejected a
government charges Western ranchers
left unoccupied after listening devices
GOP amendment to delete a provision that
for grazing livestock on federal lands.
were discovered.
would require President Bush and congres-
And conferees were unable to resolve
Census Study. Legislation (HR
sional leaders to come up with a plan to
a dispute between Sen. Ted Stevens, R-
3280) that would mandate a study of how
offset about $60 billion of the cost.
Alaska, and Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Ohio,
to improve the nation's decennial census
FDA Powers. The House Energy
over a Senate proposal to rename Mount
of the population was cleared for the
Subcommittee on Health approved legis-
McKinley in Alaska. Stevens proposed
president after the House agreed to mi-
lation (HR 2597) that would beef up the
that the Interior Department's Board on
nor Senate amendments.
enforcement powers of the Food and
Geographic Names recommend within 18
The measure would authorize the
Drug Administration (FDA).
months what the appropriate name for
Commerce Department to contract with
The bill would give the FDA broad
the mountain should be.
the National Academy of Sciences for a
Stevens wants the peak - the high-
three-year study on census reform.
est in North America renamed Mount
Job Training. The House passed,
CONGRESSIONAL
Denali; Regula opposes a name change.
420-6, a bill (HR 3033) that would re-
authorize the 1982 Job Training Partner-
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Foreign Aid. The Senate approved,
to provide more aid to those with the
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lation (HR 2508) that would authorize
The centerpiece of the $2 billion bill
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nearly $25 billion for foreign assistance
is a state block-grant program for train-
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programs for fiscal 1992-93.
ing programs for economically disad-
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Israel and Egypt would receive the
vantaged youths and adults.
Reporters: Elizabeth A. Palmer, Andrew
largest portion of aid, $3 billion and $2.1
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new enforcement tools, including author-
Commerce panel also approved legislation
to react to major oil spills.
ity to impose civil fines of up $250,000 for
(HR 3508) that would reauthorize through
The International Convention on Sal-
individuals and $1 million for companies.
fiscal 1994 about $2 billion in health pro-
vage (Treaty Doc. 102-12) would require
The measure would also give the
grams under the Public Health Service
commercial salvage firms and shipowners
FDA authority to seize and embargo
Act. The measure would authorize federal
to exercise more care during salvage opera-
products and order recalls for all of the
programs that provide loans to medical
tions to prevent environmental damage.
products it regulates - food, drugs, cos-
students and funds for medical education
Bird Habitat. A 400,000-acre stretch
metics and medical devices. The FDA
programs for doctors and nurses.
of forest in California would be perma-
currently has such powers over some, but
Maritime Treaties. The Senate
nently protected under a bill (HR 2556)
not all, of the products.
Foreign Relations Committee approved
approved by the House Agriculture Forests
Export Controls. The House For-
two treaties. The International Conven-
Subcommittee. The bill also designates 83
eign Affairs Committee began work on
tion on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Re-
miles along three rivers in the Los Padres
draft legislation to revise U.S. laws that
sponse and Cooperation (Treaty Doc.
National Forest as protected area. The
restrict the export of sensitive technol-
102-11) would require participating coun-
forest is home to several endangered spe-
ogies, but members were unable to reach an
tries to take steps to improve their ability
cies, including the California condor.
agreement on several outstanding issues.
The Export Administration Act of
1979 was enacted to restrict the flow of
sensitive exports to the communist bloc,
Decision-Making Time Nears for Campaign '92
but events in the Soviet Union and East-
ern Europe have led to an effort to refo-
Although the 102nd Congress is not even half over, House and Senate members are
cus the act.
starting to tip their hands about their political intentions for 1992. Five senators and
The Bush administration has balked
11 House members have already announced plans to retire or run for another office.
at several of the proposed changes, in-
Committee chairmen in each body have announced plans to depart. Walter B.
cluding a provision that would ease re-
Jones, D-N.C., chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries panel, an-
strictions on the export of fiber optics
nounced on Oct. 4 he was retiring. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Alan
and other telecommunications equip-
Cranston, D-Calif., said he would not seek re-election late last year.
ment to the Soviet Union.
If historical trends hold true, for many House members this Congress will be their
Crime Bill. The House Ways and
last. Since the 1950s, the first Congress after reapportionment and redistricting - as
Means Committee approved its portion of
the 103rd Congress will be - has had about 75 new members. And, because members
a wide-ranging anticrime bill (HR 3371).
will no longer be permitted - beginning in 1993 - to convert their campaign
The provisions would allow the Cus-
warchests to personal use, some members may decide to retire.
toms' Service to impose criminal penal-
For some, the time for announcing their decision is not far off: The filing deadline
ties of up to three years in prison for
for congressional candidates in Illinois is just two months hence, on Dec. 16, and filing
pilots of planes suspected of carrying ille-
deadlines arrive before March in 10 other states.
gal drugs who do not obey orders to land.
In other states, however, the filing deadlines do not come before late July.
Currently only a civil fine of up to $5,000
The following list shows members of Congress who have announced they do not
can be imposed.
plan to seek re-election next year or they are making a bid for another office.
Higher Education. The House
The gubernatorial elections in Kentucky and Louisiana are this year - Nov. 5 in
Education
Subcommittee
on
Kentucky and Oct. 19 in Louisiana (with a Nov. 16 runoff).
Postsecondary Education approved a
The list does not include members who have already left Congress in 1991, or who
draft measure that would reauthorize the
are known to be pondering a bid for higher office but who have not made formal
1965 Higher Education Act.
announcements.
The subcommittee rejected, 9-17, an
Senate
amendment that would have deleted pro-
visions making the Pell grant program an
Name, Party, State
Service Began
Reason for Leaving
entitlement. Pell grants, which are
Alan Cranston, D-Calif.
1969
Retirement
awarded to students whose family's in-
Jake Garn, R-Utah
1975
Retirement
come is less than $37,000 per year, are
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa
1985
Run for president
currently funded through the annual
Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.
1989
Run for president
appropriations process.
Steve Symms, R-Idaho
1981
Retirement
900 Numbers. Legislation (HR
House
3490) that would require operators of
900-number telephone services to pro-
Name, Party, State, District
Service Began
Reason for Leaving
vide consumers with details about calls
Les AuCoin, D-Ore. (1)
1975
Run for Senate
was approved by the House Energy and
Doug Barnard Jr. (10)
1977
Retirement
Commerce Committee.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. (6)
1983
Run for Senate
Operators of 900-number services
Tom Campbell, R-Calif. (12)
1989
Run for Senate
would be required to disclose the cost of a
William E. Dannemeyer, R-Calif. (39)
1979
Run for Senate
call in a preamble and to allow callers to
Dennis E. Eckart, D-Ohio (11)
1981
Retirement
hang up with no charge. Customers
Clyde C. Holloway, R-La. (8)
1987
Run for governor
would be able to block access to 900 num-
Larry J. Hopkins, R-Ky. (6)
1979
Run for governor t
bers from their phones.
Walter B. Jones, D-N.C. (1)
1966
Retirement
The bill would also bar telephone
Jim Moody, D-Wis. (5)
1983
Run for Senate
companies from discontinuing service to
Don J. Pease, D-Ohio (13)
1977
Retirement
customers who refused to pay 900-num-
D. French Slaughter Jr., R-Va. (7)
1985
Retirement
*
ber charges. And companies that run
Richard H. Stallings, D-Idaho (2)
1985
Run for Senate
telephone sweepstakes would be required
tDoes not have to give up seat unless elected
to disclose the odds of winning.
*Retirement effective Nov. 5, 1991
Health Bills. The House Energy and
Tuesday, October 15, 1991
Congressional Monitor
Page 5
THIS WEEK from p. 1
funds from going to overseas organiza-
tion.
tions that either perform or actively pro-
Dairy Bill. The Senate Agriculture
mote abortions as a method of family
Committee on Wednesday will mark up
forth, who has been preoccupied with his
planning.
legislation (S 1527) to increase price sup-
fight on behalf of Supreme Court nomi-
The second provision involves $20
ports for milk producers.
nee Clarence Thomas, and who is trying
million in U.S. aid to the U.N. Population
The measure would raise milk price
to draw up a compromise measure that
Fund. President Bush opposes giving any
supports by 25 percent and curb produc-
would get administration support.
money to the fund, arguing that it provides
tion with government-imposed quotas.
The House on June 5 passed its civil
money to China, which some have said has
Producers would be guaranteed
rights bill (HR 1) by a 273-158 vote, well
a policy of coerced abortions.
$12.60 per 100 pounds on a limited
below the two-thirds vote that supporters
Flint Hills. The House on Wednes-
-amount of their production and a lower
of the bill would need to override a veto
day will consider a measure (HR 2369)
price on the excess.
by President Bush, who has charged that
that would create the first national park
But the administration is dead-set
the measure would lead to job quotas.
in Kansas.
against the bill, saying that higher milk
Federal Facilities Compliance.
The measure would preserve a piece
prices would harm consumers and drive
The Senate may also turn to legislation
of the tallgrass prairie by creating an
up costs for government food programs
(S 596) that would allow the Environ-
11,000-acre Flint Hills Prairie National
for school children and the poor.
mental Protection Agency and state at-
Monument by allowing the National
Education Improvements. The
torneys general to levy fines against fed-
Park Service to purchase the Z-Bar
House Education and Labor Committee
eral agencies that have failed to clean up
Ranch.
will mark up a bill (HR 3320) that would
hazardous waste at federal facilities.
Sport Fish Funds. Today, the
authorize $700 million to help local
Bill backers say the federal govern-
House will consider bills under suspen-
school districts institute new programs.
ment should be held accountable to the
sion of the rules, including HR 1297,
HR 3320 would authorize grants to
same hazardous waste standards as the
which would authorize coastal states to
states, which in turn would make funds
private sector.
spend 5 percent of the money they re-
available to local school districts. To be
ceive from a federal sport fish restoration
eligible for the grants, state officials
House Floor Action
fund for the maintenance of vessel
would have to draft plans that include
Crime Bill. The House today will
pumpout stations.
specific goals on how they would provide
begin what is expected to be two days of
for better education in their schools.
work on a $1.2 billion comprehensive
Conference Action
Highway Bill. The House Public
anticrime bill (HR 3371) that would ex-
Interior Spending. Conferees on
Works Committee will mark up a new
pand the federal death penalty to about
the roughly $12 billion spending measure
version of a measure (HR 2950) to re-
50 crimes, raise other criminal penalties
(HR 2686) for the Interior Department and
authorize highway and mass transit pro-
and authorize more money for local en-
related agencies on Tuesday will debate
grams. The six-year, $151 billion measure
forcement.
two sticky issues - whether to mandate an
is a complete substitute for an earlier
The bill would also limit death sen-
increase in the amount the government
five-year, $153.5 billion bill that was
tence challenges by setting a one-year
charges Western ranchers for grazing live-
abandoned by House leaders after strong
deadline for prisoners to file habeas cor-
stock on federal lands and whether to in-
objection to a 5-cent increase in the gaso-
pus petitions in federal court after ex-
clude a House provision that would freeze,
line tax included in the bill.
hausting appeals of their state convic-
for one year, applications for hard-rock
The new measure would extend ex-
tions and by restricting additional
mining claims on federal lands.
isting fuel taxes, including a 2.5-cent per
petitions.
The negotiators may also consider a
gallon tax levied last year that was set to
As many as 46 amendments may be
Senate provision that would prohibit the
expire in fiscal 1995. The extension
offered.
National Endowment for the Arts from
would be until fiscal 1999.
The Senate has approved a tougher
using funds "to promote, disseminate or
The House Ways and Means Commit-
bill, supported by the White House, that
produce materials that depict or de-
tee will consider the tax provisions of the
is also more expensive than the House
scribe, in a patently offensive way, sexual
bill on Wednesday.
measure.
or excretory activities or organs."
Ways and Means. The House
Highway Bill. On Thursday, the
Labor-HHS. On Wednesday, a
Ways and Means Committee on Wednes-
House is expected to begin consideration of
House-Senate conference will begin on
day will mark up four bills, including the
a revised version of a bill (HR 2950) that
the fiscal 1992 spending bill for the De-
highway reauthorization measure (HR
would reauthorize highway and mass tran-
partments of Labor, Health and Human
2950).
sit programs for six years. The $151 billion
Services, and Education.
The committee will also consider:
bill includes $119 billion for highways and
The measure is under a veto threat
HR 534, which would repeal a fee on
$32 billion for mass transit. It also includes
over provisions that would block adminis-
recreational boaters. The fee, mandated
455 demonstration projects for members'
tration regulations forbidding abortion
under last year's budget agreement, is
districts at an estimated cost of $5 billion.
counseling in federally funded family plan-
supposed to raise $127 million this fiscal
Foreign Aid. Also on Thursday, the
ning clinics. The Senate also added provi-
year. Depending on the boat's size, the
House is expected to act on the confer-
sions that would allow federal funding of
fee would range from $25 to $100 per
ence report on a $25 billion fiscal 1992-93
abortions in certain cases of rape and in-
boat and covers both sailboats and power
foreign aid authorization bill (HR 2508)
cest. Currently, federal funding is allowed
boats.
that seems certain to be vetoed.
only to save the life of the woman.
HR 534 would replace the lost reve-
The measure would provide $12.5
nue by charging a fee for access to a
billion in each fiscal year for military,
Committee Action
Federal Maritime Commission database
economic and development aid.
Gates Nomination: The Senate
on shipping rates that is being created.
The Bush administration is opposed
Intelligence Committee will resume con-
HR 2837, which would overhaul the
to two provisions in the bill relating to
sideration this week of the nomination of
federal dairy price support program. The
abortion policy. One provision would
Robert Gates to be director of U.S. intel-
bill includes provisions imposing an as-
overturn the so-called Mexico City pol-
ligence operations. The committee will
sessment on dairy producers which, be-
icy, which since 1984 has barred U.S.
meet on Friday to vote on the nomina-
cause it can be characterized as a tax,
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Tuesday, October 15, 1991
falls under the committee's jurisdiction.
Energy Strategy. The House En-
Countries listed on the trade repre-
HR 2056, which would prohibit any
ergy and Commerce Committee's Energy
sentative's annual priority list are singled
ship that benefits from a foreign govern-
and Power Subcommittee on Thursday
out for special negotiating efforts by the
ment subsidy from unloading its cargo in
will continue work on a draft measure
administration to reduce trade barriers.
a U.S. port.
providing for a national energy strategy.
The bill would also require the Com-
Under the bill, ships would have to
The panel will take up sections dealing
merce Department to conduct a thorough
get certification from the Commerce De-
with uranium enrichment for nuclear
analysis of how U.S. exporting companies
partment indicating that they were not
power plants.
are hurt by foreign trade barriers.
built with government subsidies.
Trade Liberalization. On Thurs-
The committee will also take up a bill
If subsidies were involved, foreign
day, the House Energy and Commerce
(HR 2624) that would establish an inter-
shipbuilders would be required to pay the
Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer
agency, federal-level council to investi-
money back to their governments in or-
Protection and Competitiveness will
gate cases of technology transfer and de-
der to receive certification.
mark up legislation (HR 787) that would
termine to what extent the transfer of
Waste Storage. On Wednesday,
authorize the U.S. Trade Representative
technology and ownership of key compa-
the Senate Energy and Natural Re-
to list as a priority case any country
nies may effect the ability of the Defense
sources Committee will mark up legisla-
whose trade imbalance with the United
Department to acquire essential procure-
tion (S 1671) to transfer ownership of a
States accounts for 15 percent of the to-
ment items under the Defense Produc-
low-level nuclear waste facility in New
tal U.S. trade deficit in a calendar year.
tion Act of 1950.
Mexico - the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant - from the Interior Department to
the Department of Energy (DOE) in or-
der to allow it to operate. The DOE tried
to transfer it last week through adminis-
trative order, but postponed action after
Meetings & Events Today
the state of New Mexico filed suit.
Food Bills. The House Agriculture
Committee on Wednesday will mark up
House Committees
commissioner, Forest County, Pa.;
HR 1202, which would provide more food
PANEL 3: Mark Walsh Utah Association of
stamps for those with high rent.
Counties; Kathryn Hohmann - Sierra Club
The measure would change current
IMPLEMENTATION OF FARM BILL
law, which determines food stamp allot-
RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS
House Agriculture Committee
UNDERSEA RESEARCH
ments by allowing recipients who rent to
deduct from their incomes up to $186 a
Conservation, and Rural Develop-
House Merchant Marine Committee
ment Subcomr (Chairman English, D-
Oceanography, Great Lakes and the Outer
month for housing expenses. The mea-
Okla.) will a hearing on the implementa-
Continental Shelf Subcommittee (Chairman
sure would gradually eliminate the cap
tion of Tural development provisions of the
Hertel, D-Mich.) will hold a hearing on legisla-
on housing costs.
1990 farm bill.
tion (HR 3247) to establish a National Under-
By fiscal 1995, the cap would be
10am 1300 Longworth Bldg. October 15
sea Research Program within the National
eliminated completely.
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The panel will also consider HR 3556,
2pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. October 15
SUBPOENAS TO FERC OFFICIALS
Witnesses scheduled:
a measure that would provide food for
House Government Operations Committee
PANEL 1: Marsh Youngbluth - Harbor Branch
emerging democracies.
Oceanographic Institution; James Brooks - Texas
ANWR Drilling: On Thursday, the
Environment, Energy and Natural Re-
A & M University; Val Klump - University of
sources Subcommittee (Chairman Synar, D-
Wisconsin
Senate Environment and Public Works
Okla.) will meet decide whether to issue sub-
PANEL 2: Lawrence Madin Woods Hole
Committee will mark up legislation (S
poena's to Federal Energy Regulatory
Oceasnographic Institution; Alan Hulbert Uni-
39) that would provide permanent wil-
Commission (FERC) employees who allegedly
versity of North Carolina; Ned Ostenso National
derness designation for the Arctic Na-
engaged in ex parte communications.
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
tional Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). By des-
1:30pm 2247 Rayburn Bldg. October 15
ignating ANWR as a wilderness area, the
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
bill would prohibit oil drilling in the ref-
SUBCOMMITTEE BUSINESS
HIGHWAY BILL
uge. Provisions in a comprehensive en-
House Committee on
House Public Works Committee
ergy measure (S 1220) approved by the
House Administration
The full committee (Chairman Roe, D-N.J.)
Senate Energy Committee in May would
Office Systems Subcommittee (Chairman
will mark up legislation (HR 2950) to reautho-
open up ANWR to drilling.
Gejdenson, D-Conn.) will meet to consider
rize federal surface transportation and highway
Immigration Restrictions. The
pending business.
programs.
House Judiciary Committee's Interna-
1:30pm H-328 Capitol Bldg. October 15
10am 2167 Rayburn Bldg. October 15
tional Law, Immigration and Refugees
Subcommittee on Wednesday will con-
sider a measure (HR 3048) that would
PUBLIC LANDS
CLEAN WATER ACT
ease requirements for artists and enter-
House Interior Committee
House Public Works Committee
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
Water Resources Subcommittee (Chairman
tainers to enter the United States tempo-
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) will
Nowak, D-N.Y.) will hold hearings on the
rarily.
hold hearings on pending legislation.
reauthorization of the Clean Water Act. This
The legislation would amend sec-
11am 1324 Longworth Bldg. October 15
series of hearings will focus on wetlands
tions of the Immigration and Nationality
Agenda:
protection.
Act of 1990, which toughens standards
HR 1495/HR 1584/HR 3520 - to increase federal
1pm 2167 Rayburn Bldg. October 15
for establishing entertainment status,
payments in lieu of taxes to units of local govern-
ments
such as requiring a visa applicant to be
Witnesses scheduled:
FAA ADVANCED RESEARCH
well-known internationally in his or her
PANEL 1: Tom Allen - Bureau of Land Manage-
House Science Committee
field. It also requires consultation with
ment; George Leonard Forest Service
related labor groups prior to the issuance
PANEL 2: Peter Kenney commissioner, Clear
Technology and Competitiveness Sub-
Creek County, Colo.; Barbara Evans commis-
committee (Chairman Valentine, D-N.C.) will
of the visa.
sioner, Missoula County, Mont.; Steve Hale
hold a hearing on the Federal Aviation Admin-
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Revised listing
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Page 7
House continued.
for "Sun Day 1992: A Campaign for a Sustain-
Senate continued.
able Energy Future." Sun Day 1992 is a nation-
istration's advanced research program.
wide grassroots campaign to promote improved
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS
9:30am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. October 15
energy efficiency and renewable energy as solu-
Securities Subcommittee (Chairman Dodd,
Witnesses scheduled: John Perkins North Caro-
tions to global climate change, energy imports
D-Conn.) of Senate Banking, Housing and
lina State University; Melvin Kanninen South-
and other energy-related environmental prob-
Urban Affairs Committee will hold a hearing
west Research Institute; Robert Stengel Prince-
lems. Participants include Sen. Paul Wellstone,
on shareholder rights and proxy reform.
ton University's Department of Mechanical and
D-Minn., Solar Energy Industries Association
Aerospace Engineering; Jack Snell deputy direc-
9:30am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. October 17
Director Scott Sklar, and Ken Bossong, Public
tor, Building and Fire Laboratory, National Insti-
Citizen's Sun Day coordinator.
tute of Standards and Technology; William
11am, American Association for the Ad-
Wentz National Institute for Aviation Research,
BCCI INVESTIGATION
Wichita State University
vancement of Science, 1333 H St. NW, first
floor conference room October 15
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Af-
fairs Committee (Chairman Riegle, D-Mich.)
Contact: Ken Bossong, 202-546-4996, or Phil
will mark up a draft resolution authorizing the
Sparks, 202-682-1270
Senate Banking Committee to undertake a
Conference
comprehensive investigation of the collapse of
the Bank of Credit and Commerce Interna-
Committees
tional (BCCI), its activities in the U.S. and the
failure of existing regulatory safeguards and
supervision.
INTERIOR APPROPS
Time TBA SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. date TBA
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
2686) making fiscal 1992 appropriations for the
Interior Department and related agencies.
SEN. KERRY SPEECH
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED
10am H-140 Capitol Bldg. October 15
American University's Kennedy Political
ENTERPRISES
Union sponsors an address by Sen. John Kerry
(D-Mass.), chairman of the narcotics, terror-
Senate Banking Committee (Chairman Rie-
ism, and international operations subcommit-
gle, D-Mich.) will mark up draft legislation to
News Events
tee, on the Bank of Credit and Commerce
improve supervision and regulation with re-
International scandal and other topics.
spect to the financial safety and soundness of
8pm American University, 4400 Massachu-
government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).
SUN DAY
setts Ave. NW, Ward Building, Room One
GSEs are privately owned entities - such as
NEWS CONFERENCE
October 15
the Federal National Mortgage Association,
A news conference is held to announce plans
Contact: Larry Carpman, 202-224-2472
the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,
and the Federal Home Loan Bank System -
that benefit from certain tax exemptions and
exemptions from federal security laws.
Time and room TBA date TBA
Senate Committees Future Listings
Commerce,
Agriculture,
man Leahy, D-Vt.) of Senate Appropriations
Committee will mark up fiscal 1992 appropria-
Science &
Nutrition &
tions for foreign operations (HR 2621).
Time & room TBA date TBA
Transportation
Note: Markup could occur with little advance
Forestry
notice.
224-5115
224-2035
SPECTRUM AUCTIONING
Communications Subcommittee (Chairman
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
Banking, Housing
Inouye, D-Hawaii) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
DAIRY BILL
ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
Senate Agriculture Committee (Chairman
& Urban Affairs
hearing on the feasibility of auctioning the
Leahy, D-Vt.) will mark up draft legislation to
radio spectrum,
increase milk price supports.
224-7391
9am SR-253 Russell Bldg. October 17
10am SR-332 Russell Bldg. October 16
Note: This markup was originally scheduled for
FAIR CREDIT
July 25.
Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Sub-
SHIP CHARTERING
committee (Chairman Dixon, D-Ill.) of Senate
Merchant Marine Subcommittee (Chair-
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Commit-
man Breaux, D-La.) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
tee will hold a hearing on the Fair Credit
Appropriations
ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
Reporting Act. The hearing will focus on the
hearing to review federal ship chartering
extent of errors in credit reports, liability for
practices.
224-3471
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
errors in credit reports, the handling of con-
10am SR-253 Russell Bldg. October 24
sumers' complaints about errors, privacy con-
FY92 APPROPRIATIONS
siderations and prescreening, and the appro-
Senate Appropriations Committee (Chair-
priate responsibilities of credit bureaus,
TELEPHONE OUTAGES
man Byrd, D-W.Va.) will mark up pending
creditors, and consumers.
AIR SAFETY
fiscal 1992 appropriations bills.
10am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. October 16
Time & room TBA date TBA
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
Witnesses scheduled: Karen Porter town clerk
Agenda:
tion Committee (Chairman Hollings, D-S.C.)
and treasurer, Town of Norwich, Vt.; Lance Clem
HR 2621 foreign operations
will hold a hearing on telephone network reli-
- Denver, Colo.; Kathleen Buffon Credit Prac-
tices Division, Federal Trade Commission; Ed
ability and aviation safety, focusing on the
Mierzwinski U.S. Public Interest Research
September 17, 1991, outage of American Tele-
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
Group; representatives of Associated Credit Bu-
phone & Telegraph (AT&T) equipment in the
FOREIGN OPS APPROPS
reaus, Inc., American Bankers Association, Con-
New York City area that crippled that city's
sumer Bankers Association, American Financial
air-traffic control system.
Foreign Operations Subcommittee (Chair-
Services Association
Time TBA SR-253 Russell Bldg. date TBA
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Senate continued
Agenda:
NRC/EPA NOMINATIONS
October 22:
Senate Environment and Public Works
Title X: Miscellaneous provisions, Central Valley
Committee (Chairman Burdick, D-N.D.) will
Energy & Natural
Project
hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination
Title XI: Salton Sea Research Project
of E. Gail de Planque to be a member of the
Title XXIV: Sly Park Unit, Central Valley Project
Resources
Title XXVII: Solano Project Transfer and Putah
Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Herbert
Holmes Tate to be Assistant Administrator for
Creek Improvement
Title XXIX: San Juan Suburban Water District
Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring at
224-4971
Title XXX: Trinity River Division, Central Valley
the Environmental Protection Agency.
Project
10am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. October 30
PUBLIC LANDS
October 23:
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
S 1618 - to permit the Mountain Park Master
Subcommittee (Chairman Bumpers, D-Ark.) of
Conservancy District in Oklahoma to make a
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com-
payment to satisfy certain obligations to the U.S.
mittee will hold hearings on pending public
S 724 - to clarify cost-share requirements for the
Finance
lands bills.
flood control project, Rio Grande Floodway, San
224-4515
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. October 15,
Acacia to Bosque del Apache unit, New Mexico.
S 1370 to make available Pick-Sloan Missouri
17 & 22
River Basin Program project pumping power to
JAPANESE BUSINESS PRACTICES
Agenda:
non-federal irrigation projects in the state of
Senate Finance Committee (Chairman
October 15:
S 209/HR 476 to designate certain rivers in the
Montana
Bentsen, D-Texas) will hold a hearing on Japa-
and the following titles of HR 429:
nese keiretsu practices. The hearing will focus
state of Michigan as components of the National
Title XII: amendment to the Sabine River Compact
on the effects of keiretsu - groups of related
Wild and Scenic Rivers System
S 1743 to designate certain rivers in the state of
Title XXI: Insular Areas study
companies that span many different areas of
Arkansas as components of the National Wild and
Title XXII: Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District,
business - on the ability of American compa-
Scenic Rivers System
Washington
Title XXVI: High Plains Groundwater Program
nies to compete in Japan and on Japanese
October 17:
S 1225 to designate certain lands in California as
Title XXVIII: Desalination
companies operating the the United States.
October 24:
U.S.-Japanese negotiations on trade practices
wilderness
Title XVI: Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse
- the Structural Impediment Initiative talks
October 22:
S 1696 to designate certain National Forest lands
Title XV: Amendment to the Reclamation Project
- were begun in July of 1989 but have made
in the state of Montana as wilderness and to
of 1939
little progress on the issue of keiretsu.
release other National Forest lands in the state of
Title XVIII: Grand Canyon Protection
10am SD-216 Dirksen Bldg. October 16
Montana for multiple-use management
RENEWABLE ENERGY
FEEDING THE HUNGRY
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
JOINT VENTURES
WITH SURPLUS COMMODITIES
WIPP LAND WITHDRAWAL
Energy Regulation and Conservations Sub-
Energy and Agricultural Taxation Sub-
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
committee (Chairman Wirth, D-Colo.) of Sen-
committee (Chairman Daschle, D-S.D.) of
Committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La:) will
ate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing
mark up pending legislation.
will hold an oversight hearing on the imple-
on legislation (S 1826) to encourge the use of
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. October 16
mentation of the Energy Department's joint
surplus agricultural products in programs to
Agenda:
venture program for renewable energy. The
feed the hungry.
S 1671 - to withdraw certain public lands and to
program, established in 1989, would establish
2pm SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. October 16
otherwise provide for the operation of the Waste
cooperative efforts among government, indus-
Isolation Pilot Plant in Eddy county, N.M.
try and academia to foster renewable energy
S 484 - to establish conditions for the sale and
resources. The hearing will examine the
IMPACT OF MALPRACTICE
delivery of water from the Central Valley Project,
progress in implementing the program.
LIABILITY ON HEALTH-CARE COSTS
California, a Bureau of reclamation facility
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. Date TBA
S 106 to amend Federal Power Act with respect to
Medicare and Long-Term Care Sub-
acquisition of water rights and administration
Note: This hearing had not been rescheduled.
committee (Chairman Rockefeller, D-W.Va.)
and use of water
of Senate Finance Committee will hold a hear-
S 140 bill to increase federal payments in lieu of
ing on the impact of medical malpractice liabil-
taxes to units of general local government
HR 543 - to establish the Manzanar National
Environment &
ity issues on health-care costs.
10am SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. October 18
Historic Site in the state of California
Nomination of Elizabeth Moler to the Federal
Public Works
Energy Regulatory Commission
S 549 to designate a segment of the Lower Merced
224-6176
River in California as a component of the Na-
tional Wild and Scenic Rivers System
TAX CREDITS FOR
SJ Res 23 to consent to certain amendments
PERSIAN GULF UPDATE
RTC PROPERTY SALES
enacted by the state of Hawaii to the Hawaiin
Gulf Environmental Task Force (Chairman
Taxation Subcommittee (Chairman Boren,
Homes Commission Act of 1920
Lieberman, D-Conn.) of Senate Environment
D-Okla.) of Senate Finance Committee will
S 1179 to stimulate the production of geologic map
and Public Works Committee will hold a hear-
hold a hearing on legislation (S 1787) to encour-
information in the United States
ing on the progress in combating oil well fires,
age the sale of real property held by the
S 1187 to provide certain procedures for entry onto
the continuing environmental damage, the con-
Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) by allow-
Stock Raising Homestead Act lands
cerns for public health and the effects of the oil
S 1528 to establish the Mimbres Culture National
ing a credit against income tax to purchasers of
Monument and to establish an archeological pro-
spill in the Persian Gulf.
such property.
tection system for Mimbres sites in the state of
9:30am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. October 16
2:30pm SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. October 22
New Mexico
RECLAMATION PROJECTS
Water and Power Subcommittee (Chair-
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
Foreign Relations
man Bradley, D-N.J.) of Senate Energy and
ANWR PRESERVATION
Natural Resources Committee will hold hear-
Senate Environment and Public Works
224-4651
ings on legislation (HR 429), the Reclamation
Committee (Chairman Burdick, D-N.D.) will
YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS
Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of
mark up legislation (S 39) to provide perma-
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1991 and other reclamation projects bills.
nent wilderness designation for the Arctic Na-
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will hold a hearing on
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. October 22, 23 &
tional Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Yugoslav sanctions.
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Commercial Surety and Insurance Corporation
Indian Affairs
PANEL 3: Ralph Ben-Schoter - executive vice-
president, Del Marva Timber Trust; Robert
FOREIGN RELATIONS NOMINATIONS
224-2251
Wyshak custodian trustee, Robert Wyshak &
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Associates; George Eggleston - paralegal, Rober
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will hold a confirma-
TRIBAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
Wyshak & Associates
tion hearing on pending nomiinations
Senate Indian Affairs Committee (Chair-
2pm and 3:30pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. Octo-
man Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold a hearing on
ber 16
FTS-2000
legislation (S 1687) to increase the capacity of
Agenda:
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Indian tribal governments for waste manage-
2pm: Edward Lampher ambassador to Zimbabwe
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will continue hear-
ment on Indian lands.
3:30pm: Richard Haueworth - Internamerican
ings on problems with FTS-2000, the federal
2pm SR-485 Russell Bldg. October 17
Development Bank
government's planned phone network.
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. October 22
RECOGNITION OF INDIAN TRIBES
NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN IRAQ
Senate Indian Affairs Committee (Chair-
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
GOVERNMENT HIRING OF
man Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold a hearing on
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will hold a hearing on
MINORITIES & WOMEN
legislation (S 1315) to transfer administrative
the discovery of Iraq's weapons of mass de-
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
consideration of applications for federal recog-
struction and possible initiatives for the future
10am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. October 17
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will hold a hearing
nition of an Indian tribe from the Bureau of
on problems in the federal government's
Indian Affairs (BIA) to an independent com-
Witnesses scheduled: Sen. Glen, D-Ohio; David
Kay leader of U.S. nuclear inspection team
women and minority hiring program, focusing
mission. Critics of the BIA have complained
on the Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
that it takes the bureau too long to decide on
mission complaint process.
each application.
SLAVE LABOR IN CHINA
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. October 23
9am SR-485 Russell Bldg. October 22
East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
(Chairman Sarbanes, D-Md.) of Senate For-
September 19.
DIVESTING PROPERTIES OF
eign Relations Committee will hold a hearing
IRRIGATION PROJECT
on slave labor in China
COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS
2:30pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. October 17
Joint Hearing
& REGULATORY REVIEW
Senate Indian Affairs Committee (Chair-
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
man Inouye, D-Hawaii) and House Interior
BCCI INVESTIGATION
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will hold a hearing
Committee (Chairman Miller, D-Calif.) will
Terrorism, Narcotics and International Op-
on the increasing role of the Council on Com-
hold a joint hearing on legislation (HR 1476) to
erations Subcommittee (Chairman Kerry, D-
petitiveness in reviewing the regulations of
provide for the divestiture of certain properties
Neb.) of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
agencies.
of the San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project in
will hold a series of hearings on the scandal
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. October 24
Ariz.
involving the Bank of Commerce and Credit
9:30am SR-485 Russell Bldg. October 29
International.
10am SD-419 Dirksne Bldg. October 18 and
INDIAN TRIBAL COURTS
addl dates TBA
CENSUS PROBLEMS
Senate Select Indian Affairs Committee
Government Information and Regulation
(Chairman Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold hear-
DEMOCRACY IN THE SOVIET UNION
Subcommittee (Chairman Kohl, D-Wis.) of
ings on draft legislation, the Indian Tribal
European Affairs Subcommittee (Chairman
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will
Courts Act of 1991.
Biden, D-Del.) of Senate Foreign Relations
hold a hearing on problems with the 1990
Time and Room TBA Date TBA
Committee will hold a hearing on the future of
census.
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
10am SD-325 Dirksen Bldg. October 29
September 12.
democracy and the free-market system in the
Soviet Union.
Note: The session of this hearing scheduled for
October 8 was canceled
Time & room TBA Date TBA
Witness scheduled: Robert Zoellick under secre-
tary of State for economic and agricultural affairs
Intelligence
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
224-1700
October 3.
GOVERNMENT PURCHASING &
GATES NOMINATION
THE ENVIRONMENT
Senate Select Intelligence Committee
Oversight of Government Management
Governmental
(Chairman Boren, D-Okla.) will meet to con-
Subcommittee (Chairman Levin, D-Mich.) of
sider the nomination of Robert Gates to be
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will
director of central intelligence.
Affairs
hold a hearing on ways the government can use
9:30am SH-216 Hart Bldg. October 18
its purchasing power to improve the
224-4751
environment.
Room and Time TBA date TBA
INSURANCE INDUSTRY FRAUD
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
October 8.
(Chairman Nunn, D-Ga.) of Senate Govern-
mental Affairs Committee will continue hear-
ings on fraud and abuse in the insurance
Judiciary
industry.
ASIAN ORGANIZED CRIME
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. October 17
224-5225
Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga-
Witnesses scheduled:
PANEL 1: Lewis Melhan commissioner of insur-
tions (Chairman Nunn, D-Ga.) of Senate Gov-
COURT REFORM
ance, Mo. Department of Insurance; Randall
ernmental Affairs Committee will hold hear-
Courts and Administrative Practice Sub-
Smart deputy insurance commissioner, Utah
ings on the increase in the United States of
committee (Chairman Heflin, D-Ala.) of Sen-
Department of Insurance; Raoul Carroll presi-
organized criminal activity directed or con-
ate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on
dent, Government National Mortgage Associa-
trolled by Asian criminal organizations.
pending legislation.
tion
Time and Room TBA Date TBA
2:30pm SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. October 17
PANEL 2: George Estok president, Integral Insur-
Note: The hearing was originally scheduled for
Agenda:
ance Company; Robert Murton vice president,
October 15.
S 1569 to implement the recommendations of the
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Senate continued
FUTURE STRUCTURE OF
erans' Affairs Committee (Chairman Mont-
VETERANS HEALTH CARE
gomery, D-Miss.) will hold a joint hearing to
Joint Hearing
Federal Courts Study Committee S 1673 to
receive the report from the Commission on the
improve the federal justices and judges survivors'
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
Future Structure of Veterans Health Care.
annuities program
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) and House Vet-
9am 334 Cannon Bldg. October 23
Labor & Human
Resources
House Committees Future Listings
224-5375
committee (Chairman Volkmer, D-Mo.) of
CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH
Aging
House Agriculture Committee and National
Senate Labor and Human Resources Com-
Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee (Chair-
mittee (Chairman Kennedy, D-Mass.) will hold
man Vento, D-Minn.) of House Interior and
a hearing on legislation (S 924) to establish a
SOCIAL SECURITY
Insular Affairs Committee will hold a joint
program of categorical grants to states for
EARNINGS LIMIT
oversight hearing entitled: "Review and Analy-
comprehensive mental health services for chil-
Field Hearing
sis of the Report of the Scientific Panel on
dren with serious emotional disturbance.
Retirement, Income and Employment Sub-
Alternatives for Management of Late Succes-
Time TBA SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. date TBA
committee (Chairman Hughes, D-N.J.) of
sional Forests of the Pacific Northwest."
House Select Aging Committee will hold a field
10am 1300 Longworth Bldg. October 17
hearing on the validity of an earnings limit for
Small Business
recipients of Social Security.
9am Manahawkin, N.J. October 28
WINE INDUSTRY ASSISTANCE
224-5175
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
House Agriculture Committee (Chairman
September 23.
de la Garza, D-Texas) will hold a hearing to
PRODUCT LIABILITY &
review Agriculture Department activities to
INNOVATION
assist and support the U.S winegrape and wine
Competitiveness and Economic Opportu-
Agriculture
industry.
nity Subcommittee (Chairman Lieberman, D-
10am 1300 Longworth Bldg. October 23
Conn.) of Senate Small Business Committee
225-2171
will hold a hearing to determine if current
product liability laws serve to inhibit innova-
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
tion by U.S. small businesses due to fear of
HUNGER RELIEF
Appropriations
potentially financially devastating lawsuits if
House Agriculture Committee (Chairman
225-2771
newly developed products are dangerous.
de la Garza, D-Texas) will mark up pending
9:30am 428A Russell Bldg. November7
legislation.
FULL APPROPS COMMITTEE MARKUP
Noted: This hearing was originally scheduled for
2pm 1300 Longworth Bldg. October 16
DISASTER RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL
October 9.
Agenda:
House Appropriations Committee (Chair-
HR 1202 to respond to the hunger emergency
man Whitten, D-Miss.) may mark up draft
afflicting American families and children
HR 3556 Food for Emerging Democracies Act of
legislation making supplemental appropria-
1991
tions for emergency disaster relief.
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
Time TBA Date TBA
MICRO-LOANS FOR SMALL BUSINESS
Note: Markup was originally scheduled for July 18
Senate Small Business Committee (Chair-
FOOD CONSUMPTION SURVEY
and was rescheduled for September 17, but was
man Bumpers, D-Ark.) will mark up legislation
again postponed.
PAST MISMANAGEMENT
(S 1426) to authorize the Small Business Ad-
Joint Hearing
ministration to conduct a demonstration pro-
Department Operations, Research and For-
gram to enhance the economic opportunities of
eign Agriculture Subcommittee (Chairman
start-up, newly established, and growing small
Armed Services
Rose, D-N.C.) of House Agriculture Committee
business concerns by providing loans and tech-
and Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations
225-4151
nical assistance through intermediaries.
and Nutrition Subcommittee (Chairman
Time and room TBA date TBA
Tallon, D-S.C.) of House Agriculture Commit-
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
tee will hold a joint hearing to review a General
NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE
Accounting Office report on the mismanage-
Seapower and Strategic and Critical Ma-
ment of the 1987-88 Food Consumption
terials Subcommittee (Chairman Bennett, D-
Survey.
Fla.) of House Armed Services Committee will
Veterans' Affairs
9am 1330 Longworth Bldg. October 16
hold a hearing on and mark up legislation (HR
2846) that would repeal the requirement that
224-9126
the president acquire depleted uranium for the
IMPLEMENTATION OF FARM BILL
National Defense Stockpile.
VA NOMINATIONS
RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS
Time & room TBA Date TBA
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
Conservation, Credit and Rural Develop-
Note: This meeting was originally scheduled for
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will hold a con-
ment Subcommittee (Chairman English, D-
September 12.
firmation hearing on pending nominations.
Okla.) of the House Agriculture Committee will
9:30am SR-418 Russell Bldg. October 18
hold a hearing on the implementation of the
Agenda;
rural development provisions of the 1990 farm
Allen Clark Jr. to be director of the National
bill.
Banking, Finance
Cemetery System
James Endicott Jr. to be general counsel, Depart-
10am 1300 Longworth Bldg. October 17
ment of Veterans Affairs
& Urban Affairs
Sylvia Chavez Long to be assistant secretary of
Veterans Affairs for congressional affairs
ANCIENT FORESTS
225-4247
Jo Ann Webb to be assistant secretary of Veterans
Joint Hearing
THRIFTS AND GOODWILL
Affairs for policy and planning
Forests, Family Farms and Energy Sub-
General Oversight Subcommittee (Chair-
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House continued.
by the securities firm of Salomon Brothers and
SCIENCE EDUCATION
the response of the Federal Reserve to those
Joint Hearing
man Hubbard, D-Ky.) of House Banking, Fi-
violations.
House Education and Labor Committee
nance and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a
Time & room TBA date TBA
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) and House Science,
hearing on the changes in capital requirements
Note: On August 26, 1991, committee Chairman
Space and Technology Committee (Chairman
for savings and loan institutions as they apply
Gonzalez, D-Texas, asked the Board of Governors
Brown, D-Calif.) will hold a joint hearing on
to supervisory goodwill and the effect of these
of the Federal Reserve System to submit a report
science education.
changes on thrifts owning goodwill. This is the
to the House Banking Committee detailing ac-
tions taken in regard to Salomon Brothers. The
Time & room TBA Date TBA
latest in a series of oversight hearings on the
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and
report was received on September 23, 1991.
Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA).
9am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
Witnesses scheduled: tentative witnesses will in-
Energy &
clude the director of the Office of Thrift Supervi-
Education &
sion, thrift executives and a financial institutions'
Commerce
consultant
Labor
225-2927
225-4527
ENERGY POLICY
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
MEDICARE FUNDING
AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
EDUCATION IMPROVEMENTS
PROVIDER TAXES
Economic Stabilization Subcommittee
House Education and Labor Committee
Health and the Environment Subcommit-
(Chairman Carper, D-Del.) of House Banking,
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) will mark up legisla-
tee (Chairman Waxman, D-Calif.) of House
Finance and Urban Affairs Committee will
tion (HR 3320) to improve education for all
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
hold a hearing on how an energy policy can
students by restructuring the education system
hearing on financing the Medicaid program
contribute to economic growth. The hearing
in the states.
through provider taxes and intergovernmental
will focus on the economic benefits of a na-
9:30am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
transfers.
tional energy policy, addressing issues includ-
9:45am 2123 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
ing economic security and stability, protection
against energy price shocks, increases in U.S.
BUSH EDUCATION SPEECH
competitiveness, and reduction in trade
House Education and Labor Committee
HIGH SPEED RAILROADS
deficits.
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) will hold a hearing
Transportation and Hazardous Materials
10am 2222 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
on the use of Education Department funds to
Subcommittee (Chairman Swift, D-Wash.) of
Witnesses scheduled:
produce a video tape of President Bush's
House Energy and Commerce Committee will
PANEL: Linda Stuntz director, Office of Policy,
speech at Alice Deal Junior High School.
hold a hearing on legislation (HR 1087), the
Planning and Analysis, Department of Energy:
9:30am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
High Speed Rail Transportation Policy and
Peter D. Blair - program manager, Energy and
Witness scheduled: Lamar Alexander secretary of
Development Act. 10am room TBA October
Materials Program, Office of Technology Assess-
Education
16
ment
PANEL: Mary H. Novak principal, Energy and
Environmental Research, Data Resources Inc.,
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
COMMERCE SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP
McGraw-Hill; Richard J. Gilbert professor of
economics and business administration, Univer-
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
Commerce, Consumer Protection and Com-
sity of California/Berkley; Hendrick S.
REAUTHORIZATION
petitiveness Subcommittee (Chairman Collins,
Houthakker professor of economics, Harvard
House Education and Labor Committee
D-III.) of House Energy and Commerce Com-
University
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) will mark up draft
mittee will mark up pending legislation.
legislation reauthorizing the Higher Education
10am 2247 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
Act of 1965.
Agenda:
McKINNEY ACT
Time TBA 2175 Rayburn Bldg. October 22,
HR 787 to strengthen and expand the authority of
HOMELESS PROGRAMS
23
the US trade representative to identify trade
Housing and Community Development
liberalization priorities
Subcommittee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas)
HR 2624 to amend section 721 of the Defense
of House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
BLIND VENDORS
Production Act of 1950 to clarify and strengthen
its provisions pertaining to national security take-
Committee will hold a hearing on the imple-
Select Education Subcommittee (Chairman
overs.
mentation of the McKinney Act Homeless
Owens, D-N.Y.) of House Education and Labor
Programs.
Committee will hold a hearing on the 1936
10am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. October 18
Randolph-Sheppard Act that gives preference
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
Witnesses scheduled: tentative witnesses will in-
to blind vendors on federal property.
ENERGY STRATEGY
clude representatives from the U.S. Conference of
Time & room TBA October 24
Mayors, Interagency Council on the Homeless,
Energy and Power Subcommittee (Chair-
HUD, Federal Emergency Management Agency,
man Sharp, D-Ind.) of House Energy and
the National Coalition for the Homeless, and the
Commerce Committee will continue marking
Community for Creative Non-Violence
IMPLEMENTING THE 1990
up draft national energy strategy legislation.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
This markup is likely to focus on uranium
Employment Opportunities Subcommittee
enrichment.
RESALE OF ASSETS
(Chairman Perkins, D-Ky.) of House Educa-
10am 2322 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
Policy Research and Insurance Subcommit-
tion and Labor Committee will hold a hearing
Note: The subcommittee has completed work on
tee (Chairman Erdreich, D-Ala.) of House
on the efforts by the Equal Employment
draft titles relating to: Alternative fuels, PUHCA
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Commit-
Opportunity Commission to implement the
reform, natural gas energy, energy efficiency, the
tee will continue hearings on the banking
1990 Americans With Disabilities Act.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve, octane mislabeling,
practice of reselling loans. The hearings will
10am 2261 Rayburn Bldg. October 30
coal and nuclear waste.
focus on regulatory and other impediments to
Witness scheduled: Evan Kemp Jr. chairman,
banks seeking to resell auto and other loans.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
sion
HUMANA INVESTIGATION
10am 2222 Rayburn Bldg. Dates TBA
Oversight and Investigations Subcommit-
tee (Chairman Dingell, D-Mich.) of House
CHILD CARE REGULATIONS
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
SALOMON BROTHERS & TRADING
Human Resources Subcommittee (Chair-
OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
hearing on Humana Inc. The hearing will focus
man Martinez, D-Calif.) of House Education
on the pricing, policies and criteria used to
House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
Committee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas)
and Labor Committee will hold a hearing on
mark up the costs of medical supplies charged
child care regulations.
to the public.
may hold a hearing on violations of federal laws
Time & room TBA October 31
10am 2123-Rayburn Bldg. October 17
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House continued
the nation's busiest airports have staffing
addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers
shortfalls.
System
1pm 2247 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
HR 3012 to designate the White Clay Creek in
HEALTH-CARE
Delaware and Pennsylvania for study for poten-
COST CONTAINMENT
tial addition to the National Wild and Scenic
Health and the Environment Subcommit-
DATA PROTECTION ISSUES
Rivers System
tee (Chairman Waxman, D-Calif.) of House
HR 2431 to designate a segment of the Lower
Government Information, Justice and Agri-
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
Merced River in California as a component of the
culture Subcommittee (Chairman Wise, D-
hearing on health-care reform, focusing on
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
W.Va.) of House Government Operations Com-
cost-containment issues.
mittee will continue hearings on domestic and
Time & room TBA October 31
international data protection, focusing on pos-
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
sible uses and misuses of genetic information.
House Interior and Insular Affairs Commit-
9:30am 2154 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
OLYMPIC BROADCASTING
tee (Chairman Miller, D-Calif.) will mark up
Witnesses scheduled: James Watson director,
Telecommunications and Finance Sub-
pending legislation.
Center for Human Genome Research, National
committee (Chairman Markey, D-Mass.) of
Institutes of Health; Bernadine Healy - director,
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg October 16, 23
House Energy and Commerce Committee will
National Institutes of Health; French Anderson
& 30
chief, Molecular Hematology Branch, National
Agenda:
hold a hearing on draft legislation to improve
Institutes of Health; David Galas - associate
HR 2896 to revise the boundaries of the Minute
the process for United States acquisition of
broadcast rights for the Olympic Games.
director, Office of Health and Environmental
Man National Historical Park in the state of
Research; Department of Energy; Nancy Wexler
Massachusetts
Time & room TBA Date TBA
president, Heredity Diseases Foundation; Jeremy
HR 3169 - to lengthen from 5 to 7 years the
Rifkin president, Foundation of Economic
expiration period applicable to legislative author-
Trends; Philip Reilly executive director, Shriver
ity relating to construction of commemorative
Center for Mental Retardation
works on federal land in the District of Columbia
Foreign Affairs
HR 2929 to designate certain lands in the Califor-
nia desert as wilderness, to establish the Death
225-5021
Valley, Joshua Tree, and Mojave National Parks
HR 2927 - to provide for the establishment of the
Hunger
St. Croix, V.I., Historical Park and Ecological
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
Preserve
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
226-5470
House Foreign Affairs Committee (Chair-
man Fascell, D-Fla.) will continue to mark up
FOOD SECURITY IN
draft legislation to reauthorize the Export
DEVELOPING NATIONS
NUCLEAR PLANTS
Administration Act.
House Select Hunger Committee (Chair-
LICENSE RENEWAL
Time TBA 2172 Rayburn Bldg. week of
man Hall, D-Ohio) will hold 8 hearing on food
Energy and the Environment Subcommit-
October 14
security in developing countries.
tee (Chairman Kostmayer, D-Pa.) of House
10:30am 2220 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
Witnesses scheduled: Richard Bissell assistant
hold a hearing on dr.) legislation to provide
SOUTH PACIFIC
administrator, Bureau for Research and Develop-
for the renewal Serating licenses for com-
Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
ment, Agency for International Development; G.
mercial nucles ower facilities. The measure
(Chairman Solarz, D-N.Y.) of House Foreign
Edward Smith dean, Hubert Humphrey Insti-
tute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota;
would regr plants whose 40-year licenses
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on coun-
Eileen Kennedy research fellow International
have exp to meet the same new, more
tries in the South Pacific.
Food Policy Research Institute; Michael Weber
stringent, safety requirements that apply to
2pm 2255 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
Michigan State University; Paul Sommers - for-
new or proposed nuclear plants.
mer staff members, UNICEF Pacific Region
9:30am 1324 Longworth Bldg. October 17
CAMBODIA
Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
CAVE CREEK CANYON
(Chairman Solarz, D-N.Y.) of House Foreign
Interior &
Mining and Natural Resources Subcommit-
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on
tee (Chairman Rahall, D-W.Va.) of House
Cambodia.
Insular Affairs
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
3pm 2200 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
hold a hearing on legislation (HR 2790) to
225-2761
withdraw certain lands located in the Coronado
National Forest from the mining and mineral
PUBLIC LANDS
leasing laws of the U.S.
Government
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
9:45am 2220 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
Operations
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
will hold hearings on pending legislation.
ANCIENT FORESTS
225-5051
11am 1324 Longworth Bldg. October 15
Joint Hearing
2pm 1324 Longworth Bldg. October 17
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
AIR TRAFFIC
10am 340 Cannon Bldg. October 22
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
CONTROLLER WORKFORCE
10am 1324 Longworth Bldg. October 29
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Government Activities and Transportation
Agenda:
and Forests, Family Farms and Energy Sub-
Subcommittee (Chairman Boxer, D-Calif.) of
October 15:
committee (Chairman Volkmer, D-Mo.) of
House Government Operations Committee will
HR 1495/HR 1584/HR 3520 - to increase federal
House Agriculture Committee will old a joint
hold a hearing on. the air traffic controller
payments in lieu of taxes to units of local govern-
oversight hearing entitled: "Review and Analy-
ments
workforce. The session will focus on whether
October 17:
sis of the Report of the Scientific Panel on
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
HR 3245 - to designate certain National Forest
Alternatives for Management of Late Succes-
which operates the air traffic control system,
System lands in the state of Georgia as wilderness
sional Forests of the Pacific Northwest."
has managed to rebuild it to sufficiently high
October 22:
10am 1300 Longworth Bldg. October 17
levels of competence in the 10 years since the
HR 2736 to authorize additional appropriations
mass firing of members of the Professional Air
for the purposes of the Steamtown National
Traffic Controller Organization (PATCO) after
Historic Site in Scranton, Pa.
PENDING BUSINESS
HR 3519 to authorize the establishment of the
they went on strike. Included will be a review. of
House Interior and Insular Affairs Commit-
Steamtown National Historic Site
why the number of 'full performance level'
October 29:
tee (Chairman Miller, D-Calif.) will meet to
controllers is lower than it was a decade ago,
HR 1099 to designate segments of the Lamprey
consider pending business.
when there was less air traffic, and why some of
River in New Hampshire for study for potential
9:45am room TBA October 22
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House continued.
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
hold a hearing on legislation (HR 3359 - Old
Persian Gulf oil spill.
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
Faithful Protection Act) to halt development of
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. October 17
DEVELOPMENT
geothermal wells adjacent to Yellowstone Na-
Energy and the Environment Subcommit-
tional Park. The bill would not allow permits to
tee (Chairman Kostmayer, D-Pa.) of House
be granted for development of geothermal
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
resources, even those on private land, if such
Field Hearing
hold a hearing on and mark up legislation (HR
development posed any risk to the geothermal
Oversight and Investigations Subcommit-
features in the park.
tee (Chairman Lipinski, D-Ill.) of House Mer-
3387) to authorize appropriations to imple-
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. October 31
chant Marine and Fisheries Committee will
ment the Pennsylvania Avenue Development
Plan.
hold a field hearing on oil spill response in the
9:30am 1324 Longworth Bldg. October 22
South Pacific region.
ALYESKA INVESTIGATION
Time TBA Honolulu, Hawaii December 11
House Interior and Insular Affairs Commit-
& 12
ALASKAN NATIVE AMERICANS
tee (Chairman Miller, D-Calif.) will hold hear-
House Interior and Insular Affairs Commit-
ings on an undercover surveillance operation
tee (Chairman Miller, D-Calif.) will hold a
ordered by the Alyeska Pipeline Service
hearing legislation (HR 3157) to provide for the
Company.
Narcotics Abuse
settlement of certain claims under the Alaska
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. November 4
Native Claims Settlement Act.
&5
& Control
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg October 24
226-3040
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
Judiciary
DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMS
House Select Narcotics Abuse and Control
PUBLIC LANDS
225-3951
Committee (Chairman Rangel, D-N.Y.) will
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
hold a hearing on federal drug abuse treat-
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
ments programs and policies.
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
CHANGING
IMMIGRATION
1:30pm 2203 Rayburn Bldg. October 18
will mark up pending legislation.
RESTRICTIONS
10am 340 Cannon Bldg. October 24 & 31
International Law, Immigration and Refu-
Agenda:
October 24:
gees Subcommittee (Chairman Mazzoli, D-
HR 2548 to establish an Abraham Lincoln Re-
Ky.) of House Judiciary Committee will mark
Post Office &
search and Interpretive Center
up legislation (HR 3048) that would ease tem-
HR 2109 - to conduct a study of the feasibility of
porary immigration restrictions on artists and
Civil Service
including Revere Beach, located in the city of
entertainers.
Revere, Mass., in the National Park System
10am 2237 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
225-4054
HR 2859 - to conduct a study of the historical and
cultural resources in the vicinity of Lynn, Mass.,
MAIL AND
and make recommendations on the appropriate
PRIVATE PATENT BILLS
THE ENVIRONMENT
role of the federal government in preserving and
interpreting such historical and cultural resources
Intellectual Property and Judicial Adminis-
Postal Personnel and Modernization Sub-
HR 2062 - to provide for the addition of certain
tration Subcommittee (Chairman Hughes, D-
committee (Chairman Hayes, D-III.) of House
lands to the Golden Gate National Recreation
N.J.) of House Judiciary Committee will hold a
Post Office and Civil Service Committee will
Area
hearing private patent term extension bills.
hold a hearing on the effects of mail on the
HR 2444 to revise the boundaries of the George
10am 2237 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
environment and ways to reduce such hazards.
Washington Birthplace National Monument
The hearing will also evaluate the role of the
October 31: TBA
U.S. Postal Service in encouraging sound envi-
ronmental policy and promoting recycled ma-
Merchant Marine
terial, and discuss programs by private-sector
DIVESTING PROPERTIES OF
mailer organizations in promoting the use of
IRRIGATION PROJECT
& Fisheries
recycled paper.
Joint Hearing
10am 311 Cannon Bldg. October 16
House Interior Committee (Chairman
225-4047
Miller, D-Calif.) and Senate Indian Affairs
Committee (Chairman Inouye, D-Hawaii) will
WETLANDS
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT
hold a joint hearing on legislation (HR 1476) to
Joint Hearing
Human Resources Subcommittee (Chair-
provide for the divestiture of certain properties
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and
man Kanjorski, D-Pa.) of House Post Office
of the San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project in
the Environment Subcommittee (Chairman
and Civil Service Committee will hold a hear-
Ariz.
Studds, D-Mass.) and Oceanography, Great
ing to review the Office of Government Ethics
9:30am SR-485 Russell Bldg. October 29
Lakes and the Outer Continental Shelf Sub-
proposed standards of conduct for Executive
committee (Chairman Hertel, D-Mich.) of
Branch Employees.
House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com-
10am 311 Cannon Bldg. October 22
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
mittee will hold a joint hearing on wetlands
1pm 311 Cannon Bldg. October 23
Energy and the Environment Subcommit-
conservation policy.
tee (Chairman Kostmayer, D-Pa.) of House
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. October 16
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
hold a hearing on proposals to reorganize the
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
U.S. Uranium Enrichment Enterprise. The
PERSIAN GULF OIL SPILL
Compensation and Employee Benefits Sub-
hearing will focus on proposals to form a
Joint Hearing
committee (Chairman Ackerman, D-N.Y.) of
government corporation to replace the existing
Oceanography, Great Lakes and the Outer
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
enterprise within the Energy Department.
Continental Shelf Subcommittee (Chairman
will mark up the Federal Employee Reservist
9:30am 340 Cannon Bldg. October 29
Hertel, D-Mich.), Fisheries and Wildlife Con-
Benefit Extension Act of 1991 (HR 3209).
servation and the Environment Subcommittee
10:30am 304 Cannon Bldg. October 22
(Chairman Studds, D-Mass.) and Coast Guard
PROTECTING YELLOWSTONE PARK
and Navigation Subcommittee (Chairman
GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES
Tauzin, D-La.) of House Merchant Marine and
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
Mining and Natural Resources Subcommit-
Fisheries Committee will hold a joint hearing to
House Post Office and Civil Service Com-
tee (Chairman Rahall, D-W.Va.) of House
assess the environmental damage caused by the
mittee (Chairman Clay, D-Mo.) will meet to
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House continued.
man Beilenson, D-Calif.) of House Rules Com-
herst Systems, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y.; Hannah R.
mittee will hold a hearing on environmental
Weinberg vice-president, Electrosysthesis Com-
issues associated with the proposed North
pany, Inc., East Amherst, N.Y.; Richard D. Rich-
consider pending business.
mond - vice-president, Gradient Lens Corpora-
American Free Trade Agreement. The hearing
9:45am 311 Cannon Bldg. October 23
tion, Rochester, N.Y.; Arnold Lagergren
will be a general overview that will focus on the
president, Dimension Technologies, Inc., Roches-
environmental issues raised by the agreement.
ter, N.Y.
The committee has jurisdiction because the
Public Works
agreement is to be considered under a special
"fast-track" procedure that imposes special
rules and deadlines on House action.
Veterans' Affairs
& Transportation
9:30am H-313 Capitol Bldg. October 16
225-3527
225-4472
GI BILL AND VETERANS
CLEAN WATER ACT
Water Resources Subcommittee (Chairman
Science, Space &
Education, Training and Employment Sub-
committee (Chairman Penny, D-Minn.) of
Nowak, D-N.Y.) of House Public Works and
Transportation Committee will hold hearings
Technology
House Veterans' Affairs Committee will hold a
hearing on how military service and the GI Bill
on the reauthorization of the Clean Water Act.
225-6371
affect veterans, especially low-income and mi-
This series of hearings will focus on wetlands
nority veterans.
protection.
ENERGY STRATEGY
9:30am 334 Cannon Bldg. October 17
1pm 2167 Rayburn Bldg. October 15
Investigations and Oversight Subcommit-
9:30am 2167 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
tee (Chmn Wolpe, D-Mich.) of House Science,
Time & room TBA October 15, 16, 22, 23,
Space and Technology Committee will hold a
FUTURE STRUCTURE OF VA
30 & 31
hearing on national energy strategy.
HEALTH CARE
9:30am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
Joint Hearing
House Veterans' Affairs Committee (Chair-
GSA OFFICE MANAGEMENT
man Montgomery, D-Miss.) and Senate Veter-
Investigations and Oversight Subcommit-
EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS
ans' Affairs Committee (Chairman Cranston,
tee (Chairman Borski, D-Pa.) of House Public
Field Hearing
D-Calif.) will hold a joint hearing to receive the
Works and Transportation Committee will
Science Subcommittee (Chairman Boucher,
report from the Commission on the Future
hold a hearing on the General Services Admin-
D-Va.) of House Science, Space and Technol-
Structure of Veterans Health Care.
istration's management of government office
ogy Committee will hold a field hearing on
9am 334 Cannon Bldg. October 23
space. The subcommittee will focus on investi-
earthquake preparedness.
gating the most economical options for meeting
1:30pm San Diego, Calif. October 21
the office space needs of the federal
government.
Ways & Means
9:30am 2167 Rayburn Bldg. October 23
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
225-3625
Space Subcommittee (Chairman Hall, D-
Texas) of House Science, Space and Technol-
INFRASTRUCTURE &
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
ogy Committee will hold a hearing on biomedi-
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
cal research in space.
Field Hearing
man Rostenkowski, D-Ill.) will mark up pend-
Time & room TBA Date TBA
Economic Development Subcommittee
ing legislation.
(Chairman Kolter, D-Pa.) of House Public
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. October 16
Works and Transportation Committee will
Agenda:
SCIENCE EDUCATION
hold a field hearing on the role of transporta-
HR 534 Repeal the requirement that the secretary
Joint Hearing
of Transportation collect a fee or charge for
tion and infrastructure in enhancing the re-
House Science, Space and Technology
recreational vessels
gion's economic development.
Committee (Chairman Brown, D-Calif.) and
HR 2837 - Raise federal price supports for milk,
Time TBA Baltimore, Md. Date TBA
House Education and Labor Committee
while also instituting quotas on the amounts of
Note: This hearing has not been rescheduled
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) will hold a joint
milk farmers can produce and still receive federal
hearing on science education.
payments
HR 2056 require that subsidy information regard-
Time & room TBA Date TBA
ing vessels be provided upon entry within customs
Rules
collection districts and to provide effective trade
remedies under the countervailing and
225-9486
antidumping duty laws against foreign-built ships
Small Business
that are subsidized or dumped
RULES FOR FLOOR DEBATE
HR 2950 Highway bill (provisons dealing with new
225-5821
financing plan)
House Rules Committee (Chairman Moak-
ley, D-Mass.) will meet to consider a rule for
SMALL BUSINESS
floor debate for pending legislation.
INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM
CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT OF
Time TBA H-313 Capitol Bldg. week of
Field Hearing
RULES OF ORIGIN REQUIREMENTS
October 14
House Small Business Committee (Chair-
Oversight Subcommittee (Chairman,
Time TBA H-313 Capitol Bldg. week of
man LaFalce, D-N.Y.)w hold a field hearing
Pickle, D-Texas) and Trade Subcommittee
October 21
to examine to what extent the Small Business
(Chairman Gibbons, D-Fla.) of House Ways
Agenda:
Week of October 14:
Innovation Research program fosters high-tech
and Means Committee will hold a joint over-
HR 2950 highway bill
economic development in New York.
sight hearing on enforcement by the Customs
Note: HR 2950 is scheduled for action on the House
9:30am Buffalo and Erie County Public Li-
Service of rules of origin provisions in the U.S.-
floor on or after Wednesday, October 16. House
brary October 18
Canada Free Trade Agreement.
Public Works is marking up the bill today, Ways
Witnesses scheduled: H. Graham Jones executive
2pm B-318 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
and Means has a markup scheduled for tomorrow
director, New York State Science and Technology
Week of October 21;
Foundation, Albany, N.Y.; Robert J. Martin
HR 6 Banking bill
president, Western New York Technology Devel-
PHYSICIAN OWNERSHIP/
opment Center, Amherst, N.Y.; E.C. Doyle
president, Central New York Technology Devel-
REFERRAL ARRANGEMENTS
opment Organization, Syracuse, New York; Paul
Joint Hearing
FREE TRADE ISSUES
Patti - president, Analysis and Simulation, Inc.,
Health Subcommittee (Chairman Stark, D-
Rules of the House Subcommittee (Chair-
Buffalo, N.Y.; Donald Hess vice-president, Am-
Calif.) and Oversight Subcommittee (Chair-
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House continued
Agenda:
care issues.
HR 3035 Amend the Internal Revenue Code with
9:30am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. October 17 &
respect to the amortization of goodwill and cer-
man Pickle, D-Texas) of House Ways and
addl dates TBA
tain other intangibles
Witnesses scheduled:
Means Committee will hold a joint hearing on
HR 563 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code to
PANEL: Insurers' views
arrangements in which physicians refer busi-
clarify that amounts paid to acquire certain
ness to clinics or medical services companies in
intangible items are treated as being paid for good
Seymour Strenberg executive vice president, New
will
York Life Insurance Co., representing Health
which they have a financial interest. The hear-
HR 1456 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code to
Insurance Association of America; Mary Nell
ing will focus on a report by the Florida Health
clarify that customer base, market share, and any
Lehnard - vice president for government rela-
Care Cost Containment Board that analyzed
similar intangible items are amortizable
tions, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association;
the prevalence, scope and nature of joint ven-
James Doherty - president and CEO, Group
tures among health-care providers.
Health Association of America; W. Pete Welch
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. October 17
senior research associate, The Urban Institute
PANEL: Providers; views
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
Donald Lewers vice chairman, American Medical
September 16.
Association Council on Legislation; Eugene
Note
Hildreth - president, American College of Physi-
cians; rep of American Hospital Association; W.
HEALTH-CARE COST
The offices of all members of Congress
Vickery Stoughton - vice chancellor of health
CONTAINMENT & IMPROVEMENT
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
and all congressional committees and sub-
affairs and CEO, Duke University Medical Center
man Rostenkowski, D-Ill.) will hold hearings
committees may be reached by calling (202)
224-3121.
on legislation to improve health insurance
ECONOMIC ISSUES
coverage and contain health-care costs
Joint Economic Committee (Chairman Sar-
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. October 22, 23
banes, D-Md.) will hold a roundtable discus-
& 24
sion on current economic issues with Robert
Agenda:
Solow of the department of economics at MIT.
HR 3393 Provide for health insurance coverage for
pregnant women and children through employ-
Joint Committees
10am B-352 Rayburn Bldg. October 17
ment-based insurance and through a state-based
health plan
WAR ON POVERTY
HR 3410 Health Access and Affordability Today
Act of 1991
Joint Economic Committee (Chairman Sar-
HR 3205 - Health Insurance Coverage and Cost
banes, D-Md.) will continue hearings to review
Containment Act of 1991
HR 8 - Provide for an equitable and universal
Joint Economic
the war on poverty.
Time & room TBA addl dates TBA
national health plan administered by the states
Agenda:
HR 16 Provide a program of national health
Dates TBA:
insurance
HEALTH CARE ISSUES
Current administration anti-poverty policies
HR 650 - Amend the Social Security Act and the
Education and Health Subcommittee
Congressional initiatives
Internal Revenue Code to provide for a mediplan
(Chairman Scheuer, D-N.Y.) of Joint Eco-
Private sector efforts
that assures the provision of health insurance
nomic Committee will hold hearings on health-
Witnesses scheduled: TBA
coverage to all residents
HR 1230 - Provide for universal access to basic
group health benefits coverage and to remove
barriers and provide incentives in order to make
such coverage more affordable
HR 1255 - Amend the Social Security Act to make
health insurance widely available to individuals,
Conference Committees
based on income and assets, under a competitive
system
HR 1300 - Provide for a national comprehensive
health insurance program for all citizens
PRICE FIXING
HR 1565 - Increase the health care and affordable
FOLLOW-THROUGH ACT
health insurance, to contain costs of health care in
Conferees will meet on legislation (S 429) to
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
a manner that improves health care
amend the Sherman Act to strengthen laws
2312) to make certain technical and conform-
HR 1777 Amend title XVIII of the Social Security
against vertical price-fixing
Time & room TBA Date TBA
ing amendments to the Follow Through Act
Act to provide for coverage of the general popula-
tion under the Medicare program
and the Head Start Transition Project Act.
HR 2535 - Amend the Social Security Act to assure
Time and Room TBA Date TBA
universal access to health insurance for basic
Senate Conferees: Kennedy, Pell, Metzenbaum,
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
health services in the U.S. through qualified
Hatch and Kassebaum
employer health plans and a public health insur-
Conferees will meet on legislation (S 347) to
House Conferees: TBA
ance plan, to contain costs and assure quality in
amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to
the provision of health insurance to small employ-
revitalize the defense industrial base of the
ers
United States
FY92-93 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
HR 3205 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code and
Time & room TBA date TBA
Conferees will continue to meet on legisla-
the Social Security Act to provide for health
tion (HR 2100) to authorize appropriations for
insurance coverage for workers and the public in a
fiscal 1992-93 for military functions of the
manner that contains the costs of health care in
the U.S.
Department of Defense and to prescribe mili-
INDIAN CRIMINAL
tary personnel levels for fiscal 1992-93.
JURISDICTION
Time TBA S-407 closed addl dates TBA
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR 972)
Senate Conferees: Nunn, Exon, Levin, Kennedy,
TAX TREATMENT OF
that would reinstate the authority of Indian
Bingaman, Dixon, Glenn, Gore, Wirth, Shelby,
INTANGIBLE ASSETS
tribes to exercise limited criminal jurisdiction
Byrd, Warner, Thurmond, Cohen, McCain, Wal-
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
over all Indians within their territorial limits.
lop, Lott, Coats, Mack and Smith
Time & room TBA date TBA
House Conferees:
man Rostenkowski, D-III.) will continue hear-
House conferees: Miller of Calif., Richardson,
From the Committee on Armed Services, for con-
ings on the tax treatment of intangible assets
Rhodes
sideration of the entire House bill and Senate
such as goodwill and going-concern value. The
amendments, and modifications committed to
legislation would establish a uniform set of
Senate conferees: Inouye, DeConcini, Burdick,
Daschle, Conrad, Reid, Simon, Akaka, Wellstone,
conference: Aspin, Bennett, Montgomery, Del-
rules for amortizing such assets over a 14-year
McCain, Murkowski, Cochran, Gorton, Domenici,
lums, Schroeder, Byron, Mavroules, Hutto, Skel-
period.
Kassebaum, Nickles
ton, McCurdy, Foglietta, Lloyd, Sisisky, Ray,
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. October 29
Spratt, McCloskey, Ortiz, Darden,
Note: Conference began September 26
Hochbrueckner, Pickett, Lancaster, Tanner,
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and authorize appropriations for the Commod-
ity Futures Trading Commission.
Senate conferees: Inouye, Hollings, Johnston,
Time and room TBA date TBA
Byrd, Leahy, Sasser, DeConcini, Bumpers,
McNulty, Browder, Taylor, Dickinson, Spence,
Lautenberg, Harkin, Stevens, Garn, Kasten,
Senate conferees: Leahy, Boren, Heflin, Conrad,
Stump, Hopkins, Davis, Hunter, Martin, Kasich,
D'Amato, Rudman, Cochran, Specter, Domenici,
Lugar, Dole, Cochran
Bateman, Blaz, Ireland, Hansen, Weldon, Kyl,
Hatfield
House conferees:
Ravenel and Dornan
House conferees: TBA
From the Committee on Agriculture, for consider-
From the Permanent Select Committee on Intelli-
ation of the House bill, and the Senate amend-
gence, for consideration of matters within the
ment, and modifications committed to confer-
jurisdiction of that committee under clause 2 of
ence: de la Garza, English, Staggers, Stallings,
INTERIOR APPROPS
the rule XLVIII: Wilson, Kennelly and Shuster
Nagle, Sarpalius, Johnson, Huckaby, Glickman,
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
From the Committee on Banking, Finance and
Penny, Espy, Long, Stenholm, Tallon, Coleman,
2686) making fiscal 1992 appropriations for the
Urban Affairs, for consideration of sections 804
Smith of Ore., Gunderson, Combest, Allard, Bar-
and 807 of the Senate amendments, and modifica-
Interior Department and related agencies.
rett, Nussle, Boehner, Roberts
tions committed to conference: Carper, LaFalce,
10am H-140 Capitol Bldg. October 15
From the Committee on Banking, Finance and
Oakar, Vento, Kanjorksi, Ridge, Paxon, and Han-
Senate conferees: Byrd, Johnston, Leahy, DeCon-
Urban Affairs, for consideration of section 263
cini, Burdick, Bumpers, Hollings, Reid, Nickles,
cock
and title III of the Senate amendment, and
From the Committee on Education & Labor, for
Stevens, Garn, Cochran, Rudman, Domenici,
modifications committed to conference: Gonzalez,
consideration of sections 3131 and 3132 of the
Gorton, Hatfield
Annunzio, Neal, Hubbard, LaFalce, Oakar, Wylie,
House bill, and sections 805, 811, 2109; 2807, 3131,
House conferees: Yates, Murtha, Dicks, AuCoin,
Leach, McCollum, Roukema
and 3136 of the Senate amendments, and modifi-
Bevill, Atkins, Whitten, Regula, McDade, Lowery
From the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for
cations committed: Ford, Gaydos, Kildee, Wil-
of Calif., Skeen
consideration of section 263 and title III of the
liams, Perkins, Goodling, Coleman and Henry
Senate amendment, and modifications commit-
From the Committee on Energy & Commerce, for
ted to conference: Dingell, Markey, Scheuer, Sy-
consideration of sections 331, 336, 817, 3131 to
nar Eckart, Slattery, Lent, Moorhead, Rinaldo,
LABOR-HHS APPROPS
3133, 3138, and 3201 of the House bill, and
Ritter
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
sections 826, 2804, 2806, 2846, 3131-3133, 3135-
2707) making fiscal 1992 appropriations for the
3136, 3138-3139, and 3201, and 3203 of the Senate
Departments of Labor and Health and Human
amendments, and modifications committed: Din-
Appropriations Conferences
Services.
gell, Sharp, Swift, Eckart, Slattery, Lent, Ritter
and Fields
10am H-140 Capitol October 16
From the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for consid-
Senate conferees: Harkin, Byrd, Hollings, Bur-
eration of sections 234, 304, 313, 812, and 3136 f
dick, Inouye, Bumpers, Reid, Adams, Specter,
the House bill, and sections 211 (b)(3), (g), (h),
DEFENSE APPROPS
Hatfield, Stevens, Rudman, Cochran, Gramm,
and (i), 229, 304, that portion. of section 801
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
Gorton
adding 10 U.S. Code 2526, sections 905, 940, 1111,
2521) making fiscal 1992 appropriations for the
House conferees: Natcher, Smith of Iowa, Obey,
1113, 1117-1122, 1127, 1129, 1133, 1134, 1138,
Defense Department.
Roybal, Stokes, Early, Hoyer, Mrazek, Whitten,
1143, 1144, and 1147 of the Senate amendments,
Time & room TBA date TBA
Pursell, Porter, Young of Fla., Weber, McDade
and modifications committed: Fascell, Hamilton,
Yatron, Solarz, Berman, Broomfield, Gilman, and
Lagomarsino
From the Committee on Government Operations,
for the consideration of sections 811, 816, and 817
of the House bill, and sections 319, 5276, 822, 826,
829, 835, 1103, 1141, 2806, and 2823 of the Senate
Other Events
amendments, and modifications committed: Con-
yers, English, Synar, Wise, Boxer, Horton, Shays,
and Schiff
From the Committee on Judiciary, for the consider-
The Monitor has received notice of the
ation of section 817 of the House bill, and sections
of current issues in medical ethics, including
626, 826, 1128, 3131 (e)(5), 3134, and 3145(b)(4) of
following events scheduled to take place in
questions surrounding health-care profes-
the Senate amendments, and modifications com-
Washington. Associations, non-profit organiza-
sionals and patients' rights and issues concern-
mitted: Brooks, Frank, Edwards, Fish and Gekas
tions and public interest groups who wish to
ing legislative and regulatory activities regard-
From the Committee on Merchant Marine & Fish-
have events listed in the section should send
ing HIV transmission by health-care workers.
eries, for consideration of sections 521 to 529 of
pertinent information to: The Congressional
8:15am to 10am, B-369 Rayburn Bldg. Octo-
the House bill, and title XXXV of the Senate
Monitor, Other Events Editor, 1414 22nd St.
ber 16
amendments, and modifications committed:
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. Notices must
Contact: Elise Gemeinhardt at 202-659-3575
Jones, Studds, Tauzin, Young of Alaska and
include a telephone number. Notices may be
Fields
or Cathy Hill at 202-337-2701
From the Committee on Post Office & Civil Service,
transmitted by facsimile to 728-1862, attn:
Note: There is a charge for this event of $15 for
for consideration of section 508 of the House bill,
Robert Healy. Only events related to Congress
members and $25 for non-members. For reserva-
and sections 526, 622, 624, 627, 831, and 3504 of
can be listed. Deadline is Noon. For further
tions send a check, made payable to WGR, to:
the Senate amendments, and modification com-
information call 202-887-8686.
Women in Government Relations
mitted: Clay, Oakar, Sikorski, Ackerman, Sawyer,
1325 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
Gilman, Horton, and Myers
Suite 510
From the Committee on Public Works & Transpor-
Washington, D.C. 20005-4171
MIDDLE EAST &
tation, for consideration of section 336 of the
Deadline is October 11
ENERGY SECURITY
House bill, 2810 (g) of the Senate amendments,
and modification committed: Roe, Anderson, No-
Industrial Energy Users Foundation and
wak, Borski, Oberstar, Hammerschmidt, Shuster,
U.S. Council for Energy Awareness will sponsor
AGRICULTURE, INTERNATIONAL
and Petri
a briefing on U.S. energy policy in the Middle
TRADE ISSUES
From the Committee on Science, Space, & Technol-
East.
National Association of Manufacturers will
ogy, for consideration of sections 801-805, 811,
8am to 9:30am, Briefing Center, U.S. Cham-
sponsor a breakfast meeting with Sen. Baucus,
907, 3132, and 3137-3139 of the Senate amend-
ber of Commerce, 1615 H St. N.W. October 16
D-Mont., who will discuss agriculture issues
ments, and modifications committed: Brown,
Contact: John Sparks at 202-429-2055
Scheuer, Valentine, Boucher, Stallings, Walker,
and international trade following the GATT
Participants: Sen. Johnston, D-La. chairman,
Lewis, and Packard
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Commit-
round negotiations. Sen. Baucus will also dis-
From the Committee on Small Business, for consid-
tee; Linda Stuntz deputy under secretary of
cuss the Clean Water Act.
eration of section 842 of the Senate amendments,
Energy for Policy, Planning and Analysis; Henry
8:30am, Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th & K Sts.
and modifications committed: LaFalce, Smith of
Schuler director, Energy and National Security,
N.W. October 16
Iowa and Slaughter of Virginia
Center for Strategic and Intenational Studies
Contact: Michael Smith at 202-637-3123
CFTC REAUTHORIZATION
MEDICAL ETHICS ISSUES
U.S. POLICY TOWARD INDOCHINA
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR 707)
Health Task Force of Women in Govern-
Indochina Business Council will sponsor a
to improve the regulation of futures trading
ment Relations will sponsor a panel discussion
seminar on U.S. policy toward Indochina, the
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Other continued.
initiatives and look at strategies for funding,
November 5: Federal Reserve Monetary Policy
industry/government partnerships and lever-
Robert Soloman - guest scholar, Brookings Insti-
likelihood of a change in policy and the oppor-
aging federal research and development funds.
tution
9am to 4pm, Washington Marriott Hotel,
December 3: Soviet Economic Reform and Exter-
tunities awaiting American businesses in the
nal Aid
region.
1221 22nd St. N.W. October 18
John Holsen - professorial lecturer, Johns Hop-
9am to 2pm, Washington- Court Hotel, 525
Contact: 202-965-4070
kins University and special economic adviser to
New Jersey Ave., N.W. October 16
Congressional highlight:
the World Bank
Contact: Mark Sloman at 202-452-8811
9:15am: Rep. Markey, D-Mass.
Note: There is a charge for these events of $13 for
Participants: Sen. McCain, R-Ariz.; Rep. Ridge, R-
members and $15 for non-members. Reservations
Pa.; Gerrig Gong director, Asian Studies Pro-
are required and-must be made two working days
gram, Center for Strategic and International
RESEARCH WORKSHOP
prior to the event date. For reservations call 703-
Studies
ON CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS
532-9048
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a re-
search workshop on congressional documents.
INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION
9am to 1pm, 6th floor conference room,
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ISSUES
OF WASTE
Congressional Quarterly, 1414 22nd St. N.W.
Capitol Telecommunications Professionals
Sunbelt Institute and Northeast-Midwest
October 22
will sponsor a meeting to hear MCI chief
Institute in cooperation with the Congressional
Note: There is a $195 charge for this seminar. For
financial officer O. Gene Gabbard discuss tele-
Sunbelt Caucus will sponsor a briefing on the
reservations and further information call Irene
communications issues, including domestic
interstate transportation of waste. The briefing
Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax 202-728-1863 (From
will focus on the Resource Conservation and
outside the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
regulation.
Recovery Act (RCRA) which is being reautho-
call toll-free 1-800-432-2250, ext. 620)
6:30pm, Georgetown Omni Hotel, 2121 P St.
N.W. October 24
rized this year.
Contact: 301-564-1032
11am B-339 Rayburn Bldg. October 16
U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Note: There is a charge for this event $15 for
Contact: Deborah Matthews at 202-554-0201
members and $25 for non-members payable at the
of Martha Quinn at 202-226-3920
Washington International Trade Associa-
door.
Participants: Reps. Synar, D-Okla. and Gallo, R-
tion will sponsor a-seminar and luncheon on
N.J. moderators
U.S.-Japan trade and economic relations. The
PANEL: Robert Meltz legislative attorney, Ameri-
seminar will be divided into tow major sections:
BIOTECH UPDATE
can Law Division, Congressional Research Ser-
1) current issues, 2) future directions. The
Association of Biotechnology Companies
vice; Sue Robertson chief, Land Division, Ala-
luncheon speaker will by Japanese ambassador
will sponsor a roundtable breakfast for mem-
bama Department of Environmental
to the United States Ryohei Murata.
Management; William Woodfin - director, Vir-
bers of the Congressional Biotechnology Cau-
9am to 2pm, Hotel Washington, 515 15th St,
ginia Department of Waste Management; Sheila
cus to discuss latest developments in the bio-
N.W. October 22
Prindivilee managing director of environmental
technology field.
policy, National Solid Waste Management Asso-
Contact: 202-293-4193
8am to 9:30am, Association of Biotechnology
ciation; Midori Okazaki - legislative counsel,
Note: There is a charge for this event of $55 for the
seminar and luncheon ($30 for luncheon only) for
Companies, 1666 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Suite
Transportation and Hazardous Materials Sub-
members and $65 for the seminar and luncheon
330, Third floor. October 25
committee, House Energy and Commerce Com-
Contact: Richard Okiuye at 202-234-3330
mittee
(S35 for luncheon only) for non-members. For
reservations send a check, made payable to
Note: There is a $10 charge for this event for non-
WITA, to:
members. Reservations for members and non-
Washington International Trade Association
members should be made by calling 202-234-3330
STATE RELATIONS ISSUES
100 St. N.W.
Washington Area State Relations Group
Suite 250
will sponsor a leadership symposium on issues
Washington, D.C. 20036
HIGH-SPEED RAIL
affecting those who represent the interests of
High Speed Rail Association will sponsor a
the states in Washington.
forum on high-speed rail issues.
Grand Hotel, 2350 M St. N.W. October 17
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
8:30am, Washington Hilton Hotel, October
Contact: Elizabeth Bartz at 703-739-0200;
FOR 1992 & BEYOND
25
Becky Chidester at 703-528-4400; Kymberly
National Economists Club will hold a lun-
Contact: Meg Stephens/Reed Smith 202-
Messersmith at 202-624-5496
cheon meeting to hear Bear, Stearns & Co.
457-6121; Joseph Vranich 703-941-8927
Congressional highlights:
chief economist and senior managing director
How to Identify, Analyze and Track a Bill; How to
Lawrence Kudlow discuss the economic out-
Prepare for a Meeting with a Legislator and
look for 1992 and beyond.
Regulator; How to Deliver Testimony - Amy
Faulkner, vice président, Stateside Associates
Noon, Montpelier Dining Room, Madison
Bldg. 101 Independence Ave. S.E. October 22
U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY
Contact: 703-532-9048
Federation for American Immigration Re-
MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
members and $15 for non-members. Reservations
form will sponsor a conference on immigration
Biotechnology Policy Forum will sponsor a
are required and must be made by noon, October
policy.
congressional luncheon seminar on marine bio-
21. Call 703-532-9048
9am to 5:30pm, Raddison Park Hotel, 1515
technology for members of Congress and their
Rhode Island Ave., N.W. October 25
staff and guests.
Contact: Dave Ray at 202-328-7004
Noon to 2pm B-339 Rayburn Bldg. October
KEY U.S. & WORLD ECONOMIC
Note: There is a $50 charge for this event. For
17
ISSUES IN THE 1990s
reservations call the number listed above.
Contact: Ann Guthrie or Joellyn Brisco at
National Economists Club in cooperation
202-544-1880
with the George Washington University will
Note: There is no charge for this event for members
sponsor a luncheon series on "Key Economic
of Congress and their staff. There is a $25 charge
Issues Facing the U.S. and World Economies in
ELEMENTS OF
for guests. For reservations call the number listed
the 1990s."
above.
BILL DRAFTING
Noon, GW University Club, Marvin Center,
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a two-
800 21st N.W. October 24; November 5;
day workshop on the elements of bill drafting.
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
December 3
9am to 4pm, Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza at
Council on Superconductivity for American
Contact: Jim Kenworthy at 202-863-0426
Metro Center October 28 & 29
Competitiveness will hold a conference on U.S.
(media inquiries only, for reservations call
Note: There is a $425 charge for this workshop
investment and competitive strategies for
number listed below)
(includes lunch both days). For reservations and
superconductivity. The conference will focus
Agenda & participants:
further information call Irene Cuffy at 202-887-
October 24: Federal Budgetary Issues
8620; fax 202-728-1863 (From outside the Wash-
on the role of superconductivity in the National
Robert Reischauer director, Congressional Bud-
ington, D.C., metropolitan area call toll-free 1-
Energy Strategy and the new White House
get Office
800-432-2250, ext. 620).
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Other continued
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New
Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax 202-728-1863 (From
Jersey Ave. N.W. November 8 &9
outside the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
Contact: 202-408-0990
call toll-free 1-800-432-2250, ext. 620)
ADVANCED CONGRESSIONAL
Note: There is a $495 charge for this event. For
BUDGET PROCEDURES
information and reservations call the number
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a sem-
listed above.
WORKING WITH
inar on advanced congressional budget
CONGRESSIONALS
procedures.
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a sem-
9am to 4:40pm, 6th floor conference room,
ELECTION '92 CONFERENCE
inar on strategies for working with congres-
Congressional Quarterly, 1414 22nd St. N.W.
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a con-
sional staff.
October 30
ference to discuss the outlook for the 1992
9am to 1pm, Omni Georgetown Hotel De-
Note: There is a $325 charge for this seminar
elections. Mark Shields will be the luncheon
cember 10
(includes lunch). For reservations and further
speaker.
Note: There is a $225 charge for this seminar. For
information call Irene Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax
9am to 4pm, Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza at
reservations and further information call Irene
202-728-1863 (From outside the Washington,
Metro Center November 12
Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax 202-728-1863 (From
D.C., metropolitan area call toll-free 1-800-432-
Note: There is a $385 charge for this seminar
outside the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
2250, ext. 620)
(includes lunch). For reservations and further
call toll-free 1-800-432-2250, ext. 620)
information call Irene Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax
202-728-1863 (From outside the Washington,
ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT ISSUES
D.C., metropolitan area call toll-free 1-800-432-
RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Women's Council on Energy and the Envi-
2250, ext. 620)
ON CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS
ronment will hold their annual meeting. The
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a re-
speaker will be Rep. Jolene Unsoeld, D-Wash.
search workshop on congressional documents.
6pm to 8pm 2175 Rayburn Bldg. October 30
HEALTH CARE ISSUES
9am to 1pm, 6th floor conference room,
Contact: Maureen Healey or Lisa Worf at
AND FINANCING
Congressional Quarterly, 1414 22nd St. N.W.
202-371-5333
National Chamber Foundation will sponsor
December 11
Note: There is a charge for this event of $15 for
a conferense on health care issues, including
(Note: There is a $195 charge for this seminar. For
members and $20 for non-members. For reserva-
revamping the current system and finding new
reservations and further information call Irene
tions send a check, made payable to WCEE, to:
financing methods.
Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax 202-728-1863 (From
Maureen Healey/Lisa Worf
7:30am to 3:30pm, U.S. Chamber of Com-
outside the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
1275 K St. N.W.
merce, 1615 H ST. N.W. November 14
call toll-free 1-800-432-2250, ext. 620)
Washington, D.C. 20005
Contact: Renee Nowland at 202-463-5552
Agenda & participants (partial)
8:30am: Need for Comprehensive Health Care
LOBBYING TECHNIQUES
TIED-AID CREDIT
Rep. Russo, D-III.
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a sem-
Association of Women in International
9:15am: Management of Health Care Systems: Pub-
inar on lobbying techniques for the 1990s,
Trade will sponsor a luncheon meeting to hear
lic and Private Sector panelists include Sen.
focusing on strategies, coalition building and
a panel discussion on the tied-aid credit issue.
Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
Noon to 2pm, National Press Club, 524 14th
10:30am: The Administration View
grass-roots campaigns.
11:15am: The Real Causes of Escalating Health
9am to 4pm, Ramada Renaissance
St., N.W. October 31
Care Costs
Techworld, December 11
Contact: Teri Simpson at 202-457-6418 or
1pm: Public Policy Arguments Against Comprehen-
Note: There is a $345 charge for this seminar
Laurie MacNamara at 202-377-1659.
sive National Health Care- Sen. Symms, R-Idaho
(includes lunch). For reservations and further
Note: There is a charge for this event of $24 for
1:45pm: Taxes: Financing and Incentives panelists
information call Irene Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax
members and $34 for non-members. For reserva-
include Rep. Gradison, R-Ohio
202-728-1863 (From outside the Washington,
tions send a check to:
3pm: The Defining Difference: Health Care Issues
D.C., metropolitan area call toll-free 1-800-432-
Teri Simpson
in the 1992 Election
2250, ext. 620)
Patton, Boggs & Blow
Note: There is a $245 charge for this event, for
2550 M St. N.W.
reservations call the number listed above.
Washington, D.C. 20037
Deadline is October 17.
STATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
HOUSE RULES, SENATE
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a sem-
TRADE CHALLENGES FACING
PROCEDURES, CONFERENCE CMTES
inar on developing strategies for state govern-
CONGRESS & ADMINISTRATION
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a
ment relations.
National Economists Club will hold a lun-
three-day series on advanced legislative proce-
9am to 4:40pm, J.W. Marriott Hotel Decem-
cheon meeting to hear William Reinsch, legisla-
dures. Sections will focus on House rules,
ber 13
Note: There is a $345 charge for this seminar
tive assistant to Sen. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., for
Senate procedures and conference committees.
(includes lunch). For reservations and further
foreign affairs and international trade, discuss
9am to 4pm December 4, 5 & 6
information call Irene Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax
the trade challenges facing the Congress and
Note: There is an $810 charge for this series ($295
202-728-1863 (From outside the Washington,
for each individual day). For reservations and
the administration.
D.C., metropolitan area call toll-free 1-800-432-
further information call Irene Cuffy at 202-887-
Noon, Montpelier Dining Room, Madison
2250, ext. 620)
8620; fax 202-728-1863 (From outside the Wash-
Bldg. 101 Independence Ave. S.E. October 31
ington, D.C., metropolitan area call toll-free 1-
Contact: 703-532-9048
800-432-2250, ext. 620)
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
CONGRESS & LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
members and $15 for non-members. Reservations
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a sem-
are required and must be made by noon, October
UNDERSTANDING CONGRESS
inar on Congress and the legislative process.
30. Call 703-532-9048
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a sem-
9am to 4pm, Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza at
inar on understanding Congress, focusing on
Metor Center December 16
basic structure of Congress and how a bill
Note: There is a $295 charge for this seminar
LOBBYING STRATEGIES
becomes law.
(includes lunch). For reservations and further
Continuing Legal Education Division of
9am to 1pm, Omni Georgetown Hotel De-
information call Irene Cuffy at 202-887-8620; fax
Georgetown University Law Center will spon-
cember 9
202-728-1863 (From outside the Washington,
sor a seminar on lobbying strategies and legis-
Note: There is a $195 charge for this seminar. For
D.C., metropolitan area call toll-free 1-800-432-
lative practice.
reservations and further information call Irene
2250, ext. 620)
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Status of Appropriations
LLCOMMITTEE
Passed Senate:
September 16
House: 225-2771; Senate: 224-3471
Cleared Congress:
September 26
Signed by the president:
October 1
PL 102-111
AGRICULTURE
House: 225-2638; Senate: 224-7240
ENERGY & WATER DEVELOPMENT
Bill No:
HR 2698
House: 225-3421; Senate: 224-7260
House subcmte markup completed:
June 7
Bill No:
HR 2427
House full cmte markup completed:
June 20
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 10
H Rpt 102-119
House subcmte markup completed:
May 15
Passed House:
June 26
House full cmte markup completed:
May 22
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
April 26
H Rpt 102-75
Senate subcmte markup completed:
July 23
Passed House:
May 29
Senate full cmte markup completed:
July 23
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
May 16
S Rpt 102-116
Senate subcmte markup completed:
June 11
Passed Senate:
July 30
Senate full cmte markup completed:
June 12
Conference completed:
October 3
S Rpt 102-80
H Rpt 102-239
Passed Senate:
July 10
Conference report adopted by House:
October 8
Conference completed:
July 30
Conference report filed:
July 30
H Rpt 102-177
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE,
Conference report adopted by House:
July 31
&THEJUDICIARY
Conference report adopted by Senate:
August 2
House: 225-3351; Senate: 224-7277
Signed by the president:
August 17
PL 102-104
Bill No:
HR 2608
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 17
House subcmte markup completed:
May 30
FOREIGN OPERATIONS
House full cmte markup completed:
June 11
H Rpt 102-106
House: 225-2041; Senate: 224-7209
Passed House:
June 13
Bill No:
HR 2621
Senate subcmte markup completed:
July 9
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 22
Senate full cmte markup completed:
July 11
House subcmte markup completed:
May 29
S Rpt 102-106
House full cmte markup completed:
June 12
Passed Senate:
July 31
H Rpt 102-108
Conference completed:
October 1
Passed House:
June 19
H Rpt 102-233
Conference report adopted by House
October 3
Conference report adopted by Senate
October 3
INTERIOR
House: 225-3081; Senate: 224-7233
DEFENSE
Bill No:
HR 2686
House: 225-2847; Senate: 224-7255
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 9
House subcmte markup completed:
June 6
Bill No:
HR 2521
House full cmte markup completed:
June 19
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 9
H Rpt 102-116
House subcmte markup completed:
May 22
Passed House:
June 25
House full cmte markup completed:
June 4
Senate subcmte markup completed:
July 24
H Rpt 102-95
Senate full cmte markup completed:
July 24
Passed House:
June 7
S Rpt 102-122
Senate subcmte markup completed:
September 19
Passed Senate:
September 19
Senate full cmte markup completed:
September 20
Conference scheduled:
October 15
S Rpt 102-154
Passed Senate:
September 26
LABOR/HHS/EDUC
House: 225-3508; Senate: 224-7283
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
House: 225-5338; Senate: 224-7236
Bill No:
HR 2707
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 21
Bill No:
HR 2699
House subcmte markup completed:
June 6
House subcmte hearings completed:
June 5
House full cmte markup completed:
June 20
House subcmte markup completed:
June 13
H Rpt 102-121
House full cmte markup completed:
June 20
Passed House:
June 26
H Rpt 102-120
Senate subcmte markup completed:
July 11
Passed House:
June 26
Senate full cmte markup completed:
July 11
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
June 27
S Rpt 102-104
Senate subcmte markup completed:-
July 10
Passed Senate:
September 12
Senate full cmte markup completed:
July 11
Conference scheduled:
October 16
S Rpt 102-105
Passed Senate:
July 18
Conference completed:
July 31
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
H Rpt 102-181
Conference report adopted by House:
August 1
House: 225-5338; Senate: 224-7338
Conference report adopted by Senate:
August 2
Bill No:
HR 2506
Vetoed by the president:
August 17
House subcmte hearings completed:
March 7
Bill No:
HR 3291
House subcmte markup completed:
May 22
Passed House:
September 16
House full cmte markup completed:
May 30
H Rpt 102-82
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HEARINGS
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CUOMOTION DETECTOR
SPOTLIGHT
The play's the thing: Cuomo
tells supporters "OK, I'll
TODAY'S VOTES
think about it," backpedals
AND NEXT YEAR'S
after press reports. (#1)
The polls (like those
AND FROM THE SIX-PACK:
after most TV debates) show
KERREY: Leads pack in Times-
more and more support for
Mirror poll (#16).
the "winner. " See #17-21.
CLINTON: Working on Southern
And most of the 13 Dems
base in $-raising swing. (#2)
caught in no-win land seem
HARKIN: Gets top billing,
to agree. See #10.
"moderate" reactions in Land o'
Landow. (#4)
But today's vote may be
WILDER: Announces $ team as
just the beginning. GOP's
he returns to USA today. (#6)
Robert Goodman says "this
BROWN: 10/21 announcement
thing will not go away"
from Cradle of Liberty. (#3)
(BALT. SUN 10/15). Dems'
FL STRAW POLL UPDATE (#5)
Mark Mellman says "no one
will vote FOR a senator
THE ECONOMY PRESIDENT? (#8)
because he voted for
As Bush-Quayle '92 cmte files
Clarence Thomas. But there
with FEC, Bush maps out a new
will be people who will
front in his Domestic Storm.
vote AGAINST a senator
because he voted for
CAMPAIGNS '91
Thomas" (B. GLOBE 10/15).
PA SEN: Thornburgh ad aims
at Wofford record. (#12)
CBS' Osgood: "If a year
LA GOV: Primary 10/19, as TV
ago we were obsessed with a
heats up. (#13)
line drawn in the sand,
KY GOV: Boing! Hopkins
today we seem obsessed with
discloses own check-bouncing,
a line drawn in the mud."
compares to Jones' taxes. (#14)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The ridiculous statements in all of this
began with the President."
-- Sen. James Exon (D-NE), on Bush's initial claims of Thomas'
qualifications, before announcing his own vote to confirm, 10/15.
THE APN BULLETIN BOARD
FROM TODAY'S GREENWIRE: Wilson hailed for lead bill, but does
veto of forest legislation leave him politically "scarred?"
FROM TODAY'S DAILY REPORT CARD: Author Jonathan Kozol debates
the worth of U.S. education goals in interview.
FROM TODAY'S ABORTION REPORT: Supreme Court takes up clinic
access case today as Thomas' Senate showdown looms tonight.
HOTLINE/DATABASE INDEX
WHITE HOUSE '92
CUOMO: "Okay, I'll think about it." (#1)
CLINTON: Works on his southern base. (#2)
BROWN: That's 1-800-WE-THE-PEOPLE. (#3)
HARKIN: Gets top billing at MD Dem event. (#4)
FLORIDA: IA's loss is straw ballot's gain. (#5)
DEM ROUND-UP: Wilder, Tsongas, Nader, Jackson,
Kerrey, Laughlin, Agran. (#6)
DEM "CANDIDATE" SCHEDULES (#7)
BUSH/GOP ROUND-UP: '92 outlook, econo-woes. (#8)
FOCUS
COVER TO COVER (#9)
THOMAS: The thirteen Dems at ground zero. (#10)
SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Other sexual harassment in the news. (#11)
CAMPAIGNS '91
PA SENATE: Someone's hearing footsteps. (#12)
LA GOVERNOR: TV ads heat up. (#13)
KY GOVERNOR: Boing. (#14)
PA 02: Field is set; Tucker out. (#15)
POLL UPDATE
TIMES MIRROR (#16)
CBS/N.Y. TIMES (#17)
ABC/WASH. POST (#18)
L.A. TIMES (#19)
NEWSWEEK (#20)
USA TODAY (#21)
TV MONITOR (#22)
???? OVERLOOKED ????
Classmates at Yale Law School in the early 70s:
Clarence Thomas, John Doggett III,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill Clinton
WHITE HOUSE '92
*1 CUOMO: "OKAY, I'LL THINK ABOUT IT"
He told a group of supporters at a breakfast 10/11 "that he
would 'take a look at' running for President, but then spent the
day denying he had said anything new on the subject" (Lombardi/
Benenson, N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/12). Cuomo, "who has steadfastly
insisted that he has no plans to run for President and no plans
to make plans, was now raising the possibility that he was
planning to make some" (Elizabeth Kolbert, N.Y. TIMES). Several
who attended "said they had been struck by the forcefulness with
which Mr. Cuomo discussed his plans to explore a Presidential
race. They said that [Cuomo] had brought up the topic himself,
and had said that it was time for him to make a decision about
the 1992 race" (10/12). "By late afternoon, an exasperated Cuomo
held an Albany news conference to insist there was nothing new in
his statement and dispute whatever accounts his supporters were
giving" (DAILY NEWS, 10/12). "A well-known [Dem] consultant,
insisting on anonymity, says he had a long chat with Mr. Cuomo a
week ago in which they discussed what kind of campaign he should
run -- and when he should begin. The consultant says he came
away from that conversation convinced Mr. Cuomo is going to run"
(James Perry, W.S. JOURNAL). Marist College poll dir. Lee
Miringoff: "He waited for the field to form. Now he's selected
his bat from the bat rack, and he's heading for the plate.
It's my sense that he's going to run" (10/14). USA TODAY
headline: "Cuomo denies his uncertainty hurts hopefuls." After
praising Tsongas, saying he is "ahead in ideas" as the other Dems
"haven't said anything yet," Cuomo added, "You have to have an
economic growth plan to win. That's easy: I have one" (10/15).
Miringoff suggests Cuomo "is reminding party leaders that he's
seriously thinking about running 'to freeze fund-raisers who had
been thinking of signing on with one of the other candidates.
He's telling them, 'Hold on to your checkbooks'" (W.S. JOURNAL,
10/14). "Other contenders could hear the sound of potential
contributors' purses snapping shut. The stream of endorsements
by activists who have begun choosing sides was instantly slowed.
The calculations of strategists in both parties were being
refigured" (Susan Page, N.Y. NEWSDAY). Dem $-raiser/strategist
Duane Garrett: "As long as he is seriously considering it, I
think the rapid flow of people to the other candidates is likely
to be staunched" (10/12). Ever since the DNC meeting in L.A.,
"Cuomo allies have been privately urging party activists to hold
off signing on with other campaigns" (Shepard, COX NEWS, 10/12).
But Cuomo dismissed "any talk that his uncertainty
has
disrupted others' campaigns" or that he told the Dem Party to
"wait for me": "If people were holding back, they would tell me.
It's not real" (USA TODAY, 10/15).
REAX: DNC pol. dir. Paul Tully: "A time frame has been set
for a decision within the next few weeks.
that's a change on
the part of the governor from the other sense people had."
Friends of Mario Cuomo chair Lucille Falcone: "I thought it was
a significant statement, but nothing definitive" (WASH. POST,
10/12). One nat'l Dem official "likened [Cuomo's] situation to
the way other prospective candidates have set personal deadlines
for deciding on a candidacy. This official said he thought that
a Cuomo candidacy was now 'more than less likely' but 'far from
done'" (Carl Leubsdorf, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 10/12). DNC chair
Ron Brown: "My hope
is that whoever is thinking about
running makes up their mind as soon as possible" (COX NEWS,
10/12). Harkin manager Tim Raftis: "We're not going to look
over our shoulders. I won't be surprised if another version
comes out of Albany tomorrow" (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/12). Clinton:
"It makes sense in that there is an opportunity out there. He
would get some votes. Whether it would come directly from me or
not, I don't know. He may hurt the more liberal candidates more"
(ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT, 10/12). N.Y. TIMES' Sam Roberts calls Cuomo
"conflicted. , He genuinely does not want to run for President,
particularly while serving as Governor, although he seems more
confident about his ability to be President" (10/14). NH Dem
chair Chris Spirou "said he would welcome Cuomo if he decides to
run but it serves no purpose to discuss him until then": "I
would much rather talk about [the Dems in the race] than
speculate to what anybody else wants to do and may do.
It's
already late in [NH], not for him but late for everybody." Ex-NH
Dem chair Ned Helms "said he would rather focus on people 'with
the guts to come out' than distract from the process with
speculation" (Manchester UNION LEADER, 10/12). Ex-NH Dem
chair/Clinton backer George Bruno: "You can't be the reluctant
maiden for year after year and then expect to jump into the
process in midstream.
The time is at hand to either do it or
not do it" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/12). CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE headline:
"Specter of Cuomo shadows 'earnest' Demo field" (10/13).
*2
CLINTON: WORKS ON HIS SOUTHERN BASE
He is "doing what he can to avoid" being labeled, "The
Southern Candidate," like Gore in '88. He is shirking the
"monolithic Southern strategy," because he believes "you have to
run everywhere." " ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT's Randy Lilleston notes
another reason: "Taking the South won't be easy." Wilder could
take significant portions of the Southern black vote and "If any
one candidate claims a group of early primaries, the subsequent
momentum could split the South the way it did in 1988" (10/15).
HOUSTON CHRONICLE's Cragg Hines notes, Clinton "will be measured"
by examining his reputation as "the nation's most effective" gov.
VS. his record -- "the promises VS. the performance in [AR], II and
adds, AR "remains one of the poorest states, with stagnant growth
in population and economy -- hardly a model, or classic, platform
from which to launch a race for the [WH]. AR analysts "point to
issues in Clinton's record, such as the environment, crime and
foreign affairs "which could be tempting targets for a campaign
such as Republicans ran against Dukakis." Some suggest either
Dem or GOP opponents "could demolish Clinton with the slogan:
'He'll do for America what he's done for Arkansas'" (10/15).
Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-AR) said "he thinks Clinton will be the one
to take the nomination" and noted a Cuomo entrance would be
"immaterial now" (ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT, 10/15).
NC: Addressing the Vance-Aycock Banquet, a "top" NC Dem
event, Clinton "gave his now-familiar campaign speech ...
To some
[Dems] here, that message was good news" (Lilleston, DEMOCRAT).
"Clinton particularly struck a chord when he mentioned Bush's
ability to provide emergency foreign aid while refusing to sign
an extension of unemployment benefits at home. Those at the
dinner stood up and applauded for at least 30 seconds. In
introducing Clinton, Sen. Terry Sanford (D-NC) : "I can say this
for all of us: We will be mighty happy to be on a ticket with
you next fall" (10/14)
AL: Before the AL Dem Conference, a black Dem caucus, he
warned GOPers "would attempt to divide Americans along racial
lines" in '92: "They run that quota deal on me and I will nail
them to the wall. We are all in this together. Do you believe
that?" Crowd: "Yes." AL Dem Conference chair Joe Reed "said it
was premature to say how Clinton would fare in a fellow southern
state." Reed added Clinton needs to build up name ID in AL,
noting Jackson, if he runs, would be the favorite among black AL
Dems. '90 AL Dem gov. nominee Paul Hubbert "said a Jackson
candidacy would hurt Clinton's chances not only in [AL] but in
every southern state" (Oman/Johnson, DEMOCRAT, 10/13).
CA: About 125 people attended a 10/13 $-raiser in L.A.,
hosted by "Designing Women" producers Harry Thomason and Linda
Bloodworth-Thomason. Burt Reynolds also attended. "The Big
Easy" producer Mort Ingleberg "was on hand" with Clinton 10/14.
DEMOCRAT's Noel Oman notes, "Most of the campaign money in Tinsel
Town appears to be divided between" Clinton and Kerrey. L.A.
atty/consultant Mickey Kanter: "Right now, Clinton and Kerrey
are equal in California" (10/15).
IL: Dem consultant David Axelrod said Clinton "seems to be
doing well" in organizing and $-raising and his message is
""well-suited" to the rich grove of middle-class voters in
Chicago's northwest sections and outlying suburban areas as well
as the southern half of the state." Axelrod added "it does not
hurt to be a 'kindred spirit' in political philosophy" with
Chicago Mayor Rich Daley. "Another plus for Clinton is getting
Lou Manilow to hold a fund-raiser [10/11] for him. Manilow was
active for Gore in '88 and Carter in '76. Clinton also addressed
the 9th annual Hispanic American Leadership Conference (Noel
Oman, DEMOCRAT, 10/12)
ON THE HEARINGS: Clinton said the Clarence Thomas/Anita
Hill hearings "looked 'like a circus," adding that Thomas'
nomination "should not be scuttled by a charge of sexual
harassment alone, even though the issue is a 'serious one'":
"Keep in mind that there's all these other questions about him,
his constitutional and legal views and fitness that have been
totally obscured by this now. That's what I'd like the vote cast
on" (DEMOCRAT, 10/13).
ALSO: A Clinton $-raiser in Texarkana, raised an estimated
$30,000, all matchable (DEMOCRAT, 10/12). A Clinton press
packet, which included several recent speeches, did not include a
line from last month's Sioux City, IA, event where Clinton said
to George McGovern, "History's borne you out, and I'm still proud
to have worked for you" (Schwartz/Balz, WASH. POST, 10/13).
Evans & Novak report Clinton's announcement speech "has gotten
the best reviews from [Dem and GOP] insiders.
Advisers to
President Bush privately regard Clinton as the most experienced
candidate among those running and the one with the most coherent
message. A footnote: Moderate [Dems] are talking about a
Clinton-Kerrey ticket, with the loser in the primaries taking
second place on the ticket" (BOSTON HERALD, 10/13). DLC chair
John Breaux (D-LA) said 10/14 he's "very enthused" about
Clinton's candidacy, and noted Clinton "is the ammunition [Dems]
need to oust Republicans from the White House" (DEMOCRAT, 10/15).
*3 BROWN: THAT'S 1-800-WE-THE-PEOPLE
He "took his anti-Washington campaign to Washington [10/14]
and blamed America's ills on 'the whole culture of careerism
behind the Beltway" (Mark Barabak, COPLEY/S.D. UNION). Brown,
speaking to 150 at American Univ., "received a warm response" as
the students "cheered his repeated attacks on President Bush and
denunciations of the influence PAC money has over both parties."
Brown spoke in front of a banner reading "We the People" which
included an "800-number of a telemarketing company doing his
fundraising. II He is limiting contributions to $100. "However,
while attacking both parties for failing to address a whole
variety of issues -- from homelessness to day care -- Brown
offered no specifics beyond his attack on the political status
quo.
Depicting money as the root of all political evils,
Brown suggested the current system of government has reached a
form of gridlock, unable to address the problems that concern
most people, because of an overweening dependence on special-
interest contributions" (10/15). He'll make his 10/21
announcement in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia,
because his campaign will be "about restoring democracy" (Dan
Balz, WASH. POST). He also called Judge Clarence Thomas "a
right-wing clone with a mediocre mind" (10/15).
*4 HARKIN: GETS TOP BILLING AT MD DEM EVENT
At a Dem luncheon in Timonium, Harkin urged Dems "to be
'strong for who we are and what we believe, as he outlined a
massive program of building infrastructure to revive the American
economy" (Jay Merwin, Balto. EVENING SUN). Harkin spoke before
1,200 at the $25-a-head MD Dem Party fund-raiser and "said that
after eight years of a Harkin administration, the [U.S.] would be
able to boast the best highway and mass transit system in the
world, the best schools, increased home ownership, and a
nationalized health-care system to cover everyone.
Harkin's
fire and brimstone liberalism won moderate applause" (10/14)
Harkin "asked what would be a good name for the new governments
of Communist countries. And what, he asked, would be a good name
for a government that bankrupts the nation and spends massive
amounts on weapons": "My suggestion is that they call themselves
Republicans." Harkin "had about 50 sign-carrying supporters, all
wearing 'Marylanders for Harkin'" T-shirts with the words 'Give
'em hell' on the back" (Paul, Balto. SUN, 10/14).
*5 FLORIDA: IA'S LOSS IS STRAW BALLOT'S GAIN
With Harkin effectively draining the IA caucuses of all
drama, the 12/15 straw poll of 2,300 FL Dems at their convention
in Orlando "is now the only other voting contest scheduled to
occur" before the 2/18 NH primary (Craig Crawford, ORLANDO
SENTINEL). "The vote includes party activists, not rank-and-file
registered [Dems], and the convention delegates' choice will not
be binding" in the 3/10 FL primary. "But the delegates will
represent the heart of [FL Dem] Party -- a rich source of
campaign money for presidential candidates -- and their vote will
come that Sunday after an all-day round of nominations and
campaign speeches." FL Dem spokesperson Kathy Jurado "said
several national news-media organizations, including [CNN], are
planning to cover the gathering." Already most of the candidates
"have gotten in touch with [FL Dem] leaders for address lists of
the delegates
This year's [FL] straw ballot is something of a
wild card for their candidates because their campaigns started
too late to employ the time-honored technique for winning such
votes: stacking the convention with friendly delegates. The
deadline for delegate applications expired before most of the
candidates even entered the race.' Jurado: "This will be an
untainted delegation. These are party activists. This is a
chance for candidates to organize a body of new supporters that
take them to the primary" (10/12). Clinton, Wilder and Kerrey
cited scheduling conflicts and Tsongas had the flu, according to
MD Dem exec. dir. Tom Cowley (DES MOINES REGISTER, 10/14).
Harkin ended a 3-day NH swing "by visiting with striking garment
workers on a picket line, and vowing to stand with them" (Adam
Pertman, BOSTON GLOBE). Harkin: "I want you to know I'm on your
side. I'm on the side of working people in America getting a
better shake and a better deal. Harkin again referred to the
president as "George Herbert Walker Bush,' but whereas "most
audiences just snicker a bit when he does that, the group of
striking workers from Manchester Knitted Fashion Co. [10/11]
cheered." Strikers at the company's Whitfield NH plant voted to
endorse him "on the spot" after a visit to a picket line earlier
in the week. Local officials in Manchester followed suit (10/12).
*6 DEM ROUND-UP
WILDER: Albert Dwoskin, a Fairfax developer who raised
funds for Wilder '89, "will serve as national finance chairman,
taking over fund-raising responsibilities" from Mark Warner.
Warner headed the exploratory cmte and is a "prospective"
congressional candidate. "As for other important jobs in the
campaign, [Dems] said Wilder might hire pollster Dave Petts, If who
did the '89 race with ex-partner of Michael Donilon (Jeff
Schapiro, RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, 10/11). Many VA Dem Assembly
candidates "are trying desperately to distance themselves" from
Wilder, as GOPers -- seeking to capitalize on Wilder's 30%
popularity, dissatisfaction with his pursuit of national office
and unhappiness with budget cuts -- try to link them to him.
Many GOPers have included Wilder in attack ads against their
opponents (Warren Fiske, Norfolk VIRGINIAN-PILOT). "The
onslaught has forced many [Dems], particularly first-time
candidates, to run for cover.
strategists say privately that
they have advised candidates not to be photographed with Wilder
and not to appear with him in their home district. To date,
Wilder has made appearances on behalf of only two Assembly
candidates" (10/13). N.Y. TIMES profiles VA Dem chair Paul
Goldman and suggests his role in Wilder's campaign "will be even
greater" than in past campaigns. Wilder "did not become a
national political figure until after Mr. Goldman joined his
staff in the mid-1980s and helped Mr. Wilder identify and pull
together the voter coalition of blacks and centrist whites that
eventually" won him the governorship (Drummond Ayres, 10/15).
TSONGAS: He "assail[ed]" Bush's unemployment veto: "It's
not as though people are lazy. There are just no jobs out
there." Tsongas "asserted the veto could drive some conservative
[Dems]
back to their old party.
he added, the veto will
aid [Dems] because 'it reinforces the traditional view of
[GOPers] as insensitive to workers' issues" (Adam Pertman, BOSTON
GLOBE, 10/13). Jeffrey Birnbaum profiles him in the W.S. JOURNAL
under header "A Miraculous Survival Means An Obligation, 'a
Mission' to Seek the Presidency" (10/15).
NADER: The Draft Ralph Nader campaign officially began in
NH 10/13 with the opening of its office in Manchester. "State
coordinator" Ken Deutsch: "At this point he is not a candidate
Whether or not he runs, we'll be running a write-in campaign
on both the [Dem & GOP] tickets" in the 2/18 primary. Deutsch
"is hopeful Nader will be in [NH] within the next few months,
even though it would not be a 'campaign' appearance" (Manchester
UNION LEADER, 10/14).
JACKSON: Saying it is the Senate that's being judged,
Jackson "believes the hearings will bring more pressure on the
Senate to diversify to elect more nonwhite males, and that will
help create support for issues dear to him -- like the 1991 Civil
Rights Bill and allowing [DC] to elect a voting member of the
Senate, through statehood if necessary." Jackson: "Fourteen
all-white, male, upper-class, wealthy men were vulnerable when
Thomas went at them.
They come from inheritance, he talked
poverty. They talked incentives, he said hard work. When it
came to Anita Hill, a black female, she didn't even register on
their radar. The system didn't work. It took the freak of a
leak to blow some fresh air into the process." Jackson "has
decided to run in 1992. He just hasn't decided if he'll run for
president or if he'll use his position as the 'conscience of the
nation' to help elect U.S. senators whose seats come up next
year": "Thirty-four senate seats are up. From what's happened
during the hearings, the Senate needs opening up. It's an
incestuous club and there's no difference between the [Dems and
the GOPers] " Jackson was in S.F. to give the Louise Davies
Forum speech at USF (S.F. EXAMINER, 10/14).
KERREY: Faces in the crowd at Kerrey's Faneuil Hall Market
speech in Boston: ex-Mayor Kevin White, ex-Dukakis aides Nick
Mitropolous, Paul Pezella, Jack Weeks and Chuck Campion, Dem
consultant John Marttila, ex-Hart aide Paul Giorgio and RI state
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/13).
LAUGHLIN: He officially announces 10/20 on the street in
front of the house he grew up in Milwaukee. He then travels to
NH "to present his unusual platform and anti-politician ideas for
the first time. " The on to DC and IA, "where he is seriously
challenging Senator Harkin's control of the state [Dem] party"
(Laughlin release, 10/13).
AGRAN: At the MD Dem event, his "Hello-my-name-is" stick-on
tag read: "Larry Agran -- Presidential candidate.' The crowd
applauded as Agran said $15 billion would be earmarked for
federal assistance for schools (Keith Paul, Balto. SUN, 10/14).
NOT-SO-GOLDEN-STATE: NEWSWEEK reports CA "is no longer a
cash cow" for national political contributions. "Political gurus
say that whatever cash is available will likely be spent at home.
the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, a major [Dem]
fund-raising group, has decided not to raise money for the '92
presidential primaries. 'We'll wait for the general election,'
says a spokesperson" (10/21 issue).
WA: AP's David Ammons examines the possibility of WA going
Dem in '92 as it did for Dukakis in '88. Tsongas is described
"most active here so far, " but most believe "he'll be outpaced"
soon by Kerrey, Clinton and Harkin. Gov. Booth Gardner (D) "has
given kind of a dual endorsement to Kerrey and Clinton, both old
political buddies and strong advocates for health care reform,
Gardner's current passion" (10/12).
*7
DEM "CANDIDATE" SCHEDULES
BROWN: 10/21 -- in Philly. PA. Formal announcement at
Independence Hall.
CLINTON: 10/16 -- meets with DC Campaign Steering Cmte and
IMPAC in Washington, DC; Hudson Co. Dem Candidates Gala in
Secaucus, NJ. 10/17 -- in NYC and IL Dem Party Dinner, Chicago.
HARKIN: 10/19 -- in Denver for CO Dem Dinner. 10/20 -- in
IA.
KERREY: 10/15-16 -- in DC. 10/17 -- IL Dem Party Annual
Dinner, Chicago. 10/18 -- in DC.
TSONGAS: 10/15 -- in Laconia, NH. 10/16 --- speech at
Columbia Univ. Int'l Affairs Bldg. in NYC. 10/17 -- IL Dem Party
Annual Dinner, Chicago. 10/18 -- Mercantile Exchange in Chicago;
Bremer Co. Dem Dinner in Waverly, IA. 10/19 -- Univ. of SD
Homecoming, Vermillion, SD.
WILDER: 10/15 -- Pat Buchanan Roast for Spina Bifida,
Washington, DC. 10/16 -- in Richmond. 10/17 -- NBC's "Today";
keynotes Nat'l Assoc. of Admin. Law Judges in Richmond;
Governor's Enviro. Excellence Awards in Richmond.
CUOMO: In NY this week.
JACKSON: 10/15 -- on Capitol Hill for the Thomas vote.
MCCARTHY: 10/15 -- in NH, speech at Dartmouth, 7:30 p.m.
10/16 -- in NH, speech at Keene State College, 7:30 p.m.
MCCURDY: In DC all week.
AGRAN: 10/17 -- Interviewed on "Larry King Live. "
*8 BUSH/GOP ROUND-UP
Bush "took concrete steps [10/11] toward decaring his
intention to seek a second term" by establishing a $-raising cmte
with the FEC (Greg McDonald, HOUSTON CHRONICLE). Bush-Quayle '92
"has already begun organizing a massive fund-raising campaign,"
including a Houston dinner 10/31 and another in Dallas 11/1. A
"massive mailing list drawing on former contributors ...
has been
put together, and checks have started rolling in." Some Dems say
Bush's cmte "could raise enough by the end of the year to qualify
for up to 80 percent of the matching funds"; DNC chair Ron Brown
has "threatened legal action." Bush treasurer Stan Huckaby:
"Money's coming in like crazy. " The cmte has opened 2 bank
accounts in DC, and has "set up temporary offices" in Alexandria,
VA (10/12). USA TODAY's Richard Benedetto profiles the "new"
John Sununu. For '92, "Sununu hints he'll be playing a big
role": "Deciding what the President will say and where he will
say it will be done in the White House.' On the current Dem
field, "he replies with a smile": "They look tough" (10/14).
U.S. NEWS reports GOP advisers are urging Bush to visit the new
Baltic republics at the height of the Dem primary season: "The
idea will be to contrast the opposition's petty intraparty
squabbling with the image of George Bush as the foreign policy
president" ("Washington Whispers, 10/21 issue).
ECONO-WOES: KNIGHT-RIDDER's Robert Rankin, in a sweeping
analysis of the economy as THE '92 issue, cites three major
factors "crippling America's economy": 1) Real estate, bank
policy changes; 2) Individual income tax changes; 3) The federal
deficit (MIAMI HERALD, 10/13). The ECONOMIST notes, "The young
George Bush majored in economics. An incongruous thought,
particularly for those who have learnt that if ever Mr. Bush
mentions the economy something bad must be happening. These past
couple of weeks the president has not been able to mention the
subject enough" (10/12-18 issue) NEWSWEEK's John Schwartz on
Bush's credit crunch proposal: "You might say George Bush kicked
off his re-election campaign last week. He launched a stinging
attack on his most formidable opponent
the economy" (10/21
issue) Prez' Council of Econ. Advisers chair Michael Boskin,
after meeting in a closed door session with the Business Council
of 10 top CEOs: "No one is saying the economy is healthy, but we
believe it is improving and most people agree with that.
Members of the Biz Council, however, "said their own firms were
facing lean times and the possibility that the country could be
in a recession in 1992" (Crutsinger, AP/PHILA. INQUIRER, 10/13).
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*9 COVER TO COVER
BUSINESS WEEK -- Photo: McDonald's CEO Mike Quinlan
surrounded by servings of McPizza, McFajitas, McSpaghetti and
McMeatballs, McCorn-on-the-Cob, etc. Headline: "McRisky" (10/21).
NEWSWEEK -- Photo: Anita Hill. Headline: "Anita Hill: 'I
Had to Tell the Truth.' Clarence Thomas: 'It is a High-Tech
Lynching" (10/21).
TIME -- Photos: Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. Headline:
"Sex, Lies & Politics." Subhead: "America's watershed debate on
sexual harassment" (10/21).
U.S. NEWS -- Photo: Clarence Thomas. Headline: "Sex and
Justice" (10/21).
ECONOMIST -- Graphic: Uncle Sam as biker, riding a "G7, " as
fellow bikers from the other six nations hang on for dear life.
Headline: "The perils of togetherness" (10/12-18).
INSIGHT -- Graphic: Portrait of Christopher Columbus.
Headline: "The Columbus Wars" (10/21).
NEW REPUBLIC -- Graphic: Gorbachev as mad scientist.
Headline: "The Experiment That Failed." Subhead: "How Soviet
science collapsed" (10/28).
*10 THOMAS: THE THIRTEEN DEMS AT GROUND ZERO
In what TIME calls "an ugly circus
...
with real victims and
no nets" (10/21 issue), the 13 Dems who had announced their
Thomas support before last week's delayed vote seem key in
tonight's vote. If 41 GOPers hold firm for him (only Jeffries,
VT, and Packwood, OR, are known NO votes), a shift of 5 of the 13
would be essential to defeat the nomination:
SENATOR
STATUS
COMMENT AND SOURCE
Boren (D-OK)
Undecided
"In my mind if there is
substantial doubt, you resolve
that doubt in favor of the
accused" (NY TIMES 10/15)
Breaux (D-LA)
Probable
"I believe Judge Thomas is
qualified. I said so two weeks
ago. (N.O. PICAYUNE 10/15)
Bryan (D-NV)
Undecided
Press Secretary: "He's still
reviewing the material" (10AM
10/15)
DeConcini (D-AZ)
YES
"The advantage goes to those
who are accused" (AZ REPUBLIC
10/15).
Dixon (D-IL)
YES
Statement carried on CNN, 10:30
AM, 10/15
Exon (D-NE)
YES
Statement carried on CNN, 10
AM, 10/15
Johnston (D-LA)
YES
"The conduct for which he was
charged was simply inconsistent
with the lifetime of service by
him" (NBC 10/14)
Fowler (D-GA)
Undecided
Spokesman: "He continues to
support Judge Thomas, but the
record is open and new
information is now being fed
into that equation" (ATLANTA
CONSITUTION 10/15)
Nunn (D-GA)
Undecided
ATLANTA CONSTITUION 10/15.
Reid (D-NV)
Undecided
Office reports he's "still
reviewing" -- with statement
expected at lunch.
Shelby (D-AL)
YES
"Today Show, " NBC 10/15
Lieberman (D-CT)
Undecided
"What is the standard of proof
I need to find? It's less than
beyond a reasonable doubt and
more than just the allegation
being made" (NY TIMES 10/15) ;
cited in WSJ editorial as
"ready" to switch
(10/15)
Hollings (D-SC)
Undecided
"Hollings set to back
(Charleston POST/COURIER 10/15)
Others mentioned prominently: Graham (D-FL), Ford (D-KY), Dodd
(D-CT) , and Pryor (D-AR) said to be on WH call list (BOSTON GLOBE
10/15) ; Moynihan, D-NY, is listed by the NY POST as YES before
the delay and "undeceided" now (10/15) ; Byrd (was "leaning
toward" before the delay, WSJOURNAL 10/15; only one in addition
to the 13 to make the NY POST front page roll call focus 10/15) ;
Cohen, R-ME, is described as "still inclined" to vote YES, but
reviewing the hearing (B. GLOBE 10/15).
*11 OTHER SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE NEWS
WASH. POST acknowledges the pro-Thomas op-ed piece by Juan
Williams, frequently cited by GOP Senators in the hearing, was
put into the paper by editors who were not aware at the time that
there was an inquiry underway at the POST into charges by female
colleagues at the POST "who accused him of verbal sexual
harassment" (10/15). PHILA. INQUIRER repeats excerpts which call
charge against Thomas "an alleged sexual conversation between two
adults" and called the process "an unforgiveable abuse of a human
being named Clarence Thomas" (10/15). NH SUNDAY NEWS, next to an
editorial entitled "What a Smear Campaign!" ran a cartoon of
"Senator Kennedy's LOVEMOBILE" with the comment: "Ted says that
if the sex harassment charge is true, he'll vote for Thomas!"
(10/13). Ex-MN GOP Gov. candidate Jon Grunseth, in a letter to
the W.S. JOURNAL, writes he was "falsely accused
and
defeated" (10/14). Norfolk VIRGINIAN-PILOT's Warren Fiske says
"undecided" Sen. Chuck Robb (D-VA) suggested last week "that his
vote might be influenced by his own experience" (10/15). W.S.
JOURNAL editorial notes the same lie-detector firm that gave the
test to Hill gave one to Stephen Gobie on the question of his
relationship with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). "The test said that
Mr. Gobie was lying, but Mr. Frank later said that the story was
true" (10/15). NEWSWEEK's Eleanor Clift reports on the Senate as
"the Ultimate Men's Club" and says that "Sen. Strom Thurmond [R-
SC], for example, has a reputation for being 'a groper' on the
Senate elevator, but at 88, he's excused" (10/21 issue).
IGNS '91
*12 PENNSYLVANIA SENATE: SOMEONE'S HEARING FOOTSTEPS
"Round One of the television ad fight for the U.S. Senate is
on" (John Baer, PHILA. DAILY NEWS, 10/15). "After weeks of
distant thunder, ex-AG/ex-Gov. Dick Thornburgh (R) "roared onto
the TV airwaves with a slam" at Sen. Harris Wofford (D). "To the
Wofford camp, the Thornburgh missile is a Scud -- ineffective,
poorly aimed and launched out of desperation." The ad compares
their "records": "You decide. Dick Thornburgh was a highly
acclaimed prosecutor. Harris Wofford was a liberal college
president who led the school to big budget deficits.' " But Bryn
Mawr College Pres. Mary Patterson McPherson: "Each year from
1972 to 1978, he added to the college endowment." Wofford
consultant James Carville: "He's running an ad like this because
Dick Thornburgh is out of gas, he's out of ideas, and he's out of
things he can say about himself." Thornburgh aide Rich Myers
called the ad "totally factual": "We're sorry if Mr. Wofford is
embarrassed by his past" (Katherine Seelye, PHILA. INQUIRER,
10/12). DAILY NEWS' Baer writes, even "Thornburgh's backup
material shows Bryn Mawr's deficit shrinking, both in size and as
a percentage of the budget, during Wofford's tenure" (10/15).
The ad also says "Thornburgh was voted one of the nation's most
effective governors, citing a NEWSWEEK poll. "The fact is, he
was ranked 7th of the 8 governors listed -- 19 points behind"
Dukakis (Wofford release, 10/15). Wofford's ad compares
positions on parental leave, taxes, and national health
insurance, all of which, Thornburgh opposes, "follow[ing] his
attempt to portray Thornburgh as a candidate of the privileged
and powerful, an enemy of the 'working class'" (Baer, 10/15).
A HEALTHY CAMPAIGN? For the race between Wofford and
Thornburgh, "there are two questions: How much is health care on
voters' minds, and which candidate benefits? The answers appear
to be: lots and Wofford" (Baer, DAILY NEWS). In a race "that
focuses mostly on the candidates resumes, it is one of few things
on which they clearly differ." Experts say Wofford's "recent
climb in the polls is due primarily to his seizing health care as
his own issue with repeated TV ads." U. of Pitt's Ted Windt:
"Wofford has been able to do with health care what Thornburgh did
with integrity in government in 1979" (10/14). U.S. NEWS'
Michael Barone, under subhead: "Dress Rehearsal for 1992,"
analyzes the race: "No New Taxes VS. Health-Care Reform";
"Testing Bush's Arguments"; and "Cautionary Notes" (10/21 issue).
AMNESIA WATCH: PHILA INQ. header over Thornburgh profile:
"Ignoring his stint in Justice." The strategy: "Tap into what
people already know. More than 95 percent of [PA] voters know he
was governor, only 57 percent know he served" as AG (Seelye,
10/13). Thornburgh found 22 veterans, "printed letterhead for
them, and held a press conference to announce the endorsement of
the 'statewide coalition' Veterans for Dick Thornburgh." One of
the 22 listed had been dead for a week. The group also "claimed
they represented" the AL, DAV and VFW, but all three groups "put
out letters to the press saying they didn't endorse Thornburgh"
(Wofford release, 10/15).
*13 LOUISIANA GOVERNOR: TV ADS HEAT UP
Ex-Gov. Edwin Edwards (D) donor/Marine Shale Processors
owner Jack Kent is "buying up as much television time as he can
to run five different spots pummeling" Gov. Buddy Roemer (R).
But some TV stations "are refusing to run the 30-second spots
because of their content" (Baton Rouge MORNING ADVOCATE, 10/13).
To counter, Roemer aired a new spot 10/14: "Jack Kent ...
is
spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV to help his
friend Edwin Edwards. Ask yourself why a company that brings
tons of dangerous wastes into [LA] is so angry, it will spend a
fortune to defeat Buddy Roemer" (Roemer release, 10/15).
Franklin Mayor Sam Jones (D) "will add some spice" to what he
considers "an otherwise bland and 'crazy' campaign, II by airing a
TV ad featuring a Nazi, a Klansman, a rubber band snapping
'Buddy,' and a Vegas-bound 'party guy' accompanied by two young
women. Jones "hopes voters recognize campaign front-runners"
state Rep. David Duke, Roemer, and Edwards (Mike Hasten,
Lafayette ADVERTISER, 10/11). The LA Coalition Against Racism
and Nazism "issued a new missive" -- a transcript of a 1986 Duke
interview "in which he makes a raft of anti-semitic statements."
Duke: "[Jews] probably deserve to go into the ash-bin of
history" (ADVOCATE, 10/13). Edwards dismissed suggestions from
Sen. Bennett Johnston (D) that Duke "might lead the [gov.] field"
for the run-off 10/19. Also observers have said Edwards' "best
chance of recapturing the Governor's mansion
is to face Duke"
(Robert Morgan, ALEXANDRIA TOWN TALK, 10/11). N.O. TIMES-
PICAYUNE's James Gill writes, conventional wisdom, "which
generally expected a repeat of the 1987 primary with Roemer and
Edwards in front, is no longer so cocksure." Roemer, Edwards,
and Duke are "so close in the polls that the outcome could
depend" on which has the best GOTV effort. Gill adds, "Pollsters
have decided to cook the books this time, adjusting Duke's
numbers up to create the triple dead heat,
...
a logical response
to their failure in earlier elections to gauge, the full extent
of Duke's support" (10/11).
NATIONAL HEADLINES: USA TODAY: "[LA's] wild governor's
chase.' Subhead: "3-way brawl in primary" (10/15). MIAMI
HERALD: "Hard times taking fun out of Bayou election." Subhead:
"Candidates don't inspire Louisianans" (10/14) L.A. TIMES:
"There is More at Stake in [LA] Than Who Will Be Its Next
Governor." Subhead: "Three flavors of Republicanism are running
in the primary, and one of them -- David Duke -- is making the
GOP run scared" (10/13). L.A. TIMES magazine: "The Rake, the
Racist and the New-Age Reformer." Subhead: "Only in [LA] would
rogues like these seek the governorship and, with it, redemption"
(10/13)
*14 KENTUCKY GOVERNOR: BOING
Rep. Larry Hopkins (R-06) "conceded" to overdrawing his
account at the House private bank "32 times in one year, for a
total" of $4,036, and he "probably had overdrafts in other years"
(Al Cross, Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL). "To soften what he
acknowledged was a blow to his struggling campaign, Hopkins
struck a contrast" with LG Brereton Jones' (D) "refusal to follow
his lead and release tax returns and a net-worth statement."
Hopkins "said he could have kept the overdrafts from being
disclosed until the [11/5] election but believes in full
disclosure": "By God, we're about to find out, you know, whether
full disclosure pays off or whether it doesn't." Hopkins'
advisers began their "damage control" 10/13 "by asking Jones'
major lenders to release information about his loans" -- Jones
"authorized the release of some information
but little of
what Hopkins asked for." Jones on full disclosure: "I think the
whole thing's kind of a joke.
I find now people joking about
it as I'm out on the campaign trail as opposed to having serious
conversations about it" (10/15).
AD WATCH: In his pro-right-to-work TV spot, Hopkins "says
he is 'not anti-union, though the right to work law has been
"the principal anti-union tool of business interests for the last
40 years. Though Hopkins earlier said "he would not advocate
the law because it would 'rip the scab off' labor-management
relations, " he "changed his mind after a poll for him showed that
most Kentuckians favored the law" (Cross, C-J, 10/13).
*15 PA 02: FIELD IS SET; TUCKER OUT
"In the season's fastest political contest, one candidate
dropped out one got knocked out and five others filed" to
succeed ex-Rep. Bill Gray (D) (Cynthia Burton, PHILA. DAILY
NEWS). In the race are ex-Councilperson Lucien Blackwell (D),
Nadine Bulford (R), Consumer Party's Darcy Richardson and ex-Dems
ex-Sec/Welfare John White (I) and state Sen. Chaka Fattah (I).
Dept. of State "rejected nomination papers" from DeLores Tucker
(D) "just before than 5 p.m. deadline because they were not
notarized" (10/14). Tucker, who "vowed from the start not to
change" her registration, "lashed out at the party and the
election rules.' The State Dept. cited a law "barring candidates
not nominated by an established political party from running
under a party name 'similar or identical to an existing political
party" (Williams, PHILA. INQUIRER, 10/13). PA Homebuilders Assn
endorsed Fattah (Fattah release, 10/10). With Tucker out, "a
campaign within a campaign has begun to try to capture the
sizeable number of women voters" in the district (S.A.
Paolantonio, INQUIRER). Fattah and White are "assembling
networks to tap women voters disgruntled" with Blackwell. White
"is scheduled [10/15] to hook perhaps the biggest prize -- the
coalition of women's groups that put Allyson Young Schwartz in
the state Senate." On 10/17, "Women for Fattah -- an assemblage
of grass-roots organizers will be announced." However, the
Philly chapter of NOW "plans to wait for Tucker's return in the
spring, when she plans to run in the" Dem primary, saying "there
are few differences among" the three "major" candidates; all are
"abortion-rights supporters.
Thus, they would rather wait
for Tucker just to help break the all-male hold" on PA's
delegation. Some say sitting out might help GOP contender Nadine
Bullford "capture" the seat, she is "anti-abortion." But "most
strategists dismiss" a GOP victory. The district supported
Dukakis over Bush by 91% (10/15).
POLL UPDATE
=
*16 TIMES MIRROR: KERREY LEADS DEMS, BUSH APPROVAL DOWN
1211 adults, surveyed 10/3-6, margin of error +/- 3%. Dem
subsample: 495, margin of error +/- 5% (L.A. TIMES, 10/13)
DEM PRIMARY (Dems only)
BUSH APPROVAL
10/91
5/91
Kerrey
21%
ALL
BLACKS
ALL
BLACKS
Wilder
15
Approve
61%
28%
77%
58%
Clinton
14
Disapprove
28
--
16
--
Harkin
13
Tsongas
9
OPINION OF DEMS (All)
1/88
'92 GENERAL
Excellent
2%
3%
Bush
55% Dem
38%
Good
18
27
Fair
38
44
BUSH SUPPORT (from above)
Poor
15
17
Made up mind
28%
DK
27
9
Might support Dem
21
HARVARD "NINE SUNDAYS" TV PLAN (Described)
Approve
77%
Disapprove
16%
*17 CBS/N.Y. TIMES
10/14 sample -- 497 adults re-interviewed 10/14; margin of
error +/- 5%. 10/13 sample -- 501 adults re-interviewed 10/13;
+/- 5%. Originally interviewed 9/5-7 (CBS release, 10/15).
CONFIRM THOMAS?
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
10/13
10/9
Confirm
57%
64%
50%
45%
38%
Against
19
19
19
20
20
Can't say
22
16
28
33
39
ARE HILL'S CHARGES TRUE?
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
10/13
10/9
Yes
27%
20%
34%
27%
21%
No
56
63
49
54
47
DK
17
17
17
19
32
DID YOU WATCH ANY PART OF
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE MORE?
THE HEARINGS ON LIVE TV?
10/13 MEN WOMEN
10/14
MEN
WOM
10/13
Yes
86%
87%
86%
CT
60%
69%
53%
58%
No
10
10
11
AH
20
16
24
24
TRUTH TELLING
THOMAS 10/13
HILL
10/13
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
Told entire truth
28%
28%
28%
11%
7%
14%
Mostly truth/
Hiding something
52
55
49
39
40
37
Mostly lying
9
6
11
38
40
36
DK/NA
11
11
17
17
18
17
HEARING TESTIMONY
ALL
10/13
MEN
WOMEN
Appropriate
33%
36%
31%
Went too far
59
56
61
HEARINGS' LEGACY IN THE LONG RUN
ALL
10/13
MEN
WOMEN
Something good will have been
36%
32%
40%
accomplished
Nothing good to result/Just an
58
60
56
embarrassing spectacle
*18 ABC/WASH. POST
10/14 -- 514 adults surveyed 10/14; margin of error +/- 5%.
10/13 -- 506 adults surveyed 10/13; +/- 5% (ABC release, 10/14).
10/14
10/13
CONFIRM THOMAS?
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
Confirm
59%
61%
57%
56%
64%
49%
Not confirm
28
27
28
29
23
34
Wait and see
4
5
4
7
5
5
No opinion
10
8
11
8
7
9
MORE BELIEVABLE
10/14
10/13
10/12
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
Thomas
52%
55%
49%
46%
54%
39%
46%
56%
38%
Hill
24
21
26
26
20
31
24
20
28
Equal
9
10
7
10
9
10
11
12
9
DK
16
14
17
18
16
21
19
12
24
HEARINGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HELD
...
10/14
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
In private
54%
50%
57%
In public
25
28
23
Not held at all
18
19
17
APPROVE/DISAPPROVE OF ROLE IN THOMAS NOMINATION -- 10/13
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
News media
43% / 48%
44% / 51%
43% / 46%
Thomas
71 / 19
77 / 16
66 / 23
Hill
48
/ 41
47 / 44
48 / 39
Bush
64 / 26
73 / 20
56 / 31
Biden
62 / 22
66 / 25
59 / 19
N.O.W.
41
/ 30
37 / 38
43
/ 24
NAACP
35 / 25
36 / 31
35 / 20
Sen. Judic. Cmte
49
/ 34
51 / 39
46 / 30
Judic. Cmte Dems
46
/
39
45 / 45
46 / 33
Judic. Cmte GOPers
53
/
31
63 / 27
44 / 33
WILL SENATE INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ACCUSATION AGAINST
THOMAS END UP BEING A GOOD OR BAD THING FOR THE COUNTRY?
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
Good thing
55%
52%
57%
Bad thing
31
34
28
Both (vol.)
5
5
5
Neither (vol.)
5
5
5
*19 L.A. TIMES
1,264 adults interviewed 10/12-13; margin of error +/- 3%
-- 606 surveyed 10/12, 658 surveyed 10/13 (10/14).
CONFIRM THOMAS?
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
WHITES
BLACKS
ALL 9/25
Confirm
51%
54%
48%
50%
61%
54%
Reject
25
25
25
26
16
19
No opinion
24
21
27
24
23
27
VERSION MORE BELIEVABLE
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
WHITES
BLACKS
Hill -- certain
18%
15%
21%
20%
9%
Hill -- not certain
17
17
17
16
17
Thomas -- not certain
17
20
15
17
13
Thomas -- certain
30
32
29
31
35
Neither/Both
7
6
6
5
10
No opinion
11
10
12
11
16
*20 NEWSWEEK
704 adults interviewed 10/10-11; margin of error +/- 4%
(10/21 issue)
DID CLARENCE THOMAS SEXUALLY
DO YOU PERSONALLY KNOW A
HARASS ANITA HILL?
SEXUAL HARASSMENT VICTIM?
WOMEN
MEN
WOMEN
MEN
Yes
27%
17%
Yes
42%
37%
No
37
41
No
55
62
Don't know
36
42
*21 USA TODAY
758 people surveyed 10/13 by Gordon S. Black Corp.; margin
of error +/- 3.5% (10/14, 10/15).
CONFIRM THOMAS?
ALL
MEN
WOMEN
WHITES
BLACKS
Confirm
55%
57%
53%
54%
63%
Don't confirm
27
--
--
29
18
Don't know
18
--
--
16
19
HAVE YOU FOUND YOURSELF BELIEVING
THOMAS IS A VICTIM OF
THOMAS AT ONE POINT AND HILL AT
RACISM BY JUDICIARY CMTE
ANOTHER SINCE THE HEARINGS BEGAN?
ALL WHITE BLACK
Yes
40%
Agree
24%
20%
43%
No
49
Disagree
62
65
44
Don't know
11
DK
14
15
13
WHICH PARTY HAS DONE BEST JOB AT GETTING TO TRUTH AT HEARINGS?
Dems
10%
GOP
20
Both
46
Neither
8
Don't know
16
TV MONITOR
*22 THIS MORNING: ABC's "GMA" interviewed DC Del. Eleanor
Holmes Norton (D), psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint and ex-Supreme
Court nominee/AEI's Robert Bork. NBC's "Today" interviewed Sen.
Richard Shelby (D-AL), Dem consultant Bob Squier and GOP
consultant Roger Ailes and Sen. John Danforth (R-MO). "CBS This
Morning" interviewed Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Pat Leahy (D-
VT), Hill supporter Shirley Wiegand and Thomas supporter Harry
Singleton and Sens. Shelby and Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ). "FOX
Morning News" interviewed PFAW's Art Kropp and ex-Asst. AG
Charles Cooper on the nomination process, American U's Patricia
Aufderheide and columnist Martin Schram on the media coverage of
the hearings, Sen. Shelby, Hatch, Breaux (D-LA), and Leahy, USA
TODAY'S Barbara Reynolds and Center for Neighborhood
Enterprise's Robert Woodson, US NEWS' Michael Barone and ROLL
CALL'S Jim Glassman (10/15).
LAST NIGHT: ALL nets led with Thomas. Sen. Bennett Johnston
(D-LA) appeared on ABC. Sen. George Mitchell (D-ME) appeared on
NBC. PBS's "MacNeil/Lehrer" hosted Sens. Richard Lugar (R-IN),
Paul Wellstone (D-MN), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Johnston,
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION's Cynthia Tucker, S.D. UNION's Gerald
Warren, DAILY OKLAHOMAN's Patrick McGuigan, PROGRESSIVE
Magazine's Erwin Knoll, CHICAGO TRIBUNE's Clarence Page, TRENTON
TIMES' Ed Baumeister and DALLAS TIMES HERALD'S Lee Cullum. CNN's
"Crossfire" hosted ex-VP Bush CoS Craig Fuller and NWPC Pres.
Harriett Woods. CNN's "Larry King Live" hosted Sens. Arlen
Specter (R-PA) and Paul Simon (D-IL). ABC's "Nightline" hosted
undecided Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Richard Shelby (D-AL).
THIS WEEKEND: 10/11 -- CNN's "Crossfire" hosted ex-Dep. UN
Ambassador Alan Keyes and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY). ABC's
"Nightline" interviewed Sens. Simon, DeConcini and Alan Simpson
(R-WY). 10/12 -- CNN's "Capital Gang" hosted NYC Comptroller
Elizabeth Holtzman (D). 10/13 --- CBS' "Face the Nation" featured
Sens. Danforth, Leahy, Specter (R-PA), and Anita Hill atty
Charles Ogletree. NBC's "Meet the Press" hosted Sens. Simpson,
Simon, and Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS). ABC's "This Week with David
Brinkley" interviewed Sens. Mitchell, Bob Dole (R-KS), Hatch and
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD).
THOMAS: Sen. Shelby: "The timing of the accusation
troubles me. I think if there's any doubt, it should go to Judge
Thomas" (ABC, 10/14). Sen. Hatch: "I'm not going to say [Hill]
lied,
but her story in my opinion, is incredible
this is
a high-tech lynching." Sen. Leahy: "The high-tech lynching was
on the other side, they were using polls and slogans from the
White House to try to smear a woman who tried to come forward
with a very credible story" (FOX, 10/15). Psychiatrist Alvin
Poussaint: "I think the Senate would have identified much more
with a white woman, they would have felt 'that might be my
daughter, that might be my wife' and they would have been much
harder in their consideration of Clarence Thomas" (ABC, 10/15)
Sen. Danforth: "Last week something happened to Judge Thomas
he decided he could live without the Supreme Court
...
he said
to me
'take this job and shove it'" (NBC, 10/15) Sen.
Breaux: "We, as senators, have to understand we are not voting
on the canonization of sainthood on the nominees
we
are
looking for people who are competent, not perfect" (FOX, 10/15)
THOMAS AND '92: NBC's Tim Russert on the use of race in the
Thomas hearings: "I think it's a precursor of the '92
presidential campaign. These folks are going to go at the
Democrats very hard on race, and leave the Democrats very little
room to operate.' WSJ's Al Hunt: "As for the political impact
on '92,
let's remember that in 1988 the huge Bork fight had
no impact on any races" (NBC, 10/14). ABC's Jim Wooten: "And
either way it goes, confirmation or rejection, the Clarence
Thomas/Anita Hill experience is something the Senate and perhaps
the country, will remember for generations to come
like a bad
dream" (10/14). CBS' Susan Spencer: "The White House does feel
it does have the votes for Clarence Thomas
but no one's very
interested in criticism on how it got them" (10/14).
LETS GET THE REAL VIEW: David Letterman: "We don't know
how he [Clarence Thomas] feels about abortion, but thanks to
breasts." these hearings, we certainly now know how he feels about large
"TOP TEN SURPRISES IN BARBARA WALTERS' INTERVIEW WITH THE
QUAYLES": 10) Overeager Dan started crying as interview began. 9)
After every good answer, Barbara gave each of them a little
snack. 8) Dan likes to sit in a trash bag and play Biosphere II.
7) Embarrassing way they made out during show. 6) He repeatedly
asked video technicians, "you guys making a movie?" 5) The
audience didn't vote for a second date. 4) You'd think they
would've stopped when Dan got the hiccups. 3) He was once pinched
in the ass by Clarence Thomas. 2) His shock at learning all the
Dan Quayle jokes are about him. 1) The way Dan kept referring to
Walters as "Oprah" ("Late Night, " NBC, 10/12).
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: Its rendition of the Thomas hearings:
"Sen. Kennedy": "Were you drunk at the time [you asked her
out]?" "Sen. Heflin, " after being told by "Thomas" that he
discussed the movie "The Hind Lick Maneuver" with Hill: "That's
a good movie, Judge, but do you think hard-core porno is the way
to go? Because I feel women prefer softer porn. " "Sen.
Thurmond": "I 'gree with Sen. Heflin. Women like something with
more stories and costumes that'll transport 'em to another place
in time. That's right. Their inhibitions are often loosened by
escape when they are allowed to fantasize in another era. Women
don't like close ups of oversized genitalia, that's just never
going to turn 'em on. " "Kennedy": "Another good thing is to get
them out on your boat for some reason, because then it's really
hard for them to get away. ... Have you ever tried coming out of
the bathroom nude, and acting like you didn't know someone was
there? [Thomas says no.] Well, that's too bad. Because that
works too. " ("SNL," NBC, 10/12).
TV SOUNDBITE
"Hardball tactics may have saved the Thomas nomination but the
last thing anyone at the White House wants to do is to take
credit for a strategy that included attacking Anita Hill"
-- NBC's John Cochran, 10/14.
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Moderator: Garrick Utley. Panel: Andrea Mitchell, R.W. Apple.
Guests: Sen. Simpson, Sen. Simon, Sen. Kassebaum.
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On the Thomas hearings: With Sen. Simpson, Sen Simon.
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Apple: What would you think of the idea of senior people in the
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Simon: Absolutely And we are dealing only with the consent side
of this. The advice side of it has been ignored by the White
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Apple: What do you think the President would think about that?
Simpson: I don't know But I like the idea and I also have
suggested myself we should have an executive session
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principals on the committee and no staff and the nominee and no
handlers
Simon:
I think that
a public service has been performed by
Anita Hill whether you agree with her testimony or not or
Utley:
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Simpson: Without question. You d have to get unanimous consent
to get rid of the order, and no one's going to do that. We're
going to do it.
Utley: And what's the result going to be, in your view?
Simpson: He's going to prevail.
Simon:
I think that is probable It's not quite as certain as
Alan indicates
On the Thomas hearings: With Sen Kassebaum.
Utley: Earlier this week, you said you still leaned to supporting
Judge Thomas. Do you still stand at that position?
Kassebaum: Yes I do. I think it's important, having announced
my support for him before this latest allegation, to stay with that
until the hearings are complete. I suppose that for myself, unless
there is really further corroborating evidence of a strong nature,
one has to ask themselves: Do we see a nominee destroyed just by
evidence of one person? And will that be strong enough to change
votes?
Mitchell: If the evidence were strong enough, wouldn' t one case
of such vile sexual harassment be enough to cause you to vote
against a nominee?
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Schieffer continues:
(Johnston: "It's a question of who's telling the truth, and I
simply believe that it was overwhelmingly in favor of Judge
Thomas.
Whatever the outcome, Thomas' sponsor said something has to change.
(Danforth: 'No political agenda, however laudatory, justifies the
destruction of a human being."
It is impossible at this point to say exactly what the vote is
going to be. But Dole seldom predicts victory unless he has the
votes to back it up. And the public opinion polls are running
strongly in Thomas' favor So every sign here tonight is that
Thomas is going to be confirmed after all.
(CBS-Lead)
Rather: President Bush's attack strategy includes a pressure
campaign on undecided senators. But Mr. Bush refused to say today
whether he supports the attacks on Anita Hill's credibility and
mental state.
CBS's Susan Spencer: As we have said, the White House does feel
it has the votes for Clarence Thomas. Nobody is very interested
in criticism about how it got them. The critics main charge: In
trying to save Thomas' character, the White House was willing to
destroy Anita Hill's, using the issue of race in the process.
(Janell Byrd, NAACP: If you watched the hearings, you watched how
Anita Hill was attacked. But Judge Thomas, coming in alleging that
the Senate was being racist and that it was a lynch-mob
mentality
White House aides deny any unfair attack. They're readily
conceding that they worked closely with Republicans to cast doubt
on Hill's credibility. Publicly Mr. Bush has stayed at arms'
length from anything resembling an attack on a woman's character.
But as if to remind everyone of Judge Thomas charge of racism, the
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President did today casually bring up race.
(President Bush: "I am very pleased with the way the support all
across the country is holding strong for Judge Thomas. It's
important to note that among Afro-Americans, black Americans, that
the support is very, very strong.")
The spin from the vote counters tonight is that this whole campaign
Yeah
is working. The pitch to wavering Democrats: He's decent, she
couldn' prove anything, and look at those polls.
Rather discusses the nomination with Spencer:
Rather: What about the reports that the President himself
organized and ordered the "go after her" strategy?
Spencer: You have to remember that George Bush wants Clarence
Thomas on the Supreme Court very badly. He's put his prestige on
the line. He has repeatedly said that Thomas is the best person
to be on the Supreme Court. There's not, I think, any hard
evidence that he personally micro-managed this strategy, but the
White House is clearly willing to play hardball on this. (CBS-2)
Rather: The latest CBS News-New York Times Poll out tonight
indicates the vast majority of Americans watched at least some of
the hearings this weekend. Whether they watched or not, the poll,
taken last night, found more than twice as many people believing
Clarence Thomas as Anita Hill.
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Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-7
HILL'S DEPARTURE FROM LAW FIRM DISPUTED
Sen. Danforth, in a last minute attempt to question the
credibility of law professor Anita Hill, said Hill had been urged
to leave her law firm in 1981 But the affidavit from a former
partner at the firm was immediately challenged by two other former
partners, who said it was not true. Danforth Sunday released an
affidavit by John Burke, who said he urged Hill to leave the law
firm of Wald, Harkrader and Ross in 1981 after giving her a
critical six-month evaluation. But Burke version was immediately
disputed by two other former partners [Robert Wald and Donald
Green] at the firm.
(Jim McGee, Washington Post, A5)
BUT SERIOUSLY
L. Brent Bozell, an architect of the hard-hitting and
controversial advertising campaign supporting Clarence Thomas, said
that in the worst-case scenario -- defeat of the nominee -- "it is
absolutely imperative that the White House cut this kinder, gentler
stuff and fire presidential adviser Ken Duberstein."
"I think Judge Thomas is going to win, but it will be no
thanks to Duberstein, 111 Bozell said.
("Inside The Beltway, Washington Times, A6)
EUROPEAN PRESS RIPS INTO NATION'S POLITICS
Newspaper editorial writers across Europe have been perplexed
and appalled by the three-day spectacle of the hearings into sexual
harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas. A front-page
editorial Monday in Le Monde attributed the controversy to American
puritanism. Britain's liberal Guardian said seating Judge Thomas
"would mire the court in everlasting controversy."
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(AP, Washington Times, A8)
BLACK CAUCUS CREATES PANEL ON EDUCATION
The Congressional Black Caucus has established a national
commission to study federal education policies, propose
alternatives and stimulate efforts in black communities to promote
learning The National Citizens Commission for African-American
Education immediately issued a broadside that criticized President
Bush for his education plan and congressional Democrats for not
offering a comprehensive alternative
One of the commission's
first statements, released this weekend, said Bush's plan did not
offer "immediate relief" to public school systems suffering from
recent state and local budget cuts In a separate statement,
the panel endorsed Bush's "America 2000" communities, local or
state coalitions mobilized to reach national education goals, and
urged black citizens to participate.
(Kenneth Cooper, Washington Post, A21)
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BROWN SAYS HE WILL ENTER RACE MONDAY
Edmund "Jerry" Brown said Monday he will formally announce his
candidacy for president next Monday at Philadelphia's Independence
Hall
Brown accused President Bush of trying to "pack the court
ideologically."
(Dan Balz, Washington Post, A10)
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Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-5
WINNERS, LOSERS IN THOMAS
BATTLE MAY TAKE TIME TO EMERGE, EXPERTS SAY
Tuesday's Senate vote will determine whether Clarence Thomas
wins a Supreme Court seat. But analysts indicate it may be harder
to decide the long-term political winner of the nastiest fight in
memory
Says Democratic pollster Geoff Garin: "There will be a
backlash against both sides. And I would guess the biggest
backlash will be against whichever side prevails on the Senate
floor.
Thomas Mann, the director of governmental affairs at the
Brookings Institution, said President Bush could be the winner
regardless of the outcome Tuesday night
If Thomas loses, Mann explained, "the right is outraged and
Republicans are outraged so there's a lot of intensity and energy
on the right. And judging from the polls, a large number of blacks
will be outraged. Bush will have been given grounds for denouncing
the Senate, the unfairness of the process and taking advantage of
people's cynicism and distaste for Congress. "So a loss for Thomas
ends up being a political plus for the Republicans and President
Bush." If Thomas wins, he added, "feminist groups and parts of the
civil rights coalition are aggrieved. But the President looks like
a winner who pulled it out, and he doesn't have to go through the
travail of another fight. (Carl Leubsdorf, Dallas Morning News)
THOMAS 'LYNCHING' GIVES BOTH PARTIES 1992 AMMUNITION
Both political parties may find advantages in the Senate
"lynching" of Clarence Thomas by raising sexism and racism as the
issues that will divide the parties and the electorate going into
the 1992 elections. "Even if the polls seem to show the American
people may support Thomas, the (sexism) issue is going to be
nuclear for the next election cycle, whether or not he gets
confirmed," said Mark McKinnon, a Democratic political
consultant
Democrats sense that, after abortion, this is the most
powerful issue to drive the gender gap. They will go big for
sexual harassment, so the first big shot for the '92 election will
see Democrats try to divide America by gender."
Some national surveys show that while about half the white
voters support Thomas, up to 70% of black Americans said he should
be confirmed. In what may prove to be a preview of the GOP
strategy for 1992, Alex Castellanos, Republican media consultant,
said, "This may be minor, but it is the beginning of opportunities
for Republicans with minorities."
(Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, A10)
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Tuesday, October 15, 1991 -- A-2
Bush Confident Thomas will Be Confirmed
President Bush, exuding confidence that his nominee Clarence
Thomas will be confirmed, arranged "to work the telephone" Tuesday
as the deadline neared for the Senate's crucial vote
Bush indicated that he felt that Thomas had ridden out the
storm and rallied strong support despite allegations of sexual
harassment. "I am very pleased with the way the support all across
the country is holding strong for Judge Thomas," Bush said Monday.
"It is important to note that among Afro-Americans, black
Americans, that the support is very, very strong, and I think
highly important. "
Meanwhile, presidential aides were adamant
that a counter attack campaign to discredit Anita Hill did not
originate in the White House. "We absolutely had nothing to do
with it," said one aide.
(Helen Thomas, UPI)
Bush Turns Up The Pro-Thomas Volume
President Bush Monday stepped up pressure on Southern
Democrats -- considered the key in Tuesday's vote on Clarence
Thomas -- by noting strong support among black Americans for
Thomas
A USA Today poll Sunday showed black respondents backed
Thomas by 65%-18%, with 19% undecided.
(Debbie Howlett & Jessica Lee, USA Today, 3A)
DEMOCRATS FAILED TO PROTECT HILL FROM GOP
Senate Democrats offered Anita Hill little protection from a
slashing campaign orchestrated by the White House to impugn her
character and portray her as a perjurer after she testified
Friday
The GOP blitz, hastily organized by White House aides
after what they considered devastating testimony by Hill last
Friday, was judged so successful at the White House that sources
who earlier had feared disaster were confidently predicting Monday
night that the Senate will vote to confirm Thomas Tuesday
An Administration official confirmed the hard-line tactics
were adopted late Friday. "It was pretty dismal around here," the
official said. "She was quite credible. She put on a good show,
and it was difficult to come to terms with."
(Jack Nelson, Los Angles Times, A8)
THOMAS'S FATE UNCERTAIN IN FINAL HOURS
The Senate entered the final hours of the Clarence Thomas
confirmation ordeal Tuesday with the fate of the nominee in the
hands of a few Democrats who had previously supported him
Sens. Exon and Lieberman said they were still undecided.
(David Wiessler, UPI)
Tally Of Pro-Thomas, Undecided Supporters
Forty-one Republicans have announced their support or told
GOP leaders they will vote for confirmation. Two GOP senators,
James Jeffords and Bob Packwood, said they would vote against the
nomination.
(AP)
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CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 12, 1991
ACTION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
BRENT SCOWCROFT. 30
SUBJECT:
Response to Letter from Thailand's Prime Minister
Anan Panyarachun
Purpose
To respond to Prime Minister Anan Panyarchun's letter to you of
July 12, 1991.
Background
The Prime Minister has written to you to explain the steps his
Government is taking to return Thailand to democratic rule, and
about other issues such as narcotics-related legislation,
bilateral trade and economic problems, and international issues
such as Cambodia.
RECOMMENDATION
That you sign the reply to the Prime Minister's letter at Tab A.
Attachments
Tab A
Letter to the Prime Minister
Tab B
Incoming July 12 Letter
Tab C
State's Draft Reply
Tab D
State's Pearson/Scowcroft Memo w/copy of Cable
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9113427
United States Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
August 26, 1991
CONFIDENTIAL with
(UNCLASSIFIED attachment)
MEMORANDUM FOR BRENT SCOWCROFT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Subject: Letter from the President to the Thai Prime Minister
In a July 12, 1991 letter to the President (Tab 2), Thai
Prime Minister Anan Panyarachun explained the steps his
government has taken to return Thailand to democratic rule and
enact narcotics-related legislation. He also noted Thailand's
interest in resolving bilateral trade and economic problems and
in cooperating with the United States on international issues
such as Cambodia.
The Department recommends that the President reply to the
letter in order to encourage early free and fair national
elections and continued cooperation on narcotics, economic and
Cambodian issues. A draft reply is attached at Tab 1.
Executive Secretary
We Dyato Robert Pearson
Attachments:
1. Draft letter to Thai Prime Minister Anan
2. Letter from Thai Prime Minister Anan
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DATE:
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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 15, 1991
Mr. Ambassador:
Could you arrange for the
enclosed personal note and
photo to be delivered to
Prime Minister Anand Panyarchun
from President Bush.
With many thanks,
Wilma
Wilma Hall
General Scowcroft's Office
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Honorable David F. Lambertson
American Ambassador
APO San Francisco 96346
To Prime minister Anard Panyarachum
with Greetongs From the Coast of Maone
from two old friends. Sincerely,
Cg Bund and Barbara Bur
Personl
THE PRESIDENT
Oct. 15, 1991
Dear Anand,
Attached is a formal
letter. This one is simply
a personal note to tell
you that Barbara - -I
think of you otten as you
tachle dificult problems
there in Thailand
we recall on happy,
less complicated days together
at the U.N. and we sevel
you one want kent wish
- our friendship too
Gg Bl
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
His Excellency
Anand Panyarchun
Prime Minister of the
Kingdom of Thailand
Bangkok
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
to
Berb THE WHITE HOUSE well
WASHINGTON
A of
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I
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and contributions
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tsday you
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The President
of
The United States of America
and Mrs. Bush
will greet
His Highness
Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Ab Khalifa
The Amir
of
The State of Bahrain
10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, October 15, 1991
at The White House
Customs Observed
at
The White House
During Honors
Welcome to The White House.
It is customary for all present to
stand when Honors are rendered.
All those in uniform execute a
military salute.
During the National Anthems
Americans not in uniform place
the right hand over the heart. When
a hat is worn by a gentleman, it is
removed and held over the heart.
Program
10:00 a.m.
His Highness Shaikh Isa Bin
President Bush and His
Salman Ab Khalifa, The Amir
Highness will inspect the
of the State of Bahrain,
Troops.
arrives at The White House
where he will be greeted by
Musical Troop in Review.
The President and Mrs. Bush,
a Representative of the
President Bush will welcome
Department of State, a
His Highness.
Representative of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, a Representative
His Highness will speak.
of the Diplomatic Corps,
and other officials.
10:25 a.m.
The President and. Mrs. Bush
and His Highness will
Honors to be rendered:
receive members of the
Welcoming Committee in the
Ruffles and Flourishes,
Cross Hall.
Hail to the Chief,
10:30 a.m.
President Bush and His
Highness will meet in the
A 21-Gun Salute,
Oval Office.
The National Anthem
of the State of Bahrain, and
The National Anthem of the
United States ofAmerica.
ARRIVAL STATEMENT FOR VISIT OF SHAIKH ISA OF BAHRAIN
SOUTH LAWN \ OCTOBER 15, 1991 \ 10:00 AM
YOUR HIGHNESS: IT IS MY GREAT HONOR TO WELCOME YOU
TO THE WHITE HOUSE -- TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY 01 TOCT 15 A7: 53
CONSULT WITH YQU ON THE MANY CHALLENGES THAT CONFRONT
OUR TWO COUNTRIES, AND TO CONVEY MY HEARTFELT THANKS TO
A VALUED COALITION PARTNER.
BAHRAIN HAS BEEN A FIRM FRIEND AND CLOSE ALLY FOR
HALF A CENTURY -- BUT NEVER MORE THAN IN THIS PAST
YEAR, AS WE STOOD TOGETHER TO TURN BACK AGGRESSION.
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YOUR HIGHNESS, WE SPOKE TOGETHER MANY TIMES IN THE
AFTERMATH OF AUGUST 2ND, AND AT KEY MOMENTS DURING
DESERT STORM. NEVER ONCE DID YOU WAVER; ALWAYS, YOU
STOOD STRONG AND RESOLUTE. //
FROM ITS STRATEGIC POSITION IN THE GULF, BAHRAIN
SERVED AS A KEY STAGING POINT IN DESERT STORM. THE
BAHRAINI AIR FORCE HELPED THE COALITION SECURE THE AIR
SUPERIORITY so DECISIVE TO VICTORY.
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BAHRAIN ENDURED SCUD ATTACKS -- SHOOK OFF SADDAM'S
DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO SOW TERROR -- AND EMERGED EACH
TIME MORE DETERMINED TO PREVAIL. YOUR HIGHNESS, YOUR
COUNTRY'S CONDUCT IN THIS CRISIS IS A CREDIT TO YOUR
LEADERSHIP -- AND TO THE COURAGE OF THE PEOPLE OF
BAHRAIN. //
JUST AS WE JOINED FORCES TO LIBERATE KUWAIT, COMMON
ACTION REMAINS A KEY TO MEETING THE CHALLENGES WE FACE
TODAY. //
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IN A FEW MOMENTS, WE WILL BEGIN OUR MEETINGS,
BUILDING ON THE COMMON GROUND WE SHARE. LET ME FOCUS
NOW ON OUR APPROACH TO IRAQ -- AND LET ME STATE OUR
POSITION IN THE SIMPLEST POSSIBLE TERMS: SADDAM
HUSSEIN WILL NOT SCORN THE WILL OF THE WORLD. / IRAQ
MUST NEVER AGAIN THREATEN ITS NEIGHBORS.
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WE WILL KEEP THE PRESSURE ON -- UNTIL WE ARE SATISFIED
THAT ALL OF SADDAM'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND
THE MEANS TO DELIVER THEM HAVE BEEN DESTROYED -- UNTIL
A NEW LEADERSHIP IN IRAQ STANDS READY TO LIVE IN PEACE
WITH ITS NEIGHBORS. // YOUR HIGHNESS, AS LEADER OF A
COUNTRY THAT KNOWS TOO WELL WHAT IT MEANS TO BE MENACED
BY SADDAM, I KNOW YOU JOIN ME IN LOOKING AHEAD TO THE
DAY IRAQ CLOSES THIS SAD CHAPTER IN ITS HISTORY, AND
JOINS THE CAUSE OF PEACE. //
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I HAVE SAID MANY TIMES: OUR QUARREL HAS NEVER BEEN
WITH THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ. THE UNITED STATES -- IN
CONCERT WITH THE UNITED NATIONS -- HAS PROPOSED A
COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM ALLOWING IRAQ TO RESUME OIL
EXPORTS TO FUND THE PURCHASE OF FOOD AND MEDICINE. BUT
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DESERVES TO KNOW WITH
CERTAINTY THAT THE FOOD AND MEDICINE PURCHASED UNDER
THIS PLAN REACH THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ, RATHER THAN
SADDAM'S ARMED FORCES.
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THIS PROGRAM CAN GO FORWARD THE INSTANT SADDAM ACCEPTS
UN RESOLUTIONS 706 AND 712, AND PUTS IN PLACE A U.N.-
SUPERVISED SYSTEM TO MONITOR OIL EXPORTS AND FOOD
DISTRIBUTION. ///
HISTORY TEACHES THAT THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR ECHO
FAR BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD. OUR COALITION IN THE GULF
WAR DID MORE THAN DEFEAT AN AGGRESSOR -- OUR COMMON
EFFORT CREATED NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR LASTING PEACE
THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST. /
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ALL AMERICANS HOPE TO SEE THIS REGION -- so LONG DRIVEN
BY WAR -- BLESSED BY PEACE. IN THAT SPIRIT, THE UNITED
STATES SUPPORTS BAHRAIN'S DECISION TO PARTICIPATE ALONG
WITH ITS GCC PARTNERS IN THE UPCOMING PEACE CONFERENCE.
THIS READINESS -- THIS WILLINGNESS TO REACH OUT --
STRENGTHENS THE PROSPECT FOR THE ONLY PEACE THAT CAN
ENDURE: A FAIR AND COMPREHENSIVE PEACE ACCEPTABLE TO
ALL PARTIES IN THE REGION. //
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YOUR HIGHNESS, FROM THE MOMENT THE FIRST AMERICAN
ENGINEERS ARRIVED IN YOUR COUNTRY TO HELP DEVELOP YOUR
OIL RESOURCES SIXTY YEARS AGO, OUR COUNTRIES HAVE
WORKED TOGETHER IN MANY WAYS. OUR DISCUSSIONS TODAY
WILL TOUCH ON ALL ASPECTS OF OUR RELATIONS, FROM
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO SECURITY COOPERATION. As
ALWAYS, WE SEEK TO BUILD ON COMMON GROUND:
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ON THE GOOD WILL OF NATIONS THAT HAVE WORKED TOGETHER
IN THE PAST -- THE GOOD WILL THAT GIVES US FAITH IN A
BETTER FUTURE. //
ONCE AGAIN, YOUR HIGHNESS, IT IS MY PLEASURE TO
MEET WITH YOU TODAY FOR WHAT I TRUST WILL BE PRODUCTIVE
DISCUSSIONS. // WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE -- AND MAY
GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF BAHRAIN.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 15, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND SHAIKH ISA, AMIR OF BAHRAIN
IN ARRIVAL CEREMONY
The South Lawn
10:13 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Your Highness, it is my great honor to
welcome you to the White House today, and to have this opportunity to
consult with you on the many challenges that face our two countries.
And to convey my heartfelt thanks to you, a valued coalition partner.
Bahrain has been a firm friend and a close ally for half a century,
but never more than in this past year as we've stood together to turn
back aggression.
Your Highness, we spoke together many times in the
aftermath of August 2nd and at key moments during Desert Storm, and
never once did you waver; always you stood strong and resolute. From
its strategic position in the Gulf, Bahrain served as a key staging
point in Desert Storm. Your air force, the Bahraini Air Force,
helped the coalition secure the air superiority so decisive to
victory. Bahrain endured Scud attacks, shook off Saddam's desperate
attempt to SOW terror and emerged each time more determined to
prevail.
Your Highness, your country's conduct in this crisis is
a credit to your leadership and to the courage of the people of
Bahrain. Just as we joined forces to liberate Kuwait, common action
remains a key to meeting the challenges we face today.
In a few minutes, we'll begin our meetings, building on
the common ground we share. And let me focus now on our approach to
Iraq, and let me state our position in the simplest possible terms.
Saddam Hussein will not scorn the will of the world. Iraq must never
again threaten its neighbors. We will keep the pressure on until we
are satisfied that all of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and
the means to deliver them have been destroyed; until a new leadership
in Iraq stands ready to live in peace with its neighbors.
Your Highness, as leader of a country that knows too
well what it means to be menaced by Saddam, I know you join me in
looking ahead to the day Iraq closes this sad chapter in its history
and joins the cause of peace. I've said many times -- and I'll
repeat it here -- that our quarrel has never been with the people of
Iraq. The United States, in concert with the United Nations, has
proposed a comprehensive program allowing Iraq to resume oil exports
to fund the purchase of food and medicine. But the international
community deserves to know with certainty that the food and medicine
purchased under this plan reach the people of Iraq rather than
Saddam's armed forces.
This program can go forward the instant Saddam Hussein
accepts U.N. resolution 706 and 712 and puts in place a U.N.-
supervised system to monitor oil exports and food distribution.
History teaches that the consequences of war echo far beyond the
battlefield. Our coalition in the Gulf war did more than defeat an
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aggressor, our common effort created new opportunities for lasting
peace throughout the Middle East. All Americans hope to see this
region, so long driven by war, blessed by peace. In that spirit, the
United States supports Bahrain's decision to participate along with
its GCC partners in the upcoming peace conference. This readiness,
this willingness to reach out strengthens the prospect for the only
peace that can endure a fair and comprehensive peace acceptable to
all parties in the region.
Your Highness, from the moment the first American
engineers arrived in your country to help develop your oil resources
some 60 years ago, our countries have worked together in many ways.
Our discussions today will touch on all aspects of our relations,
from investment opportunities to security cooperation; and, as
always, we seek to build on common ground: on the goodwill of
nations that have worked together in the past, the goodwill that
gives us faith in a better future.
Once again, Your Highness, it is my pleasure to meet
with you today for what I'm confident will be productive discussions.
Welcome to the White House and may God bless the people
of Bahrain. (Applause.)
SHAIKH ISA: Mr. President, it is a pleasure for me to
be visiting this great country at your kind invitation. And I
sincerely appreciate the warmth and the friendship shown to myself
and to my delegation. It's also given me great pleasure, Mr.
President, to extend to you and to all the American people, my
heartfelt greetings and the warm wishes of the people of Bahrain.
During my visit here, I'm looking forward to renewing
our long-standing and mutual valued friendship, to exchanging views
on matters of mutual interest to our two countries. The links
between the United States and Bahrain have developed in many fields
for well over half a century. The cooperation between our two
countries first began in the 1940s, and has strengthened considerably
since then; more particularly so during the last decade.
Through the Iran-Iraq war, we worked closely together to
insure freedom of navigation in the Arabian Gulf, and more recently
as a part of a multinational effort to reverse the Iraqi aggression
against Kuwait. Our people and forces were united as never before.
This experience will never be forgotten and has formed a deep bond
between our two countries.
I take this opportunity to sincerely thank you, Mr.
President, and the American people for your courageous stand against
aggression and for your determination that right and justice should
prevail. Your stand in the multinational effort is undoubtedly a
major positive contribution to future international relations. The
association between the United States and Bahrain stand as an example
of what can be achieved irrespective of physical size, distance
apart, or cultural differences.
When goodwill and cooperation exist on both sides, it is
our duty to continue to work together and through the United Nations
to insure that peace and stability prevails between all nations. Mr.
President, the world is currently witnessing major political and
ideological changes, and we must all assure that the rules of law and
civilized conduct are not overshadowed during these transformations.
As a superpower, the United States has a major role to
play in this respect. I would like to take this opportunity, Mr.
President, to praise you and your administration for your commitment
to reducing confrontation and to promoting peace and cooperation
through the world. We have recently witnessed the end of the Cold
War, following the rapid collapse of historic East-West confronation.
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It is my belief that we are currently also on the verge of a major
breakthrough in the peace process in the Middle East, based on United
Nations Resolutions 242 and 338.
There is no doubt that the United States has been a
major catalyst to what has been achieved in these events. Our
strategic cooperation, however, should not be allowed to overshadow
the many other closed links between Bahrain and the United States.
These include: trade, commerce, education, science and technology.
These links have brought the people of our two countries close
together, and there now exists many strong personal relationships
between the Americans and Bahrainis. These personal relationships
are the true test of friendship between our two countries.
To this end, the American Bahrain Friendship Society was
founded in Washington last year. And both the Society and all its
members have my sincere good wishes and support for the future.
It is my hope that my visit will further consolidate the many ties
between our two countries. It is my wish and the wish of the
Bahraini people that our close relationship with the United States
will continue to flourish and prosper in the years ahead, and become
even stronger in the 21st century.
On this occasion, I would like to take this opportunity,
Mr. President, to renew my invitation to you and to Mrs. Bush to
visit Bahrain. It would give me great pleasure to welcome you to
Bahrain and enable the Bahraini people to show their friendship and
appreciation to you and to the American people.
Finally, Mr. President, it is my pleasure to extend to
you and to the American people my very best wishes for continued
peace and progress and prosperity. Thank you very much, sir.
(Applause.)
END
10:25 A.M. EDT