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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Billings, Montana)
For Immediate Release
July 20, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
DURING KOLSTAD FOR SENATE FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
Billings Plaza Trade Center
Billings, Montana
8:11 A.M. MDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. And, Allen, thank you
for that wonderful introduction. First, it's a delight to see our
Governor, your friend and mine, Governor Stephens here. (Applause.)
What a job he's doing. And I felt this warmth when I was with him
not so long ago at the Centennial. Of course, in a very short period
of time, Conrad Burns, our unique Senator -- (laughter) -- you can
interpret that any way you want to. (Applause.) He nasn't been
there that long, but he hasn't forgot how he got there -- (laughter)
-- and people understand that and they respect it in Washington. And
clearly, you love him here, as I do. And, Conrad, I appreciate the
effort you made to get out here, rushing off to all kinds of
connecting airplanes because he had to work up until the gong sounded
yesterday in the Senate.
And as for our State Chairman, Barbara Campbell, I salute
her. She's doing a great job for the party, and she gave me a
wonderfully upbeat assessment just now about Allen's chances to win
this important Senate seat. Barbara, thank you for what you're
doing. (Applause.) And then to our Committee members -- Jack Galt,
Ione Brownson, and my old friend of longstanding, Chuck Heringer.
And then, of course, to your outstanding congressional candidate,
Brad Johnson -- we've got to see him win. (Applause.) I also want
to salute one who's not here, but who is doing a superb job -- I'm
talking about Ron Marlenee, who was with me early on -- very, very
early supporter. (Applause.) And that brings us, at last, to the
next senator from the State of Montana, Allen Kolstad. (Applause.)
Let me just say it is great to be back in Montana, near
some of the best fishing streams and forests in the country. I
remember coming to Glacier National Park last year with a grandson
and being told that Montana has 896 catchable fish per square mile.
(Laughter.) My question is why don't they count the uncatchable
fish? (Laughter.) I've found from my vast experience there are
quite a few of those. But there is nothing better for the soul than
seeing the grandeur of the snow-capped mountains in the distance or a
Montana sunset, as we saw it last night, streaked across the fading
skies. Montana is, proudly, the Big Sky State, a state of big skies.
And America still is a country of big dreams. (Applause.) But to
help make those dreams come true -- and I know Conrad would agree
with this -- we have got to have more grassroots sound representation
in the United States Senate. And to help make those dreams come true
for America and Montana, I need Allen Kolstad working with me in the
United States Senate. (Applause.)
Allen Kolstad and Iva, sitting over here next to me, know
Montana as few others/do. Five generations of Kolstads have called
Montana home. Allen is a farmer, rancher, who has given over 20
years of his life to public service, to the people of this great
state. He was elected to the Montana legislature back in 1968, the
first Republican to serve Liberty County in almost 50 years. Then,
giving them their first loss in a governor's race in 20 years.
in 1988, Stan Stephens and Allen Kolstad stunned the Democrats by
(Applause.) And just like our friend, Conrad Burns, did in the last
Senate election, Allen Kolstad's about to hand the opposition another
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stunner, We need him in the Senate and we need him there now.
(Applause.)
You see, I am convinced that with more people like Allen
there and more Republicans, we can build a better America. Despite
its minority status on Capitol Hill, the Republican Party has fought
hard for what's right. They're fighting to preserve and protect the
longest peacetime economic expansion in history, the lowest
unemployment rate in the nation in 16 years, and the 22 million jobs
created in the last seven and a half years. Having said that, I am
still concerned, I am very concerned about problems that remain out
there ahead of us. And, Iva, thank you for those lovely words of
prayer from your heart. The outrageous deficit, for example, is over
-- fasten your seatbelts -- over $160 billion a year. That is not
acceptable, and I am determined to do something about it.
(Applause.)
We Republicans have a good record, at home and abroad,
one we can stand with pride -- stand on with pride. And it was our
policy of peace through strength that helped bring freedom to the
lives of millions from Panama to Poland. (Applause.) And with a
Republican majority in Congress working with me, we could do much,
much more to ensure that America remains economically strong and
becomes fiscally sound.
Instead, with the Democrats now in the control of the
United States Congress -- both Houses -- we're facing government by
gridlock in Washington, with spending skyrocketing out of control,
good legislation thrown aside for pork barrel programs, and a budget
deficit looming over our children's children. And while the
Republican Party is using everything we've got to build a strong,
competitive America, the Democratic stranglehold on the United States
Congress has finally taken its toll.
Unfortunately, it is the American people who are paying
the price. Let me just give you a few specific examples. In April
of 1989, our administration sent to the Congress the Educational
Excellence Act. Our proposals would advance education reform, reward
achievement and encourage educational choice. And yet as the bill
moved through the Congress -- and Conrad knows this so well -- some
of its most sensible and cost-effective programs were scrapped,
ripped out of the bill; substituting tired, old, expensive Democratic
substitutes. Almost $1 billion worth of unnecessary, unrelated and
costly changes were heaped on top of our original $400-million
education bill. So it came out not $400 million, but it totaled $1.4
billion, more than triple our original request. In fact, they even
changed the name of the bill.
I know Allen Kolstad would have said no to these
unnecessary changes. Listen, Montana's graduation rate is 87
percent. And that's terrific; you ought to take great pride in
that. But Allen and I want to make it even higher. Montana ranks
third among the 28 states which administer the ACT test. You've done
it by rewarding excellence, putting choice in the hands of parents
and students and building, building in something that is essential,
and that is accountability. And that's exactly the thrust of our
federal program: choice, accountability, flexibility, excellence is
the key; national goals to challenge our students, our teachers and
our schools to succeed. This is the program.
And that's just part of the Republican agenda.
Twenty-nine out of the last 35 years of Democrat control is long
enough. We must have more Republicans in Congress. (Applause.)
But there's more. We proposed new child care
than legislation. Based on our belief that there is nothing more precious
America's children, we asked for $9 billion in funding spread
over a five year period -- $9 billion. We proposed a bill that
helping them get the kind of child care that they wanted -- at home,
choice in the hands of all families, whether low or middle income, put by
or, yes, in a church or a church-related facility, or from a local
child-care provider. And the Senate passed a child care bill at
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double the money remember I proposed $9 billion; they come up with
$18 billion in the Senate. And then the House, under solid
Democratic control, outdid the Senate by tripling my request to $29
billion. In short, we started at $9 billion and the last word from
Congress was $29 billion. And if Congress has its way, the federal
government will intrude upon one more area of your lives -- using
that money to pile more red tape on child-care providers including
friends and neighbors providing the child care. Democrats still
believe that the federal government knows better how to do all this
than parents or local communities. And I know what that tells me, it
tells me that we must have more Republicans in the United States
Congress. (Applause.)
Just this year, in February, March, I requested $800
million in dire emergency -- this is a term that's used when you have
to do something special dire emergency funds for immediate
assistance to the governments of Panama and Nicaragua to help those
fledgling democracies build their shattered economies, to help them
strengthen their democracies. And I challenged the Congress to act
in 30 days. I said this is a dire emergency and we need to have
action now. One hundred eight days later, the Congress acted. Who
am I to complain? It's been over 20 years since Congress produced a
balanced budget.
But here's what caused the delay. Some so-calied dire
emergency additions to the bill by Congress -- almost $3 and a half
billion more in spending than I requested. Everyone on Capitol Hill
knew how important this bill was, and for 108 days, Congress decided
to hold it hostage. For 108 days, Congress calculated how much
spending they could pile on top of this emergency request that they
knew I needed to support the democracies that were just beginning in
Panama and in Nicaragua. And for 108 days, inaction by the Congress
jeopardized not only the economic recovery of these two critically
strategic nations, it jeopardized the hard-won freedom of the brave
people of Nicaragua and Panama. That's more than a difference
between parties. In my view that was a disgrace. And I say we must
have more Republicans in the United States Congress. (Applause.)
You know Republicans like what works. We think that
finding a cure to the budget deficit means funding those programs
that we know work, not throwing billions of hard-earned tax dollars
at untested ideas with no track record or built-in accountability.
Americans are fed up. Year after year after year they
hear about budget wrangling in Washington, D.C. They hear about the
President trying to hold the line on spending and the Congress
spending money it doesn't have. And I think now, given the magnitude
of this problem, enough is enough. We must end this "deficits don't
matter" mentality. And I do not want to preside over these god-awful
deficits that are saddling these young people here with billions of
dollars of debt.
The deficit is estimated to be over $160 billion for one
year. And Congress, as the American people know so well,
appropriates every single dollar we spend. And at this very moment,
our White House negotiators are trying to do something meaningful
about this deficit. And, frankly, I think in fairness to say we are
getting some good cooperation with the leadership on the Democratic
side of the aisle -- I'd say on both sides of the aisle. And we must
control spending; we must reform the budget process itself. And I've
taken a few shots -- you've heard it rebounding around out here.
I've said before that I'll negotiate without preconditions. And I
will, in spite of the outcry about revenues. But there must be
budget reform and true spending control. We owe it to the young
people in this country. (Applause.)
Some people think that there's no difference between the
two parties. I've come here to tell you probably something you
already know -- to tell you there is. And it's as big as the Great
Divide. On one side the Republicans out there, our side, that side
lies opportunity, growth, choice in child care, choice in education,
the creativity of the marketplace, and a government that understands
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it works for you and not the other way around. And I'll tell you
something. That's why I think Conrad Burns has what I know Allen
Kolstad will have when he comes to Washington, the full confidence of
the people of Montana. You have the feeling, and properly so, that
he works for the people of this state that sent him to the United
States Senate. (Applause.)
And on the other side, the far side, lies the Democratic
Party, the party of red tape and bureaucracy. Still pushing for
higher and higher spending; still telling the states how to conduct
their affairs; still pushing for mandated benefits; dictation from
Washington to every drug program in the country or every education
program or every program of whatever nature mandated benefits --
that's the hallmark of the Democratic Party. And now we're getting
to the election cycle, and the choice is up to America.
And right here in Montana you know that there's a better
way of doing things, a Republican way. I remember the last time I
was in this state. It was for Montana's 100th birthday, when Allen
was Chairman of the Centennial Commission. For my part, I planted a
tree. Now, you my know that my record's not too good in that
respect. (Laughter.) I planted a tree in North Dakota and,
regrettably, it got attacked by gypsy moth. (Laughter.) And I
planted a tree in Spokane, Washington, and I hadn't left town before
some vandals ripped off the whole tree. (Laughter.) And so you can
understand why they've asked me not to dedicate any buildings here.
(Laughter.) But the tree -- when I climbed off the plane I got a
firsthand report from the Governor who confessed to a certain
nervousness about the tree. But the tree I planted in Helena,
believe it or not, it's alive and it's well. (Laughter.) And it's
flourishing. (Applause.)
Well, in that spirit, what a great job Allen did for the
Centennial Commission. First of all, he didn't use one penny of
taxpayer money, not one. (Applause.) And secondly, the Centennial
is expected to give thousands of dollars back to the state Treasury.
And that is the kind of fiscal responsibility that America needs on
Capitol Hill. (Applause.)
Allen Kolstad agrees, and most Americans I believe when
we take the case to them will, too. We must have budget process
reforms. We must have budget process reforms. And your Senator
sitting there in Washington now understands exactly what I'm talking
about. We must have spending cuts and, frankly, I'd like to have
that line-item veto. (Applause.) And if the Congress can't do it,
let the President have a shot at it. (Applause.) And I'd like to
see the balanced budget amendment. In the House it missed by seven
votes. It would have disciplined the Executive Branch that I head
and it surely would have disciplined the Legislative Branch, and I
think that kind of disciplinary measure would be good for the United
States. We like what works. And our budget process is simply not
working.
It was one of the most famous Democratic Presidents,
Franklin Roosevelt, who said about some 50 years ago, "The future
lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great
public is interested more in government than in politics." The
Republican Party is ready to govern in the United States Congress.
And Allen Kolstad is ready to be your next United States Senator.
(Applause.)
As for my part, I like my line of work. I like the
challenges that face me. I like the fact that Barbara Bush is
spelling out a lot of fundamental values that we all believe in for
the country. (Applause.) I've dwelt here on what we must do and the
things we're trying to do on the domestic side. But when you look
around the world you can't help but wonder and be excited about the
changes that are taking place all through Eastern Europe and in our
own hemisphere -- changes toward democracy and freedom. It's a very
exciting time to be the President of the United States. But we
cannot succeed without your help. The help of the American people.
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And once again -- we had a little reception earlier on
that Barbara put on and then one that Allen arranged -- and I
couldn't help but feel the warmth and the genuineness of the people
of this country and, in this instance, the people of Montana, as I
shook hands with several who were nice enough to greet me once again
to this state. I like my line of work, but I need help. Send Allen
Kolstad to the United States Senate. (Applause.)
Thank you, and God bless you. And God bless the United
States of America. Thank you. (Applause.)
END
8:34 A.M. MDT
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Document No. 158584 SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 7/18/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FUNDRAISER
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
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PORTER
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WINSTON
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REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
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James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
1900 JUL 17 PM 8 47
July 17, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
SUBJECT:
MARY KATE GRANT Mkg
ALLEN KOLSTAD FOR SENATE FUNDRAISER
BILLINGS, MONTANA
I. SUMMARY
Attached for your review are draft remarks for the Kolstad
for Senate fundraising breakfast, to be held Friday, July 20th in
the Billings, Montana Holiday Inn. You will be introduced by the
candidate, current Lt. Governor Allen Kolstad, and address a
crowd of approximately 500.
II. DISCUSSION
The remarks (15 minutes, teleprompted) focus on the
differences between the Republican and Democratic parties, and
especially on the inability of Congress to control spending.
The first page includes a joke which refers to an incident
which occurred last summer at a barbeque outside Helena, MT.
According to last month's issue of Insight magazine, "A visiting
Japanese businessman with jet lag drifted off to sleep moments
before Allen Kolstad got up to speak. In a move that touched off
a statewide furor, Kolstad picked up a sake cup used to toast a
Japanese trade delegation and tossed it at the snoring
businessman." The opposition has used the issue to try to
discredit Kolstad, and it has been "blown unbelievably out of
proportion," says the campaign. They asked for a joke about it
from you, to diffuse the situation.
Grant/Cawley/Hobrecht
July 16, 1990
Draft five / A:Kolstad
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
BILLINGS, MONTANA
JULY 20, 1990
8:05 A.M.
Good morning. Thanks for that wonderful introduction,
Allen. It's always good to see Governor Stephens; your
outstanding Senator, Conrad Burns; and of course, one of the most
solid Members of Congress, Ron Marlenee. And the next Senator
from the state of Montana, Allen Kolstad. 111
( (First of all, I want to apologize to everyone for the
extensive security measures we've had to take here today. The
Secret Service was concerned, but the coast is clear now.\\
No sake cups. \\)) [[*** see cover memo for explanation]]
It's great to be back in Montana, near some of the best
fishing streams and forests in the country. I remember coming to
Glacier National Park last year with my grandson, and being told
that Montana has 896 catchable fish per square mile. ((Here's my
question: Why don't they count the uncatchable fish? I thought
there were quite a few of those.) ) But there's nothing better
for the soul than seeing the grandeur of snow-capped mountains in
the distance or a Montana sunset streaked across fading skies.
Montana is a state of big skies, and America is a country of big
dreams. But to help make those dreams come true -- for America
and Montana -- I need Allen Kolstad working with me in the U.S.
Senate. III
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Allen Kolstad ((and his wife of 39 years, Iva, right here
next to me) ) know Montana as few others do -- five generations of
Kolstads have called Montana home. Allen is a farmer and rancher
who has given over twenty years of public service to the people
of this great state. He was elected to the Montana Legislature
in 1968, the first Republican to serve Liberty County in almost
fifty years. Then, in 1988, Stan Stephens and Allen Kolstad
stunned the Democrats by giving them their first loss in a
Governor's race in twenty years. And, just like Conrad Burns did
in the last Senate election, Allen Kolstad's about to hand the
opposition another stunning loss. We need Allen Kolstad in the
United States Senate, and we need him there now. 11
With more people like Allen in the Senate -- more
Republicans -- we can build a better America. Despite its
minority status on Capitol Hill, the Republican Party has fought
out-of-step liberals, big-government bureaucrats, and red-tape
radicals every step of the way. What's got our opponents quaking
in their boots is that this fall, they're up against the
Republican record. The longest peacetime economic expansion in
history. The lowest unemployment rate in the nation in 16 years.
Over 22 million jobs created. And it was our policy of peace
through strength that helped bring freedom to the lives of
millions from Panama to Poland. But with a Republican majority
in Congress working with me, we could do even more to ensure that
America remains economically strong and becomes fiscally sound.\\
3
Instead, with the Democrats now in control of Congress,
we're facing government by gridlock in Washington -- with
spending skyrocketing out of control, good legislation thrown
aside for pork barrel programs, and a budget deficit looming over
our children's children. And while the Republican Party is using
everything we've got to build a strong, competitive America,
the Democratic stranglehold on Congress has finally taken its
toll.
You might even say the other party is clinging to such
extinct ideas that it belongs with the dinosaurs. When I heard
the other day that fossils from Tyrannosaurus Rex had been
uncovered here in Montana, I couldn't help but think of another
endangered species. It was recently described as a "large, two-
legged dinosaur, prone to spasms of big spending and knee-
jerking. It once roamed North America in large bands, but now it
only remains on Capitol Hill." 11 Scientists call it:
the Demosaurus.\\
Unfortunately, it's the American people who are paying the
price for its archaic ideas. Let me give you a few examples. In
April of 1989, our Administration sent to Congress the
Educational Excellence Act. Our proposals would advance
education reform, reward achievement and encourage educational
choice -- yet as the bill moved through Congress, some of its
most sensible and cost-effective programs were scrapped for
expensive Democrat substitutes. Almost one billion dollars worth
of unnecessary, unrelated and costly changes were heaped on top
4
of our original $400 million education bill -- totalling $1.4
billion dollars, more than triple our original request. In fact,
they even changed the name of the bill.
I know Allen Kolstad would have said no to those unnecessary
changes. He and I agree that the way to keep Montana's
graduation rate high, and its A.C.T. ranking one of the best in
the nation is through rewarding excellence, putting choice in the
hands of parents and students, and building in accountability.
Not by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at an education
system that is already the most expensive in the world. If we
outspend the rest of the world in education, why can't we
outperform it, too? 11
Let's support what works in education and stop measuring
success by a program's price tag. Let's start building a better
future for Americans by getting government out of their wallets
and off of their backs. Twenty-nine out of the last 35 years of
Democrat control is long enough. 11 We must have more
Republicans in Congress.
But there's more. When we proposed new child care
legislation, based on our belief that there is nothing more
precious than America's children, we asked for $9 billion dollars
in funding, spread over five years. We proposed a bill that put
choice in the hands of all families, whether low- or middle-
income, by helping them get the kind of child care they wanted
-- at home, at church, or from a local child-care provider. The
Senate passed our bill at double the money -- $18 billion -- and
5
the House outdid the Senate by tripling our request -- to $29
billion. And if Congress has its way, the federal government
will intrude upon one more area of your lives -- using that money
for more federally-controlled day-care centers, piling more red
tape on child-care providers -- including friends and neighbors
-- and worst of all, requiring states to establish day-care
"police" to enforce their day-care regulations. Democrats
believe government knows better than parents. We must have
more Republicans in Congress.
And just this year, in February and March, I requested $800
million in dire emergency funds for immediate assistance to the
governments of Panama and Nicaragua. These fledgling democracies
stood on the brink of economic disaster, their treasuries
bankrupted by the Sandinista and Noriega regimes. And yet, the
Democrat-controlled Congress did nothing to save these freedom-
loving peoples until May 25th -- over three long months later.
Here's what caused the delay: some so-called "dire
emergency" additions to the bill by Congress -- almost three-
and-a-half billion dollars' worth of unrequested spending
programs. Everyone on Capitol Hill knew how important this bill
was, and for 108 days, Congress decided to hold it hostage. For
108 days, Congress calculated how much pork barrel they could
pile on top of our emergency request. For 108 days, inaction by
the Congress threatened not only the economic recovery of these
two critically strategic nations -- it threatened the hard-won
freedom of the brave people of Nicaragua and Panama. That's a
6
more than a difference between parties. That's a disgrace. 11 We
must have more Republicans in Congress. III
Republicans like what works. We think that finding a cure
to the budget deficit means funding those programs that we know
work -- not throwing billions of hard-earned tax dollars at
untested ideas with no track record or built-in accountability.
( (You've probably heard the story about the Republican and
the Democrat who come down with the flu. The Republican's first
step is to take a couple of aspirin and maybe some orange juice,
to see if it works.
The Democrat's first step? Call a Medevac helicopter and
propose socialized medicine. 11 Do you suppose that has anything
to do with that Democrat's budget request for a helipad on the
Capitol grounds?) )
Americans are fed up. Year 11 after year 11 after year,
they hear about budget wrangling in Washington. It's the same
story with the same ending every time: the President holding the
line on spending, and the Congress spending money it doesn't
have. We must end this "deficits don't matter" mentality. I do
not want to preside over these God-awful deficits that are
saddling these young people here with billions in debt.
It's time Congress faced up to their responsibilities. And
it's time to change the way we do business. The deficit is
estimated to be $166 billion. Congress, as the American people
know so well, appropriates every single dollar we spend. We must
control spending, and reform the budget process itself. As I've
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said before, I'll negotiate without preconditions, and I will.
But there must be budget reform and true spending control. 11
Some people think there's no difference between the two
parties. I've come here to tell you there is -- and it's as big
as the Great Divide. On one side -- the Republican side -- lies
opportunity, growth, choice in child care and education, the
creativity of the marketplace, and a government that understands
it works for you -- not the other way around. On the other side
-- the far side -- lies the Democratic Party, the party of red
tape and bureaucracy, still pushing for higher and higher
spending. The choice is up to America.
Right here in Montana you know there's a better way of doing
things -- a Republican way. I remember the last time I was in
this state. It was for Montana's hundredth birthday, when Allen
was the Chairman of Centennial Commission. And what a great job
he did. First of all, he didn't use one penny of taxpayer money.
And second, the Centennial is expected to give thousands of
dollars back to the state Treasury. That's the kind of fiscal
responsibility America needs on Capitol Hill.
Allen Kolstad and I agree, and most Americans will, too: we
must have budget process reforms, spending cuts, the line-item
veto, and most of all, a balanced budget amendment. 11 We like
what works. And our budget process is not working. Republicans
have put the welfare of the country before partisan politics.
Now it's time for the other party to do the same.\\
8
It was one of the most famous Democrat Presidents, Franklin
Roosevelt, who said 50 years ago, "The future lies with those
wise political leaders who realize that the great public is
interested more in government than in politics." The Republican
Party is ready to govern. And Allen Kolstad is ready to be your
next Senator. 11
The choice is up to you. Make it the right one. Make it
Republican.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
# # #
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Document No. 158584
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
07/16/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
2:00 p.m. 07/17
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VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
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CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
BILLINGS, MONTANA
JULY 20, 1990
fixactured
8:05 A.M.
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good
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your outstanding Senator Conrad Burns
Sena and assis of course one of the most
solid members of Congress Ron
Good morning. Thanks for that wonderful introduction, maslence
alan.
Governor [Stan] Stephens
( (rest of acknowledgements) ) And of
course, the next Senator from the state of Montana, Allen
Kolstad. III
( (First of all, I want to apologize to everyone for the
extensive security measures we've had to take here today. The
Secret Service was concerned, but the coast is clear now.
No sake cups. )
in the shadows of
It's great to be back in Montana within sight of the Rims
of Billings, near some of the best fishing streams and forests in
the country. I remember coming to Glacier National Park last
year with my grandson, and being told that Montana has 896
catchable fish per square mile. ( (Here's my question: Why don't
they count the uncatchable fish? I thought there were quite a
few of those. )) But there's nothing better for the soul than
seeing the grandeur of snow-capped mountains in the distance or a
Montana sunset streaked across fading skies. Montana is a state
of big skies, and America is a country of big dreams. But to
help make those dreams come true -- for America and Montana -- I
need Allen Kolstad working with me in the U.S. Senate.
2
Allen Kolstad ( (and his wife of 39 years, Iva, right here
next to me) ) know Montana as few others do -- five generations of
Kolstads have called Montana home. Allen is a farmer and rancher
who has given over twenty years of public service to the people
of this great state. He was elected to the Montana Legislature
in 1968, the first Republican to serve Liberty County in over almost
forty fifty years. Then, in 1988, Stan Stephens and Allen Kolstad
stunned the Democrats by giving them their first loss in a
Governor's race in twenty years. And, just like Conrad Burns did
in the last Senate election, Allen Kolstad's about to hand the
opposition another stunning loss. We need Allen Kolstad in the
United States Senate, and we need him there now.
With more people like Allen in the Senate -- more
Republicans -- we can build a better America. Despite its
minority status on Capitol Hill, the Republican Party has fought
out-of-step liberals, big-government bureaucrats, and red-tape
radicals every step of the way. What's got our opponents quaking
in their boots is that this fall, they're up against the
Republican record. The longest peacetime economic expansion in
history. The lowest unemployment rate in the nation in 16 years
-- lowest in Montana in 25 years. Over 21 2 million jobs created.
And it was our policy of peace through strength that helped bring
freedom to the lives of millions from Panama to Poland. But with
a Republican majority in Congress working with me, we could do
even more to ensure that America becomes remains economically strong and becomes
fiscally sound.
3
Instead, with the Democrats now in control of Congress,
we're facing government by gridlock in Washington -- with
spending skyrocketing out of control, good legislation thrown
aside for pork barrel programs, and a budget deficit looming over
our children's children. And while the Republican Party is using
everything we've got to build a strong, competitive America, almost
34
years of uninterrupted Democratic stranglehold rule in Congress have has
the
its
finally taken their toll.
You might even say the other party is clinging to such
extinct ideas that it belongs with the dinosaurs. When I heard
the other day that fossils from Tyrannasaurus Rex had been
uncovered here in Montana, I couldn't help but think of another
endangered species. It was recently described as a "large, two-
legged dinosaur, prone to spasms of big spending and knee-
jerking. It once roamed North America in large bands, but now it
only remains on Capitol Hill." Scientists call it:
the Demosaurus.
Unfortunately, it's the American people who are paying the
price for its archaic ideas. Let me give you a few examples. In
Educational
April of 1989, our Administration sent to Congress the Excellence
in Education Act. Our proposals would advance education reform,
reward achievement and encourage educational choice -- yet as the
bill moved through Congress, its some most sensible and cost-effective
of
Glmost
programs were scrapped for expensive Democratic substitutes.
One
billion dollars worth of unnecessary, unrelated and costly
changes were heaped on top of our original $400 million education
4
bill -- totalling $1.4 billion dollars, more than triple our
they even charged the name of the bill
original request. In fact, the only thing they didn't change was
the name of the bill.
I know Allen Kolstad would have said no to those unnecessary
changes. He and I agree that the way to keep Montana's
graduation rate high, and its A.C.T. scores the third best in the
ronking one af
nation is through rewarding excellence, putting choice in the
hands of parents and students, and building in accountability.
Not by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at an education
system that is already the most heavily-subsidized expensive in the
world.
\\\
we outspend the rest of the world in education. why cont
we outperform the rest of the world too?
Let's support what works in education and stop measuring
success by a program's price tag. Let's start building a better
future for Americans by getting government out of their wallets
Twenty- nine
and off of their backs. Thirty four years of Democrat control is
long enough. We must have more Republicans in Congress.
But there's more. When we proposed new child care
legislation, based on our belief that there is nothing more
precious than America's children, we asked for $9 billion dollars
in funding, spread over five years. We proposed a bill that put
choice in the hands of all families, whether low- or middle-
income, by helping them get the kind of child care they wanted -
- at home, at church, or from a local child-care provider. The
Senate passed our bill at double the money -- $18 billion -- and
the House outdid the Senate by tripling our request -- to $29
billion. And if Congress has its way, the federal government
5
will intrude upon one more area of your lives -- using that money
for more federally-controlled day-care centers, piling more red
tape on parents and child-care providers, and worst of all, requiring
including friends and neighbors
states to establishing day-care "police" to enforce their day-care
regulations. Democrats believe government knows better than
parents. We must have more Republicans in Congress. 11
And just this year, in February and March, I reqested $800
million in dire emergency funds for immediate assistance to the
governments of Panama and Nicaragua. These fledgling democracies
stood on the brink of economic disaster, their treasuries
bankrupted by the Sandinista and Noriega regimes. And yet,
Congress did nothing to save these freedom-loving peoples until
May 25th -- over three long months later.
Here's what caused the delay: some so-called "dire
almost three and half
emergency" additions to the bill by Congress -- over one billion
dollars' worth for unrequested domestic spencing programs. Everyone on
OP
Capitol Hill knew how important this bill was, and for 108 days,
Congress decided to hold it hostage. For 108 days, Congress
calculated how much pork barrel they could throw on top of our
emergency request. For 108 days, inaction by the Congress
threatened not only the economic recovery of these two critically
strategic nations -- it threatened the hard-won freedom of the
brave people of Nicaragua and Panama. That's a more than a
difference between parties. That's a disgrace. We must have
more Republicans in Congress. \\\
6
Republicans like what works. We think that finding a cure
to the budget deficit means funding those programs that we know
work -- not throwing billions of hard-earned tax dollars at
untested ideas with no track record or built-in accountability.
( (You've probably heard the story about the Republican and
the Democrat who come down with the flu. The Republican's first
step is to take a couple of aspirin and maybe some orange juice,
to see if it works.
The Democrat's first step? Call a Medevac helicopter and
propose socialized medicine. \\ Do you suppose that has anything
to do with the Democrat's budget request for a heliopad on the
Capitol grounds?) )
It's no coincidence that I've come here, not too far from
the Great Divide, to make a point. Voters are facing a choice
between two philosophies that are worlds apart. On one side --
growth in child care and education,
the Republican side -- lies opportunity choice free market
the creative
and a government that understands it WORLS for you - not the other way around.
of the
solutions to big-government problems, and fiscal sanity. On the
the Porter of
other side -- the far side -- lies the Democratic Party, offering
red tape and regulation bureauaracy solutions, and still fighting pushing for higher
and higher spending. The choice is up to America.
Right here in Montana you know there's a better way of doing
things -- a Republican way. I remember the last time I was in
this state. It was for Montana's hundredth birthday, when Allen
was the Chairman of Centennial Commission. And what a great job
he did. First of all, he didn't use one penny of taxpayer money.
sexpected to
And second, the Centennial will actually give thousands of
7
dollars back to the state Treasury. That's the kind of fiscal
responsibility America needs on Capitol Hill. \\
Allen Kolstad and I agree, and most Americans will, too: we
need budget process reforms, spending cuts, the line-item veto,
and most of all, a balanced budget amendment. \\ We like what
works. And our budget process is not working. Republicans have
put the welfare of the country before partisan politics. Now
it's time for the other party to do the same.
It was one of the most famous Democratic Presidents,
Franklin Roosevelt, who said 50 years ago, "The future lies with
those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is
interested more in government than in politics." The future is
now. The Republican Party is ready to govern. And Allen Kolstad
is ready to be your next Senator. 11
The choice is up to you. Make it the right one. Make it
Republican.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
# # #
JUL 10 '90 14:48 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
NATION
GOP Senatorial Aspirants
Locking Horns in Montana
SUMMARY: The race for the COP
senatorial nomination in Montana
pits millionaire businessman
Bruce Vorhauer against Lt. Gov.
Allen Moisted. Vorhauer became
an official resident only a year
ago, but no can spend almost any
amount to wants to win. Moistad
Is suffering from the perception
that he is the national party's
"chesen" one: Montanans don't
like candidates chosen for them.
ast summer during a barbecue at a
ranch ourside Helena. a visiting
Japanese businessman with jet lag
dnited off to sleep moments before Mon-
tana's licutenant governor. Allen Kolstad
%
got up to speak. In a move that louched off
cup used to loast a Japanese trade delega-
tion and tassed it a the snoring business-
EVGENE FISCHER FORMSIGHT
Notated
a Matewide nirur, Kolstad picked up a sake
man : other members of the Montana
delegation looked on in disbeliet
If was not the TIME time that the Repub.
Kolstad (left), with close ties to the state's GOP establishment, chats with backers.
llcan. a cattle mancher and farmer from
northern Montana, had ignited a contro-
But with less than " week remaining
E. Farrell and businessman John Dome-
versy in this vast but sparsely populated
before the primary, Kolstad is facing a
nech. trailed behind. with 11 percent and
state. Last year, be defended Guv Stan
tougher-than-expected challenge from mil-
4 percent respectively. (In the Democratic
Stephens's proposal to lease 3 luxury car.
lionaire scientist and businessman Bruce
primary. Baucus faces opposition from TWO
telling reporters that "we didn't run for this
Vorhauer, 3 47-year-old political neophyte
lesser-known candidates who do not pose
job to be & couple of poor-verts." a remark
who has the looks, the money and the
much of # threat.)
that his critics said insulted the state's poor.
high-rech message With his slogan
As in must statewide rawes in Montana,
None of this would maner had not na-
"Anjerica can't compate in a high-tech
the Republican candidates have spent much
tional Republican strategists tapped Kol-
world with a low-tech senator" Vorhauer
of their time fighting over who is the true
stad to non against the state's senior senator,
IS weoing voters with promises of using his
Montanan. In A state deeply suspicious of
Democrat Max Baucus. Touting palls they
entrepreneurial skills to (WIT) economically
outsiders, candidates for political office are
say show a Baucos ripe for delear, national
depressed towns into advanced manufac-
accustomed to painting their opponents as
Republican strategists and President Bush
turing centers.
carpetbaggers CHIL of touch with the voters,
swept uside any semblance of impartiality
The primary also gives voters H clear
even if they have lived in Montana for
before the June S primary and embarked on
choice on abortion. Kolsted. a deeply con-
years.
11 highly visible campaign ID recruit Koistad
servative Republican with strong ries to the
The practice often works. In 1978. Bau-
for the tall race.
state's old-guard Republican establish-
cus won his Senute seat after supporters
At stake in that race. as with a handful
ment. opposes abortion and has called for
distributed pictures of him on a bucking
of other contests. in Rhode Island, Illinois,
outlawing it with a' constitutional amend-
bronco and his opponent. Republican
Michigan, Nebraska and lowa, is the long-
mem. Vorhauer, who made his fortune by
Larry Williams, in New York wearing love
shot Republican attempt TO wrent control of
inventing the contraceptive sponge, not
beads. Williams. & native Montanan. had
the Senate. Buoyed by the surprise defeat
only supports A woman's right to choose
left the state for several years to pursue an
of John Melcher in 1988, which made Con-
but tells voters 1113 invention has prevented
investment career. Four years later. Wil.
rad Burns Montana's first Republican sen-
SU million to 60 million unwanted pregnam-
liams lost again to Sen. John Melcher, who
ator since 1964, the GOP's national strat-
cies.
had depicted him as a puppet of the Na-
egists have defended their courtship of
A recent poil in the Great Falls Thibune
tional Conservative Political Action Com-
Kolstad. A 22-year voteran of the Legisla-
showed Kolstad leading Vorhauer 23 per-
mittee. The committee had pumped hun-
ture who headed the state's highly visible
cent to 17 percent among voters who said
Creds of thousands of dollars into the state
Centennial Commission last year. Kolsted
they planned to vote Republican. However,
to air commercials attacking Melcher.
was the only Republican with high name
49 pervent of prospective Republican vot-
The counterattack from Melcher con-
recognition willing to consider a bid
ers said they had not made up their minds.
sisted of commercials that featured two
against Baucus.
Two other candidates, state Sen. William
talking cons complaining about how he
INSIGHT JUNF II, 1990
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JUL 10 '90 14:49 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.12
MONTANA CENTENNIAL
0 Kolstad served as Chairman of the Montana State Centennial
Commission. The Montana Centennial was unique in that not
dollar of taxpayer money was spent. In fact when the books
closed on the Centennial it is a virtual certainty that
thousands of dollars will be given to the state treasury.
This proves that Kolstad cares about the taxpayers.
0 The success of the Centennial was a boon for the tourism.
1989 was Montana's best tourism year ever-nearly $700
million.
D As mentioned earlier Bush participated in the Centennial.
LOCAL REFERENCES/HUMOR
o Bush could refer to the "rims" or cliffs, rock formations-
standing in the shadow of the rims in Billings.
G The article from Insight magazine refers to an episode
that has been blown unbelievably out of proportion. It
has even been taken seriously by some. The Democrats have
tried to use this story in a number of ways to ridicule
and discredit Kolstad. If the President made a joke about
this we believe that beyond being entertaining -reports of
the President's joking reference to it would prove how
absurd it is that people take this seriously and make an
issue out of it.
JUL 10 '90 14:44 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.3
Positive mention could be made regarding attempts to improve
education further through:
Annual reports - to allow communities to see how they stand
relative to others in the state.
Alternative certification programs.
Local control of education - more flexibility through
control of federal block grants.
Parental choice.
Drugs/Education
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.).
Kolstad has been involved both personally and on behalf of
the Stephens Administration by attending numerous D.A.R.E.
ceremonies/graduations.
D.A.R.E. has 19 projects around the state (Sioux and
Blackfeet Indians have programs).
D.A.R.E. officers teach classes, conduct programs - all
police). officers are from the law enforcement community (sheriffs,
Listed below are several issues on which Bush and Kolstad agree
(and on which Senator Baucus disagrees or waffles).
The need for Balanced Budget Amendment.
The line-item veto for the President.
Capital gains tax cut.
Strategic Defense Initiative.
Unfortunately, all the information is not available yet. The Lt.
Governor wants me to wait for several individuals to return from
extended July 4th vacations so they can submit input on the
following topics:
Agriculture - This is a particularly sensitive subject as
Kolstad's views are at odds with those of the Bush
Administration and Sec. Yeutter in several areas. We need
to find some positive areas of agreement to emphasize.
oil and gas.
Mining.
JUL 10 '90 14:45 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.4
0 Wilderness Issue.
o Taxes - Kolstad remains opposed to new taxes and made
several statements in support of Bush's no new tax pledge
in the primary. We have also requested information and
ideas for local humor from Senator Burns' office. All
information should be available no later than Wednesday,
July 11, 1990.
JUL 10 '90 14:45 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.5
MONTANA ECONOMY
The Montana economy continues to move in the right direction.
-Montana's employment rate is the highest in 25 years.
-Almost 12,000 new, private sector jobs were created in
Montana during 1989. That growth continues with over
six thousand more jobs available for Montanans this
Spring than at this same time last year.
-The job growth areas are varied:
*Montana's construction industry added 1200 new
jobs between March and April of this year.
*The special trades are up 400 over last year.
*Metal mining employment is up;
manufacturing employment has increased;
*The number of jobs in the Service Industry
continues to rise, led by Lodging and Health Care.
-Building activity has increased dramatically in the
state.
In Montana's rural communities building permits have
increased 115% during the first four months of this year
compared with last. The value of the construction has
jumped 72% to $22.9 million worth of activity.
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JUL 10 '90 14:45 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.6
In the urban areas, the number of building permits
are up between 10% and 60%.
-A recent report from the U.S. Commerce Department showed
personal income in Montana rose over 7% last year. That
puts us above the average for the Rocky Mountain States
and near the top in the country.
-Tourism continues to be a strong growth area in the
Montana economy. 1989 was a record year with out-of-
state visitors spending $658 million in Montana. 1990 is
looking even better.
JUL 10 '90 14:46 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.7
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ALLEN KOLSTAD
Allen Kolstad was born December 24, 1931 at Chester, Montana. His
family represents five generations of Montanans involved in
agriculture and agri-business in the north central part of the
state.
(Iva, his wife, Also fifth generation)
He was educated at schools in the Chester area and attended
Concordia College in Moorehead, Minnesota.
He and his wife, Iva, began farming property in Liberty and Toole
Counties in 1952. They still call this farm "home," and operate
it with their son, Chris, and his family.
In addition to farming, Kolstad is the former owner of the Chester
Implement Company, a John Deere dealership, and former president
of the Kolstad Grain Company. He has been a director with the
Montana Chamber of Commerce, was president of the Montana Water
Development Association, and served the Ford Administration as a
member of the District Export Council for Western States.
rancher
The Chester farmer and businessman began his 19 year career as a
state legislator in 1968 when he was elected to the Montana House
of Representatives. He was the first Republican to represent his
district in 48 years. Kolstad served in the Montana House until
1975 when he was elected to the state senate. As a senator, he
served in a number of leadership positions, chaired the Montana
Legislative Council, and the Interim Legislative Committee on
JUL 10 '90 14:46 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.8
Problems in Agriculture. He resigned in 1988 to assume the
Lieutenant Governor position in the Stephens Administration.
Kolstad and his wife, Iva. have four children. They include Cedric
of Nashville, Tennessee, Chris of Ledger, Cheryl Gagnon of Hong
Kong and Corrine Neill of Scottsdale, Arizona. They also have 9
grandchildren; Tara, Krystal, Allen Henry, Amanda, Cary, Brittney
and Alexandra. (2 more)
JUL 10 '90 14:46 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE community which supplied the P.9 first
Republican Montana U.S. Senator in forty years in 1989
when Conrad Burns was elected. (Former County Commissioner
Radio Broadcaster)
-Allen Kolstad is a member of the first Republican State
C.E.O. Team in twenty years when he was elected along
with Governor Stan Stephens in 1989.
-Governor Stan Stephens serves as one Bush's appointments
on the Advisory Commission for Intergovernmental
Relations. He was appointed as one of four U.S. Governors
on that Advisory Council in June 1990. He replaces John
Sununu, Bush's Chief of Staff.
-Billings is the site of the latest film version of the
Battle of the Little Big Horn. "Son of the Morning Star"
is a two-part ABC miniseries on Custer and his Indian
counterparts, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The
miniseries will air sometime in the Winter 1991.
-Billings is also the site of the original version of
that battle 114 years ago.
####
JUL 10 '90 14:47 KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
P.10
Additional Information for Bush Speech in Billings
0 HEAD TABLE-Replace Leo Ellingson with Bill Ellis, Honorary
Chairman of Kolstad for U.S. Senate, lifetime loyal
Republican who has been a key player in the party for
years.
AGRICULTURE
0 Montana's largest industry
0 It makes sense to have a lifetime farmer/rancher like
Kolstad represent Montana
0 Agriculture and agribusiness is vital to all aspects of
the Montana economy not just the rural farming and
ranching areas.
o Sympathetic mention should be made of farmers and ranchers
who are in the midst of a drought-namely the southeastern
and northeastern counties of the state. As I understand
it, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service (ASCS) is providing vital assistance.
- Mention could be made of the Uruguay Round of GATT talks
and the Administration's committment to promote free trade
and open new markets for farmers-emphasizing that if other
countries, particularly the EEC, continue to subsidize
that the U.S. government will remain the compassionatae
partner to American farmers through vehicles like the
Export Enhancement Program (EEP).
WILDERNESS ISSUE
C) The issue of how to designate millions of acres of forests
has been unresolved for more than a decade -- this is
especially important in western Montana among the timber
and mining industries. Recreation has also been restricted
because this issue has not been resolved.
0 Emphasis should be made that we need new leadership to
resolve this issue-we can strike a balance between the
environment and natural resources, and the economy.
Dì Senator Burns has introduced a bill that Kolstad
has generally endorsed. I assume that the
Administration does not take a position until the
Congressional delegation makes a proposal. The point is
that Kolstad and Burns could provide the leadership to
resolve the issue.
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DATE:
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VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
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HAGIN
HOLIDAY
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Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to
Chriss Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 07/17, with a
copy to my office. Thanks.
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TO CHRISS WINSTON
July 17, 1990
The NSC staff concurs with changes, as noted.
BRENT Reta SCOWCROFT
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
BILLINGS, MONTANA
JULY 20, 1990
8:05 A.M.
Good morning. Thanks for that wonderful introduction,
Governor [Stan] Stephens
...
( (rest of acknowledgements) ) And of
course, the next Senator from the state of Montana, Allen
Kolstad. III
( (First of all, I want to apologize to everyone for the
extensive security measures we've had to take here today. The
Secret Service was concerned, but the coast is clear now.
No sake cups. ))
It's great to be back in Montana, within sight of the Rims
of Billings, near some of the best fishing streams and forests in
the country. I remember coming to Glacier National Park last
year with my grandson, and being told that Montana has 896
catchable fish per square mile. ( (Here's my question: Why don't
they count the uncatchable fish? I thought there were quite a
few of those. )) But there's nothing better for the soul than
seeing the grandeur of snow-capped mountains in the distance or a
Montana sunset streaked across fading skies. Montana is a state
of big skies, and America is a country of big dreams. But to
help make those dreams come true -- for America and Montana -- - I
need Allen Kolstad working with me in the U.S. Senate.
2
Allen Kolstad ( (and his wife of 39 years, Iva, right here
next to me) ) know Montana as few others do -- five generations of
Kolstads have called Montana home. Allen is a farmer and rancher
who has given over twenty years of public service to the people
of this great state. He was elected to the Montana Legislature
in 1968, the first Republican to serve Liberty County in over
forty years. Then, in 1988, Stan Stephens and Allen Kolstad
stunned the Democrats by giving them their first loss in a
Governor's race in twenty years. And, just like Conrad Burns did
in the last Senate election, Allen Kolstad's about to hand the
opposition another stunning loss. We need Allen Kolstad in the
United States Senate, and we need him there now.
With more people like Allen in the Senate -- more
Republicans -- we can build a better America. Despite its
minority status on Capitol Hill, the Republican Party has fought
radicals
liberals
out-of-step liberals, big-government bureaucrats, and red-tape bureaucrats
radicals every step of the way. What's got our opponents quaking
in their boots is that this fall, they're up against the
Republican record. The longest peacetime economic expansion in
history. The lowest unemployment rate in the nation in 16 years
-- lowest in Montana in 25 years. Over 21 million jobs created.
And it was our policy of peace through strength that helped bring
freedom to the lives of millions from Panama to Poland. But with
a Republican majority in Congress working with me, we could do
even more to ensure that America becomes economically strong and
fiscally sound.
3
Instead, with the Democrats now in control of Congress,
we're facing government by gridlock in Washington -- with
spending skyrocketing out of control, good legislation thrown
aside for pork barrel programs, and a budget deficit looming over
our children's children. And while the Republican Party is using
everything we've got to build a strong, competitive America, the
34 years of uninterrupted Democratic rule in Congress have
finally taken their toll.
You might even say the other party is clinging to such
extinct ideas that it belongs with the dinosaurs. When I heard
the other day that fossils from Tyrannasaurus Rex had been
uncovered here in Montana, I couldn't help but think of another
endangered species. It was recently described as a "large, two-
legged dinosaur, prone to spasms of big spending and knee-
jerking. It once roamed North America in large bands, but now it
only remains on Capitol Hill." Scientists call it:
the Demosaurus. 11
Unfortunately, it's the American people who are paying the
price for its archaic ideas. Let me give you a few examples. In
April of 1989, our Administration sent to Congress the Excellence
in Education Act. Our proposals would advance education reform,
reward achievement and encourage educational choice -- yet as the
bill moved through Congress, its most sensible and cost-effective
programs were scrapped for expensive Democratic substitutes. One
billion dollars worth of unnecessary, unrelated and costly
changes were heaped on top of our original $400 million education
4
bill -- totalling $1.4 billion dollars, more than triple our
original request. In fact, the only thing they didn't change was
the name of the bill.
I know Allen Kolstad would have said no to those unnecessary
changes. He and I agree that the way to keep Montana's
graduation rate high, and its A.C.T. scores the third best in the
nation is through rewarding excellence, putting choice in the
hands of parents and students, and building in accountability.
Not by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at an education
system that is already the most heavily-subsidized in the
world.
Let's support what works in education and stop measuring
success by a program's price tag. Let's start building a better
future for Americans by getting government out of their wallets
and off of their backs. Thirty four years of Democrat control is
long
enough \\ We must have more Republicans in Congress.)
But there's more. When we proposed new child care
legislation, based on our belief that there is nothing more
precious than America's children, we asked for $9 billion dollars
in funding, spread over five years. We proposed a bill that put
choice in the hands of all families, whether low- or middle-
income, by helping them get the kind of child care they wanted -
- at home, at church, or from a local child-care provider. The
Senate passed our bill at double the money -- $18 billion -- and
the House outdid the Senate by tripling our request -- to $29
billion. And if Congress has its way, the federal government
5
will intrude upon one more area of your lives -- using that money
for more federally-controlled day-care centers, piling more red
tape on parents and child-care providers, and worst of all,
establishing day-care "police" to enforce their day-care
regulations. Democrats believe government knows better than
parents. We must have more Republicans in Congress.
And just this year, in February and March, I reqested $800
million in dire emergency funds for immediate assistance to the
governments of Panama and Nicaragua. These fledgling democracies
stood on the brink of economic disaster, their treasuries
bankrupted by the Sandinista and Noriega regimes. And yet, the Democrat- controlle
Congress did nothing to save these freedom-loving peoples until
May 25th -- over three long months later.
Here's what caused the delay: some so-called "dire
emergency" additions to the bill by Congress -- over one billion
dollars' worth -- for unrequested domestic programs. Everyone on
Capitol Hill knew how important this bill was, and for 108 days,
the Democrats
Congress decided to hold it hostage. For 108 days, Congress-
the Democrats
calculated how much pork barrel they could throw on top of our
emergency request. For 108 days, inaction by the Congress
threatened not only the economic recovery of these two critically
strategic nations -- it threatened the hard-won freedom of the
brave people of Nicaragua and Panama. That's a more than a
difference between parties. That's a disgrace. We must have
more Republicans in Congress.
6
Republicans like what works. We think that finding a cure
to the budget deficit means funding those programs that we know
work -- not throwing billions of hard-earned tax dollars at
untested ideas with no track record or built-in accountability.
( (You've probably heard the story about the Republican and
the Democrat who come down with the flu. The Republican's first
step is to take a couple of aspirin and maybe some orange juice,
to see if it works.
The Democrat's first step? Call a Medevac helicopter and
propose socialized medicine. \\ Do you suppose that has anything
to do with the Democrat's budget request for a heliopad on the
Capitol grounds?) )
It's no coincidence that I've come here, not too far from
the Great Divide, to make a point. Voters are facing a choice
between two philosophies that are worlds apart. On one side --
the Republican side -- lies opportunity, choice, free market
solutions to big-government problems, and fiscal sanity. On the
other side -- the far side -- lies the Democratic Party, offering
red tape and regulation solutions, and still fighting for higher
and higher spending. The choice is up to America.
Right here in Montana you know there's a better way of doing
things -- a Republican way. I remember the last time I was in
this state. It was for Montana's hundredth birthday, when Allen
was the Chairman of Centennial Commission. And what a great job
he did. First of all, he didn't use one penny of taxpayer money.
And second, the Centennial will actually give thousands of
7
dollars back to the state Treasury. That's the kind of fiscal
responsibility America needs on Capitol Hill.
Allen Kolstad and I agree, and most Americans will, too: we
need budget process reforms, spending cuts, the line-item veto,
and most of all, a balanced budget amendment. \\ We like what
works. And our budget process is not working. Republicans have
put the welfare of the country before partisan politics. Now
it's time for the other party to do the same.\\
It was one of the most famous Democratic Presidents,
Franklin Roosevelt, who said 50 years ago, "The future lies with
those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is
interested more in government than in politics." The future is
now. The Republican Party is ready to govern. And Allen Kolstad
is ready to be your next Senator. 11
The choice is up to you. Make it the right one. Make it
Republican.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 17, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
JIM PINKERTON L
SUBJECT:
Kolstad For Senate Breakfast Draft Speech
The draft's specifics on the budget crisis and the
Democratic responsibility for it are a very effective
message and are very effectively presented. Taking the
fight to the opposition is an antidote to the dangers of
any creeping "incumbentitis" we may have. We note that a
phrase from the draft of the President's remarks to the
Magazine Publishers today would help butress this message
(and the message of other similar drafts) : " a change
[is] needed in the minds of too many who measure progress
made by dollars spent. "
pg.2, para. 1, line 1
"Allen Kolstad ( (and his wife
of 39 years) )
"
It bears checking with the Kolstad campaign for their
approval on this fact about the length of his marriage.
The reason is simply that such a statement might
(conceivably) be thought by the Kolstad people to make
their candidate look old, particularly when his opponent
is relatively young.
3,1,7
" 34 years of uninterrupted Democratic rule in
Congress
"
The 34 years refers to the U.S. House of
Representatives, not the U.S. Senate, which is of course
what Kolstad is running for. If we do mention the U.S.
House then we should also mention Rep. Ron Marlenee, who
is fighting for re-election. We suggest just replacing
the phrase with "Democratic stranglehold on the Congress"
or perhaps adding, "We have got to return the U.S. Senate
to the Republican leadership it enjoyed not so long ago."
This phrase also occurs at 4,3,4.
0 E : Id LI 700 06
2-2-2
4,3,4 "Thirty-four years of Democrat control
"
See comments above at 3,1,7.
5,3,4 " for 108 days "
This repetition of this phrase is extremely effective
and adds power to the whole theme of Congress and the
budget debacle.
6,2-3
"You've probably heard the story...."
These two grafs seem a bit lame and, more importantly,
unpresidential in tone. We suggest simply omitting them.
###
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
90 JUL 17 A10: 04
DATE:
07/16/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
2:00 p.m. 07/17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
SUBJECT:
(07/16 draft four)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
"
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to
Chriss Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 07/17, with a
copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Partinam that for is Montena uniquely liberal a
This SPEECH Affears much too
(note in changes many ureas
James W. Cicconi
CLOSE HOLD
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Grant/Cawley/Hobrecht
1990 JUL 16 PM 6: 20
July 16, 1990
Draft four / A:Kolstad
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
BILLINGS, MONTANA
JULY 20, 1990
8:05 A.M.
Good morning. Thanks for that wonderful introduction,
Governor [Stan] Stephens ... ( (rest of acknowledgements) ) And of
course, the next Senator from the state of Montana, Allen
Kolstad. 111
( (First of all, I want to apologize to everyone for the
extensive security measures we've had to take here today. The
Secret Service was concerned, but the coast is clear now.\\
No sake cups. \\\)
It's great to be back in Montana, within sight of the Rims
of Billings, near some of the best fishing streams and forests in
the country. I remember coming to Glacier National Park last
year with my grandson, and being told that Montana has 896
catchable fish per square mile. ( (Here's my question: Why don't
they count the uncatchable fish? I thought there were quite a
few of those. )) But there's nothing better for the soul than
seeing the grandeur of snow-capped mountains in the distance or a
Montana sunset streaked across fading skies. Montana is a state
of big skies, and America is a country of big dreams. But to
help make those dreams come true -- for America and Montana -- I
need Allen Kolstad working with me in the U.S. Senate.
2
Allen Kolstad ( (and his wife of 39 years, Iva, right here
next to me) ) know Montana as few others do -- five generations of
Kolstads have called Montana home. Allen is a farmer and rancher
who has given over twenty years of public service to the people
of this great state. He was elected to the Montana Legislature
in 1968, the first Republican to serve Liberty County in over
forty years. Then, in 1988, Stan Stephens and Allen Kolstad
stunned the Democrats by giving them their first loss in a
Governor's race in twenty years. And, just like Conrad Burns did
in the last Senate election, Allen Kolstad's about to hand the
opposition another stunning loss. We need Allen Kolstad in the
United States Senate, and we need him there now.
With more people like Allen in the Senate
more
Republicans
we can build a better America. Despite its
minority status on Capitol Hill, the Republican Party has fought
Too
out-of-step liberals, big-government bureaucrats, and red-tape
radicals every step of the way. What's got our opponents quaking
in their boots is that this fall, they're up against the
teem
Republican record. The longest peacetime economic expansion in
history. The lowest unemployment rate in the nation in 16 years
Mantain
lowest in Montana in 25 years. Over 21 million jobs created.
it was our policy of peace through strength that helped bring
freedom to the lives of millions from Panama to Poland. But with
a Republican majority in Congress working with me, we could do
even more to ensure that America becomes economically strong and
fiscally sound.
3
Instead, with the Democrats now in control of Congress,
we're facing government by gridlock in Washington -- with
spending skyrocketing out of control, good legislation thrown
aside for pork barrel programs, and a budget deficit looming over
our children's children. And while the Republican Party is using
everything we've got to build a strong, competitive America,
34 years of uninterrupted Democratic rule in Congress have
finally taken their toll.
You might even say the other party is clinging to such
extinct ideas that it belongs with the dinosaurs. When I heard
the other day that fossils from Tyrannasaurus Rex had been
uncovered here in Montana, I couldn't help but think of another
endangered species. It was recently described as a "large, two-
legged dinosaur, prone to spasms of big spending and knee-
jerking. It once roamed North America in large bands, but now it
only remains on Capitol Hill." \\ Scientists call it:
the Demosaurus.
Unfortunately, it's the American people who are paying the
price for its archaic ideas. Let me give you a few examples. In
April of 1989, our Administration sent to Congress the Excellence
in Education Act. Our proposals would advance education reform,
shrill
reward achievement and encourage educational choice -- yet as the
bill moved through Congress, its most sensible and cost-effective
programs were scrapped for expensive Democratic substitutes. One
billion dollars worth of unnecessary, unrelated and costly
changes were heaped on top of our original $400 million education
4
bill -- totalling $1.4 billion dollars, more than triple our
original request. In fact, the only thing they didn't change was
the name of the bill.
I know Allen Kolstad would have said no to those unnecessary
changes. He and I agree that the way to keep Montana's
graduation rate high, and its A.C.T. scores the third best in the
nation is through rewarding excellence, putting choice in the
hands of parents and students, and building in accountability.
Not by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at an education
system that is already the most heavily-subsidized in the
world.
Let's support what works in education and stop measuring
success by a program's price tag. Let's start building a better
future for Americans by getting government out of their wallets
and off of their backs. Thirty-four years of Democrat control is
long enough. \\ We must have more Republicans in Congress.
But there's more. When we proposed new child care
legislation, based on our belief that there is nothing more
precious than America's children, we asked for $9 billion dollars
in funding, spread over five years. We proposed a bill that put
choice in the hands of all families, whether low- or middle-
income, by helping them get the kind of child care they wanted -
- at home, at church, or from a local child-care provider. The
Senate passed our bill at double the money -- $18 billion -- and
the House outdid the Senate by tripling our request -- to $29
billion. And if Congress has its way, the federal government
5
will intrude upon one more area of your lives -- using that money
for more federally-controlled day-care centers, piling more red
tape on parents and child-care providers, and worst of all,
establishing day-care "police" to enforce their day-care
regulations. Democrats believe government knows better than
parents. We must have more Republicans in Congress.
And just this year, in February and March, I reqested $800
million in dire emergency funds for immediate assistance to the
governments of Panama and Nicaragua. These fledgling democracies
stood on the brink of economic disaster, their treasuries
bankrupted by the Sandinista and Noriega regimes. And yet,
Congress did nothing to save these freedom-loving peoples until
May 25th -- over three long months later.
Here's what caused the delay: some so-called "dire
emergency" additions to the bill by Congress -- over one billion
dollars' worth -- for unrequested domestic programs. Everyone on
Capitol Hill knew how important this bill was, and for 108 days,
Congress decided to hold it hostage. For 108 days, Congress
calculated how much pork barrel they could throw on top of our
emergency request. For 108 days, inaction by the Congress
threatened not only the economic recovery of these two critically
strategic nations -- it threatened the hard-won freedom of the
brave people of Nicaragua and Panama. That's a more than a
difference between parties. That's a disgrace.) We must have
more Republicans in Congress. III
6
Republicans like what works. We think that finding a cure
to the budget deficit means funding those programs that we know
work -- not throwing billions of hard-earned tax dollars at
untested ideas with no track record or built-in accountability.
( (You've probably heard the story about the Republican and
the Democrat who come down with the flu. The Republican's first
step is to take a couple of aspirin and maybe some orange juice,
to see if it works.
The Democrat's first step? Call a Medevac helicopter and
propose socialized medicine. Do you suppose that has anything
to do with the Democrat's budget request for a heliopad on the
Capitol grounds?) )
expond
It's no coincidence that I've come here, not too far from
the Great Divide, to make a point. Voters are facing a choice
between two philosophies that are worlds apart. On one side --
growth, in cheld, andeds, thecreatively
the Republican side -- lies opportunity, choice, free market
you that understands
solutions to big-government problems, and fiscal sanity. On the
the Porte of
other side -- the far side -- lies the Democratic Party, offering
of red tape and bureaucracy regulation solutions, and still fighting Ruding for higher
and higher spending. The choice is up to America.
Right here in Montana you know there's a better way of doing
things -- a Republican way. I remember the last time I was in
this state. It was for Montana's hundredth birthday, when Allen
was the Chairman of Centennial Commission. And what a great job
he did. First of all, he didn't use one penny of taxpayer money.
And second, the Centennial will actually give thousands of
7
dollars back to the state Treasury. That's the kind of fiscal
responsibility America needs on Capitol Hill. \\
Allen Kolstad and I agree, and most Americans will, too: we
need budget process reforms, spending cuts, the line-item veto,
and most of all, a balanced budget amendment. \\ We like what
works. And our budget process is not working. Republicans have
put the welfare of the country before partisan politics. Now
it's time for the other party to do the same. \\
It was one of the most famous Democratic Presidents,
Franklin Roosevelt, who said 50 years ago, "The future lies with
those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is
interested more in government than in politics." The future is
now. The Republican Party is ready to govern. And Allen Kolstad
is ready to be your next Senator. 11
The choice is up to you. Make it the right one. Make it
Republican.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
# # #
OFFICE OF THE STATES THE UNITED
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
90 JUL 17 P2: 27
NOTICE:
Enclosed are comments from staff members of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). Such comments do not necessarily
represent the official position of the Director of OMB or of the
Office of Management and Budget. If you wish to have the
Director's personal comments, please let me know -- and contact
me if you have any questions.
James C. Murr
Associate Director for
Legislative Reference
and Administration
CLOSE HOLD
Document No. 158584
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
07/16/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 07/17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
SUBJECT:
(07/16 draft four)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
У
CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to
Chriss Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 07/17, with a
copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
See comments
James W. Cicconi
CLOSE HOLD
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Grant/Cawley/Hobrecht
1990 JUL 16 PM 6: 20
July 16, 1990
Draft four / A:Kolstad
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
BILLINGS, MONTANA
JULY 20, 1990
8:05 A.M.
Good morning. Thanks for that wonderful introduction,
Governor [Stan] Stephens
...
( (rest of acknowledgements) And of
course, the next Senator from the state of Montana, Allen
Kolstad. 111
( (First of all, I want to apologize to everyone for the
extensive security measures we've had to take here today. The
Secret Service was concerned, but the coast is clear now.
No sake cups. \\))
It's great to be back in Montana, within sight of the Rims
of Billings, near some of the best fishing streams and forests in
the country. I remember coming to Glacier National Park last
year with my grandson, and being told that Montana has 896
catchable fish per square mile. ( (Here's my question: Why don't
they count the uncatchable fish? I thought there were quite a
few of those. )) But there's nothing better for the soul than
seeing the grandeur of snow-capped mountains in the distance or a
Montana sunset streaked across fading skies. Montana is a state
of big skies, and America is a country of big dreams. But to
help make those dreams come true -- for America and Montana -- I
need Allen Kolstad working with me in the U.S. Senate. \\\
2
Allen Kolstad ( (and his wife of 39 years, Iva, right here
next to me) ) know Montana as few others do -- five generations of
Kolstads have called Montana home. Allen is a farmer and rancher
who has given over twenty years of public service to the people
of this great state. He was elected to the Montana Legislature
in 1968, the first Republican to serve Liberty County in over
forty years. Then, in 1988, Stan Stephens and Allen Kolstad
stunned the Democrats by giving them their first loss in a
Governor's race in twenty years. And, just like Conrad Burns did
in the last Senate election, Allen Kolstad's about to hand the
opposition another stunning loss. We need Allen Kolstad in the
United States Senate, and we need him there now. \\
With more people like Allen in the Senate -- more
Republicans -- we can build a better America. Despite its
minority status on Capitol Hill, the Republican Party has fought
out-of-step liberals, big-government bureaucrats, and red-tape
radicals every step of the way. What's got our opponents quaking
in their boots is that this fall, they're up against the
Republican record. The longest peacetime economic expansion in
history. The lowest unemployment rate in the nation in 16 years
-- lowest in Montana in 25 years. Over 21 million jobs created.
And it was our policy of peace through strength that helped bring
freedom to the lives of millions from Panama to Poland. But with
a Republican majority in Congress working with me, we could do
even more to ensure that America becomes economically strong and
fiscally sound.
3
Instead, with the Democrats now in control of Congress,
we're facing government by gridlock in Washington -- with
spending skyrocketing out of control, good legislation thrown
aside for pork barrel programs, and a budget deficit looming over
our children's children. And while the Republican Party is using
everything we've got to build a strong, competitive America,
34 years of uninterrupted Democratic rule in Congress have
finally taken their toll.
You might even say the other party is clinging to such
extinct ideas that it belongs with the dinosaurs. When I heard
the other day that fossils from Tyrannasaurus Rex had been
uncovered here in Montana, I couldn't help but think of another
endangered species. It was recently described as a "large, two-
legged dinosaur, prone to spasms of big spending and knee-
jerking. It once roamed North America in large bands, but now it
only remains on Capitol Hill." \\ Scientists call it:
the Demosaurus.
Unfortunately, it's the American people who are paying the
price for its archaic ideas. Let me give you a few examples. In
April of 1989, our Administration sent to Congress the Excellence
in Education Act. Our proposals would advance education reform,
reward achievement and encourage some of educational choice -- yet as the
bill moved through Congress, its most sensible and cost-effective
scully
programs were scrapped for expensive Democratic substitutes. almost a One
X5178
billion dollars worth of unnecessary, unrelated and costly
changes were heaped on top of our original $400 million education
4
bill -- totalling $1.4 billion dollars, more than triple our
just about
original request. In fact, the only thing they didn't change was
scully
X5178
the name of the bill.
I know Allen Kolstad would have said no to those unnecessary
changes. He and I agree that the way to keep Montana's
graduation rate high, and its A.C.T. scores the third best in the
nation is through rewarding excellence, putting choice in the
hands of parents and students, and building in accountability.
Not by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at an education
system that is already the most heavily-subsidized in the
world.
Let's support what works in education and stop measuring
success by a program's price tag. Let's start building a better
future for Americans by getting government out of their wallets
and off of their backs. Thirty-four years of Democrat control is
long enough. \\ We must have more Republicans in Congress.\
But there's more. When we proposed new child care
legislation, based on our belief that there is nothing more
precious than America's children, we asked for $9 billion dollars
in funding, spread over five years. We proposed a bill that put
choice in the hands of all families, whether low- or middle-
income, by helping them get the kind of child care they wanted -
- at home, at church, or from a local child-care provider. The
Senate passed our bill at double the money -- $18 billion -- and
the House outdid the Senate by tripling our request -- to $29
billion. And if Congress has its way, the federal government
5
will intrude upon one more area of your lives -- using that money
for more federally-controlled day-care centers, piling more red
including friends and neighboro,
tape on parents and child-care providers, and worst of all,
scully
establishing day-care "police" to enforce their day-care
+5178
regulations. Democrats believe government knows better than
parents. We must have more Republicans in Congress.
And just this year, in February and March, I reqested $800
million in dire emergency funds for immediate assistance to the
governments of Panama and Nicaragua. These fledgling democracies
stood on the brink of economic disaster, their treasuries
bankrupted by the Sandinista and Noriega regimes. And yet,
Congress did nothing to save these freedom-loving peoples until
May 25th -- over three long months later.
Here's what caused the delay: some so-called "dire
emergency" additions to the bill by Congress -- over one billion
dollars' worth -- for unrequested domestic programs. Everyone on
Capitol Hill knew how important this bill was, and for 108 days,
Congress decided to hold it hostage. For 108 days, Congress
calculated how much pork barrel they could throw on top of our
emergency request. For 108 days, inaction by the Congress
threatened not only the economic recovery of these two critically
strategic nations -- it threatened the hard-won freedom of the
brave people of Nicaragua and Panama. That's a more than a
difference between parties. That's a disgrace. We must have
more Republicans in Congress. III
6
Republicans like what works. We think that finding a cure
to the budget deficit means funding those programs that we know
work -- not throwing billions of hard-earned tax dollars at
untested ideas with no track record or built-in accountability.
( (You've probably heard the story about the Republican and
the Democrat who come down with the flu. The Republican's first
step is to take a couple of aspirin and maybe some orange juice,
to see if it works.
The Democrat's first step? Call a Medevac helicopter and
propose socialized medicine. \\ Do you suppose that has anything
to do with the Democrat's budget request for a heliopad on the
Capitol grounds?) )
It's no coincidence that I've come here, not too far from
the Great Divide, to make a point. Voters are facing a choice
between two philosophies that are worlds apart. On one side --
the Republican side -- lies opportunity, choice, free market
solutions to big-government problems, and fiscal sanity. On the
other side -- the far side -- lies the Democratic Party, offering
red tape and regulation solutions, and still fighting for higher
and higher spending. The choice is up to America.
Right here in Montana you know there's a better way of doing
things -- a Republican way. I remember the last time I was in
this state. It was for Montana's hundredth birthday, when Allen
was the Chairman of Centennial Commission. And what a great job
he did. First of all, he didn't use one penny of taxpayer money.
And second, the Centennial will actually give thousands of
7
dollars back to the state Treasury. That's the kind of fiscal
responsibility America needs on Capitol Hill.
Allen Kolstad and I agree, and most Americans will, too: we
need budget process reforms, spending cuts, the line-item veto,
and most of all, a balanced budget amendment. \\ We like what
works. And our budget process is not working. Republicans have
put the welfare of the country before partisan politics. Now
it's time for the other party to do the same.
It was one of the most famous Democratic Presidents,
Franklin Roosevelt, who said 50 years ago, "The future lies with
those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is
interested more in government than in politics." The future is
now. The Republican Party is ready to govern. And Allen Kolstad
is ready to be your next Senator. 11
The choice is up to you. Make it the right one. Make it
Republican.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
Document No. 158589
DATE:
07/16/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 2:00 p.m. 07/17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
SUBJECT:
(07/16 draft four)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
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CARD
UNTERMEYER
CICCONI
ROGERS
DEMAREST
WINSTON
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
HOLIDAY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to
Chriss Winston by 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 07/17, with a
copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Please see comments.
7/12/90
James W. Cicconi
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Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
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Sunator Burns Ron
Grant/Cawley/Hobrecht
1990 JUL 16 PM 6: 20
July 16, 1990
Draft four / A:Kolstad
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KOLSTAD FOR SENATE
FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST
BILLINGS, MONTANA
JULY 20, 1990
8:05 A.M.
Good morning. Thanks for that wonderful introduction,
Governor [Stan] Stephens
( (rest of acknowledgements) ) And of
course, the next Senator from the state of Montana, Allen
Kolstad.
( (First of all, I want to apologize to everyone for the
extensive security measures we've had to take here today. The
Secret Service was concerned, but the coast is clear now.
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No sake cups. ) )
It's great to be back in Montana, within sight of the Rims
of Billings, near some of the best fishing streams and forests in
the country. I remember coming to Glacier National Park last
year with my grandson, and being told that Montana has 896
catchable fish per square mile. ( (Here's my question: Why don't
they count the uncatchable fish? I thought there were quite a
few of those. )) But there's nothing better for the soul than
seeing the grandeur of snow-capped mountains in the distance or a
Montana sunset streaked across fading skies. Montana is a state
of big skies, and America is a country of big dreams. But to
help make those dreams come true -- for America and Montana -- I
need Allen Kolstad working with me in the U.S. Senate.
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Allen Kolstad ( (and his wife of 39 years, Iva, right here
next to me) ) know Montana as few others do -- five generations of
Kolstads have called Montana home. Allen is a farmer and rancher
who has given over twenty years of public service to the people
of this great state. He was elected to the Montana Legislature
in 1968, the first Republican to serve Liberty County in over
forty years. Then, in 1988, Stan Stephens and Allen Kolstad
stunned the Democrats by giving them their first loss in a
Governor's race in twenty years. And, just like Conrad Burns did
in the last Senate election, Allen Kolstad's about to hand the
opposition another stunning loss. We need Allen Kolstad in the
United States Senate, and we need him there now.
With more people like Allen in the Senate -- more
Republicans -- we can build a better America. Despite its
minority status on Capitol Hill, the Republican Party has fought
out-of-step liberals, big-government bureaucrats, and red-tape
radicals every step of the way. What's got our opponents quaking
in their boots is that this fall, they're up against the
Republican record. The longest peacetime economic expansion in
history. The lowest unemployment rate in the nation in 16 years
-- lowest in Montana in 25 years. Over 21 million jobs created.
And it was our policy of peace through strength that helped bring
freedom to the lives of millions from Panama to Poland. But with
a Republican majority in Congress working with me, we could do
even more to ensure that America becomes economically strong and
fiscally sound.
NOT SO - 35- - House
6/8 3 Cop last Admin.
Instead, with the Democrats now in control of Congress,
we're facing government by gridlock in Washington -- with
spending skyrocketing out of control, good legislation thrown
aside for pork barrel programs, and a budget deficit looming over
our children's children. And while the Republican Party is using
everything we've got to build a strong, competitive America,
34 years of uninterrupted Democratic rule in Congress have has
finally taken their toll.
,STET its
You might even say the other party is clinging to such
extinct ideas that it belongs with the dinosaurs. When I heard
the other day that fossils from Tyrannasaurus Rex had been
uncovered here in Montana, I couldn't help but think of another
endangered species. It was recently described as a "large, two-
legged dinosaur, prone to spasms of big spending and knee-
jerking. It once roamed North America in large bands, but now it
only remains on Capitol Hill." Scientists call it:
the Demosaurus.
Unfortunately, it's the American people who are paying the
price for its archaic ideas. Let me give you a few examples. In
April of 1989, our Administration sent to Congress the Excellence
in Education Act. Our proposals would advance education reform,
reward achievement and encourage educational choice -- yet as the
bill moved through Congress, its most sensible and cost-effective
programs were scrapped for expensive Democratic substitutes. One
billion dollars worth of unnecessary, unrelated and costly
changes were heaped on top of our original $400 million education
total = $16 ? or $1.4b?
4 they were name changed of the the bill.
bill -- totalling $1.4 billion dollars, more than triple our
original request. In fact, the only thing they didn't change was
the name of the bill Equity and Excellence on Rd. Act."
Frances worris
I know Allen Kolstad would have said no to those unnecessary
changes. He and I agree that the way to keep Montana's
graduation rate high, and its A.C.T. scores the third best in the
nation is through rewarding excellence, putting choice in the
hands of parents and students, and building in accountability.
Not by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at an education
system that is already the most heavily-subsidized in the
world. \\\
Let's support what works in education and stop measuring
success by a program's price tag. Let's start building a better
future for Americans by getting government out of their wallets
and off of their backs. Thirty-four years of Democrat control is
long enough. We must have more Republicans in Congress.
But there's more. When we proposed new child care
legislation, based on our belief that there is nothing more
precious than America's children, we asked for $9 billion dollars
in funding, spread over five years. We proposed a bill that put
choice in the hands of all families, whether low- or middle-
income, by helping them get the kind of child care they wanted -
- at home, at church, or from a local child-care provider. The
Senate passed our bill at double the money -- $18 billion -- and
the House outdid the Senate by tripling our request -- to $29
billion. And if Congress has its way, the federal government
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will intrude upon one more area of your lives -- using that money
for more federally-controlled day-care centers, piling more red
states establishing tape on to parents day-care and child-care "police" providers, to enforce their and worst day-care of all, requiring
regulations. Democrats believe government knows better than
parents. We must have more Republicans in Congress.
And just this year, in February and March, I reqested $800
million in dire emergency funds for immediate assistance to the
governments of Panama and Nicaragua. These fledgling democracies
stood on the brink of economic disaster, their treasuries
bankrupted by the Sandinista and Noriega regimes. And yet,
Congress did nothing to save these freedom-loving peoples until
May 25th -- over three long months later.
Here's what caused the delay: some so-called "dire
emergency" additions to the bill by Congress -- over one billion
dollars' worth -- for unrequested domestic programs. Everyone on
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Capitol Hill knew how important this bill was, and for 108 days,
Congress decided to hold it hostage. For 108 days, Congress
calculated how much pork barrel they could throw on top of our
emergency request. For 108 days, inaction by the Congress
threatened not only the economic recovery of these two critically
strategic nations -- it threatened the hard-won freedom of the
brave people of Nicaragua and Panama. That's a more than a
difference between parties. That's a disgrace. We must have
more Republicans in Congress. III
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Republicans like what works. We think that finding a cure
to the budget deficit means funding those programs that we know
work -- not throwing billions of hard-earned tax dollars at
untested ideas with no track record or built-in accountability.
( (You've probably heard the story about the Republican and
the Democrat who come down with the flu. The Republican's first
step is to take a couple of aspirin and maybe some orange juice,
to see if it works.
The Democrat's first step? Call a Medevac helicopter and
propose socialized medicine. Do you suppose that has anything
to do with the Democrat's budget request for a heliopad on the
Capitol grounds?) )
It's no coincidence that I've come here, not too far from
the Great Divide, to make a point. Voters are facing a choice
between two philosophies that are worlds apart. On one side --
the Republican side -- lies opportunity, choice, free market
solutions to big-government problems, and fiscal sanity. On the
other side -- the far side -- lies the Democratic Party, offering
red tape and regulation solutions, and still fighting for higher
and higher spending. The choice is up to America.
Right here in Montana you know there's a better way of doing
things -- a Republican way. I remember the last time I was in
this state. It was for Montana's hundredth birthday, when Allen
was the Chairman of Centennial Commission. And what a great job
he did. First of all, he didn't use one penny of taxpayer money.
And second, the Centennial will actually give thousands of
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dollars back to the state Treasury. That's the kind of fiscal
responsibility America needs on Capitol Hill.
Allen Kolstad and I agree, and most Americans will, too: we
need budget process reforms, spending cuts, the line-item veto,
and most of all, a balanced budget amendment. \\ We like what
works. And our budget process is not working. Republicans have
put the welfare of the country before partisan politics. Now
it's time for the other party to do the same.\\
It was one of the most famous Democratic Presidents,
Franklin Roosevelt, who said 50 years ago, "The future lies with
those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is
interested more in government than in politics." The future is
now. The Republican Party is ready to govern. And Allen Kolstad
is ready to be your next Senator. 11
The choice is up to you. Make it the right one. Make it
Republican.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
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July 17, 1990
MK:
1. Kolstad introduces POTUS. The other acknowledgements have
changed; they will fax an updated headtable list today.
2.
"
within sight of the Rims of Billings
"
The venue for the breakfast has changed from the Sheraton
(Downtown) to the Holiday Inn-Trade Center (on the edge
of town) The Holiday Inn is not technically within
sight of the rims
we would be stretching it to say
POTUS is within sight. We could say that he loved the view
of the rims while flying in or something
3. p.6/para.5:
"
the Centennial will actually give thousands of dollars
back to the State Treasury
"
All the archiving and post production accounting has not
yet been completed. The Centennial is expected to return
thousands of dollars, but has done so yet. It's practically
a sure thing, but we should say "is expected to return
"
CW - still working on these two phrases:
4. 1.4/41: ACT scores are #3 - but Net in the nation.
only 28 states are ranked. MT is #3 of 28.
5.p.4/41: US educational system may wet be
the most heavily subsidized in the world The Dept
of Education thinks We are #3; will check it 9 call can
back.
where sik you get this factoid ?
6. Where did you get the Roosevelt quote?
Jaytene Xs to with The