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Clinton would let foreign bureaucrats regulate U.S. economy.
Clinton said he would have "proudly" signed the various
Rio Earth Summit treaties and other documents, which
would force America's most internationally competitive
companies to surrender valuable patents and
"intellectual" property.
-
"I would have shaped the Earth Charter, Agenda
21, the Forest Principles, and the Climate
Change, and the Biodiversity conventions to
convey our commitment to a new world in which
each nation's environmental performance is the
concern of its neighbors. And today I would be
signed every one of those documents proudly."
[Clinton press conference, Washington, D.C.,
6/12/92]
Clinton would endanger public pension funds.
Clinton would tap both private and public pension funds
to finance "pork barrel" public works projects he
proposes - diverting dollars now available for job-
creating small business investment. [Putting People
First, page 5, Clinton for President]
Clinton has no plan for bank reform.
Clinton has provided no blueprint for reform of
financial services - nor has he offered an agenda to
make American banking more competitive internationally.
Clinton is silent on the issue of interstate banking,
but his aides have said he "would be
...
not so pushy
on Glass-Steagall repeal." [American Banker, 3/10/92]
Clinton would imperil future jobs.
Clinton's mandatory national health care scheme would
cost more than 712,740 jobs. [Information chart, Joint
Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 7/1/92]
Clinton would threaten small businesses.
Clinton's 1.5-percent payroll tax for job training will
add $10 billion to the tax burden on small businesses
and would cost more than 70,000 Americans their jobs.
[Economic Policy Update, Joint Economic Committee, U.S.
Congress, 7/92]
Clinton supports the idea of a centralized industrial policy.
Clinton advocates creation of a national civilian
research and development bureaucracy to pick economic
winners and losers. [Putting People First, page 7,
Clinton for President]
[REGULATORY REFORM - Page 5]
Clinton's economic plan is ominously silent on over-
regulation of industry or the American economy, and
this is no sign that he supports deregulation of any
kind.
Clinton prefers regulating Mexico to jobs for Americans.
Clinton would forego hundreds of thousands of new
American jobs that would be created by a free-trade
agreement with Mexico if Mexico did not impose "higher
standards for labor income, and safety, and
environmental investments." [Clinton press conference,
Washington, D.C., 6/12/92]
Clinton is "real good to trial lawyers."
Clinton's campaign is making a special effort to raise
money from lawyers. "The bottom line is, it's a group
that has been organized to raise money. " said Nancy
Johnson, Clinton's mid-Atlantic finance director.
"Obviously, down the line, these people will have
input. [Legal Times, 3/2/92]
Clinton champions opposition to tort reform and
supports the status quo for trial lawyers. [Fund-
raising letter to Wisconsin trial lawyers, 3/25/92]
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Clinton called President Bush's proposals to
correct the tort system "trivial choices."
[Benton Air Courier, 8/14/92]
Clinton, as Arkansas governor, is "real good to the
trial lawyers, " said James McMath, head of the Arkansas
Trial Lawyers Association PAC. Clinton "had put a
couple of small tort reform measures in one of his
legislative packages one year, " McMath recalled. "We
went to meet with him on that, and he apologized and
worked with us hand in glove the rest of the way. "
[Legal Times, 3/23/92]
"Arkansas is one of the few states not to have passed
any significant legislation limiting liability or
cutting down costs in tort litigation." [Legal Times,
3/23/92]
[REGULATORY REFORM - Page 6]
FACT SHEET
BUSH
***
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92
April 2, 1992
PRESIDENT BUSH ON REGULATORY REFORM
"I won't neglect my responsibility for sound regulations
that serve the public good, but regulatory overkill must be
stopped."
-- President George Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 1992
President Bush has made the reduction of burdensome
regulation a priority in spurring economic growth. The
President has taken significant steps to ease the
stranglehold of unnecessary regulation. Excessive
regulation, no matter how well-intentioned, stifles economic
growth and inhibits job creation.
The extent of federal regulation is striking: federal
regulations filled over 33,000 pages last year, with over
7,000 regulations issued. All told, the cost of complying
with federal regulations is estimated to be between $300
billion and $500 billion each year. Last year, Americans
spent 5.2 billion hours filling out government forms.
The President believes that reducing unnecessary regulation
will give Americans more control over their lives -- the
power to make the best economic and personal decisions for
themselves and their families and businesses.
At the President's direction, the Administration is
undertaking a number of regulatory relief measures that will
improve Americans' quality of life and remove unnecessary
costs on business, including:
--
Streamlining the FDA approval process for new drugs,
and removing barriers so that terminally-ill patients
can receive new, potentially life-saving drugs, that
have not yet been approved for general use;
--
Reforming regulation of biotechnology companies to
allow more rapid approval of safe new biotech products;
-- Reducing administrative costs for small businesses;
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Giving contractors greater flexibility in manning
construction projects;
--
Using innovative market mechanisms to reduce the costs
to the economy of complying with strict Clean Air Act
standards -- without sacrificing environmental goals;
and
--
Minimizing regulatory burdens for farmers and food
processors.
Under the Vice President's leadership, the President's
Council on Competitiveness is assisting federal agencies in
reducing regulatory barriers that hamper the growth of
American industries, especially those involved in high
technology. In many cases burdensome regulations inhibit
necessary growth and investment. Removing these barriers
will mean more jobs and enhanced American competitiveness.
The Problem of Over-regulation
When government regulates with a heavy hand, businesses,
especially small businesses so vital to job creation, are
forced to compromise productivity and efficiency and suffer
increased costs. Consumers end up paying a hidden tax
because, inevitably, the added costs of government
regulation are passed on to them in the form of higher
prices for products and services. As the President has
explained, "From the tab on a bag of groceries at the
checkout line to the sticker price on the showroom floor --
every American takes a hit when the government over-
regulates."
When American businesses suffer the burdens of costly red
tape, they become less competitive at home and throughout
the world. Government red tape delays the introduction of
products made possible by American know-how. Delayed by
cumbersome government approval processes, these products
become more expensive and less competitive when they finally
enter the marketplace. As a result, economic growth
suffers, wages are depressed, jobs are lost, and valuable
products and services are denied American consumers.
The President's Program for Regulatory Relief
President Bush is no newcomer to the issue of excessive
government regulation. As a businessman, he experienced its
impact; as Vice President, he began a sustained, decade-long
effort to reverse the extensive regulatory trend. As head
- more -
FACT SHEET: REG REFORM -- page 3
of the President's Task Force on Regulatory Relief, then-
Vice President Bush spearheaded efforts to reform regulation
of financial services -- reforms Congress still refuses to
enact -- that would have eased the cost of raising capital,
and improved the competitiveness of American financial
markets. Efforts by the Task Force on Regulatory Relief are
estimated to have saved over $150 billion that otherwise
would have been spent in complying with needless
regulations.
As President, George Bush has continued to fight against the
stifling effects of heavy-handed bureaucracy. The President
believes that regulators must be sensitive to how their
regulations affect economic growth and job creation.
Despite pressure from affected businesses and consumers, the
Democratic Congress refuses to ease burdensome regulation by
passing the President's proposals. Nevertheless, the
President has used his executive authority to devise and
implement necessary reforms:
--
In his State of the Union Address, the President
announced a 90-day moratorium on new regulations to
review the impact of existing and proposed rules on job
creation and economic growth.
--
Agencies are to accelerate initiatives that could
promote growth and create jobs.
--
Agencies are to review carefully their regulations to
ensure their benefits to society clearly outweigh their
costs.
--
Agencies are to use performance standards to the
fullest extent possible, rather than command-and-
control requirements.
--
Agencies are to ensure their regulations are crafted to
provide clear and certain guidance to regulated firms,
and to avoid needless litigation.
Regulatory Relief: Improving Americans' Quality of Life
O
The Bush Administration's regulatory relief program is
helping to improve Americans' quality of life, by promoting
innovative products for consumers and treatments for
terminally-ill patients:
- more -
FACT SHEET: REG REFORM -- page 4
--
To expedite the process of bringing vital and possibly
life-saving drugs to market, the Food and Drug
Administration will cut needless red tape and
streamline the government drug approval process.
Accelerating this process offers hope to all Americans
with serious or life-threatening diseases for which
there is no effective alternative therapy.
-- To harness America's great ingenuity and the enormous
potential of advanced science, the President has
proposed new plans to promote the development and
commercialization of biotechnology products. As the
President explained, "this is a $4 billion industry and
it should grow to $50 billion by the end of the decade
if we let it." The President's deregulatory efforts
will help secure American leadership in this vital
industry of the future.
--
The Administration has developed a plan to help remove
old cars -- the biggest polluters and the biggest gas
guzzlers from the road. This "Cash-for-Clunkers"
program will help businesses meet the tough standards
of the Clean Air Act at less cost, without sacrificing
either the environment or economic growth.
Regulatory Reform: Spurring Economic Growth
O
The Bush Administration's regulatory relief program is
spurring economic growth by removing unnecessarily costly
regulations, promoting underdeveloped industries, and
improving business' access to capital:
-- Recognizing the vital role of small businesses in the
domestic economy, the Administration is reducing the
burdens of the payroll tax system, simplifying
reporting and payment procedures, and offering clearer
guidance and assistance to employers.
-- To further enhance the ability of small businesses to
raise needed capital, the Securities and Exchange
Commission is simplifying needlessly complex
registration requirements and increasing the maximum
size for public stock offerings under the streamlined
procedures of SEC Regulation A from $1.5 million to $5
million.
- more -
FACT SHEET: REG REFORM -- page 5
--
In the energy area, the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission and EPA are making natural gas more
accessible and less costly to consumers and American
industry. Cheaper and more widespread use of clean-
burning natural gas will lower energy costs, improve
the environment and reduce dependence on foreign oil.
-- To reduce the costs of transporting goods, the
Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime
Commission are easing several regulatory burdens on the
trucking, rail and other shipping industries,
ultimately lowering costs to businesses and consumers.
-- To improve access to credit and capital, the
Administration is adopting rules that would strengthen
banks by allowing them to operate across state lines.
This will make more credit available to spur new home
construction.
-- The Department of Labor has given contractors greater
flexibility in staff construction projects. That means
lower construction costs to businesses and more entry-
level jobs in building trades.
-- The Department of Agriculture and the Environmental
Protection Agency have taken several steps to help
farmers produce and market their products at less cost.
Among other things, the Administration is relaxing
restrictions on pesticides as soon as scientific
evidence shows them to be safe, and is modifying overly
stringent labelling requirements.
Regulatory Reform: Making Government More Responsive
Bush Administration regulatory reforms are also making
government more responsive to Americans' needs and wants,
streamlining the way government works and stopping
unnecessary government intrusions into Americans' lives:
-- The President has proposed sweeping reform of the civil
justice system, proposing to ease the enormous costs
and burdens of litigation in the federal courts. This
initiative, by lowering litigation costs (the "lawyers
tax") and adopting rules that discourage frivolous
lawsuits, will also improve access to the legal system
for those with legitimate claims.
- more -
FACT SHEET: REG REFORM -- page 6
Summary
O
Through these efforts, the President has demonstrated a
broad commitment to making government an ally instead of an
adversary to the cause of American competitiveness. By
cutting back on needless red tape and accelerating
initiatives that promote jobs and economic growth, the
President is making sure that government regulations serve
their intended role, and do not become a means of imposing
unnecessary burdens and government control.
# # #
Speech Card
July 30, 1992
SPENDING CUTS AND RESCISSIONS
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CURBING FEDERAL SPENDING
"Getting our fiscal house in order is crucial to our
nation's long-term economic health and prosperity."
President Bush
April 25, 1990
President Bush believes the way to end the budget deficit is
to put an end out-of-control government spending. President Bush
has demanded that Congress cut hundreds of unnecessary federal
programs to save tens of billions of dollars, but Congress
insists on spending more, oftentimes on irresponsible "pork
barrel" projects.
Any president must spend almost every dollar Congress
mandates. No president spends a dime unless Congress
first says so.
The American people are overtaxed because a
Democratic-controlled Congress spends too much.
President Bush demands a Balanced Budget Amendment and the line-
item veto to control excessive government spending. Give him the
tools, and he'll get the job done.
American families must balance their checkbooks and
live within their means. Congress should have too, as
well.
The Democrats double-crossed President Bush in the 1990 budget
agreement.
President Bush has sought every opportunity to limit
Congress' ability to spend hard-earned taxpayer dollars. That's
why the President risked negotiations in 1990 with the Democrat
leaders in Congress to limit spending.
President Bush wanted to achieve real spending cuts and
budget reforms to require responsible future spending.
Democrats in Congress forced President Bush to make a
"no win" choice between:
-
A one-time tax increase in return for Democrat
promises to discipline congressional spending
binges, or
[SPENDING CUTS - Page 1]
-
Shutting down the government and putting at risk
America's fighting men and women in the Persian
Gulf.
President Bush - refusing as commander-in-chief to put
our fighting men and women at such risk - reluctantly
went along with the Democrats' deal, knowing he would
pay a political price for it. The President said, "I
had to do it and I regret it
"
President Bush learned that Congress cannot be trusted
to honor its word. Last March, the Democrat leadership
reneged on their promise and tried again to raise
taxes. President Bush stopped them dead in their tracks
with a veto.
President Bush's plan to cut the deficit is:
Freeze spending in that part of the budget he
can control.
Cap the growth in mandatory spending on
entitlement programs like Medicaid, which will
save $180 billion over four years.
Eliminate wasteful programs. Earlier this year, the
President forced Congress to rescind $8 billion in
wasteful programs; however, billions more remain.
[SPENDING CUTS - Page 2]
CLINTON: JUST ANOTHER "TAX AND SPEND" LIBERAL
Clinton raised Arkansas' taxes and fees 128 times. [Legislative
Tax Handbook, Arkansas Legislature, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991]
"If Congress followed the example Bill Clinton has set
as governor of Arkansas, it would pass a tax program
that would hit the middle class hardest. Taxpayers
caught in the middle would stay caught. One might never
suspect as much listening to the national, as opposed
to the state, Bill Clinton." [Editorial, The Pine Bluff
Commercial, 12/4/91]
Clinton fought to maintain a sales tax on groceries. [The
Arkansas Gazette, 3/26/97]
"In the Clinton era, the state tax system has become
more and more regressive. It has become, step by step,
a pretty bad system, stacked against the ordinary
taxpayer and consumer, stacked for the rich and the
special interests." [The Arkansas Gazette, 3/4/91]
"[Arkansas' tax system] places the same 7% income-tax
rate on individuals earning $25,000 a year as those
earning $25 million. Feed for hogs, chickens and cattle
is exempt from sales taxes, but food for people (other
than food-stamp recipients) isn't." [The Wall Street
Journal, 4/24/92]
Clinton opposes the Balanced Budget Amendment to the
Constitution. [The New York Times, 6/11/92]
Clinton abandoned his pledge to balance the federal
budget in four years.
Clinton now seeks only to cut the deficit in half.
Despite his promise of "saving" $140 billion, "the net
effect of Mr. Clinton's spending and tax changes would
be to reduce the deficit only $2 billion in fiscal 1993
and $8 billion in fiscal 1996.' [The Wall Street
Journal, 6/24/92]
Clinton would raise taxes.
Clinton believes the only way to reduce the deficit in
the next few years is through "a massive tax increase."
[United Press International, 6/3/92]
Clinton specifies only one non-defense item he would
eliminate: a $20-million-a-year honey subsidy. However,
he specifies at least $200 billion over four years in
"huge new public works expenditures." [Morton Kondracke
in Roll Call, 6/25/92]
[SPENDING CUTS - Page 3]
Clinton's economic plan would mean higher taxes, more spending,
fewer jobs.
Clinton's economic program, Putting People First, guarantees
that the federal budget would not be balanced.
Clinton's platform calls for tax increases almost twice as
large as those proposed by Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis -
combined.
Clinton also favors federal spending increases almost three
times as large as those proposed by Mondale and Dukakis combined.
Clinton promises to raise $154 billion in new
taxes and spend $220 billion on massive public
works programs - the kind that big city mayors and
union bosses love.
-
Mondale and Dukakis combined promised
to raise $85 billion in taxes and spend
$76 billion.
Clinton specifies only one non-defense item he
would eliminate: a $20-million-a-year honey
subsidy. [Morton Kondracke in Roll Call, 6/25/92]
Clinton is no fiscal conservative.
Clinton blames federal cutbacks for Arkansas' lack of
progress.
Clinton's own budget records show federal aid to
Arkansas doubled since he regained the governor's seat
in 1983. [1983 and 1991 Arkansas state budgets]
Clinton has increased Arkansas' bureaucracy even faster
than New York's Mario Cuomo. [1992 Fiscal Report Card
for the Governors, Cato Institute]
Administrative costs in the Arkansas Department of
Human Services have soared by more than 3,000 percent.
[1983 and 1992 Arkansas state budgets]
Clinton doubled Arkansas' debt burden since 1983. [1992
Fiscal Report Card for the Governors, Cato Institute]
[SPENDING CUTS - Page 4]
TALKING POINTS
BUSH
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July 29, 1992
THE PRESIDENT'S POLICIES FOR AN AMERICAN
TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
The President's Science and Technology Agenda
As a former businessman and pioneer in offshore oil
drilling, President Bush understands how investment in new
technologies can pay dividends in higher productivity and
job creation.
--
The President's experience in the private sector
reinforced his belief that government is ill-equipped
to pick winning and losing technologies or industries.
Rather, the President believes, federal investment in
generic technologies can provide a strong foundation to
creating innovative products and services.
The President's science and technology agenda is built on
five basic principles:
--
The private sector must be free to set its own research
priorities.
-- The Federal government must promote sound tax policies
that stimulate private sector R&D investment.
-- Federal regulations that impede firms from developing
and marketing new, safe products must be curtailed.
-- The federal government should support basic and applied
R&D.
-- Federally-funded technology must be transferred swiftly
to the private sector for commercialization.
The President's Initiatives to Promote Commercial Use of R&D
The President has proposed to invest over $76 billion in
research and development (R&D) during FY 1993, with funding
increases for both defense and civilian research.
Under the President's direction, federal grants for
commercial R&D are being awarded under a series of federal
initiatives (described below). These initiatives target
grants for generic technologies research to those industries
best equipped to conduct commercially-useful R&D.
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President Bush's National Technology Initiative (NTI), was
announced on February 12, 1992. The NTI is channelling
federally-sponsored R&D to those industries where
breakthroughs in basic technologies could generate major new
products and markets -- including high performance computing
and communications, advanced materials, and biotechnology.
O
By year's end, there will be almost 1,700 Cooperative
Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) between
government research laboratories and private sector firms.
-- The number of CRADAs with small businesses is projected
to increase by 20 percent, to 389. The dollar value of
active CRADAs is projected to grow 22 percent from 1992
to 1993, to $466 million.
-- This year there will be approximately 3,300 new
inventions disclosures, 1,500 patent applications, and
almost 500 technology licenses awarded.
The Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program
grants fund to industry R&D on generic, pre-competitive
technologies such as an ultra-fast computer storage
technology, integrated solid state lasers for optical memory
devices, and new computer interfaces that read cursive
handwriting.
Opening Foreign Markets to American Goods
President Bush has taken an active and direct role in
opening foreign markets and reducing subsidies or other
barriers to trade.
In part due to the President's efforts to open new markets
for high tech U.S. goods, the U.S. remains the world leader
in the export of technological knowledge. American high
tech exports have soared by two-thirds since 1987, and the
the U.S. now enjoys a $37 billion trade surplus in high tech
products with the rest of the world.
# # #
TALKING POINTS
BUSH
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July 29, 1992
PRESIDENT BUSH'S SUPPORT FOR THE
SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER
President Bush is strongly committed to constructing the
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) -- on schedule and
within budget. Once completed, the SSC will be the most
powerful particle accelerator in the world.
Scientific discoveries from the SSC could have far-reaching
applications in a new generation of safe, dependable power.
Until then, new technologies used to build the SSC, as well
as innovations discovered from it, will have direct
commercial applications.
-- SSC research on high-power magnets will have direct
applications to magnetically-levitated high speed
trains. Research related to the SSC has developed a
new way to treat plastic materials that cuts the cost
of open-heart surgery.
The SSC has already had substantial economic benefits. Over
19,000 contracts have been awarded to businesses of all
sizes and to universities around the country. Especially
significant is the role being played by small businesses
from 40 states in building the SSC.
The President's Funding Request: Although President Bush
requested $650 million for FY 1993 to continue SSC
development, the House of Representatives recently voted to
kill the program, a move that if successful, will cost
thousands of jobs, and leave world-class scientists without
a crucial source of commercial and scientific innovation.
Job creation: The President's FY 1993 budget request for
the SSC will mean over 7,000 first-tier jobs throughout the
country, and employment for 2,500 scientists at the SSC.
Clinton-Gore -- Split Personality: The Democratic
candidates are of two minds on the SSC. While Governor
Clinton has said that he supports the SSC, in 1991 Senator
Gore voted in favor of killing it. (CQ vote 121, 7/10/91)
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Speech Card
July 30, 1992
TRADE
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TRADE ABROAD, JOBS AT HOME
"If we're to succeed economically at home, we must
succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is
indisputable: open markets and free trade mean new
jobs for American workers and certainly growth for
American companies. Over the past four decades, trade-
related jobs in our country have grown three times
faster than overall American job creation."
President Bush
April 12, 1992
President Bush believes open markets and free trade mean
jobs for American workers. Jobs related to international trade
have grown three times as much as those created at home. History
shows that rising prosperity and rising international trade go
hand in hand. If we are to succeed economically at home, we must
lead economically abroad.
The President believes protectionist policies would take
America back to the dark days of Smoot-Hawley, which deepened and
lengthened the Great Depression of the 1930s. Democrats who
advocate "balancing" trade by closing the United States market
only court the perils of isolationism and cost American jobs.
Foreign markets for American products are essential for
economic prosperity at home - because every $1 billion
in American exports create 20,000 new American jobs.
America's standard of living is the highest in the
world, surpassing both Germany and Japan.
American workers are the most productive in the world.
America's manufactured exports increased 90
percent since 1986, compared to an average of only
25 percent growth among other industrialized OECD
countries.
With President Bush, exports are up, trade deficit down.
Thanks to President Bush's leadership:
America regained its title as the world's leading
exporter of goods and services, exceeding both Germany
and Japan. In 1991, America sold $422 billion in
merchandise to foreign markets, an all-time high and
$28 billion more than the previous year.
[TRADE Page 1]
Our merchandise trade deficit was slashed almost 44
percent - from $119 billion in 1988 to $66 billion last
year.
Exports accounted for nearly 70 percent of America's
economic growth between 1987 and 1990.
Expanding trade creates jobs.
President Bush is breaking down barriers to international
trade with Canada and Mexico. He wants to create hundreds of
thousands of new export-related jobs through a North Atlantic
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
A NAFTA agreement would create one of the world's largest
and richest markets - 365 million producers and consumers and
more than $6 trillion in annual output.
Today, U.S. exports to Mexico support over 600,000
American jobs.
Last year, more than 2 million Americans held jobs
supported by $85.1 billion in exports to Canada, which
grew of 42 percent over 1987.
America's merchandise exports in 1991 surged to an all-
time high of nearly $422 billion -- an increase of 31
percent since 1988.
President Bush believes lower tariffs mean more jobs.
Under President Bush's leadership, America is spearheading
efforts to complete the Uruguay Round, history's most ambitious
round in multilateral negotiations over the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to strengthen and expand the global
trading system by reducing trade barriers.
Reducing tariffs and trade barriers under GATT would
substantially boost American exports and could increase
American output by more than $1 trillion over the next
decade - creating as many as 2 million jobs.
America's farmers would benefit considerably from
Uruguay Round anti-protectionist agricultural reforms.
[TRADE - Page 2]
CLINTON ON TRADE
Clinton flip-flops on free-trade pact with Mexico.
Clinton endorsed U.S.-Mexico "fast track" negotiating
authority, but now embraces the protectionist lead of House
Democrat leader Dick Gephardt on the negotiations. [The
Washington Post, 4/14/92]
Would Clinton trigger a trade war?
Clinton says he is no protectionist - but then comes close
to sounding like he is promoting a trade war.
"If you don't play by our rules, then we'll play by
yours. " [A Plan for America's Future, p. 13, Clinton
for President]
Clinton pleaded for protectionism.
Clinton urged President Reagan in 1985 to place quotas
on imported footwear. [The Arkansas Gazette, 8/2/85]
Clinton urged the Arkansas congressional delegation in
1985 to support a textile bill that was labeled
"fiercely protectionist. " [The Arkansas Gazette,
12/3/85, and The Washington Post, 9/30/85]
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April 29, 1992
PRESIDENT BUSH ON TRADE
"We will work to break down the walls that stop world trade.
We will work to open markets everywhere
In our major
trade negotiations I will continue pushing to eliminate
tariffs and subsidies that damage America's farmers and
workers. And we'll get more good American jobs within our
own hemisphere through the North American Free Trade
Agreement, and through the Enterprise for the Americas
Initiative".
President George Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 1992
Summary
President Bush is committed to creating jobs and opportunity
in the United States through free and fair trade with the
world. His trade policy is one which will ensure that
foreign markets that are open stay open, and markets that
are closed are made accessible to competitive U.S. exporters
and investors.
Exports are the engine of economic growth. Since President
Bush took office, U.S. exports have surged, accounting for
almost 70 percent of U.S. economic growth during 1987-90 and
generating an estimated 1.8 million new jobs in export-
related industries.
To maintain and expand America's impressive export
performance, the Bush Administration is negotiating
multilateral and bilateral agreements to gain further access
to foreign markets and reduce foreign trade barriers.
President Bush is committed to achieving a strong GATT
agreement that will open markets worldwide to U.S.
goods and services.
The President also is dedicated to obtaining a strong
NAFTA agreement that will ensure U.S. companies access
to the markets of two of our largest trading partners,
Canada and Mexico.
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--
A successful NAFTA will further improve prospects for
another of the President's goals, which he announced in
June 1990, trade liberalization under the Enterprise
for the Americas Initiative.
-- At the same time that the President is working in
support of free trade and opening markets abroad, he
also is committed to vigorous enforcement of U.S. laws
to prevent unfair trade practices in the United States.
Free and Fair Trade, not Protectionism, Will Lead U.S. Growth
There is no question that the United States prospers as
trade barriers fall. For this reason, the President stands
firm in his commitment to building jobs at home by creating
opportunities for American products and services abroad.
U.S. goods and services still face many barriers around the
world, from prohibitive licensing requirements to collusive
corporate business practices to inadequate protection of our
copyrighted films and patented pharmaceuticals. The
President is committed to negotiations which reduce these
barriers.
Access to foreign markets must be maintained and expanded
lest exports -- this vital engine of growth -- sputter or
stall. Those who advocate closing the U.S. market to
balance our trade are courting isolationism and economic
decline, not growth. Protectionist policies would take us
back to the dark days of Smoot-Hawley, which worsened the
Great Depression of the 1930s. In the broad sweep of
history, rising prosperity and rising international trade
have gone hand in hand. More than ever, we need the
billions of dollars a year of economic stimulus that an open
world trading system and access to foreign markets provide.
Growth in U.S. Exports
President Bush's efforts to open world markets and promote
U.S. exports have strengthened America's role as leader of
the world economy, increased American jobs, and revitalized
the American economy.
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U.S. Leads World in Exports:
O
In 1991, America regained its title as the world's leading
exporter of goods, ahead of Germany and Japan. U.S.
merchandise exports reached $422 billion, while Germany's
exports fell 3.4 percent to $378.3 billion.
Export Growth:
U.S. merchandise exports in 1991 surged to an all-time high
of nearly $422 billion, a $28 billion increase from 1990's
record high of $394 billion. Since 1988, merchandise
exports have grown $100 billion, an increase of 31 percent.
Export growth has not been confined to a single sector.
Since 1988, exports of consumer goods are up 55 percent;
exports of capital goods are up 40 percent; and exports of
industrial supplies are up 27 percent.
U.S. fiber, textile, and apparel exports have grown nearly
10 percent in the past year, from $11 billion in 1990 to
$12 billion in 1991. Exports of apparel alone increased
nearly 30 percent during this same period.
Exports of U.S. advanced technology products have increased
over 20 percent between 1989 and 1991, from $83.5 to $99.9
billion.
Job Creation:
The dramatic increase in merchandise exports has created
U.S. jobs and strengthened the U.S. economy.
Export growth accounted for more than 25 percent of the
growth in private industry jobs in the United States between
1986 and 1990.
Over 69 percent of U.S. economic growth between 1988 and
1990 has come from expanding merchandise exports to foreign
markets.
Trade Deficit:
Since President Bush took office, the U.S. trade deficit has
declined dramatically. Between 1988 and 1991, the
merchandise trade deficit fell almost 44 percent, from $119
billion to $66 billion.
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Even though we still run a trade deficit with Japan, the
U.S. had a trade surplus with the EC of $16.7 billion in
1991, a significant turnaround from the trade deficit with
the EC a few years ago.
The February 1992 trade deficit of $3.4 billion is the
lowest monthly deficit in nine years.
Reducing Barriers and Opening Markets -- Accomplishments
The Bush Administration has used U.S. trade laws and other
avenues to open markets abroad and to stop numerous unfair
trade practices. Some examples follow:
U.S. Canada Free Trade Agreement:
The President has overseen the successful implementation of
the U.S. - Canada Free Trade Agreement. The lowering of
tariffs and trade barriers between the United States and
Canada has substantially increased business for U.S.
industries.
Since implementation of the U.S. -Canada Free Trade Agreement
on January 1, 1989, U.S. merchandise exports to Canada have
risen by 19 percent to $85 billion in 1991.
Japan:
One of the President's top trade priorities is to increase
access of American exports and investors to Japan, the
world's second largest industrial economy. The U.S.
merchandise trade deficit with Japan has fallen from $52
billion in 1988 to $43 billion in 1991. Since President
Bush took office in 1989, the Administration and Japan have
concluded trade agreements on satellites, supercomputers,
wood products, third party radio, cellular telephones,
telecommunications terminal equipment, amorphous metals,
international value-added network services, computers,
paper, semiconductors, construction services.
Between 1988 and 1991, total U.S. merchandise exports to
Japan grew over 28 percent, from $37.7 to $48.1 billion.
The growth in export sales of manufactured products has been
even more dramatic -- up 42 percent between 1988 and 1991,
from $21.7 to $30.8 billion.
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U.S. advanced technology exports to Japan have skyrocketed
in the past five years. Between 1985 and 1990,
telecommunications exports have climbed 414 percent,
semiconductor exports have increased 334 percent, and
exports of medical instruments have increased 156 percent.
The President's trip to Japan in January 1992 resulted in a
number of important agreements and commitments from the
Japanese, including significant market-opening measures in
glass and auto parts, and government-to-government
agreements covering the computer and paper sectors. The
President also resolved 49 issues pertaining to standards,
certifications, and testing -- all issues cited by U.S.
companies as barriers to doing business in Japan.
As a result of President Bush's trip, Japanese purchases of
U.S. auto parts are expected to more than double in the next
two years, from $9 billion to about $19 billion by 1994.
Significantly, Japanese companies manufacturing in the U.S.
pledged to increase the local content of their vehicles to
70% by 1994.
President Bush is committed to building upon the commitments
made by Japan to strengthen and expand the Structural
Impediments Initiative (SII), which provides a comprehensive
approach to the opening of the Japanese market.
Eastern Europe:
The Bush Administration and Eastern European nations have
concluded trade, investment, and intellectual property
agreements which will help stabilize the economies of these
emerging democracies and promote economic opportunities for
U.S. exporters and investors.
Since 1988, U.S. merchandise exports to Eastern Europe
(including the former USSR) have increased 35 percent, from
under $4 billion to almost $5 billion.
o
In order to expand and protect U.S. investments in these
markets, President Bush has signed bilateral investment
treaties (BITs) with Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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Initiatives in Support of Free Trade
O
To maintain and expand America's impressive export
performance, the Bush Administration has for the past three
years deployed a two-pronged trade strategy to open markets,
by:
--
Working to achieve a successful conclusion of the
Uruguay Round of global trade talks, held under the
auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT) ; and
--
Launching broad-based, market-opening negotiations with
our key trading partners.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) :
In the current Uruguay Round of talks, U.S. negotiators are
working on behalf of American businesses and farmers to
improve the international business environment for
agricultural products, textiles, trade in services and
foreign investment, as well as to achieve greater protection
for intellectual property.
A successful GATT negotiation will increase U.S. GNP by over
$1 trillion over the next ten years.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
President Bush initiated trilateral negotiations with
Canada, our largest trading partner, and Mexico, our third
largest trading partner, to establish one of the biggest and
richest markets in the world with a combined 365 million
producers and consumers, and over $6 trillion in annual
output. A NAFTA will reduce existing barriers to open trade
and create hundreds of thousands of new export-related US
jobs.
A successful NAFTA will allow American exporters to build on
their earlier successes in Canada and Mexico. U.S.
merchandise exports to Mexico and Canada have more than
doubled since 1980, rising from $51 to $118 billion.
Already, we have seen the benefits of liberalizing trade
with Mexico. Since 1986, when Mexico joined the GATT and
reduced its tariffs from as high as 100 percent to a high of
20 percent, U.S. merchandise exports to Mexico have almost
tripled from $12 to $33 billion. U.S. exports to Mexico
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support a large and growing number of U.S. jobs, reaching
538,000 as recently as 1990. The U.S. will profit even more
from further tariff reductions under a NAFTA.
A NAFTA will assist Mexico's efforts to raise its
environmental and labor standards.
To ensure U.S. industries are given sufficient time to
adjust to the market conditions of a new free trade area, a
NAFTA will contain a phase-out period for the reduction of
certain U.S. tariffs and trade barriers.
Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (EAI) :
In June 1990, the President announced his vision of a
"Hemispheric Free Trade Zone" stretching from Alaska to
Argentina, bringing the Americas together through trade and
prosperity. Since then, the Bush Administration has
concluded bilateral and multilateral trade and investment
framework agreements with 31 of our neighbors.
The EAI is designed to encourage the dramatic transformation
of Latin America and the Caribbean toward market oriented
economic reform, free trade, and a greater role for private
enterprise.
A successful EAI will provide greater access to foreign
markets for American manufacturers and farmers, provide
American businesses with increased trade and investment
opportunities, and promote environmental protection.
Between 1986 and 1990, total U.S. merchandise exports to the
region (excluding Mexico) have grown from $31 to $53
billion.
On November 14, 1991, the Bush Administration signed a
Bilateral Investment Treaty with Argentina (the first that
the U.S. has concluded with a South American country) that
will serve as a model for the rest of Latin America.
Argentina committed to removing restrictions on investment,
and to substantially improving legal protections for the
current $3 billion (and future) U.S. investments in
Argentina.
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PRESIDENT BUSH ON THE
NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
"The United States will continue to lead the world toward a
system of free trade and open markets
Trade means
economic growth. Trade means jobs for all Americans.'
President George Bush
May 1, 1991
"We have before us the opportunity to expand growth and
prosperity for all Americans
[the] agreement with Mexico
is in our fundamental interest.'
President George Bush
March 5, 1991
Summary
President Bush is committed to obtaining a North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that will increase trade and
create jobs in the U.S., lower prices for American
consumers, and stimulate the economies of the United States,
Canada and Mexico.
A NAFTA will mean greater access to the dynamic and growing
Mexican market through the removal of tariffs and import
permits, a more open services and investment regime, and the
protection of intellectual property rights. A NAFTA will
place the United States in the middle of a North American
market of over 360 million consumers and an annual output of
$6 trillion.
A NAFTA Will Increase U.S. Exports and Create U.S. Jobs
The U.S. -Canada Free Trade Agreement Serves as a Model for NAFTA
Negotiations:
O
President Bush has overseen the successful implementation of
the U.S. -Canada Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). The free trade
agreement between the United States and Canada has
substantially increased exports for U.S. industries,
attracted investment and jobs to the United States and
Canada, and facilitated business between the two countries.
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Trade has grown dramatically since the inception of the
agreement. Merchandise exports to Canada totalled $85.1
billion in 1991, a gain of 42 percent over 1987. American
workers who can attribute their jobs directly to trade with
Canada are over two million strong. 28,000 jobs were
created by trade growth with Canada in 1991 alone.
The CFTA has facilitated all manner of business exchange
between the two countries. For example, as a result of the
CFTA, more American companies are eligible for, and winning,
Canadian government contracts; businesses have better access
to customers north of the border; and American service
providers have a guaranteed access to the Canadian market.
The advantages of the CFTA will be reinforced and expanded
under the NAFTA.
A NAFTA Will Increase U.S. Exports:
A NAFTA will ensure U.S. access to the growing Mexican and
Canadian markets. The citizens of Mexico today import more
American goods per capita than the citizens of the European
Community. With its population of 88 million (almost three
times larger than Canada's) expected to grow to 100 million
by the year 2000, an economically surging Mexico could
become an increasingly important market for the United
States.
U.S. exports to Mexico are growing more than twice as fast
as U.S. merchandise imports from Mexico. Since 1987,
exports have grown at an average annual rate of 23 percent;
merchandise imports have grown at 11 percent. In 1991, the
U.S. ran a trade surplus with Mexico for the first time in a
decade.
Since Mexico started to liberalize trade in 1986, U.S.
merchandise exports to Mexico have increased more than 169
percent -- from $12.4 billion in 1986 to $33.3 billion in
1991.
O
Mexico purchases two-thirds of all its imports from the
U.S., and for each dollar of Mexican GNP growth, fifteen
cents is spent on U.S. goods. Increased production in
Mexico and Canada will enable these countries to earn U.S.
dollars with which they can buy U.S. exports.
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A NAFTA Will Increase U.S. Jobs:
A NAFTA will strengthen the Mexican economy, which in turn
will increase Mexico's demand for U.S. goods. This
increased demand for U.S. products and services will create
American jobs.
Merchandise exports to Mexico have increased by more than
169 percent, generating over 300,000 new American jobs. The
Commerce Department estimates that 650,000 American jobs are
related to U.S. exports to Mexico.
Nearly 20 formal economic studies have concluded that a
NAFTA will be favorable to overall U.S. employment. Many
American manufacturers have already noted that joint
production arrangements with Mexico have saved U.S. jobs and
created new ones.
A NAFTA Will Increase U.S. Competitiveness
A NAFTA will benefit U.S. producers and workers through
increased sales opportunities, improved operating
efficiencies, and strengthened competitiveness in the world
economy.
The U.S. -Mexican joint ventures and cooperative production
efforts promoted by a NAFTA will give these producers a
comparative advantage by combining the U.S. advantage in
technology, research and innovative development with Mexican
production operations. These U.S. producers thus become
more competitive in the world economy.
A NAFTA Will Include Transition and Safequard Provisions
Transition Measures:
In order to avoid dislocations to industries and workers
producing goods that are import-sensitive, a NAFTA will
provide a gradual schedule for the elimination of tariffs
and non-tariff barriers on such products. In isolated cases
where the lengthy phaseout period fails to prevent injurious
increases in imports, the Administration will retain the
ability to reimpose duties and other restrictions.
In determining import sensitivity, the Administration will
rely heavily on the advice of the U.S. International Trade
Commission, the Congress, and the private sector.
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Strict Rules of Origin:
The Bush Administration will negotiate effective rules of
origin to ensure that the benefits of a NAFTA do not flow to
third countries that establish "screw-driver" operations
exporting their products to the U.S. with only minimal
assembly in Mexico or Canada.
Increased U.S. -Mexico Cooperation on Labor
The U.S. Secretary of Labor and her counterpart from Mexico
signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May, 1991 which
provides for cooperation and joint action on a number of
labor issues which are being implemented in parallel with
the NAFTA negotiations.
These issues include health and safety measures; work
conditions, including labor standards and enforcement; labor
conflicts; labor statistics; and other areas of concern to
the United States and Mexico.
A NAFTA Will Improve Environmental Standards in Mexico
A NAFTA will assist Mexico in meeting environmental
standards closer to those adhered to by the U.S. and Canada.
As President Salinas has made clear, Mexico has no interest
in becoming a pollution haven for U.S. companies.
In parallel with the NAFTA negotiations, President Bush is
pursuing an ambitious program of cooperation on a wide range
of environmental matters, including the design and
implementation of an integrated border environmental plan.
The Bush Administration has committed $143 million in the
current fiscal year for implementation of the border
environmental plan, and a further $241 million is in the
President's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 1993. The
Mexican government has budgeted $460 million for the 1992-
1994 phase of the plan.
Mexico's comprehensive environmental law of 1988, which is
based on U.S. law and experience, is a solid foundation for
tackling its environmental problems. All new investments
are being held to these higher legal standards, and an
environmental impact assessment is required.
Standards for imported food items will not be lowered.
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A NAFTA Will Enhance Competitiveness of Import-Sensitive Sectors
Steel:
O
Mexico's demand for steel products is expected to increase
dramatically in the coming decades as the Mexican economy
grows. Mexican steel producers, however, are not expected
to have sufficient capacity to meet domestic demand for a
number of products. A NAFTA will enable U.S. steelmakers to
take advantage of this surging market by lowering Mexican
tariffs on U.S. steel products, which previously have been
cited by U.S. steelmakers as the greatest impediment to
increasing exports to Mexico. U.S. steel exports to Mexico
totaled nearly $800 million in 1991 and will expand further
as the Mexican economy grows and tariff rates are reduced.
The American Iron and Steel Institute and the Steel
Manufacturers Association have endorsed negotiation of a
NAFTA.
The United States has maintained a large trade surplus with
Mexico in steel products. U.S. exports of steel products to
Mexico increased 64% in 1991 -- the U.S. exported three
times as much steel to Mexico as it imported in 1991.
Textiles and Apparel:
Since Mexico began to liberalize trade in 1986, U.S. textile
and apparel exports to Mexico have increased at an average
annual rate of 25 percent, climbing to approximately $1
billion in 1990. A NAFTA will further reduce trade barriers
and enable U.S. exports to Mexico to expand as the Mexican
population grows and their standard of living increases.
For two of the last three years, the United States has
maintained a surplus with Mexico in textile and apparel
products. This trend is expected to improve further as
trade barriers come down.
The Bush Administration will seek to negotiate a NAFTA that
eliminates Mexican and Canadian tariffs and non-tariff
barriers; phases out U.S. barriers gradually over a
sufficient transition period so that U.S. companies and
workers will have time to adjust; establishes strict rules
of origin and appropriate safeguards; and contains measures
to prevent illegal transshipment and fraud.
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Autos and Auto Parts:
O
A NAFTA will increase exports of U.S. motor vehicles to
Mexico by removing restrictive Mexican trade and investment
barriers.
A strong rule of origin will ensure that Mexico and Canada
are not used as export platforms to the United States by
third-country producers.
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A NAFTA would not drain U.S. jobs and investment because
lower labor costs in Mexico are offset by costs associated
with Mexico's underdeveloped infrastructure and lower
productivity. Labor costs are a decreasing component of
automotive manufacturing cost.
Other Advantages
A NAFTA will reduce incentives for illegal immigration into
the United States by increasing Mexican wages and production
and growth.
A NAFTA will send a strong and encouraging signal to other
countries in Latin and South America, resulting in new trade
relationships that will open new markets for U.S. goods.
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PRESIDENT BUSH ON THE URUGUAY ROUND
NEGOTIATIONS OF THE GATT
"The Uruguay Round offers a vital opportunity to eliminate
barriers to our goods, investment, services, and ideas."
President George Bush
May 1, 1991
Summary
Under President Bush's leadership, the United States is
spearheading efforts to complete the Uruguay Round of
multilateral trade negotiations, the most ambitious round in
the history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT). The 108 nation members of GATT represent over 90
percent of world trade. The objective of the Uruguay Round
negotiations is to strengthen and expand the global trading
system by reducing trade barriers.
The Bush Administration's goals in the Round include sharply
reducing trade barriers worldwide; extending GATT rules to
services, investment, and intellectual property; and curbing
trade subsidies that undercut American farm and industrial
exports, while not reducing the effectiveness of U.S. laws
against unfair trade.
President Bush is committed to obtaining a GATT agreement
that will benefit American workers, farmers, and consumers;
he will not accept an inadequate agreement just for the sake
of an agreement.
A Sound GATT Agreement Would Benefit the U.S. Economy
An open multilateral trading system is the best guarantee
that U.S. export opportunities will continue to expand into
the next century. The Uruguay Round is the most important
initiative to expand these opportunities. A successful
Uruguay Round would provide substantial benefits to the U.S.
economy, including:
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Lower tariff and non-tariff barriers to manufactured
products and other goods, which would substantially
boost U.S. exports and could increase U.S. output by
over $1 trillion over the next ten years;
--
Rules to protect the intellectual property of U.S.
entrepreneurs to reduce the $60 billion lost each year
through theft and counterfeiting;
--
New markets for U.S. services firms, which export over
$140 billion annually and generate 90 percent of new
U.S. jobs;
--
Fair competition and open markets in agriculture to
create new opportunities for American farmers, who lead
the world with more than $40 billion in annual exports;
--
Full participation of developing countries in the
global trading system, which could increase U.S.
exports by $200 billion between now and the year 2000;
and
--
Effective rules on dispute settlement, anti-dumping,
subsidies, and import safeguards, to expand U.S. access
to foreign markets and ensure fair trade in the U.S.
market.
Agriculture
One of President Bush's key objectives is to obtain a GATT
agreement that contains major agricultural policy reforms,
including commitments by GATT member nations to reduce
trade-distorting internal support to farmers, open markets
to imports, and cut export subsidies.
Agricultural reforms in the Uruguay Round would mark an
historic departure from the costly protectionist measures
that have flourished in that sector, largely outside GATT
disciplines. These reforms would have significant benefits
for farmers, taxpayers, and consumers in the United States
and the rest of the world.
These reforms have been opposed by the European Community,
which refuses to reduce subsidies that give EC farmers an
unfair advantage in the world market. President Bush,
supported by other GATT members, has demanded that any final
GATT agreement include a commitment by all parties including
the EC to drastically reduce these subsidies and to require
their farmers to compete in the world market.
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Services
President Bush has insisted that global trade rules for
services be established to expand access to global markets
for U.S. services providers. President Bush is confident
that U.S. services, such as banking, insurance,
telecommunications, motion pictures, tourism, and
construction, can out-compete their foreign counterparts if
only they are allowed to compete on a level playing field.
-- The United States already leads the world with $140
billion in services exports annually.
Intellectual Property Rules
Patented, copyrighted, and trademarked products are a
growing source of foreign earnings to the U.S. economy.
President Bush has pressed for a GATT agreement that will
afford the highest level of protection to copyrights,
patents, and other forms of intellectual property held by
U.S. firms. The President also has insisted that the
agreement must include strong sanctions for those countries
that condone the piracy, infringement or violation of these
rights.
The President's efforts to protect American know-how have
already paid off. For example, in the most recent draft of
the proposed agreement, computer software would be protected
as literary work, the highest form of copyright protection
allowed.
Textile and Apparel
The current draft GATT agreement calls for removal of the
quota system established by the 1974 Multi-Fiber Arrangement
(MFA). One of President Bush's main objectives in the GATT
negotiations has been to ensure that any such quota removal
be conducted on a smooth and gradual basis in order to
minimize the disruption to the U.S. textile and apparel
industry.
The President's call for a sensible, responsible phaseout of
the quotas has prevailed. The proposed draft agreement
calls for a gradual phaseout of the MFA, which will allow
the U.S. textile industry time to adjust to import
competition and avoid severe disruption, appropriate
safeguard procedures, improved procedures to deal with
circumvention of quotas and important market-opening
measures for U.S. textile and apparel exporters.
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BACKGROUNDER
BUSH
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THE BENEFITS OF FREE TRADE IN NORTH AMERICA
President Bush had the vision to conceive a North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) -- a market that will extend from the Yukon to the
Yucatan. The United States will become the centerpiece of a $6 trillion
market with 360 million consumers, =
Overall Benefits: By tearing down Mexico's remaining tariff
barriers, NAFTA will increase U.S. exports and jobs. Increased
trade will give Mexicans the income to buy even more American goods.
NAFTA will also ease immigration pressures in the Southwest United
States, and it will generate new resources to improve the
environment.
Expanding Exports: Mexico, the United States' fastest-growing
export market, began reducing trade barriers in 1986. Since then,
U.S. exports to Mexico have grown on average, bv 23 percent
annually. Exports to Mexico in 1992 could reach $44 billion, giving
the U.S. a trade surplus with Mexico of over $8 billion.
Mexico is now the United States' second-largest market for
manufactured goods, having recently surpassed Japan.
A NAFTA will create American jobs: The President is pushing for a
NAFTA to create new American jobs. By 1995, increased exports due
to a NAFTA will have created 175.000 net new jobs. Exports to
Mexico already support over 600,000 U.S. jobs. The Institute for
International Economics projects that with a NAFTA, by 1995 over one
million U.S. jobs could be tied to exports to Mexico.
Even states like Missouri, where NAFTA's leading critic in
Congress -- Richard Gephardt -- comes from, would gain:
Missouri now has 170,000 export-related jobs, 55,000 of which
depend upon exports to Canada and Mexico.
--
The jobs created by a NAFTA will pay cood wages: export-
related jobs pay 17% more than the average U.S. job.
U.S. companies will not relocate en masse to Mexico: The fear that
a NAFTA will result in U.S. firms relocating en masse to Mexico to
take advantage of lower wages is a red-herring. If wages were the
only determinant of plant location, many impoverished countries
would be world-class economic powers by now.
Businesses base investment decisions on a variety of factors,
including productivity, and U.S. workers remain six to nine
times more productive than their Mexican counterparts.
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A NAFTA will provide new income for import-sensitive American
industries: The President knows that a NAFTA will benefit
industries and working Americans throughout the U.S.
Steel: U.S. exports of steel products to Mexico increased 64%
in 1991. The American Iron and Steel Institute and the Steel
Manufacturers Association have endorsed negotiation of a NAFTA,
recognizing that it will lead to even more exports.
Textile and apparel exports to Mexico have increased at an
average annual rate of 25 percent since 1986, reaching almost
$1 billion in 1990.
Automakers will be able to export more cars to Mexico as a
NAFTA ends restrictive Mexican trade and investment barriers.
Agricultural products exports to Mexico rose to a record $2.9
billion in 1991, double the export level in 1986 when Mexico
began cutting trade barriers. Under a NAFTA agricultural
markets will grow even more.
A NAFTA will reduce illegal immicration: Because a NAFTA will
provide new job opportunities for Mexican workers (as well as new
income to buy American products), a NAFTA will cut the incentive to
immicrate illegallv into the United States.
A NAFTA will have safequards to protect American workers: The
President is committed to a NAFTA that gives sensitive industrial
sectors time to adjust to full competition. Tariffs will be phased-
out gradually. A NAFTA safeguard mechanism will protect U.S. firms
against import surges.
The President will ensure that workers adversely affected by a
NAFTA receive assistance from a well-funded worker adjustment
program. The President has doubled funding for the Economic
Dislocation Worker Adjustment Assistance Act to over $500
million, and reaffirmed on May 1st his commitment to adequately
fund worker adjustment assistance.
A NAFTA will enhance environmental protection: Unlike environmental
alarmists, the President understands that responsible development
will improve resources to protect the environment along the U.S.-
Mexico border, all the while creating new American jobs. A NAFTA
will also sustain the United States' right to enforce existing
environmental standards and encourage all NAFTA parties to
strengthen standards.
The President committed $143 million this year alone for
implementation of the border environmental plan. Also, the
U.S. is seeking language to encourage NAFTA parties to respect
and enhance the enforcement of environmental laws.
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Office of the Press Secretary
March 18, 1992
FACT SHEET ON TRANSPORTATION REFORMS
As part of the President's 90-day regulatory relief
initiative, the Administration today announced several actions to
reduce the economic burdens created by federal regulation of
automobile, truck, rail, and ocean transportation.
Federal regulation in the transportation sector can have at
least three harmful effects on American consumers and workers.
First, regulation can increase costs borne directly by consumers
-- for example, the costs of cars and airline tickets. Second,
because transportation generally accounts for 20 percent of the
delivered cost of manufactured products, regulation acts as a
"hidden tax" on all consumer goods. Third, unnecessary
regulation makes all American goods and services less competitive
in the world marketplace, and thereby leads to lower wages and
employment.
By reducing regulatory burdens, the following actions will
help create jobs, make American goods and services more
competitive abroad, and reduce prices to consumers.
1. Reducing the Environmental Costs of Automobile
Transportation. One cost-effective way to reduce pollution in
many urban areas is to retire older cars, which are the dirtiest
and least efficient on the road today.
o
Within the next two weeks, EPA will issue a guidance
document encouraging states to adopt programs that allow
businesses to satisfy the requirements of the Clean Air Act
by purchasing and retiring old, high-polluting vehicles. In
addition to cleaning up the environment, car scrappage
programs will also reduce the regulatory burden on U.S.
businesses and reduce reliance on imported oil.
o
The EPA "cash for clunkers" program is just one example of
innovative, market-based programs that allow trading of
emission reduction credits between "stationary sources"
(like factories and power plants) and "mobile sources" (like
cars). EPA will develop more general guidelines to clarify
that businesses and state and local governments may satisfy
Clean Air Act requirements by trading emissions reductions
between mobile and stationary sources. Such trading will
further reduce compliance costs, thereby promoting jobs,
economic growth, and environmental quality.
2.
Reducing the Costs of Truck and Rail Transportation.
Because most consumer products and manufacturing materials are
shipped by rail or truck, consumers and workers inevitably suffer
when the government imposes excessive regulatory costs on truck
and rail transporters. The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
today announced several actions to amend or repeal existing
regulations that impose unnecessary regulatory burdens, or that
unduly interfere with the ability of some 52,000 motor and rail
carriers to negotiate and implement mutually beneficial
transportation arrangements with their customers. Specifically,
the ICC announced that it will:
initiate a proceeding to expand unregulated "commercial
zones, and thereby further deregulate trucking in large
metropolitan areas;
initiate a proceeding to accelerate elimination of the
requirement that motor carriers obtain a registration stamp
for each of their vehicles from each state in which they
operate;
initiate a proceeding to abolish the requirement that motor
carriers keep a unique set of "regulatory" accounting books
in addition to standard financial and tax records;
conclude a rulemaking that will further deregulate motor
contract carriage by repealing the regulatory definition of
"contract" and allow carriers to rely instead upon the
simpler definition contained in the statute;
initiate a proceeding to streamline and simplify motor
carrier tariff regulations, easing the burden on carriers
for filing negotiated rates in lawful tariffs and thereby
making it easier for shippers to protect themselves from
future undercharge claims;
conclude a proceeding to exempt railroads and their
customers from current regulations requiring them to file
contracts for private rail carriage;
conclude a proceeding to allow railroads to establish
market-based rates for the use of each other's rail cars;
propose a rule to permit rail carriers to establish
market-based incentives to ensure that rail equipment
is not unreasonably detained at shippers' facilities;
conclude a proceeding to exempt railroads from the Elkins
Act, thereby permitting them to engage in business
development activities;
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propose simplified rules governing consolidation,
merger, and control cases that involve no more than one
major, Class I railroad, thereby reducing paperwork and
shortening decision time;
complete a rulemaking to treat the Postal Service like
other shippers by relieving it of the burden of filing
with the Commission copies of its motor carriage and
rail contracts.
When fully implemented, these reforms have the potential to
reduce the total costs of truck and rail transportation by more
than $1 billion annually.
3. exporters spend more than $30 billion per year to transport U.S.
Reducing the Costs of Ocean Shipping. Importers and
goods to foreign markets and to bring foreign goods to U.S.
consumers. The cost of ocean shipping adds a significant
percentage to the delivered cost of goods. Various federal
agencies today announced several steps to reduce the costs of
ocean shipping:
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Current Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) rules do not
permit shippers to amend service contracts, even with the
consent of the ocean carrier. Those rules also do not
permit shippers to combine their worldwide shipping
contracts into a single contract with an ocean carrier. To
correct these problems, the FMC will initiate two
rulemakings to allow amendment of service contracts, and to
allow service contracts of worldwide scope.
The Coast Guard will initiate a rulemaking to establish
streamlined record-keeping practices for vessels subject to
Coast Guard jurisdiction.
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) will complete a
rulemaking to eliminate unnecessary oversight of certain
mortgage and sales transactions and encourage investment by
reducing the costs of financing transactions.
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FACT SHEET
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July 15, 1992
PRESIDENT BUSH ON VETERANS
"I renew my pledge today to do all that's humanly possible
to account for our comrades that are missing from the past
wars. As long as I am President, we will never forget those
POWs and MIAs. And another pledge -- as we move to a post-
Cold War defense force, we cannot forget to take care of our
military and civilian men and women who worked and fought so
hard to ensure that freedom and democracy would prevail. For
them, we will continue to work together to make sure that
American veterans receive quality health care that is second
to none."
--
President George Bush
Veterans Day 1991
Summary
From his first days in office President Bush has
demonstrated a personal commitment to addressing concerns of
veterans. In the 1988 primary campaign he declared his
dedication to bringing veterans a stronger voice in
government. As President he appointed to his Cabinet our
Nation's first Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
A veteran of World War II, President Bush understands the
contributions to freedom as well as the sacrifices made by
the men and women who have served this Nation's Armed
Forces. Accordingly, he is committed to maintaining
veterans' affairs as a top priority.
The President's budgetary commitment to the Department has
increased every year since he took office. He has devoted
the necessary funding and resources to assure that veterans
receive the recognition, assistance, financial stability,
and benefits they earned through service.
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Proven Leadership
As a former Navy aviator, President Bush gained a first-hand
understanding of the sacrifices that America's fighting men
and women may have to make in combat. Fifty years ago
President Bush became the Nation's youngest naval aviator
when he postponed college to volunteer for military service
at the height of World War II. In 1944, while on a mission
over Chichi Jima, Lt. Bush's Avenger torpedo bomber was shot
down by Japanese anti-aircraft fire. Nonetheless, he
completed his mission and was awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross for bravery. George Bush flew 58 combat
missions and made more than 100 carrier landings.
Throughout his military service, President Bush witnessed
the price that must sometimes be paid to preserve peace and
freedom for our Nation and the world. No President commits
American troops lightly, and perhaps no one is better suited
to make such decisions than one who has served in combat.
President Bush knows first-hand the sacrifices that may be
required by his decisions and understands the degree of
national commitment that must be behind our troops if they
are sent in harm's way. George Bush also recognizes that
the Nation's commitment to our men and women in uniform must
not end when the fighting stops.
Commitment to Quality Health Care for Veterans
President Bush has taken an active role in promoting quality
health care for all veterans through both increased funding
and creation of innovative programs. These programs
include:
--
Proposed increases of nearly $1 billion in fiscal years
1991, 1992, and 1993 for the provision of direct health
care to veterans.
-- The establishment of new nursing homes and
domiciliaries, as well as noninstitutional programs
such as adult day health care and hospital-based home
care.
--
The establishment of new outpatient, community-based,
and outreach clinics, bringing to 350 the total of such
clinics throughout the country.
--
An expanded number of Geriatric Research, Education,
and Clinical Centers, bringing to 15 the total number
of such centers serving our older veterans.
Veterans -- page 3
The Bush Administration has developed a comprehensive plan
for construction of new hospitals and renovation of existing
facilities to ensure veterans greater access to the highest
quality health care. By the end of FY 1993, 65 major
construction projects will have been started during the Bush
Administration.
The Importance of the Veterans Health Care System
President Bush understands the importance of veterans
hospitals and is committed to maintaining the integrity of
quality care provided for our veterans. The veterans'
health care system plays a vital role throughout the U.S.:
--
More than half the Nation's practicing physicians have
received at least a portion of their training in
veterans' hospitals. Each year, veterans' hospitals
train approximately 100,000 health care professionals.
Veterans' hospitals are affiliated with more than 100
medical schools across the country.
Veterans' hospitals account for one in every 16
hospital beds in our Nation.
--
Veterans hospitals are leaders in geriatric care,
treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, spinal-
cord injury care and research, and they have also had a
considerable impact in many other fields.
Accounting for POWs and MIAs
As a matter of highest priority, the President has continued
to commit the resources of the United States Government to
return any American who still may be held captive, to do all
that is humanly possible to account for those still missing,
and to repatriate the remains of those who died while
serving our country in foreign lands.
In February 1989, the President reappointed former Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John W. Vessey, Jr., as
his special emissary to Hanoi for POW/MIA Affairs to
continue the policies and priorities established during the
Reagan/Bush Administration. Specific results on accounting
for America's POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War are required
before further U.S. steps to lift the economic embargo on
Vietnam can occur. This policy ensures that the President's
POW/MIA objectives are protected and in the forefront of any
improvement in relations with Vietnam.
Veterans -- page 4
In January 1992, the United States and Russia established a
joint commission to investigate the cases of Americans
unaccounted for from World War II, the Korean War, the
Vietnam War, and the Cold War period who may have been held
in the former Soviet Union. President Bush selected former
Ambassador to the Soviet Union Malcolm Toon to chair the
U.S. delegation to the Joint U.S. -Russia Commission which
began its investigations in late March 1992.
Following recent statements by Russian President Boris
Yeltsin that American POWs/MIAs may have been held in the
former Soviet Union, President Bush immediately sent
Ambassador Toon to Moscow to examine newly opened Soviet
archives. The President is determined that the truth be
known, and any Americans who may have been held by the
former Soviet government must be accounted for as fully as
possible.
In order to publicly reinforce America's commitment to our
POWs and MIAs, the President has signed legislation
requiring that the POW/MIA flag be displayed at the
Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, at
other Federal Buildings including the White House, at the
Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, and in national cemeteries on
annual National POW/MIA Recognition Days.
Operation Desert Storm:
A total of 49 military personnel were listed as missing in
action during the war. Before the war began, the Bush
Administration established a Joint Rescue Coordination
Center to place highest priority on rapidly locating our
missing. Twenty-three American POWs returned at the
conclusion of hostilities. Remains of 13 U.S. personnel
were recovered and returned to their families. The remains
of 13 additional servicemen have not been located, of whom
12 were reportedly killed over water, making recovery highly
unlikely.
Vietnam:
The Bush Administration has continued to work diligently to
account for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War. Since
January 1989, the remains of 57 servicemen have been
recovered from Vietnam and 20 from Laos.
President Bush has established POW/MIA offices in Vietnam,
Laos, and Cambodia charged with the sole duty of accounting
as fully as possible for America's POW/MIAs. The offices are
engaged in field investigations, surveys, remains recovery,
and the investigation of live-sighting reports.
Veterans -- page 5
The President is firmly committed to resolving the many
unanswered questions about the fate of Americans still
missing in Southeast Asia. He has fully committed the
resources of the Defense Department and his Administration
to returning any Americans who may still be held against
their will, achieving the fullest possible accounting for
the missing, and repatriating all remains of our veterans
who died serving our Nation during the Vietnam War.
Korea:
Bush Administration officials have established a dialogue
between the U.S. and North Korea. Increased priority has
been given to obtaining information on over 8,000 Americans
(389 of which were listed as POWs) through bilateral
channels and through the UN Command Military Armistice
Commission. Since 1954, 46 remains reported to be those of
Americans unaccounted for from the Korean War have been
returned to the U.S. from North Korea. All of these remains
have been returned since April of this year. The U.S.
continues to pursue the issue of missing U.S., Republic of
Korea, and UN servicemen with the North Koreans through
discussions on the establishment of a multilateral
commission. The Administration is committed to do
everything possible to account for our missing servicemen
from the Korean Conflict.
World War II:
Approximately 78,750 Americans were unaccounted for after
World War II. The Bush Administration has continued to
support every effort to recover the remains of those
servicemen. As examples:
--
Since 1979 and as recently as July 1990, more than 110
sets of remains have been recovered from Papua New
Guinea and returned to Hawaii for identification.
Teams have also conducted excavations on Guam, Okinawa,
the Solomon Islands, Wake Island, and many other battle
sites.
Education, Job Training, and Benefits for Veterans
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The President signed into law a comprehensive benefits
package for veterans of the Persian Gulf War, including
readjustment counseling, dental care, guaranteed home loans,
insurance programs, and the extension of benefits to their
survivors.
Veterans -- page 6
In addition to existing government benefits, the Bush
Administration implemented a series of new employment and
educational programs designed to assist veterans. These
include:
--
An expansion and strengthening of Veteran's Preference,
a foundation which ensures that veterans receive
priority for hiring within the Federal government.
--
An expansion of the Transition Assistance and Disabled
Transition Assistance Programs that has resulted in
increased cooperation between the Department of
Veterans Affairs and the Department of Labor in helping
newly discharged veterans find employment.
--
An expansion of previously enacted educational benefits
to include vocational, technical, correspondence, and
apprenticeship training for reservists.
--
The establishment of a new health care education
program for service members in the Ready Reserve.
--
An increase in the Montgomery G.I. Bill Active Duty
basic education and training rates for Persian Gulf
veterans from October 1991 through September 1993.
The Bush Administration is committed to making burial in a
national cemetery a realistic option for all veterans and
plans to:
--
Construct 10 additional national cemeteries in areas of
the country that are currently underserved.
--
Acquire land through purchase or donation to increase
burial capacity of existing cemeteries scheduled to
close by 2020.
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Make greater use of the cost-sharing opportunities
through grants for State veterans cemeteries.
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June 26, 1992
PRESIDENT BUSH ON WELFARE REFORM
"It's time to replace the assumptions of the welfare state and
help reform the welfare system. States throughout the country
are beginning to operate with new assumptions: that when
able-bodied people receive government assistance, they have
responsibilities to the taxpayer. A responsibility to seek
work, education or job training; a responsibility to get their
lives in order; a responsibility to hold their families
together and refrain from having children out of wedlock; and
a responsibility to obey the law."
--
President Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 1992
Summary: The President's Objectives for Welfare Reform
The principles outlined by the President in his State of the
Union Address are essential to adding accountability to
welfare and reducing dependency. These reforms include:
--
Requirements that able-bodied welfare recipients enroll
in workfare or some form of job training in exchange for
receiving benefits;
:
Measuring the success of welfare programs by how many
people move from the welfare rolls onto the job rolls.
-- Adding incentives that encourage families to stay
together, and disincentives that discourage additional
out-of-wedlock births.
To accelerate implementation of welfare reforms, President
Bush has made a commitment to speed up review of Federal
waivers for state reforms. The President and the Secretary of
Health and Human Services have already approved a waiver for
Wisconsin's Parental and Family Responsibility Initiative,
which provides new incentives for welfare recipients to work
and marry.
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Reducing dependency in welfare will save taxpayer dollars, but
more importantly, make able-bodied citizens productive again.
Getting people off welfare and into jobs helps former
recipients, their families, and society generally.
In
addition, getting long-term dependents off welfare will free
up more dollars for programs that are supposed to help working
Americans and their families in times of economic strain,
instead of providing more government funds for already-
dependent welfare recipients.
The Need for Welfare Reform
The 1988 Family Support Act represented a philosophical
turning point in the approach to welfare; it expanded
government efforts to train recipients and to collect child
support, but it also required recipients to accept new
responsibilities.
Many reforms proposed since 1988 reflect the Family Security
Act's conceptual approach; however, there remains a growing
need to translate new thinking into lasting results.
Dependency remains a pervasive problem. Research has shown
that about two-thirds of the families on AFDC at any given
time will spend a total of eight or more years on the rolls.
Addressing long-term dependency by increasing incentives for
those on welfare to work and behave responsibly will help
dependent recipients become productive again, and will prevent
the current generation of children from becoming the AFDC
parents of the next decade. New welfare reforms will meet
government's responsibility to become both more effective and
more compassionate.
Federal Approval of State Demonstration Programs
On April 10th, President Bush announced approval of Federal
waivers for Wisconsin's Parental and Family Responsibility
Initiative which is designed to encourage teenage parent
welfare recipients to work and marry. The initiative will
strengthen families by encouraging poor couples to marry and
to be responsible about child-bearing. Also, recipients will
be required to participate in education and job placement
services. Unlike existing programs, Wisconsin's plan will
increase the reward for taking jobs by increasing the amount
of monthly earnings that can be received before AFDC payments
are reduced.
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The Bush Administration has approved several other welfare
reform demonstration projects, including:
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Illinois' Chance for Self-Sufficiency program which is
helping families previously on welfare to stay off
welfare by providing state-sponsored and community based
post-welfare education and training services.
In Maryland, Montgomery County's Cash Incentives Payments
for Self-Sufficiency which increases the value of work by
providing incentive bonuses for completing job training
or getting a job.
Texas' Toward Independence Program which provided one-
year of Medicaid and child care benefits to ease the
transition from welfare to work.
More than 20 States that begun to develop welfare reform
proposals. These proposals are receiving expedited review at
the Federal level.
Reforms by States
Reforms that require responsibility, promote family values,
and reduce dependency, if adopted by a number of states, would
fundamentally improve welfare's operation. Meaningful welfare
reform as outlined and promoted by the President will mean
dependent recipients, to continue receiving benefits, would
have to assume a measure of personal responsibility and take
concrete steps to improve their lives.
States such as New Jersey and California are taking steps to
approve reforms similar to the President's proposals. New
Jersey has passed a law this year that would instill
responsibility by requiring work for welfare (or enrollment in
job training), and by not increasing benefits to those who
have additional children while receiving welfare.
Putting the Private Sector to Work in Reducing Welfare Dependency
The private sector can play an important role in getting
welfare recipients back to work. Some states have established
public-private networks which pay private firms for each
welfare recipient placed in a job. Results-oriented programs
like these put the power of the marketplace to work in ways
that benefit taxpayers, state and local governments, and
welfare recipients.
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By focusing on results, private firms are able to take direct
control over welfare cases, steering recipients into jobs
sooner than the state might have, and reducing costs to
taxpayers. States have strong incentives to turn to the
private sector, which can be held directly accountable for
success or failure.
In partnership with state and local governments, private
sector initiatives under the Job Opportunities and Basic
Skills (JOBS) program remove barriers to employment with
placement services, sharpen workers' skills, and place welfare
recipients in paying jobs. Major "welfare-to-work" projects
with private sector involvement exist in Connecticut, New
York, Massachusetts, and Wyoming. One private firm manages
over 14,000 AFDC cases in Los Angeles County alone. Thousands
of Texas AFDC recipients benefit from a private firm's case
management project that provides focused training and
placement services.
Budgetary Commitments to Welfare Reform
The President is making concrete his commitment to workfare
and welfare reform by:
-- Providing $1 billion in FY93 to finance the federal share
of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills training
program (JOBS). JOBS helps eligible parents receiving
assistance under AFDC to obtain education, training, and
employment services, and thus to avoid welfare
dependency.
--
Proposing $250 million over five years for AFDC changes
to provide incentives for savings and promote self-
employment among welfare recipients.
President Bush also wants to expand opportunities for private
sector involvement, and, in his Job Training 2000 initiative
has proposed several new welfare-to-work reform demonstrations
to fund public-private partnerships involving more than $20
million in welfare payments.
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Creating Opportunities for Self-Improvement
The President understands that instilling responsibility means
more than just providing opportunities for education and
training -- it means creating a network of opportunity for
self-improvement: the HOPE initiative in housing to encourage
home ownership, the AMERICA 2000 strategy to restore
accountability to education, and significant new funding for
child care programs to help the children of working parents
onto the path of opportunity and Job Training 2000 which would
establish "one-stop shopping" skill centers replacing the
existing job training maze to help the low-income
disadvantaged find jobs, and training more easily.
If government is to encourage personal responsibility, the
design of current programs must be changed significantly to
expand job opportunities and promote self sufficiency. To
this end, the President's FY93 budget contains several
initiatives to help low-income families escape welfare
dependency:
-- The President has proposed to give states the option of
allowing families already on the welfare rolls to
accumulate savings. This will give AFDC families the
opportunity to save up to $10, 000 to achieve independence
from welfare, educate their children, or start a
business.
-- The President has proposed to create a welfare
initiative, similar to an existing Social Security
initiative, the Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS).
This plan would let welfare families who agree to leave
welfare within a specified period to keep income which
normally would count against the family's welfare
benefits.
-- The President has proposed a demonstration program
allowing states to create escrow savings accounts for
long-term AFDC recipients trying to work their way off
welfare. Individuals could set aside an amount equal to
state's savings from not having to pay AFDC that would be
realized when the family head gets a job. These savings
would be paid back to the family in a lump sum once
family income exceeds the need for cash assistance.
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These legislative changes would assist states in designing
workfare plans that meet the President's reform objectives.
They would also allow welfare recipients to prepare better for
entry into the work force and help prevent their return to the
welfare rolls.
Enforcement of Child Support
President Bush understands that welfare dependency often stems
from the failure of families to form or endure. Thus, the
President is working on a variety of fronts to strengthen
families and lower the costs of raising children.
President Bush is committed to making sure that absent parents
meet their financial responsibilities, giving children at
least the financial support they need. In the first three
years of the Bush Administration, child support collections by
states rose 30 percent. In 1986, child support orders
recovered by the federal government totalled just $3.2
billion. Last year, recoveries had more than doubled to
almost $7 billion. About $2 billion of that amount was
collected on behalf of families receiving welfare.
President bush has proposed legislative changes to extend
child support enforcement services to recipients of other
federally funded programs besides AFDC, and to increase health
insurance coverage of children by their non-custodial parents.
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PRESIDENT BUSH: TRANSFORMING WELFARE
The President's Goals for Transforming Welfare: Too often,
welfare systems create dependency instead of self-reliance. The
President believes welfare should be a temporarv helping hand,
not a way of life. And, once on welfare, recipients have
responsibilitiés to taxpayers -- to find work, to obey the law,
to avoid having additional children, and to keep their children
off drugs.
Waiving Burdensome Federal Regulations: President Bush has
approved waivers of federal regulations for five states,
allowing these states' reforms to go into effect. Far-reaching
state reforms in California, Wisconsin, and New Jersey will
promote the President's goals of keeping families together, and
ensuring that welfare recipients behave responsibly.
The President's Welfare Reform Plan: President Bush announced
far-reaching legislation to return the values of work and
responsibility to anti-poverty programs, and to end the cycle of
welfare dependency. Under the President's proposals:
The President would be able to waive federal regulations
that inhibit reforms in Food Stamps and federal housing
programs.
Public housing residents and the homeless would be able to
work in housing improvement projects.
States and communities could undertake broad reforms
involving a number of federal programs.
Other legislation would encourage new types of state -
reforms, sometimes without having to seek federal waivers.
Clinton on State Welfare Reforms -- I'm for them too, I think?
Clinton has had two contradictory opinions about New Jersey's
reforms, which deny additional welfare payments to recipients
who have more children. First Clinton said he would not have
signed the law, but months later said that he would have signed
a federal waiver for it. Then, Clinton compared California's
welfare plan unfavorably to New Jersey's, and strongly implied
that he would not have approved a waiver for California's plan.
Clinton's Arkansas -- still boor and mismanaged after all these
vears: After Clinton's 12 years in office, Arkansas now suffers
from a state welfare bureaucracy whose administrative costs have
ballooned bv 3,000 percent since 1983. Since Clinton's welfare
"reform" program started, Arkansas's total welfare caseload has
increased bv 12 percent (as of this April). This January
Clinton claimed his reforms had been reviewed by the Manpower
Demonstration Research Corp. (MDRC) as "one of the three of four
best programs in the United States." In fact, neither the MDRC
nor any other independent croup has reviewed his program.
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Clinton's Welfare Reform Record
Though Bill Clinton campaigns as a crusading welfare reform innovator, and promises
to "end welfare as we know it," his actual platform calls for nothing beyond what Federal law
already requires. He has said different things to different audiences on what is a central ques-
tion in the welfare reform debate - presidential waivers to permit further state-level experi-
mentation, as pioneered by President Bush. And he has made grand, false claims about the in-
effective Arkansas welfare program he supervises - using statistics from a predecessor pro-
gram actually established by Republican Governor Frank White. After Clinton's 12 years in
office, Arkansas now suffers a state welfare bureaucracy whose administrative costs have bal-
looned by 3,000 percent since 1983, and poverty that places the state at or near the bottom of
the country in nearly every meaningful category.
Hollow Promises
On the presidential campaign trail, Clinton makes sweeping promises of radical welfare re-
form: "My national economic strategy will strengthen families and empower all Ameri-
cans to work It will break the cycle of dependency and end welfare as we know it"
Specifically, Clinton claims he would provide current welfare recipients with up to two
years of education, job training, and child care, after which "those who can work will have
to go to work" in the private sector or in guaranteed public service jobs - or lose their
benefits ("Putting People First: A National Economic Strategy").
But Joe Klein, writing in New York magazine ("Profile in What?" 3/16/92), cites no less an
authority than Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to the effect that everything Clinton pro-
poses on welfare has already been written into Federal law by the Family Support Act of
1988 - a law Clinton helped draft and lobbied for as a representative of the National Gov-
emors Association.
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Clinton has been evasive on what is currently the nation's central welfare reform question:
presidential waivers to permit additional state experimentation.
Clinton has had two contradictory opinions this year about the New Jersey law denying
additional welfare payments to mothers who have more children. During the New Hamp-
shire primary campaign (WMUR-TV debate, 1/19/92), he opposed the law: "I would not
sign that bill. What I would do is make welfare reform work. I would spend more money
on education and training for these mothers. I agree with Senator Kerrey, give them health
care. Make sure they have child care. Require them to go to work when they can, and if,
after the education program is completed and they haven't gone to work after a certain
amount of time, provide public service employment
There's no point in hurting the
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Speaking in New Jersey several months later, however, Clinton said "There are some very
good things" in the state's new law. "If New Jersey passes a package of laws that requires
a waiver from existing Federal welfare statutes to implement the whole package, I would
be inclined to give the state a waiver to implement that. Because I like a lot of the other
things in the package, and because it is true that the average working family doesn't ge: an
increase in income when they have an increased number of kids." Also during this appear-
ance, Clinton compared California's proposed welfare revisions unfavorably to New Jer-
sey's and strongly implied he would not approve California's waiver (New York Times,
5/23/92)
Failure in Arkansas: Project Success
Of Clinton's piedge to "end welfare as we know it," U.S. News and World Report
(4/20/92) says "judging from his record, such promises should be taken with more than 2
grain of salt." The magazine labels Clinton's welfare platform "unconvincing," and re-
ports that his Arkansas programs "aren't as great as he claims."
Clinton has claimed great things about "Project Success," passed in 1987 as his state's
version of legisiation required by the Family Support Act All able-bodied Arkansas wel-
fare recipients are required to participate in the program unless they have a child under a
year old (Federal law permits exemptions for mothers with children 3 and under). Recipi-
ents who refuse to participate lose their benefits. Participants theoretically receive transi-
tional education, job skills training, day care, transportation, and Medicaid health care
services. Those deemed qualified for the job market are required to look for work and
document their contacts.
At the National Rainbow Coalition forum on January 25 this year, Clinton claimed that
Project Success "has been evaluated by the Manpower Demonstration Research [Corp.] as
one of the three or four best programs in the United States, not because it is oppressing the
poor, kicking the poor around, but because it is instrumental in liberating the poor." In
fact, MDRC has never reviewed Project Success - nor has any other independent group or
agency.
MDRC did perform an evaluation of the Arkansas WORK program, an 8-county demon-
stration project begun in 1982 by Clinton's predecessor, Republican Governor Frank
White. Clinton expanded the WORK program statewide in 1985, and used it as the model
for his own 1987 proposals. The MDRC study tracked 1,100 AFDC recipients during
WORK's pilot stage, and found that after 9 months, only 3 percent of enrollees had tried a
workfare job. After three years, MDRC found that welfare rolls had been reduced by just
7 percentage points in the experimental group and that the proportion of recipients who had
ever worked was boosted by just 5 percentage points (U.S. News and World Report,
4/20/92).
State officials report that since Project Success was formally inaugurated in July 1989, AI-
kansas's total welfare caseload has increased - 10 percent by August 1991, and 12 percent
by this April. Analysts from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, the agency
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that will formally evaluate Project Success, say they cannot yet determine how well the
program is functioning from available statistics. Official results have not been released
(Arkansas Gazene, 6/24/91; U.S. News and World Report, 4/20/92).
State officials also report that funding shortages make the program's enrollment require-
ments largely toothless. In March 1992, only 4,092 of Arkansas's 26,858 AFDC families
were "active" in Project Success (U.S. News and World Report, 4/20/92).
And despite Clinton's claim that welfare reform works if you "apply sanctions to enforce
it," Arkansas's sanctions are, as Clinton employees acknowledge, also toothless. In 1991,
the state dropped an average of just 203 cases a month (less than 1 percent of all those on
AFDC), numbers which are already inflated because new welfare families replace those
who leave the rolls. Actual monthly benefits cutbacks come to just $30 or $40 dollars, and
when asked if such a sanction is sufficient to encourage compliance with the program, one
Arkansas official admits: "probably not" (U.S. News and World Report, 4/20/92).
Arkansas: Still Poor and Mismanaged After All These Years
Despite a major, Clinton-engineered reorganization at the Arkansas Department of Human
Services, the state's largest agency and the one responsible for welfare, administrative
costs have grown by more than 3,000 percent since 1983 (state budgets, 1983 and 1991).
Clinton's frequent mid-year budget problems were once so severe that he publicly resisted
Federally-imposed tax changes designed to relieve the poor. In 1986, a new Federal law
prohibited Arkansas (and any other state) from charging a sales tax on items bought with
food stamps. The law required that this regressive and punitive practice be abolished in
Arkansas's next legislative session, no later than October 1987. Clinton initially cancelled
an otherwise planned special legislative session specifically to avoid losing revenue from
the food stamp tax. He then decided to go ahead with the special session - but only after
his lawyer found a loophole in the federal statute through which only 2 regular session (not
specials) would trigger the exemption requirement.
On April 14, 1987 - 2,190 days after he became governor - Clinton finally exempted
food stamps from his sales tax and complied with Federal law. But the bill he signed made
clear that the change was to take effect on the last possible day: October 1. And it also
included an automatic revocation if Federal law should change: "The tax exemption pro-
vided by section 11 of this Act shall expire if the exemption becomes no longer required
for full participation in the food stamp program and the Special Supplemental Food Pro-
gram for Women, Infants and Children" (Pine Bluff Commercial, 2/8/86; Arkansas Demo-
crar, 2/7/86; Arkansas Gazene, 4/11/86; Aricansas Act 1033, approved 4/14/87).
Nearly 1 in 5 Arkansans lives in poverty. A full 19.8 percent of all Arkansas residents live
below the poverty line - up from 19 percent in 1980, and one of the four worst state aver-
ages in the country (Arkanses Gazene, 9/20/91 and U.S. Bureau of the Census). The Ar-
kansas Gazene (9/22/91) cites a 1991 study finding that more than half the state's black
residents - 53 percent - live in poverty.
Speech Card
July 30, 1992
WOMEN
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EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN
"
we celebrate the many unique and vital
contributions that women have made to our nation
[E] very aspect of our national life has been enriched
by the creativity, energy and leadership of women
President Bush
March 25, 1991
President Bush's policies means economic opportunities.
President Bush has strengthened employment
opportunities for women by signing the 1991 Civil
Rights Act.
President Bush pushed for a sound child care program.
Challenged Congress to pass his key child care
proposals -- and won. This new law ensures that
parents -- not government -- make the choice of
who cares for their children.
Defeated congressional liberals who sought burdensome
regulation of small, private child care centers --
potentially regulating grandmothers -- and religious
institutions now providing good, affordable child care.
Made child care affordable for lower-income families
through tax credits of up to $1,000 for each child
under the age of four. Families in the program will
receive $31 billion in direct payments and tax credits
over the next five years.
President Bush eliminated the "glass ceiling" in government.
President Bush appointed 56 women to senior policy-
making positions. of these women, three are in the
Cabinet: Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin, Secretary of
Commerce Barbara Franklin, and U.S. Trade
Representative Carla Hills.
Women hold key leadership posts in the Bush campaign.
Women in senior posts in President Bush's reelection
campaign include Deputy Campaign Director Mary Matalin;
Press Secretary Torie Clarke; National Coalitions
Director Mimi Dawson; and Deputy Communications
Director Leslie Goodman.
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President Bush promotes better health for women.
President Bush increased funding for the prevention of
breast and cervical cancer by 24 percent in fiscal 1993
- to a record $515 million.
The Bush Administration expanded Medicare to help pay
for mammograms. About 5.3 million women are expected to
received these benefits in fiscal 1992.
Marilyn Quayle, wife of the Vice President, is a
national leader in raising public awareness about
breast cancer. Her efforts induced Congress to approve
a program making mammograms and "pap" tests available
to poor women.
President Bush launches women's health research initiative.
President Bush proposed and implemented the largest-
ever study of women's health. The initiative will track
140,000 women to evaluate approaches to prevent cancer,
heart disease and osteoporosis.
President Bush appointed Surgeon General Antonio C. Novello, M.D.
Appointed by President Bush, the Surgeon General is an
outspoken advocate for women's health issues and
initiatives.
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CLINTON: FUTURE FOR ARKANSAS WOMEN DIM
Clinton's "glass ceiling" is intact in Arkansas.
With Clinton as governor, according to an Arkansas
Gazette study, women suffered widespread discrimination
in both pay and position in Arkansas' state government.
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Men held 80 percent of state jobs earning more
than $43,000 a year - and 65 percent of top
management positions.
Only three women serve in Clinton's 17-member cabinet,
according to a 1992 report of the National Women's
Political Caucus - 17.5 percent, compared with a
national average among the states of 23.3 percent.
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Clinton ranked 32nd in a survey of the cabinets
of 43 state governors. [The Associated Press,
4/7/92]
Clinton's Arkansas lags in firms owned by women.
Arkansas ranks 40th among the 50 states in the number
of businesses owned by women. [1987 survey of women-
owned business enterprises, U.S. Bureau of the Census]
Arkansas Mothers: "Single" Very Often Means "Poor"
41.2 percent of Arkansas' households headed by women
live in poverty. [1990 United States Census]
More than half (52.1 percent) of female-headed families
with children under 18 years of age live in poverty --
as do two-thirds of female-headed families with
children under 5. [1990 United States Census]
In Clinton's Arkansas, some people are more equal than others.
Clinton endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment - but he
has never signed a civil rights law in Arkansas. There
is none. [The Associated Press, 3/14/79; Time, 4/13/92]
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ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENTS WITH RUSSIA
Historic Agreement: The agreement today between President
Bush and President Yeltsin represents a historic arms accord,
following closely on the heels of the 1991 Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty (START). The new accord provides for major
cuts and schedules to achieve these cuts by the end of the
century in strategic weapons long-seen by each side as the
greatest threat to stability.
-- By 1999, the United States is scheduled to have 4,250
strategic warheads. Russia will have 3,800. By 2003,
the U.S. will have reduced its warheads further to 3,500,
while Russia will have cut warheads to 3,000.
-- The new agreement cuts those nuclear warheads that have
been the greatest source of concern and instability on
each side: for the United States, Russia's heavy, land-
based SS-18 missiles each of which carries ten nuclear
warheads; and for Russia, the United States' arsenal of
submarine-launched ballistic missiles, long-seen by the
Russians as a source of nuclear competition.
Culmination of Bush Initiative: The new accord was made
possible by President Bush's vision and initiative in the wake
of the failed Moscow coup and the successful completion of the
START accord. Recognizing the opportunity for new cuts with
the emergence of Russian democracy, President Bush won
Russia's assent to eliminate tens of thousands of nuclear
weapons no longèr needed by either Russia or America. Now,
just eight months later, Presidents Bush and Yeltsin have
concluded the agreement, with new cuts paving the way to a new
age of global democracy.
Peace through Strength: President Bush's successes are a
vindication of Reagan-Bush peace through strength policies.
Presidents Reagan and Bush strengthened America's nuclear
deterrent in the U.S. and Europe. They forced the Soviet
Union to take a hard look and American and European resolve,
and they forced the Soviets to negotiate the first agreements
that led to the removal of nuclear weapons. President Bush
maintained pressure on former Soviet leader Gorbachev to
conclude a START agreement, which for the first time required
some cuts in strategic nuclear weapons. Then, having
supported the emergence of Russian democracy, President Bush
put his experience and vision to work to achieve new, major
cuts.
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Speech Card
July 30, 1992
DEFENSE
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DEFENDING AMERICA
"[I]f you ask me what gives you the most pride or
pleasure out of having been President, I take pride
that it was the leadership of the United States that
has diminished for our children the threat of nuclear
war."
President Bush
April 27, 1992
Having drastically reduced the threat of nuclear war and
defeated aggression in the Persian Gulf, President Bush is
restructuring our armed forces to meet new challenges, including
those posed by dictators like Saddam Hussein who threaten our
vital interests.
These reductions are being realized by dramatic changes in
force structure such as cuts in those areas that are vestiges of
cold war confrontation while maintaining forces needed for rapid
response, as was the case in the Persian Gulf crisis.
President Bush is restructuring our peacetime armed forces.
Through planned reductions, our forces will be cut down
to the smallest acceptable level, a "base force" below
which further reductions would not be prudent.
In his 1992 State of the Union address, President Bush
proposed a $50 billion reduction in defense spending
over the next five years, in addition to reductions
already planned. As the President said:
"These cuts are deep, and you must know my
resolve: this deep, and no deeper. To do less
would be insensible to progress, but to do
more would be ignorant of history." (January
28, 1992)
This downsizing of the American military will reduce
defense outlays by fiscal 1997 to about 3.4 percent of
our gross national product and 16 percent of total
federal outlays - the lowest levels since before World
War II.
[DEFENSE - Page 1]
President Bush is forging strategic modernization of the
military.
President Bush has maintained a modern, capable and effective
strategic triad of strategic ballistic missiles, submarines and
bombers.
The Trident submarine program is fixed at 18 submarines
and deployment has begun on its new missile, the D-5.
Continued development and flight testing of the B-2
bomber has firmly planted the United States aerospace
industry in a new era of low-observable technology.
The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile,
proven during years of deployment, will be upgraded.
President Bush is reorienting the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Reoriented the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to
defend Americans and our allies and friends against
limited attacks or accidental launches - whatever their
source.
President Bush has ended the nuclear nightmare.
After nine years of negotiations, President Bush signed
the historic Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START),
which cuts the most destabilizing long-range Soviet
nuclear warheads in half.
Building on START, President Bush achieved the most
significant arms reduction agreement in history, ending
the nuclear nightmare for ourselves and our children.
President Bush won agreement with Russian President
Yeltsin to reduce both nations' stockpiles of long-
range nuclear warheads to historically low levels -
more than one-half below START levels - and also, by
the year 2003, to eliminate all land-based, multiple-
warhead missiles, the most dangerous and destabilizing
nuclear weapons.
This proposed treaty would eliminate those nuclear
weapons most likely to have been used in a preëmptive
first strike.
President Bush achieved Russian agreement to develop a
concept for global protection against limited ballistic
missile attack, including exploration of a new legal
regime to enable us to defend America, our allies, and
the community of nations from missile attacks by rogue
nations.
[DEFENSE - Page 2]
President Bush has made giant strides in arms control.
President Bush:
Signed an agreement with the Soviet Union to destroy 90
percent of each nation's declared stockpiles of
chemical weapons within 10 years. No new chemical
weapons will be produced.
Spearheaded United Nations efforts to destroy Saddam
Hussein's nuclear capability.
Strengthened export controls to thwart the spread of
technology used to manufacture weapons of mass
destruction in developing countries.
President Bush made us proud with Operation Desert Storm.
President Bush:
Forged an unprecedented international coalition to
battle tyranny in the Persian Gulf, proving that naked
aggression will not stand.
Shaped alliances among both allies and former
antagonists to defeat the Iraqi army in a 100-hour land
war.
Seriously constrained Iraq's potential to build a
nuclear weapon. Iraq no longer poses a serious threat
to its neighbors.
Made us proud to be Americans. Showed America's "can
do" spirit. Vindicated the Reagan-Bush "Peace through
Strength" defense buildup of the 1980s. Affirmed
America's preëminence as the most technologically
advanced nation in the world.
[DEFENSE - Page 3]
CLINTON: NO EXPERIENCE, WILL GUT DEFENSE
Clinton has no credible experience in either defense or
foreign policy. His only hands-on experience was as an intern
nearly 25 years ago on the staff of Arkansas Senator J. William
Fulbright, a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Clinton would decimate America's defenses.
Clinton plans to cut the defense budget by more than
one-third ($100 billion) - cuts twice as deep as those
proposed by President Bush.
Clinton's national defense proposals are precisely what
Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said earlier would put the military "right back
to the '70s" - before the Reagan-Bush defense buildup
that made Cold War victory possible.
Clinton waffled on the most important national security issue in
years - whether to kick Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army out of
Kuwait.
"I guess I would have voted with the majority (in
Congress) if it was a close vote," Clinton said. "But I
agree with the arguments the minority made."
Could Clinton, as a commander-in-chief who ducked the Vietnam War
draft, ever call on young men and women to defend our country?
During the Vietnam War, Clinton cleverly rigged it so
he would not be drafted. He let others go into combat
in his place.
In 1969, as a graduate student in England, Clinton
organized Vietnam War protests - one of them outside
the American embassy in London.
Clinton also traveled in Europe to confer with "peace"
activists.
Clinton escaped the draft for two crucial months during
the Vietnam War by promising to enroll in an ROTC
program at a school his mother later said he never
really planned to attend.
Clinton admitted he ducked the draft for political gain.
Clinton escaped military induction for good when he got
a high number in the draft lottery. Afterwards, Clinton
wrote to his ROTC recruiter acknowledging that he had
"deceived" the recruiter, thanked him for "saving me
from the draft, " and asserted that he had done it all
"to maintain my political viability within the system."
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Both Clinton and Gore have backgrounds as militant protesters
against the Vietnam War.
Clinton manipulated military service for politics
- the same reason Gore enlisted in the Army.
Gore's enlistment was calculated to save his father's
political future.
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The elder Gore was in a tough Senate reelection
fight he ultimately lost to Republican Rep. Bill
Brock, a Navy veteran. The senior Gore's campaign
did not need a draft-dodging son fleeing to
Canada.
"[Gore, Jr. was] militantly anti-war and did not want
to go into the army, " David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-
winning author, wrote later. "But he was faced with a
terrible choice: to stay out and avoid the draft in a
state like Tennessee would cost the Senate one of its
leading doves.
In fact, Pauline [his mother], who
was bitterly and militantly anti-war told young Al she
would be glad to go to Canada with him.' " [Harper's,
January 1971]
When asked by an uncle why he was so anti-war Gore,
Jr., responded: "I guess
it's my Baptist
religion. His uncle said, "I never knew there was
anything in the Baptist religion against war
Gore answered, "What about the sixth commandment, Thou
shalt not kill. [Halberstam, Harper's, January 1971]
While overseas, the younger Gore wrote repentant,
melodramatic letters home.
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"When, and if, I get home from Vietnam," one
letter said, "I'm going to divinity school to
atone for my sins. " Vanity Fair, May 1988
Gore, Jr. never saw combat. He was a newspaper reporter
with an engineering brigade near Saigon.
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Speech Card
July 30, 1992
OPERATION DESERT STORM
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OPERATION DESERT STORM
"We fought not for a narrow interest, but for a noble
ideal. And we fought to liberate a nation, to defeat
an aggressor who brought misery - who brings it still -
to many millions of innocent people."
President Bush
July 25, 1992
President Bush took decision action against Saddam Hussein. He
set clear goals for U.S. forces, then met them with minimum loss
of American lives.
President Bush's prompt and decisive action to defeat Saddam
Hussein and the Iraqi army:
Protected American interests in the Middle East by
preventing the region and the industrialized world from
being held hostage to Saddam Hussein's demands and the
threat of potential nuclear blackmail.
Liberated Kuwait.
Secured the safety of Persian Gulf oil supplies.
Affirmed America's "can-do" spirit and the
technological superiority of its armed forces.
President Bush demonstrated experienced leadership.
President Bush's experienced international leadership was
crucial.
The President forged an unprecedented 33-nation
coalition that stopped Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army from
invading Saudi Arabia.
President Bush shaped alliances among allies, friends
and former antagonists to defeat Saddam Hussein's war
machine in a short, decisive war ending with a 100-hour
ground campaign.
The Iraqi dictator's ejection from Kuwait restored
security and stability to the region - proving that
aggression will not stand, and that the United Nations
can be an effective institution for resolving regional
conflicts.
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President Bush demonstrated foresight.
The President:
Understood - before other American leaders did - that
Saddam Hussein's aggression was a unique threat to
American interests and security.
Moved decisively to stop Saddam Hussein in his tracks.
Rejected economic sanctions and other half-hearted,
inadequate measures proposed by congressional Democrats
and, instead, led the battle to destroy Saddam
Hussein's ability to wage war.
Achieved a decisive postwar settlement that, in one
stroke, laid Iraq open to destruction of its non-
conventional weapons while avoiding a protracted
American military occupation.
Demanded a new standard for burden-sharing between
America and her allies. American troops were uniquely
prepared to restore security and defeat Saddam Hussein
- and our allies for the first time reimbursed America
for her sacrifices.
Seriously contained Iraq's potential to build a nuclear
weapon - so that Iran no longer poses a serious threat
to its Middle East neighbors.
President Bush restored America's "can do" spirit.
President Bush's defeat of Saddam Hussein proved the wisdom
of the Reagan-Bush "Peace through Strength" military buildup of
the 1980s. America's victory over Saddam Hussein made us proud to
be Americans and eliminated the last vestiges of Vietnam-era
defeatism from American society.
The heroism and resourcefulness of America's fighting men
and women in the Persian Gulf demonstrated yet again that our
country's character and technology are unique and second to none.
Laser-guided missile technology, made possible by
American investment and know-how, achieved breath-
taking accuracy. Saddam Hussein's military command and
communication centers were destroyed, and his Scud
missiles rendered ineffective - all the while putting a
limited number of Americans at risk.
The men and women in our armed forces epitomize the
same "can-do" American spirit President Bush
exemplified in World War II combat as the Navy's then
youngest fighter pilot.
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CLINTON WAFFLES ON OPERATION DESERT STORM
Clinton flip-flopped on Desert Storm.
After Desert Storm, Clinton said: "I supported the
Persian Gulf war because I thought it was right and in
our national interest, just as I opposed the Vietnam
War because I thought it was wrong and not in our
national interest." [U.S. News & World Report, 3/23/92]
Before Desert Storm, Clinton said: "I agree with the
arguments of the people in the minority on the
resolution - that we should give sanctions more time
and maybe even explore a full-scale embargo
before we go to war." [The Associated Press in The Pine
Bluff Commercial, 1/15/91]
The Arkansas press knows the REAL Clinton
"One of the best-kept secrets of Mr. Clinton's
presidential campaign is that he's said he would have
sided with those who opposed the president at the
time. [Paul Greenberg, editor of The Pine Bluff
Commercial, in a column in The Washington Times,
8/13/91]
Those seeking Bill Clinton's unwavering support for a
crucial decision on war or peace need only meet one
requirement: First win the war. Then he'll come through
100 percent. William Jefferson Clinton is not one to
desert a cause in its hour of victory." [Emphasis
added] [Editorial, "The Pine Bluff Commercial,"
2/21/92]
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Speech Card
July 30, 1992
FOREIGN POLICY
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LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD
"For more than 45 years, the highest responsibility of
nine American presidents, Democrats and Republicans,
was to wage and win the Cold War. It was my privilege
to work with Ronald Reagan on these broad programs, and
now to lead the American people in winning peace by
embracing the people so recently freed from tyranny to
welcome them into the community of democratic nations."
President Bush
April 1, 1992
President Bush is the preëminent leader of a freer world.
Our country is at peace, the only superpower on earth -
thanks to President Bush.
We won the Cold War.
President Bush's leadership forged a 33-nation coalition of
friends and former enemies that drove the Iraqi army from Kuwait.
His persistent dedication in the cause of peace has brought
us the greatest arms reduction breakthrough in our lifetimes. No
longer do our children fear nuclear war.
From Panamá to Eastern Europe and the republics of the
former Soviet Union, President Bush is the world's foremost
champion of freedom and democracy.
Operation Desert Storm
President Bush - before many other world leaders -
understood the threat to world peace posed by Iraqi aggression,
and he acted with calm decision to reverse it.
The President's decisive actions stood in sharp
contrast to the doubt-ridden Democrat leadership in
Congress. His decisive action in the Middle East saved
the world from the threat of nuclear terrorism and
guaranteed the safety of Persian Gulf oil supplies.
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Ending the Cold War was a triumph of freedom.
President Bush has been on the cutting edge of world change.
President Bush's clear-eyed diplomacy rapidly and
peacefully ended the 47-year old Cold War.
President Bush:
Transformed United States-Soviet relations from an era
of Cold War confrontation to one of unprecedented
engagement, cooperation and partnership. America,
along with her allies and the former Soviet Union, is
charting a post-cold war Europe.
Built a new relationship with Russia, Ukraine, the
Baltic nations, and the other former Soviet republics
to honor nuclear arms reduction agreements with the
former Soviet Union, secure democratic reforms and
establish market economies.
Provided critical support to bring about democratic
change in the former Soviet republics and in Eastern
Europe.
Orchestrated extraordinary diplomacy to achieve a rapid
and peaceful German unification without triggering a
crisis with the former Soviet Union.
With the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, is reducing our
military presence in Europe by half while strongly
supporting NATO.
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Prospects for a major conventional war in Europe
have been nearly eliminated.
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As Russian President Boris Yeltsin said, "We know
one thing.
We shall not fight against each
other. "
President Bush demonstrated leadership, foresight
President Bush:
Was the first Western leader to announce, in May 1989,
a plan of action to achieve "a Europe whole and free. "
Was the first to declare that the Free World should
move "beyond containment" and bring the Soviet Union
peacefully into the world community of nations.
Was the first statesman to call for economic assistance
to Poland, and the first outside of Germany to champion
German reunification.
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President Bush championed democracy for the former Soviet Union.
President Bush:
Pressured and encouraged Soviet President Gorbachev to
implement dramatic human rights and economic reforms
that brought peaceful democratic revolution to the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Led the international effort to help transform the
Soviet economy from centralized planning to market
economics.
Steadfastly supported Boris Yeltsin's brave stand for
freedom and democracy against a coup by reactionary
Soviet leaders.
Worked behind the scenes with Gorbachev and Yelstin to
secure Baltic independence and the liberation of
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia from Soviet rule.
Defended the rights of refusniks and others who wished
to emigrate freely, leading to passage of a landmark
1991 Soviet law of free emigration.
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As a result of the President's pressure on
Gorbachev, hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews,
pentacostals and others were able to emigrate to
the United States, Israel and other Western
countries.
President Bush ended the nuclear nightmare.
President Bush:
After nine years of negotiations, signed the historic
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which cuts the
most destabilizing long-range Soviet nuclear warheads
in half and provides the framework for further cuts in
strategic nuclear arms.
Building on START, achieved the most significant arms
reduction agreement in history and virtually ended the
threat of nuclear holocaust for ourselves and our
children.
Won agreement with Russian President Yeltsin to reduce
both nations' stockpiles of long-range nuclear warheads
to historically low levels - more than one-half below
START levels - and also, by the year 2003, to eliminate
all land-based, multiple-warhead missiles, the most
dangerous and destabilizing nuclear weapons.
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This proposed treaty would eliminate those nuclear
weapons most likely to have been used in a
preëmptive first strike.
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Achieved Russian agreement to develop a concept for
global protection against limited ballistic missile
attack, including exploration of a new legal regime to
enable us to defend America, our allies, and the
community of nations from missile attacks by rogue
nations.
Reoriented the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to
defend America and her allies and friends against
limited attacks or accidental launches - whatever their
source.
President Bush has gained arms reduction agreements that reduce
the threat of nuclear war.
President Bush:
Signed an agreement with the Soviet Union to destroy
about 90 percent of each nation's declared stockpiles
of chemical weapons within 10 years. No new chemical
weapons will be produced.
Spearheaded United Nations efforts to destroy Saddam
Hussein's nuclear capability.
Created the first-ever U.S. export controls to stop the
spread of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons
technology.
President Bush is leading the fight against international
terrorism.
President Bush:
Expanded counter-terrorism cooperation with other
countries, discouraging all nations from direct and
indirect support of terrorism.
Won freedom for western hostages in Lebanon without
compromising American principles.
Captured and brought to justice in U.S. courts,
for the first time, a terrorist who had threatened
Americans overseas.
Spearheaded a United Nations Security Council
resolution calling on Libya to hand over two suspects
indicted by the Justice Department for the bombing of
Pan Am flight 103.
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President Bush is winning the war against drug trafficking.
President Bush:
Convened a first-ever drug summit in 1991 in Cartagena,
Colombia, with leaders of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru -
and a second with leaders of seven nations in San
Antonio in 1992.
Organized new coalitions with Latin American nations to
wage war against drug traffickers where they live.
Destroyed drug crops in the fields and deployed United
States personnel, equipment and intelligence to
interdict drug traffickers.
Increased funding for international drug control
efforts by more than 152 percent - from $304 million to
$768 million.
President Bush is helping to bring about Middle East peace.
President Bush:
Brought about the first face-to-face talks ever held
between Israel and all of its Arab neighbors.
Strengthened the U.S. strategic relationship,
deploying American Patriot missile batteries to
defend Israeli cities.
Led the repeal of the United Nations resolution
equating Zionism with racism.
President Bush is a world leader in resolving regional conflicts.
President Bush:
Turned the United Nations into an effective institution
to resolve international conflicts.
President Bush is restoring democracy in Central America.
President Bush:
With Operation Just Cause, restored democracy to
Panamá. Captured and convicted dictator Manuél Noriega
for international drug trafficking.
Helped bring about free elections in Nicaragua and
supported President Violeta Chamorro to bring peace and
democracy to that war-torn country.
Worked with the United Nations, regional partners, and
El Salvador's President Alfredo Cristiani to end El
Salvador's civil war.
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CLINTON HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE
Clinton displayed dangerous meandering of opinion on the Soviet
coup.
Clinton criticized President Bush's policy before the
Soviet coup, saying Bush stayed with Soviet President
Gorbachev too long. [Clinton speech, Foreign Policy
Association of New York, 4/1/92]
Two weeks prior to the coup, Clinton said President
Bush "was right on the Gulf and he's handling the
Soviets well today. [The Washington Times, 8/1/91]
During the coup, Clinton timidly reacted to the
conspirators, saying, "I don't know if they can be
trusted." [The Seattle Times, 8/21/91]
Not exactly the words of a courageous leader.
Clinton said, "I think people like me
shouldn't say much right now until we find
out what's happening." [The Associated
Press, 8/21/91]
He described the event as "disturbing." [The Associated
Press, 8/19/91]
Clinton's home-state newspapers put it best:
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"Clinton's presidential ambitions have always been
ludicrous, but they were never more so than
Monday. Just a day after he said that Bush should
turn his attention from foreign policy to the home
front, the sponsors of the in the Soviet Union
demonstrated why this country needs a president
capable of comprehending a world picture.' " [John
Starr, managing editor, The Arkansas Democrat,
8/21/91]
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"But despite having all the aforementioned
[foreign policy] credentials, Clinton was largely
mum. He didn't speak out Monday or Tuesday on the
in the same clear fashion he did on the issue of
abortion on Sunday on national television."
[Column by Jeffrey Stinson, The Arkansas Gazette,
8/25/91]
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Clinton flip-flopped on Desert Storm.
After Desert Storm, Bill Clinton said: "I supported the
Persian Gulf war because I thought it was right and in
our national interest, just as I opposed the Vietnam
War because I thought it was wrong and not in our
national interest." [U.S. News & World Report, 3/23/92]
Before Desert Storm, Clinton said: "I agree with the
arguments of the people in the minority on the
resolution - that we should give sanctions more time
and maybe even explore a full-scale embargo
before we go to war." [The Associated Press in The Pine
Bluff Commercial, 1/15/91]
Here's the REAL Bill Clinton.
"One of the best-kept secrets of Mr. Clinton's
presidential campaign is that he's said he would have
sided with those who opposed the president at the
time.' [Paul Greenberg, editor of The Pine Bluff
Commercial, in a column in The Washington Times,
8/13/91]
"Those seeking Bill Clinton's unwavering support for a
crucial decision on war or peace need only meet one
requirement: First win the war. Then he'll come through
100 percent. William Jefferson Clinton is not one to
desert a cause in its hour of victory." [Emphasis
added] [Editorial, The Pine Bluff Commercial, 2/2/92]
Gore is a Teddy Kennedy ultra-liberal.
In 1987, The National Journal ranked Gore's
foreign policy votes 81 percent liberal and 0
percent conservative.
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In contrast, Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn scored 41
percent liberal and 57 percent conservative.
Gore opposes SDI.
In 1991, Gore opposed a Sam Nunn-proposed limited
missile system to protect the continental United
States from an accidental or rogue attack by a
Third World regime.
Hillary Clinton was a financial angel of radical, left-wing
groups.
As director and chair of the board of directors of
the New World Foundation in 1988, Hillary Clinton
contributed $5,000 to the extremist CISPES (The
Committee in Support of the People of El
Salvador).
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CISPES was founded by the brother of El
Salvador's Communist Party boss to
mobilize American support for the FMLN,
the major communist guerilla
organization in El Salvador. [The
American Spectator, August 1992]
Also in 1988, Hillary Clinton "lavished $20,000 on
the Christic Institute, the far-left crackpots who
flacked the secret team' theory, alleging a
massive, 20-year conspiracy by CIA and Special
Forces operatives to do everything from run a
heroin ring out of Indochina in the sixties to
topple the Sandinistas in the eighties." [The
American Spectator, August 1992]
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Madrid, Spain)
For Immediate Release
October 30, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT OPENING SESSION OF THE
MIDDLE EAST PEACE CONFERENCE
Salon de las Columnas
Royal Palace
Madrid, Spain
10:38 A.M. (L)
THE PRESIDENT: Prime Minister Gonzalez, and President
Gorbachev, Excellencies. Let me begin by thanking the government
of Spain for hosting this historic gathering. With short notice,
the Spanish people and their leaders stepped forward to make
available this magnificent setting. Let us hope that this
conference of Madrid will mark the beginning of a new chapter in
the history of the Middle East.
I also want to express at the outset my pleasure at the
presence of our fellow co-sponsor, President Gorbachev. At a
time of momentous challenges at home, President Gorbachev and his
senior associates have demonstrated their intent to engage the
Soviet Union as a force for positive change in the Middle East.
This sends a powerful signal to all those who long for peace.
We come to Madrid on a mission of hope -- to begin work
on a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement to the conflict
in the Middle East. We come here to seek peace for a part of the
world that in the long memory of man has known far too much
hatred, anguish and war. I can think of no endeavor more worthy
-- or more necessary.
Our objective must be clear and straightforward. It is
not simply to end the state of war in the Middle East and replace
it with a state of nonbelligerency. This is not enough; this
would not last. Rather, we seek peace, real peace. And by real
peace I mean treaties. Security. Diplomatic relations.
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Economic relations. Trade. Investment. Cultural Exchange.
Even tourism.
What we seek is a Middle East where vast resources are
no longer devoted to armaments. A Middle East where young people
no longer have to dedicate and, all too often, give their lives
to combat. A Middle East no longer victimized by fear and
terror. A Middle East where normal men and women lead normal
lives.
Let no one mistake the magnitude of this challenge.
The struggle we seek to end has a long and painful history.
Every life lost -- every outrage, every act of violence -- is
etched deep in the hearts and history of the people of this
region. Theirs is a history that weighs heavily against hope.
And yet, history need not be man's master.
I expect that some will say that what I am suggesting
is impossible. But think back. Who back in 1945 would have
thought that France and Germany, bitter rivals for nearly a
century, would become allies in the aftermath of World War II?
And who two years ago would have predicted that the Berlin Wall
would come down? And who in the early 1960s would have believed
that the Cold War would come to a peaceful end, replaced by
cooperation -- exemplified by the fact that the United States and
the Soviet Union are here today -- not as rivals, but as
partners, as Prime Minister Gonzalez pointed out.
No, peace in the Middle East need not be a dream.
Peace is possible. The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty is striking
proof that former adversaries can make and sustain peace. And
moreover, parties in the Middle East have respected agreements,
not only in the Sinai, but on the Golan Heights as well.
The fact that we are all gathered here today for the
first time attests to a new potential for peace. Each of us has
taken an important step toward real peace by meeting here in
Madrid. All the formulas on paper, all the pious declarations in
the world won't bring peace if there is no practical mechanism
for moving ahead.
Peace will only come as the result of direct
negotiations, compromise, give-and-take. Peace cannot be imposed
from the outside by the United States or anyone else. While we
will continue to do everything possible to help the parties
overcome obstacles, peace must come from within.
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We come here to Madrid as realists. We do not expect
peace to be negotiated in a day, or a week, or a month, or even a
year. It will take time; indeed, it should take time -- time for
parties so long at war to learn to talk to one another, to listen
to one another. Time to heal old wounds and build trust. In
this quest, time need not be the enemy of progress.
What we envision is a process of direct negotiations
proceeding along two tracks, one between Israel and the Arab
states; the other between Israel and the Palestinians.
Negotiations are to be conducted on the basis of U.N. Security
Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
The real work will not happen here in the plenary
session, but in direct bilateral negotiations. This conference
cannot impose a settlement on the participants or veto
agreements; and just as important, the conference can only be
reconvened with the consent of every participant. Progress is in
the hands of the parties who must live with the consequences.
Soon after the bilateral talks commence, parties will
convene as well to organize multilateral negotiations. These
will focus on issues that cross national boundaries and are
common to the region: arms control, water, refugee concerns,
economic development. Progress in these fora is not intended as
a substitute for what must be decided in the bilateral talks; to
the contrary, progress in the multilateral issues can help create
an atmosphere in which long-standing bilateral disputes can more
easily be settled.
For Israel and the Palestinians, a framework already
exists for diplomacy. Negotiations will be conducted in phases,
beginning with talks on interim self-government arrangements. We
aim to reach agreement within one year. And once agreed, interim
self-government arrangements will last for five years; beginning
the third year, negotiations will commence on permanent status.
No one can say with any precision what the end result will be; in
our view, something must be developed, something acceptable to
Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan, that gives the Palestinian
people meaningful control over their own lives and fate and
provides for the acceptance and security of Israel.
We can all appreciate that both Israelis and
Palestinians are worried about compromise, worried about
compromising even the smallest point for fear it becomes a
precedent for what really matters. But no one should avoid
compromise on interim arrangements for a simple reason: nothing
agreed to now will prejudice permanent status negotiations. To
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the contrary, these subsequent negotiations will be determined on
their own merits.
Peace cannot depend upon promises alone. Real peace --
lasting peace -- must be based upon security for all states and
peoples, including Israel. For too long the Israeli people have
lived in fear, surrounded by an unaccepting Arab world. Now is
the ideal moment for the Arab world to demonstrate that attitudes
have changed, that the Arab world is willing to live in peace
with Israel and make allowances for Israel's reasonable security
needs.
We know that peace must also be based on fairness. In
the absence of fairness, there will be no legitimacy -- no
stability. This applies above all to the Palestinian people,
many of whom have known turmoil and frustration above all else.
Israel now has an opportunity to demonstrate that it is willing
to enter into a new relationship with its Palestinian neighbors;
one predicated upon mutual respect and cooperation.
Throughout the Middle East, we seek a stable and
enduring settlement. We've not defined what this means; indeed,
I make these points with no map showing where the final borders
are to be drawn. Nevertheless, we believe territorial compromise
is essential for peace. Boundaries should reflect the quality of
both security and political arrangements. The United States is
prepared to accept whatever the parties themselves find
acceptable. What we seek, as I said on March 6, is a solution
said on March 6, that meets the twin tests of fairness and
security.
I know -- I expect we all know -- that these
negotiations will not be easy. I know, too, that these
negotiations will not be smooth. There will be disagreement and
criticism, setbacks -- who knows -- possibly interruptions.
Negotiation and compromise are always painful. Success will
escape us if we focus solely upon what is being given up.
We must fix our vision on what real peace would bring.
Peace, after all, means not just avoiding war and the costs of
preparing for it. The Middle East is blessed with great
resources: physical, financial and, yes, above all, human. New
opportunities are within reach -- if we only have the vision to
embrace them.
To succeed, we must recognize that peace is in the
interest of all parties -- war, absolute advantage of none. The
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alternative to peace in the Middle East is a future of violence
and waste and tragedy. In any future war lurks the danger of
weapons of mass destruction. As we learned in the Gulf war,
modern arsenals make it possible to attack urban areas -- to put
the lives of innocent men, women and children at risk, to
transform city streets, schools and children's playgrounds into
battlefields.
Today, we can decide to take a different path to the
future -- to avoid conflict. I call upon all parties to avoid
unilateral acts, be they words or deeds, that would invite
retaliation or, worse yet, prejudice or even threaten this
process itself. I call upon all parties to consider taking
measures that will bolster mutual confidence and trust -- steps
that signal a sincere commitment to reconciliation.
I want to say something about the role of the United
States of America. We played an active role in making this
conference possible; both the Secretary of State, Jim Baker, and
I will play an active role in helping the process succeed.
Toward this end, we've provided written assurances to Israel, to
Syria, to Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians. In the spirit of
openness and honesty, we will brief all parties on the assurances
that we have provided to the other. We're prepared to extend
guarantees, provide technology and support, if that is what peace
requires. And we will call upon our friends and allies in Europe
and in Asia to join with us in providing resources so that peace
and prosperity go hand in hand.
Outsiders can assist, but in the end, it is up to the
peoples and governments of the Middle East to shape the future of
the Middle East. It is their opportunity and it is their
responsibility to do all that they can to take advantage of this
gathering, this historic gathering, and what it symbolizes and
what it promises.
No one should assume that the opportunity before us to
make peace will remain if we fail to seize the moment.
Ironically, this is an opportunity born of war -- the destruction
of past wars, the fear of future wars. The time has come to put
an end to war -- the time has come to choose peace.
Speaking for the American people, I want to reaffirm
that the United States is prepared to facilitate the search for
peace, to be a catalyst, as we've been in the past and as we've
been very recently. We seek only one thing, and this we seek not
for ourselves, but for the peoples of the area and particularly
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the children: that this and future generations of the Middle
East may know the meaning and blessing of peace.
We have seen too many generations of children whose
haunted eyes show only fear -- too many funerals for their
brothers and sisters, the mothers and fathers who died too soon
-- too much hatred, too little love. And if we cannot summon the
courage to lay down the past for ourselves, let us resolve to do
it for the children.
May God bless and guide the work of this conference,
and may this conference set us on the path of peace. Thank you.
(Applause.)
END
10:55 A.M. (L)
Speech Card
July 30, 1992
REASONS TO REELECT GEORGE BUSH
FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY
REASONS TO VOTE FOR GEORGE BUSH
LEADERSHIP
President Bush is a decorated war hero and a proven, experienced
leader.
George Bush is a decorated war hero - at the time, the
youngest naval pilot in history.
As a young businessman, George Bush took a risk, met a
payroll, and co-founded a successful company, Zapata
Petroleum.
As a Houston congressman, George Bush demonstrated that
"conservative" meant compassionate as he supported Open
Housing legislation.
As Republican National Committee Chairman, George Bush
guided the Republican Party through its toughest days.
As United Nations ambassador, George Bush faced down
America's enemies in a hostile forum.
As Liaison Officer to the People's Republic of China,
George Bush handled the new and fragile relations
between two powerful and fundamentally different
nations.
As Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, George
Bush helped rebuild a demoralized agency while
strengthening American intelligence capabilities.
As Vice President, George Bush:
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Faced down El Salvadoran death squads.
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Was intimately involved in securing placement of
the Pershing II Missiles in Europe.
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Headed the South Florida Task Force and the
Administration's efforts to reform burdensome
regulations.
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President Bush is preparing America for the 21st century.
His continued leadership means jobs and stronger, more
prosperous families secure in their communities and in
the world.
A vote for President Bush is a vote for traditional family
values.
President Bush shares the traditional family values
Americans hold dear.
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He believes in safe crime-free neighborhoods and
the death penalty.
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He recognizes the sanctity of human life and
supports adoption as an alternative to abortion.
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He is revitalizing education through his America
2000 strategy to revitalize America's educational
system through parental choice, local control and
accountability, and schools that, while teaching
the basics well, develop better, more productive
methods of education.
President Bush's policies are helping us protect and nurture our
families and raise our children well.
He believes in traditional family values.
His programs help our communities fight crime.
His reforms are making our children the best-educated
in the world - and our workers the most productive.
President Bush wants to empower people, not government.
His programs offer hope, opportunity and jobs for all
Americans, and empower people - not government - to
make the important choices in life.
President Bush is the world's foremost statesman.
He is leader of the world's only superpower.
Unlike his opponent, he understands both the dangers
and the opportunities of this world in which we live.
Thanks to President Bush, Americans are safer today.
Because Presidents Reagan and Bush ended the Cold War,
we no longer live in fear of nuclear war - and more of
the world's people are free today than at any time in
history.
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JOBS AND THE ECONOMY
A vote for President Bush is a vote for prosperity.
Thanks to President Bush's policies, inflation and
interest rates are at their lowest levels in more than
two decades. Consumer-based inflation was only 3.1
percent in 1991 - the second lowest rate since 1967 -
and is expected to be even lower this year.
President Bush will hold the line on new taxes. Clinton will not.
President Bush learned that Congress cannot be trusted
to honor its word. Last March, the Democrat leadership
reneged on their promise and tried again to raise
taxes. President Bush stopped them dead in their tracks
with a veto.
A more prosperous America - the Misery Index cut in half
When the Democrats last controlled the White House, the
Misery Index (inflation rate + unemployment rate) was
20.5. Last year, it was only 10.8.
A vote for President Bush is a vote for more jobs.
More than 600,000 new jobs will be created this year
because President Bush forced Congress to pass the
$151-billion 1991 Surface Transportation Act to build
and repair highways, roads and bridges.
More than 500,000 new jobs will be created if Congress
enacts President Bush's economic growth plan, which
includes a cut in the capital gains tax and an
investment tax allowance.
A vote for President Bush is a vote for free trade and jobs.
President Bush believes open markets and free trade
mean jobs for American workers.
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Jobs related to international trade have grown
three times as much as those created at home.
The President believes protectionist policies would
take America back to the dark days of Smoot-Hawley,
which deepened and lengthened the Great Depression of
the 1930s.
Thanks to President Bush's leadership, America regained
its title as the world's leading exporter of goods and
services, exceeding both Germany and Japan.
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In 1991, America sold $422 billion in merchandise
to foreign markets, an all-time high and $28
billion more than the previous year.
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Exports accounted for nearly 70 percent of
America's economic growth between 1988 and 1990.
President Bush is breaking down barriers to
international trade with Canada and Mexico. He wants to
create hundreds of thousands of new export-related jobs
through a North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Thanks to President Bush, the American farm economy is strong.
Debts are down, assets up. The future is bright.
Over the last three years, the value of American farm
exports has been at the highest level in nearly a
decade, the second-highest in history.
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Forecasts are that American farm exports in
fiscal 1992 will rise $1.5 billion over fiscal
1991 levels.
The successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is the
President's Number One trade priority, with agriculture
as a critical component.
President Bush fights excessive regulation.
President Bush spurred economic growth and created new
jobs through a seven-month halt on new federal
regulations, which in the first three months alone
saved consumers as much as $20 billion - up to $300 a
year for the average American family - and is helping
small businesses to grow and create new jobs without
sacrificing health and safety.
Is saving lives and billions of dollars by accelerating
the approval process to make "breakthrough" drugs
available sooner to patients with life-threatening and
serious illnesses, such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease,
depression and cystic fibrosis.
Is pressing for sweeping reform of the civil justice
system to ease the enormous costs and burden of
litigation in federal courts.
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President Bush's initiative will lower litigation
costs and discourage frivolous lawsuits, all of
which result in a hidden "lawyer's tax" passed on
to consumers.
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STRONG FAMILIES, SECURE COMMUNITIES
A vote for President Bush is a vote for revitalized education.
George Bush is the education President.
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He is investing in America's children because
they are the future of this country. Education
is our best anti-poverty program, our strongest
defense program, and our most effective trade
program.
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President Bush's America 2000 education strategy
has been embraced by more than 1,100 communities
in 43 states.
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The key to President Bush's America 2000
education strategy is parental choice - parents
sending their children to public, private or
religious schools of their own choosing.
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President Bush proposed a "GI Bill for Children"
- $1,000 scholarships in parents' hands to make
choice real for half a million kids just as the
World War II GI Bill helped veterans attend
colleges of their own choice.
President Bush is expanding Head Start program to record levels.
President Bush doubled funds for Head Start and is
proposing the largest increase in the program's history
- $600 million for fiscal 1993 over the present $2.2
billion budget - to help a total of 780,000 needy
children.
President Bush is tough on crime.
President Bush is demanding that Congress pass his
anti-crime bill for a federal death penalty for heinous
crimes; reform of habeas corpus to reduce repetitive
and trivial appeals that delay justice by clogging the
courts; and reform of the exclusionary rule so
criminals can no longer escape justice through legal
loopholes.
President Bush believes a prison term must be
determined by the severity of the crime, not by the
availability of prison space.
President Bush fought for a new law stiffening
punishment for criminals who use guns in committing
crimes.
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President Bush won a landmark Supreme Court victory
that now permits the family of a murder victim to
testify before sentencing about the impact of the crime
on them.
President Bush is winning the war on drugs.
President Bush's National Drug Control Strategy -
interdiction, enforcement, prevention, education,
treatment and international efforts - has cut overall
drug use by 13 percent for all Americans, and by 27
percent for adolescents, the most important group in
the fight against drugs.
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"Occasional" cocaine use has dropped by 29
percent, and adolescent cocaine use fell by
more than 60 percent. [Source: Office of
National Drug Control Policy]
President Bush's environmental record is second to none.
In the Bush presidency, environmental protection is stronger
than ever. Whether measured by cleaner air or tougher
enforcement, President Bush is at the forefront of the toughest
environmental laws in the world.
President Bush believes that environmental laws must be
aggressively enforced and that polluters must pay for the damage
they do to our environment.
Clean Air Act. President Bush proposed and fought
successfully for the first major rewrite of the Clean
Air Act, which had been stalled in Congress for 13
years. It will cut toxic air pollution by 90 percent,
reduce acid rain by half, and reduce urban smog.
Protected ozone layer. President Bush led the world to
an international agreement to phase out by the year
2000 substances that harm the ozone layer of the
atmosphere.
Banned off-shore drilling in sensitive areas.
President Bush ordered a moratorium until after the
year 2000 on off-shore oil and natural gas drilling for
99 percent of California's coast and the entire coasts
of southern Florida, New England, Washington and
Oregon.
Saved American jobs at Rio summit. President Bush
saved thousands of American jobs by refusing to sign
the biodiversity treaty because it would have harmed
America's fast growing biotechnology industry. He also
refused to agree to binding targets and timetables on
carbon dioxide emissions which would have required
higher taxes on fossil fuels.
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A vote for President Bush is a vote for equal opportunity, not
quotas.
President Bush has worked personally to ensure all
Americans have the chance to achieve their full
potential.
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As a young man, George Bush walked door-to-door
to collect donations for the United Negro College
Fund.
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As a Congressman, he faced down angry
constituents and threats to his life over his
support of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
In 1990, President Bush vetoed a bill that would have
forced the use of hiring quotas. In 1991, he fought
proposals that would have forced employers to adopt
quotas to avoid lawsuits.
Under President Bush's leadership, the Americans with
Disabilities Act was proposed, passed and signed into
law, extending to 43 million disabled Americans the
same protection, independence, and opportunity enjoyed
by all other Americans.
President Bush will reform Congress.
President Bush wants to limit the terms a member of
Congress may serve to two in the Senate and six in the
House of Representatives.
The Democrats have controlled longer than
Fidel Castro has controlled Cuba -- and both
have got to go.
President Bush is fighting for affordable health care for all
Americans.
President Bush believes all Americans should be able to
purchase basic affordable health insurance through a
comprehensive, market-based reform that builds on the strengths
of our current system.
The President believes that health-care reform must preserve
our system's strengths while correcting its weaknesses and
strengthening its incentives for choice, quality and innovation.
President Bush's plan would:
Make 95 million low- and moderate-income Americans
eligible for health insurance coverage.
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Create a transferable health insurance tax credit
(certificate) available even to those too poor to file
taxes - and large enough to buy a basic health package
($3,750 for a family).
Give self-employed workers a full, 100-percent tax
deduction for the cost of their health insurance.
President Bush is committed to women's health.
President Bush increased funding for the prevention of
breast and cervical cancer by 24 percent in fiscal 1993
- to a record $515 million.
The Bush Administration expanded Medicare to help pay
for mammograms. About 5.3 million women are expected to
received these benefits in fiscal 1992.
President Bush is committed to finding an AIDS cure.
President Bush believes the 1 million Americans
infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
deserve care in their times of need and the best our
biomedical research can produce. Education and prudence
are needed to avoid infection. Those not infected
should show compassion for those who are.
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President Bush proposes to spend $1.2 billion on
AIDS research in fiscal 1993 - a 39-percent
increase since he took office. More money is
being committed to AIDS research than for any
disease other than cancer.
A SECURE AMERICA IN A STILL-DANGEROUS WORLD
A vote for President Bush is a vote for security in a still-
dangerous world.
After nine years of negotiations, President Bush signed
the historic Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START),
which cuts the most destabilizing long-range Soviet
nuclear warheads in half.
Building on START, President Bush achieved the most
significant arms reduction agreement in history, ending
the nuclear nightmare for ourselves and our children.
A vote for President Bush is a vote for against aggression.
In Operation Desert Storm, President Bush forged an
unprecedented international coalition to battle tyranny
in the Persian Gulf, proving that naked aggression will
not stand. Shaped alliances among both allies and
former antagonists to defeat the Iraqi army in a 100-
hour land war.
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President Bush made us proud to be Americans.
Showed America's "can do" spirit.
A vote for President Bush brings the Middle East closer to peace.
President Bush brought about the first face-to-face
talks ever held between Israel and all its Arab
neighbors.
President Bush led the repeal of the United Nations
resolution equating Zionism with racism.
A vote for President Bush is a vote for democracy.
With Operation Just Cause, President Bush restored
democracy to Panamá by capturing and convicting
dictator Manuel Noriega for international drug
trafficking.
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Speech Card
July 30, 1992
REASONS TO DEFEAT BILL CLINTON
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WHY CLINTON SHOULD BE DEFEATED
Clinton is a failed governor from a small state.
He is a "tax and spend" ultra-liberal.
He has no experience in foreign policy - and he would
decimate our national defenses.
His regulatory policies would destroy jobs and businesses.
His environmental record in Arkansas is abysmal.
On social policies, he is out of step with all but the
extreme liberals in his party.
"I have a hunch, said George McGovern, the Democrats'
radical 1972 presidential nominee, "that [Clinton and Gore] are
much more liberal underneath and will prove it when they're
elected.' [The New York Times, 7/14/92]
JOBS AND THE ECONOMY
Clinton raised Arkansas' taxes and fees 128 times.
Clinton fought to maintain a sales tax on groceries.
Clinton sees inflation as a tax advantage for state financing.
Clinton's economic plan would mean higher taxes, more spending,
fewer jobs.
Clinton's campaign platform calls for tax increases
almost twice as large as those proposed by Walter
Mondale and Michael Dukakis combined.
Clinton also favors federal spending increases almost
three times as large as those proposed by Mondale and
Dukakis combined.
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Clinton promises to raise $154 billion in
new taxes and spend $220 billion.
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By contrast, Mondale and Dukakis combined
promised to raise $85 billion in taxes and spend
$76 billion.
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Clinton would raise taxes on individuals.
Clinton wants a new top marginal income tax rate 16
percent over the current rate - from 31 to 36 percent.
Clinton opposes President Bush's proposal to help first-time
homebuyers with a $5,000 tax credit.
With Clinton as governor, Arkansas farm income has been meager.
Arkansas real net farm income between 1984 and 1987
grew a mere 4 percent, only a sixth of the national
growth rate of 24 percent.
Clinton would create a massive tax increase to pay for health
care.
Clinton's health-care plan is essentially the
Democratic Congress' "pay or play" concept, imposing
huge new costs on small businesses, ultimately costing
jobs. The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) estimates that
the first-year costs of a program could be as high as
$88 billion, with $42 billion in employer costs.
Working Americans would lose pay and jobs to finance Clinton's
health-care plan.
At least 9 million Americans could lose wages or
benefits - or lose their jobs entirely - because of the
increased costs Clinton's plan would place on
employers.
Clinton's would impose job-crunching regulatory monsters on
American taxpayers.
A 1.5-percent payroll tax to pay for a new national
training trust fund.
An 7-percent payroll tax for mandatory national health
care.
A mandatory increase to 45 miles a gallon in Corporate
Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
Cost and price controls on health care providers,
health insurers and drug companies.
Clinton would let foreign bureaucrats regulate U.S. economy.
Clinton said he would have "proudly" signed the various
Rio Earth Summit treaties and other documents, which
would force America's most internationally competitive
companies to surrender valuable patents and
"intellectual" property.
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Clinton endangers public pension funds.
Clinton would tap both private and public pension funds
to finance "pork barrel" public works projects he
proposes - diverting dollars now available for job-
creating small business investment.
Clinton imperils future jobs.
Clinton's mandatory national health care scheme would
cost more than 712,740 jobs.
Clinton supports centralized industrial policy.
Clinton advocates creation of a new research and
development bureaucracy to pick economic winners and
losers.
Clinton opposes tort reform.
He supports the status quo for trial lawyers.
Clinton opposes the Balanced Budget Amendment to the
Constitution.
Clinton flip-flops on free-trade pact with Mexico.
Clinton endorsed U.S.-Mexico "fast track" negotiating
authority, but now embraces the protectionist lead of
House Democrat leader Dick Gephardt on the
negotiations.
Clinton is a protectionist.
In 1985, made two pleas for protectionist intervention.
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Clinton urged President Reagan to place quotas on
imported footwear.
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Clinton urged Arkansas' congressional delegation
to back a "fiercely protectionist" textile bill.
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DOMESTIC ISSUES
Clinton practices revolving-door justice.
Very few Arkansas prisoners serve full sentences.
According to The Associated Press, a 1991 state study
found that most served only between 6 and 18 months
even though their sentences were much longer than that.
Clinton has a failed prison furlough program.
Clinton has suspended Arkansas' prison furlough program
- but only after a convicted contract murderer on
furlough from an Arkansas prison hijacked an airplane
and fled.
Under Clinton, Arkansas' violent crime nearly doubled in the
last decade.
Clinton goes easy on drug criminals.
In May 1985, Clinton refused to grant the extradition
of a Little Rock native to New York on felony cocaine
charges, saying that New York's mandatory sentencing
for first time offenders was too harsh.
Under Clinton, Arkansas has the lowest spending on crime control.
With Clinton as governor, Arkansas ranked at or near
the bottom among the 50 states in terms of state funds
spent on its justice system.
Mrs. Clinton, not the governor, interviews Arkansas judicial
candidates.
Arkansas attorneys predict she would do the same should
her husband become president.
Gore, too, is soft on crime.
Gore is the most liberal southern senator. He has
voted against the death penalty, in favor of gun
control, against a ban on flag burning, and
against a ban on federal funding of obscenity.
In 1990, The National Journal rated Gore 81
percent liberal and 0 percent conservative on
social issues.
Clinton's "health care" program would be a costly bureaucratic
nightmare.
Clinton wants to establish a large health entitlement
program and impose Draconian price controls on doctors
and hospitals.
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Clinton is no friend of working Americans.
Clinton has tried to attract new business to
Arkansas by publicly advertising it as a low
wages and lack regulation state.
"The National Safe Workplace Institute ranks Arkansas
last among the states in workplace safety. The
Southern Labor Institute ranked Arkansas 49th in
overall climate for workers." [The National Safe
Workplace Institute, Basic Information on Workplace
Safety and Health, January, 1992]
Clinton's and Gore's radical environmental standards could cost
American workers as many as 300,000 jobs.
Clinton and Gore want to make a CAFE (corporate average
fuel economy) standard of 45-miles-per-gallon fuel
mandatory - forcing the American auto industry to
produce smaller, lighter cars less protective in
accidents and regardless of consumer preferences.
Clinton opposes education vouchers for religious schools.
Clinton opposes President Bush's proposal to empower
parents to choose the schools their children attend -
public, private or religious.
Clinton opposes a constitutional amendment to allow
voluntary school prayer.
Clinton would not reform Congress.
Clinton opposes congressional term limits.
Clinton's health-care record is disastrous for Arkansans.
Arkansas ranks at or near the bottom among the states:
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49th in death rates of children.
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45th in babies born with low birth weight.
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47th in the violent death rate for teens.
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47th in births to single teens.
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45th in the well-being of children (down from
43rd last year).
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Clinton has a failed education record.
Under Clinton, Arkansas ranks:
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49th in teacher pay.
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47th in per capita state and local spending for
education.
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43rd in per capita spending for higher education.
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5th highest in the rate of adult illiteracy.
When Arkansas' high school graduates get to college,
three out of every four require remedial classes -
twice the national average.
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SOCIAL POLICY
Clinton favors abortion on demand, endorses the Freedom of Choice
Act, and supports repeal of the Hyde Amendment.
Clinton is an ultra-liberal on social issues affecting
traditional family values.
Clinton supports a pro-abortion "litmus test" for
judicial nominees.
Clinton supports routine condom distribution to school
children.
"Clinton opposes parental and spousal consent laws as
well as federal parental notification requirements."
Clinton has failed to address his own state's urban problems.
Clinton's own administration admits that Arkansas has
the nation's highest teen pregnancy rates among blacks
and second highest among whites.
Arkansas ranked 34th in infant mortality in 1989.
With Clinton as its governor, Arkansas is:
One of only two states without a civil rights law.
One of only nine states without a law banning housing
discrimination.
Clinton supports quotas.
Clinton's Democratic Leadership Council endorsed an
anti-quota resolution at its 1991 convention - BUT
Clinton that same year signed Arkansas Acts 1163 and
1164 specifically mandating racial quotas for
teachers/administrators and appointments to a state
board. [DLC source: The New American Choice, 5/7/91]
Only after Clinton began testing the waters for a
presidential campaign last year - and the issue of
"race-norming" tests gained national attention - did
Clinton end Arkansas' use of the practice in filling
state jobs.
In Clinton's Arkansas, some people are more equal than others.
Clinton endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment - but he
has never signed a civil rights law in Arkansas. There
is none.
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FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE ISSUES
Clinton has no credible experience in either defense or foreign
policy.
Clinton's only hands-on experience was as an intern
nearly 25 years ago on the staff of Arkansas Senator J.
William Fulbright, a leader of the anti-Vietnam War
movement.
Clinton would decimate America's defenses.
Clinton plans to cut the defense budget by more than
one-third ($100 billion) - cuts twice as deep as those
proposed by President Bush.
Clinton waffled on the most important national security issue in
years.
Clinton talked out of both sides of his mouth on
whether to kick Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army out of
Kuwait.
Could Clinton - as a commander-in-chief who ducked the Vietnam
War draft - ever call on young men and women to defend their
country?
During the Vietnam War, Clinton cleverly rigged it so
he would not be drafted. He let others go into combat
in his place.
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