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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 14, 1998
MEETING WITH DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMEN
DATE:
Tuesday, September 15, 1998
LOCATION: Yellow Oval, Residence
TIME:
9:30 am - 10:30 am
FROM:
Janet Murgui
I.
PURPOSE
To meet with Democratic women Members of Congress regarding issues facing
America's families and children which remain at stake in the 105th Congress.
II.
BACKGROUND
Congresswomen Juanita Millender-McDonald, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rosa
DeLauro, and Nancy Pelosi have invited their Democratic women colleagues to join
you for a discussion regarding key issues affecting families and children which
remain at stake in the 105th Congress. Their hope is that this discussion will
energize women of the House and Senate and encourage them to focus their
constituencies on these critically important issues.
The shared Democratic Fall Legislative/Administration Agenda includes: Education,
Health Care, Social Security and the Environment. In addition, key appropriations
bills affecting child care, Head Start, adoption, LIHEAP, and summer jobs will be
addressed prior to adjournment. Attached are two documents for your review: (1)
Overview of Issues/ Talking points and (2) Appropriations Issues.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Pre-Brief
First Lady
Melanne Verveer
Ann Lewis
Janet Murguia
Jennifer Klein
Event
Members of Congress
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY)
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) * coming late
Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN)
Rep. Pat Danner (D-MO)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
Rep. Donna Christian-Green (D-VI)
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA)
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-CT)
Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY)
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
Rep. Karen McCarthy (D-MO)
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-MI)
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
Rep. Deborah Ann Stabenow (D-MI)
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
Pending
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Rep. Eva Clayton (D-NC)
Rep. Elizabeth Furse (D-OR)
Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
Rep. Carrie Meek (D-FL)
Rep. Patsy Mink (D-HI)
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY)
Rep. Karen Thurman (D-FL)
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Closed Press.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
To be briefed on site.
09/14/98 MON 16:52 FAX 202 225 3002
Cong Eleanor H Norton
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Congress of the United States
house of Representatibes
Washington, DC 20515
September 14, 1998
Dear Democratic Congresswoman:
We would like to invite-you-to a private. meeting between First Lady Hillary Clinton and the
Democratic Congresswomen on Tuesday, September 15th. The meeting will take place at the White
House from 9 to 9:30 am.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the issues affecting America's families and how we might
address those issues in the final weeks of the 105th Congress. Children and families continue to need
our leadership on issues of child care, education, health care, and a Social Security system that
addresses the different employment experiences of women. The time has come for the women of the
House to continue to provide strong leadership on issues that affect children and families the most
We hope that you will join us tomorrow for this important meeting with the First Lady. Please RSVP
to Liz Powell with Congresswoman Millender-McDonald at 5-7924.
Sincerely,
Member UANITA of MILLENDER-McDONAED Congress Member ELEANOR of Congress HOLMES nutor NORTON
Rose Delaurs
ROSA DeLAURO
nany NANCY Member of PELOSI Congress Pelson
Member of Congress
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MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL WOMEN DEMOCRATS:
OVERVIEW OF ISSUES/TALKING POINTS
September 15, 1998
Issues for this Congress
Appropriations. Last year, Democrats and Republicans worked together to produce a
cooperative, bipartisan budget agreement. This year, House Republicans rejected cooperation for
confrontation and produced a budget without Democratic support or participation. The House
budget bills -- many of which the President has vowed to veto -- fulfill wish lists of the
ideological right wing, and slashes the President's proposed investments. The Senate
Appropriations Committee has rejected this approach and has approved a Labor-HHS-Education
Appropriations Bill that is much closer to addressing our priorities. Still, work remains to be
done. We must protect critical investments, such as:
Head Start;
Child Care Discretionary Funding ($182 million as allocated by the Senate);
Goals 2000;
America Reads literacy program;
High Hopes Scholarships;
National testing to raise academic standards
WIC nutrition program for low-income women, infants and children.
[See Addendum for full discussion of key Appropriations Issues]
Bankruptcy Reform. Bankruptcy reform legislation has posed significant threats to women and
children by endangering child support and alimony collection. The House-passed bill failed to
address these threats. Because of our collective advocacy efforts and pressure, the Senate bill
now under consideration includes many needed improvements. Still, we must be vigilant as this
bill moves to Conference to make sure that child support is protected and that this bill is more
balanced to address abuse by both consumers and creditors.
Head Start. Head Start is up for reauthorization this year, and House Republicans had been
playing politics with this important, historically bipartisan program. Because of pressure from
many of you, the House moved yesterday to approve a bill that removes many of the
objectionable provisions, including vouchers. We must work to get through Conference and
finish Head Start reauthorization this year.
Issues Requiring Ongoing Attention
Child Care. We must continue to work together on this issue that Americans, particularly
women, care deeply about. The Child Care Action Campaign and the Children's Defense Fund
recently released a survey showing that women voters overwhelmingly support stronger national
investment in child care. Fifty-three percent of women said they would be extremely or very
likely to vote for a candidate who supports helping low-income working families afford quality
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child care. Sixty-nine percent would be extremely or very likely to vote for a candidate who
supports after-school programs. The House Democrats (led by many of you) introduced a
significant child care bill in June, and the Administration remains committed to getting
meaningful child care legislation done.
Patients' Bill of Rights. We need to push for a real patients' bill of rights that includes: direct
access to specialists; access to emergency services; continuity of care provisions to protect
patients from abrupt changes if their provider is dropped from a health plan; and strong
enforcement provisions. The Republican Leadership's bills have serious flaws. For example
they do not cover all health plans, leaving millions of Americans without protections; do not
assure access to emergency services; fail to protect continuity of care; and undermine existing
privacy protections.
Social Security. The President is committed to reserving any future budget surplus until a
bipartisan plan to save Social Security is enacted. As you have noted in your June letter to the
President, we must consider the effects on women of any proposal to reform Social Security.
Women represent 60 percent of all Social Security recipients, and elderly unmarried women get
more than half of their income from Social Security. The current system protects women (for
example, by providing an inflation-protected benefit that lasts as long as a recipient lives, and by
providing benefits that are a higher fraction of lifetime earnings for lower income workers). We
need to work together to protect women as we reform and strengthen Social Security.
Education. The President remains committed to strengthening public education by: reducing
class size by helping local schools hire 100,000 teachers; calling for federal tax credits to help
renovate and build over 5,000 public schools; bringing technology into classrooms; passing
America Reads legislation; strengthening and expanding charter schools; and continuing to fight
for voluntary national standards and tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math.
Tobacco. First and foremost, the President will continue to push for comprehensive bipartisan
legislation that will significantly reduce youth smoking by imposing a significant price increase
on cigarettes, reaffirming FDA's full authority over tobacco products, and imposing heavy
surcharges on tobacco companies that keep marketing tobacco to young people. But even as we
continue to fight to enact legislation, the President is moving forward to reduce youth smoking
by executive action. He has directed HHS to coordinate a public health review of the recently-
released tobacco industry documents and to develop a plan to make the documents more
accessible to the public. He also called on HHS to collect more accurate information on teen
tobacco use, including information on tobacco use by brand, so that parents will know which
companies are marketing products to their children.
Children's Access to Guns. As it seems more and more likely that Congress will recess without
passing a juvenile crime bill, attention has turned towards the issue of children's access to guns.
The President has called on Congress to pass a tough, targeted federal Child Access Prevention
(CAP) law that holds adults responsible if they allow children easy access to loaded firearms,
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with new penalties to punish the most egregious offenders. A recent study published by the
Journal of the American Medical Association found that CAP laws reduced fatal unintentional
shootings by an average of 23 percent. We will continue to work to pass this legislation in the
next Congress.
Women's Health.
Genetic Discrimination. Studies show that a leading reason women do not get genetic
testing for breast cancer is because they fear the information will be used to discriminate
against them. The President will continue to urge Congress to pass bipartisan legislation
to prohibit health plans from inappropriately using genetic screening information to deny
coverage, set premiums, or to distribute confidential information, and to prohibit
employers from using genetic information to discriminate against employees.
Increasing Support for Family Planning. We need to continue to make progress on
family planning and other women's health issues. The President's FY 1999 budget
increases funding for Title X Family Planning grants by $15 million -- a 46 percent
increase since FY 1992 -- and increases funding by about $200 million for the National
Institutes of Health for research on infertility and contraception, and for CDC programs to
educate teenagers about sexual development and abstinence.
Medicare Buy-In. Currently, three million Americans ages 55 to 65 are uninsured, and
women make up 60 percent of this population. The President's proposal helps this
vulnerable population access to health insurance by allowing Americans ages 62 to 65 to
buy into Medicare, through a premium that ensures that this policy is self-financed, and
providing vulnerable displaced workers 55 and over access to Medicare by offering those
who have involuntarily lost their jobs and their health care coverage a similar Medicare
buy-in option.
21st Century Research Fund. Scientists are on the cusp of dramatic breakthroughs in
biomedical research. The President is proposing a sustained investment in biomedical research --
with a 50 percent increase in the National Institutes of Health in the next five years -- so that $20
billion will be dedicated to biomedical research in 2003. In FY99 alone, the "21st Century
Research Fund" would provide the largest increases in history for the NIH ($1.15 billion). (The
Senate version of Labor-HHS increases funding for NIH by $2 billion for FY 99, while the
House version increases funding by $1.2 billion).
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ADDENDUM: APPROPRIATIONS ISSUES
MAJOR LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION PROGRAMS AFFECTING CHILDREN AND
FAMILIES
Summer Jobs Program. The House eliminates the $871 million Summer Jobs program, which
could finance 530,000 summer jobs for economically disadvantaged youth. The unemployment
rate for teens continues to far exceed the overall unemployment rate. The Summer Jobs program
plays a vital role in supporting employment among these teens, especially among
African-American youths -- approximately 25 percent of summer jobs held by African-American
14-15 year olds come through this program -- and serves as a valuable introduction to the world
of work. The Senate fully funds this program.
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The House Committee Bill
would eliminate funding for the Low Income Heating Assistance Program. This would force
over five million of our Nation's most vulnerable households to choose between heating their
homes or feeding their families. Over 36 percent of LIHEAP households have elderly residents,
32 percent have disabled residents, 27 percent have children under the age of six, and 27 percent
are the working poor who do not receive any other public assistance. The Senate Committee
restores full funding for LIHEAP. The importance of LIHEAP was underscored this summer,
when the program provided valuable relief from the heat wave and drought in many Southern
States.
Head Start. The Senate Committee provides the full $4.66 billion requested by the President for
Head Start. Of these funds, $1.365 are not available for obligation until 10/1/99. The House
Committee provides $4.5 billion, $160 million below the request. Up to 25,000 fewer children
would receive services at the House level. Head Start funds will help many poor children
prepare more effectively for school and the P.B. and Senate funding levels will maintain progress
toward the President's goal of making one million Head Start opportunities available annually.
Child Care. The President's request for the child care initiative included $180 million to
enhance child care health and safety standards enforcement, give child care workers scholarships
to improve their skills, and increase our commitment to understand and better evaluate how our
nation's child care system is working. The House did not provide this funding. The Senate
Committee advance appropriated $1.183 billion for child care in FY 2000. As currently drafted,
the Senate bill provides the increase of $180 million for additional child care subsidies --not for
the standards enforcement, provider scholarships, and research activities proposed by the
Administration.
Developmental Disabilities Support. The President's request also includes $5 million to assist
States in developing support systems for families of children with disabilities. The House
provided no funding; the Senate provided $6 million.
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Adoption Assistance. The House did provide the full $47 million requested by the President for
adoption opportunities and to provide incentives to states that increase the number of children
adopted from the foster care system. The Senate provided $2 million less than the House.
Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). The President's Budget reduced mandatory funding for
SSBG by $471 million below the authorized FY 1999 level ($390 million below the FY 1998
enacted level) to provide a discretionary offset to increase funds for higher priority programs in
the appropriations bill. The Senate adopted the Administration proposal, the House reduced
SSBG by $81 million, the same level as in FY 1998.
Goals 2000. The House cuts the President's $501 million request for Goals 2000 by $255
million, which would reverse momentum in all 50 States to raise academic standards and deny
6,000 schools serving over three million students the funds needed to implement innovative
education reforms. The Senate provides $496 million for Goals 2000, $5 million less than the
President's request.
Education Technology. The President requested $721 million for education technology, a $137
million increase over FY 1998. This request would fund a new initiative to improve the training
of teachers in the effective use of new technology in the classroom, and would provide a $50
million increase in the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF), which would provide
schools with modern technology-related services and equipment to help students learn more
effectively. Neither the House nor Senate funds the teacher training initiative, and neither provide
any of the President's requested increase for the TLCF.
Title I (Education for the Disadvantaged) Grants to Local Educational Agencies. The
House cuts the President's $7.767 billion request for this program by $392 million, providing a
total of $7.375 billion, which would deny additional help to nearly 520,000 students in
high-poverty communities. The Senate bill cuts the President's request by $91 million, for a total
appropriation of $7.676 billion.
America Reads. The House and Senate both deny the $210 million provided in last year's
Bipartisan Budget Agreement for children's literacy, and the additional $50 million the President
requested for this program. Denying these funds would prevent thousands of young children
from receiving the extra tutoring they need to read well and independently by the end of the third
grade.
High Hopes. The House does not fund the President's new $140 million High Hopes initiative,
which would help prepare approximately 175,000 students in high poverty middle schools for
college. The Senate provides $75 million for this program, which would serve approximately
80,000 fewer students than the President's request.
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National Tests. Both the House and Senate bills include objectionable language that would
hinder efforts to help States and parents raise academic standards through a voluntary national
tests. Language in the House bill would prohibit the use of any funds to implement, administer,
or even develop these national tests. The Senate bill's language is less objectionable, as it would
allow the Department of Education to continue to develop these voluntary national tests. But,
unfortunately, the Senate bill would still prohibit field testing, implementation, and
administration of these tests.
After-School Programs (21st Century Community Learning Centers). As a part of the child
care initiative, the President requested $200 million, a $160 million increase from FY 1998, to
provide educational after-school activities to approximately 500,000 children. The House cuts
the President's request by $140 million and the Senate cuts it by $125 million.
Youth Opportunity Areas (YOA). The YOA program supports multiple education, job
training, and social services for about 50,000 youth annually in Empowerment Zones, Enterprise
Communities, and similar high poverty areas. The program goal is to boost employment among
out-of-school youth in the local area from under 50% currently to 80%. The President's FY
1999 budget requested a FY 2000 Advance Appropriation (AA) of $250 million to fund the
second year of Federal-to-local competitive grants averaging $14 million annually to 15-20 high
poverty/unemployment areas. The FY 1999 request was in addition to the FY 1999 AA of $250
million provided by Congress last year, contingent upon enactment of authorizing legislation by
July 1, 1998 (authorizing legislation was enacted in August). The House Committee-reported
bill (1) provides no funding for the $250 million FY 2000 AA requested in the FY 1999 Budget
and; (2) rescinds the $250 million FY 1999 contingent AA provided in FY 1998 for this
program. The Senate Committee bill (1) provides $125 million of the $250 million FY 1999 AA
requested and; (2) provides the total $250 million FY 2000 AA requested.
Efforts Against Child Labor. The President requested an additional $36 million in the
Department of Labor to combat child labor abuses domestically and internationally. The DOL
initiative includes (1) $27 million for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) to
increase its contributions to the International Labor Organization's International Programme for
the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) to $30 million; (2) $4 million to target child labor abuses
in U.S. agriculture by increasing enforcement efforts and data collection; and (3) $5 million for
demonstration programs to provide alternatives to field work for migrant youth. The House
committee provides an additional $6 million for the initiative, comprised of $3 million for ILAB
and $3 million for increased enforcement and data collection. The House provided no funding
for migrant youth demonstrations. The Senate committee provides $37 million in new funds for
DOL, fully funding the requests for IPEC, migrant youth demonstrations, and improved data
collection.
OTHER APPROPRIATIONS BILLS -- MAJOR ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN AND
FAMILIES
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The WIC Program. The President has requested an increase of $157 million for WIC, the
nutrition program for low-income women, infants and children. The House would refuse to
increase WIC funding beyond the current level and the Senate would add $24 million to the
current level, still leaving it well below the President's request.
Housing Vouchers. In the area of housing vouchers, the President's budget proposed an
important additional step to promote work and welfare reform through a plan to provide 50,000
new housing vouchers to welfare recipients who need housing assistance in order to get or keep a
job. Both the House and Senate have not provided sufficient funding for this critical initiative.
The HUD/VA Appropriations bill passed by the House provides for only 17,700 Welfare to
Work Housing Vouchers. The bill passed by the Senate provides for only 7,000 housing
vouchers.
Census Sampling. Congress would provide funding only for the first half of the year. This
would disrupt hiring of temporary workers and other key functions, and would lead to a less
accurate census and undercount minorities and children. Many Federal agencies like the EEOC
are statutorily required to use decennial census data to develop, evaluate and implement their
programs. In the last census, in 1990, children made up more than half the undercounted, even
though they account for about one-quarter of the population.
Restrictions on Family Planning and Abortion:
The President's request to increase funding for family planning services at clinics by $15
million (a 46% increase since 1992) would be denied by the House and the Senate. The
House would deny any additional funds and the Senate would underfund the President's
budget by $3 million.
A House provision would limit the ability of family planning clinics to help prevent
unintended pregnancies by requiring minors to either receive parental consent or provide
advance notice before receiving contraceptives.
A provision in the House would prohibit the FDA from testing, developing, or approving
any drug for the chemical inducement of abortion, which would include RU-486, thereby
usurping the Agency's role in making scientific determinations about the effect of drugs
on the safety and health of the American people.
While maintaining current restrictions on FEHBP coverage of abortions, the House bill
further tightens access by denying currently legal abortion coverage, i.e., danger to the
mother's life, rape or incest. The Senate bill continues the current restrictions on FEHBP
coverage of abortions.
Both the House and Senate would prohibit the Bureau of Prisons from funding abortions,
except in the cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
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Both the House and Senate would retain and expand the Hyde Amendment, which
severely limits the use of funds in the Labor/HHS bill for abortion.
A provision in the House bars the use of U.S. population funds for non-governmental
organizations if the organization uses any of its own resources for abortion-related
services.
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Meeting with Congressional
Dewocratic women
Key Points:
I think that this is not the forum to address the investigation in any direct matter,
but it could be addressed in the sense that the remarks she gives to the women's
caucus are about all of us (including the President) not being diverted from the
important fight we have on our hands this month to ensure that our budget reflects our
values and priorities.
The polling this last week showed the importance of many issues that reflect on
the basic values of protecting and nurturing our children:
Now is the time to stand by the principles for maintaining important investments in
education and training. We have balanced the budget, and now we have to maintain
Social Security First and support a budget this year that meets our values:
The Republicans have Issued threats against some very important programs, and this
month we need to make sure that we have a budget that meets our priorities and values.
Each one of the threats made by the Republicans against these programs is really an
assault on the needs of families to raise and educate their children - - from Head Start
and Child Care to Proper nutrition and child care safety.
The programs involved that we have to fight for are: (you can then put together specific
information on these issues, but these are the ones in contention and that polled
through the roof):
Funding of the America Reads Program - they are threatening to cut $260 million in
funding to ensure that every third grader can read - one of our most important
educational priorities for young children.
WIC funding for 100,000 need participants that has been threatened
Fight Republican efforts to curb head Start to 85,000 participants. Funding for Head
Start that must be expanded, not just maintained, given the critical nature of this
program.
Funding for Child Care safety programs, which the Republicans have blocked
Attempts to eliminate the Summer Jobs Program
Cut the national service opportunities offer to young persons through Americorps
The attachments document some of the facts that we have on this and the polling as
well.
[Mar K Penn -Penn, Schoen Berland]
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This chart ranks which programs are most important to voters in the
budget negotiations. WIC funding, America Reads, Head Start, Child Care
and tax cuts before Social Security are all at the top of the list.
Following are some criticisms of the Republican's
All
Party
budget. After read each one I'd like you to tell me
Much
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The Republican budget cuts funding for the Women,
48
28/70
24/
54/
16/
Infants and Children's Supplemental Nutrition program,
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39
85
cutting off 100,000 needy participants.
The Republican budget cuts 260 million dollars for the
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28/69
14/
57/
22/
America Reads Challenge, denying funding to schools
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76
and communities to improve reading programs and
provide tutors.
The Republican budget denies child-care funding to
45
30/67
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52/
27/
improve and enforce health and safety standards.
85
43
71
The Republican budget enacts tax cuts before the future
44
32/65
25/
56/
22/
of Social Security is protected.
75
42
73
The Republican budget cuts Head Start by denying slots
43
28/69
22/
49/
19/
in the Head Start program to up to 25,000 low-income
78
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children.
The Republican budget eliminates the Summer Jobs
42
32/64
25/
49/
29/
programs which gives disadvantaged youths the
71
50
66
opportunity to gain work experience over the summer
months.
The Republican budget eliminates funding for mentoring
40
33/63
20/
49/
28/
and tutoring to at-risk middle-school students to raise
74
44
68
education expectations and eliminate barriers to college.
The Republican budget eliminates National Service,
40
38/57
17/
51/
44/
denying 49,000 Americans the opportunity to serve in
80
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50
Americorps and denying over 1 million students a
chance to participate in service learning activities.
The Republican budget denies funds for after-school
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37/59
27/
54/
36/
programs which give students a safe place to be after
72
43
60
school for recreation, to do homework and to get extra
help.
The Republican budget denies funding to schools
38
33/62
21/
61/
23/
nationwide to provide students and teachers with
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34
72
access to computers and denies specialized instruction
in computers to a large number of new teachers.
The Republican budget denies 6,000 schools
37
34/63
24/
53/
30/
nationwide funds to help students reach high standards
76
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and would halt development of voluntary national tests
in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.
The Republican budget eliminates funding for middle-
36
37/57
25/
54/
34/
schools nationwide that would provide full-time Safe and
74
39
57
Drug-Free Coordinators.
The Republican budget cuts almost 600 million dollars
36
38/57
26/
64/
32/
from Superfund, delaying environmental cleanups
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President Clinton Opposes Extreme House Republican Budget Provisions
Here are some of the exireme 1998 House Republican budget proposals President Clinton opposes.
FAILURE TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY FIRST:
Republicans are considering various plans to enact massive tax cuts before Social Security's future is
protected. Any budget the President signs will Save Social Security First.
ENVIRONMENT- 28 PERCENT CUT IN SUPERFUND:
The House Republican version of the Veterans Affairs/HUD Appropriations bill cuts $593 million (28
percent) from the President's request for Superfund, delaying environmental cleanups nationwide.
[Statement of Administration Policy (SAP), HR 4194, 7/16/98]
CENSUS - CRIPPLING OUR ABILITY TO COUNT ALL AMERICANS:
The House Republican Commerce/Justice/State Appropriations bill cripples our ability to conduct a
fair and accurate 2000 Census by restricting funding for the Census Bureau - preventing the use of
statistical sampling. [SAP, H.R. 4276, 8/3/98]
EDUCATION -- TITLE I CUTS WOULD EFFECT 520,000 CHILDREN:
The House Republican version of the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill cuts $392 million from
the President's request for Title I Programs, which would reduce education opportunities for 520,000
disadvantaged children. [SAP, H.R. 4274, 8/4/98]
EDUCATION/SERVICE - ELIMINATION OF NATIONAL SERVICE:
The House Republican version of the Veterans Affairs/HUD Appropriations bill eliminates National
Service, denying 49,000 Americans the opportunity to serve as Americorps members and denying over
one million students a chance to participate in service learning activities. [SAP, H.R. 4194, 7/16/98]
EDUCATION - AFTER-SCHOOL CARE DENIED TO NEARLY 400,000 CHILDREN:
The House Republican version of the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill cuts $140 million from
the President's request for after-school care programs, resulting in 3,000 fewer 21st Century
Community Learning Centers and no services to nearly 400,000 children. [SAP, H.R. 4274, 8/4/98]
EDUCATION - DENYING $260 MILLION FOR "AMERICA READS":
The House Republican version of the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill denies a total of $260
million for the President's "America Reads" Children's Literacy Initiative, preventing thousands of
young children from receiving the extra help they need to learn to read by the end of the third grade.
[SAP, H.R. 4274, 8/4/98]
SUMMER JOBS - ELIMINATION OF PROGRAM AND 530,000 JOBS:
The House Republican version of the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill eliminates the Summer
Jobs Program, which provides 530,000 jobs for disadvantaged teens. [SAP, H.R. 4274, 8/4/98]
NUTRITION - CUTTING ASSISTANCE TO 100,000 WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN:
Both the House and Senate Republican versions of the Agriculture/Rural Development/FDA
Appropriations bill cut $157 million from the President's request for the Women, Infants And
Children's Supplemental Nutrition Program, cutting off 100,000 needy participants. [SAP, H.R. 4101,
6/23/98; S. 2159, 7/13/98]
ENERGY ASSISTANCE - ELIMINATING THE "LIHEAP" PROGRAM:
The House Republican version of the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill eliminates the LIHEAP
Program, which helps elderly, disabled and children stay cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter.
[SAP, H.R. 4274, 8/4/98]
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President Clinton's Fall Agenda Highlights:
Saving Social Security First, Protecting Patient Rights, Investing in
Education and the Environment, Stabilizing International Financial System
September 3, 1998
President Clinton's economic strategy of fiscal discipline, strategic investments in our people,
and opening markets abroad has helped create the strongest economy in a generation and will
deliver the first budget surplus in three decades. Now is a time to build on our success and
there is much work for Congress to do in the weeks before adjournment. President Clinton,
working with the Congress, is determined to:
Save Social Security First -- The President will fight any attempt to break the budget
rules and drain the surplus. His commitment is unwavering: every penny of any future
surplus must be reserved until a bipartisan plan to save Social Security is enacted.
Pass a Patients' Bill of Rights -- The President will work to pass a strong enforceable
patients' bill of rights to give Americans the protections they deserve.
Invest in Education -- The President will work to strengthen public schools through
higher standards, expanded opportunities, increased accountability, school modernization
and smaller classes, and greater access to technology.
Invest in a Cleaner Environment -- President Clinton will push his significant new
investments to curb water pollution, clean up toxic dumps, protect precious lands, and
combat global warming.
Stabilize the International Financial System -- The President will work to provide the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) the resources it needs to protect the international
financial system -- and therefore the United States economy.
Save Social Security First
Fiscal discipline has helped create the strongest economy in a generation. In 1992, the deficit stood at a record
$290 billion and was projected by CBO to exceed $350 billion this year. The President's 1993 Economic Plan
helped cut the deficit, lowered interest rates, spurred business investment, and strengthened the economy. With
last year's bipartisan Balanced Budget, the President finished the job of balancing the budget and this year we
will record the first budget surplus in 29 years. With our fiscal house is in order, we must use our solid fiscal
footing to face the next major fiscal challenge: the retirement of the baby boom generation. This is why, in his
State of the Union in January, President Clinton proposed that every penny of the surplus be reserved to "Save
Social Security First."
Building on his tax cutting record, the President has called on Congress to pass targeted tax relief -- to spur
school modernization, help families better afford child-care, help clean the environment, expand pension
coverage, and develop low-income housing. The President insists that every tax cut and new spending program
meet the budget rules and be fully paid for. He will strongly oppose any proposal that breaks the budget rules
and drains the surplus. As the President has said:
"I believe we should tell our children and our grandchildren that we think enough of them and their future
that we're going to resist spending a penny of the surplus on things that I would very much like to spend it
on - or you would - until we have met our basic obligation to our future, passing a bipartisan plan to save
Social Security" [July 22, 1998, Signing of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act]
Pass A Patients' Bill of Rights
President Clinton calls on the Congress to pass a strong, enforceable patients' bill of rights that assures
Americans the quality health care they need. This bill should include important patient protections such as:
Assuring direct access to specialists.
Real emergency room protections.
Continuity of care provisions that protect patients from abrupt changes in treatment.
A fair, timely, and independent appeals process for patient grievances.
Enforcement provisions to make these rights real.
The President has urged the Senate Leadership to make passing the patients' bill of rights the first order of
business this fall. The Republicans have proposed legislation that would be more loophole than law. Their
proposals cover too few people; provide too few patient protections; and contain unnecessary and irrelevant
provisions that undermine the chances for a bipartisan agreement on a patients' bill of rights. For example, these
proposals would let HMOs, not informed health professionals, define medical necessity and would fail to
guarantee direct access to specialists.
The President is working to implement patients' bill of rights in health plans under Federal jurisdiction.
In February, the President issued an Executive Memorandum directing all Federal health plans to come into
compliance with the patients' bill of rights. In response to this directive, for example:
Department of Health and Human Services has extended the patients' bill of rights to the 40 million
Americans who receive Medicare.
Department of Veterans' Affairs has begun to put in place a new, rapid appeals process for its 3 million
beneficiaries. The Department of Defense issued a directive to all military bases throughout the world,
extending patient protections to 8 million servicemen and women and their families.
Department of Labor is requiring plans it oversees to have an improved internal appeals process.
Invest in Education
President Clinton is working to strengthen public education by raising standards, increasing accountability and
expanding public school choice, including charter schools, and to prepare students for the 21 st Century through
increased investments in public schools, expanded awareness of and access to higher education, and training to
ensure success in the workplace.
Strengthening Public Education. President Clinton will fight for full funding for programs and new
initiatives that will help all children reach challenging academic standards, strengthen accountability, provide
access to technology, improve the quality of teaching, expand Head Start and after school programs, and
make our schools safe and drug free.
Modernizing Our Schools. The President is calling for federal tax credits to help renovate, modernize, and
build over 5,000 public schools nationwide.
Reduce Class Size. The President will press Congress to enact his proposal to reduce class size to a national
average of 18 in grades 1-3, by helping local schools hire 100,000 well-prepared teachers.
Expanding Investments In Youth Education And Training. One of the President's top priorities is
fighting efforts by Congress to eliminate both the Summer Jobs Program, which provides jobs to roughly
530,000 disadvantaged young people, and the new Youth Opportunity Area Initiative, which would help
provide job training and help finding jobs for up to 50,000 youth in the poorest communities nationwide.
Passage Of The Higher Education Act, With The High Hopes Mentoring Initiative and Teacher
Recruitment. President Clinton urges Congress to pass the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, to
reduce interest rates on student loans; extend the Pell Grant and Federal Work-Study programs; enact his
High Hopes program to establish college-school partnerships in order to spark young people's interest in
college and provide them with the mentoring and other support they need to prepare for college; and
strengthen teacher training and recruitment programs.
Education Technology. The President has made an unprecedented commitment to bringing technology
into the classroom and called for technology training for teachers and expanded access for teachers and
students to computers in the classroom; however, the House appropriations bill threatens these initiatives;
Strengthening And Expanding Charter Schools. President Clinton will continue to work with Congress
to pass bipartisan legislation to strengthen federal support for the growing charter school movement.
Helping Every Eight-Year Old Learn To Read. President Clinton will continue his work with Congress
to enact a child literacy bill to ensure that children receive quality instruction from well-trained teachers and
have opportunities to develop their reading skills with trained tutors after-school and on the weekend.
Voluntary National Standards and Tests. President Clinton will continue to fight for voluntary national
standards and tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, to help students master the basic skills and to
give parents, communities and educators accurate information on how well our students perform.
Invest in a Cleaner Environment
President Clinton is proposing significant new investments to curb water pollution, clean up toxic dumps, protect
precious lands, and combat global warming. Yet the Republican Congress is not only failing to fully fund these
priorities, but is launching a stealth attack on the environment with a host of legislative riders aimed at rolling
back protections already in place.
Clean, Safe Water for America. The President is proposing an additional $2.3 billion over five years to
help clean up the almost 40 percent of America's surveyed waterways still too polluted for fishing or
swimming. Budget bills in the House and Senate fall well short of the President's request, denying
communities and farmers vital help in curbing pollution.
Saving and Restoring Parks and Other Natural Treasures. The President is proposing a 43 percent
increase over five years to acquire scenic and historic lands, yet Congress is denying full funding. What's
more, Congress is withholding 1998 appropriations that the President has allocated to protect over 100 sites
in 35 states, including Civil War battlefields, critical winter range for Yellowstone bison, New Mexico's
Baca Ranch, and completion of the Appalachian Trail.
Leading the Fight Against Global Warming. The President's five-year $6.3 billion package of tax
incentives and research investment would reduce greenhouse gas pollution through energy efficiency and
clean energy technologies. But Congress, ignoring the growing evidence of global warming, wants to cut
these sensible, cost-effective programs.
Doubling the Pace of Toxic Cleanups. The President is proposing an additional $650 million in Fiscal Year
99 a 40 percent increase -- to accelerate Superfund cleanups with a goal of completing a total of 900
cleanups by 2001. By denying these funds, Congress threatens to delay cleanup at up to 171 sites.
Fighting Against Stealth Attacks on the Environment. Some of the many anti-environmental riders
would force overcutting of timber on national forests, cripple wildlife protection efforts, deny taxpayers a
fair return from oil leasing on public lands, and allow a $30 million road through an Alaska wildlife refuge.
The President will not tolerate stealth tactics that do unacceptable harm to the environment or threaten
public health.
Stabilize the International Financial System
Driven by a return to fiscal strength, the United States' economy is the strongest it has been in a generation.
Unemployment and inflation are at their lowest levels in decades. Some other nations around the world,
however, are experiencing major economic upheaval and this has already hurt our exports and farmers. A strong
International Monetary Fund is a stabilizing force in the world economy and is vital to protect the international
financial system -- and therefore the U.S. economy -- against the risk of new, escalating, or spreading crises. The
Senate has wisely provided full funding for the IMF, but the House has failed to include any such funding.
President Clinton will fight for full funding for the IMF to help keep our economy strong.
Women Cong. Leaders
4 of 7 Women's Cancus bills have passed
3 others - - Genetic Discrim
- - women Owned Business
- Child care
- bipartisan support OF 4 principles
Norton primary concern IS not losing seats in November
HRC - optimistic about prospects
- the issues are our friends
- message must be delivered effectively
Collectively, we need issue driven, Democratic agenda
We also need a motivational message.
sure that media is effective -- Dems don't know
how to spend $
Rose We have the issues - - Soc. Sec. HMOS, Education
Eshoo - Get all women out together
HRC -
No truth to voter turnout problem - - bee. situation of current
HRC - Can do direct mail radio, TV
Norton - Turn out problems are real note of
dissent
Kennelly - This IS a plane caued "education" -
" child care"
Dem. caucus -
Kirkpatrick - These ave little boys who are now men"
Sherla Jackson high - we need to face the issue at hand - -
say we are women who understand family values,
let me tell you about family and why President
matters to us.
Mc.Carthy We've used to crises bec. we deal w/ them
darly, but the men aren't. Amazed by men on
the Floor.
New strategic discussion. Have issues. Need timeline
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Drive and enter through the NorthEAST gate.
Confirmed to Attend (24):
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY)
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) *coming late
Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN)
Rep. Pat Danner (D-MO)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
Rep. Donna Christian-Green (D-VI)
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA)
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-CT)
Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY)
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
Rep. Karen McCarthy (D-MO)
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-MI)
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
Rep. Deborah Ann Stabenow (D-MI)
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
Invited but Unable to Attend (6):
Senator Feinstein (D-CA)
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Senator Mikulski (D-MD)
Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Rep. Diane DeGette (D-CO)
Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA)
Pending ( 14) :
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Rep. Eva Clayton (D-NC)
Rep. Elizabeth Furse (D-OR)
Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
Rep. Carrie Meek (D-FL)
Rep. Patsy Mink (D-HI)
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY)
Rep. Karen Thurman (D-FL)
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
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