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ICON below contains President Clinton's Record of Accomplishments on the
Two-Year Anniversary of his Inauguration.
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the page breaks will turn out as this is a very long document.
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ATTACHMENT
FILE DATE
23 January 95 17:10
ATTACHMENT
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 19, 1995
PRESIDENT CLINTON'S RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ON THE TWO
YEAR
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS INAUGURATION
As our country approaches the two year
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anniversary of President Clinton's inauguration and the mid-point
of the President's first term, Americans can feel proud of the
progress we have made under President Clinton. These
accomplishments are a direct result of the President's commitment
to carry through on the ambitious agenda he presented to the
American people during the 1992 Presidential campaign.
In response to press inquiries to the White House about
the progress of the Administration in meeting commitments
proposed during the campaign, we have prepared materials that we
hope will be helpful in analyzing the Administration's record to
date. We have analyzed two existing written documents: 1) the
162 campaign promises listed by The Washington Post on January
20, 1993, and 2) the 58 major policies proposed in the June 22,
1992 campaign pamphlet Putting People First.
Of the 162 promises from The Washington Post list, action
was taken on 155 (96%) of the promises, with 123 (76%) of the
policy pledges either substantially or partially accomplished.
Of the 58 major policies mentioned in Putting People First,
action was taken on 57 (98%) of the promises, while there has
been substantial or partial accomplishment on 45 (78%) of the
policies.
"When President Clinton campaigned for office he laid out
an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of hard-working
Americans. He has kept those commitments with a vigilance
unequalled by any President in recent memory," said White House
Chief of Staff Leon Panetta. "This is not just a list. This is an
unrivaled record of accomplishment with substantial benefits for
millions of American families."
The first materials attached are short summaries of the
major domestic and national security accomplishments, as well as
the top legislative victories, of the President's first two
years. Following that are summary tables and charts of the
progress the Administration has made in accomplishing the
promises contained in both the Washington Post list and Putting
People First.
-30-30-30-
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS
ECONOMY:
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* Signed the Economic Package, August 10, 1993.
*
The economy created 5.6 million new jobs in the first 23
months of this Administration.
*
Passed the largest deficit-cutting plan in history --
resulting in over $700 billion over five years.
*
On track for three consecutive years of deficit reduction --
for the first time since Harry Truman.
* Cut federal spending by $255 billion.
* Made new tax cuts available to over 90% of small businesses.
* Lowest unemployment in over 4 years.
* Lowest "misery index" in 20 years.
EDUCATION:
*
Signed the Student Loan Reform Act, August 10, 1993.
*
Signed the National Service Act, September 21, 1993.
*
Signed the Goals 2000: Educate America Act.
*
Signed the School-to-Work Opportunities Act on May 4, 1994.
*
Signed the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act.
*
Increased Head Start funding by $760 million.
* Introduced the Reemployment Act.
CRIME:
*
Signed a tough $30 billion Crime Bill, September 13, 1994
*
Signed the Brady Bill, November 30, 1993.
*
Signed the Assault Weapons Ban as part of the Crime Bill.
* On the way to putting 100,000 new police on the street --
$1.5 billion has been awarded already.
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* Signed the Violence Against Women Act as part of the Crime
Bill.
*
Expanded funding for the SAFE Schools Initiative.
* Introduced Operation Safe Home.
REINVENTING GOVERNMENT:
*
Conducted a National Performance Review of the Federal
Government.
* Already cut the Federal Workforce by 100,000 -- on the way
to lowest level in 30 years.
* Signed the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993.
* Appointed the most diverse Cabinet and Administration in
history.
* Signed the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994.
*
Eliminated 284 federal advisory committees.
*
Initiated thorough review of human radiation experiments.
* Reformed Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation to protect
8.5 million pensions.
COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
* Created nine Economic Empowerment Zones and 95 Enterprise
Communities.
* Signed the Community Development Banking Bill, September 23,
1994.
* Signed the Interstate Banking Bill.
*
Introduced the Housing and Community Development Act of
1993.
* Instituted the Defense Reinvestment and Conversion
Initiative.
* Delivered over $11.1 billion in Federal aid for California
earthquake relief.
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ENVIRONMENT:
*
Developed a Northwest Forest Plan to put people back to work
and protect old-growth forests.
*
Signed environmental executive orders to ensure a "green"
federal government.
* Signed the Biodiversity Convention.
*
Issued an Executive Order on environmental justice.
*
Introduced a Climate Change Action Plan.
*
Signed the California Desert Protection Act.
*
Developed 'Common Sense' reforms to make health and
environmental protection cleaner and cheaper.
*
Introduced comprehensive Safe Drinking Water and Superfund
reforms.
*
Developed a plan to restore Florida's Everglades.
* Developed a plan to allow logging and preserve old-growth
forests in the Northwest.
* Developed a consensus plan for the allocation of California
water.
HEALTH CARE:
* Introduced the Health Care Security Act, November 20, 1993.
*
Signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, February 5, 1993.
* Signed a comprehensive Child Immunization Plan.
* Revoked the Reagan/Bush restrictions on abortion counseling
("the gag rule"), abortions in military hospitals, "Mexico
City" policy and RU-486 imports.
* Increased Ryan White CARE Act funding for outpatient AIDS
care by $231 million.
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*
Put the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC) on a
full-funding path.
FAMILIES AND CHILDREN:
* Expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit by $21 billion over
five years.
* Introduced the Work and Responsibility Act - comprehensive
welfare reform.
*
Passed the Family Support and Preservation Program.
*
Issued the Federal Plan to End Homelessness.
*
Passed major funding increases for homeless programs in both
Houses.
* Approved 24 waivers to states permitting comprehensive
welfare reform demonstrations.
*
Signed the Social Security Independent Agency Act.
POLITICAL REFORM:
* Signed the National Voter Registration Act (Motor-Voter),
May 20, 1993.
*
Eliminated the tax deduction for lobbying expenses.
* Imposed strictest Administration ethics guidelines in
history.
* Fought for passage of Campaign Finance Reform.
* Fought for passage of Lobbying Disclosure Bill.
FREE TRADE:
* Signed NAFTA into law, December 8, 1993, which will create
hundreds of thousands of US jobs.
* Signed GATT into law, December 8, 1994, the largest trade
agreement in history.
*
Secured free-trade commitments from Asia-Pacific Economic
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Cooperation (APEC) leaders.
* Hosted Summit of the Americas and agreed to negotiate a Free
Trade Area of the Americas by 2005
* Developed National Export Strategy, eliminating export
controls on $35 billion in exports.
*
Reinstituted Super 301 in order to eliminate major trade
barriers around the world.
* Opened Japan's cellular telephone, construction and apple
markets.
SECURITY CHALLENGES/PROMOTING PEACE
* Eliminating nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Belarus and
Kazakhstan; in 1994 brokered agreement with Russia and
Ukraine that opened way to elimination
of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
*
Reached agreement with Russia to detarget missiles trained
on U.S. citizens and cities.
*
Worked with Kiev to bring Ukraine into Nonproliferation
Treaty, which permitted START I entry-into-force, which will
reduce by over 9,000 (40%) U.S. and Russian strategic
nuclear weapons.
* Facilitated agreement between Russia and the Baltics
allowing the complete withdrawal of Russian troops. All
Russian troops are out of Central and Eastern Europe for the
first time since World War II.
*
Proposed and helped create Partnership for Peace and orderly
NATO expansion process.
*
Maintained strong commitments to military readiness,
including a $25 billion increase over 6 years.
*
Prepared a "Bottom-Up-Review" strategy for our armed forces
to fight two major regional conflicts nearly simultaneously.
* Achieved agreement with North Korea that halts and leads to
the eventual elimination of the of North Korea's threatening
nuclear program.
*
Reversed Iraqi military threat against Kuwait.
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*
Pursued and convicted terrorists, including World Trade
Center bombers.
*
Helped Israel and Jordan achieve a historic peace treaty and
Israel and the Palestinians fulfill their historic accord.
*
Contributed to an historic cease-fire in Northern Ireland.
*
Carried out a massive humanitarian operation in Rwanda.
*
Undertook, with NATO allies and UN, actions to alleviate the
suffering and end the conflict in Bosnia.
*
Reached an agreement with Cuba to normalize immigration and
avert a mass influx of boat people.
*
Signed into law the most comprehensive counterintelligence
legislation since 1976.
*
Worked to safely dispose of nuclear materials from the
former Soviet republics and took steps to prevent smuggling.
PROMOTING DEMOCRACY:
*
Assisted states, such as Russia and Ukraine, make progress
toward democracy and market reforms.
*
Assisted in South Africa's transition to democracy providing
support for elections and development.
*
Restored democratically elected Haitian President Aristide
to power October 15, 1994; created a secure and stable
environment which will enable UN to takeover the operation.
* Hosted White House Conference on Africa.
*
Made promotion of democracy a foreign aid priority
especially in NIS, Russia, Central Europe and South Africa.
#####
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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MAJOR LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES:
Below is a list of some of the most important legislation the
Clinton Administration has passed:
* Family and Medical Leave Act, February 5, 1993.
This is an historic effort to allow working Americans unpaid
time off work to care for themselves, a sick family member
or a new child. Over 42 million workers are covered by the
new law and it is estimated that as many as 2.5 million
workers will take advantage of it annually.
* Economic Package, August 10, 1993.
Evenly balanced between spending cuts and revenue increases,
the President's five-year deficit reduction plan is largely
responsible for reducing the deficit by $708.4 billion --
$500 billion from policy changes and the rest from
strengthening the economy and technical improvements. The
greater economic security has caused interest rates to drop,
stimulating the economic recovery. One of the largest
deficit reduction plans ever, the Clinton deficit reduction
will halve the deficit as a percentage of GDP by 1995.
* Student Loan Reform Act, August 10, 1993.
The new direct student loan program will enable 20 million
borrowers to consolidate their guaranteed loans into direct
loans. Borrowers will benefit from lower fees and the
option of income contingent repayment -- taxpayers will save
at least $4.3 billion over five years.
* Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, August 10,
1993.
After a decade of failed attempts, President Clinton
championed the passage of this legislation, which uses tax
incentives and flexible grants to promote economic
empowerment and private-sector job creation in 104
distressed communities across America. Over 500
communities took up the "EZ" challenge, developing
comprehensive strategies and forging unprecedented
partnerships for community renewal that made all applicants
winners.
* National Service Act, September 21, 1993.
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In 1994, 20,000 AmeriCorps members (more than served during
the largest year of the Peace Corps) tutored students,
immunized children, reclaimed parks and patrolled streets --
and in return received education awards that make college or
job training more affordable. AmeriCorps is scheduled to
increase to 33,000 members in FY1995, with a total over the
first three years of 100,000 Americans serving our country.
* Assistance for the New Independent States (NIS), September
30, 1993 and August 23, 1994.
The Administration secured $3.3 billion in the FY1994 and
FY1995 foreign operations appropriations bills for the
denuclearization and marketization process in the NIS.
* Reduced Military/Nuclear Threat from Russia and NIS,
November 11, 1993 and September 30, 1994.
The Administration included $800 million for
denuclearization of NIS in the Department of Defense
appropriations bills for FY1994 and FY1995.
* The Brady Act, November 30, 1993.
After stalling for several years in Congress, the Brady Bill
became law under the leadership of President Clinton. The
Act requires a five-day waiting period during which all
potential handgun purchasers are required to submit to a
background check. $100 million has been appropriated for
implementation in FY1995 and another $25 million is
authorized for the next fiscal year.
* NAFTA, December 8, 1993.
The Administration forged a bipartisan coalition to pass
NAFTA, after concluding tough negotiations on side
agreements covering workers' rights, the environment and
import surges. Exports to Mexico rose 23% in the first 11
months of 1994.
*
Federal Workforce Restructuring Act, March 30, 1994.
As a component of the National Performance Review, this act
is part of a process that will help streamline the federal
government and improve the quality of federal government
services. When the President and Vice President's plan to
reinvent government is fully implemented, the federal
workforce will have been reduced by over 272,000 workers and
will be at its lowest level since the Kennedy
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Administration.
* Goals 2000: Educate America Act, March 31, 1994.
The Goals 2000 bill codifies the National Education Goals
and offers grants to states that commit themselves to
specific plans for systemic reform of K-12 education.
Already 41 states and territories have received federal
grants. Funding for Goals 2000 in FY1995 will be $403
million.
* School-to-Work Act Opportunities, May 4, 1994.
A crucial element of the Administration's lifelong learning
agenda, this landmark legislation is providing venture
capital to spark a nationwide system for moving America's
young people smoothly from the classroom to a job with a
future. In 1994, all states, plus the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico, received funds for planning their
school-to-work programs, and eight states, 15 localities and
21 urban/rural high poverty areas won competitive grants to
implement their programs.
* The Crime Bill, September 13, 1994.
The Crime Bill attacks crime by adding 100,000 police
officers, funding comprehensive prevention programs and
building more prisons. The legislation also includes strong
punishment for criminals by expanding the number of offenses
eligible for the death penalty and implementing
"three-strikes-and-you're-out" for repeat violent
offenders.
* Assault Weapons Ban, September 13, 1994.
President Clinton successfully challenged gun interests to
ban 19 specific types of deadly assault weapons while
simultaneously protecting hunters rights by exempting over
650 hunting rifles.
* Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions
Act, September 23, 1994.
The legislation creates a national network of
non-traditional grassroots community lending institutions
and will inject $4.8 billion of capital into economically
distressed urban and rural areas.
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* Interstate Banking Act, September 29, 1994.
This legislation, which had been languishing in Congress for
more than a decade before the Clinton Administration made it
a priority, will eliminate most of the remaining barriers to
efficient nationwide banking. By allowing banks to locate
branches across state boundaries, it will make banking more
efficient and increase the convenience of banking for
private consumers.
* The Uruguay Round of GATT, December 8, 1994.
President Clinton forged a bi-partisan coalition to pass
this agreement, which lowers tariffs worldwide by $744
billion over ten years -- the largest international tax cut
in history. It also cuts foreign tariffs on manufactured
products by more than one-third overall and eliminates
tariffs in major markets in a number of sectors in which the
U.S. is particularly competitive. When fully implemented in
2004, the Uruguay Round agreement will add $100 to $200
billion per year to the U.S. GDP.
#####
CLINTON CAMPAIGN PROMISES PROGRESS REPORT
Promises from the Washington Post
Of the 162 Total Promises:
Action taken: 96%
No Action: 4%
Substantial or
Partial Accomplishment: 76%
Action Pending: 7%
Action Proposed: 12%
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No Action: 4%
Promises from Putting People First
Of the 58 Total Promises:
Action Taken: 98%
No Action: 2%
Substantial or
Partial Accomplishment: 78%
Action Pending: 5%
Action Proposed: 12%
No Action: 2%
#####
CLINTON CAMPAIGN PROMISES
FROM THE WASHINGTON POST
The Clinton campaign promises below were printed by the
Washington Post on President Clinton's inauguration day, January
20, 1993.
***PROMISE: ABORTION - Pass the Freedom of Choice Act that
protects abortion rights but allows some state restrictions, such
as parental notification.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Freedom of Choice Act did not pass in
Congress.
***PROMISE: ABORTION - Overturn laws prohibiting federal abortion
funding.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Federal law requires Medicaid to pay for
abortions for poor women in cases of rape or incest. Congress
added rape and incest authorization to life of the woman abortion
funding.
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***PROMISE: ABORTION - Repeal Bush administration rules
restricting abortion counseling in clinics that receive federal
funds.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Repealed by Presidential Memorandum January
22, 1993.
***PROMISE: ABORTION - Protect women seeking abortions and health
care workers from antiabortion protesters.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Signed and enforcing Clinic Access Law.
***PROMISE: ABORTION - Reauthorize federal family planning
programs.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Reauthorization is up for consideration in
1995.
***PROMISE: ABORTION - Allow testing of RU-486 abortion pill.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Clinical testing of RU-486 is now in
progress in the U.S.
***PROMISE: AGRICULTURE - Open new markets for U.S. products,
particularly in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Enacted Freedom Support Act which authorized expanded Food for
Peace program in the Former Soviet Union.
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* Opened up Japanese and Korean rice markets. Opened apple
markets in Japan and China to US producers.
* Passed and signed NAFTA.
* Passed and signed GATT.
***PROMISE: AGRICULTURE - Expand international food aid programs.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Announced $800 million Food for Progress program expanding
U.S. agricultural exports to Russia.
* Food aid extended to countries including Angola, Ethiopia,
Congo, Croatia, Macedonia and Mozambique. Increased program
size in most cases.
***PROMISE: AIDS - Increase funding for research, treatment and
prevention.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Increased Ryan White CARE Act funding for outpatient AIDS care
by $231 million to $579 million for FY94
* Proposed a 20% increase in NIH spending for AIDS research.
Received $633 million for FY95, an 83% percent increase.
***PROMISE: AIDS - Appoint a policy coordinator to enact
recommendations of the National Commission on AIDS.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Appointed first ever AIDS czar to focus on consolidating
federal resources and funds to find a cure and address issues
surrounding AIDS.
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***PROMISE: AIDS - Speed up federal drug approval process.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Set up the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development to
Create a public-private sector partnership to speed AIDS drugs to
market.
* The FDA has approved or provided new labeling indications for
six products for HIV and related condition.
***PROMISE: AIDS - Fully fund the Ryan White CARE Act.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Increased Ryan White CARE Act funding for outpatient AIDS care
by $231 million to $579 million for FY94.
* Proposed a 20% increase in NIH spending for AIDS research.
Received $633 million for FY95, an 83% percent increase.
***PROMISE: AIDS - Launch education and prevention program and
support local awareness and prevention efforts to distribute
condoms in schools.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Instituted community prevention planning for greater local
control over HIV education efforts.
* Began Prevention Marketing Initiative aimed at young adults to
change HIV risk behaviors, including ads promoting both
abstinence and consistent use of latex condoms.
* Issued memorandum to heads of executive departments and
agencies instructing them to implement ongoing HIV/AIDS education
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and prevention programs and to develop nondiscriminatory
workplace policies for employees with HIV/AIDS.
* Began National AIDS Awareness Advertising Campaign in January
1994.
***PROMISE: AIDS - End AIDS-related immigration and travel
restrictions.
STATUS:NO ACTION
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Congress has mandated continuation of this
policy.
***PROMISE: ARMS CONTROL - Ratify START I and START II treaties.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* START I entered into force on December 5, 1994.
* START II hearings will begin in late January or early February
in the Senate.
***PROMISE: ARMS CONTROL - Use sanctions to seek stronger export
controls from countries with technologies for nuclear and other
arms.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Sanctioned China and Pakistan for missile sales and Thailand
for chemical weapons-related exports to Libya. Sanctioning
Russia for Arms sales to Iran.
* Provided export-control assistance to numerous countries,
including Russia and the NIS and Central European States.
***PROMISE: ARMS CONTROL - Prevent foreign governments from using
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agricultural and other non-military aid on weapons.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Vigorously enforced prohibition on using
non-military aid for military purposes. No pending
non-compliance cases.
***PROMISE: ARMS CONTROL - Enable the International Atomic Energy
Agency to conduct more inspections to stop nuclear proliferation.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Increased IAEA funding $10 million, a 33% increase in U.S.
contribution to safeguards.
* Reached an Agreed Framework with North Korea that halts and
will eventually eliminate its dangerous nuclear weapons program
and that eases full IAEA access to nuclear sites.
***PROMISE: ARMS CONTROL - Press countries to join the Missile
Technology Control Regime.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Concluded agreements with Russia, Ukraine,
and China to abide by MTCR guidelines. Hungary and Argentina
have joined the MTCR and Brazil has committed itself publicly to
adhere to the MTCR guidelines.
***PROMISE: ARMS CONTROL Seek Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and
an international agreement banning chemical weapons.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Suspended nuclear testing and began work
with other governments to achieve a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
by 1996. Obtained Senate approval for Open Skies Treaty and sent
to Senate the Chemical Weapons Convention, which would ban an
entire class of weapons of mass destruction.
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***PROMISE: ARTS - Oppose restrictions on grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts based on content.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: No content restrictions on NEA grants have
been imposed.
***PROMISE: BUDGET - Halve the annual federal budget deficit in
four years, from the $323 billion gap first projected by the
Congressional Budget Office for 1993 to $141 billion in 1996.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton signed into law the
largest deficit reduction plan in history August 10, 1993.
Under the plan:
* the deficit, as a percentage of GDP, will be cut by more than
one- half from 4.9% in 1992 to 2.4% in 1995;
* the deficit will drop by more than $700 billion dollars over 5
years; and
* the deficit will drop 3 years in a row for the first time since
Harry Truman was President.
***PROMISE: BUDGET Seek a line-item veto to cut wasteful
spending.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* In the 104th Congress, President Clinton is supporting the
strongest version of the line item veto, with the broadest scope
and effective immediately.
* In the 103rd Congress, President Clinton supported expedited
rescission authority, which was adopted in the House but never
reached the full Senate for consideration.
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***PROMISE: CITIES - Offer tax and regulatory incentives to
businesses that create jobs in urban enterprise zones.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton proposed and signed into
law legislation for empowerment zones in August 1993 that will
award $3.5 billion to 104 empowerment zones and enterprise
communities. President Clinton announced in December 1994 which
communities will be designated Empowerment Zones in 1995: (1) 6
urban communities will each receive $100 million in block grants
and business tax breaks; and (2) 3 rural communities will receive
$40 million in assistance and block grants.
***PROMISE: CITIES - Provide funding and block grants to improve
infrastructure.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* $300 million has been appropriated for the new Economic
Development Initiative (EDI) of the FY 95 budget which will
provide grants to assist financing of economic development
projects.
* FY 96 budget calls for reinventing HUD, which will involve
creating new flexible block grants for community economic
development and consolidating a number of current formula-based
and competitive programs.
***PROMISE: CITIES - Create a network of 100 community
development banks to aid low-income entrepreneurs and homeowners.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton proposed and signed into
law the Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act in
August 1994 which authorizes $500 million to encourage a network
of new and existing Community Development Banks and Financial
Institutions (CDFIs) across the country. The Treasury Department
projects that the act will:
* lead to approximately $5 billion in new credit for economically
distressed communities;
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* provide financial and technical support for as many as 75 new
insured community development banks; and
* support as many as 916 new well- capitalized community
development corporations and over 4,000 community development
loan funds.
***PROMISE: CITIES - Revise local reinvestment requirements for
commercial banks.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The federal banking regulatory agencies, at
the request of the Clinton Administration, are in the process of
approving final regulations which will:
* provide clearer and more objective evaluation standards;
* eliminate unnecessary documentation requirements; and
* improve the consistency of the Community Reinvestment Act
examinations and enforcement efforts.
***PROMISE: CITIES - Allow cities to spend 15 percent of their
federal aid on local priorities.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Reinventing Government plan would give
local governments more flexibility in how they spend federal aid.
***PROMISE: CIVIL RIGHTS - Oppose racial quotas
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Continue to oppose racial quotas.
***PROMISE: CIVIL RIGHTS - Support and seek passage of an Equal
Rights Amendment and federal civil rights laws for homosexuals
that exempts religious organizations.
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STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Testified on behalf of Senate legislation
in the 103rd Congress.
***PROMISE: CIVIL RIGHTS - Raise caps on damages in workplace
discrimination cases.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Endorsed House and Senate bills in the
103rd Congress.
***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Put 100,000 new police officers to
work and expand community policing.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The President proposed and signed the Crime
Bill, which will:
* Put 100,000 new police officers on the street. More than 1,200
communities have already received grants to hire nearly 10,000
cops.
* Promote community policing. $1.3 billion was appropriated for
cities in FY95 to hire new police, if cities agree to establish a
community policing plan. As much as 15% of the funds can be used
to promote community policing in other ways, such as, redeploying
other officers, developing new technologies, and offering
specialized training to officers.
***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Create a National Police Corps to
put military personnel and unemployed veterans to work in law
enforcement.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill created a police corps to
give young people money for college and train them in community
policing. A total of $100 million has been authorized for the
Police Corps program and $100 million has been authorized for
in-service law enforcement scholarships.
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***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Have first-time, nonviolent
offenders serve out their sentences in community boot camps.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill includes a grant program for
state corrections agencies to build correctional facilities,
including boot camps to insure that additional space will be
available to put - and keep - violent offenders incarcerated.
***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Enact tough penalties for assaults
against women and children to deter domestic violence.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill includes formula and
competitive grant programs which will:
* Support police and prosecutor efforts to strengthen enforcement
and provide services to victims in such cases;
* Authorize $325 million for battered women's shelters and other
domestic violence prevention activities;
* Establish a National Domestic Violence Hotline.
The Crime Bill also provides for:
* Prohibiting firearms sales to and possession by persons subject
to family violence restraining orders;
* Enhancing penalties for interstate domestic violence.
***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Increase federal funding for
school- based and community drug education programs and treatment
clinics.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill authorizes funding for:
* Education prevention and treatment programs for at-risk
juveniles;
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* Drug Courts program ;
* Enhancing the education, providing substance abuse treatment
and funding job programs to prevent crimes.
***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Provide federal matching funds for
crime prevention in hard-hit communities.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill authorizes funding for:
* The President's Prevention Council;
* Rural anti-crime and drug efforts;
* Local Crime Prevention Block Grant program to be distributed to
local governments;
*
Model crime prevention programs targeted at high-crime
neighborhoods; up to 15 cities will be selected.
***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Impose a five-day waiting period on
handgun purchases, ban assault weapons with no legitimate hunting
purpose, and limit access to multiple-round clips.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Signed the Brady Bill into law on November
30, 1993. The Crime Bill also provides for the following:
* Banning the manufacture of 19 military-style assault weapons,
assault weapons with specific combat features, "copy-cat" models,
and certain high-capacity ammunition magazines of more than ten
rounds;
*
Banning imports of foreign assault pistols, such as the Uzi;
*
Strengthening Federal licensing standards for firearms dealers;
*
Increasing penalties for interstate firearms trafficking;
firearms theft and smuggling and use of semi-automatic weapons;
*
Prohibiting the sale or transfer of a firearm to or possession
of certain firearms by juveniles.
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CRIME AND DRUGS: Seek jail terms for serious white-collar
criminals in "real prisons, not high-tech summer camps."
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill prohibits favoritism for
white-collar criminals when making prison assignments.
***PROMISE: CRIME AND DRUGS - Crack down on hate crimes.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill includes an increase of
tough penalties for federal hate crimes. Hate crime violators
will now be sentenced to an additional 12 to 15 months in prison.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Save $100 billion in defense spending over
5 years, or $60 billion more than the Bush administration
proposed.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The $1.241 trillion military spending plan
for FY94-98 matched this pledge, as measured against the revised
$1.365 trillion Bush defense budget for the same years.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Cut military personnel by offering
voluntary early retirement and pro-rated pensions for those who
have served 15 to 20 years.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Offered such benefits to certain personnel
classes.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Pay retiring personnel for a year of
retraining. 3
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Several retraining programs have been
implemented since January 1993.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Build fleet of C-17 cargo planes to expand
sea- and air-lift capabilities and enhance rapid-deployment
forces.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:Worked to ensure that C-17 manufacturers
address all outstanding business issues and performance
specifications; requested funds for 6 aircraft in FY95. 26 C-17S
now under contract.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Reduce U.S. forces in Europe to
75,000-100,000 troops but maintain commitment to NATO.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* On target to reduce to 100,000 level.
* Proposed and won Allied approval for process of NATO S gradual
expansion to Europe S new democracies.
* Led way in NATO and with Central and Eastern European countries
to set up Partnership for Peace (PFP), offering former Soviet
republics and CEE nations practical military ties with NATO.
* Held PFP first military exercise in Poland in September.
* Intensified military relations with CEE, including offer of $10
million Baltic Battalion, offer of $100 million for military
cooperation with new PFP Partners, including $25 million for
Poland.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Maintain U.S. military presence in Korea.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: 37,000 American troops remain in Korean
theater. Patriot missiles were sent in 1994 when crisis loomed.
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***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Maintain 10 carrier battlegroups instead of
12.
STATUS: NO ACTION
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: As a result of Bottom-Up Review, decided
11.5 carriers were required.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Develop short- and medium-range missile
defenses and continue research on limited long-range missile
defenses.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Requesting over $2 billion in FY95 funds to
continue research on national missile defense and to develop
highly effective theater missile defenses.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Cut spending on large, space-based missile
defenses.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Reduced funding for space-based lasers and
missiles. Eliminated SDIO and created Ballistic Missile Defense
Organizations in its place.
***PROMISE: DEFENSE - Reverse ban on homosexuals in the military.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: New, more tolerant policy took effect
February 28, 1994.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Create a National Economic
Council.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Executive Order 12835 established the NEC
on January 25, 1993.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - End tax incentives that encourage
companies to export plants and jobs.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Two Clinton Administration initiatives have
advanced this pledge:
* President Clinton's Economic Plan 1993 added a provision in the
Internal Revenue Code that imposes a current tax on U.S.
shareholders of controlled foreign corporations that invest their
earnings in an excessive amount of passive assets abroad. By
reducing the opportunities for unlimited deferral, the incentive
to shift plants overseas is significantly reduced; and
* transfer pricing initiatives have reduced the opportunity to
shift income to foreign tax havens.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Provide investment tax credits to
companies that invest in U.S.- based plant sand American-made
equipment.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Proposed incremental investment tax credit in 1993, but did not
pass in Congress.
* The President's Economic Plan increased the small business
expensing limit to $17,500 from $10,000 (an increase to $25,000
was proposed). The change allows small business owners to
expense 75% more of their purchases of depreciable assets, a
measure that small business had sought unsuccessfully for years.
The Treasury Department estimates that 1.3 million small
businesses will benefit from the provision this year.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Make foreign companies with
businesses in the United States pay the same taxes as U.S.
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companies.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: July 1994 the Treasury issued final
regulations governing transfer pricing. These rules, backed by
severe penalties, are expected to ensure that an accurate amount
of multinational company profits are subject to tax in the United
States. In addition:
* President Clinton's Economic Plan 1993 included a provision
that will make it more difficult for multinational companies to
strip earnings out of the U.S. through deductible payments such
as interest; and
* the Clinton Administration has budgeted significant resources
to the enforcement of these rules governing transfer pricing.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Offer a 50 percent tax exclusion
to those who make long-term investments in new businesses.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Administration enacted, as part of its
Economic Plan 1993, a 50% capital gains tax exclusion targeted at
investments in small businesses. The provision allows investors
who buy newly issued stock in small businesses and hold that
stock for more than 5 years to receive a 50 percent cut in the
capital gains tax on the profit from the sale of the stock.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Create a $20 billion-a-year fund
for spending on transportation and roads, communications and
information networks, and environmental technology.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* President Clinton announced a five-year $20 billion Defense
Reinvestment initiative in March 1993 that is centered on four
major areas of new investment: (1) worker training and
adjustment; (2) community reinvestment; (3) "dual-use"
technologies with both commercial and military applications; and
(4) new civilian technology investments that provide
diversification opportunities
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* EPA's enacted budget for environmental technology doubled over
the FY1993-FY1995 period, to $139 million. Other new funding for
private sector technology partnerships are 1) U.S. Climate Change
Action Program -- $232 million FY1995 enacted -- and 2)
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (Clean Car) -- $269
million FY1995 enacted.
* The President's FY 1996 budget will propose establishing a
network of State Infrastructure Banks that will allow states to
leverage federal funding, thereby achieving a greater level of
investment from a given level of federal resources.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Make business tax credits for
research and development permanent.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Administration secured a three-year
extension of the Research & Development tax credit, retroactive
to June 30, 1992 and effective through June 30, 1995.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Develop new commercial
technologies through a new civilian research and development
agency.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:The President has refocused defense R&D on
"dual-use" technologies:
*
Removed the word Defense from DARPA's name (Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency) to reflect a new commercial focus.
* Launched the Technology Reinvestment Project, the largest
multi-agency technology program ever, to stimulate dual-use
technology.
*
Increased budgetary support of civilian R&D. Funding for the
Advanced Technology Program has increased from $68 million in
FY93 to $431 million in FY95.
* Created the National Science and Technology Council to help
define and achieve science and technology goals.
* Government-industry partnerships have been launched in critical
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technologies such as flat-panel displays, the "Clean Car",
semiconductors, and environmental technologies necessary for
sustainable economic development.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Raise the minimum wage to keep
pace with inflation.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The National Economic Council is in the
process of making a recommendation to the President.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS - Limit deductions for executive
pay.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: As part of his Economic Plan, President
Clinton signed legislation that denies a deduction to any
publicly held corporation for compensation exceeding $1 million
paid to CEOs or certain other high-ranked officers. Some forms of
compensation, such as qualified retirement plan contributions and
performance based awards approved by shareholders, is exempt from
the cap.
***PROMISE: ECONOMY AND JOBS Allow businesses to deduct bonus
and severance packages for executives only if other employees are
offered similar packages.
STATUS: NO ACTION
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Create a national service program that
allows college students to repay federal loans with community
work.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton proposed and signed the
National and Community Service Trust Act creating AmeriCorps
September 21, 1993. AmeriCorps is already:
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* giving young people the chance to spend a year or more helping
those within our communities grow safer, smarter, and healthier
-- while earning an award of $4,725 per year of service to pay
for college or job training;
* engaging 20,000 Americans as AmeriCorps Members in its first
year -- more than the Peace Corps at its height; and
* consolidating existing Federal agencies and supporting local
efforts to meet community needs.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Fully fund Head Start and other programs
recommended by the National Commission on Children.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Increased funding for Head Start by $760
million over 2 years.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Enact national standards for public
schools to be measured with examinations on core subjects.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Proposed and signed the GOALS 2000: Educate
America Act which codifies national education goals, supports
state reform efforts, including state standards. 41 states are
now participating, and more will follow soon.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Help students not going to college
develop job skills through a national apprenticeship program.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton signed the School-to-Work
Opportunities Act on May 4, 1994 that provides $250 million in
1995 for all 50 states to plan and develop their own diverse
school-to-work initiatives.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Help communities open youth centers for
teenagers who drop out of school.
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STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill includes several provisions
that fulfill this promise:
* the Community Schools Youth Services and Supervision effort
will support academic and extracurricular programs after- school,
on weekends, and in the summer for children and adolescents (For
1995, $25.9 million will be available and $567 million is
authorized for 1996-2000); and
* the Family and Community Endeavor Schools initiative will
improve opportunities for at-risk children ($11 million is
available for 1995 and $243 million is authorized for 1996-2000).
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Require employers to spend 1.5 percent of
payroll costs on education and training for all workers.
STATUS: NO ACTION
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton has pursued providing
training and reemployment assistance for all workers in a number
of different ways:
* increasing funding for reemployment services by 150 percent,
enabling 400,000 more workers to participate in 1995 than in
1993;
* offering individual skills assessments and help with business
start-ups to those applying for unemployment services; and
* helping states to plan or assemble networks of one-stop career
centers to offer efficient, customer-driven access to counseling,
labor-market information, job listings, training and education,
and other reemployment services (about one- half of the states
are planning or implementing these centers).
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Encourage competition in education by
giving parents public school choice.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Passed Charter School legislation which
encourages state and local decision making to set up public
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school choice.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Increase Chapter One funding to "level
the playing field" for disadvantaged students.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Requested an additional $500 million for
FY95 bringing the total budget to $7.2 billion.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Give school systems flexibility to use
federal funds to reduce class sizes or as they see fit.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Enacted Goals 2000 and reauthorized the
Elementary and Secondary Schools Act which provide flexibility,
including waivers, coupled with accountability for results.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Develop programs that help disadvantaged
parents work with their children on school assignments.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
reauthorization which promotes partnerships between schools and
families.
* Signed Head Start and Goals 2000 legislation which expand and
enhance the role of parents in schools and pre-school programs.
* Signed the Family Support and Family Preservation Act which
authorizes $1 billion to support programs that help teach their
children.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Provide funds for security and metal
detectors at schools that need them.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Proposed and signed the Passed Safe and
Drug Free Schools and Community Act and Safe Schools Act, which
provide $480 million in FY95 to help schools fight violence and
drug abuse. Schools can use funds for activities such as
conflict resolution, after school programs, and drug prevention
programs. Schools can use up to 25% of their funds to purchase
metal detectors, develop safe zones, and hire school security
personnel.
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Require large federal contractors to
sponsor jobs and after-school employment for disadvantaged
youths.
STATUS: NO ACTION
***PROMISE: EDUCATION - Promote bilingual education programs in
which students learn core subjects in their native languages
while also studying English.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Discretionary grant program included in
ESEA encourages students to learn challenging academic content
while also developing English skills.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Support District of
Columbia statehood.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Supported legislation to make the District
of Columbia a state.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Voluntarily cap spending
in congressional races and reduce contributions from Political
Action Committees from $5,000 to the $1,000 limit on individuals.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Campaign finance reform bills supported in the 103rd Congress
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capped spending and limited the role of PACs.
* The President sent a letter to leaders of the 104th Congress
urging them to pass legislation on campaign finance reform.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - End unlimited "soft
money"
contributions to parties.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Included in campaign finance reform bill supported by President
Clinton. Versions of the bill passed both houses.
* On the first day of the current Congressional session,
President Clinton called on the Congressional leadership to enact
campaign finance reform measures.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Restrict prices on TV ad
time for candidates.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Included in campaign finance reform bill supported by President
Clinton. Versions of the bill passed both houses.
* On the first day of the current Congressional session,
President Clinton called on the Congressional leadership to enact
campaign finance reform measures.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Sign the "Motor Voter
Act."
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Proposed and signed the National Voter
Registration Act on May 20,1993. The Motor-Voter law makes it
easier for 70 million unregistered Americans to vote by allowing
them to register when they get their driver's licenses.
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***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Require lobbyists to
disclose contributions to members of a congressional committee
before they can testify.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
*
Proposed legislation barring lobbyists from contributing for
one year to the lawmakers they contact.
* The President sent a letter to leaders of the 104th Congress
urging them to pass legislation on lobbying disclosure and ban
gifts from lobbyists.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - End tax breaks for
lobbying expenses.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton's Economic Plan of 1993
repealed the tax provision, dating back to 1962, that allowed
businesses to deduct the cost of their lobbying expenses.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Make top appointees
pledge
not to lobby agencies within their jurisdiction for five years
after leaving office
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Signed Executive Order 12834, entitled
"Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees" on January
20, 1993 which restricts all senior appointees in executive
agencies from lobbying agencies within their jurisdiction for
five years after leaving office.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Reduce the White House
staff by 25 percent and cut 100,000 federal jobs through
attrition.
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STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* By September 1994, 350 White House jobs had been cut from a
staff of 1,394 during the Bush Administration -- a 25% reduction.
* Federal employment has already been reduced by 100,000
positions. Under the recommendations of the National
Performance Review, the federal payroll will be cut by 272,000.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Cut 3 percent in agency
administrative costs.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton signed Executive Order
12837 in February 1993 which requires that federal government
reduce its administrative expenses by 14% by FY 1997. Already,
administrative costs are down by more than 3 percent.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Reform defense
procurement
and foreign aid
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Signed Presidential Memorandum on Electronic Commerce to
automate the procurement system.
* Defense Secretary William Perry has ordered dramatic
procurement reforms.
*
Signed the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994.
* Undertook extensive review and restructuring of foreign aid
programs.
***PROMISE: ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT - Appoint more women and
minorities to government jobs.
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STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The President has appointed the most
diverse cabinet and administration in history:
* There are 6 women, 4 African-Americans & 2 Hispanics in the
cabinet.
* Nearly half of all appointees are women (44%).
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Oppose increasing
federal excise gas taxes or increased reliance on nuclear power.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* No increased reliance on nuclear power. No new nuclear power
plants.
* Opposed large gas tax increase, but did sign a $0.043 per
gallon tax increase on transportation fuels.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Raise Corporate
Average
Fuel Economy standards for auto makers from 27.5 miles per gallon
to between 40 and 45.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Under the Climate Action Plan, the White
House convened at FACA on climate change and personal cars - "Car
Talk." This is a public process aimed at developing policies
designed to reduce the contribution of cars to climate change.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Convert federal
vehicle
fleet to natural gas.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
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* Issued an Executive Order increasing the numbers of federal
vehicles that should use alternative fuels to 11,000 in 1994.
* The Clean Cities program ensures the Executive Order levels
will be exceeded.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Encourage renewable
and
alternative energy projects with tax incentives.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Federal partnerships launched to cost-share
renewable energy deployment; 20% increase in renewable energy
budget; and 10% investment tax credit was made permanent.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Use highway spending
to
encourage carpooling and mass transit.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Mass transit budget has increased 21% from
1993 to 1995. EPA has worked with business, state and local
governments on programs to encourage experimentation in
transportation demanded management and trip reduction to improve
air quality in the nation's most polluted areas.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Change regulations,
and
building standards, to make energy efficiency profitable for
utilities and consumers.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* The administration is reaching out to American business with
programs that increase energy efficiency, decrease energy use and
help our international competitiveness.
* Improved efficiency standards on appliances implemented, and
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program launched to assist states in upgrading building
efficiency codes.
* Dramatic increases in budget for building efficiency programs.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Curb industrial and
toxic emissions and expand markets for recycled products with tax
incentives.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* President Clinton signed an Executive Order requiring reduction
of toxic emissions from federal facilities by 50 percent by 1999.
* The President issued a second Executive Order requiring that
all federal purchases of recycled products such as printing and
writing that contains 20 percent post consumer material by the
end of 1990 to expand markets for recycled products.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Enforce environmental
laws with jail terms for corporate polluters when necessary.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Over 200 criminal environmental cases were referred by the EPA
to the Department of Justice in FY94.
* Criminal charges were brought against 250 individuals and
corporate defendants and 99 years of jail sentences and $36.8
million in criminal fines were assessed in FY94.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Push utilities to
consider social and economic costs of fuel sources with
incentives to adopt least-cost planning.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
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* President's Climate Change Action plan launched program to
advocate integrated resource planning and expanded technical and
financial assistance to utilities and state regulators to
implement reforms.
* Over 800 electric utilities comprising 80% of electricity
generated in the US are signing agreements with the Department of
Energy to voluntarily reduce consumers' energy use.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Protect expanded
Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from drilling.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: There has been no further drilling in these
areas.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Require companies to
recover some of the waste they generate or buy "credits" from
companies that do.
STATUS: NO ACTION
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Pass Clean Water Act
that includes incentives to reduce "non-point-source" pollution
from household chemicals, pesticides and other substances.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Proposed to Congress a comprehensive set of
Clean Water Act reforms. Congress failed to act.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Allow citizens to sue
federal agencies for ignoring environmental laws and regulations.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* The Clean Water Act reauthorization proposal supported the
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right of citizens to sue the Federal Government.
* In addition, the Administration has aggressively implemented
the Federal Facilities Compliance Act which provides citizens
with the right to sue the Federal government for violation of the
nation's solid and hazardous waste laws.
* Supported broadening Clean Water Act so that citizen suit
authority would extend to radioactivity discharges.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Stick to "no net loss"
wetlands policy.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Introduced Wetlands Plan to preserve
wetlands.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Limit carbon dioxide
emissions to 1990 levels by 2000.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Announced plan to limit carbon dioxide
emissions to 1990 levels in the year 2000.
***PROMISE: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Push major banks to
reduce debt burdens on developing nations in exchange for land
conservation efforts.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Draft administration proposal on debt swaps
for sustainable development under consideration.
***PROMISE: FAMILY PLANNING - Allow U.S. funds to support
international family planning and population control efforts.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
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* Mexico City Policy revoked by Presidential Memorandum, 1/22/93,
repealed ban on funding to worldwide family planning groups.
* Roughly $40 million, the first funding since 1985, was is in
the budget for FY94; the enacted amount for FY95 is $50 million.
***PROMISE: FAMILIES - Pass a Family and Medical Leave Act giving
workers 12 weeks of unpaid time off a year to care for newborn
children or sick relatives.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Though President Bush vetoed Family and
Medical Leave legislation twice, President Clinton signed this
legislation into law February 5, 1993, which offers employees 12
weeks of unpaid, job-guaranteed leave for childbirth, adoption,
or personal or family illness. More than 40 million American
workers will be covered under the legislation.
***PROMISE: FAMILIES - Crackdown on parents who avoid child
support.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* In its first national push to crack down on dead-beat parents,
the Department of Justice filed 28 cases seeking over $1 million
in overdue payments in December, 1994, and more than 200 cases
are under review. Also, each of the 94 U.S. Attorneys has
designated a child support enforcement coordinator, and
prosecution guidelines have been developed to assist them in
going after the most egregious violators.
* President Clinton's Work and Responsibility Act, introduced in
June 1994, includes the toughest child support provisions ever.
These provisions would double child support collections to $20
billion by 2000 and place more emphasis on the responsibility of
fathers, regular award updates, and the withholding of wages of
those who do not regularly pay their child support.
***PROMISE: FAMILIES - Create a child care network like the
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network of public schools and enforce new standards on childcare
facilities.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Launching nationwide effort to improve health and safety in
childcare through public-private partnerships and technical
assistance.
* Launched 1st ever National Childcare Information Center to help
share promising practices across state lines.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Provide coverage to all Americans with
cost controls and by requiring employers to buy private insurance
or pay into a public system.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Allow people to choose services from
competing local networks of insurers, hospitals, clinics and
doctors, who will be paid a fixed rate.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Provide a core benefits package that
includes ambulatory physician and inpatient hospital care,
prescription drugs, basic mental health coverage, and expanded
access to preventative treatments and routine screenings.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Create a board of consumers, providers
and representatives from government, business and labor to
establish a core package of benefits and annual health budget
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targets.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Require insurers to cover individuals
with any pre-existing conditions, charge all businesses in a
community the same rate, and streamline billing practices to cut
administrative costs.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Phase in requirements for small
employers until costs are reduced.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Allow small employers to pool to
receive more favorable rates from insurers.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Eliminate tax breaks for prescription
drug manufacturers whose prices increase faster than incomes.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* President Clinton proposed and signed legislation, as part of
his Economic Plan 1993, that will eliminate drug price gouging.
Subsequently, 17 pharmaceutical industry executives, representing
two-thirds of the U.S. pharmaceutical market, agreed to hold
price increases at or below the general inflation rate.
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* Also included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Expand Medicare benefits for the
elderly and disabled to include more options for long-term care.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in the Health Care Security Act.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Fully fund the Women, Infants, and
Children (WIC) Program
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton and Congress placed WIC
on a full-funding path. Funding is projected to increase by $610
million from 1993 to 1995 -- a 21% gain. As a result, an
additional one million people will have the opportunity to get
the nutrition and care they need to stay healthy.
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Hold a Housing and Homelessness Summit with
urban leaders to develop poverty and housing programs.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: HUD Secretary Cisneros held 18 interactive
homeless forums in 18 cities and a National Housing and Community
Development Conference with the Vice President attended by over
2,000 people. These forums led to publication of the Federal
Plan to End Homelessness.
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Transfer 10 percent of all federal housing
to churches and other non-profit community groups for the
homeless.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Support McKinney program which has
continued to provide opportunity to nonprofit homeless
organizations to have first bid at all surplus federal property.
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Proposed legislation to give local nonprofit organization a
direct role in determining use of HUD homeless resources.
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Use housing at closed military bases for
the homeless.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:Backing new process that will allow for
reasonable process for balancing needs for the homeless and
community for closed military bases. In place at Lowry AFB, Long
Beach, Ca and elsewhere.
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Provide federal support to programs that
restore old housing to sell to low-income homebuyers.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in Housing and Community
Development Act, 1993
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Attract investment with a permanent Low
Income Housing Tax Credit.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Permanent extension of Low Income Tax
Credit and Mortgage Revenue Bonds included in the President's
Economic Plan of 1993.
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Provide increased federal funding for
maintenance of existing public housing.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Increased budget from $3.2 billion in FY94
to $3.7 billion in FY95.
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Raise the ceiling on Federal Housing
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Authority mortgage insurance to 95 percent of the price of a home
in average metropolitan areas.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Introduced legislation to raise ceiling in
103rd Congress. Passed House but failed in Senate.
***PROMISE: HOUSING - Expand local authority to make more
low-income rental units available through the HOME Program.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: HOME is funded at $2 billion for FY95.
Proposed full funding of HOME in FY 1995 and reduced regulatory
impediments to local use.
***PROMISE: IMMIGRATION - Give temporary asylum to political
refugees from Haiti until that country's elected government is
restored.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Provided temporary asylum at Guantanamo
Naval Base for Haitians fleeing the military regime and restored
democratic government to Haiti.
***PROMISE: IMMIGRATION - Cut the two-year waiting period for
people seeking visas to the United States who are separated from
immediate family members and reduce the backlog of extended
family members in similar situations.
STATUS: NO ACTION
***PROMISE: IMMIGRATION - Close "sweatshops" and" abusive farm
labor contractors" that rely on illegal immigration.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Enforcement in low wage industries, in which
many illegal workers work, has been increased and will continue
to be increased. INS has strengthened enforcement of employer
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sanction laws to deter hiring of illegal immigrants. INS has
expanded efforts to reduce the sale of fraudulent documents.
***PROMISE: IMMIGRATION - Use trade agreements with Latin
American neighbors to raise wages in that region, discourage
immigration and protect U.S. jobs.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Passed NAFTA.
*
Concluded and passed a successful GATT agreement.
* Agreed to negotiate a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005.
* Held successful Summit of the Americas to strengthen and
safeguard democracy and promote open-markets.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Link most-favored-nation
trading status for China with progress on human rights and
nuclear proliferation.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: MFN was linked to China's human rights
record for a year. Although the Administration is not satisfied
with China's progress in the area of human rights, it delivered
MFN in favor of increased dialogue and rule of law programs;
continued "Tienanmen Square" sanctions, a ban on munitions
imports from China, and vigorous enforcement of US laws on prison
labor exports.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Seek U.N. authorization for
air strikes against forces that disrupt relief efforts in Bosnia
while using U.S. and European naval forces to tighten economic
sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
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* Won NATO commitments to protect UN forces with airpower and to
threaten air strikes to prevent strangulation of Sarajevo and
other areas. Secured NATO S February 1994 ultimatum imposing ban
on heavy weapons around Sarajevo, relieving attacks on capital.
* Tightened UN economic sanctions against Serbs. Participated in
NATO sanctions enforcement in Adriatic.
* Enforced no-fly zone together with NATO allies.
* On basis of NATO ultimatum, brokered truce between Muslims and
Croats.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - End reported atrocities in
Serbian detention camps with international military force if
necessary, and punish those responsible for atrocities in Bosnia
under international law.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Through NATO decisions and support for UNPROFOR, have ended
sustained artillery shelling of Sarajevo S civilian population,
reduced level of violence country-wide.
* Established UN War Crimes Tribunal. Published extensive
documentation of Serb ethnic cleansing, war crimes and acts of
genocide.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Get full accounting of POWs
and MIAs.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Best progress in recent years in the four
key areas outlined by President Clinton achieved by insistence on
fullest possible accounting of POWs and MIAs. Continued efforts
with Russians produced return of remains of U.S. flyer shot down
during Cold War.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Increase political and
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economic pressure on Haiti's current leadership to restore that
country's democratically elected government.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Restored democracy to Haiti on October 15
by leading a multinational coalition force that peacefully
returned President Aristide and his constitutionally established
government.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Encourage more private
investment in the former Soviet Union.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Considerable expansion of US- Russia business ties,
particularly aerospace and high-technology.
* Increased emphasis on trade and investment through more than
$800 million in OPIC loan guarantees and risk-insurance, and
other programs.
* Established innovative investment funds to sponsor private
enterprise development.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Guarantee loans for Israel
to help settle Soviet Jews.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Loan guarantees remain in place.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel and oppose the creation of an independent
Palestinian state.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: In September 1993, Israel and PLO agreed in
Declaration of Principles that status of Jerusalem should be
dealt with in final status negotiations to begin no later than
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May 4, 1996. The President pledged during the campaign that he
would do nothing to disrupt peace negotiations. Since taking
office, he has strongly supported the peace process, the
Israel/PLO agreement and the peace treaty between Israel and
Jordan. Action is pending the outcome of the final status
negotiations.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Modify foreign aid programs
to promote democracy.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Undertook extensive review and
restructuring of foreign aid programs and policies, which now
include democracy promotion as a major foreign aid priority that
includes information and exchange programs as well as major
programs in South Africa, the Newly Independent States of the
former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and countries in
transition. Increased funding for the National Endowment for
Democracy.
***PROMISE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Establish Radio Free Asia.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Funds appropriated.
***PROMISE: POVERTY AND WELFARE - Require welfare recipients who
can work to find jobs or repay services with work in the
community after two years of expanded assistance and training.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: To reform welfare, President Clinton
introduced the Work and Responsibility Act in June 1994 that
includes several critical components. The act:
* limits welfare for those able to work;
* expands funding for training programs and child care to help
people get off welfare as quickly as possible in order to work;
and
* contains the toughest child support enforcement reforms ever
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proposed.
***PROMISE: POVERTY AND WELFARE - Create optional Individual
Development Accounts for low-income Americans to encourage
savings with federal matching funds.
STATUS: PROPOSED
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in Work and Responsibility Act
proposed in Congress.
***PROMISE: SOCIAL SECURITY - Raise earning limitations so
recipients can collect more income along with their benefits.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Continue to support a reasonable increase
in Social Security earning disregard. Testified on behalf of
increase in the 104th Congress.
***PROMISE: SOCIAL SECURITY - Consider higher taxes on benefits
for wealthier recipients.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Included in budget FY94.
***PROMISE: SOCIAL SECURITY - Ensure system's solvency.
STATUS: PENDING
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Social Security Advisory Council is
examining questions surrounding system's solvency and will report
in 1995.
***PROMISE: SPACE - Launch more ventures with Europe, Japan and
Russia.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Congress approved funding for the
international space station. Signed US-Russia Space Launch Trade
Agreement.
***PROMISE: SPACE - Maintain NASA's fleet of space shuttles.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Reduced operational costs of shuttle fleet
while continuing safe flight program.
***PROMISE: SPACE - Develop new, less costly launch systems.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Presidential Directive (NSTC - PDD4) signed
establishing new launch policy to develop systems to lower costs.
***PROMISE: SPACE - Increase environmental research through
NASA's "Mission to Planet Earth."
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Funding increased approximately 30% since
January 1993.
***PROMISE: SPACE - Continue to use unmanned probes and robots to
explore other planets.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Supported reforms at NASA for faster,
better, cheaper space science missions.
***PROMISE: SPACE - Back away from Bush plans for exploration of
the moon and Mars by U.S. astronauts, but continue scientific
studies or internationally financed missions.
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STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Refocus NASA resources on affordable
programs in space flight, aeronautics, earth sciences, and space
science.
***PROMISE: TAXES (Personal): Raise tax rates on joint-filers
whose adjusted gross incomes are more than $200,000 or
individuals whose AGIs are more than $150,000.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Income tax rates were raised on the top 1.2% of tax payers.
* Joint tax-filers making over $180,000 in adjusted gross income
-- saw their income taxes increase.
* Objective sources -- including H&R Block, the Wall Street
Journal and the Congressional Budget Office -- confirm that only
the top 1.2% saw their income tax rates increase. TAXES
(Personal): Increase the Alternative Minimum Tax rate from 24 to
26 or 27 percent.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Increased alternative minimum tax rate from
24 to 26 percent (and to 28 percent for high-income individuals.)
***PROMISE: TAXES (Personal) - Require millionaires to pay a 10
percent surtax.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: An additional 10 percent surcharge was
imposed on taxpayers with taxable income in excess of $250,000.
***PROMISE: TAXES (Personal) - Offer middle-class families $60
billion in tax cuts over four years in the form of a $300 tax cut
per couple or a $300 per child tax credit.
STATUS: PENDING
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton has proposed a
Middle-Class Bill of Rights that includes a $60 billion tax break
for middle-class families that would provide:
* a tax credit of up to $500 per child for families making less
than $75,000;
* a tax deduction for post-high school education expenses of up
to $10,000 per year for families making under $100,000;
* an expanded IRA that allows people to withdraw money tax-free
and without penalty for education, medical expenses, or the
purchase of a first home; and
* a new re-employment program that makes individuals eligible for
skill grants of up to $3,000 and income contingent loans -- while
consolidating the web of 50-60 federal training programs.
***PROMISE: TAXES (Personal) - Increase the Earned Income Tax
Credit for the working poor.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton included in his Economic
Plan an historic expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit(EITC)
that will:
* expand the EITC by $21 billion over 5 years to reward work over
welfare; and
* provide more than 15 million households with incomes of $27,000
or less with either a new or increased EITC when the program is
fully implemented.
***PROMISE: TAXES - Encourage private investment by providing a
targeted investment tax credit.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: After originally proposing an increase in
the small business expensing limit to $25,000, President Clinton
signed into law an increase to $17,500 as part of his Economic
Plan 1993. The change allows small business owners to expense 75%
more of their purchases of depreciable assets, a measure that
small businesses had sought unsuccessfully for years. The
Treasury Department estimates that 1.3 million small businesses
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will benefit from the provision this year, and millions more in
years to come. The Administration also has supported private
investment by securing a three-year extension of the Research &
Development tax credit.
***PROMISE: TRADE - Continue international talks to renew the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade while strengthening U.S.
"Super 301" laws to punish nations with unfair trading practices
unilaterally.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Reached GATT agreement and signed GATT into law December 8,
1994. The WTO took effect on January 1, 1995.
* President Clinton reinstituted Super 301 through an Executive
Order and has used it to bring our trading partners to the table.
* Extended "Super 301" in GATT legislation.
***PROMISE: TRADE - Support the North American Free Trade
Agreement as long as other accords can be reached on the
environment and labor standards.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Signed NAFTA into law December 8, 1993.
* On January 1, 1994, the US opened a National Administrative
Office to handle NAFTA-related labor issues.
***PROMISE: TRADE - Urge trading partners to abandon unfair trade
subsidies in shipbuilding and aerospace.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton restarted talks on ship
building that resulted in an agreement reached in July 1994 to
eliminate foreign subsidies and other unfair trade practices by
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1996. An aerospace agreement is pending.
***PROMISE: TRADE - Ban U.S. trade negotiators and all senior
administration officials from working as lobbyists for foreign
governments or businesses.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Signed Executive Order 12834 on January 20,
1993, prohibiting all senior appointees from working as lobbyists
for foreign governments or businesses within five years of their
employment termination.
***PROMISE: VETERANS - Oppose opening VA hospitals to
non-veterans.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: VA hospitals remain closed to non-veterans.
***PROMISE: VETERANS - Decrease waiting periods for outpatient
care.
STATUS: PARTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: To reduce waiting times, VA is developing
telephone systems to make it easier for patients to make
appointments so that outpatient care can be scheduled. To
increase capacity, President Clinton's 1995 budget included funds
for more outpatient facilities and VA is converting some
underused inpatient facilities to outpatient cares.
***PROMISE: VETERANS - Notify disabled veterans of benefit
changes in advance.
STATUS: SUBSTANTIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Initiated aggressive effort keep disabled
vets informed of benefits changes. Veterans whose benefit
payment is to change are now notified at least 30 days in
advance. In addition, for changes affecting many veterans
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service organizations and the media to publicize the change.
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CLINTON CAMPAIGN PROMISES
From Putting People First
***PROMISE: NATIONAL ECONOMIC STRATEGY - Cut the deficit in half
within four years.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton signed into law the
largest deficit reduction plan in history August 10, 1993. Under
the plan:
* the deficit, as a percentage of GDP, will be cut by more than
one-half from 4.9% in 1992 to 2.4% in 1995;
* the deficit will drop by more than $700 billion dollars over 5
years; and
* the deficit will drop 3 years in a row for the first time since
Harry Truman was President.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Ask the very wealthy to pay
their fair share of taxes.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Income tax rates were raised on only the
top 1.2% of tax payers -- joint tax-filers making over $180,000
in adjusted gross income -- saw their income taxes increase.
Objective sources -- including H&R Block, the Wall Street Journal
and the Congressional Budget Office -- confirm that only the top
1.2% saw their income tax rates increase.
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***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - End tax breaks for American
companies that move plants overseas.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Two Clinton Administration initiatives have
advanced this pledge:
* President Clinton's 1993 Economic Plan added a provision in the
Internal Revenue Code that imposes a current tax on U.S.
shareholders of controlled foreign corporations that invest their
earnings in an excessive amount of passive assets abroad. By
reducing the opportunities for unlimited deferral, the incentive
to shift plants overseas is significantly reduced; and
* transfer pricing initiatives have reduced the opportunity to
shift income to foreign tax havens.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Eliminate deductions for
outrageous executive pay.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: As part of his 1993 Economic Plan,
President Clinton signed legislation that denies a deduction to
any publicly held corporation for compensation exceeding $1
million paid to CEOs or certain other high- ranked officers. Some
forms of compensation, such as qualified retirement plan
contributions and performance based awards approved by
shareholders, is exempt from the cap.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Crack down on foreign
companies that manipulate U.S. tax laws.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT July 1994 the Treasury issued final
regulations governing transfer pricing. These rules, backed by
severe penalties, are expected to ensure that an accurate amount
of multinational company profits are subject to tax in the United
States. In addition:
* President Clinton's 1993 Economic Plan included a provision
that will make it more difficult for multinational companies to
strip earnings out of the U.S. through deductible payments such
as interest; and
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* the Clinton Administration has budgeted significant resources
to the enforcement of these rules governing transfer pricing.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Create a Rebuild America
fund that focuses on transportation n, a national information
network, environmental technology, and defense reinvestment.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* President Clinton announced a five-year $20 billion Defense
Reinvestment initiative in March 1993 that is centered on four
major areas of new investment: (1) worker training and
adjustment; (2) community reinvestment; (3) "dual- use"
technologies with both commercial and military applications; and
(4) new civilian technology investments that provide
diversification opportunities
* EPA's enacted budget for environmental technology doubled over
the FY1993 - FY1995 period, to $139 million. Other new funding for
private sector technology partnerships are 1) U.S. Climate Change
Action Program -- $232 million FY1995 enacted -- and 2)
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (Clean Car) -- $269
million FY1995 enacted.
* Both the FY1994 and FY 1995 budgets have provided funding for
new Information Infrastructure grants.
* The President's FY 1996 budget will propose establishing a
network of State Infrastructure Banks that will allow states to
leverage federal funding, thereby achieving a greater amount of
investment from a given level of federal resources.
* The President's FY 1996
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Target funding to rebuild
America's urban infrastructure e.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton's first attempt to
fulfill this promise was stymied by Congress. However, several
other Administration initiatives target federal funds for urban
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infrastructure:
* funding for mass transit programs has risen 21% between 1993
and 1995;
* funding for the Economic Development Administration has risen
32% between 1993 and 1995; and
* President Clinton's FY1996 budget proposal calls for
reinventing the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), which will involve creating new flexible block grants for
community economic development and consolidating a number of
current formula-based and competitive programs.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Create a nationwide network
of community development banks.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton proposed and signed into
law the Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act in
August 1994 which authorizes $500 million to encourage a network
of new and existing Community Development Banks and Financial
Institutions (CDFIs) across the country. The Treasury Department
projects that the act will:
* lead to approximately $5 billion in new credit for economically
distressed communities;
* provide financial and technical support for as many as 75 new
insured community development banks; and
* support as many as 916 new well-capitalized community
development corporations and over 4,000 community development
loan funds.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Put 100,000 new police
officers on the streets.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton's Crime Bill, which he
signed into law on September 13, 1994, will put 100,000 new
police on the street. More than 1,200 communities have already
received grants to hire nearly 10,000 cops. $1.5 billion has
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already been appropriated (1993-1995).
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Establish a national police
corps.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill created a police corps to
give young people money for college and train them in community
policing. A total of $100 million has been authorized for the
Police Corps program and $100 million has been authorized for
in-service law enforcement scholarships.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Expand community policing
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: A total of $1.3 billion was appropriated in
FY1995 for cities to hire new police if they agree to establish a
community policing plan. As much as 15% of the funds can be used
to promote community policing in other ways, such as, redeploying
existing officers (i.e., through overtime and new equipment),
developing new technologies, and offering specialized training to
officers.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Fund drug treatment.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton is expanding treatment
availability through 3 initiatives:
* a $1 billion Drug Courts program in the Crime Bill, for which
Congress appropriated $29 million in FY1995;
* $383 million authorized by the Crime Bill to treat offenders in
prison, including $270 million in formula-based grants for
states; and
* a $42 million increase in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Block Grant.
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***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Expand boot camps.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill includes a grant program for
state corrections agencies to build correctional facilities,
including boot camps, to ensure that additional space will be
available so that violent offenders can be and will be
incarcerated for an adequate amount of time.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Create urban empowerment
zones.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton proposed and signed into
law legislation for empowerment zones in August 1993 that will
award $3.5 billion to 104 empowerment zones and enterprise
communities. President Clinton announced in December 1994 which
communities will be designated Empowerment Zones in 1995: (1) 6
urban communities will each receive $100 million in block grants
and business tax breaks; and (2) 3 rural communities will receive
$40 million in assistance and block grants.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Improve the Community
Reinvestment Act (CRA).
STATUS: Pending
LATEST POLICY/RESULT The federal banking regulatory agencies, at
the request of the Clinton Administration, are in the process of
approving final regulations which will:
* provide clearer and more objective evaluation standards;
* eliminate unnecessary documentation requirements; and
* improve the consistency of the Community Reinvestment Act
examinations and enforcement efforts.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Encourage private
investment by providing a targeted investment tax credit.
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STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: After originally proposing an increase in
the small business expensing limit to $25,000, President Clinton
signed into law an increase to $17,500 as part of his 1993
Economic Plan. The change allows small business owners to expense
75% more of their purchases of depreciable assets, a measure that
small businesses had sought unsuccessfully for years. The
Treasury Department estimates that 1.3 million small businesses
will benefit from the provision this year, and millions more in
years to come. The Administration also has supported private
investment by securing a three-year extension of the Research &
Development tax credit.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Help small businesses and
entrepreneurs by offering a 50 percent tax exclusion.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Administration enacted, as part of its
1993 Economic Plan, a 50% capital gains tax exclusion targeted at
investments in small businesses. The provision allows investors
who buy newly issued stock in small businesses and hold that
stock for more than 5 years to receive a 50 percent cut in the
capital gains tax on the profit from the sale of the stock.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Make permanent the
Research
& Development tax credit.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Administration secured a three-year
extension of the Research & Development tax credit, retroactive
to June 30, 1992 (when it had expired) and effective through June
30, 1995.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Create a Civilian Research
and Development Agency.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton has focused
defense-related Research & Development on "dual-use" technologies
by:
* working along with the ARPA to launch the Technology
Reinvestment Project, the largest multi-agency technology program
ever, to stimulate dual-use development; and
* increasing budgetary support of civilian- related research &
development. For example, funding targets for the Advanced
Technology Program, which takes economic growth as its sole goal,
have increased from $68 million in 1993 to $450 million in 1995.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Open up foreign markets to
quality American goods and services.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT The Administration has led the following
set of successful initiatives to increase trade:
* signed GATT/WTO into law December 8, 1994 (WTO took effect
January 1, 1995);
* signed NAFTA December 8, 1993, making North America the world's
largest free- trade zone; and
* has won commitments to open APEC markets to free trade by 2020
and all of the Americas to free trade by 2005.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Urge our trading partners
to abandon unfair trade subsidies in key sectors like
shipbuilding and aerospace.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton restarted talks on ship
building that resulted in an agreement reached in July 1994 to
eliminate foreign subsidies and other unfair trade practices by
1996. An aerospace agreement is pending. The President has also
proposed a maritime reform program to revitalize our shipbuilding
and ship operating industries.
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***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Pass a stronger, sharper
"Super 301" trade bill.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton reinstituted Super 301
through an Executive Order and has used it to bring our trading
partners to the table. The United States and Japan reached
Framework agreements on government procurement
(telecommunications, medical technologies) and insurance October
1, 1994 and on flat glass December 12, 1994. President Clinton
has also demonstrated his determination to act under Super 301 by
instituting investigations of the practices governing Japan's
auto parts industry and China's piracy of intellectual property.
Also extended Super 301 in GATT legislation.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Support a free trade
agreement with Mexico.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Administration secured Congressional
approval for the largest free trade area in the world after
negotiating labor and environmental side agreements for the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Create an Economic
Security
Council.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton issued an Executive Order
establishing the National Economic Council (NEC) to help
coordinate both domestic and international economic policy
January 25, 1993.
***PROMISE: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK - Reform the Office of the
U.S. Trade Representative e, banning trade negotiators from
cashing in on their positions.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton signed Executive Order
12834 prohibiting all senior appointees from working as lobbyists
for foreign governments or businesses within five years of their
employment termination January 20, 1993.
***PROMISE: REWARDING WORK AND FAMILIES - Expand the Earned
Income Tax Credit.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton included in his 1993
Economic Plan an historic expansion of the Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC) that will:
* expand the EITC by $21 billion over 5 years to reward work over
welfare; and
* provide more than 15 million households with incomes of $27,000
or less with either a new or increased EITC when the program is
fully implemented.
***PROMISE: REWARDING WORK AND FAMILIES - Lower the tax burden
on
middle-class Americans.
STATUS: Pending
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton has proposed a
Middle-Class Bill of Rights that includes a $60 billion tax break
for middle-class families that would provide:
* a tax credit of up to $500 per child for families making less
than $75,000;
* a tax deduction for post- high school education expenses of up
to $10,000 per year for families making under $100,000;
* an expanded IRA that allows people to withdraw money tax-free
and without penalty for education, medical expenses, or the
purchase of a first home; and
* a new re-employment program that makes individuals eligible for
skill grants of up to $3,000 and income contingent loans -- while
consolidating the web of 50-60 federal training programs.
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***PROMISE: REWARDING WORK AND FAMILIES - Empower people on
welfare with the education, training, and child care they need
for up to two years so they can break the cycle of dependency.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: To reform welfare, President Clinton
introduced the Work and Responsibility Act in June 1994 that
includes several critical components. The act:
* limits welfare for those able to work;
* expands funding for training programs and child care to help
people get off welfare as quickly as possible in order to work;
and
* contains the toughest child support enforcement reforms ever
proposed.
***PROMISE: REWARDING WORK AND FAMILIES - Pass and sign into law
the Family and Medical Leave Act.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Though President Bush vetoed Family and
Medical Leave legislation twice, President Clinton signed this
legislation into law February 5, 1993, which offers employees 12
weeks of unpaid, job-guaranteed leave for childbirth, adoption,
or personal or family illness. More than 40 million American
workers will be covered under the legislation.
***PROMISE: REWARDING WORK AND FAMILIES - Strengthen child
support enforcement.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: In its first national push to crack down on
deadbeat parents, the Department of Justice filed 28 child
support cases seeking over $1 million in overdue payments in
December 1994, and more than 200 cases are under review. Also,
each of the 94 U.S. attorneys has designated a child support
enforcement coordinator, and prosecution guidelines have been
developed to assist them in going after the most egregious
violators. President Clinton's Work and Responsibility Act,
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introduced in June 1994, includes the toughest child support
provisions ever. These provisions would double child support
collections to $20 billion by 2000 and place more emphasis on the
responsibility of fathers, regular award updates, and the
withholding of wages of those who do not regularly pay their
child support.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Improve the way parents prepare
their children for school.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton has pursued a
comprehensive strategy to helping parents in their effort to
become more actively involved in their children's education.
Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:s to date:
* signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Reauthorization which promotes partnerships between schools and
families that recognize that each is mutually responsible for
promoting student learning;
* signed Head Start reform and Goals 2000 legislation that expand
and enhance the role of parents in pre-school programs and
schools; and
* Secretary of Education Richard Riley, at President Clinton's
request, is leading a national campaign to promote parental
participation in their children's education, which includes
gaining the support of religious, community, and business
leaders.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Fully fund Head Start.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Increased funding for Head Start by $760
million over 2 years that will help improve program quality and
make it possible for thousands more children to participate in
the program.
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***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Fully fund the Women, Infants,
and Children (WIC) Program.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton and Congress placed WIC
on a full-funding path. Funding is projected to increase by $610
million from 1993 to 1995 -- a 21% gain. As a result, an
additional one million people will have the opportunity to get
the nutrition and care they need to stay healthy.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Dramatically improve K-12
education.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton has signed three acts
that will help transform K-12 education: (1) the Goals 2000:
Educate America Act; (2) the Improving America's Schools Act,
reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; and (3)
the Safe Schools Act. Together, these acts authorize more than
$13 billion in new support for reform and will:
* codify the national education goals;
* encourage states and schools to develop high standards for all
students and schools;
* develop comprehensive, bottom-up reform programs, including
technology development, teacher training, and curriculum reform;
* cut through tangled bureaucracies in order to get the education
system to focus on enabling students to achieve high standards;
and,
* enable schools to become safer, with violence prevention
efforts and new security measures. Some 41 states are planning
their reforms right now--and more will follow soon.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Provide funds for violence-
ridden schools to hire security personnel and purchase metal
detectors.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT: Passed the Safe and Drug Free Schools and
Community Act and the Safe Schools Act, which provide over $480
million in FY1995 to help schools fight violence and drug abuse.
Schools can use funds for activities such as conflict resolution,
after school programs, and drug prevention programs. Schools can
use up to 25% of their funds to purchase metal detectors, develop
safe zones, and hire school security personnel.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Help communities open youth
centers for teenagers who drop out of school.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Crime Bill includes several provisions
that fulfill this promise:
* the Community Schools Youth Services and Supervision effort
will support academic and extracurricular programs after-school,
on weekends, and in the summer for children and adolescents (For
1995, $25.9 million will be available and $541 million is
authorized for 1996-2000); and
* the Family and Community Endeavor Schools initiative will
improve opportunities for at-risk children ($11 million is
available for 1995 and $232 million is authorized for 1996-2000).
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Develop a national
apprenticeship-style system that offers non- college-bound
students training in valuable skills.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton signed the School-to-Work
Opportunities Act on May 4, 1994 that provides $250 million in
1995 for all 50 states to plan and develop their own diverse
school-to-work initiatives.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Create a national service program
that allows young people to earn money for college.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton proposed and signed the
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National and Community Service Trust Act creating AmeriCorps
September 21, 1993. AmeriCorps, within its first year, is
already:
* giving young people the chance to spend a year or more helping
those within our communities grow safer, smarter, and healthier
-- while earning an award of $4,725 per year of service to pay
for college or job training;
* engaging 20,000 Americans as AmeriCorps Members in its first
year -- more than the Peace Corps at its height; and
* consolidating existing Federal agencies and supporting local
efforts to meet community needs.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Offer every American the
opportunity to pay college loans back as a small percentage of
income over time.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton incorporated student loan
reform in his Economic Plan signed in August 1993, which included
creating Individual Education Accounts. Individual Education
Accounts will:
* enable any student to get loans to pay for college or job
training and to repay them in one of four ways, including
"pay-as- you-go" repayment as a small percentage of income over
time;
* reduce borrowing fees;
* cut red tape dramatically since more and more students will be
given the option to borrow directly from one lender; and
* save taxpayers more than $4.3 billion. 105 schools are already
participating in the new direct lending program. Some 20 million
Americans will be able to benefit nationwide when the program is
fully implemented.
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Require every employer to spend
1.5 percent of payroll for continuing education and training, and
provide training for all workers. No Action President Clinton has
pursued providing training and reemployment assistance for all
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workers in a number of different ways:
* increasing funding for reemployment services by 150 percent,
enabling 400,000 more workers to participate in 1995 than in
1993;
* offering individual skills assessments and help with business
start-ups to those applying for unemployment services; and
* helping states to plan or assemble networks of one- stop career
centers to offer efficient, customer- driven access to
counseling, labor-market information, job listings, training and
education, and other reemployment services (about one-half of the
states are doing so already).
***PROMISE: LIFELONG LEARNING - Streamline the confusing array of
publicly funded training programs.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT A substantial number of the states are in
the process of streamlining federal education and training
programs and labor market information systems through state
design and development of convenient one-stop career centers. The
Administration's education and training agenda for the next two
years includes the following objectives:
* consolidate over 50 separate training programs into a
streamlined system featuring customer- centered financing options
that put workers in control of their own learning;
* boost worker's purchasing power through Skill Grants that can
cover tuition and fees at a community college for up to two
years;
* provide for common points of access at community colleges so
all workers can get easy access performance data on training
providers and skills training; and,
* provide some income support to those dislocated workers in
retraining.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Establish annual health care budget
targets.
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STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton submitted his Health
Security Act (HSA) to Congress September 1993. The HSA called for
caps on health insurance premiums.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Ensure access to local health care
alliances, comprised of insurers, hospitals, clinics and doctors.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Health Security Act included provisions
that:
* create regional health care alliances that will be required to
incorporate into the organization any state-certified health
insurer that is willing to enroll all eligible individuals;
* ensure that each health care alliance offers recipients the
opportunity to choose their health plan and means of payment; and
* encourage regional alliances to use prospective budgeting in
establishing their fee schedule.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Eliminate tax breaks for drug companies
that raise their prices faster than Americans' incomes rise.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton proposed and signed
legislation, as part of his 1993 Economic Plan, that will
eliminate drug price gouging. Subsequently, 17 pharmaceutical
industry executives, representing two- thirds of the U.S.
pharmaceutical market, agreed to hold price increases at or below
the general inflation rate. The Health Security Act included
provisions which require that manufacturers of drug products
rebate part of their Medicare sales to the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, to provide an incentive for manufacturers to
keep prices at reasonable levels.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Reduce the administrative costs of
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health insurance companies.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT The Health Security Act included provisions
which require that:
* the National Health Board develop standardized forms for
insurance companies, including a single claims form;
* health insurers accept all those eligible and seeking
enrollment, ban underwriting practices that help seek out the
best risks, and prohibit insurers from denying coverage for those
with pre-existing conditions; and
* health insurers charge everyone in a region a community rate
that can only differ by family type.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Streamline the billing systems of
health insurance companies to control costs and reduce billing
fraud.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Health Security Act included provisions
that:
* provide for the simplification of claim forms;
* require that Health Security Cards or "smart cards" containing
essential health information are distributed to everyone; and
* toughen penalties for fraud and abuse.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Ensure that every American is
guaranteed a basic health care benefits package.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Health Security Act called for
establishing a National Health Board that would be responsible
for ensuring universal health care coverage and included
provisions that:
* require that every health insurer provide for all enrollees a
basic health care package that includes specific services;
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* ensure that each health care alliance offers recipients the
opportunity to choose their health plan;
* amend the Medicaid statute to specify that all Medicaid
enrollees are eligible to receive long term care covered under
their state's medicaid plan; and
* require that all eligible individuals enroll in a private
health insurance plan and pay a share of their health insurance
premium; and
* require that each employer pay 80 percent of the health
insurance premium for each employee.
***PROMISE: HEALTH CARE - Protect small businesses from
excessively high health care costs.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: The Health Security Act requires that
health insurers charge those within a particular region a
community rate that can only differ by family type.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Reduce the White
House
staff by 25% and challenge congress to do the same.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton had fulfilled this
promise by September 1994: 350 jobs were cut from a staff of
1,394 during the Bush Administration. However, the new Congress
has only accepted President Clinton's challenge in part. House
leaders have promised to reduce committee staffs by one-third,
with no cuts in personal staffs. The Senate has committed to no
cuts.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Cut 100,000 federal
government positions through attrition by FY 1995.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
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LATEST POLICY/RESULT President Clinton issued an Executive Order
in February 1993 requiring federal agencies and departments to
eliminate 100,000 positions by FY1995. Federal employment has
already been reduced by 100,000 positions. The Administration is
now projecting that 272,900 positions will be eliminated from the
federal workforce over five years, bringing it to its smallest
level since the Johnson Administration. By 1999, the workforce
will be the smallest it has been since the Kennedy
Administration.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Require federal
managers
and workers to achieve 3 percent across-the- board administrative
savings in every agency.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton signed Executive Order
12837 in February 1993 which requires that federal government
reduce its administrative expenses 14% by FY 1997. Already,
administrative costs are down by more than 3 percent.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Eliminate taxpayer
subsidies for narrow special interests.
STATUS: Partial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton and Vice President Gore
established the National Performance Review (NPR) unveiled in
September 1993. At least 90 percent of NPR's recommendations are
already in place, including the elimination of subsidies for such
goods as honey and mohair.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Reform defense
procurement and foreign aid.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT:
* Procurement reform has been a central goal of the
Administration's reinventing government initiatives. President
Clinton signed a Presidential Memorandum on Electronic Commerce
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to automate the procurement system in October 1993 and the
Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act in August 1994. Defense
Secretary William Perry has ordered dramatic procurement reforms
as well.
* The Administration undertook an extensive review and
restructuring of foreign aid programs and policies, which now
include democracy promotion as a major foreign aid priority that
includes information and exchange programs as well as major
programs in South Africa, the Newly independent State of the
former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and countries in
transition. Increased funding for the National Endowment for
Democracy.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Ask Congress to give
the
president line item veto authority.
STATUS: Pending
LATEST POLICY/RESULT In the 104th Congress, President Clinton is
supporting the strongest version of the line item veto, with the
broadest scope and effective immediately. OMB Director Alice
Rivlin has already testified in favor of the line item veto and
Associate Attorney General Walter Dellinger is also scheduled to
testify. In the 103rd Congress, President Clinton supported
expedited rescission authority, which was adopted in the House
but never reached the full Senate for consideration.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Eliminate the tax
deductions for special interest lobbying expenses.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton's 1993 Economic Plan
repealed the tax provision, dating back to 1962, that allowed
businesses to deduct the cost of their lobbying expenses.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Stop the revolving door
for top appointees.
STATUS: Substantial Accomplishment
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton has required all top
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appointees to sign a pledge that they will refrain from lobbying
government agencies within their responsibilities for five years
after leaving office. He has also required senior officials to
pledge never to become registered agents on behalf of any foreign
government.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Lobbying reform.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT: President Clinton fought for the Lobbying
Disclosure Bill.
***PROMISE: A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT - Campaign finance
reform.
STATUS: Proposed
LATEST POLICY/RESULT President Clinton fought for the Campaign
Finance Reform Bill, versions of which passed both houses. On the
first day of the current Congressional session, President Clinton
called on the Congressional leadership to quickly enact campaign
finance reform measures.
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