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PENNSYLVANIA
RHODE ISLAND
1079
liam F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R)
Elected 1978; b. Apr. 4, 1929, Warren; home, Warren; Johns
Hopkins U., B.A. 1951, U. of VA, LL.B. 1965; Presbyterian;
RHODE ISLAND
married (Julia).
Career: Navy, 1951-55; Adv. Dept., New Process Co., 1955-62;
Practicing atty., 1965-75, 1977-78; Chf. Cnsl., Econ. Devil
Admin., U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1975-77.
Auturbulent a political history as any in the country can be found in the tidy little city-state of
Rhode Island. A successful trading community since the 1600s, a leader in manufacturing since
Offices: 2160 RHOB 20515, 202-225-5121. Also 315 S. Allen St.
Samuel Slater replicated from memory an English water-powered cotton textile mill in
Ste. 219, State College 16801, 814-238-1776; and 805 Pennbank
Powtucket in 1791, Rhode Island also had its beginning as an upstart community, a refuge for
Bldg., Warren 16365, 814-726-3910.
elligious dissenters, "the sewer of New England," as the orthodox Cotton Mather put it. Rhode
Committees: Government Operations (3d of 15 R). Subcommit-
hiland profited from slavery (two-thirds of America's slaves arrived on ships owned by Rhode
tee: Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (Ranking Mem-
Hinders) and war (the state boomed during the Civil War), while it carried its dissenting
ber). Public Works and Transportation (4th of 20 R). Subcommit-
Indition into politics. Rhode Island refused to pay for the Revolutionary war, declined to send
tees: Aviation (Ranking Member); Investigations and Oversight:
Surface Transportation. Select Committee on Aging (21st of 27.R)
delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and delayed joining the Union till the other 12
Subcommittees: Health and Long-Term Care; Human Services
titles had, prompting George Washington to say, "Rhode Island still perseveres in that
impolitic, unjust-and one might add without much impropriety-scandalous conduct, which
ings
seems to have marked all her public counsels of late." In the 1840s, conflict between hard money
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merchants and soft money farmers resulted in two state governments and what is known now as
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And just over 50 years ago, Rhode Island had the closest thing America has had to a political
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tevolution. The textile industry and later manufacturing, notably costume jewelry, attracted
thousands of immigrants to Rhode Island, from French Canada, Ireland and Italy, and by the
1988 LIB - 1988 CONS
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34%
65%
mnly 1900s, this erstwhile colony of dissident Protestants had become the most heavily Catholic
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33%
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66%
39%
state in the nation. The Yankee Republicans had some success in appealing to Catholics,
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60%
44%
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56%
34%
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65%
37%
-
63%
running French Canadians for high office for example; but national events-Al Smith's
candidacy in 1928, when he carried Rhode Island, and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt-
moved the Catholics toward the Democrats. Then came the revolution: in 1935, the Democrats
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5) Ban Drug Test
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9) SDI Research
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under Governor Theodore Green, although they had won only 20 of the 42 state Senate seats,
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6) Drug Death Pen
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refused to seat two Republicans. With the lieutenant governor's tie-breaker they voted
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Democrats into the seats and proceeded, within 14 minutes, to declare the state Supreme Court
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seats vacant, abolish state boards that controlled Democratic cities, strengthen the power of the
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governor and reorganize state government so as to get rid of Republicans.
William F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R)
105,575
This was a body blow to Rhode Island's "Five Families"-the Browns, Metcalfs, Goddards,
(62%)
Howard Shakespeare (D)
($336,675)
63,476
(37%)
y
William F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R), unopposed
($106,463)
Lippitts and Chafees-who owned or ran many of the textile mills, the Rhode Island Hospital
Trust (one of the state's largest banks), the Providence Journal, the Rhode Island School of
William F. (Bill) Clinger, Jr. (R)
79,595
(55%)
($695,266)
Design and the state Republican Party. Rhode Island politics has operated ever since in the
Bill Wachob (D)
63,875
(45%)
($577,853)
beckwash of the Green revolution of 1935. The Democrats, winning the lion's share of votes
from Rhode Island's 64% Catholic majority, have won most elections, starting with Theodore
Green who in 1936, at age 69, was elected to the first of his four terms as U.S. Senator. From
1940 to 1980, Democrats won every election for the U.S. House. And in 1988, this was Michael
Dukakis's best state in the union. But Republicans have been able to capitalize on scandal and on
the power of the Five Families to win some elections at the top of the ticket, the most notable
example being John Chafee, elected governor and Senator three times each.
Rhode Island's competitive and, if not violent, then sometimes scandalous politics has
continued to operate in pretty much the same way even as the state's economy has vastly
changed. For years the unions remained politically powerful, but they represent fewer and fewer
workers; the state's economy was quietly upgraded from blue-collar to white-collar, from textiles
to high-tech; the electorate, instead of being a mass of Catholic factory workers pressed into
meighborhoods of three-story three-family houses, has become comfortably affluent and subur-
1080
RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISI
RHODE ISLAND - Congressional Districts, Countles,
produce economic growth, rejected the Greenhouse Compact by almos
County Subdivisions (Towns), and Places - (2 Districts)
# 1984 referendum. Instead, the state took another turn in policy
71*
72"
Governor Edward DiPrete, who despite some perils of Pauline political
KEY
office and helped to set the state's course ever since.
c
BRISTOL COUNTY
LEGEND
c
1 BARRINGTON
2
Congressional district number
Governor. DiPrete has had some considerable achievements. He go
2 BRISTOL &
MASSACHUSETTS
Congressional district boundary
NEWPORT COUNTY
Place of 100 000 or more inhabitants
lure to pass a 16% cut in the state income tax, got the strikers' unemplo
42"
1 Portsmouth
HARRISVILLE
2 MELVILLE
North
Cumberland
Place of 50 000 to 100.000 inhabitants
repealed the state gift and estate tax and restructured the state unen
Place of 25,000 to 50.000 inhabitents
3 NEWPORT EAST
PASCOAG
Burrillville
State capital underlined
system. He also established a state Partnership for Science and Te
4 Jamestown
Indicates place is coextensive
Smithfield
0
5 JAMESTOWN
Lincoln
with county subdivision
funding for education, Head Start and other children's programs and
PROVIDENCE COUNTY
Glocester
1 WOONSOCKET
5
newspapers saying "If you want to talk business in Rhode Island, tall
GREENVILLE
2 CUMBERLAND HILL
6
Governor."
3 VALLEY FALLS
PROVIDENCE
4 CENTRAL FALLS
Johnston
DiPrete's problem in 1988 was not his policies but scandal. In July 1
5 PAWTUCKET
6 NORTH PROVIDENCE
D
7 EAST PROVIDENCE
CONNECTICUT
Foster
Scituate
DiPrete, three of his family members and a close adviser had made $2 n
PROVIDENCE
D
2
CRANSTON
there was a messy Department of Environmental Management in
WARWICK
favoritism and impropriety. DiPrete's image as a modest family man
WEST WARWICK
3
BRISTOL
was cast into doubt, and Democrat Bruce Sundlun, a rich entreprenet
Coventry
KENT
1986, attacked fiercely. But DiPrete recovered, and enough doubts were
East
West Greenwich
abilities and past that DiPrete was able to eke out a modest victory. In 19
North
NEWPORT
TIVERTON
economy growing and an unemployment rate well under the national a
Exeter
Tiverton
heavily Democratic legislature faced issues like crime, drugs, medicare
South
dilemma. The basic course of state policy seemed set. DiPrete seems lik
Kingstown
531
Little
HOPEY
Compton
Possible opponents include Providence Mayor Joe Paolino, Warwick Ma
VALLEY
Richmond
Hopkinton
KINGSTON
former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht (who lost to John Chafee
WASHINGTON
ASHAWAY
Middletown
opponent, Bruce Sundlun.
NEWPORT
Charlestown
WAKEFIELD-
PEACEDALE
NARRAGANSETT PIER
Senators. It must strike anyone as odd that heavily Catholic and ethn
BRADFORD
WESTERLY
Westerly
Narragansett
blue-blooded Protestant Senators. Both of them, Democrat Claiborne P
Chafee, have had unusual careers. Pell, first elected to the Senate in
senior politician. His father was congressman from New York for a ter
(keen
SCALE
Atlantic
10
20 Kilometers
Roosevelt, and minister to Portugal and Hungary-important listening p
of World War II. Pell himself served as a foreign service officer for sever
MEN
10
20 Miles
Bellevue Avenue in Newport, where you find the Vanderbilt and A
YORK
New Shoreham
(Rhode Island's Five Families tend to live on Providence's College Hi
N
places on Rhode Island Sound; the oceanfront palaces of Newport wer
Yorkers.) He is now what he always wanted to be, chairman of the Se
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
U.S. Department of Commerce
Committee.
71*
4
72"
Congressional districts established April 9. 1982 all other boundaries are as of January 1. 1980.
It is obligatory in Washington to deprecate Pell's political skills. H
aristocratic accent, seems remote and diffident, uses corny old phrases an
his colleagues around his standard. Yet there is evidence that if he wears
ban. There was a pause in growth when the Newport Navy base closed in 1973, and for a who
an iron fist inside. He has gotten everything he wanted in politics, and by
that attracted everyone's attention. But by the early 1980s, both parties were ready with wayse
competition this tough little state could offer. In the 1960 Democratic p
adapt to change and build for the future.
Governor Dennis Roberts and former Governor, Senator and U.S. Attor
The voters responded unfavorably to the Democrats' ideas and favorably, at least so far.
McGrath; this was the first time since Green's governorship that a can
those of the Republicans. Both parties, including Democratic Governor (1976-84) Garrali
Democratic organization was beaten. One opponent in that race called
-
agreed that Rhode Island's high taxes and pro-labor laws (since the 1930s union members comi
promptly went out and got the endorsement of the bakers' union. In 19
collect unemployment benefits while on strike) were stifling the state's economy. Garraln
was going Republican for President, Pell faced John Chafee, then a po
response was a commission of business and civic leaders which under the guidance of business
and Secretary of the Navy. Although Chafee began ahead, Pell turned the
consultant Ira Magaziner (who as an undergraduate had helped restructure Brown University.
won again. It is worth noting that Pell holds the seat won by Theodore (
the 1970s) produced the Greenhouse Compact, a kind of state industrial policy that would a
was 69, a seat that a generation of Rhode Island politicians assumed wo
government to encourage and incubate industry. But the voters, perhaps concerned that 5
Green, who chaired Foreign Relations himself, retired in 1960 at age
$250 million package would lead to higher taxes, perhaps skeptical of government's ability
elected to serve a total of 30 years in that seat, longer than Green, and
RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISLAND
1081
RHODE ISLAND - Congressional Districts, Counties,
imduce economic growth, rejected the Greenhouse Compact by almost an 80%-20% margin in
County Subdivisions (Towns), and Places - (2 Districts)
1984 referendum. Instead, the state took another turn in policy by electing Republican
71°
Edward
KEY
fice and helped to set the state's course ever since
STOL COUNTY
LEGEND
c
Governor. DiPrete has had some considerable achievements. He got the Democratic legisla-
BARRINGTON S3
2
Congressional district number
BRISTOL
MASSACHUSETTS
Congressional district boundary
ture to pass a 16% cut in the state income tax, got the strikers' unemployment benefits abolished,
VPORT COUNTY
Place of 100 000 or more inhabitants
Portsmouth
HARRISVILLE
Place of 50 000 to 100,000 inhabitants
repealed the state gift and estate tax and restructured the state unemployment compensation
MELVILLE
North
Place of 25 000 to 50,000 inhabitents
NEWPORT EAST
PASCOAG
stem. He also established a state Partnership for Science and Technology and increased
Burrillville
State capital underlined
Jamestown
Indicates place is coextensive
Smithfield
with county subdivision
funding for education, Head Start and other children's programs and he ran ads in national
JAMESTOWN
Lincoln
OVIDENCE COUNTY
Glocester
newspapers saying "If you want to talk business in Rhode Island, talk to a businessman: The
WOONSOCKET
5
GREENVILLE
6
Governor."
CUMBERLAND HILL
VALLEY FALLS
PROVIDENCE
Johnston
CENTRAL FALLS
7
DiPrete's problem in 1988 was not his policies but scandal. In July 1988, it was revealed that
PAWTUCKET
NORTH PROVIDENCE
CONNECTICUT
Foster
Scituate
PROVIDENCE
EAST PROVIDENCE
2
CRANSTON
MASSACHUSETTS
DiPrete, three of his family members and a close adviser had made $2 million in a land deal; also
there was a messy Department of Environmental Management incident that smacked of
Invoritism and impropriety. DiPrete's image as a modest family man and honest businessman
WARWICK
WEST WARWICK
WRS cast into doubt, and Democrat Bruce Sundlun, a rich entrepreneur who had lost badly in
BRISTOL
Coventry
KENT
1986, attacked fiercely. But DiPrete recovered, and enough doubts were raised about Sundlun's
East
abilities and past that DiPrete was able to eke out a modest victory. In 1989, with Rhode Island's
West Greenwich
conomy growing and an unemployment rate well under the national average, DiPrete and the
NEWPORT
TIVERTON
Exeter
Tiverton
heavily Democratic legislature faced issues like crime, drugs, medicare fees and the right-to-die
dilemma. The basic course of state policy seemed set. DiPrete seems likely to run again in 1990.
South
Kingstown
Little
HOPE
Compton
Possible opponents include Providence Mayor Joe Paolino, Warwick Mayor Francis X. Flaherty,
VALLEY
Richmond
former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht (who lost to John Chafee in 1988) and his 1988
Hopkinton
KINGSTON
WASHINGTON
Middletown
ASHAWAY
apponent, Bruce Sundlun.
NEWPORT
Charlestown
WAKEFIELD-
Senators. It must strike anyone as odd that heavily Catholic and ethnic Rhode Island has two
PEACEDALE
NARRAGANSETT PIER
BRADFORD
>blooded Protestant Senators. Both of them, Democrat Claiborne Pell and Republican John
Westerly
Narragansett
Chafee, have had unusual careers. Pell, first elected to the Senate in 1960, is now the state's
senior politician. His father was congressman from New York for a term, a friend of Franklin
(kean
SCALE
Roosevelt, and minister to Portugal and Hungary-important listening posts-in the early years
Atlantic
0
10
20 Kilometers
if World War II. Pell himself served as a foreign service officer for several years, then settled on
MEN
10
20 Miles
Bellevue Avenue in Newport, where you find the Vanderbilt and Auchincloss "cottages."
YORK
(Rhode Island's Five Families tend to live on Providence's College Hill, with comfy summer
New Shoreham
N
places on Rhode Island Sound; the oceanfront palaces of Newport were built mostly by New
Workers.) He is now what he always wanted to be, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
apartment of Commerce
Committee.
71*
72°
It is obligatory in Washington to deprecate Pell's political skills. He has an old-fashioned
districts established April 9. 1982 all other boundaries are as of January 1, 1980
aristocratic accent, seems remote and diffident, uses corny old phrases and seems unable to rally
colleagues around his standard. Yet there is evidence that if he wears a velvet glove, there is
a pause in growth when the Newport Navy base closed in 1973, and for a while
iron fist inside. He has gotten everything he wanted in politics, and by whipping the toughest
everyone's attention. But by the early 1980s, both parties were ready with ways to
competition this tough little state could offer. In the 1960 Democratic primary, he beat former
e and build for the future.
Governor Dennis Roberts and former Governor, Senator and U.S. Attorney General J. Howard
esponded unfavorably to the Democrats' ideas and favorably, at least so far, to
McGrath; this was the first time since Green's governorship that a candidate endorsed by the
epublicans. Both parties, including Democratic Governor (1976-84) Garrahy
Democratic organization was beaten. One opponent in that race called Pell a "cream puff"; he
ode Island's high taxes and pro-labor laws (since the 1930s union members could
promptly went out and got the endorsement of the bakers' union. In 1972, when Rhode Island
loyment benefits while on strike) were stifling the state's economy. Garrahy's
was going Republican for President, Pell faced John Chafee, then a popular former governor
commission of business and civic leaders which under the guidance of business
Secretary of the Navy. Although Chafee began ahead, Pell turned the campaign around and
Magaziner (who as an undergraduate had helped restructure Brown Universityin
again. It is worth noting that Pell holds the seat won by Theodore Green in 1936 when he
duced the Greenhouse Compact, a kind of state industrial policy that would use
69, a seat that a generation of Rhode Island politicians assumed would soon become open;
encourage and incubate industry. But the voters, perhaps concerned that the
Green, who chaired Foreign Relations himself, retired in 1960 at age 93. Pell has now been
ackage would lead to higher taxes, perhaps skeptical of government's ability to
elected to serve a total of 30 years in that seat, longer than Green, and he will be 71 when it
RHODE ISL
1082
RHODE ISLAND
Chafee tends to be rather liberal on cultural and foreign policy issu
comes again in 1990.
As Chairman up of Foreign Relations, Pell has not been a powerhouse. He has done work northern. on
lavorite of the New Right; he supports the ABC child care bill and
comparable to William Fulbright's hearings on Vietnam or Richard Lugar's
antification law. Yet, easy-going and popular, he won a leadersh
Philippines. Pell's instincts are dovish-toward the Democrats' disarmament position, floor, norma
elections-chairman of the Republican Conference-over the someti
Jake Garn of Utah, 28-25. He continues to hold that post.
ization of diplomatic relations with Cuba, banning nuclear weapons on the ocean confrontation
For all his popularity in Rhode Island, where he won his first sta
banning environmental alteration as a weapon of war-at a time when the more
policies of the Reagan Administration produced the INF Treaty, which Pell supported
Chafee was nearly defeated for reelection in the recession year of 19
which the Senate ultimately ratified 93-5 but with some reservations. The ranking obstros
challenge in 1988. In 1982, former attorney general and state A
the committee is Jesse Helms, with his own right-wing agenda, his willingness to
Michaelson denounced Reaganomics and drew 49% against Chaf
on nominations and his lack of interest in bipartisan cooperation; and Pell does not have a
Governor Richard Licht, nephew of the Democrat who beat Chafe
attacked Chafee for his social security and medicare votes, and charge
majority on the committee. But Pell has had his successes. His opposition to contra in
succeeded, though he was not a lead player on the issue; the opponents had a majority
to have his beachfront house included in a federally protected area, and
Committee seat to give tax breaks to rich friends. Licht showed gr
House, not the Senate. He saw the Senate vote South African sanctions.
Pell's other major legislative interest is education. He is the second ranking Democral education
Chafee in fundraising-a formidable task. But he was unable to be
Labor and Human Resources and for years has chaired the subcommittee in charge of
reputation, and Chafee's support from environmentalists and his li
He made a particular mark in setting up a grant program for attacked needy college
economic issues sustained him with many swing voters. In the end, Ch
programs. university students; these Pell grants, as they are now officially called, were should ask
Ric-an impressive score in the number one Dukakis state.
Presidential politics. Rhode Island in 1988 was the number one Duk:
fully by the Reagan Administration. Those who disdain Pell's political talents of thousands
gave him 56% of its votes in the general election, more than Massach
other Senators have their name on a program that sends money to tens of federal
market may have gone for Bush, but the Providence media market (v
many families in their states every year. He has also been one of the main promoters
the arts and of ocean research (Rhode Island's license plates call it the "Ocean State"). and
and New Bedford, Massachusetts) voted for Dukakis. The ancestral I
After Chafee's challenge, Pell was reelected with 75% and 73% in 1978 in
the nearly two-thirds of Rhode Islanders who are Catholics played
respectively. Although Congresswoman Claudine Schneider declined to take him on
Dukakis's record of encouraging economic development of smaller Ne
which Rhode Island has some. Dukakis's liberal stands on cultural is
she was reported in early 1989 to be seriously considering the race. But Pell shows no
quitting, and he continues to make the rounds of Rhode Island political with meetings the
liability. Some might suppose that Catholics here would dislike Dukal
christenings and backyard gatherings, quietly and politely keeping in touch
and other family issues. In states where Catholics are a beleaguered mil
ethnic and Catholic voters whom polls indicate have warm feelings toward him. Schmel find N
in shurch positions. But in Rhode Island, where they are a big major
would be a strong candidate, but it's not clear that she or any other Republican will
(lege; and the mostly Irish clergy has never had a commanding pow
Italian and French Canadian Catholics whose family traditions are ofte
"cream puff" when the 1990 results are in.
Senator John Chafee is Rhode Island's most successful Republican politician fourth in the -
prous.
Even so, he has had his setbacks: he was defeated when he sought a when Sex in
Rhode Island's presidential primary, held the same day as Massacl
lowest turnout in the nation, a vestige of the days when Democratic pal
years. in 1968, and he lost to Pell in 1972. He came back, however, in 1976 the Democra
governor John Pastore retired, profiting from then-Governor Philip Noel's defeat in
they don't (Gary Hart won here in 1984), but few Rhode Islanders b
Senate primary by a Cadillac dealer who ran a self-financed campaign but exhausted
The People: Est. Pop. 1988: 995,000; Pop. 1980: 947,154, up 5.1% 1980-
-40% of U.S. total, 42d largest. 13% with 1-3 yrs. col., 15% with 4+ yrs. col.
resources. Chafee's popularity comes from a solid, pleasant personality and from his liberal be stands
Wagle ancestry: 13% Italian, 8% French, English, Irish, 7% Portuguese
issues. On economics, while he is not always a solid conservative, he cannot hostile taken
Noottish, Swedish, Russian. Households (1980): 72% family, 37% with chil
many for Democrat either. On the Finance Committee he is a critic of greenmail,
1176 housing units rented; median monthly rent: $158; median house valu
and a "golden parachutes"-all populist stands, though somewhat vulnerable to the trade charge.
(1980): 704,303; 2% Black, 2% Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin. Registered
they entrench incompetent managements or oldtimers like the Five Families. On law.
party registration.
has been inclined toward free trade positions and supported the 1988 trade
IMA Share of Federal Tax Burden: $3,818,000,000; 0.43% of U.S. total,
Chafee is most active on environmental issues. He was the chief packager in the Senature
water projects bill that President Reagan vetoed in 1986, and cooperated with the Environments Democratic
Time Share of Federal Expenditures
Total
Non-Defense
bringing it forward and getting it passed over Reagan's veto in early 1987. On his fellow
Public Works, where he is ranking minority member, Chafee worked with
Final Expend
$3,567m
(0.40%)
$2,768m
(0.42%)
Mid Grants
644m
(0.56%)
641m
(0.56%)
England Republican Robert Stafford, now retired, to get a stronger Superfund that
reauthorize the Clean Air Act. He works hard on clean water as well, making sure products Ria
Natury/Wages
503m
(0.37%)
205m
(0.31%)
Plants to Indiv
1,848m
(0.45%)
1,779m
(0.46%)
Island gets its share of funds. He worked on the 1988 ocean dumping critical law and
Mocurement
489m
(0.26%)
61m
(0.13%)
commercial fishing vessel safety act. In return, environmentalists provided and 1988. support.)
Newarch/Other
84m
(0.22%)
82m
(0.22%)
in money and volunteers, for Chafee in his tough reelection fights of 1982
RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISLAND
1083
n in 1990.
Chafee tends to be rather liberal on cultural and foreign policy issues and is anything but a
n of Foreign Relations, Pell has not been a powerhouse. He has done nothing
Avonte of the New Right; he supports the ABC child care bill and the 1988 plant closing
William Fulbright's hearings on Vietnam or Richard Lugar's work on the
infication law. Yet, easy-going and popular, he won a leadership post after the 1984
Il's instincts are dovish-toward the Democrats' disarmament position, normal
Hirions-chairman of the Republican Conference-over the sometimes intense and abrasive
nmental alteration as a weapon of war-at a time when the more confrontations and
omatic relations with Cuba, banning nuclear weapons on the ocean floor,
like
Garn of Utah, 28-25. He continues to hold that post.
for all his popularity in Rhode Island, where he won his first statewide election in 1962,
Reagan Administration produced the INF Treaty, which Pell supported and
was nearly defeated for reelection in the recession year of 1982 and faced a vigorous
te ultimately ratified 93-5 but with some reservations. The ranking Republicat
fallenge in 1988. In 1982, former attorney general and state AFL-CIO counsel Julius
tee is Jesse Helms, with his own right-wing agenda, his willingness to obstruct
Michaelson denounced Reaganomics and drew 49% against Chafee. In 1988, Lieutenant
d his lack of interest in bipartisan cooperation; and Pell does not have a reliable
Governor Richard Licht, nephew of the Democrat who beat Chafee for governor in 1968,
e committee. But Pell has had his successes. His opposition to contra
stircked Chafee for his social security and medicare votes, and charged that he used influence
ugh he was not a lead player on the issue; the opponents had a majority in all the
his beachfront house included in a federally protected area, and that he used his Finance
Senate. He saw the Senate vote South African sanctions.
Committee seat to give tax breaks to rich friends. Licht showed great energy and matched
major legislative interest is education. He is the second ranking Democrat
Chalee in fundraising-a formidable task. But he was unable to besmirch the Republican's
an Resources and for years has chaired the subcommittee in charge of education
reputation, and Chafee's support from environmentalists and his liberal positions on some
made a particular mark in setting up a grant program for needy college and
sooomic issues sustained him with many swing voters. In the end, Chafee won with 55% of the
ints; these Pell grants, as they are now officially called, were attacked unsucces
an impressive score in the number one Dukakis state.
agan Administration. Those who disdain Pell's political talents should ask how
Presidential politics. Rhode Island in 1988 was the number one Dukakis state in the nation. It
ators have their name on a program that sends money to tens of thousands of
him 56% of its votes in the general election, more than Massachusetts; the Boston media
states every year. He has also been one of the main promoters of federal aid 10
market may have gone for Bush, but the Providence media market (which includes Fall River
ocean research (Rhode Island's license plates call it the "Ocean State")
and New Bedford, Massachusetts) voted for Dukakis. The ancestral Democratic preference of
e's challenge, Pell was reelected with 75% and 73% in 1978 and 1984
the nearly two-thirds of Rhode Islanders who are Catholics played some role here; so did
though Congresswoman Claudine Schneider declined to take him on in 1984
Dukakis's record of encouraging economic development of smaller New England mill towns, of
d in early 1989 to be seriously considering the race. But Pell shows no signs
which Rhode Island has some. Dukakis's liberal stands on cultural issues were not much of a
e continues to make the rounds of Rhode Island political meetings and of
ability. Some might suppose that Catholics here would dislike Dukakis's positions on abortion
backyard gatherings, quietly and politely keeping in touch with the mostly
andother family issues. In states where Catholics are a beleaguered minority, they do often cling
holic voters whom polls indicate have warm feelings toward him. Schneider
schurch positions. But in Rhode Island, where they are a big majority, they don't feel under
g candidate, but it's not clear that she or any other Republican will find Pell
and the mostly Irish clergy has never had a commanding power over the state's mostly
hen the 1990 results are in.
Illian and French Canadian Catholics whose family traditions are often anticlerical rather than
Chafee is Rhode Island's most successful Republican politician in the last 50
he has had his setbacks: he was defeated when he sought a fourth term
Rhode Island's presidential primary, held the same day as Massachusetts's, has some of the
and he lost to Pell in 1972. He came back, however, in 1976 when Senator as
owest turnout in the nation, a vestige of the days when Democratic party bosses had sway. Now
tired, profiting from then-Governor Philip Noel's defeat in the Democratic
they don't (Gary Hart won here in 1984), but few Rhode Islanders bother to vote anyway.
y a Cadillac dealer who ran a self-financed campaign but exhausted most of his
larity comes from a solid, pleasant personality and from his liberal stands on
The 140% of U.S. total, 42d largest. 13% with 1-3 yrs. col., 15% with 4+ yrs. col.; 10.3% below poverty level.
People: Est. Pop. 1988: 995,000; Pop. 1980: 947,154, up 5.1% 1980-88 and dn. 0.3% 1970-80;
economics, while he is not always a solid conservative, he cannot be mistaken
Single ancestry: 13% Italian, '8% French, English, Irish, 7% Portuguese, 2% Polish; 1% German,
ither. On the Finance Committee he is a critic of greenmail, hostile takeovers.
Smittish, Swedish, Russian. Households (1980): 72% family, 37% with children, 59% married couples;
chutes"-all populist stands, though somewhat vulnerable to the charge that
11.2% housing units rented; median monthly rent: $158; median house value: $47,000. Voting age pop.
(1980): 704,303; 2% Black, 2% Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin. Registered voters (1988): 548,758; no
ompetent managements or oldtimers like the Five Families. On trade issues, he
toward free trade positions and supported the 1988 trade law.
party registration.
active on environmental issues. He was the chief packager in the Senate of the
1988 Share of Federal Tax Burden: $3,818,000,000; 0.43% of U.S. total, 40th largest.
that President Reagan vetoed in 1986, and cooperated with the Democrats in
d and getting it passed over Reagan's veto in early 1987. On Environment and
1988 Share of Federal Expenditures
Total
Non-Defense
Defense
here he is ranking minority member, Chafee worked with his fellow: New
can Robert Stafford, now retired, to get a stronger Superfund and to
Total Expend
$3,567m
(0.40%)
$2,768m
(0.42%)
$860m
(0.38%)
Si/Lcl Grants
644m
(0.56%)
641m
(0.56%)
2m
(1.98%)'
lean Air Act. He works hard on clean water as well, making sure that Rhode
Salary/Wages
503m
(0.37%)
205m
(0.31%)
298m
(0.31%)
are of funds. He worked on the 1988 ocean dumping law and produced 1
Pymnts to Indiv
1,848m
(0.45%)
1,779m
(0.46%)
69m
(0.37%)
vessel safety act. In return, environmentalists provided critical support, both
Procurement
489m
(0.26%)
61m
(0.13%)
489m
(0.26%)
inteers, for Chafee in his tough reelection fights of 1982 and 1988.
Research/Other
84m
(0.22%)
82m
(0.22%)
2m
(0.22%)
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establishment. But he was at the right place at the right time, and in November 1988 beat
house-painter-turned-congressman; she came back and won in 1980
Germain and became the first Republican elected to Congress in the 1st District in 50 years
Beard's weaknesses; her four reelection wins, by increasing ma
Can he stay there? He got a seat on the Armed Services Committee, which has some local
importance, and he says he wants to emphasize issues like acid rain, global warming, and serious ocean
prohibit construction of Navy ships abroad. She was one of the (
strengths. In her first term, she voted against Reagan budget
dumping-popular here and notexactly a New Right agenda. But he's certain to have
necessful in 1983, to kill the Clinch River breeder reactor. She has
opposition. Wolf has said he will run again and seems to have the capacity to be a; serve
ssues-popular in this ocean-conscious district-and claims some o
candidate, and some of the Democrats who supported St Germain or were simply too coward
Umiting ocean dumping and promoting the protection of endangere
to oppose him may run too. Certainly this is a seat that both parties expect to be serious
well on hazardous waste and the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
contested.
Schneider is generally given the label of liberal Republican, but
The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 480,700, up 1.3% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 474,429, dn. 2.8% units 1970-1
votes with market-oriented Republicans, and her interest in new app
Households (1980): 71% family, 35% with children, 58% married couples; 45.3% housing 2%
her to vote for Newt Gingrich, a conservative similarly interested
median monthly rent: $157; median house value: $48,600. Voting age pop. (1980): 357,096;
1989 race for whip. Schneider considered running against Senator C
2% Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin.
early 11 1989 the talk was that she was likely to do so in 1990. Her own
112,949
(57%)
Dukakis (R)
witnessed by her rousing reelection victory; but Pell is also ex
1988 Presidential Vote:
83,140
(42%)
Bush (D)
Doaten a highly popular Republican, his current colleague John Cha
in November 1990, but he seems in good health, and Schneide
rationale for replacing a Senator with whom most Rhode Islanders h:
Rep. Ronald Keith Machtley (R)
Elected 1988; b. July 8, 1934, Johnstown, PA; home, Portsmer
Bewever, she will almost certainly run and might very well be th
U.S. Naval Academy, B.S. 1970, Suffolk U. J.D., 1978; Protestion
Democratic attorney general James E. O'Neal is rumored to be
Chneider does decide to challenge Pell.
married (Kati).
Career: U.S. Navy, 1970-75; Practicing atty. 1978-88.
The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 494,200, up 4.5% 1980-86; Pop. 1980:
Offices: 1123 LHOB 20515, 202-225-4911. Also 200 Main
touscholds (1980): 74% family, 38% with children, 60% married couples
Pawtucket 02860, 401-725-9400.
exidian monthly rent: $159; median house value: $45,700. Voting age pop
Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin.
Committees: Armed Services (21st of 21 R). Subcomm
Military Personnel and Compensation; Readiness. Small Buts
1988 Presidential Vote:
Dukakis (D).
112,
(18th of 18 R). Select Committee on Children, Youth and
Bush (R)
94,6
(12th of 12 R).
Claudine Schneider (R)
Elected 1980; b. Mar. 25, 1947, Clairt
Rosemont Col., U. of Barcelona, Spair
Roman Catholic; divorced.
Group Ratings and Key Votes: Newly Elected
Career: Founder, RI Cmtee. on End
Election Results
servation Law Foundation, 1973-78;
Ronald K. Machtley (R)
105,506
(56%)
on Providence TV, 1979-80.
1988 general
Fernand J. St Germain (D)
84,141
(44%)
Offices: 1512 LHOB 20515, 202-22
1988 primary
Ronald K. Machtley (R), unopposed
Cranston 02910, 401-528-5020.
Fernand J. St Germain (D)
85,077
(58%)
1986 general
John A. Holmes Jr. (R)
62,397
(42%)
Committees: Merchant Marine and
Subcommittees: Fisheries and Wildlife
ronment; Oversight and Investigation
ence, Space and Technology (3d of 19
Resources, Agriculture Research a
SECOND DISTRICT
Member); Science, Research and Tec
The 2d Congressional District is the western half of Rhode Island. While the 1st includest like
on Aging (8th of 27 R). Subcommitt
mill towns, the 2d has most of its population in working and middle-class suburbs
Care.
and Warwick, which despite their Anglo-Saxon names are inhabited mostly by people
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Italian, French and Portuguese surnames. Some of Providence's rich suburbs are alsolete
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at the right place at the right time, and in November 1988 beat Si
e-painter-turned-congressman; she came back and won in 1980. That victory she may owe to
first Republican elected to Congress in the 1st District in 50 years.
leard's weaknesses; her four reelection wins, by increasing margins, she owes to her own
got a seat on the Armed Services Committee, which has some local
trengths. In her first term, she voted against Reagan budget cuts and sponsored a law to
wants to emphasize issues like acid rain, global warming, and ocean
ruhibit construction of Navy ships abroad. She was one of the leaders in the fight, finally
nd notexactly a New Right agenda. But he's certain to have serious
wccessful in 1983, to kill the Clinch River breeder reactor. She has specialized in environmental
he will run again and seems to have the capacity to be a serious
sues-popular in this ocean-conscious district-and claims some of the credit for the 1988 laws
Democrats who supported St Germain or were simply too cowardly
miting ocean dumping and promoting the protection of endangered species. She has worked as
00. Certainly this is a seat that both parties expect to be seriously
on hazardous waste and the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
Schneider is generally given the label of liberal Republican, but on economic issues she often
eswith market-oriented Republicans, and her interest in new approaches and ideas prompted
86: 480,700, up 1.3% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 474,429, dn. 2.8% 1970-80.
mily, 35% with children, 58% married couples; 45.3% housing units rented;
vote for Newt Gingrich, a conservative similarly interested in new ideas, in the March
median house value: $48,600. Voting age pop. (1980): 357,096; 2% Black,
989 race for whip. Schneider considered running against Senator Claiborne Pell in 1984, and in
in origin.
arly 1989 the talk was that she was likely to do so in 1990. Her own popularity statewide is high,
witnessed by her rousing reelection victory; but Pell is also exceedingly popular and has
Dukakis (R)
112,949
(57%)
Bush (D)
83,140
(42%)
beaten a highly popular Republican, his current colleague John Chafee, before. Pell will turn be
November 1990, but he seems in good health, and Schneider needs to come up with a
nitionale for replacing a Senator with whom most Rhode Islanders have no quarrel. If he retires,
tley (R)
nwever, she will almost certainly run and might very well be the favorite to win. Already,
Elected 1988; b. July 8, 1934, Johnstown, PA; home, Portsmouth,
Democratic attorney general James E. O'Neal is rumored to be interested in this seat if
U.S. Naval Academy, B.S. 1970, Suffolk U. J.D., 1978; Protestant;
Schneider does decide to challenge Pell.
married (Kati).
Career: U.S. Navy, 1970-75; Practicing atty. 1978-88.
The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 494,200, up 4.5% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 472,725, up 2.4% 1970-80.
Households (1980): 74% family, 38% with children, 60% married couples; 37.0% housing units rented;
Offices: 1123 LHOB 20515, 202-225-4911. Also 200 Main St.,
median monthly rent: $159; median house value: $45,700. Voting age pop. (1980): 347,207; 3% Black,
Pawtucket 02860, 401-725-9400.
Spanish origin, 1% Asian origin.
Committees: Armed Services (21st of 21 R). Subcommittees:
Military Personnel and Compensation; Readiness: Small Business
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Presidential
Vote:
Dukakis
(D)
112,174
(54%)
(18th of 18 R). Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families
Bush (R)
94,621
(46%)
(12th of 12 R).
Rep. Claudine Schneider (R)
Elected 1980; b. Mar. 25, 1947, Clairton, PA; home, Narragansett;
Rosemont Col., U. of Barcelona, Spain, Windham Col., B.A. 1969;
Roman Catholic; divorced.
otes: Newly Elected
Career: Founder, RI Cmtee. on Energy, 1973; Exec. Dir., Con-
servation Law Foundation, 1973-78; Producer, pub. affairs prog.
on Providence TV, 1979-80.
Id K. Machtley (R)
105,506
(56%)
($385,402)
and J. St Germain (D)
84,141
(44%)
($801,289)
Offices: 1512 LHOB 20515, 202-225-2735. Also 30 Rolfe Sq.,
Id K. Machtley (R), unopposed
Cranston 02910, 401-528-5020.
and J. St Germain (D)
85,077
(58%)
($848,082)
Committees: Merchant Marine and Fisheries (6th of 17 R).
A. Holmes Jr. (R)
62,397
(42%)
($340,458)
Subcommittees: Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Envi-
ronment; Oversight and Investigations (Ranking Member). Sci-
ence, Space and Technology (3d of 19 R). Subcommittees: Natural
Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment (Ranking
CT
Member); Science, Research and Technology. Select Committee
District is the western half of Rhode Island. While the 1st includes many
on Aging (8th of 27 R). Subcommittee: Health and Long-Term
nost of its population in working and middle-class suburbs like Cranston
Care.
spite their Anglo-Saxon names are inhabited mostly by people with Irish,
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tuguese surnames. Some of Providence's rich suburbs are also here, and
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nuclear plant and running a losing race in 1978 against Edward Beard,
CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER FUNDRAISER
WARWICK, R.I.
ROCKY POINT PALLADIUM
NOV. 20, 1989
6:00 P.M.
THANK YOU, CLAUDINE, JOHN [CHAFFEE], ED [DIPRETE]
AND RON [MATCHLEY]. AND LET US ALL GIVE A SPECIAL
THANKS TO THE WOONSOCKETT HIGH SCHOOL BAND.
((AND I JUST HAVE TO SAY, I'M PLEASED TO VISIT THE
ROCKY POINT PALLADIUM. YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE FIRST
TIME I'VE BEEN TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK IN YEARS. IN FACT,
I WANTED TO RIDE THE CORKSCREW, BUT THE SECRET SERVICE
WOULDN'T LET ME.)) 11
BUT IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK IN THE HOME OF so MANY
GREAT RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN LEADERS -- SENATOR
CHAFEE, GOVERNOR DIPRETE AND CONGRESSWOMAN CLAUDINE
SCHNEIDER.
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SINCE THE FIRST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC, THE RHODE
ISLAND BRAND OF LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN MARKED BY A
TENACIOUS, FIERCE, INDIVIDUALISM. THIS LITTLE STATE
HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FRIEND OF DISSENT, A MECCA FOR
MAVERICKS, AND A HOME FOR THE SELF-RELIANT. RHODE
ISLAND IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE, PERSONIFIED BY THE
STATUE ATOP YOUR CAPITOL -- THE VERY IMAGE OF THE
INDEPENDENT MAN.
BUT IT IS ON BEHALF OF AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN THAT I
HAVE COME TO PROVIDENCE TONIGHT. I AM HERE TO STAND BY
A GREAT LEADER FOR RHODE ISLAND AND AMERICA. I AM HERE
FOR MY FRIEND, CLAUDINE. 11
AND IT'S INTERESTING -- PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON AND
RHODE ISLAND NEVER REFER TO HER AS CONGRESSWOMAN
SCHNEIDER. SHE IS, TO US ALL, JUST CLAUDINE, A DOWN-
TO-EARTH LADY WHO STILL MAKES HER OWN CLOTHES.
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BUT APPROACHABLE AS SHE IS, MAKE NO MISTAKE --
CLAUDINE IS A CHAMP. AFTER ALL, SHE WAS THE WINNER
OF THE NIKE CAPITAL CHALLENGE 5K FOR FIVE YEARS IN A
ROW. THIS IS THE PACE CLAUDINE HAS SET IN THE HOUSE,
ALWAYS AHEAD OF THE PACK, ALWAYS OUT IN FRONT. AND
THIS IS THE PACE SHE IS SETTING FOR THE FUTURE.
SOMETIMES, PACE-SETTERS RUN ALONE. SOMETIMES,
CLAUDINE DISAGREES WITH HER PARTY. BUT WITH CLAUDINE,
I CAN ALWAYS BANK ON ONE THING. I ALWAYS KNOW EXACTLY
WHERE SHE STANDS -- RIGHT BY HER PRINCIPLES.
CLAUDINE IS A PACE-SETTER WHEN IT COMES TO THE
WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE
ENVIRONMENT. SHE WAS A SPONSOR OF LEGISLATION TO
REDUCE HAZARDOUS WASTE AT THE SOURCE, TO GIVE COMPANIES
INCENTIVES TO RECYCLE, BECAUSE SHE KNOWS THAT IT IS
EASIER TO PREVENT TOXIC WASTE THAN IT IS TO CLEAN IT
UP. 11
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CLAUDINE WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN THE PASSAGE OF
THE OCEAN DUMPING LAW -- -- CRITICAL IF WE ARE TO CLEAN UP
THE SHORELINES OF AMERICA. SHE HAS WORKED HARD TO HALT
THE CONTINUING TRAGEDY OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION. AND
SHE HAS BEEN AMONG THE FOREMOST GUARDIANS OF THOSE RARE
AND WONDERFUL SPECIES ENDANGERED BY MAN AND HIS
CHAINSAWS.
(CLAUDINE, LOOKING OVER YOUR COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENTS, I ALSO NOTICED YOU'RE A LEADING MEMBER OF
THE FISHERIES SUBCOMMITTEE ... so I'M SURE YOU'LL BE
PLEASED TO HEAR THAT WITH MY RECORD AS A FISHERMAN, NO
SPECIES ARE ENDANGERED BY ME.))\\
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BUT I DO SHARE HER CONCERN FOR THE FUTURE OF
ENDANGERED SPECIES, AND THAT IS WHY MY ADMINISTRATION
ANNOUNCED A BAN IN JULY OF THE IMPORTATION OF AFRICAN
ELEPHANT IVORY INTO THE UNITED STATES. 11 I ALSO SHARE
YOUR CONCERN FOR THE QUALITY OF THE WATER WE DRINK, THE
AIR WE BREATHE, AND THE FUTURE OF OUR LAND. AND IT IS
OUT OF THIS CONCERN THAT I ASKED THE EPA AND THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON THOSE WHO POLLUTE
OUR WATERS AND OUR BEACHES. WE ARE DETERMINED TO FIGHT
TOXIC AIR EMISSIONS. AND WE CAN BE GRATEFUL THAT THE
EPA HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO BE MORE AGGRESSIVE IN
ENFORCING THE CLEAN-UP OF HAZARDOUS WASTE.
BUT WE ARE LEARNING THAT NO NATION CAN SAVE THE
ENVIRONMENT BY ITSELF. POLLUTION RESPECTS NO BORDERS;
POLLUTION IS A WORLD PROBLEM; AND ONLY A WORLD SOLUTION
WILL STOP IT.\\
A WORLD SOLUTION CAN BEGIN WITH THE UNITED STATES
AND THE SOVIET UNION. so WHEN I MEET PRESIDENT
GORBACHEV IN MALTA, I WILL SEEK HIS ACTIVE COOPERATION
IN CLEANING UP THE ENVIRONMENT.\\
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AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT, WE'VE GOT TO CLEAN UP OUR
STREETS -- BY FIGHTING THE SCOURGE OF DRUGS AND ITS
ACCOMPLICE, VIOLENT CRIME. OUR CHILDREN DESERVE A
CHANCE TO AVOID DRUGS, THROUGH A VIGOROUS ANTI-DRUG
CAMPAIGN IN THE SCHOOLS. USERS AND ADDICTS DESERVE A
CHANCE TO GO CLEAN THROUGH TREATMENT. BUT SOCIETY ALSO
DESERVES A CHANCE, BY SENDING DRUG DEALERS WHERE THEY
BELONG -- TO DO TIME -- HARD TIME.\ AND I KNOW THAT
CLAUDINE AGREES.
LAST MAY, I ASKED CONGRESS TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR
OUR DRUG EDUCATION AND PREVENTION EFFORTS BY NEARLY
$1.1 BILLION -- A 16 PERCENT INCREASE. BUT I AM ALSO
ASKING FOR INCREASES IN MY CRIME AND IN MY DRUG
PACKAGES FOR MORE POLICE, MORE PRISONS AND MORE
PROSECUTORS. AGAIN, SOCIETY DESERVES A CHANCE. 11 AND
I CHALLENGE CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION NOW AND PASS MY
CRIME LEGISLATION.
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THERE ARE SO MANY CHILDREN IN AMERICA WHO DESERVE
A CHANCE, AND ARE NOT GETTING IT, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT
LEARNING TO READ, LEARNING TO WRITE, LEARNING FOR WORK.
THAT IS WHY I WAS PLEASED TO JOIN GOVERNOR DIPRETE AND
HIS COLLEAGUES IN THE STATES IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, TO
JOIN IN A COMPACT TO IMPROVE OUR SCHOOLS THROUGH THE
PRINCIPLES OF CHOICE IN EDUCATION, MORE FLEXIBILITY FOR
STATES AND FOR TEACHERS, AND INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY.
THERE ARE OTHERS IN AMERICA WHO ALSO DESERVE A
CHANCE. AND so I AM PROUD TO ASK FOR THE
REAUTHORIZATION OF THE COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS. I
AM ALSO PROUD TO ENDORSE THE HATE CRIMES BILL TO
IDENTIFY AND FIGHT BIGOTRY. BUT, WE MUST GO ONE STEP
FURTHER -- WE MUST END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE
DISABLED. 11
AND, OF COURSE, CLAUDINE HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT
OF SECURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF US ALL. MARTIN LUTHER
KING SAID: "INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE
EVERYWHERE." IN THIS SPIRIT, CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER IS
SUCH A FERVENT ADVOCATE OF THE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES AND
WOMEN. SHE BELIEVES THAT INJUSTICE TO ANY AMERICAN, IS
AN INJUSTICE TO ALL AMERICANS.
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WE HAVE ALL SEEN HOW THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE
RESHAPING THE WORLD. AND, BECAUSE OF THIS CHANGE, AT
NO TIME IN THE LONG HISTORY OF THE POSTWAR YEARS HAS
DIALOGUE BEEN MORE IMPORTANT BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS.
so I WILL GO TO MALTA TO CONTINUE OUR DIALOGUE WITH
PRESIDENT GORBACHEV. BUT, AS I WORK WITH HIM, IT IS
IMPORTANT THAT AMERICAN AND SOVIET LEADERS AT ALL
LEVELS ARE INVOLVED IN FRANK AND MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE.
WE CAN ALL BE GRATEFUL FOR CLAUDINE, BECAUSE SHE HAS
PERFORMED AN INVALUABLE SERVICE, BY ORIGINATING A LIVE
NETWORK SHOW THAT ALLOWS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO HAVE A
CANDID EXCHANGE ON ISSUES FROM ARMS CONTROL TO THE
ENVIRONMENT WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN THE SUPREME
SOVIET.
so CLAUDINE, YOU HAVE BEEN A LEADER IN THE
ENVIRONMENT, IN THE WAR ON CRIME AND DRUGS, IN
ADVANCING CIVIL RIGHTS AND IN PROMOTING A DIALOGUE WITH
THE SOVIETS. IS IT ANY WONDER THAT YOUR FUTURE IS
BRIGHT WITH PROMISE?
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YOU HAVE MADE A GREAT CONGRESSWOMAN. AND I HAVE
TO SAY -- YOU'D MAKE A GREAT SENATOR. III AMERICA
NEEDS YOUR ENERGY, YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR LEADERSHIP --
THE LEADERSHIP OF A PACE-SETTER, NOT A FOLLOWER.
THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TO RHODE ISLAND. GOD
BLESS YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
# # #
Davis/Martin
Title: Claudine
Nov. 17, 1989
Draft: Five
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, WARWICK, R.I.
ROCKY POINT PALLADIUM
6:00 p.m. Monday, Nov. 20, 1989
Thank you, Claudine, John and Ed. ((Acknowledgements --
Phil Terzian and Charles Bakst) ) And let us all give a special
thanks to the Woonsockett High School Band. 11
( (And I just have to say, I'm pleased to visit the Rocky
Point Palladium. You know, this is the first time I've been to
an amusement park in years. In fact, I wanted to ride the
Corkscrew, but the Secret Service wouldn't let me.) ) 11
But it's great to be back in the home of so many great Rhode
Island Republican leaders -- Senator Chafee, Governor DiPrete and
Congresswoman Claudine Schneider. \\
Since the first days of the Republic, the Rhode Island brand
of leadership has been marked by a tenacious, fierce,
individualism. This little state has always been a big friend of
dissent, a mecca for mavericks, and a home for the self-reliant.
Rhode Island is, and will always be, personified by the statue
atop your Capitol -- the very image of the Independent Man.
But it is on behalf of an independent woman that I have come
to Providence tonight. I am here to stand by a great leader for
Rhode Island and America. I am here for my friend, Claudine.
And it's interesting -- people in Washington and Rhode
Island never refer to her as Congresswoman Schneider. In fact,
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if you were to call her that, many at first wouldn't know who you
were talking about. She is, to us all, just Claudine, a down-to-
earth lady who still makes her own clothes.
But approachable as she is, make no mistake -- Claudine is a
champ 11 After all, she was the winner of the Nike Capital
Challenge 5K for five years in a row. This is the pace Claudine
has set in the House, always ahead of the pack, always out in
front. And this is the pace she is setting for the future.
Sometimes, pace-setters run alone. Sometimes, Claudine
disagrees with her party. But with Claudine, I can always bank
on one thing. I always know exactly where she stands -- right by
her principles.
Claudine is a pace-setter when it comes to the worldwide
struggle to preserve and protect the environment. She was a
sponsor of legislation to reduce hazardous waste at the source,
to give companies incentives to recycle, because she knows that
it is easier to prevent toxic waste than it is to clean it up.
Claudine was also instrumental in the passage of the Ocean
Dumping law -- critical if we are to clean up the shorelines of
America. She has worked hard to halt the continuing tragedy of
tropical deforestation. And she has been among the foremost
guardians of those rare and wonderful species endangered by man
and his chainsaws.
( (Claudine, looking over your committee assignments, I also
noticed you're a leading member of the Fisheries subcommittee
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So I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that with my record as a
fisherman, no species are endangered by me. ) )
But I do share her concern for the future of endangered
species, and that is why my administration announced a ban in
July of the importation of African Elephant Ivory into the United
States. I also share your concern for the quality of the water
we drink, the air we breathe, and the future of our land. That
is why I have asked the EPA and the Justice Department to crack
down on those who pollute our waters and our beaches; that is why
I am determined fight toxic air emissions with my Clean Air
proposal; and that is why I instructed the EPA to be more
aggressive in enforcing the clean-up of hazardous waste.
But we are learning that no nation can save the environment
by itself. Pollution respects no borders; pollution is a world
problem; and only a world solution will stop it.\\
A world solution can begin with the United States and the
Soviet Union. So when I meet President Gorbachev in Malta, I
will seek his active cooperation in cleaning up the
environment
And while we're at it, we've got it to clean up our streets
-- by fighting the scourge of drugs and its accomplice, violent
crime. I believe that children deserve a chance to avoid drugs,
through a vigorous anti-drug campaign in the schools. I believe
that users and addicts deserve a chance to go clean through
treatment. But I also believe that society deserves a chance, by
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sending drug dealers where they belong -- to do time -- hard
time.
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And I know that Claudine agrees.
Last May, I asked Congress to increase funding for our drug
education and prevention efforts by nearly $1.1 billion -- a 16
percent increase. But I am also asking for increases in my crime
and in my drug packages for more police, more prisons and more
prosecutors. Again, society deserves a chance. And I
challenge Congress to get off the dime and pass my crime
legislation.
There are so many children in America who deserve a chance,
and are not getting it, because they are not learning to read,
learning to write, learning for work. That is why I was pleased
to join Governor DiPrete and his colleagues in the states in
Charlottesville, to enact a compact to improve our schools with
the principles of choice in education, flexibility for states and
for teachers, and to bring accountability.
There are others in America who also deserve a chance. And
that is why I am proud to ask for the reauthorization for the
Commission on Civil Rights. I am proud to endorse the Hate
Crimes Bill to identify and fight bigotry. And I believe we must
go one step further -- we must end discrimination against the
disabled.
And, of course, Claudine has been at the forefront of
securing the civil rights of us all. Martin Luther King said:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." And that
is why Claudine Schneider is such a fervent advocate of the
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rights of minorities and women. She believes that injustice to
any American, is an injustice to all Americans.
We have all seen how the winds of change are reshaping the
world. And, because of this change, at no time in the long
history of the postwar years has dialogue been more important
between the superpowers. That is why I am going to Malta, to
continue our dialogue with President Gorbachev. As I work with
him, it can only be helpful for all the leaders of the United
States and the Soviet Union to keep in touch. That is why I am
grateful for Claudine, because she has performed an invaluable
service, by originating a live network show that allows Members
of Congress to have a candid exchange on issues from arms control
to the environment with their counterparts in the Supreme Soviet.
So Claudine, you have been a leader in the environment, in
the war on crime and drugs, in advancing civil rights and in
promoting a dialogue with the Soviets. Is it any wonder that
your future is bright with promise?
You have made a great Congresswoman. And I have to say --
you'd make a great Senator. \\\ America needs your energy, your
spirit and your leadership --- the leadership of a pace-setter,
not a follower.
Thank you for inviting me to Rhode Island. God bless you,
and God bless the United States of America.
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