THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND
ACTIONS
FIRST 100 DAYS
POLICY
ACTION
BUDGET: REVERSE TRICKLE
DOWN ECONOMICS
Congress adopts sweeping
investment and deficit
reduction package
BUDGET CUTS: BUREAUCRACY
"We will cut 100,000 federal
government positions through
attrition."
Executive Order 12839 signed
2/10/93.
BUDGET CUTS
Cut administrative costs by 3
percent
Executive Order 12837 signed
2/10/93 -- Creates a 14
percent reduction in
administrative costs by '97.
EDUCATION
Achieve 1989 Education
Summit's "National Education
Goals" by the year 2000.
Introduced Goals 2000:
Education America Act.
Will improve learning and
teaching by providing a
national framework for
education reform.
ECONOMY: ECONOMIC COUNCIL
Create an Economic Security
Council to coordinate
America's international
economic policy.
Established National
Economic Council, 1/25/93.
Executive Order 12835.
ENVIRONMENT: COMPETITIVENESS
COUNCIL
End back door for polluters
at White House.
Abolished by Presidential
Memorandum, 01/21/93.
ENVIRONMENT: LEADERSHIP
"I want to give you a real
environmental presidency."
Created Office of
Environmental Policy, which
has broader influence and
more focused mandate to
coordinate policy than
Council on Environmental
Quality, 2/8/93.
ENVIRONMENT: OZONE DEPLETION
Issued Executive Order to
reduce ozone depletion.
Requires Federal Govenment
procurement to restrict use
of substances that cause
stratospheric ozone
depletion.
ENVIRONMENT: END FALSE CHOICE
Shatter the false choice
between environmental
protection and economic
growth.
Babbitt announces compromise
naming California
Gnatcatcher a "threatened"
species, calls for
preservation of ecosystem
with allowance for limited
development, 3/25/93
ENVIRONMENT: FOREST SUMMIT
Early in my administration I
will convene a Pacific
Northwest Forest Summit to
work out a legislative
solution.
Forest conference convened
in Portland, OR, 4/2/93.
Orders cabinet officials to
draft immediate responses
and recommendations.
FAMILIES: IMMUNIZE CHILDREN
Sent the Child Immunization
Act to Congress on April 1,
1993.
FAMILIES: FAMILY AND MEDICAL
LEAVE ACT
Promised to get the bill on
his desk quickly and sign it.
Signed two weeks after
taking office, 2/5/93.
FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH
Lift the ban on fetal tissue
testing.
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
GOVERNMENT WASTE
Limits the use of government
aircraft by government
employees, Memorandum on
Restriction of Government
Aircraft, 2/10/93.
GOVERNMENT WASTE
Reduces and restricts use of
government vehicles,
Memorandum, 2/10/93.
HEALTH CARE
Will form a health care task
force to research and draft
health care reform plan.
Forms health care task force
with First Lady Hillary
Rodham Cliton as chair,
1/25/93.
JOBS: RE-EMPLOYMENT HELP
Extended unemployment
insurance and includes
reforms to provide
reemployment assistance to
beneficiaries.
MIDDLE EAST: PEACE TALKS
Sent Secretary Christopher
to region to re-start talks,
2/4/93.
REFORM OFFICE OF U.S. TRADE
REPRESENTATIVE
Prevent trade negotiators
from cashing in on their
positions by serving as
representatives of foreign
corporations or governments.
Issued Executive Order
banning senior staff and
trade reprentatives from
representing foreign
governments.
REINVENTING GOVERNMENT
"We will reduce the White
House Staff by 25 percent."
Announced reduction and
reorganization of White
House staff. Cut staff by
25%, or 350 positions
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: GAG RULE
"Repeal President Bush's
'gag' rule" which prohibits
doctors from sharing
information with patients.
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: MEXICO
CITY POLICY "Protect ...
right to choose."
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: MILITARY
HOSPITALS
"Protect women's rights in
the workplace."
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
Granted legal rights to
privately funded abortions
at military hospitals.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
"Support testing of RU-486."
Repealed by Presidential
Memorandum, 1/22/93.
Rescinded import ban of RU-
486, pending routine testing
and approval process.
TOWN HALL MEETINGS
Will continue as President.
First town hall meeting -
2/10/93.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Extend benefits to jobless
workers in the event of a
recession.
$5.8 Billion extension
signed 3/4/93 when
unemployment remains above
level where it was when
unemployment insurance was
first granted in current
recession.
WELFARE REFORM: BREAK CYCLE
OF DEPENDENCY
Make welfare a second chance,
not a way of life.
Established task force on
welfare reform policy with
National Governors'
Association.