THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ON THE TWO YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF HIS INAUGURATION

(Part 2)

***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:

• 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.

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 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

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 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.

***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.

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.

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:

• 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 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:

• 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 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:

• 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 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 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.
• 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. 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 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 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:

• 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 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 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 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.