> >IN HIS OWN WORDS
> >                   Broken Promises From the President
> >
> > 1.  MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT:
> >
> >     "I believe you deserve more than 30-second ads or vague
> >      promises.  That's why I've offered a comprehensive plan to get
> >      our economy moving again. It starts with a tax cut for the
> >      middle class and asks the rich to pay their fair share again."
> >                            Clinton's first campaign ad, January
> >                            1992.
> >
> >
> >     "We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by
> >      asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share.  Middle class
> >      taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or
> >      a significant reduction in their income tax rate."
> >                            Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >
> >     "I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these
> >      programs.  If the money does not come in there to pay for
> >      these programs, we will cut other government spending or we
> >      will slow down the phase-in of these programs.  I am not gonna
> >      raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs."
> >                            October 19, 1992.
> >
> >
> >     "From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely
> >      mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the
> >      race was the middle class tax cut.  I never did meet any voter
> >      who thought that."
> >                            January 14, 1993.
> >
> >
> >     "To middle class Americans who have paid a great deal for the
> >      last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight..."
> >                            February 17, 1993.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2.  TAX BURDEN:
> >
> >     "You know what my plan is, to raise taxes on people whose
> >      incomes are above $200,000..."
> >                            July 13, 1992.
> >
> >
> >     The new 36 percent Clinton tax rate takes effect on couples
> >      earning more than $140,000 and individuals making more than
> >      $115,000.
> >                             P.L. 103-66, Clinton's Tax and Spend
> >                             Plan.
> >
> >
> >
> > 3.  ELIMINATING THE DEFICIT:
> >
> >     "I would present a five-year plan to balance the budget."
> >                             June 4, 1992.
> >
> >
> >     "This budget plan, by contrast, will by 1997 cut $140 billion
> >      in that year alone from the deficit."
> >                             February 17, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 4.  CUTTING THE DEFICIT IN HALF:
> >
> >     "The plan not only pays for every penny in new investment with
> >      new savings but -- even with modest growth estimates -- will
> >      cut the deficit in half by 1996."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >
> >     Deficit, assuming baseline economics, FY 1997: $214 billion.
> >         Deficit, assuming Administration economics, FY 1997: $181
> >billion.
> >                             Budget of the United States Government,
> >                             Fiscal Year 1994, p. 2.
> >
> >
> > 5.  SIZE OF THE DEFICIT:
> >
> >     "I can't [avoid raising taxes on the middle class] because the
> >      deficit has increased so much, beyond my earlier estimates..."
> >                             February 17, 1993.
> >
> >
> >     "[S]enior Administration officials, including Bentsen and
> >      Panetta, concede that the professed shock at higher deficit
> >      estimates issued after the election was largely feigned.
> >      Moreover, the new Clinton team issued initial budget
> >      projections soon after taking office that put absolutely the
> >      worst face possible on the deficit outlook, manipulating data
> >      to reinforce the impression that Bush had left Clinton with a
> >      fiscal nightmare."
> >                             Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1994, p.
> >                             D1.
> >
> >
> > 6.  GAS TAX:
> >
> >     "Oppose federal excise gas tax increases.  Instead of a
> >      backbreaking federal gas tax, we should try conservation,
> >      increased use of natural gas, and increased use of alternative
> >      fuels."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     "I think -- you know, raising taxes on Social Security
> >      recipients or middle class people, the fifty-cent [Perot] gas
> >      tax and all these tax increases when the economy is not growing
> >      is an error."
> >                             October 23, 1992.
> >
> >
> >     After President Clinton realized he could not gain enough
> >      support for his proposed Btu tax (which would have, among
> >      other things, imposed a tax of about 7.5 cents per gallon for
> >      gasoline and 8.3 cents per gallon for diesel), he had to accept
> >      a smaller tax that was agreed to in the Senate and passed by
> >      Congress: a 4.3-cents-per-gallon motor fuels tax. The law also
> >      extends a 2.5-cent gas tax set to expire in 1995.
> >                             P.L. 103-66, Clinton's Tax and Spend
> >                             Plan.
> >
> >
> > 7. CORPORATE TAX RATES:
> >
> >     "I don't think we should raise corporate tax rates, [but I
> >      think we should give corporations more incentives to invest in
> >      this country]."
> >                             July 13, 1992.
> >
> >     President Clinton's original plan would have raised the top
> >      marginal rate for corporate income taxes to 36 percent, but
> >      Congress would only agree to raise it to 35 percent (the
> >      current rate is 34 percent).
> >                             P.L. 103-66, Clinton's Tax and Spend
> >                             Plan.
> >
> >
> > 8.  WELFARE REFORM:
> >
> >     "[W]e need real welfare reform.... I recommend, number one,
> >      that you require people to take jobs."
> >                             May 6, 1992.
> >
> >
> >     "And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we
> >      know it . . ."
> >                             August 12, 1992.
> >
> >
> >     "The Clinton plan gives welfare recipients two years of
> >      benefits before any work requirement is imposed, and imposes
> >      time limits and work requirements on only about 20% of
> >      recipients.  Under the Clinton plan, after two years of welfare
> >      checks, recipients could be indefinitely supported by a
> >      government-subsidized paycheck."
> >                             Bob Dole News Release, June 14, 1994.
> >
> >
> > 9.  CHINA MFN:
> >
> >     "We will condition favorable trade terms with repressive
> >      regimes--such as China's Communist regime--on respect for
> >      human rights, political liberalization, and responsible
> >      international conduct."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     "We will link China's trading privileges to its human rights
> >      record and its conduct on trade and weapon sales."
> >                             August 13, 1992.
> >
> >     "I am moving, therefore, to delink human rights from the
> >      annual extension of most-favored nation trading status for
> >      China."
> >                             May 26, 1994.
> >
> >
> > 10. HAITIAN REFUGEES:
> >
> >     "I am appalled by the decision of the Bush administration to
> >      pick up fleeing Haitians on the high seas and forcibly return
> >      them to Haiti before considering their claim to political
> >      asylum.... If I were President, I would -- in the absence of
> >      clear and compelling evidence that they weren't political
> >      refugees -- give them temporary asylum until we restored the
> >      elected government of Haiti."
> >
> >                             May 27, 1992.
> >
> >     "For Haitians who do seek to leave Haiti, boat departure is a
> >      terrible and dangerous choice.... For this reason, the
> >      practice of returning those who fled Haiti by boat will
> >      continue, for the time being, after I become President.  Those
> >      who do leave Haiti...by boat will be stopped and directly
> >      returned by the United States Coast Guard."
> >
> >                             January 14, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 11. MILITARY ACTION IN HAITI:
> >
> >     "I have no intention of asking our young people in
> >      uniform...to go in there to do anything other than implement a
> >      peace agreement..."
> >                             October 13, 1993.
> >
> >     "...I think that we cannot afford to discount the prospect of
> >      a military option [in Haiti]."
> >                             May 3, 1994.
> >
> > 12.  BOSNIA:
> >
> >     "We will make the U.S. the catalyst for a collective stand
> >      against aggression, the action I have urged in response to
> >      Serbian aggression in Bosnia . . ."
> >                             August 13, 1992.
> >
> >     "I think we should act.  We should lead.  The United States
> >      should lead."
> >                             April 23, 1993.
> >
> >     "I cannot unilaterally lift the arms embargo [on Bosnia]....
> >      Our allies decided that they weren't prepared to go that far
> >      this time."
> >                             June 15, 1993.
> >
> >     "The United Nations controls what happens in Bosnia."
> >                             June 15, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 13.  MISSION IN SOMALIA:
> >
> >     "The ultimate goal is to make sure that the United Nations can
> >      fulfill its mission there and continue to work with the
> >      Somalis toward nation building."
> >                             June 16, 1993.
> >
> >     "The U.S. military mission is not now nor was it ever one of
> >      `nation building.'"
> >                             October 13, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 14.  SOCIAL SECURITY:
> >
> >     "...we're also overtaxing it [Social Security] today by about
> >      $65 billion to $70 billion to make our deficit look smaller. So
> >      I think the last thing we want to do is to divide the American
> >      people against one another again by carving up Social
> >      Security."
> >
> >                             December 22, 1991.
> >
> >     "I think -- you know, raising taxes on Social Security
> >      recipients or middle class people, the fifty-cent [Perot] gas
> >      tax and all these tax increases when the economy is not growing
> >      is an error."
> >                             October 23, 1992.
> >
> >     Clinton's original plan taxed 85 percent (rather than the
> >      current 50 percent) of Social Security benefits for couples
> >      earning more than $32,000 and individuals earning more than
> >      $25,000.  However, that was too much even for Congress to
> >      handle, so during conference the threshold was raised to
> >      $44,000 for couples and $34,000 for individuals.
> >                             P.L. 103-66, Clinton's Tax and Spend
> >                             Plan.
> >
> > 15. MINDLESS SPENDING:
> >
> >     "This country doesn't need a new program for every problem,
> >      and we won't get change simply by spending more on programs
> >      already on the books."
> >                             April 16, 1992.
> >
> >     "In spending, the stimulus program provides additional budget
> >      authority equal to $16.3 billion."
> >                              A Vision of Change for America,
> >                              February 17, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 16.  GOVERNMENT REFORM:
> >
> >     "It's long past time to clean up Washington.  The last twelve
> >      years were nothing less than an extended hunting season for
> >      high-priced lobbyists and Washington influence peddlers.  On
> >      streets where statesmen once strolled, a never-ending stream of
> >      money now changes hands -- tying the hands of those elected to
> >      lead."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     "Inside Schmoozers Line Up...Three of Clinton's top
> >      appointments were lobbyists: Commerce Secretary Ron
> >      Brown...U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor...and
> >      Veterans' Affairs Director Jesse Brown."
> >                             Cleveland Plain-Dealer,
> >                             February 8, 1993, p. 1A.
> >
> >     "But in a recognition of the fact that lobbyists constitute a
> >      fertile source of fund-raising, Clinton will accept
> >      contributions [to his legal defense fund] of up to $1,000
> >      annually from the Washington lobbyists whose activities he
> >      decried during the campaign and since taking office."
> >
> >                             Washington Post, June 29, 1994, p. A1.
> >
> >
> > 17.  50 PERCENT QUOTA FOR CABINET WOMEN:
> >
> >     "I wouldn't restrict myself to having just half the Cabinet be
> >      women.  I might want more."
> >                             February 29, 1992.
> >
> >     Currently, 3 out of 14 Cabinet members are women, or 21
> >      percent.  If the EPA becomes a cabinet department, the number
> >      will increase to 4 of 15, or 26 percent.  If the UN Ambassador
> >      is counted, then just 31 percent of the Cabinet is female (5
> >      out of 16).
> >                             Information as of November 19, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 18.  25 PERCENT WHITE HOUSE STAFF CUTS:
> >
> >     "We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent..."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     "What the cuts [to White House staff] have become, instead, is
> >      a struggle to make the numbers come out right, a study in
> >      creative definitions of what constitutes the White House
> >      staff, and a flurry of pink slips sent to career
> >      workers...Figures provided by the White House...show increases
> >      in spending on the White House office staff, the vice
> >      president's staff, the Office of Administration, the Domestic
> >      policy office and the National Security Council...The Office of
> >      Management and Budget and the office of the U.S. Trade
> >      Representative, show slight increases as well.  Where the major
> >      saving occurs is in the Office of National Drug Control Policy,
> >      where $76 million in its `forfeiture fund' has been reduced to
> >      $28 million, and staff--all career workers in the anti-drug
> >      field--has been reduced from 112 to 25 for a total savings of
> >      nearly $60 million."
> >                             Washington Post, September 30, 1993, p.
> >                             A1.
> >
> >
> > 19.  LINE ITEM VETO:
> >
> >     "To eliminate pork-barrel projects and cut government waste,
> >      we will ask Congress to give the President the line item
> >      veto."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     To date, the administration has sent no line-item veto
> >      proposal to Congress.
> >                             July 1, 1994.
> >
> >
> >
> >  20. DRUG WAR:
> >
> >     "[President Bush] hasn't fought a real war on crime and drugs.
> >       I will."
> >                             July 16, 1992.
> >
> >     "I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a
> >      rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a
> >      performance."
> >
> >                             Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), April 24,
> >                             1993.
> >
> >     Clinton reduced funding for the Office of National Drug
> >      Control Policy (drug czar) to $5.8 million (FY 1993 funding
> >      level was $103 million).
> >
> >                             Budget of the United States Government
> >                             for FY 1994, p. A-222.
> >
> >
> > 21.  PRIVACY ACT VIOLATIONS:
> >
> >     "If I catch anybody using the State Department like that
> >      [searching files] when I'm president, you won't have to wait
> >      till after the election to see them gone...I just want you to
> >      know that the State Department of this country is not going to
> >      be fooling with Bill Clinton's politics, and if I catch anybody
> >      doing it I will fire them the next day; you won't have to have
> >      an inquiry or rigmarole or anything else..."
> >                             November 12, 1992.
> >
> >     "The State Department's inspector general has been asked to
> >      investigate whether the Privacy Act may have been violated when
> >      information from personnel files of former Bush administration
> >      political appointees at the department was examined and
> >      disseminated...personnel folders of two former Bush officials,
> >      Jennifer Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Tamposi, had been reviewed."
> >                             Washington Post, September 3, 1993, p.
> >                             A1.
> >
> >     Secretary of State Warren Christopher "fired two lower-level
> >      State department political employees for their involvement in
> >      the retrieval and disclosure in September of information from
> >      Bush administration personnel files...." Friday, November 10,
> >      69 days after their actions were first reported.
> >                             Washington Post, November 11, p. A10.
> >
> >
> > 22. TOUGH ON CRIME:
> >
> >     "We need to put...more criminals behind bars."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     "Reduce prison construction. Cut $580 million from FY
> >      1994-98."
> >                             A Vision of Change for America,
> >                             February 17, 1993, p. 123.
> >
> >     "New [prison] Construction: FY 1993 estimate: $771.8 million;
> >      FY 1994 estimate: $501.7 million."
> >                             Budget of the United States Government,
> >                             Fiscal Year 1994, Appendix-777.
> >
> >
> > 23. 100,000 NEW POLICE OFFICERS:
> >
> >     "Fight crime by putting 100,000 new police officers on the
> >      streets."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     "Clinton Crime Plan Falls Far Short on Cops:  Bill Clinton
> >      campaigned for president promising to put 100,000 more police
> >      on the nation's streets by 1996, but the crime package he sent
> >      to Congress calls for only half that number.  What's more,
> >      Clinton's package authorizes $3.4 billion for more cops over a
> >      six-year period, or $650 million per year beginning next year.
> >      That's enough to pay the salaries of only 13,000 police at the
> >      average national cost in salary and benefits of $50,000 per
> >      year, and even less in big cities where costs are higher--and
> >      crime is at its worst."<M>
> >                             Roll Call, October 7, 1993, p. 11.
> >
> > 24. RADIO FREE EUROPE:
> >
> >     "We should build on the success of Radio Free Europe/Radio
> >      Liberty and expand our successful surrogate broadcasting."
> >                             October 1, 1992.
> >
> >     "The Budget reflects the President's decision to consolidate
> >      U.S. international broadcasting and achieve significant
> >      savings by eliminating administrative overlap and
> >      duplication...In the past, this account provided funds for the
> >      construction of a new radio relay station in Israel.  The
> >      Administration has decided to cancel this project in 1993."
> >                             Budget of the United States Government,
> >                             Fiscal Year 1994, Appendix-1042.
> >
> >
> > 25. BUYING MORE NATIONAL PARK LAND:
> >
> >     "Expand our efforts to acquire new parklands and recreational
> >      sites with funds already available."
> >                             Putting People First, September 1992.
> >
> >     "Clinton Backs Off Campaign Promise to Purchase More Park
> >      Land...Clinton's proposed 1994 budget released today seeks $208
> >      million for land acquisition, down from the $366 million
> >      President Bush sought last year."
> >                             Associated Press, April 8, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 26. 100 DAYS:
> >
> >     "I intend to have a legislative program ready on the desk of
> >      Congress on the day after I'm inaugurated.  I intend to have an
> >      explosive 100-day action period."
> >                             June 23, 1992.
> >
> >     "People of the press are expecting [us] to have some 100-day
> >      program.  We never ever had one."
> >                             Dee Dee Myers, January 12, 1993.
> >
> >
> > 27.  GOVERNMENT MANDATES:
> >
> >     " I am going to stop handing down mandates to you and
> >      regulating you to death."
> >                             June 22, 1992.
> >
> >     Instead of following through on promises of fewer federal
> >      mandates and regulations, President Clinton on January 22
> >      abolished the Competitiveness Council, whose regulatory reform
> >      efforts promised to yield more than $20 billion in annual
> >      savings and save or create an estimated 200,000 jobs.
> >
> >     President Clinton signed into law the Family Medical Leave Act
> >      and the Motor Voter bill, both which impose huge mandates, the
> >      first on small businesses, the second on state governments.
> >
> >     The Clinton health care proposal would impose sweeping new
> >      mandates.
> >
> >                               - U.S. Senate Republican Policy
> >                               Commitee
> >                                 press release dated 7/1/94.
> >
> >
> >
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