Significantly
eased field-testing controls of genetically
engineered crops.
Cut
federal spending on libraries by $39 million.
Cut $35
million in funding for doctors to get advanced
pediatric training.
Cut by
50% funding for research into renewable energy
sources.
Revoked
rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic
in drinking water.
Blocked
rules that would require federal agencies to offer
bilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons.
This, from a candidate who would readily fire-up his
Spanish-speaking skills in front of would-be Hispanic
voters.
Proposed
to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel
Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii (San
Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001).
Cut
funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more
efficient cars and trucks.
Suspended
rules that would have strengthened the government's
ability to deny contracts to companies that violated
workplace safety, environmental and other federal
laws.
OK'd
Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out
letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for
opening up national monuments for oil and gas
drilling, coal mining, and foresting.
Appointed
John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran
Contra figure - to the post of United Nations
Ambassador.
Abandoned
a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain
forest conservation.
Reduced
by 86% the Community Access Program for public
hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people
without insurance.
Rescinded
a proposal to increase public access to information
about the potential consequences resulting from
chemical plant accidents.
Suspended
rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up
sites on Western public lands.
Cut $60
million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America
program for public housing.
Proposed
to eliminate a federal program, designed and
successfully used in Seattle, to help communities
prepare for natural disasters.
Pulled
out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming
agreement.
Cut $200
million of work force training for dislocated
workers.
Eliminated
funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which
encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on
their property.
Cut
program to provide childcare to low-income families
as they move from welfare to work.
Cut a
program that provided prescription contraceptive
coverage to federal employees (though it still pays
for Viagra).
Cut $700
million in capital funds for repairs in public
housing.
Appointed
Otto Reich - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra
figure - to Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs.
Cut
Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500
million.
Proposed
to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to
get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.
Rescinded
the rule that mandated increased energy-saving
efficiency regulations for central air conditioners
and heat pumps.
Repealed
workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker
health and safety.
Abandoned
campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, the waste
gas that contributes to global warming.
Banned
federal aid to international family planning programs
that offer abortion counseling with other independent
funds.
Closed
White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and
Outreach.
Nominated
David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive - to
post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety
and Health.
OK'd
Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go forth with a
controversial plan to auction oil and gas development
tracts off the coast of eastern Florida.
Announced
intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark
National Forest to oil and drilling.
Proposes
to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which
would technically allow oil and gas drilling
"outside" of national monuments.
Gutted
White House AIDS Office.
Renegotiating
free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate
workers' rights and safeguards for the environment.
Will no
longer seek guidance from The American Bar
Association in recommendations for the federal
judiciary appointments.
Appointed
recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the
Interior.
Took
steps to abolish the White House Council on
Environmental Quality.
Cut the
Community Oriented Policing Services program.
Allowed
Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led
grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho
and Montana wilderness.
.c.
Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell
research projects.
Makes
sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get
financial aid for college, though convicted murderers
can.
Refused
to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in
Utah.
Refused
to fund continued litigation of the government's
tobacco company lawsuit.
Proposed
a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to the
wealthiest 1% of Americans.
Signed a
bill making it harder for poor and middle-class
Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of
daunting medical bills.
Appointed
a Vice President quoted as saying "If you want
to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, then
you ought to build nuclear power plants." (Vice
President Dick Cheney on "Meet the Press.")
Appointed
Diana "There is no gender gap in pay" Roth
to the Council of Economic Advisers. (Boston Globe,
March 28, 2001.)
Appointed
Kay Cole James - an opponent of affirmative action -
to direct the Office of Personnel Management.
Cut
$15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate
cases of child abuse and neglect.
Helped
kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers
to get credit cards.
Proposed
elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental"
program that gives free books to poor children.
Is
pushing for development of small nuclear arm to
attack deeply buried targets and weapons, which would
violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Proposes
to nominate Jeffrey Sutton - attorney responsible for
the recent case weakening the Americans with
Disabilities Act- to federal appeals court judgeship.
Proposes
to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of
national forest from logging and road building.
Eliminated
funding for the "We the People" education
program which taught schoolchildren about the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship.
Appointed
John Bolton - who opposes nonproliferation treaties
and the U.N. - to Undersecretary of State for Arms
Control and International Security.
Nominated
Linda Fisher - an executive with Monsanto - for the
number-two job at the Environmental Protection
Agency.
Nominated
Michael McConnell - leading critic of the separation
of church and state - to a federal judgeship.
Nominated
Terrence Boyle - ardent opponent of civil rights - to
a federal judgeship.
Canceled
2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype
high mileage cars.
Nominated
Harvey Pitts - lawyer for teen sex video distributor
- to head SEC.
Nominated
John Walters - strong opponent of prison drug
treatment programs - for Drug Czar. (Washington Post,
May 16, 2001.)
Nominated
J. Steven Giles - an oil and coal lobbyist - for
Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
Nominated
Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing the
Endangered Species Act - for Assistant Secretary for
Water and Science.
Is
seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed
in the U.S. against Japan by Asian women forced to
work as sex slaves during WWII.
Earmarked
$4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and
drug abuse prevention programs to go only to
religious groups and not secular equivalents.
Reduced
by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program for
low-income individuals who need assistance paying
energy bills.
Nominated
Ted Olson- who has repeatedly lied about his
involvement with the Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas
Project" to bring down Bill Clinton - for
Solicitor General.
Nominated
Terrance Boyle - foe of civil rights - to a federal
judgeship.
Proposes
to ease permit process - including environmental
considerations - for refinery, nuclear and
hydroelectric dam construction. (Washington Post, May
18, 2001.)
Proposes
to give government the authority to take private
property through eminent domain for power lines.
Proposes
that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative
renewable energy come from selling oil and gas lease
tracts in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve.
Plans on
serving genetically engineered foods at all official
government functions.
Forced
out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck and appointed a
timber industry lobbyist
