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1. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically
engineered crops.
2. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39
million.
3. Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced
pediatric training.
4. Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable
energy sources.
5. Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of
arsenic in drinking water.
6. 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.
7. Proposed to eliminate new marine
protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii
(San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001).
8. Cut funding by 28% for
research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks.
9. Suspended
rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts
to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal
laws.
10. 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.
11.
Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the
post of United Nations Ambassador.
12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to
invest $100 million for rain forest conservation.
13. Reduced by 86% the
Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care
for people without insurance.
14. Rescinded a proposal to increase
public access to information about the potential consequences resulting from
chemical plant accidents.
15. Suspended rules that would require
hardrock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands.
16. Cut $60
million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public
housing.
17. Proposed to eliminate a federal program, designed and
successfully used in Seattle, to help communities prepare for natural
disasters.
18. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming
agreement.
19. Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated
workers.
20. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which
encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.
21.
Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from
welfare to work.
22. Cut a program that provided prescription
contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays for
Viagra).
23. Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public
housing.
24. Appointed Otto Reich - an un-indicted high-level Iran
Contra figure - to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs.
25. Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500
million.
26. Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order
to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.
27. Rescinded
the rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for
central air conditioners and heat pumps.
28. Repealed workplace
ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety.
29.
Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, the waste gas that
contributes to global warming.
30. Banned federal aid to international
family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent
funds.
31. Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and
Outreach.
32. Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive -
to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health.
33.
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.
34. Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark
National Forest to oil and drilling.
35. Proposes to re-draw boundaries
of nation's monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling
"outside" of national monuments.
36. Gutted White House AIDS
Office.
37. Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate
workers's rights and safeguards for the environment.
38. Will no longer
seek guidance from The American Bar Association in recommendations for the
federal judiciary appointments.
39. Appointed recycling foe Lynn
Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior.
40. Took steps to abolish
the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
41. Cut the Community
Oriented Policing Services program.
42. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale
Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for
Idaho and Montana wilderness.
43. Continues to hold up federal funding
for stem cell research projects.
44. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor
drug users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers
can.
45. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in
Utah.
46. Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's
tobacco company lawsuit.
47. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which
43% will go to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
48. Signed a bill making
it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in
the case of daunting medical bills.
49. 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.")
50. Appointed Diana "There is no gender gap in pay"
Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. (Boston Globe, March 28,
2001.)
51. Appointed Kay Cole James - an opponent of affirmative action
- to direct the Office of Personnel Management.
52. Cut $15.7 million
earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and
neglect.
53. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers
to get credit cards.
54. Proposed elimination of the "Reading is
Fundamental" program that gives free books to poor children.
55. Is
pushing for development of small nuclear arm to attack deeply buried targets
and weapons, which would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
56.
Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton - attorney responsible for the recent case
weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act- to federal appeals court
judgeship.
57. Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million
acres of national forest from logging and road building.
58. Eliminated
funding for the "We the People" education program which taught School children
about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship.
59.
Appointed John Bolton - who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the U.N. - to
Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
60.
Nominated Linda Fisher - an executive with Monsanto - for the number-two job at
the Environmental Protection Agency.
61. Nominated Michael McConnell -
leading critic of the separation of church and state - to a federal
judgeship.
62. Nominated Terrence Boyle - ardent opponent of civil
rights - to a federal judgeship.
63. Canceled 2004 deadline for
automakers to develop prototype high mileage cars.
64. Nominated Harvey
Pitts - lawyer for teen sex video distributor - to head SEC.
65.
Nominated John Walters - strong opponent of prison drug treatment programs -
for Drug Czar. (Washington Post, May 16, 2001.)
66. Nominated J. Steven
Giles - an oil and coal lobbyist - for Deputy Secretary of the
Interior.
67. Nominated Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing the
Endangered Species Act - for Assistant Secretary for Water and
Science.
68. 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.
69. 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.
70. Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program
for low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills.
71.
Nominated Ted Olson- who has repeatedly lied about his involvement with the
Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas Project" to bring down Bill Clinton - for Solicitor
General.
72. Nominated Terrance Boyle - foe of civil rights - to a
federal judgeship.
73. Proposes to ease permit process - including
environmental considerations - for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam
construction. (Washington Post, May 18, 2001.)
74. Proposes to give
government the authority to take private property through eminent domain for
power lines.
75. 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.
76. Plans on serving genetically engineered
foods at all official government functions.
77. Forced out Forest
Service chief Mike Dombeck and appointed a timber industry
lobbyist.