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 governmentÕs ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws.
10. OKÕd 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 Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents.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 hard rock miners to clean up sites on
Western public lands.
16. Cut $60 million from
a BoyÕs and GirlÕs 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 WomenÕs 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. OKÕd 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 MontanaÕs Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling.
35. Proposes to re-draw
boundaries of nationÕs monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas
drilling ÒoutsideÓ of national monuments.
36. Gutted White House AIDS Office.
37. Renegotiating free trade agreement with
Jordan to eliminate workerÕs 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 governmentÕs 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 ÒIf you want to do something about carbon dioxide
emissions, then you ought to build nuclear power plants.Ó (Vice President Dick
Cheney on ÒMeet the Press.Ó)
50. Appointed Diana
ÒThere is no gender gap in payÓ 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 ÒReading is FundamentalÓ 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 ÒWe the PeopleÓ 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 ÒArkansas
ProjectÓ 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.