>In George W. Bush's First year in office he:
>
> 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 governm
>ent'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 Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about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 A
>merica 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.
>
>--
>Stephen Goldbart, Ph.D.
>Money, Meaning, and Choices Institute
>(415) 267-6107