Clinton/Gore '96

Reinventing Government

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Making Government Work Better and Cost Less
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 Cut the federal civilian workforce by more than 230,000 positions, resulting in the smallest federal government since John F. Kennedy was President.
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 Eliminated 16,000 pages of unnecessary government regulations.
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 Saved taxpayers $58 billion by cutting wasteful government spending and streamlining procedures through Vice President Gore’s National Performance Review.
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 Published Customer Service Standards at more than 200 departments and agencies so the federal government’s customers, the American taxpayers, know what to expect and how to give feedback on the service they have received. Savings over five years (1995-99) from the common sense government initiative will total $108 billion, with another $70 billion in savings over the period of 1996-2000.
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 Prohibited Congress from imposing new requirements on state and local governments without paying for them. (Unfunded Mandates Reform Act)
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 Fought for and signed into law line-item veto legislation to change the way Washington works by cutting spending on wasteful special-interest projects.


Reforming Our Political System
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 Made voting easier for more than 11 million Americans by creating more accessible “motor-voter” registration locations. (National Voter Registration Act)
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 Enacted the first major overhaul of lobbying rules in 50 years. Now lobbyists must disclose the organizations for which they work. (Lobbying Disclosure Act)
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 Fought for passage of comprehensive campaign finance reform to curb the influence of money in our political system.
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 Imposed the strictest Administration ethics guidelines ever, including a five-year ban on top of officials lobbying their former agencies and a lifetime ban against lobbying for foreign governments.
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 Ensured that the same laws apply to Congress as to the rest of America. (Congressional Accountability Act)


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