Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 1992 22:34:34 CDT
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Subject: ==> Clinton/Gore On Rebuilding America

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        CLINTON/GORE ON REBUILDING AMERICA



In the 1980's the concrete foundations of the
United States crumbled as the investment gap
widened between America and our global competitors.
By the decade's end, Japan and Germany were
investing more than 12 times what we do on roads,
bridges, sewers and the information networks and
technologies of the future.  No wonder they
threaten to surpass America in manufacturing by
1996.  No wonder we are slipping behind.

Just as interstate highway construction in the
1950's ushered in two decades of unparalleled
growth, investing in the pathways of the future
will put Americans back to work and spur economic
growth.  The creation of  large, predictable
markets will stimulate private industry to invest
in our economy, create high-wage jobs, and smooth
our transition from a defense to a peacetime
economy.  A Clinton/Gore Administration will work
to develop the world's best communication,
transportation and environmental systems -- and
rebuild America.

The Clinton/Gore Plan

*    Create a Rebuild America Fund, with a $20
     billion federal investment each year for four
     years -- leveraged with state, local, private
     sector and pension fund contributions.  Make
     states and localities responsible for project
     development and management.  User fees such as
     road tolls and solid waste disposal charges
     will help guarantee these investments.

*    Invest in transportation systems: renovate our
     countries roads, bridges, and railroads;
     create a high-speed rail network linking our
     major cities and commercial hubs; develop
     smart highway technology to expand the
     capacity, speed, and efficiency or our major
     roadways; and develop high-tech short-haul
     aircraft.

*    Create a door-to-door information network to
     link every home, business, lab, classroom, and
     library by the year 2015.  Put public records,
     databases, libraries, and educational
     materials on line for public use to expand
     access to information.

*    Develop new environmental technologies and
     create the world's most advanced systems to
     recycle, treat toxic waste and clean our air
     and water, direct funds to the development of
     new, clean, efficient energy  sources.

*    Develop a plan for defense conversion to
     ensure that the communities and millions of
     talented workers that won the Cold War don't
     get left out in the cold.  Many of the skills
     and technologies required to rebuild America
     are similar to those now used in our defense
     industries.  We will encourage companies that
     bid on projects to rebuild America to contract
     work to, or purchase, existing defense
     facilities; order the Pentagon to conduct a
     national defense jobs inventory to assist
     displaced workers; and provide special
     conversion loans and grants to small business
     defense contractors.



The Record

*    Senator Gore introduced and steered into law
     the High Performance Computing Act of 1990 to
     create a national high-speed computer network
     linking schools, research centers, and
     universities to the nation's most powerful
     computers, and making those computers
     accessible to people who otherwise would not
     be able to take advantage of their power and
     speed.

*    Wrote the Information Infrastructure and
     Technology Act of 1992 to more quickly move
     the new technologies developed under the High
     Performance Computing Act into schools,
     hospitals, and businesses, to improve
     education, expand  health care and provide
     jobs.

*    Was a sponsor of legislation to speed up the
     move of key technologies form laboratory to
     factory, and to strengthen U.S. leadership in
     these technologies, particularly high-tech
     manufacturing.

*    Was a key sponsor of the Strategic Environment
     Research Program, a groundbreaking effort to
     promote cooperation between military and
     civilian scientists and researchers to expand
     efforts to understand the global environment.
     Gore also sparked efforts that for the first
     time will make available to civilian
     scientists data about the earth collected by
     the U.S. intelligence community.

*    Author and key sponsor of legislation to stop
     skyrocketing cable television rates and
     protect consumers by returning to local
     officials the ability to regulate basic cable
     television rates, by promoting competition in
     the industry, and by gaining viewing rights
     for 2 million home satellite dish owners.
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