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1. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically
engineered crops.
2. Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in
drinking water.
3. To date, the Bush administration has spent $52 Billion of Social
Security funds on military and government no-bid contract
expenditures, despite campaign guarantees to "never touch a dime of
Social Security money for anything other than Social Security ...
ever!" (Dallas Morning News, October 18, 2000).
4. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.
5. Cut $35 million in funding for first-year doctors to get advanced
pediatric training.
6. Cut 50% of all funding for research into renewable energy sources.
7. Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars
and trucks.
8. Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program
for public housing.
9. Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers.
10. Cut program to provide child care to low-income families as they
move from welfare to work.
11. Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to
federal employees (though it still funds 100% of any U.S. Congress
members' Viagra and Cialis prescriptions).
12. Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing.
13. Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million.
14. Cut 23% of federal funding and benefits to all fire, police and
emergency medical employees nationwide. (Wall Street Journal, June 18,
2004)
15. Cut $490 Million directly from the federal funding of the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs for 2004.
16. Cut 100% of funding to the Community Oriented Policing Services
(C.O.P.S.) program that was designed to put more uniformed police
officers on the streets of America.
17. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for per-state investigations of cases
of child abuse and neglect.
18. Cut 40% of funding to the Low-Income Home Assistance Program for
low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills.
19. Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals,
clinics and providers of care for people without insurance.
20. Eliminated all funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which
encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.
21. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's
ability to deny contracts to companies that violated work place
safety, environmental and other federal laws.
22. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million directly into
rain forest conservation.
23. Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information
about the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant
accidents.
24. Rescinded the rule that mandated increased energy-saving
efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.
25. Repealed work place ergonomic rules designed to improve worker
health and safety.
26. Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, the waste
gas that contributes to global warming.
27. Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and
Outreach.
28. OK'd Interior Secretary Gale Norton to proceed with a
controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts off the
coast of eastern Florida.
29. Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would
subsequently allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of all national
monuments.
30. Has publicly and officially denounced guidance from The American
Bar Association in recommendations for the federal judiciary
appointments.
31. Signed an executive order reversing the federal law prohibiting
convicted felons from serving in federal government executive
positions. (Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2001)
32. Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research
projects.
33. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah.
34. Refused to fund continued litigation of the class-action lawsuit
against the tobacco industry.
35. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go directly to
the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
36. Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans
to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills.
37. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get
credit cards.
38. Proposed elimination of the federal "Reading is Fundamental"
program that gives free books to poor children.
39. Cancelled 2004 deadline for auto makers to develop prototype high
mileage cars.
40. Eliminated all federal funding for the "We the People" education
program which taught School children about the Constitution, the Bill
of Rights and citizenship.
41. 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.
42. Despite his personal documented drug abuse history, signed
legislation making it impossible for students to get federal financial
aid if they have a drug conviction on their records.
43. Proposes to ease permit process - including environmental
considerations - for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam
construction. (Washington Post, May 18, 2001.)
44. Proposes to give government the authority to take private property
through eminent domain for power lines.
45. Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel
Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii (San Francisco
Chronicle, April 6, 2001).
46. 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.
47. Took 86 days of vacation during his first nine months in office as
president.
48. Neither displayed nor enacted any executive action whatsoever
regarding terrorism before 9-11.
49. Authorized the midnight appropriation of $40 Million in federal
funds paid to the Taliban approximately in May, 2001 to orchestrate
the laying of the Unocal Oil Pipeline in Iraq. (Wall Street Journal,
May 9, 2001)
50. Officially ordered his Maine, Connecticut and Texas Motor Vehicles
and Criminal Justice records - which document his five DUI/DWI
convictions, as well as his cocaine possession conviction - sealed as
a matter of "national security."
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