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Clinton and Gore on civil rights
CLINTON GORE ON CIVIL RIGHTS
For twelve years Republicans have divided us pitting rich
against poor, black against white, woman against man, and creating
a country where we no longer recognize that were all in this
together. They have profited by fostering an atmosphere of blame
and denial instead of building an ethic of responsibility.
President Bush and Vice President Quayle had the chance to bring
out the best in us. Instead they appealed to the worst.
The White House's greatest responsibility is to bring us
together, not to drive us apart. A Clinton/Gore Administration will
actively work to protect the civil rights of all Americans. Bill
Clinton will nominate jurists to the federal courts who have
demonstrated wisdom, maturity, and intelligence in their legal work
jurists with a firm grounding in the rule of law and a firm belief
in the fundamental importance of civil rights equal opportunity in
our society. A Clinton/Gore Justice Department will aggressively
prosecute offenders of civil rights laws and will argue before the
U.S. Supreme Court for interpretations of the law that support its
underlying content.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore believe Americans want to be part of
a nation that is coming together. It is time to heal the divisions
that have scarred our nation.
Rights for all
* Support strong and effective enforcement of the 1991 Civil
Rights Act to ensure workplace fairness rules for all
Americans. Bill Clinton criticized President Bush for
cynically characterizing the landmark 1991 Civil Rights Act
as a quota bill.
* Oppose racial quotas.
* Crack down on violence against women in the workplace, on
college campuses, and in their homes; sign the Violence
Against Women Act to provide tougher enforcement and stiffer
penalties to deter domestic violence.
* Support the Equal Rights Amendment and work hard to ensure its
passage.
* Strongly enforce the Americans With Disabilities Act.
* Extend language assistance provisions in the Voting Rights Act
to ensure language-minority Americans an equal opportunity to
participate in the political process.
* Enforce Title 9, which prohibits sex discrimination in
education.
* Support federal civil rights legislation for gays and lesbians
that respects freedom of religion by exempting religious
organizations; and that provides clear evidence standards to
be used in court.
* Support the Equal Remedies Act, which lifts damages caps for
women, people with disabilities and religious minorities in
workplace discrimination cases.
* Work to pass the Motor-Voter Bill, which will ease voter
registration requirements and bring more Americans into the
political process, but which President Bush vetoed.
* Support statehood for the District of Columbia.
Economic empowerment
* Fight for civil rights, not just by protecting individual
liberties, but by providing equal economic opportunity;
support new anti-poverty initiatives that move beyond the
outdated answers of both major parties and instead reflect the
values most Americans share: work, family, individual
responsibility, community.
* Empower people to make their own choices and regain control
of their destinies.
* Require every employer to spend 1.5 percent of payroll for
continuing education and job training and make them provide
the training to all workers, not just executives. Workers will
be able to choose advanced skills training, the chance to earn
a high school diploma, or the opportunity to learn to read.
* Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to ensure that no
one with a family who works full-time has to raise their
children in poverty by making up the difference between a
family's earnings and the poverty level.
* Bring business, labor, and education leaders together to
develop a national apprenticeship system that offers non
college-bound students valuable skills training, with the
promise of good jobs when they graduate.
* Launch a national network of community development banks to
spur economic growth in urban and rural areas by making loans
to low-income entrepreneurs who start new businesses and to
home owners.
The Record
Involving and empowering those once excluded
* Bill Clinton has named African Americans to numerous cabinet
positions in Arkansas, including the Arkansas Department of
Health, the Department of Human Services, the Department of
Finance and Administration, and the Arkansas Development
Finance Authority.
* Clinton's appointment record is equally strong for women: his
gubernatorial campaigns have been managed by women, his
longest-tenured chief of staff was a woman, and in 1988 the
National Women's Political Caucus ranked Clinton sixth among
the nations governors in the percentage of women appointed to
cabinet-level positions Clinton appointed African Americans
and women to the most powerful state boards and commissions
for the first time in Arkansas history.
* Under Governor Clinton's leadership, Arkansas has been a
national leader in enacting legislation and developing
programs to preserve Native American cultures, including
passage of an act that prohibits the desecration of Native
American burial sites and the commercial trade or display of
human remains and sacred objects.
* Senator Gore was an original cosponsor of the Civil Rights Act
of 1990 and supporter of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 which
restore protections against racial and ethnic discrimination
struck down by the Supreme Court in the 1988-89 term.
- Opposed Congressional prohibitions on busing to achieve
desegregation.
- Cosponsored the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1987.
- Cosponsored the Equal Remedies Act which will remove
limitations on dollar amounts of compensatory and
punitive damage awards in cases of intentional employment
discrimination against women.
- Consistently supported ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
- Supported the AIDS Federal Policy Act of 1987 which bans
discrimination against persons with AIDS or the HIV
infection.
- Was an original cosponsor of the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
- Voted for the Motor-Voter Act, which President Bush
vetoed, and which would have made it easier for people
with disabilities to register to vote.
Expanding economic opportunity
* Governor Clinton created the Division of Minority Business
Development to expand minority business opportunities.
- Together with the Arkansas Development Finance Authority,
the Division has assisted minority-controlled businesses
in Arkansas with $5.2 million. It also offers regular
financial advice.
- Invested more than $19 million in predominantly African
American communities for streets and roads, housing, city
water projects, fire protection, and community centers,
and over $11.5 million for sewer and wastewater projects
and community parks in those communities.
- Supported the creation of the Small Business Revolving
Loan Fund, to provide loans to small and minority
businesses primarily in rural areas.
- As Attorney General and Governor, Bill Clinton recruited
and employed qualified persons with disabilities on his
staff.
- Under Clinton's current administration, the State
Directors of the Division of Rehabilitation Services, and
the Division of Services for the Blind are qualified
individuals with severe disabilities.
- With the legislature in 1985, Clinton established the
Governor's Commission on People with Disabilities. The
Commission has sparked more involvement and participation
by persons with disabilities in both the public and
private sectors.
- A decade before the Americans with Disabilities Act,
Governor Clinton supported administrative action to
permit state agencies to secure adequate accommodations
for staff with disabilities, regardless of costs.
* Senator Gore consistently supported programs designed to
assist businesses owned by minorities and women.
- He has helped expand minority business development
through programs like the Disadvantaged Business
Enterprise program.
- Authored the Small Business Innovation Development Act
to provide a more equitable and effective distribution
of research and development funds for small businesses.
- He is the cosponsor of numerous bills designed to
encourage small business ownership and maintain a
favorable tax policy for small capital growth.
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