[reality101] resident Bush Committed the Following Actions Against the American People:

>> President Bush Committed the Following Actions Against the American

People:

>> http://www.investigate911.com/bushfacts.htm

>> Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million.

>> Washington Post, April 10, 2001

>> Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and

>> trucks.

>> Washington Post, April 10, 2001

>> Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources.

>> Washington Post, April 10, 2001

>> Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up sites

>> on Western public lands.

>> Reuters, March 21, 2001

>> Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement.

>> Washington Post, March 28, 2001

>> Proposes to ease permit process - including environmental

>> considerations - for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam

>> construction.

>> Washington Post, May 18, 2001

>> Proposes to give government the authority to take private property

>> through eminent domain for power lines.

>> Washington Post, May 18, 2001

>> Interior Department appointee Gale Norton sends out letters to state

>> officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments

>> for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.

>> MSNBC, March 28, 2001

>> Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered

>> crops.

>> Village Voice, February 13, 2001

>> Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.

>> The Dallas Morning News, April 13, 2001

>> Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric

>> training.

>> Washington Post, April 10, 2001

>> Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in

>> drinking water.

>> Washington Post, March 30, 2001

>> Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer bilingual

>> assistance to non-English speaking persons.

>> New York Times, March 24, 2001

>> Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands

>> and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii.

>> San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001

>> Suspended rules that would have strengthened the governments ability

>> to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety,

>> environmental and other federal laws.

>> Washington Post, March 31, 2001

>> Appointed John Negroponte - an unindicted high level Iran Contra

>> figure -to post of United nations ambassador.

>> MSNBC, March 24, 2001

>> Abandoned campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest

>> conservation.

>> Boston Globe, April 10, 2001

>> Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals,

>> clinics and providers of care for people without insurance.

>> Washington Post, April 10, 2001

>> Rescinded proposal to increase public access to information about

>> potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents.

>> New York Times, March 27, 2001

>> Cut $60 million from program for Boys and Girls Clubs of America in

>> public housing.

>> Washington Post, April 12, 2001

>> Proposed to eliminate federal program designed to help communities

>> (and successfully used by Seattle) prepare for natural disasters.

>> CNN, March 1, 2001

>> Cut $200 million for work force training for dislocated workers.

>> Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2001

>> Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program which encourages

>> farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.

>> Washington post, April 10, 2001

>> Cut program to provide child care to low-income families as they move

>> from welfare to work.

>> New York Times, March 22, 2001

>> Cut program that provided prescription contraceptives coverage to

>> federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra).

>> Associated Press, April 11, 2001

>> Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing.

>> Washington Post, April 10, 2001

>> Appointed Otto Reich - an unindicted high level Iran Contra figure -

>> to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

>> MSNBC, March 25, 2001

>> Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue to get an animal

>> placed on the Endangered Species List.

>> Washington Post, April 12, 2001

>> Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency

>> regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.

>> Washington Post, April 14, 2001

>> Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health

>> and safety.

>> Reuters, March 20, 2001

>> Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) the waste

>> gas that contributes to global warming.

>> New York Times, March 20, 2001

>> Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that

>> offer abortion counseling with other independent funds.

>> New York Times, January 21, 2001

>> Closed White House Office for Women´s Health Initiatives and Outreach.

>> Washington Post, March 29, 2001

>> Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive - to post of

>> Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health.

>> Interior Secretary Gale Norton goes forth with controversial plan to

>> auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast eastern of

>> Florida.

>> Associated Press, April 19, 2001

>> Announced intention to open up Montana´s Lewis and Clark National

>> Forest to oil and drilling.

>> Missoula Independent, April 12, 2001

>> Proposes to redraw boundaries of nation monuments which would

>> technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national

>> monuments.

>> Gutted White House AIDS Office.

>> Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate

>> safeguards for the environment and workers´ rights.

>> Washington Post, April 10, 2001

>> Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association in

>> recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments.

>> Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the

>> Interior.

>> Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental

>> Quality.

>> Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program

>> Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2001

>> Appointee Gale Norton plans to shelve grizzly bear reintroduction

>> plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness.

>> Washington Post, April 25, 2001

>> Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects.

>> Boston Globe, April 25, 2001

>> Under Bush plan convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial

>> aid for college yet convicted murders could.

>> American Prospect, April 20, 2001

>> Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah.

>> Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2001

>> Refused to fund continued litigation of the government´s tobacco

>> company lawsuit.

>> Associated Press, April 26, 2001

>> Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut of which 43% will go to the wealthiest

>> 1% of Americans.

>> Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle class Americans to

>> file for bankruptcy even in the instance of daunting medical bills.

>> "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.

>> Appointed Diana "There is no gender gap in pay" Roth to the Council

>> of Economic Advisers.

>> Boston Globe, March 28, 2001

>> Appointed Kay Cole James - an opponent of affirmative action - to

>> direct the Office of Personnel Management.

>> Boston Globe, March 28, 2001

>> Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child

>> abuse and neglect.

>> New York Times, March 23, 2001

>> Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get

>> credit cards.

>> New York Times, March 23, 2001

>> Proposed to eliminate the Reading is Fundamental program that gives

>> free books to poor children.

>> Associated Press, April 25, 2001

>> Is pushing for development of small nuclear weapons to attack deeply

>> buried targets - weapons which would violate the Comprehensive test

>> Ban Treaty.

>> American Physical Society, April 22, 2001

>> Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton - attorney responsible for the

>> recent case weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act - to

>> federal appeals court judgeship.

>> USA Today, March 23, 2001

>> Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of

>> national forest from logging and road building.

>> Washington Post, April 26, 2001

>> Eliminated funding for the "We the People" education program which

>> taught schoolchildren about the Constitution, Bill of Rights and

>> citizenship.

>> St. Petersburg Times, May 1, 2001

>> Appointed John Bolton - who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the

>> U.N. - to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International

>> Security.

>> Boston Globe, April 2, 2001

>> Nominated Linda Fisher - an executive with Monsanto - for the number

>> two job at the Environmental Protection Agency.

>> Reuters, May 1, 2001

>> Nominated Michael McConnell - leading critic of the separation of

>> church and state - to federal judgeship.

>> Detroit Free Press, May 11, 2001

>> Nominated Terrence Boyle - ardent opponent of civil rights - to a

>> federal judgeship.

>> Detroit Free Press, May 11th, 2001

>> Cancelled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype

>> high-mileage cars.

>> Mercury News, May 11th, 2001

>> Nominated Harvey Pitts - lawyer for teen sex video distributor - to

>> head SEC.

>> Washington Post, May 11th, 2001

>> Nominated John Walters - strong opponent of prison drug treatment

>> programs - for Drug Czar.

>> Washington Post, May 16, 2001

>> Nominated J. Steven Giles - an oil and coal lobbyist - for Deputy

>> Secretary of the Interior.

>> Washington Post, May 16, 2001

>> Nominated Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing the Endangered

>> Species Act - for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.

>> Washington Post, May 16, 2001

>> Is seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S.

>> against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves in WWII.

>> Washington Post, May 14, 2001

>> 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.

>> Associated Press, May 16, 2001

>> Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program for low-income

>> individuals who need assistance paying energy bills.

>> Salon, May 18, 2001

>> Nominated Ted Olson - who has repeatedly lied about his involvement

>> with the Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas Project" to bring down Bill Clinton

>> - for Solicitor General.

>> Salon, May 18, 2001

>> Nominated Terrance Boyle - foe of civil rights - to federal judgeship.

>> Washington Post, May 18, 2001

>> 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.

>> Washington Post, May 18, 2001

>> Plans on serving genetically engineered foods at all official

>> government functions.

>> AlterNet, May 14, 2001

>> "Even as Bush highlighted hydroelectric power, he admitted his own

>> doubt that so-called renewable energy sources, including solar and

>> wind power, can ever replace oil and gas. `I hope someday that these

>> renewables will be the dominant source of energy in America. I´m not

>> so sure how realistic that is,´ Bush said."

>> Associated Press, May 18, 2001

>> In 2000 rode to the White House on the backs of disenfranchised

>> elderly, Jewish, African-American, and immigrant voters in Florida.

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