Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore's crew is likely to recommend consolidation of many agencies -- though the first such idea to leak, blending the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, got a cold reception from both. Budget reforms are a major focus: the National Performance Review will recommend that Congress draw up budgets for two years at a time, that it give federal managers more authority to shift money from one account to another, and that it allow agencies to keep at least half of any money they save out of a fiscal year's budget. At present, if an agency spends less than...
...Gore will also present ideas for cutting red tape. There is, for instance, talk of issuing a government credit card that managers and employees could use to purchase laptop computers, airline trips or whatever locally, without going through the General Services Administration. Finally, the National Performance Review will urge personnel reforms. Among them: allow more raises and promotions within a job classification; and, yes, simplify and accelerate the firing process...
President Clinton finished his Martha's Vineyard vacation and immediately returned to the task of solving all the country's problems. In September he is scheduled to present Vice President Gore's proposals for reinventing government, then press for the passage of NAFTA and then announce a complete overhaul of the U.S. health-care system...
...leaders before Bill Clinton and Al Gore have had high hopes for domestic + perestroika...
...REFORM: Gore Against the System...