Remarks on the after-school child care initiativeAmerican Presidency Project transcript ↗“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
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Bill Clinton · January 20–April 29, 1993
The first 100 days.
A complete assessment.
A calendar-day record of Bill Clinton's opening presidency, connecting every date to the located Clinton-participation transcripts and evidence-backed claim assessments. All 189 indexed GovInfo spoken records have completed paragraph-by-paragraph review. The published scores remain correction-aware and entirely separate from Donald Trump's claims, tallies and PRIQ.
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State of the Union AddressAmerican Presidency Project transcript ↗“The era of big Government is over.”
Dedication of the Clinton birthplace in Hope, ArkansasAmerican Presidency Project transcript ↗“I still believe in a place called Hope.”
Day 1 begins at noon on January 20, 1993; Day 100 is April 29, 1993. Only specific factual claims attributable to President Bill Clinton receive verdicts. Staff remarks, written-only records, reporter questions, policy preferences and nonfactual rhetoric are excluded.
189 complete, 0 in progress and 0 pending out of 189 indexed Clinton spoken records. Every Clinton-spoken paragraph in every indexed record has been checked for attributable, assessable factual claims.
How this day-by-day assessment works
Every date is visible.
The official Public Papers inventory contains 189 distinct Bill Clinton spoken records from inauguration through Day 100. Each calendar day appears below, including dates with no located Clinton-participation spoken record.
Claims stay separate.
Supported findings remain beside False, Misleading and Unresolved ones. A blank claim count means no claim is currently assessed for that day—not that no public activity or factual statement occurred. No Clinton assessment is included in Donald Trump's YTD, Overall Claims, yearly tallies or PRIQ graph.
1993-01
January 20–31, 1993
Inauguration and the opening domestic-policy agenda. Every indexed Clinton-spoken paragraph for the period has completed claim review.
12calendar days20spoken records
Transcript status: 20 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported1False0Misleading1Unresolved2
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
This moratorium, which was first imposed in 1988, was extended indefinitely in 1989 despite the recommendation of a blue ribbon National Institutes of Health advisory panel that it be ended.
Contemporaneous CDC, CMS or Census records support the stated public-health or coverage condition and its approximate scale.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
2 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
It's time to make good on the American promise that too many people have talked about for too long, while we have continued to spend more than 30 percent more of our income on health care than any other nation in the world, get less for it, and see 100,000 Americans a month losing their health insurance.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
So the answer to your question is, in my judgment, if we do this right over the next 8 years, you're going to see huge savings in tax dollars and even bigger savings, more than twice the savings, in private dollars that will free up hundreds of billions of dollars literally between now and the end of the decade to reinvest in economic growth and opportunity.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
For one thing, I think if you look at the last 10 years of experience here, according to the reports we have, this country spent $500 million in tax dollars to separate something under 16,500 homosexuals from the service and has dealt with complaints, at least, of sexual abuse, heterosexual abuse, largely against women, far greater volumes.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1993-02
February, 1993
Economic, health, education, tax and foreign-policy claims from the month's indexed spoken records have completed evidence review.
28calendar days58spoken records
Transcript status: 58 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported49False1Misleading19Unresolved34
2 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The average American car alone includes over $1,000 in health care costs, twice as much as its Japanese competitor.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Misleading
With all this so-called economic recovery of the last 6 months, we're not creating jobs yet.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
In our State, through the program we call Project Success, more than 17,000 people moved from welfare to work.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: USDA 1992 Food Stamp participation record · Census historical poverty tables
Misleading
So as the weak economy left millions of more in poverty, and the welfare rolls increased 5 times greater during the last 4 years than under the previous two administrations combined, it made it more difficult to make welfare reform work.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: USDA 1992 Food Stamp participation record · Census historical poverty tables
Supported
This was clearly manifested not only in the growth of welfare rolls but in the fact that last year, for the first time since the program began, 1 in 10 Americans were on food stamps.
Contemporaneous USDA, Census or Social Security records support the stated participation or poverty measure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: USDA 1992 Food Stamp participation record · Census historical poverty tables
1 attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
When I took office, the White House had a telephone system that had been there since President Carter and a switchboard that has been there since the 1960's.
The official transcript preserves Clinton's account, but the located public record does not include a contemporaneous White House telecommunications inventory that independently establishes the installation dates.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Official Public Papers transcript
No attributable claim assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
3 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Both our nations benefit enormously from the immense river of goods and services flowing across our border, with an increase of $30 billion just since the free trade agreement went into effect.
Contemporaneous federal trade data support the stated direction, relationship or approximate amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Supported
It is worth noting that the United States and Canada share the world's longest undefended border and that we haven't had a battle between us since the War of 1812.
Contemporaneous federal trade data support the stated direction, relationship or approximate amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Misleading
So you have this strange thing where the economic indicators are going up in the last quarter like crazy, but the unemployment rate is higher than it was at the depth of the recession.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
And still today, all across America, more than 16 million of us are looking for full-time jobs and can't find them.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
In the last 12 years, our debt has grown to 4 times what it was before.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
Shortly after the election, the Federal Government announced that the proposed deficit for next year and the year after that and the year after that was about $50 billion more than we'd been told last August.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
2 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
In the last four recessions, 56 percent of the workers laid off did not think they would get their jobs back; 44 percent did.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
In this recession, 86 percent of the workers don't believe they're going to get their jobs back, and only 14 percent think they will.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
7 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
And let me say, I live in a State where more than half the people have a hunting or fishing license or both.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
Supported
And they brought it down over about a 10-year period until, in 1990, they were the only major industrial country with a balanced budget; one reason, they had low unemployment and high growth.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
Because we're the only country in the world with 1,500 separate health insurance companies writing thousands of different policies, covering small, small groups with a blizzard of rules that would choke a horse.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
Even if you keep working for the same company, if you're lucky enough never to be laid off, in order to keep a job, an 18-year-old today will have to be retrained to do eight different jobs.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
For the last 10 years, until 2 or 3 years ago, a lot of the jobs that were lost by big companies were made up by jobs that were created by small companies.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
In most hospitals in America today for the last 5 years have hired clerical workers at 4 times the rate of health caregivers like nurses, even though there's been a national nursing shortage.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Misleading
Well, first of all, I did put out a plan which didn't contain a middle class tax increase, but I also repeatedly said, and I said in the debates in front of 100 million people, I refuse to say ``read my lips.''
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
3 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
I talked a lot in the campaign about an issue which has relatively small dollar impact but great significance to the American working people, and that is the enormously increased rate of executive compensation in the last 12 years as compared with the compensation of workers.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
Only one other advanced nation in the entire world, Canada, is above 9, and they're just a little bit above 9 today.
Contemporaneous federal trade data support the stated direction, relationship or approximate amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Supported
The national debt has quadrupled since 1980.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
4 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
Immunizing a child cost about $23 10 years ago; it costs more than $200 today.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
In a public clinic, the cost of fully immunizing a child has leapt from $7 to more than $90.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
Lest you think that this is a problem that every country has, I want you to know in this beautiful health care building that the United States has the third worst immunization record in this hemisphere.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Supported
The recent resurgence of measles in our country afflicted over 55,000 people, most of whom were children.
Contemporaneous CDC, CMS or Census records support the stated public-health or coverage condition and its approximate scale.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
1 attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
Over the last 12 years, while the middle class saw their tax burdens rise and their incomes go down, the wealthiest Americans, whose incomes went up, often by paperwork manipulation and moving jobs overseas, saw their taxes go down.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
4 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
All during this last 12 years the Federal deficit has roared out of control.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
And in my budget there will be more than 150 specific cuts in Government spending programs.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
But at the rate we're going today our living standard won't double for another 100 years, until our grandchildren's grandchildren are born.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
Despite the talk of a recovery, more than 9 million of our fellow citizens are still out of work.
The official legislative or administrative record matches the described action, count or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
No attributable claim assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
22 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
A 25% cut in White House staff would save approximately $10 million.
The announced 25% referred to a selected headcount rather than a 25% spending cut. By September the administration described net annual savings of about $3.5 million after offsetting additions, well below the headline figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Archived White House staffing briefing
Unresolved
A jobs-investment package of more than $30 billion would create 500,000 jobs.
This was a forward-looking model estimate whose result depended on enactment, timing, multiplier and labor-market assumptions. The speech did not provide enough evidence to verify the precise job count as an established fact.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
About half of U.S. 2-year-olds lacked all the immunizations they needed.
CDC reported that 55.3% of children aged 19 to 35 months had received the core 4:3:1 series in 1992. That leaves roughly 45% without the full series and supports the rounded 'half' formulation.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Unresolved
And when Members of Congress come here, they'll be devoting over 20 cents on the dollar to interest payments, more than half of the budget to health care and to other entitlements.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
At present productivity rates, it will take 100 years to double living standards, until our grandchildren's grandchildren are born.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
Because small business has created such a high percentage of all the new jobs in our Nation over the last 10 or 15 years, our plan includes the boldest targeted incentives for small business in history.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
Every dollar invested in Head Start would save $3 later.
GAO subsequently found that nationally representative evidence on Head Start's long-term effectiveness was incomplete. Without a transparent cost-benefit model tied to the program as it operated in 1993, the precise three-to-one savings ratio remains unresolved.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: GAO testimony on Head Start evidence
Supported
Every dollar spent on childhood vaccination could save about $10 later.
CDC's later national benefit-cost analysis estimated roughly $10 in societal savings for each vaccination dollar. The figure is sensitive to the vaccine schedule and whether indirect social benefits are counted, but Clinton's approximate scale is supported on that basis.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC vaccination benefit-cost analysis
Unresolved
Families earning under $30,000 would pay nothing under the plan.
The net estimate depended principally on a proposed earned-income tax credit expansion offsetting new energy costs. Eligibility, family structure and energy use varied, so a categorical zero-cost claim for every family below the threshold is not established.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
Head Start reached only about one-third of eligible children.
GAO's 1993 participation estimates were 17% for eligible 3-year-olds and 41% for eligible 4-year-olds. Those age-specific rates support the speech's approximate overall description.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: GAO Head Start participation briefing
Unresolved
Health costs would account for half of the growth in the Federal deficit through 2000.
The statement was a budget projection, not a measured condition. Its result depended on the policy baseline, economic assumptions and health-cost path, so the precise 50% share cannot be treated as settled fact.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
I want to emphasize the facts about this plan: 98.8 percent of America's families will have no increase in their income tax rates, only 1.2 percent at the top.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
If we just keep on doing what we're doing, by the end of the decade 20 percent of our national income will go to health care every year, twice as much as any other country on the face of the globe.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
If we just stay with the same trends of the last 4 years, by the end of the decade the deficit will be $635 billion a year, almost 80 percent of our gross domestic product.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
That's about 90 percent of the firms in America, employing about 40 percent of the work force but creating a big majority of the net new jobs for more than a decade.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
The average 18-year-old would change jobs seven times over a lifetime.
BLS says it has never produced an estimate of how many career changes people make over a working life, largely because 'career change' has no agreed definition. Longitudinal job counts do not validate this precise lifetime average.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS National Longitudinal Surveys Q&A
Unresolved
The economic plan would cost a family earning about $40,000 less than $17 per month.
The amount combined proposed energy taxes with other tax and benefit provisions and depended on household composition, energy use and full enactment. The budget materials do not establish one representative result for all families at that income.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
The national-debt stack measured in thousand-dollar bills had grown from about 67 miles in 1981 to about 267 miles in 1993.
Treasury's historical series shows debt rising from roughly $1 trillion around Reagan's inauguration to about $4.2 trillion when Clinton spoke. Because the physical stack scales directly with the dollar amount, the two rounded heights are consistent with that growth.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Treasury historical debt outstanding
False
The recovery was not creating new jobs.
Job growth was weak, but it was not zero: contemporary BLS analysis reported nonfarm payroll employment rising by about 450,000 during 1992. The categorical present-tense claim erased measurable employment gains.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market
Supported
The Social Security tax proposal would not affect the roughly 80% of recipients who were not then paying tax on their benefits.
SSA estimates that about 20% of beneficiary families paid income tax on benefits before the 1993 change. The proposal increased inclusion for higher-income beneficiaries while leaving non-taxed recipients outside that change.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: SSA analysis of benefit taxation
Supported
The United States spent about 14% of national income on health care in 1992.
CMS estimated national health expenditures at 13.4% of GDP in 1992. Rounded to a whole percentage point, that supports Clinton's description.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CMS national health expenditure review
Supported
U.S. health spending as a share of income was more than 30% above that of any other country.
Contemporaneous international comparisons put the U.S. share far above peer countries. OECD's historical series supports the scale of the gap, although country definitions and later revisions should be kept in view.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: OECD health expenditure data · CMS national health expenditure review
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Late in the last election, the New York Times carried a front- page story showing that 70 percent of the gains of the 1980's had been reaped by the top one percent of the people.
The official legislative or administrative record matches the described action, count or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
21 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
And now we've had two decades in which the wages of most Americans have been stagnant compared to inflation.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
And there have been 150 specific cuts in Government programs, including programs that help a lot of good people but that I don't think we can afford at the present level anymore, programs like the two uranium enrichment facilities we have when we now know we only need one.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
And when you look at the rising cost of education, health care, housing, the tax burden, most Americans are working harder today than they were 10 years ago for real, disposable income that is less, because of these sweeping trends.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Supported
But if you look at it total in the first 4 years, the spending cuts and the revenue increases are about equal.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
But only about half of our 2-year-olds are immunized against serious diseases.
Contemporaneous CDC, CMS or Census records support the stated public-health or coverage condition and its approximate scale.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
Even though I'll bet you anything you've raised more money in this State to put into this school system we're in right now, the United States today is behind at least eight of its major competitors in the percentage of our income we spend on kindergarten through 12th grade education.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
Supported
I don't know if I can do the math in my head right now for 4 years, but I will tell you, basically, the tax bill goes from about $20 billion to about $75 billion over the next 4 years; the spending cuts go up to more than that in the fourth year.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
If we behave for 4 more years like we have for the last 12, here's what will happen: By the end of the decade, the deficit will be $650 billion a year, and we'll be spending about 22 cents of every one of your tax dollars just paying interest on the debt.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
If you look at the difference in long-term interest rates on election day and where they were after I made my speech to Congress, a lot of the people who might have spent $10 or $12 or $15 more per month in energy costs, directly and indirectly, will save much more than that if they're paying a home mortgage, a note on a car, they've got consumer credit, or they otherwise have to borrow money.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
If you look at the income charts on American earnings from, oh, let's say for the last 20 years, for the last 20 years you see a bigger and bigger and bigger gap every year between the earnings of young people with college degrees and young people who drop out of high school or young people who had only a high school diploma.
Contemporaneous education or veterans-program records support the stated participation or attainment figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
Supported
In the last 12 years, the tax burden basically went up on the middle class, went down on the wealthiest Americans, and according to a study released last year, about 70 percent of the economic gains of the last decade went to the top 1 or 2 percent of the people in the country.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
In the last 5 years, our trade deficit with Mexico has gone from a huge deficit to a slight surplus, and our volume has gone way up.
Contemporaneous federal trade data support the stated direction, relationship or approximate amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Supported
One of the things that I think--perhaps the most important thing that was achieved in the last election year was we had a huge increase in turnout, an even bigger increase among younger people.
The official legislative or administrative record matches the described action, count or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
Supported
Our biggest trading partner by far is Canada, even though it's a tiny country; it's a big country geographically, but in terms of population they only have about 30 million people.
Contemporaneous federal trade data support the stated direction, relationship or approximate amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Supported
Since 1985--I'm very proud of this--since 1985--as an American, you should be proud of it--the people of this country over 65 have had a lower poverty rate than people under 65.
Contemporaneous USDA, Census or Social Security records support the stated participation or poverty measure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: USDA 1992 Food Stamp participation record · Census historical poverty tables
Supported
tax credit that is a permanent 7-percent investment tax credit for the 90-plus percent of our businesses that operate on $5 million or less in revenues but create most of our new jobs.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
Taxes on the middle class have actually gone up in the last 12 years.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
The first is that one of the things I've been really proud of in the last month--it proved the election worked, it proved all the town meetings worked, it proved the Ross Perot charts worked, it proved the whole thing worked--is that the volume of our mail and telephone calls is running at historic highs in the White House.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
Thirdly, we increase dramatically something that a lot of you may not know about that's one of the best things in the Tax Code--it's called the refundable earned-income tax credit--so that no one with an income of $30,000 a year or less would pay any new money under this plan, and so that people who work 40 hours a week and have children in their home would be lifted above poverty for the first time for working, not for welfare but for working.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: USDA 1992 Food Stamp participation record · Census historical poverty tables
Misleading
This is a very significant thing that will encourage the private sector to invest in job-generating activities and very important, because in every year of the 1980's, big business lost employment and small business overcame it with more new jobs; but for the last 2\1/2\ years small business has not been creating enough jobs to offset the losses in big business.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Misleading
We are the only country in the world where you have 1,500 separate health insurance companies writing thousands of policies with every doctor's office and every hospital in America having to keep up with them.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
2 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Finally, I will cut almost $250 billion from more than 150 domestic programs, many of them with some merit, and from the defense budget.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
I do propose to raise income tax rates, but only for the top 1.2 percent of taxpayers, those taxpayers whose taxes went down in the 1980's while their incomes went way up.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
5 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
And for the last several years, we have stood by while Europe invested $26 billion in taxpayer money to build the airbus to push American people out of work, not because they won any sort of free market competition but because Europe had a theory about how to get high-wage jobs going into the 21st century in aerospace.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Supported
First of all, for two decades through the administrations of Democratic and Republican Presidents alike, the productivity rate of our country, the output per worker, has been slowing down.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
Last year the Congress--I have to say something to take up for your congressional delegation here--the United States Congress appropriated $1.7 billion for defense conversion, to go into communities that have been hurt, to educate people again who'd lost their jobs, to give communities incentives to find new kinds of peacetime investments to build for a better future.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
Since the election, just since the election, since it was clear we were going to finally tackle this debt, interest rates have dropped seven-tenths of one percent.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
The first thing we need to do is to adopt a jumpstart program that I have recommended that will create a half a million jobs in this country to try to take advantage of this economic recovery with new jobs over the next year.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
2 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
But we no longer have the luxury, with other nations having grown so much more rapidly than we for 20 years, other nations being about as wealthy as we are--we no longer have the luxury of being the only country in the world that can ignore certain problems in terms of trade fairness that other countries don't ignore.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Supported
Just since the election, since we made it clear we were going to try to bring the deficit down, long-term interest rates have dropped seven-tenths of one percent.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
12 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
And as a result, we have the appalling statistic that in America, which produces vaccines for the world, we have the third-lowest immunization rate in this hemisphere.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
And one reason is that a college education is about the only thing that increased more rapidly than health care costs in the 1980's.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
At our economic conference in Little Rock, Red Poling, the chairman of Ford Motor Company, pointed out how Ford's health care costs had risen by 800 percent in the last 20 years, and now they spend as much on health care for workers as on steel for cars.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
But since the first budget President Reagan submitted in 1981, which did have a lot of very specific budget cuts, this budget is the one that has the most specific cuts.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
In the 1980's, the most successful industrial strategy we had was our defense budget which kept our lead in international defense technologies while we were losing our lead in many commercial technologies.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Misleading
Just since the election, since the Secretary of the Treasury and other people on our economic team and the President have been able to send clear signals to the market that we are going to bring down this deficit, there has been a seven-tenths of one percent drop in long-term interest rates.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
Our competitors in Japan have only $550 in a car; hard to be price competitive and make money.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
Unresolved
Seventy percent of the small businesses in this country are still providing health care to their employees, but they're hurt very badly by insurance-rating practices in most States.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Misleading
So I have submitted to the Congress a budget that, in the coming fiscal year, will cut the White House staff by 25 percent below what it was when my predecessor left office, and not only cutting it but reorganizing it so that it will function better.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
The restructuring of big business, which has been going on now for more than a decade, led to a reduction in employment in every year of the 1980's in larger businesses.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
We know that in the last quarter, American productivity jumped to almost a 20- year high as more and more American businesses have come to grips with the challenges they face.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Misleading
We provide for the first time in the history of the country a permanent investment tax credit for small businesses for 90 percent of the employers who have 40 percent of the workers but create a majority of the jobs in this country.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
But he was here during the last 12 years when other Presidents and the Congress quadrupled the national debt.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The problem is that for more than 20 years we have been building in a structural deficit into our Government, one that robbed the National Government of that flexibility, the flexibility to tighten up in good times to slow down inflation, and to invest more in bad times to put people back to work.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
2 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
It is more complex and in some ways the path is less clear to most of our people still today, even after 20 years of declining relative productivity and a decade or more of stagnant wages and greater effort.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
Most are in manufacturing, and on average, they pay almost $3,500 more per year than the average American job.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Already mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest level in 20 years, 20 years.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
1993-03
March, 1993
Economic, budget, foreign-policy and public-event records have completed paragraph-by-paragraph claim review.
31calendar days59spoken records
Transcript status: 59 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported27False3Misleading8Unresolved8
5 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
And half a century later, the enduring legacy of the GI bill is the strongest economy in the world and the broadest, biggest middle class that any nation has ever enjoyed.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
Unresolved
And we think we'll start--we think we'll have 35,000 of them, which is twice as many people as were ever in the Peace Corps in any given year, in addition to those coming out of college.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
False
Let me just mention two or three things: Number one, last year before I became President, the Congress passed and President Bush signed a bill called the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed on July 26, 1990, not in the year before this March 1993 statement.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Justice Department ADA signing history · President George H.W. Bush's ADA signing remarks
Supported
Thanks to the GI bill, which became a living reality in President Truman's time, more than 8 million veterans got advanced education.
Contemporaneous education or veterans-program records support the stated participation or attainment figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
Unresolved
Through this program, more than 6,500 young adults have contributed over 900,000 hours of service to the State of New Jersey.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
2 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
But if you look behind the numbers, it also reveals the stark challenges before us, for most of those jobs were part-time jobs, and we are still about 3 million jobs behind where we would ordinarily be in a recovery.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Misleading
Small businesses have created virtually all of the new jobs in our country in the last 10 years.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
5 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
Example number one, to begin with children, all the nations in this hemisphere, only two, only two, Haiti and Bolivia, have lower immunization rates against preventable childhood diseases than the United States of America, where all of the vaccine is made.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Supported
I have asked the Congress to freeze the pay of Federal employees next year and then to lower it by one percent less than would otherwise be the cost of living for the succeeding 3 years, saving billions more dollars and asking a substantial, a very substantial sacrifice from the Federal work force because I thought that was important before I could ask the taxpayers to contribute more.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
In addition to those things I have already mentioned, I recommended a significant increase, about $2.5 billion--the first one in a very long time, as all of you know--in the community development block grant program.
The official legislative or administrative record matches the described action, count or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
Supported
Interest rates just since the election have gone down, long term, almost one full point.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
The economic program, if it is fully enacted, will create 8 million jobs over the long run--that is, in this 4 year period--the vast majority of them in the private sector.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
2 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
Because those savings in the public sector would have to be used to provide some insurance at least to the unemployed uninsured, who are about 30 percent of the total population of uninsured--at least to them--it might take 4 years or so before we would start seeing significant taxpayer savings.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Misleading
Our deficit reduction package--and Senator after Senator said today, you know, that this is the most credible budget I've seen in 15 or 17 or however many years--it is producing the desired results: low interest rates, stock market back up and doing well.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
False
Right now banks are healthier than they've been in years; 1990 was a record year for bank profitability.
FDIC results identify 1992—not 1990—as the record-earnings year then just completed. The banking recovery was real, but the stated record year is wrong.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: FDIC fourth-quarter 1990 banking profile · FDIC fourth-quarter 1992 banking profile
6 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Anticipating this challenge, farsighted Members of Congress appropriated approximately $1.5 billion for defense conversion last year, including ideas that literally came from the minds and the efforts of some of the Members of Congress who are here with us today.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
False
It was a cruel irony of the last 12 years that we not only took the Government debt from $1 trillion to $4 trillion, with annual deficits now in excess of $300 million projected for the next few years unless we change it, but we found a way in all of that to actually reduce our investment in our future at the national level.
The projected annual deficit was measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, not $300 million. Even allowing for an apparent spoken slip, the attributable figure as stated is false.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
Most of the new jobs created in this last round--365,000 last month--hallelujah, that's great, but more than half of them were part-time jobs that don't have health care benefits for the kids and the families.
Contemporaneous CDC, CMS or Census records support the stated public-health or coverage condition and its approximate scale.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Supported
Now that we're spending 15 cents of every dollar you pay the Government--most of you are middle class people, and we spend 15 cents of every dollar you pay the Government paying interest on the debt.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
Starting now, this Agency, ARPA, will allocate more than $500 million to technology and industrial programs like the ones we've seen here today.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Misleading
The United States, a country that has dominated the economy of the world for the last half a century, has higher rates of adult illiteracy and school dropout and dysfunction among adults than most of its major competitors, and the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world, something we rank first in.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
3 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Defense spending has been declining ever since 1986.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
Defense spending has been declining since 1986, but there's been no real plan about what to do on it, no real plan for military personnel mustered out, no real plan for civilian workers who have lost their jobs or for the communities who have been hurt or for the companies who have been devastated.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
In 1988, it was here that an American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff first welcomed his Soviet counterpart to visit an American aircraft carrier.
Contemporaneous diplomatic or international records support the described event, commitment or amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: State Department Clinton-administration historical collection · United Nations digital library
5 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Because California, with 12 percent of the Nation's population, received 21 percent of the total defense budget last year.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
In the last few weeks, we have worked very hard to put together a plan that would release over $1 billion this year in defense conversion.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
Since 1989, 300,000 soldiers, sailors, and flyers have been mustered out of the service.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
The Congress appropriated $1.4 billion last year, and none of it was spent.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
We're taking the military force down to 1.4 million people and keeping a base structure that supported nearly twice that many.
Contemporaneous defense-budget or oversight records support the stated force, spending or transition figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Prime Minister and I also discussed the continuing tragic conflict in Northern Ireland that has cost 3,000 lives over the last 2 decades.
Contemporaneous diplomatic or international records support the described event, commitment or amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: State Department Clinton-administration historical collection · United Nations digital library
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
half of the money come from people who benefited most in the 1980's, those with incomes above $200,000.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Misleading
Indeed, you can make a compelling case that the recession we have endured in jobs is almost totally tied to the fact that the small business engine, that created more jobs than big business lost in the 1980's, came to a screeching halt in the last 2 years in the face of a recession, a credit crunch, the incredible burden of health care costs, and other costs on small business in adding new employees to their enterprises.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Misleading
Look at what happened in Europe for the last decade when they had two major economic recoveries that generated no new jobs.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
7 attributable claims assessed
5 indexed spoken records · 5 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
I don't think that a budget resolution has ever been passed so quickly and one has ever been this comprehensive and acted on this quickly.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
In the last decade, Europe had two big economic recovery periods, created virtually no new jobs, even though incomes were going up, profits were going up, new jobs were not coming into the economy.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
In the last month, we had 365,000 new jobs.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
Just since the election, since this deficit reduction plan has come out, interest rates have been down between .8 percent and one full percentage point, floating back and forth more or less in that range.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
The bad news is that more than half of them were part-time jobs, jobs that didn't contain a full income and couldn't provide for health care coverage for the family.
Contemporaneous CDC, CMS or Census records support the stated public-health or coverage condition and its approximate scale.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
There are millions and millions of Americans who, in the first 6 months of this year, will save more money in interest payments than they'll pay in the energy tax I propose for the full 4 years of this administration.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
There was a poll in New Jersey last week--one of two States that have elections for Governor in this off-year--saying that 18 percent of the people who are going to vote in this election this year voted for the very first time in the Presidential election in 1992.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Small businesses, the source of more than half the jobs held by Americans, will get the help with freer access to credit, with investment tax credits and urban enterprise zones and special capital gains for new enterprises.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
2 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
He is a democratically elected national leader, indeed, the first democratically elected President in a thousand years of Russian history.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: State Department Clinton-administration historical collection · United Nations digital library
Supported
In the last 12 years I think you could argue that your Government had two big problems: one is that the deficit literally exploded, and the public debt quadrupled.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
2 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Now, last month we had a lot of new jobs, but way, way over half of them were part-time jobs with no health care benefits and no security of lasting.
Contemporaneous CDC, CMS or Census records support the stated public-health or coverage condition and its approximate scale.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Supported
What most Americans don't know is that of the 100 Members of the Senate, if you have one more than 40 you can shut everything down.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
And this week, the Senate did the same, approving our budget resolution in record time, just 36 days after we took it to you, the American people.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1993-04
April 1–29, 1993
The Day 100 record includes the completed review of a dense run of press exchanges and policy remarks.
29calendar days52spoken records
Transcript status: 52 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported24False0Misleading7Unresolved16
5 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
And for the last 2 years small business has not created enough new jobs to offset that.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Misleading
And yet, every one of them has a more aggressive public- private partnership than we do when it comes to educating and training the work force, when it comes to investing in civilian technologies for jobs for the 21st century, when it comes to maintaining competitive policies that will guarantee at least that they'll have a chance to generate high-wage, high-growth jobs.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
Unresolved
I'd be more interested in why my economic program, which is 85 percent what Ross Perot recommended in the campaign, except we raised taxes less on the middle class, more on the wealthy, and don't have unspecified health care savings, hasn't been endorsed since it's almost identical to the one he ran on.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Misleading
In the 1980's Europe had at least two significant economic recoveries and generated no jobs.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
Russia is one of the world's largest oil producers; yet millions of barrels of the oil Russia pumps each month seep out of the system before ever reaching the market.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: State Department Clinton-administration historical collection · United Nations digital library
No attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
First, three-quarters, three-quarters of this money will be distributed not government to government but will go to benefit the private sector, the emerging private sector in Russia, and will go outside of the central apparatus in terms of supporting privatization, helping to start new businesses, establishing a democracy corps at a really significant level.
Contemporaneous diplomatic or international records support the described event, commitment or amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: State Department Clinton-administration historical collection · United Nations digital library
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
I mean, the American people, I'm sure, are disappointed to find that a program that would put a half- million people to work and that has the support of a majority of the United States Senate cannot be brought to a vote in the Senate, because democracy and the majority rule is being undermined.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The jobs plan is carefully targeted and will be followed by real and enforceable budget cuts, now more than 200 specific budget cuts contained in the investment and deficit reduction package Congress has approved.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
3 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
More than 8,000 people have called our 1-800-DUAL-USE hotline.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
Misleading
The Republicans had 12 years in which unemployment went down only when they were exploding the deficit and increasing the defense budget.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Fiscal year 1994 federal budget · GAO defense-transition archive
Supported
These people, most of them have been here for the last 12 years while we have run immunization into the ground, while we have developed the third worst rate in the hemisphere.
Contemporaneous CDC, CMS or Census records support the stated public-health or coverage condition and its approximate scale.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
3 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
And we're trying to get off to a good start this summer with a program that would create more than 700,000 new summer jobs, including many thousands that have a strong education component so our young people can be learning and working at the same time.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
Supported
If you look at the last 10 years, the average salaries of young people that had at least 2 years of good post-high school education was a good salary that went up over the decade.
Contemporaneous education or veterans-program records support the stated participation or attainment figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
Supported
Most new jobs that will be created in this decade will not require a 4-year college degree, but most of them will require some learning and skills that go well beyond what most people get in a high school diploma.
Contemporaneous education or veterans-program records support the stated participation or attainment figure.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: NCES Digest of Education Statistics · Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill timeline
2 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Now I live in a generation full of people, most of whom don't make any more money in real dollars than they did 10 years ago, and they're working longer hours, and they're paying more for the basics of life.
The official legislative or administrative record matches the described action, count or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
Unresolved
They're going to adopt a stimulus that, even if you count it in its most rigorous terms, is 3 or 4 times bigger than the one that I have proposed to create jobs.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
No attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
I'm not sure I entirely understood your question, but let me answer you in this way: When the Prime Minister and I were discussing this meeting in our private one-on- one meeting, he pointed out quite accurately that the last time there was a reduction in the trade deficit that the U.S. has with Japan was after a significant economic stimulus program was adopted several years ago in the eighties which he helped to engineer in a previous capacity.
Contemporaneous federal trade data support the stated direction, relationship or approximate amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: Census historical trade data · BEA international economic accounts
6 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
After trying for a long time to pass this program and getting no help from any of the Republican Senators--because we have to have at least three or four of them to help because it takes 60 people to shut off debate in the Senate, not a majority, 60 percent--I offered a compromise.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
And third, and the most important thing of all you need to know, is that before I became President, just in the last 4 years, a lot of these same people voted for the same kind of emergency spending, billions and billions and billions of dollars of it, a lot of it for overseas spending or other things that didn't have anything to do with putting the people of Pennsylvania to work.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
Seventy percent of it comes from people with incomes over $100,000 a year to try to restore some fairness to this Tax Code that has gotten so unfair in the last 12 years.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
The budget resolution that the Congress passed is the fastest they have ever passed a budget resolution, ever in history, setting out the next 5 year budget targets.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
Then the jobs plan I presented to Congress, which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, most of them in the private sector in 1993 and 1994, passed the House of Representatives.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
This program is more than paid for by budget cuts over my 5- year budget, and this program is well within the spending limits already approved by the Congress this year.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No Clinton-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Clinton-participation transcript inventory.
3 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
It appears that 28 times in the last 12 years, many of the same people who are holding this bill up voted to do the same thing I'm asking for to the tune of over $100 billion, often for foreign aid and for other things that didn't have nearly as much to do with affecting the lives of the American people in Main Street America.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
Supported
There are more than a million fewer jobs in the private sector now than there were before this recession began.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Unresolved
Third thing you need to know, as I said, is that we have proposed 200 specific budget cuts that will more than pay for this modest amount of extra spending.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
1 attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
Number two, that the people who had reviewed this had never seen a case quite like this one before, and they were convinced that no progress had been made recently and no progress was going to be made through the normal means of getting Koresh and the other cult members to come out.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BJS historical correctional statistics · FBI Crime Data Explorer
1 attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
That is one of the reasons why over the last couple of years, for example, the average German factory worker has come to make over 20 percent more than his American counterpart; that German workers, while having higher wages, also have more secure and better health care.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
- Context
- Remarks on Earth Day ↗
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
No attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
No, what I underestimated was the extent to which what I thought was a fairly self-evident case, particularly after we stayed below the spending caps approved by this Congress, including the Republicans who were in this Congress last year, when we had already passed a budget resolution which called for over $500 billion in deficit reduction.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
Now, I have to tell you, I did misgauge that because a majority of the Republican Senators now sitting in the Senate voted for a similar stimulus when Ronald Reagan was President in 1983 and voted 28 times for regular supplemental appropriations like this.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
We have already--the first round of aid to non-Soviet Russia, to a democratic Russia, is plainly going to go through, the first $1.6 billion.
Contemporaneous diplomatic or international records support the described event, commitment or amount.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: State Department Clinton-administration historical collection · United Nations digital library
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
And these investments were paid for by more than 200 real spending cuts contained in the budget that Congress has already passed.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
10 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
And we have reclaimed only one-half the jobs we lost in the last recession.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
But jobs have increased by only eight-tenths of one percent.
Contemporaneous labor, income or interest-rate data support the statement's measurable direction and approximate scale; the verdict does not extend to any separate causal implication.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
First of all, I had 200 such cuts, 200 that were not adopted by the previous administration or the previous Congress in the previous budget, 200.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
First of all, keep in mind that in the last 30 years, there has been a dramatic worsening in the ratio of police to crime.
Contemporaneous justice or crime records support the statement's measurable core.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BJS historical correctional statistics · FBI Crime Data Explorer
Unresolved
I can tell you this: There are people in the Republican Party, for example, in the Senate, who are generally sympathetic to this sort of thing--people who voted for these kind of supplemental appropriations over 25 times in the last 12 years--who voted against it because they basically thought that even if it wasn't increasing the deficit, this was another way certainly to reduce it--if you don't spend the money-- and that we were in a recovery.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
I did not ask that stimulus bill to be voted on until the Congress had adopted the budget resolution committing itself to more than $500 billion of deficit reduction in the next 5 years, more than $500 billion, including this $16 billion.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Unresolved
If we were following the trend of typical past recoveries, jobs would have grown by more than 7 percent.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Misleading
If you go back and look at what happened to Europe in the last decade, they had two different economic recoveries that have produced virtually no new jobs in many of those countries.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: BLS review of the 1992 labor market · Federal Reserve economic data
Supported
They adopted a budget with 200 specific budget cuts, over and above the last budget adopted under the previous administration, and some tax increases, 70 percent of which fall on people with incomes above $100,000, over 50 percent of which fall on people with incomes above $200,000; with an energy tax that the middle class will have to help pay that is good for conservation and good for the environment and good for the long-term direction this country needs to go in.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Supported
When I submitted to the Congress the core elements of my budget plan, designed to change these policies of debt and disinvestment and decline in return for thrift and investment and growth, the Congress adopted that budget plan in record time, the first time in 17 years a budget resolution has passed Congress on time.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
5 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
At the same time, because of these policies, because of tax policies, and because of global economic pressures, we saw most middle class people working longer weeks for lower wages than they had been drawing 10, 15 years before.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
Misleading
Because in the last 5 years the defense increases have been supplemented by explosive increases in health care costs and in interest payments on the debt.
Available official data support part of the statement, but its categorical comparison, compressed baseline or causal framing goes beyond what those records establish.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Unresolved
I don't mean to tell you there are easy answers, but the reason I asked my wife to take on this issue is, I could see that if you want an 8-year plan that brings this debt down to zero, you can never get there without health care reform.
The precise figure, forecast, private count, counterfactual or causal comparison lacks a sufficiently transparent contemporary baseline to resolve responsibly from the available official evidence.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CDC childhood immunization initiative record · Census historical health-insurance coverage · CMS national health expenditure review
Supported
Today the rate is the lowest it's been since August of 1972, the lowest in over 20 years.
The official legislative or administrative record matches the described action, count or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CRS historical budget-resolution dates · GAO federal management archive
Supported
We now have several hundred people from all over this country coming to Washington to help us reexamine the way every last dollar of your tax money is spent.
Contemporaneous CBO, budget or legislative records match the stated fiscal amount, trend, action or timing.
- Speaker
- Bill Clinton
Evidence: CBO 1993 economic and budget outlook · Fiscal year 1994 budget plan
No attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
All 189 indexed Clinton-participation spoken records have completed paragraph-by-paragraph review. The tally includes specific attributable factual claims with sufficient public evidence for a cautious assessment; it excludes ceremonial facts, policy preferences and predictions without a checkable factual premise. Later evidence can still justify a documented correction.