    RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL  (TRP NOTES MAIL)

    CREATOR: Ron Klain ( CN=Ron Klain/O=OVP [ OVP ] )

    CREATION DATE/TIME:20-MAY-1996 08:59:50.00

    SUBJECT:  Updates

    TO: Albert Gore ( CN=Albert Gore/O=OVP [ OVP ] )
    READ:UNKNOWN

    CC: Heather M. Marabeti ( CN=Heather M. Marabeti/O=OVP [ OVP ] )
    READ:UNKNOWN

    TEXT:
    Here are a few items of interest this morning:

    1.  POTUS Sched this Week.   The sched is heavy with foreign policy items:

    	Mon --  MFN/China Speech at Pacific Basin Econ Council

    	Tue --  Boorda Memorial

    	Wed -- Commencement Sp on For Pol at USCG Academy

    	Thu --   Visit w/ Kohl in Wisc.

    	Fri ---    No sched at present

    	Sat/Sun -- Down after live radio address on Sat

    Recall that you are travelling this entire week, except Wed AM, after

    today.

    2.  Min Wage.  The House is expected to move this this week.  We are

    generally OK with the sm bus tax break add-ons, but strongly opposed to at

    least one of the pay-fors, a repeal of Sec. 936's favorable tax treatment

    of Puerto Rico.  Also, the House is adding one mildly unacceptable

    anti-labor provision (which removes the requirement that employers pay

    for/count the hours of workers while in transit if the employer provides

    the transit).  A Dole-Daschle deal this week is possible, to move a clean

    min wage and a clean gas tax suspension -- but not certain.

    3.  Defend America.  We can expect action on this GOP missile defense

    legislative package in both the  House and the Senate late this week.

    4.  Budget.  Finally, the GOP budget passes on Tuesday in the Senate.  I

    want to have a statement from you out there hitting them on their enviro

    cuts, once again.

    5.  Recess Appmtnts.  Timing of the recess remains unclear, and I continue

    to press Jack for a solid opinion on the time we need.  Obviously, we very

    much want to get Johnny done.  We also need to contemplate where we head

    on FCC strategy with Dole departing.

    6.  Entitlements Commission.  POTUS has asked Leon to look into this, out

    of a fear that Dole is going to make a courageous stand on entitlements

    the centerpiece of his campaign.  I think: (1) Dole is debating internally

    between a 15% tax cut and a 25% tax cut -- this does not look like a man

    headed toward courageous entitlement cuts; (2) POTUS is very focused on

    his view that the POST  will endorse Dole over the entitlement issue, per

    Woodward's book.  My view:  Let's stop messing with this issue this year.

    Finally, recall that a verdict in theTucker-McDougal trial can come at any

    time now -- and I will have some additional lunch memo items for you this

    morning.