    RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL  (TRP NOTES MAIL)

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

    CREATION DATE/TIME:11-JUL-1996 09:13:36.00

    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:
    A few items of note this morning:

    1.  School Construction.  This announcement will happen today.  It was

    supposed to be in Fla, but the storm cancelled the POTUS trip, so it will

    be in suburban Maryland.  Obviuosly, you were not going to be at the

    announcement (in Fla) as originally planned.  So now, the question is,

    should we tear up your schedule to get you at this announcement here?

    While you certainly deserve credit for having been for it and for having

    come up with the offset, I don't think you'll get much out of going.  But

    we'll see how hard it will be to get reorganized...

    2.  Helms-Burton/Cuba.  The Helms-Burton decision will come while you are

    gone, as will some other Cuba related decisions.  I will talk to Leon

    today and make sure you are equipped with whatever you need for lunch

    tomorrow.

    3.  Welfare Reform.  The odds of us getting a stand-alone bill are

    rising.  While this will make the liberals mad, this is probably the #1

    achievement we could (realisitically) get this year.

    4.  Kennedy-Kassebaum.  This seems not to have changed much since your

    chat with the President on Monday.  But I fear it could come into final

    focus while you and Mrs. Gore are away, so I intend to put a final push

    for this in your lunch memo for tomorrow.

    5.  Wisconsin Waiver.  This seems to be on track for a YES on welfare and

    a NO on Medicaid, as discussed at the Residence Meeting on Tuesday.  This,

    too, will probably happen while you are gone, as the 30-day review period

    runs out on Monday.

    6.  Quello/Kid TV.  You've now seen the public discussion of his reversal

    -- he clearly will not allow any rule to go through.  We are readying the

    recess appointment so that Reed will be able to do this over Quello's

    objection by mid-August.

    7.  Tax Attack.  Finally, as I told you yesterday, the GOP has gone up

    with an attack on Dole on taxes (not welfare).  We will put up the answer

    you have seen screened at the Residence Meeting twice (i.e., "Bob Dole ...

    35 years in Washington, 35 years of higher taxes")  We are nailing down

    which of the Dole tax hikes cited in the ad that you voted for in the

    House or Senate, for surely Dole will counter attack on you for this.  Our

    defense of you (and others who voted for these tax hikes, like Leon

    Panetta, our Hill Dem allies, etc.) is that we are not attacking the tax

    hikes themselves, but Dole's hypocrisy in voting for those tax hikes and

    then criticizing us on taxes.   We'll see how it works......