One of the most essential weapons in the war against crime is our nation’s law enforcement - which is why Al Gore fought hard to enact the Clinton-Gore anti-crime bill that is putting 100,000 new police officers on the streets of America. He is fighting to hire and redeploy up to 50,000 more community police, and believes that is just the beginning of what we must do to invest in more police and stronger law enforcement.
I will make sure that we have access to high-quality, affordable health care to every single child in the United States of America, including every child in the State of Mississippi, within the next four years
Gore has long been a leader in the call for greater parental responsibility, especially from fathers. He has been central to the administration’s crackdown on deadbeat dads, leading to a dramatic surge in child support payments. And he has called for all fathers to assume a greater role in their children’s education, health, and upbringing. Gore supports requiring all federal agencies to strengthen their efforts to support responsible fatherhood.
Vice President Al Gore told labor leaders on Thursday he wanted future U.S. trade agreements to better protect workers and the environment, but denied that he planned to renegotiate a landmark trade pact with China if elected president in November, a spokesman said.
America must maintain its role as the world’s leader. Al Gore has repeatedly called for the passage of Fast Track trading authority, to allow the President to open more markets.. He has fought for a trading system that includes strong safeguards for workers, for health and safety, for children, and for a clean environment. And he has called on other nations -- such as Japan and the nations of Europe -- to jump-start their own economies, and live up to their shared responsibilities for global growth
Al Gore believes if we are going to truly reform our schools, we need to invest more, not less. Vice President Gore is proposing to devote $115 billion of the budget surplus to create an Education Reform Trust Fund which will fund new education investments: including universal preschool; reforming the American High School and smaller schools and smaller classes; high quality teachers, and fixing failing schools.
Parents should have more choice in their children’s public schools - especially those whose children are stuck in low-performing schools. We need more public school choice, and more competition - to apply the pressure that will improve all schools. And of course we must reject the false promise of siphoning public school funding away to private schools. That would only make things much worse.
Smaller Schools and Smaller Classes: Research shows that small schools can offer a strong core curriculum and a level of academically advanced courses comparable to large schools. Small schools also have better attendance records, lower dropout rates and fewer discipline problems. Al Gore envisions a new American high school with smaller classes, smaller schools, and more individual attention for each student for each student to help our teenagers get on the right track and make our schools better and safer.
Al Gore and Secretary of State Albright today denounced a proposal by Bush to withdraw US ground forces from their peacekeeping mission in the Balkans. They painted the idea as risky and misguided and said it could lead to instability in the region and even, over time, to the possible dissolution of NATO. “Governor Bush’s proposal would be more than a major untested shift in America’s foreign policy for the last half-century,” Gore said. “It would be one that could jeopardize fragile alliances. It would be a damaging blow to NATO.“
”I believe it demonstrates a lack of judgment and a complete misunderstanding of history to think that America can simply walk away from security challenges in Europe,“ Gore said of the Bush proposal. Gore said that withdrawing from the peacekeeping operation in the Balkans could cause a questioning of American leadership of NATO and that the lack of American leadership over time ”would lead to the collapse of NATO and eventually threaten the peace in Europe.“
We will roll back Milosevic’s reign of terror - and we will not stop until he withdraws his forces, allows the refugees to return, and accepts an international security force to protect all Kosovars, including the Serb minority, as they work toward the self-government they once enjoyed and still deserve. If he refuses to back down, we will continue to target and degrade the military capacity he uses to repress and torture the people of Kosovo.
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