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Article: Celebrating Progress in `Reinvention'; At South Lawn Ceremony, Clinton Hails Gore Initiative's First Year
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- The Washington Post
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- September 15, 1994
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Last year, it was forklifts loaded high with federal rule
books. Yesterday, it was two government-issued laundry baskets
overflowing with symbolic red tape.
The first event marked the release of Vice President Gore's
"reinventing government" report, and yesterday's celebrated the
progress made on Gore's effort to streamline the bureaucracy and
improve its performance.
President Clinton ticked off the numbers: a reduction in the
size of the federal work force by 71,000 positions and budget
projections showing that savings of $47 billion will be achieved, a
down payment on Gore's goal of $108 billion in cost savings.
"In three years, we'll have the smallest federal work force
since ...