(2015-0964-S) Barbara Chow - Domestic Policy Council

100 folders, approximately 3,312 pages

This collection consists of records from Barbara Chow’s Domestic Policy Council files. It contains faxes, memoranda, email, speeches, speech drafts, correspondence, news clippings, reports, publications, talking points and press releases. Topics covered in these records include, but are not limited to, gun safety, juvenile justice, school construction, education initiatives, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, child care, foster care, women’s health issues, the tobacco settlement, food stamps, and youth violence.

Barbara Chow served in both terms of the Clinton administration. The White House website from 2000 states that, “Barbara Chow served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC). [Her] DPC responsibilities included the policy development, and coordination of key domestic White House priorities from welfare reform to education, health care, crime, and other long-term strategic issues. She was also Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance, and Labor at the Office of Management and Budget, a position she held since December 1997. Her responsibilities in this position included budget, legislative, and policy review of all of the human resources programs of the Federal government, including the Departments of Labor, and Education, the Social Security Administration, and the income maintenance, nutrition, and social services programs in the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, as well as, the Corporation for National Service and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Prior to her current appointments, Ms. Chow served as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs at the White House, beginning in 1993. Her responsibilities included working with members of Congress on budget, appropriation, and economic issues. She was integrally involved with all the Administration's major economic initiatives including the 1993 economic plan, the 1997 balanced budget, and the resolution of key appropriations bills. Before joining the Clinton Administration, Ms. Chow was the Manager for Federal Budget Policy at Price Waterhouse. From 1985-1990, Ms. Chow served on the staff of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and as an Assistant Director for Physical Resources at the Senate Budget Committee. She was an Examiner in the Natural Resources Division of the Office of Management and Budget from 1980-1985.” (http://clinton4.nara.gov/textonly/WH/DPC/barbara_chow.html) The Barbara Chow Domestic Policy collection includes faxes, memoranda, email, speeches, speech drafts, correspondence, news clippings, reports, publications, talking points and press releases. Topics covered in this collection include, but are not limited to gun safety, juvenile justice, school construction, education initiatives, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, child care, foster care, women’s health issues, the tobacco settlement, food stamps, and youth violence.

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Records of this collection were found in Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files, Domestic Policy Council. The folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22, as amended) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions.

Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

Staff Archives, 2015. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released.

The following is a list of folders processed:
Box 1
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Domestic Policy Council
Chow, Barbara
Children and Families – CNCS [OA/ID 20226]
Children and Families – Gag Rule [OA/ID 20226]
Children and Families – RU-486 [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Ballistics [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Brady Law [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Colorado Referendum Event 4/12/00 [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Columbine [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Community Prosecutors [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – COPS [Community Oriented Policing Services] [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Death Penalty [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Enforcement [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Gun Buybacks [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Gun Costs [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Gun Industry [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Gun Lawsuits [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Gun Licensing / Registration [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Gun Safety [OA/ID 20226]
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued)
Crime – Gun Safety Manufacturers [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Gun Statistics [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Guns/Stats Prosecutors
Crime – Gun Strategy
Crime – Juvenile Crime Bill 1999 [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Juvenile Handgun Code [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Juvenile Justice Bill [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Juvenile Justice Conference [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Juvenile Justice Proposal 1998 [OA/ID 20226]
Crime – Re-entry Initiatives [OA/ID 20226]
Box 2
Crime/Drugs – HEMP [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Children’s Trust Fund [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Early Learning Fund [OA/ID 20226]
Education – HEAP [Hispanic Education Action Plan] [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Initiatives [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Internet Filtering [OA/ID 20226]
Education – School Construction I [OA/ID 20226]
Education – School Construction II [OA/ID 20226]
Education – School Construction III [OA/ID 20226]
Education – School Construction IV [OA/ID 20226]
Education – School Construction V [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Single Sex [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Pre-K [Pre-Kindergarten] [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Title VI – Chicago [OA/ID 20226]
Education – Tribal Colleges [OA/ID 20226]
Internet Gambling [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – DOE [Department of Energy] Worker’s Compensation I [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – DOE [Department of Energy] Worker’s Compensation II [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – Bentsen Executive Order [OA/ID 20226]
Box 3
Labor – Ergonomics [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – H1B [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – H1B Memo [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – H2A [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – Minimum Wage [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – Minimum Wage – [FLSA] [Fair Labor Standards Act] [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – Olders Americans Act [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – 60-2 Regulation [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – UI [Unemployment Insurance] Memo [OA/ID 20226]
Labor – Baby UI [Unemploymentment Insurance] [OA/ID 20226]
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued)
[Labor] – Railroad Retirement Board [OA/ID 20226]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED-FY-July 14 [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – Charts [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – Class Size [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – DOL [Department of Labor]
[OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – DPC [Domestic Policy
Council] [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – Education [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – Education II [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – NEC [National Economic
Council] [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – Podesta Memo
[OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – POTUS request
[OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – SSA [Social Security
Administration] [OA/ID 20227]
Labor/HHS [Health and Human Services]/ED ’01 – SSBG [Social Services Block
Grant]/CCDBG [Care Development Block Grant] [OA/ID 20227]
Box 4
Religious Freedom [OA/ID 20227]
Tobacco I [OA/ID 20227]
Tobacco II [OA/ID 20227]
Tobacco III [OA/ID 20227]
Tobacco IV [OA/ID 20227]
Tobacco V [OA/ID 20227]
Weekly Report to POTUS I [OA/ID 20227]
Weekly Report to POTUS II [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Child Care [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Child Support [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Disabilities [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – FNS [Food and Nutrition Service] [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Food Stamps / Defense [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Food Stamps I [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Food Stamps II [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Food Stamps III [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Food Stamps IV [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Hunger [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Domestic Hunger [OA/ID 20227]
Box 5
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued)
Welfare – LIHEAP [Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program] I
[OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – LIHEAP [Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program] II
[OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Medicare [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Social Security I [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Social Security II [ OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Title XX [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – Universal School Lunch [OA/ID 20227]
Welfare – WIC [Women, Infants, and Children] [OA/ID 20227]
Youth Violence I [OA/ID 20227]
Youth Violence II [OA/ID 20227]
Youth Violence III [OA/ID 20227]
Youth Violence IV [OA/ID 20227]