(2025-0093-F Segment 1) Child Tax Credit

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7,153 assets

This collection consists of records related to the Clinton Administration’s family tax credit and child tax credit. Material responsive to this request includes economic policy fact sheets, accomplishments documents, 1995 Office of Management and Budget legislative reports, 1996-1997 budget negotiations, President Clinton’s June 1997 tax cut proposals compared to Congressional tax cut proposals, 1997 White House Conference on Child Care, 1997 balanced budget agreement, 1999 State of the Union, and President Clinton’s proposed FY 2000 and FY 2001 budgets.

The materials in FOIA 2025-0093-F (Segment 1) are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related material. Records responsive to this FOIA request include emails and electronic records pertaining to the Clinton Administration’s family tax credit and child tax credit. Related topics covered in this collection include the lifetime learning tax credit, earned income tax credit (EITC) expansion, HOPE scholarship tax credit, education and retirement savings accounts, child and dependent care tax credit, child care and development block grants, kidsave accounts, child adoption, tax credits for school construction and renovation, tax credits for employer-provided education and training, student loan interest deduction, urban revitalization, brownfields, empowerment zones, enterprise communities, welfare-to-work, and tobacco taxes. Material responsive to this request includes economic policy fact sheets, accomplishments documents, 1995 Office of Management and Budget legislative reports, 1996-1997 budget negotiations, President Clinton’s June 1997 tax cut proposals compared to Congressional tax cut proposals, 1997 White House Conference on Child Care, 1997 balanced budget agreement, 1999 State of the Union, and President Clinton’s proposed FY 2000 and FY 2001 budgets.
 

Electronic Records

Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas—Clinton Presidential Records: (SAS) Automated Records Management System [Email]; Clinton
Presidential Records: (SAS) Tape Restoration Project [Email]; and Clinton Presidential Records: (SAS) Lotus Notes.

The Executive Office of the President (EOP) subsystem of the Electronic Records Archive (ERA) contains electronic records created or received by Clinton Administration officials. These records are stored in Search and Access Sets (SAS) that represent their originating computer program. Search strings are used to locate electronic records responsive to FOIA requests, and responsive assets are placed into Search Results Lists (SRLs). Depending on the complexity of the search, there may be multiple SRLs within each SAS.

The Automated Records Management System (ARMS) is a database that contains email records of the Executive Office of the President. This system maintained unclassified Presidential email.

The Tape Restoration Project (TRP) is a database consisting of restored emails from the Automated Records Management System (ARMS) from July 1994 through June 2000. The TRP is a database that contains email records of the Executive Office of the President. This system maintained unclassified Presidential email.

Lotus Notes is a database that contains files created in the Lotus Notes system. The Lotus Notes system was used as an email management system during the Clinton Administration. This database contains drafts of email, mailing lists, attachments, and other items likely intended for email.
 

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).

Child tax credits; Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (United States)

Staff Archivist, 2026. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released.

The following is a list of Search and Access Sets processed in response to FOIA 2025-0093-F (Segment 1):

Clinton Presidential Records: EOP Search and Access Sets (SAS)
(SAS) Automated Records Management System [Email] contains 6,466 assets. (SAS) Tape Restoration Project [Email] contains 489 assets.
(SAS) Lotus Notes contains 198 assets.