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This Is Not a Textual Record. This Is Used As an Administrative Marker by the William J FOIA Number: 2006-0885-F (Segment 7) FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. Collection/Record Group: Clinton Presidential Records Subgroup/Office of Origin: Health Care Task Force Series/Staff Member: Steven Edelstein Subseries: OA/ID Number: 3674 FolderlD: Folder Title: Penny, Timothy J. (D-MN) Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: s 52 3 6 1 688 MINNESOTA FIRST DISTRICT Southeast from Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Mississippi River cuts a path through rolling hills and where it widens forms broad calm lakes lapping at the bottomlands: here is one of the finest river landscapes of North America. This far north, the westward tide of Yankee migrants thinned out. In the years after the Civil War, most settlers following the railroads on the floodplains west of the river were Germans and Scandinavians, bringing their families to this terrain so like the Rhine, and to the rolling uplands beyond which resemble the northern European plain. Southeastern Minnesota is a borderland between Yankee and German settlements—politically, between Civil War Republicans and Farmer-Laborites favoring inter- ventionist economic and isolationist foreign policies. Minnesota's southeastern corner is, today, the state's 1st Congressional District. Within its compact bounds is considerable diversity. Rochester has been home of the Mayo Clinic since it was founded in 1863 when English-born physician William Mayo set up a practice to examine inductees into the Union Army—early involvement of government in medicine; today, Roches­ ter, with its large professional population, is prosperous and growing. Austin, a county away, is headquarters of the Hormel meatpacking firm that beat a bitter strike in 1986; in 1991, Hormel celebrated its 100th birthday with a huge party that included a Spam sculpture contest Politically, Rochester is an IR stronghold, while Austin, poorer and losing population, is solidly DFL. The Ist District extends north to new subdivisions spreading out from the Twin Citiesi to Northfield, home of Carleton College and former professor Senator Paul Wellstone. The Ist also includes the river towns of Red Wing, Wabasha and Winona, with their 19th Century stone storefronts and mountain-like rock outcroppings that overlook the river. There are farms here, but not the big—and troubled—commercial farms you find farther west. Tim Penny, congressman from the 1st District, transcends some of southeastern Minnesota's divisiveness. A Democrat of Scandinavian descent, he is also an embodiment of Yankee parsimoniousness. Penny is one of those young Democrats with an instinctive feel for polities' vast energy—the reason why Democrats are a majority in most American legislatures. He was elected to the state Senate in 1976 at age 24, after visiting every home in a Republican district; in 1982, he again campaigned door-to-door, while raising $ 182,000, and won a congressional seat into which two Republican incumbents had been redistricted. In the last four elections, he has received at least 70% of the vote; in 1992, he was endorsed by the Red Wing newspaper, even though his Republican opponent had worked there a few years before. How does a Democrat win in a usually Republican district? "My fundamental goal," P( has said, "is to give the Democratic Party a better image on budget issues." In his first term, he chaired a Freshman Budget Group which sought to reduce deficits; ever since, he has compiled a more conservative record on economic issues than most northern, much less Minnesota, Democrats—arousing complaints from Minnesota labor unions and teachers' groups. He supports the line-item veto and the balanced budget amendment. In the late 1980s, he started seeking identical percentage cuts in over-budget appropriations bills. More recently, he has been introducing "Porkbuster" bills cutting specific projects from filbert blight research and Scranton, Pennsylvania's Steamtown theme park, to the space station and Supercollider. His 1992 "Porkbuster" bill would have cut 68 projects for a total of $5.7 billion in savings. Also, in 1992 he took the "Lead or Leave" pledge to retire in 1996 if the budget deficit has not been cut in half; after the 1992 election, he attacked Senator Paul Wellstone for leading the DFL to the left and overreacting to the Democratic victory. Vocal and motivated by convictions, he been something of a thorn in the side of the Democratic leadership. In 1993, Penny jc Charles Stenholm in calling for greater spending cuts in the Clinton budget, though he voted for it in March, and in May, he joined Stenholm again in calling for consideration of caps oo entitlement spending to insure deficit reduction. Penny has not served on Budget nor has he sought a seat on Appropriations; for the 103d MINNESOTA 689 Congress, he tried unsuccessfully to get a seat on Ways and Means. His committees are Agriculture and Veterans' Affairs where he has addressed concerns of southeastern Minnesota. On Agriculture, he sponsored a Beginning Farmer's Act to subsidize down payments and operating loans for farmers just starting out; Penny has been dismayed at the small number of young Minnesotans going into farming. He has also pushed for export assistance for beef, pork, vegetable oil, and milk products—a Spam subsidy! On Veterans', he has oversight of the more- succcssful-than-expected G.I. Bill of Rights and has sponsored a law authorizing the military to pay up to $12,000 of a veteran's starting wage, to ease transition to civilian life. The People: Pop. 1990: 546,909; 48% rural; 14% age 65+; 97% White; 1% Asian; 1% Hispanic origin. Voting age pop.: 398,958; 1% Hispanic origin. Households: 62% married couple families; 30% married couple fams. w. children; 44% college educ; median household income: $28,371; per capita income: $12,661; median gross rent: $342; median house value: $58,600. 1992 Presidential Vote 1988 Presidential Vote Clinton(D) 109,829 (38%) Bush (R) 128,191 (51%) Bush(R) 98,384 (34%) Dukakis (D) 120,933 (49%) Perot (I) 75,227 (26%) Timothy J. Penny (DFL) Elected 1982; b. Nov. 19, 1951, Freeborn Cnty.; home. New Richland; Winona St. U., B.A. 1974; U. of MN, 1975; Lutheran; married (Barbara). Career: MN Senate, 1976-82. Offices: 436 CHOB 20515, 202-225-2472. Also 108 West Park Sq., Owatonna, 55060, 507-455-9151. Committees: Agriculture (8th of 28 D): Environment, Credit and Rural Development; Foreign Agriculture and Hunger (Chmn.). Veterans' Affairs (5th of 21 D): Education, Training and Employ­ ment. Cnwp Ratings ADA ACLU COPE CDF CFA LCV ACU NTLC NSI COC CEI '"2 45 65 50 30 53 69 52 40 60 50 64 "91 50 - 42 30 44 62 30 — — 60 67 "^rtonal Journal Ratings 1991 LIB — 1991 CONS 1992 LIB - 1992 CONS f-conomic 39% — 60% 47% — 52% Social 50% — 48% 35% — 64% Foreign 62% — 36% 76% — 19% Votes of the 102d Congress I Ban Striker Replace FOR 5. Handgun Wait/7-Day AGN 9. Use Force in Gulf AGN * * for Homeownership AGN 6. Overseas Mil. AbortionAGN 10. US Mil. Abroad $ Cut FOR \ Tax Rich/Cut Mid Cls FOR 7. Obscn. Art NEA $ Ban FOR 11. Limit SDI Funds FOR 4 FY93/SI5BDef.Cut FOR 8. Death Pen. from Jury AGN 12. Cuba Trade Embargo AGN Minnesota - 1st District 1 Timothy J. Penny (D) Of New Richland — Elected 1982; 6th Term Born; Nov. 19, 1951, Albert Lea, Minn. Education: Winona State U., B.A. 1974: U. of Minnesota, 1975. Military Service: Naval Reserve, 1986-present. Occupation: Sales representative. Family: Wife, Barbara Christianson; four children. Religion: Lutheran. Political Career Minn. Senate, 1977-83. Capitol Office: 436 Cannon Bldg. 20515; 225-2472. In Washington: Throughout his career, from defense should be used to reduce the Penny has been preoccupied by the intractabil­ deficit, as required by the 1990 budget agree­ ity of federal fiscal problems and the unwilling­ ment. Republicans joined with Democratic defi­ ness of senior members of Congress to strike out cit hawks to reject the plan, giving Democratic in new directions. As a budget watchdog trying leaders an embarrassing defeat. to restrain the Democratic Party's inclinations Less than a year later, Penny and Sten­ toward generosity in spending, he often jousts holm led the clamor to alter President Clinton's with party leaders. He sealed his commitment $16.3 billion economic stimulus package. But to the cause in 1992 with his promise to leave the White House, fueled by what one Democrat Congress if the budget deficit is not cut in half called "good will and momentum," rebuffed by 1996. their efforts to trim the package, banking on When Penny and other like-minded bud­ the large Democratic majority in the House. get deficit "hawks" began their assaults on United Republican opposition in the Senate spending bills in the 1980s, it was easy for ultimately killed the bill. Democratic leaders to dismiss those efforts as Unlike Stenholm, Penny decided to vote quixotic adventures with no chance of affecting for the stimulus package. He said he informed policy. But as the economy and the size of the the White House that "some noses would be out deficit took greater prominence in the public of joint" if the Senate received the deal that debate in the 102nd and 103rd Congresses, a House conservatives craved. Good will and mo­ larger segment of the Democratic Caucus has mentum, Penny said, are finite commodities. joined the campaign for fiscal restraint. "You can only bank on that a couple of times." Penny, who considers himself a strong At a White House reception the morning after Democrat, tries to balance his readiness to the vote, according to The Washington Post, he challenge his party's leaders and their preroga­ told Clinton: "I hope you understand I voted tives against his own party loyalties.
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