Four Main Principles
The Vice President's National Performance Review developed four main principles to guide its efforts to reinvent government:
Cut Government Back to Basics -- cut the size of the Federal work force and constantly find ways to make government work better and cost less -- reengineering how work is done and reexamining programs and processes.
The Clinton Administration has cut over 100,000 federal jobs already. In less than five years, the federal government civilian work force will drop by at least 272,900 -- the smallest it's been since the Kennedy Administration.
We've saved the American taxpayer $63 billion through reinventing government.
We're in the process of closing 1,200 U. S. Department of Agriculture offices.
Put Customers First. Changing government's culture by focusing on what matters to the people it serves.
For the first time, federal agencies have asked customers what they want and set more than 1,500 customer service standards.
The Social Security Administration will cut its response time to disability benefit claims from 155 days to 60 days.
Before President Clinton took office, millions of people did not receive their Social Security cards within five days. Now they do.
Before President Clinton took office, the Customs Service often took hours, even days, to move fresh flowers and fruit and other perishable cargo through its port in Miami. Today, the U.S. Customs Service international cargo clears within thirty minutes flat.
Cut Red Tape. Eliminate unnecessary paperwork, procedures and requirements for the federal government, its state and local partners and its customers.
The Small Business Administration shrank a 2-inch thick loan application down to 2 pages.
President Clinton has given 29 states the right to slash through federal regulations to reform their welfare systems.
Empower Employees. To get results -- remove layers of oversight, give front-line employees not only responsibility and accountability.
In 1994, the President signed into law the Procurement Bill, reinventing the federal government's procurement system.
Under the new system, thousands of employees will be able to purchase what they need immediately.
In a move to save billions of dollars, the Defense Department will free contractors from the burdensome mil specs, making greater use of commercial items and allowing more contractors to seek defense work: competition means better quality and prices.
Rebuilding America For A New Era
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