Box 8

Contains "Workforce Literacy in the South" briefing materials; fact sheets; agenda; remarks by Harold Rogers; and "Meeting the Economic Challenge of the 1990s: Workforce Literacy in the South-A Report for the Sunbelt Institute," Richard A. Mendel, MDC, Inc., September 1988.

Contains schedules; agendas; budgets; letter of invitation to summit; biographical information of speakers and panelists; legislative proposals; Michael Andrews statement; summit questions; summit pamphlet; memoranda; and a journal article dealing with the April 6-7, 1989 Workforce Literacy Legislative Summit at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Correspondents include Sherri Watson; Harold Rogers; David E. Price; and Mrs. George H. W. Bush.

Contains background information; literacy symposium proposal; request to Harold Rogers to be co-chairman of the Task Force; contact and membership list; news releases; meeting agendas; legislative committee assignments; and journal article dealing with the Workforce Literacy Task Force. Correspondents include Karen M. Kedrowski (task force coordinator); Lindsay Thomas; E. Clay Shaw, Jr.; Harold Rogers; David E. Price; and John Lewis.

Contains request for David T. Kearns, Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Education to address the Task Force on Workforce Literacy concerning adult education and quality of the United States workforce; media advisory; breakfast meeting with Kearns briefing packet; Kearns biographical information; journal article; and news clipping. Correspondents include David E. Price; Harold Rogers; Lindsay Thomas; and E. Clay Shaw, Jr.

Contains background information for meeting with Secretary of Labor Robert Reich; news clippings; memoranda; copy of H. R. 440, H. R. 4050, S. 1951, and S. 1964 to establish career centers to retrain and re-employ laid off workers; re-employment legislation; report; journal article; follow up letters to meeting with Reich; labor statistics; and Re-employment Act of 1994 notes. Correspondents include David E. Price; Harold Rogers; and Carol Buckland (congressional fellow).

Contains skills training workshop information; brochures; and course syllabus for re-employment training. Correspondents include Joseph W. Westphal.

Contains pamphlet; statement; natural gas and oil pipeline issues; Sunbelt Energy Task Force meeting notes; radioactive waste management testimonies; and information on hydraulic fracturing operation in East Texas. Correspondents include Enron Liquid Fuels Company; Enron Corporation; and Dick Cheney.

Contains news clippings; steel issue contact list; steel reform proposal; concerns about removing VRAs; report; journal article; and Congressional Record excerpt. Correspondents include Joseph W. Westphal; E. Joseph Hillings, Enron Corporation; Kenneth L. Lay; and George H. W. Bush.

Contains letter signed by Sunbelt Caucus members requesting funding revision to the Department of Energy's WAP; and issues concerning H. R. 711 to re-authorize the WAP. Corespondents include Phil Sharp; and Mike Synar.

Contains Congressional Record excerpt; funding concerns for the development of clean coal technology; memorandum; hearing statements and testimonies; bulletin; report; hearing notes; Richard A. Wolfe biographical information; and research materials.