White House Daily Briefing

White House Press Secretary Michael McCurry announced that a provision of the 1994 Crime Bill became effective that day, which required the Bureau of Prisons to notify local law enforcement officials when a prisoner who had been convicted of a violent crime or drug trafficking was freed on supervised release. McCurry said that Surgeon General nominee Foster met today with students and residents at Children’s Hospital, which included a large number of his own former students who came in for the event. Media questions focused on these topics: the fall of the U.S. dollar; concern that the president was backing off the question of Jerusalem being open for a negotiated settlement; the timetable for organizing the president’s reelection campaign; the president’s opposition to tort reform; reforms that the president advocated besides the security law; the administration’s view on Senator Hatfield’s situation; a White House review on affirmative action; welfare reform; the White House position close