Bill Clinton
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- BILL CLINTON.
- Background information
- 42nd President
- President from 1993 to 2001
- New Democrat
- Two term president
- Won 43 % of the vote against Bush in 1993
- Domestic and foreign policy
- "Don't ask don't tell" was a contreversial step to full gay military control
- Failed "Clinton Health Care Plan"
- Republican part won control of congress after this
- Successfully passed welfare reform
- Also successfully passed the "State Childrens Health Insurance Programme"
- Created the William J Clinton foundation
- Family and medical act of 1993
- Allows unpaid leave for pregnancy/serious illness
- 1993 announced his plan to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit
- North America Free Trade Agreement
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 cut taxes
- Adoption and safe families act
- Foster Care independent act
- Balanced budget act of 1997
- What were relationships like with the Supreme Court the Executive, and Congress?
- May 19 1993 he fired 7 employees of the White House Travel Office causing the "White House travel office" contreversy
- Impeachment
- The house voted to impeach him
- Lewinsky Scandal
- Lied about his relationship with House Intern Monia Lewinsky (Age 22)
- Perjury
- Sexual harasment claims
- Lied about his relationship with House Intern Monia Lewinsky (Age 22)
- Lame-duck session in 1997
- Democrat President, republican dominated Congress
- Many of his appointments were delayed or not approved
- His second term, the relationship became acrimonious
- Congress began a 5 year investigation of Clinton's involement in a real estate deal dating back to 1978
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