Clinton, President Bill

April. U.S. President Bill Clinton announces that the United States will stabilize greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000. 

Maya Angelo is one of the prolific poets of our time. She was invited to write and read the inaguration poem for president Bill Clinton. She is a fiiend and mentor to Oprah Winfrey and a champi on to the spirit of humanity. Notice her enthusiasm, determination, intelligence, and of course... high t-bars. 

After leaving the Senate in 1981, Nelson became counselor of the Wilderness Society, where he remained for the next 14 years. After retiring from that position in 1995, Nelson remained active in environmental organizations and programs, serving in 1995 as chairman of Earth Day XXV. In that year. Nelson gave 34 speeches in a three-month period to celebrate that occasion. In the same year, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton. 

At the opposite extreme. President Bill Clinton released a new report on climate change in November 2000 with the warning that "projected warming threatens serious harm to our environment and to our economy. ... 

November Congress passes and President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Flandgun Violence Prevention Act. This law establishes nationwide background checks and a five-day waiting period for all handgun purchases. 

January In his State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton calls on states to register handgun owners, requiring them to have a background check, photo ID, and proof that they meet safety requirements. The White House also announces it would seek 280 million in funding to enforce existing gun laws. 

July 6 Former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton appeal to President George W. Bush to take action to prevent the federal assault weapons han from lapsing. However, Congress is expected to end the current session without further action. 

Another ambiguous reply, recently newsworthy, is President Bill Clinton s self-serving definition of fellatio as not sex (but he was only a politician, not an artist-alchemist). 

Upon taking office President Bill Clinton initiates a modest shift away from drug law enforcement to treatment programs. However, five years later the ratio between enforcement and treatment will remain about 2 to 1. December 2 Pablo Escobar, most notorious of the Colombian drug lords, is killed in a shootout with Colombian police after they hone in on his cell phone. 

The FDA banned over-the-counter sales of GHB in 1990, making its use illegal except under strict guidelines and when monitored by a doctor. In February 2000, President Bill Clinton signed federal legislation (H.R. 213) that reclassified... 

The cost of health care became a hot public issue in the United States in the early 1990s. It swept an unknown, onetime university president named Harris Wofford into the Senate from Pennsylvania in 1991 and helped elect Bill Clinton president in 1992. Health insurance premiums were shooting up by double digits every year, some 37 million Americans didn t even have insurance, and if things kept on as they were, experts predicted, medical care would devour more than one-fourth of the gross national product by 2030. It was the rare case of an issue that seemed to unite both consumers, who couldn t afford to pay for health care, and business, which ended up being billed extra to pick up the unpaid charges of the uninsured. Some sort of national health care plan was a sure bet. 

In 1994, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12898, requiring all federal agencies to make achieving environmental justice part of their mission . The federal government s definition of environmental justice has two parts equal protection from environmental and health hazards, and equal access to the decision-making processes that create a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work. EJ is about fair treatment, and about expanding democracy to include everyone who is affected by a decision. 

President s Council for Sustainable Development in United States announced by President Bill Clinton. They publish Sustainable America A New Consensus for Prosperity, Opportunity, and a Healthy Environment for the Future in 1996. 

President Bill Clinton approves 1.3 billion aid pack-... 

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