Clinton, President

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. 

Like President Clinton, President George W. Bush pressed the banking agencies to encourage banks to make more loans to low-income borrowers as part of his promise to turn the nation into an ownership society. This policy combined with the Fed s efforts to stimulate the economy in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks to produce the unprecedented housing boom of the early 2000s. The volume of subprime loans increased from rq5 billion in 2001 to 625 billion in 2005. ... 

Protocol. In 1997, prior to President Clinton s acceptance of the Kyoto Protocol, U.S. Senate Resolution 98, the Byrd-Hcgcl resolution, which was passed by a vote of ninety-five to zero, imposes specific requirements that must be met before the Kyoto Protocol can be ratified. The resolution calls for a specific timeline and commitments by developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and evidence that adoption of the Kyoto Protocol would not result in serious harm to the U.S. economy. In addition, the Fifth Conference of the Parties (1999) failed to resolve numerous outstanding issues held over from the previous conference, and put off critical decision making until the Sixth Conference of the Parties in The Ffague, Netherlands, in November 2000. 

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

President Clinton to buy Nuclear Reactors from the United States. The entire press conference was organized by Laurie Cunnington, a very close friend of my family. This was the fourth time she has organized a press conference for our fora. The press conference was covered extensively in the October 30th and November 6lh issues of Nucleonics Week. There were articles in other papers and a report on National Public Radio (NPR). Because of its importance, I would like to include the white paper at this point. 

In 1998 President Clinton signed legislation intended to protect biomaterials manufacturers from frivolous liability suits. The Act protects from lawsuits the makers... 

In 1995 the Clinton Administration proposed placing the federally-owned Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve on the market as part of its efforts to reduce the size of government and return inherently non-fed-eral functions to the private sector. In 1996, the Congress passed and the President signed the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 containing authorization to proceed with the sale. In 1998 the Department of Energy sold Elk Hills to Occidental Petroleum for 3.65 Billion. 

On August 3, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). The new law required major changes in pesticide regulation and afforded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unprecedented opportunities to provide greater health and environmental protection, particularly for infants and children. The FQPA required the EPA to review the more than 9,700 tolerances established before August 3, 1996 (the... 

Final Report to President Clinton by the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and... 

Stephen Hoffman as CEO of Alios raised about 40 million of private funding before he and the current CEO, Michael Hart, did a tremendous job of taking the company public and raising 90 million. The public offering just made the window by a few dozen hours for an IPO, as the window quickly closed after President Clinton announced that the human genome sequence could not be patented. This news sent the biotechnology stock market plummeting. 

In 1997, President Clinton devoted one-quarter of his State of the Union address to education and issued a Call to Action for American Education. Among the several ambitious goals he set for the nation was to have a well-prepared teacher in every classroom (Clinton, 1997). President Clinton s successor, George W. Bush, also recognized the need to improve the quality of teaching and learning for all children. President Bush s No Child Left Behind initiative had a strong focus on mathematics and science (No Child Left Behind Act of 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. 

Clinton (not the U.S. president) Clinton has worked as a lab assistant in two drug testing lab s, and has other family members in the field. In Usenet, Clinton is known as ZZYZX. 

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. ... 

As Ellison and Mullin (1997, p. 9) noted, in February and March 1993, rumors circulated that the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force, which was operating in secrecy, was going to include regulation of drug prices in its plan. Such fears seemed supported by statements by President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton attacking the high prices of vaccines and other pharmaceuticals. ... 

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). 

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