Ch 34.2THE CLINTON YEARS

1993-2000

• Clinton and the economy - high deficits gov’t borrow money drove up interest rates let’s lower rates

• Raise taxes to cut deficit Universal Healthcare –

sound familiar??Hillary headed task force

Opposed by small business, insurance co., doctors, Republicans

Never voted onhttps://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=06QZyJY_eec

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEhuQynsgCI

CLINTON’S AGENDA

Domestic policyFamily Med Leave Act – 12 wk unpaid leave

AmeriCorps – improve low-income areas through edu and environ

Brady Bill – waiting period for guns – What about now?

CLINTON’S AGENDA

Clinton popularity way down – taxes up, no health care fix GOP takeover in 1994; first time in 40 years

Gov’t shutdown – sound familiar??

Welfare Reform Act – no more than 2 years, have to work to get bennies

REPUBLICANS TAKE CONGRESS

Economic Boom – Clinton credited

Beats Bob Dole (R) easily

Inflation, unemployment, crime low; stocks, wages high

1997 balanced budget, ‘98 surplus – WHAT?? Current debt

Domestic spending – children are our future Cig ads, child healthcare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMLsB4w_UQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdyYynJNJo

‘96 ELECTION

Clinton accused of arranging illegal loans for private business

Att. Gen Janet Reno has Ken Starr look into it

Early ‘98 – relationship investigated by Starr, too Perjury and obstruction

of justiceFeb 12, 1999 – Senate

votes short to remove after House impeaches

THE SCANDAL

CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY

Haiti – revolution new rulers violent against opposition, UN trade embargo resultsHaitians want refuge in US, we

almost invade Haiti Jimmy Carter gets new Haitian leaders to step aside

CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY

Yugoslavia ‘91-’95 – civil war b/w Ortho Christian Serbs, Catholic Croatians, Bosnian MuslimsEthnic cleansing by Serbs – NATO attacks Serbs

Dayton Accords – peace agreement signed

CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY

War in Kosovo ‘98 – Serbs and AlbaniansSerbs mistreating Albanians, NATO bombs Serbia in ‘99

Serbs pull out of KosovoPersian Gulf War aftermath

Saddam still in power, threatening neighbors

US attacks Iraqi military targets

CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY

Israel and Palestine reach agreement in ‘93 - Declaration of PrinciplesDoesn’t last – PM of Israel assassinated ’95Oct 2000 – violence b/w Palestinians and Israeli soldiers

CLINTON’S PRESIDENCY

Clinton’s presidency tarnished by impeachment trial