Clinton cont.-
- Accomplishments-
- Brady Bill-
- people had to have background checks to be able to buy a gun
- Megan's Law-
- if a sex offender moves into your community people have to be notified
- Family and Medical leave act of 1993-
- required large employers to allow employes to take an unpaid leave for pregnancy or a serious medical condition
- Lowered taxes for low income families and raised taxes for the wealthiest americans
- Don't ask Don't tell-
- if your gay and in the military if they don't ask you don't tell
- DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act)-
- for federal purposes as the legal union of a man and woman
- Brady Bill-
- Scandals-
- Monica Lewinsky
- intern for Bill Clinton
- Senate voted to acquit the president
- Due to lying under oath about his "relationship" with Monica Lewinsky
- Failed to get his universal health care plan passed
- Whitewater scandal
- troopgrat
- Paula jones- settled for $850,000
- Battle of Mogadishu in somalia
- Osama Bin Lade AL-Qaeda bombing in africa
- Kosovo crisis in Yugoslavia
- bombed Iraq (Saddam Hussein) From 1998-2001
George W. Bush 43rd president 2001-2009
- Background-
- Born in New Haven, Connecticut
- Raised in Midland and Houston, Texas
- Grandfather was Prescott Bush, Senator from Connecticut
- Father George H. W. Bush
- Attended public school in Midland Texas till his family moved to Houston (after his seventh grade year) then he went to The Kinkaid School for 2 years
- Finished high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts
- Attend Yale form 1964-1968 graduated with an BA in history
- Was a cheerleader and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon
- Attended Harvard Business School in ’73
- Earned his Master of Business Administration
- Only President to have an MBA
- May ’68 Bush was commissioned into the Texas Air National Guard
- After 2 years of active duty service while training he was assigned to Houston, flying Convair F-120s with the 147th Reconnaissance Wing out of Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base
- Was honorably discharged from the Air Force Reserve on November 21. 1974
- Met Laura Bush at backyard barbecue in 1977
- They married on November 5, 77
- They had fraternal twins daughters Jenna and Barbara
- Became governor of Texas in ‘94
- Extended government funding for organizations providing education of the dangers of alcohol and drug use and abuse, and helping to reduce domestic violence
- Raised salaries of teachers and improved educational test scores
- ’99 helped make Texas eventually the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the US by signing a state law obliging electric retailers to buy a certain amount of energy from renewable sources (RPS)
- ’98 won re-election
- Became first governor in Texas history to be elected to 2 consecutive four-year terms
- In second term he promoted faith based organizations
- Elections-
- 2000-
- recount in Florida 3 times
- went against Al Gore
- Bush won
- 2004-
- John Carey
- Election campaign was to ban abortions
- John Carey was a catholic
- 2000-
- 9-11:
- Al-Qaeda
- four planes where took over
- One hit the world trade centers
- One hit the pentagon
- One went down in Pensivania
- Went to war in Afghanistan
- Took greater measures in security
- Patriot act
- War in Afghanistan-
- Tali-ban leader of the country
- invade in Oct. 2001
- rebuilt the infrastructure
- War in Iraq-
- Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse
- The Capture, Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein-
- thought that Iraq was getting nuclear weapons
- Capture Saddam Hussein in a hole
- Important that the Iraqi government tried him
- Was hung in 2006
- Civil war was going on in Iraq
- war in Iraq was ended in 2011
- 50% more attacks since pulling out
- Accomplishments-
- Bush Tax Cuts-
- Passed after US government straight years of budget surplus
- No child left behind act-
- Aimed to measure and close the gap between rich and poor students performance
- Provide options to parents with students in low performing schools
- Challenges-
- water boarding
- Bailing out the banks
- Bush Tax Cuts-
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