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The Case Against Clinton
Volume 1, Chapter 1

Clinton's Trail of Broken Promises

"[Bill Clinton] has kept the promises he meant to keep."
--Clinton adviser George Stephanopolous
(CNN's Larry King Live, 2/15/96)

"Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?"
--Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.)(Esquire, January, 1996)

BALANCING THE BUDGET

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"I would present a five-year plan to balance the budget."
--Bill Clinton (CNN's Larry King Live, 6/4/92)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

Clinton never submitted a five-year plan to balance the budget. Indeed,
Republicans had to drag him kicking and screaming to the table to agree to a
seven-year plan to balance the budget.

The first budget Clinton submitted in February of this year proposed an
almost 50 percent increase in federal spending between now and 2002 and
projected deficits of $200 billion to $300 billion and more, as far as the
eye could see (Congressional Budget Office). It went down to defeat in the
Senate on a vote of 99-0. Former Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), co-chairman of
the bipartisan anti-deficit Concord Coalition, said, "The budget which came
from the president said, `I've given up; that as long as I am president of
the United States, there will never be a balanced budget.' That is an
astonishing statement." --Sen. Paul Tsongas, press conference, 2/7/95

In March, Clinton killed the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution by
pressuring six Democrat senators who had previously voted for the amendment
to switch their votes and vote against it.

Clinton submitted a new budget in June of 1995, just as Republicans were
poised to pass the first balanced budget in 26 years. He claimed his new
budget reached balance in 10 years, but the nonpartisan Congressional Budget
Office said it didn't balance in 10 years, or ever. In fact, it would have
produced a deficit of $209 billion in 2005 -- a deficit higher than we have
today. Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska said the White House "cooked
the numbers" (The Washington Times, 6/26/95), and The Washington Post
editorialized on 6/20/95 that Clinton had "converted a fiscal problem into a
credibility problem."

No Democrat would even introduce Clinton's so-called balanced budget for a
vote, and when a Republican did, it was defeated in the Senate 96-0.

On November 20, 1995, the Republican-led Congress passed and sent to the
president's desk the first balanced budget in 26 years. But on December 6,
1995, Bill Clinton -- the candidate who had promised a balanced budget --
vetoed it.

Clinton would submit a total of five different FY 96 budgets before he
finally came up with one that balanced using honest numbers, according to
CBO. But even it was a status-quo plan which contained the standard liberal
fare of more taxes, more spending and no entitlement reform. The Washington
Post (1/9/96) editorialized that the president's latest budget would "achieve
all kinds of things, but a balanced budget is likely not among them."

CAMPAIGN FINANCING

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"[I will] end the unlimited `soft' money contributions that are funneled
through national, state, and local parties to presidential candidates."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p. 46)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

"[Clinton's] appearance at [a] Democratic National Committee dinner was
picketed by Common Cause. The group is upset that Clinton's performance in
pushing campaign reform has not matched his rhetoric and that his party has
outraised the GOP in the large `soft money' donations he promised to end."
--The Washington Post, 6/24/94

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"American politics is being held hostage by big money interests. ...[C]liques
of $100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. ...We believe
it's long past time to clean up Washington."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p. 45)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

"The Democratic National Committee is offering to sell private dinners with
President Clinton ...and other forms of exclusive access to senior officials
to party donors willing to pony up $100,000 or more."
--Los Angeles Times, 7/7/95

CHINA

Candidate Clinton's Promise

When asked during the campaign if he would cut off Most Favored Nation (MFN)
status for China, Bill Clinton responded: "Absolutely. Most Favored Nation
status, I would. Look he let -- he let his friendship with the leaders in
China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in
Tiananmen Square, and I think it was wrong."
--Bill Clinton (NBC debate, 12/15/91)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

In May 1993 Clinton "formally gave China a one-year extension of MFN, but
said it would be the last time unless China improves its human rights record.
`...I think standing up for American values, and values in China, is the way
to go.' "
--Bill Clinton (The Associated Press, 5/31/93)

In May 1994, Clinton extended MFN once again, saying "I am moving, therefore,
to delink human rights from the annual extension of Most Favored Nation
trading status for China."
--Bill Clinton (The Associated Press, 5/26/94)

Clinton also extended MFN to China in 1995.

CONGRESSIONAL STAFF CUTS

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"I'll...send a budget that will cut congressional staffs the same [25
percent]."
--Bill Clinton, speech to the National Association of Manufacturers,
Washington, D.C., 6/24/92

President Clinton's Broken Promise

Within days after Clinton's election as president, the Democratic
congressional leadership convinced Clinton to back away from this pledge.
Clinton explained his back tracking by saying: "...the Congress took a cut
last year... I'm going to ...continue to work with Congress. I hope we can
keep the downward trend... But they did take a cut last year..."
--Bill Clinton, news conference, Little Rock, Ark., 11/16/92

On 10/3/95 Clinton vetoed a bill passed by the Republican Congress that cut
the overall congressional budget nearly 10 percent and cut committee staff
budgets up to 30 percent.

CRIME

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"[I will] fight crime by putting 100,000 new police officers on the streets."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p. 72)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

Clinton claims his crime bill puts 100,000 new police offices on the streets,
but the reality is quite different:

"The program would never have supplied enough to pay salary, benefits,
pensions and other costs, so the cities would have had to come up with a lot
of upfront money many say they don't have."
--The Washington Post, 2/14/95

"It's not 100,000 fully funded police officers. It never has been that."
--Former House Speaker Tom Foley (CNN's Evans & Novak, 8/27/94)

"[T]he `100,000 cops' provision of the 1994 crime bill is riddled with phony
cost estimates. Simple math shows that the $8.8 billion would fully fund
100,000 cops but only for little more than one year. Nor is there any
guarantee that the cops would actually be on the streets."
--John J. DiIulio Jr., professor of politics at Princeton and director of the
Brookings Institution's Center for Public Management (The Wall Street
Journal, 2/15/95)

These predictions have come true. A recent General Accounting Office (GAO)
investigation found that 58 percent of law enforcement jurisdictions did not
even apply for the COPS program. "Cost factors were the primary reason
jurisdictions chose not to apply" (GAO report, 10/25/95).

DEFENSE/NATIONAL SECURITY

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"Our [administration's] cut is $60 billion more over five years than the Cold
War budget the Bush administration still advocates."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, pp. 133-134)

"Although President Bush's present plans for defense reductions do reduce our
conventional force structure, I believe we can go further without undermining
our core capabilities."
--Bill Clinton, speech at Georgetown University, 12/12/91

Clinton didn't just cut $60 billion. He cut at least $127 billion. Rep. John
Kasich (R-Ohio) noted: "It has become evident that there are really two
Clinton defense budgets. The Clinton campaign budget called for about $60
billion in cuts... The second Clinton defense budget is a far more radical
proposal that is before us now."
--Columbus Dispatch, 4/5/93

President Clinton's Broken Promise

The Clinton administration reduced defense spending to the point where even
Clinton's own Department of Defense had to admit there was a defense budget
gap. Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch testified before Congress that the
Department was short at least $40 billion in funds needed to implement its
mission, as set by Clinton in his 1993 "Bottom-Up Review" (The Associated
Press, 9/21/94). Independent studies by both the General Accounting Office
(GAO) and CBO placed the shortfall at $65 billion to $150 billion.
--National Security Revitalization Act, 2/9/95

One month before the new Republican Congress took over vowing to reverse
Clinton's draconian cuts, Clinton reversed course and asked Congress to "add
an additional $25 billion to our planned defense budgets over the next six
years."
--Bill Clinton, speech at the Rose Garden, 12/1/94

ETHICS

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"[I promise] the most ethical administration in the history of the Republic."
--Bill Clinton, as quoted by Mary McGrory ( The Washington Post, 1/24/93)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic?

* Clinton himself is under investigation by an independent counsel looking
into his and his wife's Whitewater land dealings in Arkansas and White House
cover-ups concerning his conduct. He is the subject of a pending sexual
harassment suit. The Clintons also had to pay $14,615 in back taxes owed from
1980 federal and Arkansas tax returns.

* Three of Clinton's current or former cabinet officials, Ron Brown, Henry
Cisneros and Mike Espy, are being investigated by independent counsels for
various unethical transactions.

* Numerous high administration officials have resigned under a cloud. White
House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum and two high-ranking Treasury officials
resigned when it was learned there had been a "heads up" meeting at which
Treasury officials had improperly funneled information to the White House
regarding the Whitewater inquiry. Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell,
Clinton's selfdescribed "best friend," resigned and went to prison for false
billings of $400,000 at the Rose law firm.

* The Travelgate scandal rocked the administration in its first few months.
The White House fired seven long-time employees of the White House Travel
Office and replaced them with a Clinton cousin. The White House improperly
called in the FBI to justify the firings. Two years later, a memo surfaced
written by former White House aide David Watkins showing Hillary Clinton had
played a larger role in the Travel Office firings than the White House had
previously claimed (The Wall Street Journal, 1/5/96).

The fired Travel Office director, Billy Dale, was acquitted of the trumped up
charges after only two hours of jury deliberation. But the two-year ordeal to
clear his name cost him a half-million dollars in legal fees (House
Government Reform and Oversight Committee, 1/4/96).

* Other Clinton appointees have been called on the carpet for misusing
taxpayer funds in their departments. Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary's
extravagant travel habits are currently under investigation by the General
Accounting Office, and she was also reprimanded for spending $46,500 of
taxpayers' money to compile a list of the news media and members of Congress
who have portrayed her department negatively (The Wall Street Journal,
11/9/95, and The Washington Times, 11/11/95). Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Jesse Brown has also been questioned about his travel expenses home and for
attaching to employees' paychecks political statements opposing the
Republican budget (The Washington Times, 11/7/95).

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"During the 1980s the White House staff routinely took taxpayers for a ride
to play golf or bid on rare stamps -- This betrayal of democracy must stop."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p. 24)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

David Watkins, Clinton's director of White House administration, commandeered
Marine One, the president's helicopter, so he and other White House aides
could fly to play golf at a country club just one-hour's drive outside
Washington. The joyride cost taxpayers more than $13,000 (The Washington
Times, 5/29/94).

And it's not just the White House staff that has taken taxpayers for a ride.

On May 17, 1993, Air Force One idled for 56 minutes at Los Angeles
International Airport -- the world's third busiest airport -- while the
president received a $200 haircut from Cristophe of Beverly Hills. It blocked
ground traffic and closed two runways, but White House aide George
Stephanopolous defended Clinton's actions: "I mean, the president has to get
his hair cut. Everybody has to get their hair cut. The president and his
family have a personal services contract with Cristophe to cover all things
like this... It covers things like make-up and hair and they just pay for
it."
--The Washington Times, 5/21/93

"For the quickest descent into the ethical quagmire, the Clinton
administration has set a new indoor record."
--Howard Kurtz ( The Washington Post, 3/26/95)

"[The White House is] so shoddy, so saturated with petty manipulations,
snooping and spying, rampant cronyism and tacky deceits that it makes you
cringe."
--David Broder (The Washington Post, 7/14/93)

"With so many high-ranking presidential appointees having run afoul of the
rules -- if not the law -- voters have a right to wonder if the
administration is worthy of their trust."
--San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/26/95

FIRST 100 DAYS

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"I want to have a team established that can hit the ground running... I want
one of those great 100 days in which Congress would adopt my health care and
education policies, my energy and economic initiatives, and where the private
sector would become engaged in a whole new partnership to make this country
great again."
--Bill Clinton (Fortune, 5/4/92)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

"People of the press are expecting [us] to have some 100-day program. We
never ever had one."
--Dee Dee Myers, White House press secretary, 1/12/93

"If any one thing stands out about Mr. Clinton's first 100 days, it is the
ever-lengthening string of campaign promises broken during that short time --
from vows not to raise middle class taxes to promised deficit reduction. The
policies of the `new Democrat' Americans thought they voted for in November
have turned out to be much like the agenda of the old Democrats in
Washington."
--The Arizona Republic, 4/29/93

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"I intend to offer, within the first 100 days of taking office, a
comprehensive health care plan..."
--Bill Clinton, town meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., 9/9/92

President Clinton's Broken Promise

Clinton did not even introduce his plan for a government-run health care
system until September 22, 1993 -- 245 days after assuming office. His
proposal was so unpopular it never reached a vote on the floor of either the
House or the Senate.

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"We've got to quit having the federal government try to micromanage health
care."
--Bill Clinton, address to employees of Merck Pharmaceuticals, Rahway, N.J.,
9/24/92

President Clinton's Broken Promise

"An association of U.S. hospitals says its study has found the Clinton health
care reform plan would create 59 new government offices staffed by nearly
100,000 new government workers."
--United Press International, 3/8/94

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"[My health care plan] does not require new taxes."
-- Bill Clinton, address to employees of Merck Pharmaceuticals, Rahway, N.J.,
9/24/92

President Clinton's Broken Promise

The Clintons' plan included, among other things, a giant payroll tax on
businesses of up to 7.9 percent of payroll (CBO'S Analysis of the
Administration's Health Proposal, 2/94). By comparison, the combined medicare
payroll tax is only 2.9 percent.

CBO estimated the new public entities, the health alliances, would have had
to collect $1.4 trillion in premiums by the year 2000 (CBO's Analysis of the
Administration's Health Proposal, 2/94). "Imposing health-care premiums on
businesses that do not now offer insurance to their employees is no different
from raising taxes" (Newsweek, 9/20/93).

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"Our health-care plan is simple in concept but revolutionary in scope.
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p.21, 1992)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

"Complexity: Undoubtedly complexity is the greatest liability of the Clinton
[health-care] plan. It is hard to believe that health-care simplifications
will come from a national health board, a global budget, regional health
alliances and provider networks. Absent an understandable explanation, this
maze appears to be a new bureaucracy aborning, one that will control patient
care."
--The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 9/23/93

LOBBYING

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"We will require all top appointees to sign a pledge that, if they work in
our Administration, they will refrain from lobbying government agencies
within their responsibilities for five years after leaving office."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p. 26)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

"A year after President-elect Bill Clinton promised to stop the revolving
door between government and lobbying, he has left it open for two White House
aides [Roy Neel and Howard Pastor] to become highly paid lobbying
executives."
--The New York Times, 12/8/93

MEDICARE

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"[Our Administration will] preserve and protect Medicare benefits."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p. 141)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

The Medicare trustees, including three Clinton cabinet officials, issued
reports three successive years (1993, 1994 and 1995) warning of the looming
bankruptcy of the Medicare trust fund. Clinton refused to work with
Republicans in Congress on developing a plan to save Medicare. Instead, he
and Democrats in Congress engaged in a MediScare campaign designed to
misinform and frighten seniors about the Republican plan.

The "Mediscare exaggerations have made Chicken Little look like the soul of
restraint."
--Louisville Courier-Journal, 9/28/95

While Clinton claims the Republican plan would "destroy" Medicare, the
difference between Medicare spending per senior in Clinton's budget vs.
Medicare spending per senior under the Republican balanced budget is only
$137 a year, per senior in the last year of the budget cycle 2002. In two of
the seven years the Republican budget actually spends more per senior than
Clinton's budget.

"The Congressional Budget Office says Medicare spending would total $1.65
trillion in the next seven years under the Republican plan, while the Clinton
Administration says spending would total $1.68 trillion under its plan. That
is a difference of $30 billion, or less than 2 percent."
--The New York Times, 12/11/95

MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a
plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax
cut..."
--Bill Clinton, television advertisement, 1/16/92

President Clinton's Broken Promise

Not only did Clinton fail to deliver on a middle class tax cut, he imposed
the largest tax increase in American history. Middle-class Americans were
socked with:

* A $23 billion gas tax.
--The New York Times, 8/8/93

* A $25 billion tax on Social Security recipients with incomes over $34,000.
--The New York Times, 8/8/93

* A huge retroactive tax hike on small-business men and women.

While Clinton claims he only raised taxes on the "rich," IRS data from 1993
shows that 87 percent of individual tax returns showing income of $200,000 or
more were filed by small businesses (Investors Business Daily, 2/21/96).

Clinton later called passage of his 1993 economic plan that raised taxes: "a
great moment for me."
--Bill Clinton (CNN News, 4/13/95)

But on October 17, 1995, at a fundraiser in Houston, Texas, Clinton admitted
his tax increase was a huge mistake:

"Probably there are people in this room still mad at me at that budget
because you think I raised your taxes too much. It might surprise you to know
that I think I raised them too much, too."
--Bill Clinton (Reuters, 10/17/95)

While he later blamed the remark on his failure to follow his mother's
admonition to never give a speech after 7 o'clock when he was tired, the
truth is, Clinton had made similar remarks on three previous occasions that
same week.

"What we had to do was to work through our budget and figure out how to cut
the deficit by $500 billion with Democratic votes only...which meant,
compared to what I wished, there was a little more tax on upper-income
people, and a little less cuts than I wanted."
--Bill Clinton (Congress Daily, 10/12/95)

"I had to raise your taxes more and cut spending less than I wanted to..."
--Bill Clinton, remarks to the Business Council, Williamsburg, Va., 10/13/95

"[W]e had to raise taxes on a lot of you more than we wanted to and we had to
cut spending less."
--Bill Clinton, Clinton/Gore fundraiser, Dallas, Texas, 10/16/95

MILITARY READINESS

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"During our first year in office, we undertook a fundamental review from the
bottom up of our nation's defense capacity and our strategy... I directed
that our Armed Forces be ready to face two major regional conflicts occurring
almost simultaneously."
--Bill Clinton, Rose Garden ceremony, 12/1/94

President Clinton's Broken Promise

"When the military has been reduced to the force planned by the Bottom-Up
Review [Clinton defense program], it will not be able to fight two wars at
once for at least several years, according to Defense Secretary William
Perry."
--Navy Times, 7/25/94

The Clinton administration reduced defense spending to the point where there
was not enough money to meet even the goals of the "Bottom-Up Review." Deputy
Defense Secretary John Deutch testified before Congress the department was
short at least $40 billion in funds needed to implement its mission, as set
in the "Bottom-Up Review" (The Associated Press, 9/21/94). Independent
studies by both the General Accounting Office (GAO) and CBO placed the
shortfall at $65 billion to $150 billion.
--National Security Revitalization Act, 2/9/94

QUOTAS

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"[I will] oppose racial quotas."
--Bill Clinton (Putting People First, p. 64)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

Democrat columnist and author Ben Wattenberg in his book Values Matter Most
(which Clinton praised in a lengthy interview with the author) paints a
picture of the Clinton administration as favoring quotas from the outset. He
writes: "...President Clinton began to look like President Bean Counter by
appointing an administration to look like America, rather than to think like
America. It got worse." (p. 299)

"Just about every other [Clinton] appointee in charge of the various civil
rights bureaucracies within government came from the activist ranks of the
quota-pushers," writes Wattenberg (p. 300), and he describes Mary Frances
Berry, Clinton's pick for chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, as
"the all-time, all-star quintessential queen of the quotacrats." It was
Berry, notes Wattenberg, who once wrote, "civil rights laws were not passed
to give civil rights to all Americans ...[but only] to disfavored groups
[such as] blacks, Hispanics and women." (p. 301)

Roger Kennedy, Clinton's National Park Service director, issued a memorandum
that stated, "Surely, we must be able to find a use for a Swahili-speaking
person who has Peace Corps experience, is a cum laude in English from Harvard
and has a biological background in data manipulation... Unfortunately, Mr.
Trevor is white, which is too bad."
--The Washington Post, 9/13/94

The Clinton administration has also come down on the side of quotas and
preferences in a number of high-profile cases.

* Clinton's Justice Department supported a New Jersey school board in the
case of Sharon Taxman, a white teacher in New Jersey, who had filed reverse
discrimination suit against the school board for giving job preference to a
black teacher who was equally qualified.
--The Newark Star-Ledger, 1/22/95

* When the University of California Board of Regents eliminated admissions,
preferences and quotas, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta threatened to
cut off all federal funding: "Obviously we're going to be reviewing our
contract laws and the provision of resources to that state."
--CBS' "Face the Nation," 7/23/95

REGULATION

Candidate Clinton's Promise

"We need to radically restructure government to...reduce unnecessary
rulemaking and bureaucracy..."
--Bill Clinton (CNN's "Morning News," 11/20/91)

President Clinton's Broken Promise

In its first three years, the Clinton administration generated 188,725 pages
in the Federal Register, which lists all new and proposed federal
regulations. That represents the largest number of pages generated in any
three year period since the Carter administration (Office of the Federal
Register, 3/96).

* Visit www.rnc.org for more broken promises on reinventing government,
Social Security, spending cuts, Vietnam, welfare reform and White House
staff cuts.

The Clinton Calendar:
Day by day,
scandal by scandal,
flip-flop by flip-flop ...
why three years seems like a lifetime

1/20/93
Bill Clinton inaugurated presidentcelebration costs approximately $25
million. The Federal Protective Service later discovers at least $154,000
worth of radios, computers, televisions, VCRs, walkie-talkies and pagers were
stolen by Clinton inauguration employees and volunteers.

1/21/93
Clinton breaks his first promise: to introduce his legislative program by the
day after his inauguration.

1/22/93
Clinton abolishes the Competitiveness Council even though its regulatory
reform promised to save taxpayers $20 billion annually and create 200,000
jobs.

Clinton lifts ban on fetal tissue research.

Nannygate: Attorney Generalnominee Zoe Baird withdraws after admitting she
hired illegal aliens and neglected to pay their social security taxes.

1/25/93
Hillary Clinton is named to run Clinton's health care reform task force,
which the White House says will cost taxpayers $100,000. (See 11/9/95.)

2/5/93
Nannygate II: Kimba Wood withdraws her name for nomination as attorney
general after it's disclosed she employed an undocumented worker.

2/9/93
Clinton halts drug testing for White House staff.

Although he had promised to wage war on drugs, Clinton eliminates 83 percent
of the staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

2/17/93
Clinton announces economic plan, widely recognized as a government-growth
package with $359 billion in increased taxes and feesbreaking his campaign
promise to lower taxes for the middle class.

2/24/93
"In its first major Supreme Court case, the Clinton administration is
preparing to defend a Haitian refugee policy [of returning the refugees to
Haiti] that the president had called illegal during the campaign." (USA
Today)

2/28/93
Federal agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco , Texas. Four agents
and five Davidians die in the gun battle; a 51-day standoff begins. (See
4/19/93.)

3/15/93
Clinton's pork-barrel economic stimulus package is introduced in the Senate.
(See 4/21/93.)

4/2/93
Clinton holds a summit to end the logging crisis caused by the protection of
the spotted owla crisis that has yet to end.

4/8/93
Clinton proposes a new 12.5 percent gross royalty tax on mining.

4/19/93
FBI agents launch tear gas into the Waco compound; 75 Branch Davidians
(including 25 children) die in the ensuing fire. (See 5/2/95.)

4/21/93
Clinton's pork-barrel stimulus package defeated by Republicans in the Senate.

4/29/93
First 100-day mark: Clinton has failed to initiate even one of the programs
he promised.

Clinton nominates "Quotacrat" Lani Guinier as assistant attorney general for
civil rights at the Justice Department. (See 6/3/93.)

5/18/93
Hair Force One: Clinton gets $200 haircut from Cristophe on Air Force One,
shutting down two runways at Los Angeles International Airport for an hour at
an estimated cost to airlines of $76,000.

5/19/93
Travelgate begins: White House fires seven long-term travel office employees
and hires Clinton's cousin Catherine Cornelius.

5/25/93
Travelgate: Pay and benefits are reinstated for five of the seven employees
fired. All five are rehired to other government jobs. The prosecution of
White House Travel Director Billy Dale for allegedly taking kickbacks
continues. (See 11/16/95.)

6/3/93
Clinton withdraws nomination of Lani Guinier.

7/19/93
Clinton announces his "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy regarding gays in the
military.

7/20/93
Vincent Foster, White House deputy legal counsel, commits suicide.

8/4/938/23/93
Three State Department officials resign in protest of Clinton's policy toward
Bosnia.

8/5/938/6/93
Without a single Republican vote, House and Senate Democrats pass Clinton's
budget proposal for the largest tax increase in history. (See 8/10/93.)

8/9/93
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt announces the administration plan to
raise grazing fees 130 percent. (See 5/31/95.)

8/10/93
Clinton signs largest tax increase in history, raising taxes by almost $280
billion over five years.

9/17/93
Justice Department files a brief with the Supreme Court advocating a looser
standard of child pornography in the Knox pornography case. (See 11/4/93.)

9/22/93
Clinton unveils his government-run health care system.
(See 10/6/93.)

9/23/93
Whitewater: Former Arkansas Municipal Court Judge David Hale indicted for
defrauding the federal government by misrepresenting Capital Management's
paid-in capital. (See 3/22/94.)

10/3/93
Eighteen U.S. soldiers killed and 78 wounded in an attack in Somalia after
the Defense Department denies request to send armored vehicles and Blackhawk
helicopters for backup. (See 12/15/93.)

10/5/93
As part of his government takeover of health care, Clinton proposes changes
in Medicare and Medicaid: "Today, Medicaid and Medicare are going up three
times the rate of inflation. We propose to let it go up at two times the rate
of inflation. This is not a Medicaid or Medicare cut...So when you hear all
this business about cuts, let me caution you that that is not what is going
on." (See 9/15/95.)

10/6/93
Clinton's top economist, Laura Tyson, admits, "There are some aspects of the
[Clinton health] plan that discourage employment." (See 1/25/94.)

10/7/93
Clinton announces he will withdraw all combat personnel from Somalia.

10/11/93
USS Harlan turned back by a gang of club-wielding thugs at Port-au-Prince,
Haiti.

11/4/93
The Senate passes an amendment, 1000, criticizing the Clinton
administration's proposed loosening of child pornography laws.

11/8/93
Deputy Secretary of State Clifton Wharton becomes the first high-ranking
member of Clinton's struggling foreign policy team to quit.

11/17/93
House Republicans help pass NAFTA, 234200.

December '93

12/8/93
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggests studying the legalization of drugs.
(See 8/31/94.)

12/15/93
Taking the fall for Clinton's lack of a coherent foreign policy, Defense
Secretary Les Aspin resigns after the fatal decision to deny tank support to
troops in Somalia.

January '94

1/94
Troopergate: The American Spectator publishes article detailing claims by two
Arkansas state troopers who facilitated extramarital affairs by then-Gov.
Clinton. (See 2/11/94.)

1/12/94
Clinton agrees to bipartisan demands for a Whitewater special counsel.

1/18/94
Saying he didn't have a "comfort level" with Clinton, Defense
Secretarydesignate Bobby Ray Inman withdraws his name from nomination.

1/20/94
An independent counsel is named to investigate the Clintons' personal,
political and business finances in the 1980s, including their role in the
Whitewater Development Corporation.

1/25/94
Clinton waves pen, vowing to veto anything less than universal health care
coverage. (See 2/8/94.)

1/27/94
After repeated conflicts with Attorney General Janet Reno due to differences
in "management styles," Deputy Attorney General Philip B. Heymann resigns.

2/2/94
House defeats Clinton-backed motion to elevate Environmental Protection
Agency to Cabinet-level position.

2/3/94
Clinton lifts Vietnam trade embargo.

2/8/94
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the Clintons' health plan would
increase deficit by $74 billion rather than decrease it by $59 billion as the
Clintons had promised. (See 7/21/94.)

2/11/94
Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones alleges then-Gov. Clinton sexually
harassed her.

3/5/94
Criticized for interfering in the Whitewater investigation, White House
Counsel Bernard Nussbaum resigns.

3/14/94
Under investigation for overbilling clients, mail fraud and tax evasion,
Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell resigns. (See 12/6/94.)

3/18/94
Press questions Hillary Clinton's $100,000 "profit" in cattle futures.

3/21/94
A U.S. District Court judge rules that Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan was
drafted in violation of open meeting laws.

3/22/94
David Hale, who has implicated Clinton in a Whitewater-related dispute,
pleads guilty to conspiracy and mail fraud.

3/31/94
Clinton signs Goals 2000 law, creating new education bureaucracies and
facilitating federal control of local education institutions.

4/11/94
The Clintons pay $14,615 in back taxes owed from 1980 federal and Arkansas
tax returns.

5/6/94
Paula Jones files $700,000 sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton. (See
6/28/94.)

5/26/94
White House administrator David Watkins resigns after using the presidential
helicopter, at a cost to taxpayers of $13,000, for a golf outing.

Clinton flip-flops on China policy and delinks "most favored nation" trade
status from human rights.

6/21/94
Clinton unveils welfare "reform," which advocates spending more money,
contains weak work requirements and ignores illegitimacy. (See 10/26/95.)

6/28/94
Clinton, for the first time in the history of the presidency, sets up a legal
defense fund to solicit funds to cover his legal fees related to the
Whitewater investigation and sexual harassment lawsuit.

7/21/94
Democrat congressional leaders travel to the White House to tell Clinton his
health care plan is dead.

7/22/94
Clinton launches Health Security Express bus tour (a.k.a. "The Phony
Express") to try to revive support for health plan. (See 8/10/94.)

7/25/94
Federal judge orders trial to determine if Hillary Clinton's heath care task
force illegally operated in secret. (See 12/21/94.)

7/26/94
The House opens hearings on Whitewater scandal.

7/29/94
General Accounting Office issues report criticizing the $150 billion in cost
overruns, unrealistic savings assumptions and rising personnel costs in
Clinton's defense plan.

7/29/94
The Senate opens hearings on Whitewater scandal.

8/5/94
Clinton's pollster advises Democrat candidates to distance themselves from
Clinton.

8/9/94
Attorney General Janet Reno asks for an independent counsel to investigate
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy for accepting gifts from companies regulated
by his department. (See 10/3/94.)

8/10/94
CBO reports the Clinton health care bill would cost more than $1 trillion in
its first eight years.

8/11/94
Clinton suffers a major defeat when the rule needed to bring his crime bill
to the floor for a vote in the House is defeated. (See 9/13/94.)

8/17/94
Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman resigns amid charges of lying to
Congress in his testimony concerning Whitewater/Resolution Trust Corporation
(RTC) investigation.

8/18/94
Treasury Counsel Jean Hanson resigns amid charges that she briefed the White
House on Whitewater/RTC investigation.

8/31/94
After her son was sentenced to prison for 10 years for selling cocaine,
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders remarks, "I don't feel that was a crime."

9/6/94
Gallup poll finds Clinton disapproval rating at 54 percent, his highest since
taking office.

9/12/94
Clinton swears in first AmeriCorps volunteers, promising each will cost
taxpayers only $17,600. The program is later revealed to cost taxpayers
$26,000 per "volunteer."

9/13/94
Clinton crime bill, containing almost $7 billion in pork-barrel spending
(such as midnight basketball), signed into law.

9/22/94
Justice Department says it's investigating whether Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Henry Cisneros lied to the FBI about payments he made
to his former mistress. (See 3/13/95.)

10/3/94
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy resigns amid charges he accepted gifts and
perks barred by federal ethics laws and rules.

11/8/94
Tidal Wave: GOP gains 52 seats in the House and eight in the Senate, winning
control of Congress for the first time since 1954. GOP picks up 11
governorships and 19 new majorities in state legislative chambers. Not one
incumbent Republican governor, senator or representative loses.

11/9/94
Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby switches to the Republican Party.

11/14/94
Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) announces he will not run for re-election.

12/6/94
Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell pleads guilty. (See
8/7/95.)

12/9/94
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after suggesting schoolchildren
should be taught how to masturbate.

12/21/94
Health care task force court case declared moot because the White House
finally agrees to release all documents pertaining to the task force. (See
8/11/95.)

1/9/95
Sen. Bennett Johnston (D-La.) announces he will not run for re-election.

1/15/95
Labor Secretary Robert Reich announces Clinton "is against simply balancing
the budget." (See 6/13/95.)

2/2/95
Dr. Henry Foster Jr. nominated surgeon general; controversy erupts over his
conflicting accounts of the number of abortions he performed. (See 6/22/95.)

2/6/95
Clinton submits his first FY '96 budget, containing around $200 billion in
deficits for each of the next three years. (See 5/19/95.)

2/12/95
The Los Angeles Times reveals Veterans Affairs Secretary Jesse Brown made 20
trips at taxpayers' expense to his hometown of Chicagorarely attending any
official events.

2/19/95
The Justice Department begins investigating Commerce Secretary Ron Brown for
violation of tax and financial disclosure laws and whether he took money from
people seeking to influence him. (See 5/17/95.)

3/3/95
Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell switches to the Republican Party.

3/13/95
Attorney General Janet Reno concludes HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros made
yearly payments to his mistress of between $42,000 and $60,000contradicting
Cisneros' claim to the FBI that his yearly payments totaled no more than
$10,000. (See 5/24/95.)

3/16/95
Sen. Jim Exon (D-Neb.) announces he will not run for re-election.

3/21/95
A bipartisan letter from the House Government Reform and Oversight
subcommittee on regulatory affairs charges the Environmental Protection
Agency and its administrator, Carol M. Browner, with violating the federal
Anti-Lobbying Act by faxing unsolicited material opposing the
Republican-sponsored regulatory reform package to various corporations and
public-interest groups.

3/29/95
Sen. Howell Heflin (D-Ala.) announces he will not run for re-election.

4/3/95
The Medicare Board of Trustees, which includes three members of Clinton's own
Cabinet, releases report stating Medicare will go bankrupt in seven years;
Clinton ignores the report, refusing to work with Congress to save Medicare.

4/8/95
Breaking his campaign promise to end "soft-money" contributions, Clinton
attends a $50,000-a-couple dinner in California. (See 7/5/95.)

4/10/95
Georgia Rep. Nathan Deal switches to the Republican Party.

4/13/95
Clinton refers to passage of his tax increasethe largest in America's
historyas "a great moment for me." (See 10/17/95.)

4/18/95
Clinton boosts T-shirt sales by declaring: "The president is relevant."

4/21/95
Sen. David Pryor (D-Ark.) announces he will not run for re-election.

4/24/95
Ignoring past presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and
Jimmy Carter, Clinton claims he is "the only president who knew something
about agriculture when [he] got there."

5/2/95
Attorney General Janet Reno promotes Larry Pottswho coordinated the Waco raid
and was censured for his role in the 1992 Ruby Ridge, Idaho, shootoutto
deputy director of the FBI. (See 7/14/95.)

5/17/95
An independent counsel is appointed to investigate Commerce Secretary Ron
Brown.

5/19/95
Clinton's first budget is defeated in the Senate, 990.

In a New Hampshire radio interview, Clinton says a balanced budget "can be
done in seven years." Moments later he says, "I think it clearly can be done
in less than 10 years." (See 5/23/95.)

5/22/95
The Supreme Court, in a 54 decision, invalidates term limits passed by
Arkansas and 22 other states after the Clinton administration intervened
against term limits.

Rep. Ray Thornton (D-Ark.) announces he will not run for re-election.

5/23/95
Clinton now says "the seven-year period [for a balanced budget] is an
arbitrary period." (See 10/19/95.)

Clinton announces: "From the beginning of my campaign for president, I said
that the one thing I did not think we should do is to send American troops
into combat into Bosnia." (See 9/15/95.)

5/24/95
An independent counsel is named to investigate if the lies HUD Secretary
Henry Cisneros told to the FBI constitute a felony.

5/31/95
Clinton admits he made a "mistake" in proposing to raise grazing fees 130
percent.

6/8/95
Whitewater: Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker is indicted on three felony charges
of making false statements and conspiracy to defraud the United States. (See
8/17/95.)

6/13/95
Clinton reverses himself again and presents a 10-year plan for a supposedly
balanced budget.

6/16/95
The CBO reports Clinton's 10-year "balanced budget plan" would leave a $209
billion deficit in 2005. (See 10/24/95.)

6/22/95
The Senate fails to approve Surgeon Generalnominee Henry Foster.

6/25/95
The Los Angeles Times reveals Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, at taxpayers'
expense, routinely upgrades her airline flights to business and first class
and stays at expensive hotelsseeking reimbursement from the government at as
much as 150 percent of the maximum level allowed.

6/26/95
Texas Rep. Greg Laughlin switches to the Republican Party.

6/27/95

Clinton presidential campaign begins with $2.4 million in TV ads intended to
make Clinton look tough on crime.

7/5/95
Public interest groups accuse the DNC of selling the presidency by seeking
$100,000 contributions that buy two meals with Clinton, two with Gore and
meetings with administration officials. DNC defends practice despite
Clinton's earlier denunciations of "cliques of $100,000 donors [who] buy
access to Congress and the White House."

7/11/95
Clinton announces normalization of relations with Vietnam without a full
accounting of U.S. MIAs and POWsafter having said as a candidate that this
"was putting the cart before the horse."

7/14/95
FBI Director Louis Freeh announces he is removing Larry Potts as deputy
director because of the controversy over his role in the Ruby Ridge shootout.

7/20/95
The University of California votes to end race-based admissions.

7/23/95
White House chief of staff Leon Panetta threatens to withdraw federal funding
in response to the University of California's vote.

8/7/95
Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell begins serving 21-month
sentence for mail fraud and tax evasion.

Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin switches to the Republican Party.

8/10/95
Clinton proposes giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to
regulate tobacco as a narcotic.

8/11/95
The White House is ordered to pay the legal fees of the plaintiffs in the
health care task force trial. (See 11/9/95.)

8/16/95
Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) announces he will not run for re-election.

8/17/95
Whitewater: Clinton's partner in the Whitewater venture, Jim McDougal, is
indicted on 19 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, making false statements and
false bank reports, and misapplying funds; Susan McDougal is indicted on
eight counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud and making false
statements; and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker is indicted on 11 new counts of
conspiracy, wire fraud, making false statements and misapplying funds. (See
9/5/95.)

9/5/95
In a widely criticized decision, Clinton loyalist Judge Henry Woods dismisses
the original three-count indictment against Gov. Tucker. Independent counsel
Kenneth Starr files an immediate appeal.

Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) announces he will not run for re-election.

9/11/95
Clinton advocates a complete government takeover of the direct student loan
system as a cost-saving measure; CBO later estimates killing the program
would save $1.5 billion over the next seven years.

9/13/95
Rep. Pete Peterson (D-Fla.) announces he will not run for re-election.

9/15/95
Clinton now claims the Republican plan to save Medicare, by allowing Medicare
spending to grow at more than two times the rate of inflation, "includes
a...Medicare cut...It would dismantle Medicare as we know it." (See 10/5/93.)

Secretary of Defense William Perry announces U.S. combat forces will be sent
to Bosnia.

9/23/95
Clinton claims Americans are in a "funk."

9/25/95
Clinton decrees Americans are out of their "funk."

10/1/95
Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-Ill.) resigns after being convicted of sex crimes with a
minor.

10/2/95
Rep. Sonny Montgomery (D-Miss.) announces he will not run for re-election.

10/9/95
Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) announces he will not run for re-election.

10/10/95
Rep. Norm Mineta (D-Calif.) resigns for a job in the private sector.

Rep. Harry Johnston (D-Fla.) announces he will not run for re-election.

10/17/95
Clinton admits: "It might surprise you to know that I think I raised them
[taxes] too much, too." He blames the Republicanseven though not one
Republican voted for his budget.

10/19/95
Under attack from his liberal base, Clinton reverses himself, claiming
responsibility and pride for his tax increases: "I take full responsibility,
proudly, for what we did. It [raising taxes] was the right thing to do."

Clinton on balancing the budget: "Well, I think we could reach it in seven
years. I think we could reach it in eight years . I think we could reach it
in nine years." (See 11/28/95.)

10/23/95
Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-Texas) announces he will not run for re-election.

10/24/95
Clinton's second budget is defeated in the Senate, 960.

10/26/95
Clinton calls columnist Ben Wattenberg to confess he was too interested in
the "legislative scorecard rather than philosophy," was "so anxious to fix
the economy" that he "changed philosophically and missed the boat," "wasn't
pleased with [his welfare plan] either" and realized after the '94 elections
that he had created "a cardboard cutout" of himself.

House Republicans pass the Balanced Budget Act of 1995.

10/28/95
Senate Republicans pass the Balanced Budget Act of 1995.

Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) announces he will not run for re-election.

11/95
Reps. Anthony Beilenson (D-Calif.), Ronald Coleman (D-Texas), Cardiss Collins
(D-Ill.), Andrew Jacobs (D-Ind.) and Pat Schroeder (D-Colo.) announce that
they will not run for re-election.

11/7/95
The Washington Times reveals Veterans Secretary Jesse Brown is sending
statements critical of the Republican Congress to his employees via e-mail
and printed on their pay stubs.

11/9/95
GAO releases a report showing the Clinton administration spent $13.4 million
of taxpayers' money preparing its doomed health care initiative, and another
$433,966 defending itself against a lawsuit that challenged the secrecy in
which the initiative was assembled.

The Wall Street Journal reports Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary spent more
than $43,500 of taxpayer money compiling an enemies list of reporters who
have been critical of her or her department.

11/10/95
Mississippi Rep. Mike Parker switches to the Republican Party.

11/13/95
Clinton closes the government to avoid agreeing to a balanced budgetcosting
taxpayers an estimated $750 million over the next six days.

11/16/95
After a Kafkaesque 30-month investigation, former White House Travel Director
Billy Dale is acquitted.

11/19/95
Clinton finally says he agrees to seven-year balanced budget using the most
recent CBO numbers, re-opening the government.

11/19/95
"The president and the Congress shall enact legislation to achieve a balanced
budget no later than fiscal year 2002." (Text of the Budget Agreement signed
by Bill Clinton and Congress.)

11/24/95
Clinton submits a two-page list of "principles" to Congress that contains not
one specific detail explaining how he would balance the budget. (See
11/28/95.)

11/27/95
Vice President Albert Gore accepts $8,365 gift from the Disney Company (two
tailor-made Halloween costumes and the services of a make-up artist and
costume designer)a violation of federal ethics guidelines; DNC pays the bill.
(Similiar costumes could have been rented locally for $130.)

11/28/95
White House Press Secretary Michael McCurry indicates the American people
will have to wait another year for a balanced budget: "...I suspect that
those kinds of issues will have to be settled in November of 1996." (See
12/15/95.)

DNC Chairman Christopher Dodd goes to New York to solicit advice from
entertainment executives to better package the "Democratic message."

12/95
Reps. Tom Bevill (D.-Ala.), Bill Brewster (D-Okla.), E. "Kika" de la Garza
(D-Texas) and Pete Geren (D-Texas) announce they will not run for
re-election. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) announces he will resign in February
to head the NAACP. As of 1/2/96, 27 Democratic members of the 104th Congress
have resigned or announced their retirement.

12/1/95
Louisiana Rep. Jimmy Hayes switches to the Republican Party; as of 1/2/96, at
least 183 elected Democratic officials have joined the GOP since Clinton's
election.

12/7/95
Clinton presents his third unbalanced budget for FY '96.

12/15/95
Clinton presents his fourth unbalanced budget for FY '96, sending the federal
government into its second shutdown.

Former White House lawyer William Kennedy refuses to comply with Senate
Whitewater Committee subpoena demanding Whitewater-related documents.

12/19/95
Clinton's third budget is defeated in the House, 4120.

12/31/95
Part of the federal government remains shutdown because of Clinton's vetoes
of three appropriations bills and his refusal to sign the Balanced Budget
Act.

1/4/96
Travelgate: White House releases 1993 memo by ex-aide David Watkins: Hillary
Clinton was "insistent" he fire all the White House Travel Office employees.

Travelgate II: General Accounting Office audit finds $255,000 in undocumented
expenses from Hazel O'Leary's trips abroad.

1/6/96
Clinton introduces his fifth 1996 budget--proposes $66 billion in new taxes.
(See 1/23/96.)

1/9/96
Democratic Rep. Blanche Lambert-Lincoln of Arkansas announces she will not
seek re-election.

Clinton breaks promise to "end welfare as we know it" by vetoing bipartisan
welfare reform bill. (See 2/15/96.)

The New York Times columnist William Safire calls Hillary Clinton a
"congenital liar."

1/10/96
White House spokesman says Clinton wants to punch Safire in the nose.

Court rules Paula Jones's sexual-harassment suit against Clinton can proceed
to trial.

1/11/96
Clinton says mounting legal costs have brought him close to bankruptcy. (See
2/8/96.)

1/12/96
Hillary Clinton announces book tour. Publisher will reimburse taxpayers only
if Hillary flies commercial; she chooses to use Air Force planes, costing
taxpayers $69,360. (See 1/17/96.)

1/13/96
The Washington Post calls Clinton's ambassador to the Vatican, Raymond Flynn,
a "political hack" for waging a letter-writing campaign at taxpayer expense
in support of Clinton's domestic policies.

1/14/96
Democratic Rep. Pat Williams of Minnesota announces he will not seek
re-election.

1/17/96
CNN/USA Today poll reveals a 51 percent unfavorable rating for Hillary
Clinton, the first time in more than 30 years of polling that a majority of
Americans have an "unfavorable impression" of their first lady.

1/22/96
Hillary Clinton subpoenaed by Whitewater grand jury.

1/23/96
Bill Clinton announces "era of big government is over." (See 3/19/96.)

Nearly 600 Commerce Department employees used government credit cards to pay
for personal expenses, reports The Washington Times.

1/26/96
Hillary Clinton becomes the first first lady to testify before a grand jury.

1/31/96
North Carolina Democratic Rep. Charlie Rose announces he will not seek
re-election.

2/5/96
The New York Times publishes October 1995 Treasury report that says Medicare
will go bankrupt sooner than predicted.

Virginia Democratic Rep. L.F. Payne announces he will not seek re-election.

2/6/96
Bill Clinton subpoenaed in bank fraud and conspiracy trial of James and Susan
McDougal, his partners in the failed Whitewater development project. (See
3/26/96.)

2/8/96
Countering Clinton's claim of impending bankruptcy, The Washington Times
reveals a $1 million insurance policy he purchased in 1991 against personal
legal claims has been paying a substantial amount of his legal bills.

2/15/96
White House adviser George Stephanopoulos on Larry King Live: Clinton has
"kept all the promises he meant to keep."

2/20/96
White House releases more than 100 pages of "mistakenly overlooked"
Whitewater records subpoenaed in 1994.

3/4/96
Florida Democratic Rep. Sam Gibbons announces he will not seek re-election.

3/5/96
Mississippi District Attorney Rusty Fortenberry becomes the 200th elected
Democrat to switch to the GOP since Clinton was elected president.

3/19/96
Clinton introduces 1997 budget--$60 billion in new taxes; 1996 budget still
unresolved. (See 3/29/96.)

3/26/96
White House agrees to have Clinton videotape his testimony concerning
Whitewater.

3/29/96
Veterans Affairs Secretary Jesse Brown says Clinton's '97 budget will
"devastate" Veterans Department; he admits GOP budget gives more money to
veterans.

3/31/96
Catholics hold vigil outside White House protesting Clinton's vow to veto
partial-birth abortion ban.

4/1/96
Clinton vetoes partial-birth abortion ban.

This doesn't even include the "filegate" mess !!

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