Chapter 27 Flashcards
Convicted bomber of Oklahoma City Federal Building
Timothy McVie
Task-force leader in health-care reform
Hillary Rodham Clinton
President and nicknamed “the comeback kid”
Bill Clinton
Aggressive Republican and Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich
Republican candidate in the 1996 presidential election
Bob Dole
First African American female Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice
Focused on Clinton’s investment in a failed resort development
Whitewater Scandal
Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2000 presidential election
Richard Cheney
Winner of the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election
Al Gore
Winner of the electoral vote in the 2000 presidential election
George W. Bush
Unpaid time off for employees with newborns or ill family members
Family and Medical Leave Act
Gun control legislation
Brady Bill
“Motor voter act”
National Voter Registration Act
Opened free trade with Mexico
NAFTA
Ten popular Republican bills
Contract with America
Federal benefits for spouses in traditional marriages
Defense of Marriage Act
Sought to end dependency of the poor on government handouts
Welfare Reform Act of 1996
Presidential power that although Congress finally passes, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional
Line item veto
Just like 1992, he turned up in the 1996 presidential election as the Reform Party candidate
Ross Perot
African country did American forces leave after he failed peacekeeping mission
Somalia
Bill Clinton was the second president to have this happen to him – Andrew Johnson, the first
Impeachment
Obama’s two Supreme Court nominees during his first two years in office, one was Elena Kagan
Sonia Sotomayor
The Republican whom Obama named to be his Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates
The only one of the “Big Three” U.S. automakers to refuse a government bailout
Ford Motor Company
