(Clinton, Bill) -President Clinton The battle for religious freedom in public schools has recently been a major topic. ... President Clinton himself said, "experience tells us they"re more likely to stay out of trouble (referring to children and their involvement in religious activities).(Clinton on) President Clinton also said, "Nothing in the First amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones."(Clinton on) He (President Clinton) is definitely correct in saying this, but that is not the key issue. ...

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Causes It is people like President Bill Clinton who makes women in this country think it is okay to get an abortion. One of President Bill Clinton's first acts in 1993 was to repeal the ban on federal funding for international groups that assist in abortions. ... Wade, President Clinton fulfills a promise of supporting abortion rights. ... With a stroke of a pen, President Clinton delivers on his campaign promise to cancel several anti abortion regulations. ... The House of Representatives pass a bill requiring doctors to give babies born during botched abortions the same care and pr...

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Coupled with the fact that he seemed so overwhelmingly clever was the fact that he appeared very wooden when speaking and displayed very little charisma, unlike Bill Clinton. ... This was a stark contrast to Bill Clinton who was a great orator and connected with people, "I can feel your pain" was a famous line of his. ... Gore himself seemed to see this, as he distanced himself from Clinton, by not asking him to campaign. ... In fact, Clinton even ignored the Kyoto agreements that the rest of the world carried out. He had been seen to "sell out" on his principles, given that he had campaigned ...

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Congress passed the bill 64-34 banning partial birth abortion. ... Senate majority reader Bill Frist enjoyed the momentary victory by saying " we have just outlawed the procedure that is barbaric, that is brutal, that is against our morals and is unethical". The bill resembles the ban on " partial birth abortion in 1997 in which Dr. ... The bill was declared unconstitutional in Supreme Court in 2000 as the partial birth procedure defines that the doctor partially delivers virginally a living unborn child before killing the child. ... Two partial birth abortion bans were passed by Congress b...

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President Bill Clinton signed this act into law essentially to speed up the appeals process for death row cases by making it more difficult for federal courts to intervene, review and challenge decisions made by state courts. ...

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In 1821 the first U.S. abortion bill, passed in Connecticut, banned the use of poisons to induce abortion. Following the bill, in 1859 a campaign by the American Medical Association lead more than forty states to outlaw abortion. ... One year later, on September 26, 1996, the Senate falls short votes to override President Clinton's veto on the partial birth abortion ban. ... That same year on October 10, President Clinton vetoes bill to ban partial birth abortions. ...

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In 1996, former President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which stated that marriage is an institution that exists between a man and woman only. ... The introduction of a bill for a new amendment has recently sparked more debate on this issue. This bill would make it constitutionally illegal for gay people to get married. ... This bill has not yet been rejected because it protects marriage as a tradition, and is claimed to contribute to society's well-being. ...

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Ever wonder where the idea for abortion came from or how it started? Herbs or Manipulation were some of the first forms of birth control in ancient Egypt, Greece, and in Rome. In the Middle Ages in Western Europe abortion was generally accepted in the beginning months of pregnancy. In the 19th cent...

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Things that did come, as a shock however was the Sex scandal of the Clinton administration in the late nineties. Bill Clinton was ultimately acquitted of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. ...

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Wu has been busy in Rhode Island, where bills to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed were introduced in both chambers of the legislature and where the speaker of the House has promised a floor vote this month. ... Wu says he's "cautiously optimistic" of a win in the Senate, followed by the governor's signature, while Brown says, "I think we're going to stop the bill." In Illinois, a Senate Committee voted 8-5 late Thursday for a gay-marriage bill, but then delayed a full-floor vote. ... It vowed to form a state political action committee and spend $250,000 ...

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This legislation was attached to a larger and popular Telecommunications Reform Bill. The Senate and the House voted to approve the Telecommunications Reform Bill in February 1996. After President Clinton signed the bill the ACLU filed a suit claiming it violated their First and Fifth Amendment rights. ... Another Bill that was introduced into legislation is the Child Online Protection Act or COPA. ...

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On July 7, 1964, following one of the longest debates in senate history, Johnson signed the bill into law. ... Despite the strong support for the Civil Rights Act, President Bush exorcised his right to veto it, because he felt many aspects of the bill established employment quotas. ... So, when the bill was passed by congress again in 1991, President Bush reluctantly signed it. When elected President, Bill Clinton gave the American people what they wanted, a white house staff that "looked like America." ...

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Over two decades later, in January 2001 "in literally the final hour of his second term "President Bill Clinton granted Hearst (now Patty Hearst Shaw) executive clemency for her robbery conviction in the 1970's. ...

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In January of 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided on the case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. The Decision made by the United States Supreme Court gave every woman a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Since that decision in 1973, the issue of aborti...

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Christians believe that prayer does wonders for someone's life along with interacting people's lives. Perhaps no aspect of the church-state arouses more emotion than the subject of prayer in public schools. After all, public schools are paid by the tax payer and what religious supporter would want...

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Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. ... Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to cease discrimination due to race, religion, or national origin. ... Dole proposed legislation to ban preferential treatment in federal programs and the Clinton Administration was considering reform to affirmative action by supporting a reformed version that complies with the 1995 ruling by the Supreme Court. ...

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"Mismatch" occurs where the government chooses improper regulatory tools to attempt to fix perceived market failures.6 Rather than using regulation Breyer suggests the use of alternative solutions such as antitrust law, disclosure of additional information about the products and production methods that a firm uses, taxation, or marketable property rights.7 Ironically, although urging the use of antitrust law instead of regulation, Breyer has interrupted the Sherman Act so as to limit its scope of applicability.8 Breyer is a "dedicated pragmatist" and "empiricist Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justic...

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