America is a country that is torn between doing what is safe and perhaps in the best interest of the nation versus what is the easiest way to accomplish the list of demands that faces almost every American on a daily basis. Sometimes the Federal Government has to step up to the plate and mandate som...
A new American economy began to emerge during the closing months of 1999. However, many people believed that a possible collapse of the global computer network was highly plausible with the year 2000 approaching. This believed crisis became known as Y2K. The reason people believed a downfall of the ...
Barack Obama, the 47 year-old senator-who-will-be-president will soon take his place in the coveted Oval office. And there will be no time to waste when he gets there. The new president will be facing the challenges of having to deal with two wars in which his country is embroiled, ensuring his co...
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." ...
President Bill Clinton expanded US sanctioning of Iran, banning all US participation in the Iranian oil and gas industry, preventing a $1 billion deal between a U.S oil company and Iran. The Clinton administration also passed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act 1996, aiming to press foreign companies to join the US in boycotting Iran's oil and gas industry. ...
The House passed the Senate Bill with a 219-212 vote on March 21. 2010. ... The following day the Republicans chose to appeal the bill, it was signed into law by the president on March 23, 2010. ... This Bill was called "Obamacare," ( The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). ... President Bill Clinton also tried in 1993, but was unsuccessful at doing so. ... (Healthcare.gov, 2012) In this way the general standards of the bill are that there can't be separation on masculinity and femininity. ...
The United States" welfare system is a program that enables needy Americans to sustain themselves and provide for their basic needs, which include shelter, food, and clothing. Programs are aimed at helping people unable to support themselves fully or earn a living; necessities that most people can p...
But with the agreement that personal liberties would be addressed in the form of a bill of rights all states agreed to the new form of government. To lead the new government George Washington who previously was head officer of the Constitutional Convention was put into office as the first President of the United States of America, and shortly thereafter the "Bill of Rights" was amended to the Constitution and were put into effect in 1791. ... As far a government structure at that time it was relatively new and with the exception of the bill of rights and two additional amendments it remained...
Proposition 227, that has reformed the thirty year old bill, has taken affect on June 2, 1998. ... Like many other initiatives or bills, Proposition 227 had raised many issues in the State and the entire nation. ... Regardless, the bill will strike mostly Latino families and schoolchildren. ... On April 27, 1998 the Clinton Administration announced its opposition to the California ballot initiative that ended bilingual education, saying that the President and other official would have actively campaign against it. ... McCurry said the Administration opposed the initiative because it would have...
Then came an amendment to the constitution, the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was a revolutionary measure in that it guaranteed that our federal government could never lawfully advance outside it's authorized bounds and encroach upon the natural born rights of man to act as he chooses as long as the rights of others are not violated in the process. ...
The lawsuit was filed January 14, weeks after several advisors of the Clinton Administration made a public response to Proposition 215 (which would, were it to pass, make it legal for doctors to discuss and recommend marijuana to their patients) at a December 30 press conference. ... Representative Barney Frank (a democrat from Massachusetts) introduced H.R. 1782, a bill which would also attempt to move medicinal marijuana from schedule I to schedule II, eliminating federal restrictions. This bill would not change state laws, allowing individual communities to determine for themselves whethe...
Even during Bill Clinton's presidency this was a problem that posed a threat to the security of the United States. In 1998 Clinton said, " will be more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. ...
Ex-President Bill Clinton passed the Children's Television Act of 1990, which "recognized children as a special audience that should receive educational programming from commercial broadcasters" (Hepburn 244). ... Municipal Court Judge Bill Watt believes parents have lost control of their children because they are too scared to punish them (Shapiro 26). ...
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. ...
Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the ca...
He is the primary mover behind Counterintelligence 21, which President Clinton signed in December 2000 and the Bush administration has pledged to continue. ... Graham and fellow Florida Senator Bill Nelson are continuing their strong, vocal opposition to drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf with legislation that would extend the current moratoria indefinitely and buy back leases in environmentally sensitive areas. ...
In the United States, there are bills pending in both houses of Congress to ban cloning, and a new National Bio-ethics Advisory Commission is currently examining cloning's moral and legal implications. ... President Clinton took independent action pending the passage of legislation to ban any efforts to clone humans with federally funded research, and also asked privately funded scientists to abide by a voluntary moratorium for at least 90 days (Kenen). ...
"The purpose of British troops in Iraq is to discover and destroy any weapons of mass destruction," said the defence minister, Geoffrey Hoon, regarding the deployment of troops to the Gulf in coalition with American forces. The consequential expulsion of the regime of Saddam Hussein has, no doubt, benefited a country suffering from years of sanctions and oppression. His murderous regime has denied the Iraqi people a democratic government, and crushed those who fought to get one. It will never be known the total amount of people murdered by the dictator, when their only crime was to seek the...
The topic of environmentalism doesn't come up to frequently but when it does it causes quite a stir as to who is to pick up the tab. Our interaction with this earth occurs simultaneously. With every breath we take. Currently we pollute the air and waterways in means of economic growth "Some environm...
Introduction In forming a government for the people, by the people, and of the people, our Founding Fathers developed the idea a bi-cameral legislature. This Congress, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate, thus became known as the people's branch of government. American children are ...
