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Around the Foundation of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
Nonprofit organization of centrist Democrats founded in the mid-1980s. The group attempted to push the Democratic party toward pro-growth, strong defense, and anti-crime policies. Among its most influential early members was Bill Clinton, whom it held up as an example of "third way" politics. -
Election of 1992
Clinton 44,909,889 pop v & 370 v Electoral College. The 1st baby boomer President, 70 percent of whom had been born after WWII. Bush 39,104,545 p v & 168 e v. Perot 0 e v but did gather 19,742,267 p v—strongest for an independent or third-party since Theodore Roosevelt ran with Bull Moose ticket in 1912. Democrats had majorities in houses of Congress, including 39 African Americans, 19 Hispanic Americans, 7 Asian Americans, 1 Native American, and 48 women, 6 in the Senate. -
2 women supreme Fudges ;)
Clinton nominated, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, where she joined Sandra Day O’Connor. -
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Bill Clinton’s presidency
(1946-) Forty-second president of the United States, 1993-2001. A former Arkansas governor and founding member of the Democratic Leadership Council, Clinton promoted centrist politics and distanced his policies from traditional Democratic programs. He signed the Welfare Reform Act in 1996 to fulfill a campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." Clinton was the first Democrat to be reelected since Franklin Roosevelt and the first president to be impeached since Andrew Johnson. -
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“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
From 1993 to 2010, the policy affecting homosexuals in the military. A compromise between the standing prohibition against homosexuals in the armed forces and President Clinton's push to allow all citizens to serve regardless of sexual orientation. Military authorities were forbidden to ask about it, and gay service personnel could be discharged if they publicly revealed homosexuality. At President Obama's urging, Congress repealed DADT in 2010, permitting gays to serve openly in uniform. -
Contract with America
Led by Newt Gingrich, Republicans offered voters a Contract with America, promised assault on budget deficits and radical reductions in welfare programs. In the 1994 congressional elections Republicans had 11 new governorships, 8 seats in the Senate, and 53 in the House, giving them control of both chambers of the federal Congress in 40 years. Southern Republicans accelerated the ideological and geographical sorting of the two parties, which intensified the political combat in Washington. -
Oklahoma City bombing
Truck-bomb explosion that killed 168 people in a federal office building on April 19, 1995. The attack was perpetrated by right-wing and antigovernment militant Timothy McVeigh, who was later executed by the U.S. government for the crime. It was in retribution for a 1993 standoff in Waco, Texas, between federal agents and Fundamentalist sect known as the Branch Davidians. That had ended in the destruction of the sect’s compound and the deaths of many Branch Davidians, including women & children. -
midterm limit-laws
several states passed midterm limit-laws for elected officials, although the Supreme Court ruled in 1995 that the restrictions did not apply to federal officeholders. -
Welfare Reform Bill
In 1996 Congress achieved a major conservative victory when it got Clinton to sign the Welfare Reform Bill, which made deep cuts in welfare grants and required able-bodied welfare recipients to find employment. Old-line liberal Democrats howled with pain at the president’s alleged betrayal of his party’s heritage. Part of Bill Clinton's campaign platform in 1992, the reforms were widely seen by liberals as an abandonment of key New Deal/Great Society provisions to care for the impoverished. -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
a proposal to declare English the country’s “official language,” reflected a rising tide of anti-immigrant sentiment as the numbers of newcomers climbed toward an all-time high. The Southwest, from Texas to California, felt the immigrant impact especially sharply, as Mexican migrants—by far the largest contingent of modern immigrants—concentrated heavily in that region. Anti-immigrant sentiment risked alienating the country’s rapidly growing Latino population. -
Election oc 1996
Republicans chose Robert Dole, with a rebounding domestic economy and a relatively peaceful global scene in 1996. Clinton with 47,401,898 pv to Dole’s 39,198,482. (Dole’s victory in eight southern states, once a safe Democratic stronghold, had by century’s end largely become Republican) The Reform party’s, Ross Perot, ran, picking up less than 1/2 the votes won 1992. Clinton won 379 ev, Dole only 159.But Republicans remained in control of Congress. -
In 2000, 16.6 percent of blacks over age twenty-five had a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 26.1 percent of whites.
In 2000, 16.6 percent of blacks over age twenty-five had a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 26.1 percent of whites. -
2002 Geographic DemogrAPHIC
52% of all blacks lived in cities compared with only 21% of whites. Many black beneficiaries of the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s followed whites to middle-class suburbs, while minorities populated the WWII suburbs, now in bad states. Some cities boomed with $, information technology, and biotech economies, while others struggled to replace once-thriving industries. The residential map of the U.S. was a checkerboard of racial differences as well as in prosperity and poverty.