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Chapter 27 Flashcards

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Convicted bomber of Oklahoma City Federal Building

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Timothy McVie

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Task-force leader in health-care reform

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

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President and nicknamed “the comeback kid”

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Bill Clinton

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Aggressive Republican and Speaker of the House

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Newt Gingrich

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Republican candidate in the 1996 presidential election

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Bob Dole

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First African American female Secretary of State

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Condoleezza Rice

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Focused on Clinton’s investment in a failed resort development

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Whitewater Scandal

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Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2000 presidential election

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Richard Cheney

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Winner of the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election

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Al Gore

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Winner of the electoral vote in the 2000 presidential election

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George W. Bush

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Unpaid time off for employees with newborns or ill family members

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Family and Medical Leave Act

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Gun control legislation

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Brady Bill

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“Motor voter act”

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National Voter Registration Act

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Opened free trade with Mexico

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NAFTA

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Ten popular Republican bills

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Contract with America

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Federal benefits for spouses in traditional marriages

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Defense of Marriage Act

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Sought to end dependency of the poor on government handouts

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Welfare Reform Act of 1996

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Presidential power that although Congress finally passes, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional

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Line item veto

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Just like 1992, he turned up in the 1996 presidential election as the Reform Party candidate

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Ross Perot

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African country did American forces leave after he failed peacekeeping mission

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Somalia

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Bill Clinton was the second president to have this happen to him – Andrew Johnson, the first

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Impeachment

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Obama’s two Supreme Court nominees during his first two years in office, one was Elena Kagan

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Sonia Sotomayor

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The Republican whom Obama named to be his Secretary of Defense

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Robert Gates

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The only one of the “Big Three” U.S. automakers to refuse a government bailout

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Ford Motor Company

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The leader of the Taliban

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Osama bin Laden

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