How effectively have presidents since 1992 achieved their aims 3.4 Flashcards

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Clinton presidency’s policy aims

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  • reducing budget deficit
  • health care reform
  • greater gun control
  • greater protection of civil rights
  • foreign policy
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how did CLINTON’S ‘reducing budget deficit’ policy pan out

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  • major success of the Clinton presidency
  • deficits have occurred in virtually every year since 1945
  • Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) helped cause budget shutdown
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how did CLINTON’S ‘health care reform’ policy pan out

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  • similar to the one eventually passed under Obama
  • clear mandate for the policy in 1992
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how did CLINTON’S ‘greater gun control’ policy pan out

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  • got Brady Bill passed
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how did CLINTON’S ‘greater protection of civil rights’ policy pan out

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  • advocated the end of the ban on lesbian and gay soldiers in the military during the 1992 campaign
  • ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ = effectively ending the ban.
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how did CLINTON’S ‘foreign policy’ pan out

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  • US involvement in Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia to prevent civil war and genocide
    CONGRESS FORCED CLINTON TO
  • launch airstrikes in Bosnia
  • withdraw troops from Somalia.
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what sort of democrat was CLINTON

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moderate democrat = republican’s liked him ( left was worried with his centrist policies)

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Bush presidency’s policy aims

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  • major tax cuts
  • commitment to public education
  • social security reform
  • ‘war on terror’
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how did BUSH’S ‘major tax cuts’ pan out

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  • steered budget through congress
  • major reductions in tax, mainly for the wealthy.
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how did BUSH’S ‘commitment to public education’ pan out

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  • No Child Left Behind Act, imposing federal standards of education on states = increased federal intervention in state policy.
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how did BUSH’S ‘social security reform’ pan out

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  • reform social insurance for the elderly
  • idea of privatising social security system
  • controversial among Democrats and Republicans and failed to make progress in Congress
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how did BUSH’S ‘war on terror’ pan out

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  • increased his power hugely and set a ‘war on terror agenda’
  • began the Iraq War
  • created the Homeland Security Department
  • mass surveillance of internet/phone
    communications
  • executive order to create Guantanamo Bay
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Obama presidency’s policy aims

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  • affordable care act
  • Close Guantanamo detention centre
  • Remove US troops from Iraq and increase US involvement in Afghanistan
  • Stimulus package for the economy
  • Immigration reform
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how did OBAMA’s ‘affordable care act’ pan out

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  • partially
  • no federal health insurance company to compete in the marketplace.
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how did OBAMA’s ‘Close Guantanamo detention centre’ pan out

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FAILED
- 41 left in Guantanamo when finished terms
- 242 detainees at the start of the presidency and 197 being transferred

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how did OBAMA’s ‘Remove US troops from Iraq and increase US involvement in Afghanistan’ pan out

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congress agreed to both of these

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how did OBAMA’s ‘Stimulus package for the economy’ pan out

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to additional spending of $787 billion

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how did OBAMA’s ‘Immigration reform’ pan out

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Failed to pass Congress in the first and second terms
- DAPA as exmaple