Administration Highlights
Clinton Administration Accomplishments: ONE WORLD
- Fought for peace in the Middle East
- Ended a decade of repression and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo
- Brokered the Good Friday peace accord in Northern Ireland
- Led diplomatic efforts to end the war and foster democracy in Bosnia
- Restored democratic government in Haiti
- Secured Vietnamese cooperation in accounting for MIAs and normalized relations
- Fought proliferation of weapons by improving controls over Russian fissile materials
- Banned antipersonnel land mines that do not self-destruct and self-deactivate
- Enlarged NATO, integrating Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and southeast Europe
- Developed the nation’s first comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy, led by a national coordinator
- Responsible for NAFTA, GATT, and nearly 300 other free and fair trade agreements
- Brokered a landmark agreement for China’s entry into the World Trade Organization
- Launched annual summit of APEC leaders to meet on economic and other issues
- Helped rescue Mexico’s economy with $20 billion in emergency loans
- Gave debt relief to the world’s 32 poorest countries
- Funded two million microenterprise loans to poor countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa
- Quadrupled U.S. assistance to overseas efforts to fight HIV/AIDS
- Funded efforts to develop vaccines for AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other major disease threats
- Supported the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, the International Criminal Court, and the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty
Clinton Administration Accomplishments: ONE AMERICA
- Moved from record deficits to record surplus
- Began paying off the national debt
- Created nearly 23 million jobs
- Fastest and longest real wage growth in over three decades
- Family income reached record highs
- Unemployment was the lowest in over three decades
- Record–high home ownership rates
- Lowest overall poverty and child poverty rates since the 1970s
- Expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit
- Enacted the Family and Medical Leave Act
- Increased the minimum wage
- Enacted the Workforce Investment Act
- Signed the Adoption and Safe Families Act
- Created AmeriCorps
- Responsible for Hope Scholarships and Lifetime Learning tax credits
- Expanded Pell grants and work–study program
- Helped communities hire 100,000 quality teachers
- Lowest crime rates in a generation
- Funding for 100,000 more police on the streets
- Responsible for Assault Weapons ban
- Responsible for Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
- Enacted Violence Against Women Act
- Lowest percentage of Americans on welfare in 32 years
- Doubled child–support collections
- Teen births at the lowest rate on record
- Created 40 empowerment zones
- More than 100 rural and urban Enterprise Communities
- New Markets Initiative
- Individual development accounts
- Enacted Kennedy–Kassebaum Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- State Children’s Health Insurance Program
- Expanded health care for women with cancer
- Raised child immunization rates to all-time high
- Extended life of Medicare Trust Fund to 2030
- Extended patient protections in Federal health plans
- Increased funding for tobacco education and control
- Created 11 new national monuments
- Established protection for 60 million acres of roadless areas within national forests
- Enacted stronger Safe Drinking Water Act
- Created the Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve
- Increased investment in biomedical research
- Enacted Motor Voter law
- Smallest federal civilian workforce in 40 years
- Lowest federal spending as a share of the economy since 1966
- Slowest per capita growth of government spending since the 1950s
