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The speech lasted 63 minutes [2] and consisted of 7,432 words. [3] It was the longest State of the Union speech since Lyndon B. Johnson's 1967 State of the Union Address. Republican Representative Henry Hyde criticized the speech as "interminable". [4] The Republican Party response was delivered by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. [5]
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, commonly referred to as the 1994 Crime Bill, [1] or the Clinton Crime Bill, [2] is an Act of Congress dealing with crime and law enforcement; it became law in 1994. It is the largest crime bill in the history of the United States and consisted of 356 pages that provided for 100,000 new ...
Bill Clinton Official portrait, 1993 42nd President of the United States In office January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001 Vice President Al Gore Preceded by George H. W. Bush Succeeded by George W. Bush 40th & 42nd Governor of Arkansas In office January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992 Lieutenant Winston Bryant Jim Guy Tucker Preceded by Frank D. White Succeeded by Jim Guy Tucker In office ...
A group of Springfield residents recognized the 30th anniversary of the Crime Bill by advocating for change. 30 years later: Springfield residents continue to speak out against the 1994 Crime Bill ...
But during Sunday night's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton addressed a major point of controversy in her campaign head-on: She admitted her much-criticized support of a 1994 crime bill that ...
The bill energized the NRA and Republican base, and contributed to the Republican takeover of both houses in the 1994 mid-term elections. Many Democrats who had supported Clinton's gun control measures were ousted, including Speaker Tom Foley. Clinton acknowledged that he had hurt Democrats with his victories. [6]
In Bill Clinton's prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1988, the young governor of Arkansas bored delegates so thoroughly that they cheered when he said, “in closing ...
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as ...