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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 ...
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]
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 ...
June 12 – Special counsel Robert B. Fiske interviews Clinton for 90 minutes and the First Lady for an hour at the White House. [43]June 13 – The White House stated Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton were questioned under oath relating to matters of the Whitewater affair and that they both maintain their innocence while having no charges pending against them.
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]
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.
Monica Lewinsky overcame 'excuciating shame and pain.’Now, she’s a voice for anti-bullying. Lewinsky, 51, said that once you pass 40, you start to "recontextualize your younger years."
Between 1994 and 1999, nearly two thirds of people sentenced to the federal death penalty were black during Clinton's presidency, nearly seven times that of their representation in the US population. During his two terms, the federal prison population increased from 1.3 million to 2 million inmates. [70]