Chapter 10

Bill Clinton's undefined views made it difficult for him to appeal to both factions of the Democratic Party in 1990, as well as independents.

False

Clinton's stimulus package, introduced in mid-February of 1993, was easily passed by both houses and contained little pork, large spending and prioritized spending cuts.

False

In the budget battles of 1995 and 1996, Gingrich and Clinton fought to a draw.

False

Many social workers as well as the NASW favored the welfare reform bill enacted by Congress in 1996 and encouraged the President to sign it.

False

Proposition 209, introduced and enacted in California in 1997, allowed for more aggressive affirmative action in the University of California System and in state government jobs.

False

The Republican leader most responsible for the Republican take-over of Congress in 1994 was:

Representative Newt Gingrich.

In terms of his combining liberal and conservative themes, Bill Clinton can be compared to which former president?

Richard Nixon

In 1996, legislation was enacted that required private health-insurance companies to not discriminate against mental-health related problems. This movement was led by:

Tipper Gore.

Although many feel that the United States is in need of national health insurance, neither conservatives nor many liberals rallied around Clinton's reform package in 1994.

True

Clinton's situation in 1996 resembles that of Harry Truman in 1947-48 as both Presidents had to battle a Congress controlled by the Republicans.

True

The presidency of Bill Clinton provides today's advocates with lessons in the importance of the budget process in federal, state and local jurisdictions.

True

The contract with America was:

a statement of policies and principals favored by many conservative Republicans.

The Clinton years were marked by struggles to:

a. cut the nation's budget deficits. b. none of these. c. both of these. *** d. prevent huge tax cuts proposed by Republicans.

Today the problem of the imbalance between revenues and expenditures in the federal budget is being compounded by:

a. funds required to finance the nation's debt as a result of the budget deficits accumulated by George W. Bush. b. the low tax rate on individuals and corporations. c. all of these. *** d. the impending increase of federal spending on Social Security pensions for baby boomers.

During his two terms in office, Clinton and Congress:

abolished budget deficits and brought budget surpluses.

Bill Clinton helped found the Democratic Leadership Conference in 1985 to:

define a middle way between liberalism and conservatism.

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 allows employees to take up to 12 weeks of leave to care for a new baby or to care for an ill family member at full pay.

false

In terms of the federal budget, Clinton encountered in 1993:

huge deficits.

Clinton had to retreat from which of the following in his first year in office?

large increase in job training and stimulus spending

The Adoption and Safe Families Act aimed to reduce the number of children in foster care by:

placing the children available for adoption once they had been in foster care for 15 of the preceding 22 months.

Some Republicans were against Clinton's expansion of benefits of the Earned Income Tax Credit because:

they viewed it as a welfare program rather than a tax credit.

In the 1995 budget battle Republicans sought to cut taxes, make huge cuts in social spending, add billions to military spending, and decrease deficits.

true

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities helps citizens and advocates understand specific budget issues in the federal budget process.

true

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Act of 1996 sought to end welfare as an entitlement and replace it with a federal block grant.

true

Clinton's proposal for national health insurance:

was defeated by Congress.