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themselves from Clinton.
· 8/9/94 - Attorney General Janet Reno asks for an independent counsel
to investigate Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy for
accepting gifts from companies regulated by his department (see
10/3/94).
· 8/10/94 - CBO reports the Clinton health care bill would cost more
than $1 trillion in its first eight years.
· 8/11/94 - Clinton suffers a major defeat when the rule needed to
bring his crime bill to the floor for a vote in the house is
defeated (see 9/13/94).
· 8/17/94 - Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman resigns amid
charges of lying Congress in his testimony concerning
Whitewater/Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) investigation.
· 8/18/94 - Treasury Counsel Jean Hanson resigns amid charges that she
briefed the White House on Whitewater/RTC investigation.
· 8/31/94 - After her son was sentenced to prison for 10 years for
selling cocaine, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders remarks,
"I don't feel that was a crime."
September, 1994
· 9/12/94 -Clinton swears in first Americorps volunteers, promising
each will cost taxpayers only $17,600. The program is
later revealed to cost taxpayers $26,000 per "volunteer."
· 9/13/94 - Clinton crime bill, containing $7 billion in programs like
midnight basketball, signed into law.
· 9/22/94 - Justice Department says it's investigating whether Housing
and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros
lied to the FBI about payments he made to his former mistress (see
3/13/95).
October, 1994
· 10/3/94 - Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy resigns amid charges he
accepted gifts and perks barred by federal ethics laws
and rules.
November, 1994
· 11/8/94 - Election Night! GOP gains 52 seats in the House (six from
Washington state) and eight in the Senate, winning
control of Congress for the first time since 1954. GOP picks up 11
governorships and 19 new majorities in state legislative
chambers. Not one incumbent Republican governor, senator or
representative loses.
· 11/9/94 - Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby switches to the Republican
Party.
December, 1994
· 12/6/94 - Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell pleads
guilty (see 8/7/95).
· 12/9/94 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after suggesting
school-children should be taught how to masturbate.
· 12/21/94 - Health care task force court case declared moot because
the White House finally agrees to release all
documents pertaining to the task force (see 8/11/95).
1995
February, 1995
· 2/2/95 - Dr. Henry Foster Jr. nominated surgeon general; controversy
erupts over conflicting accounts of the number of
abortions he performed.
· 2/6/95 - Clinton submits his first FY '96 budget, containing around
$200 billion in deficits for each of the next three years
(see 5/19/95).
· 2/12/95 - The Los Angeles Times reveals Veterans Affairs Secretary
Jesse Brown made 20 trips at taxpayers' expense to
his hometown of Chicago -- rarely attending any official events.
· 2/19/95 - The Justice Department begins investigating Commerce
Secretary Ron Brown for violation of tax and financial
disclosure laws and whether he took money from people seeking to
influence him (see 5/17/95).
March, 1995
· 3/3/95 - Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell switches to the
Republican Party.
· 3/13/95 - Attorney General Janet Reno concludes HUD Secretary Henry
Cisneros made yearly payments to his mistress of
between $42,000 and $60,000 -- contradicting Cisneros' claim to the
FBI that his yearly payments totaled no more than
$10,000.
April, 1995
· 4/3/95 - The Medicare Board of Trustees, which includes three
members of Clinton's own Cabinet, releases report stating
Medicare will go bankrupt in seven years; Clinton ignores the report,
refusing to work with Congress to save Medicare.
· 4/8/95 - Breaking his campaign promise to end "soft-money"
contributions, Clinton attends a $50,000-a-couple dinner in
California (see 7/5/95).
· 4/10/95 - Georgia Rep. Nathan Deal switches to the Republican Party.
· 4/13/95 - Clinton refers to passage of his tax increase -- the
largest in America's history -- as "a great moment for me" (see
10/17/95).
May, 1995
· 5/2/95 - Attorney General Janet Reno promotes Larry Potts -- who
coordinated the Waco raid and was censured for his
role in the 1992, Ruby Ridge, Idaho shootout -- to deputy director of
the FBI (see 7/14/95).
· 5/17/95 - An independent counsel is appointed to investigate
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.
· 5/19/95 - Clinton's first budget is defeated in the Senate, 99-0.
· 5/23/95 - Clinton announces "From the beginning of my campaign, I
said that the one thing I did not think we should do is to
send American troops into combat in Bosnia" (see 9/1/595).
· 5/24/95 - An independent counsel is name to investigate if the lies
HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros told to the FBI constitute
a felony.
June, 1995
· 6/13/95 - Clinton offers a 10-year plan to balance the budget.
· 6/16/95 - The CBO reports Clinton's 10-year "balanced budget plan"
would leave a $209 billion deficit in 2005 (See
10/24/95).
· 6/25/95 - The Los Angeles Times reveals Energy Secretary Hazel
O'Leary, at taxpayers expense, routinely upgrades her
airline flights to business and first class and stays at expensive
hotels -- seeking reimbursement at as much as 150% of the
maximum level allowed.
· 6/26/95 - Texas Rep. Greg Laughlin switches to the Republican Party.
July, 1995
· 7/5/95 - Public interest groups accuse the DNC of selling the
presidency by seeking $100,000 contributions that buy two
meals with Clinton, two with Gore and meetings with administration
officials. DNC defends practice despite Clinton's earlier
denunciations of "cliques of $100,000 donors [who] buy access to
Congress and the White House."
· 7/11/95 - Clinton announces normalization of relations with Vietnam
without a full accounting of U.S. MIAs and POWs --
after having said as a candidate that this "was putting the cart
before the horse."
· 7/14/95 - FBI Director Louis Freeh announces that he is removing
Larry Potts as deputy director because of the
controversy over his role in the Ruby Ridge shootout.
August, 1995
· 8/7/95 - Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell begins
serving 21-month sentence for mail fraud and tax
evasion.
· 8/7/95 - Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin switches to the Republican
party.
· 8/11/95 - The White House is ordered to pay the legal fees of the
plaintiffs in the health care task force trial.
· 8/17/95 - Clinton's partner in the Whitewater venture, Jim McDougal,
is indicted on 19 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud,
making false statements and false bank reports, and misapplying funds.
September, 1995
· 9/15/95 - Clinton claims the Republican plan to save Medicare, by
allowing Medicare spending to grow at more than two
times the rate of inflation, "would dismantle Medicare as we know it"
(see 10/5/93).
· 9/15/95 - Secretary of Defense William Perry announces U.S. combat
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