Legislation and programs

Major legislation signed

• February 5 1993 - The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
  
• August 10 1993 - Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Raised
  income tax rates; income tax, top rate: 39.6%; corporate tax: 35%
  
• September 21 1993 - creation of the AmeriCorps volunteer program
  
• November 30 1993 - Brady Bill
  
• September 13 1994 - Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, part of an omnibus crime bill, the federal death penalty was expanded to some 60 different offenses (see Federal assault weapons ban)
  
• 1995 - Executive Order 12958, created tough new standards for the process of classifying documents.
  
• February 1 1996 - Communications Decency Act
  
• February 8 1996 - Telecom Reform Act: eliminated major ownership restrictions for radio and television groups.
  
• February 26 1996 - Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, a welfare reform bill
  
• March 14 1996 - authorized $100 million counter-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists.
  
• April 9 1996 - Line Item Veto Act
  
• April 24 1996 - Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
• August 20 1996 - Minimum wage Increase Act
  
• September 21 1996 - Defense of Marriage Act, allowed states the power to refuse to recognize gay marriages granted in other states, banned federal government from providing LGBT Americans with equal access to federal immigration, taxation and family laws
  
• August 5 1997 - Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
  
• October 28 1998 - Digital Millennium Copyright Act
  
• October 31 1998 - Iraq Liberation Act

Major legislation vetoed

• national budget
  
• H.R. 1833, partial birth abortion ban
  
• Twice vetoed welfare reform before signing
  
• the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Congress overrode the veto, however, to enact the bill into law.
  
• Proposals not passed by Congress
  
• Health care reform
  
• Campaign finance reform (1993)
  

Initiatives

• Appointed a committee on Social Security Reform and then dismissed their recommendations without ever proposing legislation.
  
• Tried to get Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian National Authority, to agree to a final settlement agreement.
  
• Initiated the Don't ask, don't tell policy toward gays in the military, 1993.
  
• Reversed a ban on senior Sinn Féin politicians entering the U.S.
  
• Proposed a national challenge to end the racial divide in America, the One America Initiative.
  
• Extraordinary rendition got approval for the first time in the USA from the Clinton administration

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