Domestic Bill Clinton Failures

During President Clinton’s presidency he had many successes and failures domestically and foreign like the success of Clinton’s welfare-reform bill and his North American Free Trade Agreement or the failure of his health care plan and the refusal to sign an agreement to end a hazardous problem of landmines. However, President Clinton was impeached and not convicted because many people did not believe it was true and it was only a target of Republican zealots. In the year 2050, I think that historians will rank President Clinton a mediocre president because he had many failures during his presidency and the impeachment scandal under his belt as well. Clinton was pretty successful in his domestic policy, but he did have some failures that caused

In the domestic policy angle, Clinton had many successes and failures. A success that he had was the Clinton welfare-reform bill which put a two year limit on payments from the federal welfare program also known as Aid to families with Dependent Children (AFDC). This allowed able-bodied recipients to have to find work, and it included job training and child-care provisions. Forcing absent fathers to support their offspring, the procedures to bar unmarried welfare mothers who had more babies from automatically receiving increased payments. However the AFDC can also be looked at a failure as well because with 14.2 million women and children on its rolls it costed about $125 billion in 1994 with the direct payments, food stamps, and Medicaid benefits. Critics also contended that the welfare system encouraged irresponsible social behavior and trapped recipients in a multi-genera rate of out-of-wedlock births to AFDC policies that paid mothers higher benefits for each child. The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 was also another success of President Clinton’s. This reversed 60 years of welfare policy and it replaced the AFDC with block grants to states to develop their own programs within funding limits and

He had committed this perjury in his Paula Jones testimony and he persuaded Monica Lewinsky to lie under oath about their sexual affairs. Lewinsky admitted the affair after a promise of immunity to a grand jury. The Judiciary COmmittee forwarded four articles of impeachment to the House of Representatives. However, Clinton wasn’t convicted because the public felt that the president’s actions didn’t meet the Constitution’s “high crimes and misdemeanors” standard removal from office. Voters appeared willing to tolerate his personal flaws and they saw him as a target of Republican