And in 1996, the Democrats returned to Chicago and nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term.
In the USA, President Barack Obama abandoned last year plans for a federal climate bill during his current term.
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The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill introduces a new mandatory custodial term for 16 and 17-year-olds who threaten with a knife.
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According to news reports, Democrats and Republicans are unlikely to reach any sort of budget agreement before April 8, when a short-term spending bill for the current fiscal year expires.
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Electing Hillary "is a way for us to have Bill Clinton be president again, and he did a great job during his term, " says 50.
According to a senior administration official, the president is still holding to his promise not to sign a short-term bill that extends Bush-era tax cuts across the board to buy time for a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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For the rest of her term and after, as the bill was discussed in Congress, Augsburger was a tireless advocate for same-sex marriage.
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Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was campaigning for his first term, he made a virtue of his disdain for foreign-policy issues.
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That marks the biggest rally for a presidential term since a 111% climb during Bill Clinton's first four years in office, which ended in 1997.
The debt ceiling bill failed to provide any relief to investors who were hoping for a better long term outlook on the US economy.
That energy culminated in a solid political defeat for President Bill Clinton two years into his first term when Republicans took over both the House and Senate in 1994, after 40 years of being in the minority.
BillFloat announced a new twist on its short-term loan service for bill payments.
We talked about drought relief and the need for Congress to take action on a comprehensive long-term farm bill, something that Republicans have blocked.
And as I've insisted from the beginning, it is a bill that is fully paid for and will actually reduce our long-term federal deficit.
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In fact, one bill has been filed in Connecticut this year that would establish a mandatory minimum prison term for someone charged with second-degree manslaughter after assisting another person with committing suicide.
Mid-term elections are near, and there is little political appetite for a bill that could affect jobs and energy prices.
McDougal, a former Whitewater business partner of Bill and Hillary Clinton, recently completed an 18-month jail term on a civil contempt citation for a previous refusal to testify.
Congress needs to set the record straight on policies whether that is a new highway bill, or corporate tax reform in order for companies to plan long term.
It said it was "unconvinced" by the arguments for introducing fixed term Parliaments, claiming the bill owed "more to short term considerations than to a mature assessment of enduring constitutional principles or sustained public demand".
This jobs bill connects the long-term unemployed to temporary work to keep their skills sharp while they look for a job, and it gives hundreds of thousands of young people the hope of a job next summer.
On the short-term list, we already, for example, passed a historic public lands bill that creates many more acres of public space that is environmentally protected -- (applause) -- from logging and from other -- from mining and from other uses.
Labour also plan a bill to extend maternity leave and pilot shared equity schemes for home ownership if they win an historic third term in office.
To avoid allowing a "zombie government" to stagger on for years, unable to muster a majority to pass any new laws, the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, says an election will be called 14 days after a lost confidence vote if no alternative government is able to show they have the confidence of MPs.
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