Passage 2
Bill Clinton came to the White House with an ambitious domestic agenda. The two most important issues Clinton had promised to deal with---the economy and health-care reform---by themselves would have required of any new administration an enormous investment of political will and energy. But Clinton also chose to press ahead quickly on a wide range of issues: lifting the ban on gays in the military, seeking passage of a highly controversial U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, pressing campaign finance reform and welfare reform, enacting a national service program to let young people repay federal education loans through community service, proposing an anticrime program, devising a timber policy for the Northwest that balanced economic and environmental interests, and launching a program to streamline government --- or what Vice President Al Gore, put in charge of the effort by Clinton, called “reinventing government.”
It was not surprising, therefore, that Clinton had a different first year in office. He was elected with a less than overwhelming mandate for so sweeping an agenda, having only won 43 percent of the vote in a three-way race against George Bush and the billionaire Ross Perot. And, to carry out his program, he first had to take control of the government.
Ultimately, Clinton won a hard-fought victory on his initial top priority, a deficit-reduction package. But the narrowness of that victory, and the fact that it inspired little enthusiasm among many Americans, raised questions about the strength of his presidency.
On foreign affairs, Clinton was confronted with a more complicated geopolitical map than his predecessors. The competition with the Soviet Union and the Communist world, which had been the central focus of American policymaking for more than four decades, had given way to less clear-out questions about what role the U.S. should play in restoring order or keeping the peace in countries like Bosnia and Herzegovian or Somalia.
Bill Clinton came to the White House with an ambitious domestic agenda. The two most important issues Clinton had promised to deal with —— the economy and health-care reform —— by themselves would have required of any new administration an enormous investment of political will and energy. But Clinton also chose to press ahead quickly on a wide range of issues: lifting the ban on gays in the military, seeking passage of a highly controversial U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, pressing campaign finance reform and welfare reform, enacting a national service program to let young people repay federal education loans through community service, proposing an anticrime program, devising a timber policy for the Northwest that balanced economic and environmental interests, and launching a program to streamline government —— or what Vice President Al Gore, put in charge of the effort by Clinton, called “reinventing government.”
It was not surprising, therefore, that Clinton had a different first year in office. He was elected with a less than overwhelming mandate for so sweeping an agenda, having only won 43 percent of the vote in a three-way race against George Bush and the billionaire Ross Perot. And, to carry out his program, he first had to take control of the government.
Ultimately, Clinton won a hard-fought victory on his initial top priority, a deficit-reduction package. But the narrowness of that victory, and the fact that it inspired little enthusiasm among many Americans, raised questions about the strength of his presidency.
On foreign affairs, Clinton was confronted with a more complicated geopolitical map than his predecessors. The competition with the Soviet Union and the Communist world, which had been the central focus of American policymaking for more than four decades, had given way to less clear-out questions about what role the U.S. should play in restoring order or keeping the peace in countries like Bosnia and Herzegovian or Somalia.
8. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the issues tackled by Clinton?
A
Lifting the ban on gays in the military.
B Finance reform and welfare reform.
C Proposing an anticrime program.
D
Increasing military expenses
Bill Clinton came to the White House with an ambitious domestic agenda. The two most important issues Clinton had promised to deal with---the economy and health-care reform---by themselves would have required of any new administration an enormous investment of political will and energy. But Clinton also chose to press ahead quickly on a wide range of issues: lifting the ban on gays in the military, seeking passage of a highly controversial U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, pressing campaign finance reform and welfare reform, enacting a national service program to let young people repay federal education loans through community service, proposing an anticrime program, devising a timber policy for the Northwest that balanced economic and environmental interests, and launching a program to streamline government --- or what Vice President Al Gore, put in charge of the effort by Clinton, called “reinventing government.”
It was not surprising, therefore, that Clinton had a different first year in office. He was elected with a less than overwhelming mandate for so sweeping an agenda, having only won 43 percent of the vote in a three-way race against George Bush and the billionaire Ross Perot. And, to carry out his program, he first had to take control of the government.
Ultimately, Clinton won a hard-fought victory on his initial top priority, a deficit-reduction package. But the narrowness of that victory, and the fact that it inspired little enthusiasm among many Americans, raised questions about the strength of his presidency.
On foreign affairs, Clinton was confronted with a more complicated geopolitical map than his predecessors. The competition with the Soviet Union and the Communist world, which had been the central focus of American policymaking for more than four decades, had given way to less clear-out questions about what role the U.S. should play in restoring order or keeping the peace in countries like Bosnia and Herzegovian or Somalia.
Bill Clinton came to the White House with an ambitious domestic agenda. The two most important issues Clinton had promised to deal with —— the economy and health-care reform —— by themselves would have required of any new administration an enormous investment of political will and energy. But Clinton also chose to press ahead quickly on a wide range of issues: lifting the ban on gays in the military, seeking passage of a highly controversial U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, pressing campaign finance reform and welfare reform, enacting a national service program to let young people repay federal education loans through community service, proposing an anticrime program, devising a timber policy for the Northwest that balanced economic and environmental interests, and launching a program to streamline government —— or what Vice President Al Gore, put in charge of the effort by Clinton, called “reinventing government.”
It was not surprising, therefore, that Clinton had a different first year in office. He was elected with a less than overwhelming mandate for so sweeping an agenda, having only won 43 percent of the vote in a three-way race against George Bush and the billionaire Ross Perot. And, to carry out his program, he first had to take control of the government.
Ultimately, Clinton won a hard-fought victory on his initial top priority, a deficit-reduction package. But the narrowness of that victory, and the fact that it inspired little enthusiasm among many Americans, raised questions about the strength of his presidency.
On foreign affairs, Clinton was confronted with a more complicated geopolitical map than his predecessors. The competition with the Soviet Union and the Communist world, which had been the central focus of American policymaking for more than four decades, had given way to less clear-out questions about what role the U.S. should play in restoring order or keeping the peace in countries like Bosnia and Herzegovian or Somalia.
8. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the issues tackled by Clinton?
A
Lifting the ban on gays in the military.
B Finance reform and welfare reform.
C Proposing an anticrime program.
D
Increasing military expenses