What was the Contract with America? How did President Clinton respond to Republican efforts to implement the programs outlined in the Contract?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
The Republican Contract with America called for welfare reform, a balanced budget, more prisons and longer sentences, increased defense spending, an end to legal abortion, and other conservative measures.
Republican victories in the 1994 mid-term election gave them control of both houses of Congress.
The new Republican Congress passed a large tax cut and a tough anticrime bill, increased military spending, and reduced federal regulatory power over the environment.
Clinton used his veto power to limit the Republican agenda, but he also took on some conservative issues as his own, such as free trade and welfare reform.
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