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Signing the Family and Medical Leave Act		  
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Signing the National Voter Registration Act		  
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Creating AmeriCorp		  
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Signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act		  
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Enacting gun control		  
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Enacting harsher crime penalties		  
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Signing the Violence Against Women Act		  
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Deregulating telecommunications laws		  
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Signing Megan's Law		  
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Welfare reform		  
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Signing DOMA		  
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Don't ask, don't tell		  
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Balancing the budget		  
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Creating SCHIP		  
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Signing the Kyoto Protocol		  
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Signing the Iraq Liberation Act		  
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Oslo Accords		  
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Appointing Ruth Bader Ginsburg to SCOTUS		  
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Appointing Stephen Breyer to SCOTUS		  
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Repealing Glass-Steagall		  
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Signing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act		  
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Signing NAFTA		  
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Bombing the Balkans		  
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Making Newt Gingrich his bitch during the government shutdown		  
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Getting blown in the Oval Office whilst speaking to members of Congress		  
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« on: November 24, 2016, 09:41:09 PM »
Since we have an Obama one and (I think) a W. Bush one, here's Clinton.  More of these to come possibly.

For me, it's a close call between the Medical Leave Act and RBG.  Voted RBG because she is a treasure.

Half the stuff on this list is awful.
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« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2016, 10:02:05 PM »
The balanced budget, even though that was mostly Kasich's work. Of the ones that were his, I admire Breyer, I guess. The lack of negotiation or diplomacy with Yugoslavia pre-genocide is terrible, though, and Yugoslavia definitely should have been paid more attention by every President post-Ford.
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« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2016, 10:20:54 PM »
Unsure

top choices would be
-FMLA
-Children's Health Insurance Program
-Violence Against Women Act
-Voter Registration
-AmeriCorps (the "ps" at the end is silent)
-balanced budgets
-Ginsburg


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« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2016, 10:51:19 PM »
I would say the Medical Leave Act. But the balanced budget and the nomination of RBG are a close 2nd and 3rd.
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« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2016, 11:11:17 PM »
Only about two or three things on this list are not absolutely dreadful.
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« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2016, 11:27:00 PM »
Quote from: Blue3 on November 24, 2016, 10:20:54 PM
Unsure

top choices would be
-FMLA
-Children's Health Insurance Program
-Violence Against Women Act
-Voter Registration
-AmeriCorps (the "ps" at the end is silent)
-balanced budgets
-Ginsburg


Is this really it?

These are the most notable or controversial ones.
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« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2016, 11:28:51 PM »
Welfare reform, Balanced budget, and the Kosovo 1999 war. You need welfare reform. Too many dependence and a lot of people are still abusing it. We need another overhaul of it, soon and fast. The balanced budget was one of the greatest acts of the 20th century.
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« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2016, 11:33:03 PM »
RFRA
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« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2016, 11:38:40 PM »
I voted for balancing the budget w/ the GOP Congress. Welfare Reform and NAFTA are up there as well.
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« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2016, 11:41:18 PM »
I looked it up, but I'm still not sure what the actual impact of that law has been?
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« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2016, 11:58:56 PM »
S-CHIP.
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« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2016, 12:09:08 AM »
SCHIP.
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« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2016, 02:23:55 AM »
Some good things, but I'll say:
1a. Ginsburg
1b. Gun control

Ginsburg gets the slight edge because she's still around and her opinions will live on when she goes, and because the assault weapons ban is no more.
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« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2016, 04:13:29 AM »
Balancing the Budget and Welfare Reform
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« Reply #14 on: November 25, 2016, 05:55:31 AM »
NAFTA. Getting a BJ in the Oval Office was also pretty good.
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« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2016, 02:16:05 PM »
Medical Leave, SCHIP, and NAFTA.
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« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2016, 03:18:24 PM »
SCHIP is a good program, I picked that one
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« Reply #17 on: November 25, 2016, 03:23:21 PM »
NAFTA.
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« Reply #18 on: November 25, 2016, 03:54:40 PM »
Don't ask, don't tell
Enacting harsher crime penalties (notably death)
Signing DOMA
Signing the Iraq Liberation Act
Repealing Glass-Steagall
Bombing the Balkans


As if those are "accomplishments"...
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« Reply #19 on: November 26, 2016, 01:33:29 AM »
« Edited: November 26, 2016, 01:35:02 AM by Frodo »
The Family & Medical Leave Act, as well as his establishment of the state Children's Health Insurance Program (Hillary's idea in the wake of the failure of a much broader health care bill).

And let's not forget the Northern Ireland Peace Accord as his greatest foreign policy accomplishment.

And I would have included the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 if Yasser Arafat had the good sense in signing a peace agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Israel in 2000, which was the last best chance for a two-state solution.  
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« Reply #20 on: November 26, 2016, 02:22:53 AM »
Balancing the budget.
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« Reply #21 on: November 26, 2016, 05:45:44 AM »
Balancing the budget.
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« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2016, 04:14:02 PM »
Signing the Defense of Marriage Act.
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« Reply #23 on: November 27, 2016, 04:34:11 PM »
As much as I hate to say it, balancing the budget.
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« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2016, 05:03:48 PM »
Tough choice between the FMLA and Justice Ginsburg. I ended up voting for the latter. (I do like balancing the budget as well, but not necessarily the way it was accomplished.)
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