The Contract with America:
Promises Made, Promises Kept



Welfare Reform emphasizing work and families - VETOED TWICE BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
 Washington Values vs. Our Values
The Contract with America represented a victory for America's values over Washington's business-as-usual. Other important accomplishments under this theme include:
Tax Cuts for Families & Economic Growth - VETOED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
 Cuban Liberties Act
An Honest, 7-year Balanced Budget - VETOED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
 Lobbying reforms & gift bans
Medicare Preservation Act to preserve, protect and strengthen Medicare - VETOED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
 Ending the Era of Big Government
Line-item Veto to cut wasteful spending
 SAVED $9 billion in taxpayer funds in FY95 rescissions & $23 billion in FY96 appropriations
Congressional Accountability Act to make Congress live under the same workplace laws as the rest of us.
 ELIMINATED nearly 60 federal programs
Common Sense Legal Reforms to stop job-killing, out-of-control lawsuits
 Pro-market, pro-farmer Farm Bill, reversing decades of big government agriculture policy
Paperwork Reduction Act & Small Business Regulatory Reform to cut job-killing red tape
 Combating the Clinton Crunch
Unfunded Mandates Reform
 Telecommunications Reform which will create millions of new jobs
Housing for Older Persons Act & Increase in the Social Security Earnings Limit
 Increase in the health insurance tax deduction for the self-employed
Strengthened National Defense by stopping President Clinton's devastating defense cuts
 Returning Power to the States
Effective Death Penalty Act, Victims Restitution Act & Criminal Alien Deportation Act (in Conference)
 PASSED MediGrant reforms to give states power to provide health care to their poor & elderly populations - VETOED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
Sexual Crimes against Children Act
 Repealed 55-mph speed limit
Law Enforcement Block Grants & Truth-in-Sentencing Act - VETOED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON


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