The American Bankers Association, former President William J. Clinton, and others have argued that the GLBA permission for affiliation between securities and commercial banking firms “ helped to mitigate ” or “ softened ” the financial crisis by permitting bank holding companies to acquire troubled securities firms or such troubled firms to convert into bank holding companies.

Even then, however, the Clinton legal team opined that its actions were consistent with the War Powers Resolution because Congress had approved a bill funding the operation, which they argued constituted implicit authorization.

Some have argued that Howe failed to follow instructions and essentially abandoned Burgoyne's army ; others suggest that Burgoyne failed on his own and then tried to shift the blame to Howe and Clinton.

Starr also argued that Clinton abused power by: denying the relationship with Lewinsky ever occurred ; using executive privilege to both pursue an appeal against the case without Starr's knowledge ; using executive privilege to cover up the relationship ; delaying his grand jury testimony until August, and by getting the Secret Service to agree to assist in covering up the relationship in an acquiescing matter.

Hyde argued that the House had a constitutional and civic duty to impeach Bill Clinton for perjury.

Clinton argued that federalism allows peoples seeking recognition of their identity a way to do so without isolating themselves in a nation-state.

" When asked why voters should choose Dornan over his Republican rivals to challenge Clinton in the general election, he argued that he had more children and grandchildren than the others, with only Richard Lugar coming anywhere near him on that score.

He argued that had the Clinton administration limited its use of the Line Item Veto Act in this fashion, it would have ensured that when the constitutionality of the Act was inevitably challenged, the challenge would have been based on terms most favorable to the Executive.

The Clinton White House argued that the Recommendation Clause in Article II of the U. S. Constitution would make it unconstitutional to apply the procedural requirements of FACA to Hillary's participation in the meetings of the Task Force.

The conservative Heritage Foundation argued " the Clinton Administration is imposing a top-down, command-and-control system of global budgets and premium caps, a superintending National Health Board and a vast system of government sponsored regional alliances, along with a panoply of advisory boards, panels, and councils, interlaced with the expanded operations of the agencies of Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor, issuing innumerable rules, regulations, guidelines, and standards.

In 2004, as a U. S. senator from New York, Hillary Clinton argued in The New York Times that the current health care system is unsustainable, and she offered several solutions.

During the campaign, questions of conflict of interest regarding state business and the politically powerful Rose Law Firm, at which Hillary Rodham Clinton was a partner, arose.

In it she answered a studio audience's questions about her life and the Clinton affair.

Lewinsky corresponded in 2009 with scholar Ken Gormley, who was writing an in-depth study of the Clinton scandals, maintaining that Clinton had lied under oath when asked detailed and specific questions about his relationship with her.

The allegations brought against the Chief Executive were damaging, but did not comprise discredit until enough substance arose from the testimony under oath of Paula Jones and Monica Lewinski to raise genuine questions of the credibility of President Clinton.

Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater, and was later granted a pardon by President Clinton just before leaving office.

When President Bill Clinton called WBAI on Election Day 2000 for a quick get-out-the-vote message, Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto challenged him for 28 minutes with questions about Leonard Peltier, racial profiling, the Iraq sanctions, Ralph Nader, the death penalty, the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In the twenty-first century, historians Catherine Clinton and Deirdre David have studied Kemble's Journal and raised questions about her portrayal of the Roswell Kings, who managed Pierce Butler's plantations, and Kemble's own racial sentiments.

While looking directly at Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard, who was present in the audience, Clinton appeared to echo the Supreme Court Reference, warning that " when a people thinks it should be independent in order to have a meaningful political existence, serious questions should be asked .... Are minority rights as well as majority rights respected?

Among the questions, Russert had asked Clinton, but not Obama, to provide the name of the new Russian President ( Dmitry Medvedev ).

Eventually both Clinton and Lewinsky had to appear before a Washington, D. C., grand jury to answer questions, although Clinton appeared via closed circuit television.

Her refusal to answer " three questions " for a grand jury about whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court.

She was publicly rebuked for refusing to answer " three questions " about whether President Clinton had lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, particularly when he denied any knowledge of an illegal $ 300, 000 loan.

On July 22, 1995, Hillary Clinton gave a deposition under oath to the Independent Counsel that touched on travel office questions ; she denied having had a role in the firings, but was unable to recall many specifics of conversations with Foster and Watkins.

The Congressional investigation continued ; on March 21, 1996, Hillary Clinton submitted a deposition under oath to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, again acknowledging concern about irregularities in the Travel Office but denying a direct role in the firings and expressing a lack of recollection to a number of questions.

Former American president Bill Clinton endorses the book, calling it " a deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel, its security, its democracy, and its prospects for a just and lasting peace " on the back cover, adding " Beinart explains the roots of the current political and religious debates within Israel, raises the tough questions that can't be avoided, and offers a new way forward to achieve Zionism's founding ideals, both in Israel and among the diaspora Jews in the United States and elsewhere ".

President Clinton would address questions from audience members at WXYZ's studios as well as audiences at other television stations via satellite.

In November 2000, one episode revolved around the United States 2000 presidential election where Nicotero wore an Uncle Sam costume when questioning savants and all questions pertained to American elections or political workings, such as " Why did Bill Clinton refuse to seek a third term?

As Clinton Heylin notes, " allowing each line to raise questions that lead the listener across the flatlands of Texas and time, Shepard contributes a conversational tone that hints at the very mundanity the song's characters are seeking to transcend.

In January 1996, Clinton went on a ten-city book tour and made numerous television appearances to promote the book, although she was frequently hit with questions about her involvement in the Whitewater and Travelgate controversies.

In 2009, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to questions submitted by listeners in Afghanistan during an interview in Radio Azadi's studios in Prague.

Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached.

Clinton and the committee were responsible for state educational improvement programs, notably more spending for schools, rising opportunities for gifted children, an increase in vocational education, raising of teachers ' salaries, inclusion of a wider variety of courses, and compulsory teacher testing for aspiring educators.

A U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never charged, and Clinton maintains innocence in the affair.

Later known as Troopergate, the allegations by these men were that they arranged sexual liaisons for Bill Clinton back when he was governor of Arkansas.

Brock later apologized to Clinton, saying the article was politically motivated " bad journalism " and that " the troopers were greedy and had slimy motives.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

Impeachment proceedings were based on allegations that Clinton had lied about his relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

Clinton also experienced a number of judicial appointment controversies, as 69 nominees to federal judgeships were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.

However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

Some black activists were also offended, claiming Clinton used his knowledge of black culture to exploit black people like no other president before for political gain, while not serving black interests.

" After Congressional phone lines were flooded by organized anti-gay opposition, President Clinton backed off on his campaign promise to repeal the ban in favor of DADT.

The Clinton Administration on December 21, 1993, issued Defense Directive 1304. 26, which directed that military applicants were not to be asked about their sexual orientation.

Some of these supposed Tories protested to New York Governor George Clinton that they were actually dispossessed Yorkers.

During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.

The historian Clinton Rossiter called the Federalist Papers “ the most important work in political science that ever has been written, or is likely ever to be written, in the United States .” They were not scholarly arguments or impartial justifications for the constitution, but political polemics intended to assist the federalists in New York, which was the only state to have a coordinated anti-federalist movement.

Although Kenilworth's great tower is larger, it is similar to that of Brandon Castle near Coventry ; both were built by the local Clinton family in the 1120s.

Geoffrey and his uncle William de Clinton were forced to come to terms with Beaumont ; this set-back, and the difficult years of the Anarchy ( 1135 – 54 ), delayed any further development of the castle.

In addition, relying upon the definition of " sexual relations " as proposed by the prosecution and agreed by the defense and by Judge Susan Webber Wright, who was hearing the Paula Jones case, Clinton claimed that because certain acts were performed on him, not by him, he did not engage in sexual relations.

Both Clinton and Lewinsky were called before a grand jury ; Clinton testified via closed-circuit television, Lewinsky in person.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced plans in the spring of 2012 for a “ targeted easing ” of sanctions to allow American dollars to enter the country, but companies could not move ahead until the sanctions were formally suspended.

According to the IPS, the Clinton administration de-classified more than 16, 000 documents related to Chile, but withheld documents related to the Letelier-Moffitt assassination in Washington on the grounds that they were associated with an ongoing investigation.