In 1996, he took a comedic turn as ultra-conservative Senator Kevin Keeley in The Birdcage with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

U. S. Senator Bob Dole decried its supposed moral depravity and glorification of drug use during the 1996 presidential campaign, although he admitted that he had not actually seen the film.

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

During his 1996 presidential run, Senator Bob Dole promised, " We're going to cut out the Department of Education.

* Bob Dole, U. S. Senator from Kansas, Senate Majority Leader, 1996 Republican nominee for President

Raimondo withdrew his name from consideration following controversy over Behlen's operations in China ; and, according to Robert Novak, because of opposition from Senator Chuck Hagel arising from Raimondo's support of Democrat Ben Nelson over Republican Hagel in the 1996 senatorial election.

* 1996 recall of Wisconsin State Senator George Petak

Similar to Senator Proxmire in 1988, Representative Leach responded to the House ’ s inaction on his Glass-Steagall “ repeal ” bill by writing the Federal Reserve Board in June 1996 encouraging it to increase the limit on Section 20 affiliate bank-ineligible revenue.

Film appearances included performances in Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again ( 1991 ), Branagh's full-text rendition of Hamlet ( 1996 ) as King Claudius, John Maybury's Love is the Devil ( 1998 ), a portrait of painter Francis Bacon, as Senator Gracchus in Gladiator ( 2000 ) with Russell Crowe, and as " The Duke " opposite Christopher Eccleston and Eddie Izzard in a post-apocalyptic version of Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy ( 2002 ).

Ronald Lee " Ron " Wyden ( born May 3, 1949 ) is the senior United States Senator for Oregon, serving since 1996, and a member of the Democratic Party.

* Louisiana State Senator Joe McPherson, who has represents Rapides Parish from 1984 – 1996 and again since 2000, graduated from NSU.

From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ), whose honorary president he remains.

Meisler instead suggests that Clinton sought to veto Boutros Ghali's second term to increase his own popularity, as Senator Bob Dole, who was running against Clinton in 1996, had gotten a few votes by repeatedly denouncing Boutros-Ghali vehemently.

In 1996, Coleman joined the Republican Party and was reelected in 1997 as Mayor of St. Paul, defeating Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee State Senator Sandy Pappas.

In 1996, when President Clinton endorsed Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's proposed cuts to legal immigration Senator Abraham played a leading role in blocking the proposed cuts.

In 1996, Durbin defeated Pat Quinn to become the Democratic Party's nominee to replace the retiring Democratic incumbent, Senator Paul Simon, a long-time friend.

Rockefeller is related to several prominent Republican Party supporters and former officeholders: He is a great-grandson of Nelson W. Aldrich, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island ( 1881 – 1911 ); a nephew of David Rockefeller, the Rockefeller patriarch ; Winthrop Rockefeller, 37th Governor of Arkansas ( 1967 – 71 ); and Nelson Rockefeller, 49th Governor of New York ( 1959 – 73 ) and 41st Vice President of the United States ( 1974 – 77 ); the son-in-law of Charles H. Percy, U. S. Senator from Illinois ; and a cousin of Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas ( 1996 – 2006 ).

Podesta held positions on Capitol Hill, including Counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas Daschle ( 1995 – 1996 ); Chief Counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee ( 1987 – 1988 ); Chief Minority Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks ; Security and Terrorism ; and Regulatory Reform ; and Counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee ( 1979 – 1981 ).

* October 20-Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator ( d. 1996 )

* June 18-Arthur Tremblay, politician and Senator ( d. 1996 )

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

* Kieran Mulvaney and Mark Warford ( 1996 ): Witness: Twenty-Five Years on the Environmental Front Line, Andre Deutsch.

* 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

In 1996, Congress attempted to enhance the president's veto power with the Line Item Veto Act.

British examples are At Risk ( 2004 ), Secret Asset ( 2006 ), Illegal Action ( 2007 ), and Dead Line ( 2008 ), by Dame Stella Rimington ( formerly the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996 ) and The Code Snatch ( 2001 ) by Alan Stripp, formerly a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

The fourth, the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, was invalidated in 1998.

( 1988 ), Heart of Dixie ( 1989 ), Mystery Train ( 1989 ), The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ), Trespass ( 1991 ), The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag ( 1992 ), The Firm ( 1993 ), The Delta ( 1996 ), The People Vs. Larry Flynt ( 1996 ), The Rainmaker ( 1997 ), Cast Away ( 2000 ), 21 Grams ( 2002 ), A Painted House ( 2002 ), Black Snake Moan ( 2005 ), Forty Shades of Blue ( 2005 ), Walk the Line ( 2005 ), Hustle & Flow ( 2006 ), Nothing But the Truth ( 2008 ), Soul Men ( 2008 ), and The Grace Card ( 2011 ).

( 1960 ), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1962 ), Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line ( 1976 ), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Jonathan Larson's Rent ( 1996 ), and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal ( 2010 ).

* Dumb and Dumber ( 1995 – 1996, co-production with New Line Cinema, ABC )

Congress attempted to grant this power to the president by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control " pork barrel spending ", but in 1998 the US Supreme Court ruled the act to be unconstitutional in a 6-3 decision in Clinton v. City of New York.

Dinh and Sales argued that the Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006 satisfies the Constitution ’ s Bicameralism and Presentment Clause, and therefore avoids the constitutional issues raised in the 1996 Act struck down by the Supreme Court.

In 1962 China and India fought a brief war over Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, but in 1993 and 1996 the two countries signed agreements to respect the Line of Actual Control.

In 1996, the United States Congress passed, and President Bill Clinton signed, the Line Item Veto Act of 1996.

* Line ( singer ) ( born 1996 ), Danish singer and finalist in the Danish X Factor

* Taipei's Brown Line ( opened in 1996, larger variant using the MAGGALY technology from Lyon Metro line D )

* Alan Gillie, " The Origin of the Poverty Line ", Economic History Review, XLIX / 4 ( 1996 ), 726

Midland Mainline ( legal name Midland Main Line Limited, company no 3007934 ) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the Midland Main Line franchise from April 1996 until November 2007.

It was set up at the privatisation of British Rail in 1996, and operates local passenger trains from Marylebone station in London to Aylesbury and main-line trains on the Chiltern Main Line to Birmingham Snow Hill with its associated branches.

The Porrettana Line went into service in 1864, the Direttissima in 1934 and the High Speed in 1996.

Stanley's next project was the third major movie version of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau for New Line Cinema in 1996.