• Bans semiautomatic assault weapons.
• Expands federal death penalty to cover approximately 60 offenses, including terrorist homicides and murder of a federal law enforcement officer.
• Requires states to register violent sex offenders.
• Imposes mandatory life imprisonment for federal offenders with three or more convictions for violent felonies or drug trafficking.
• Authorized more than $8 billion in grants to states and localities to hire more police officers.
• Authorized more than $8 billion in grants to states and localities to build prisons and "boot camp" facilities.
• Authorized more than $380 million for prison drug treatment programs.

• Supports strong federal role in education directed by the federal Department of Education.
• Initiated and signed into law the AmeriCorps national service program, which offers college tuition to young people in exchange for community service.
• Initiated and signed into law the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, an attempt to develop a voluntary national system of skill standards and certifications.

• Supports current versions of Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.
• Supports requiring companies to release information about toxic waste to community officials in areas where they dump the materials.
• Supports exemptions for single family homeowners with five or fewer acres of land from wetlands and endangered species regulation.

• Supported the Brady bill, which imposes a waiting period on handgun purchases.
• Supported ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.

• Ordered 20,000 American troops to participate in NATO peacekeeping force in Bosnia.
• Supported effort to remove military dictatorship in Haiti and reinstall ousted President Aristide.
• Ordered American troops to Haiti to enforce transition from dictatorship to democracy.
• Convinced former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan to adhere to Strategic Arms Reduction agreements signed with former Soviet Union.
• Supports adding $25 billion in defense spending over the next six years.
• Supported American involvement in peace talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization; Israel and Jordan. U.S. is attempting to bring Israel and Syria together for peace talks.
• Supported American involvement in peace talks in Northern Ireland.

• Supported sweeping health care reform plan that would have guaranteed health insurance coverage to all Americans. Key provisions of Clinton's Health Care plan were rejected by Congress.
• Supports incremental health reforms, such as reduced premiums on COBRA benefits and voluntary purchasing pools for small businesses and the self-employed.
• Opposes Republicans' proposed cuts in Medicare.

• Supports spending more than $1 billion on increased border patrols, tougher enforcement of immigration laws and deportations.
• Supports denying welfare benefits and public services to illegal immigrants.
• Supports allowing children of illegal immigrants to attend public schools.
• Supports reimbursing states for expenses connected to illegal immigration.

• Supported North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
• Supported renewal of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
• Supported punitive tariffs on Japanese automobiles to force Japan to open its markets to U.S. goods.
• Opposed linking China's Most Favored Nation trade status to its human rights performance.

• Supports giving states flexibility to develop their own welfare policies.
• Supports work and job training requirements for welfare recipients.
• Opposes welfare reform bill passed by the House because of its provision that cuts off benefits to women who have more children while on welfare. Has expressed qualified support for slightly more moderate Senate version of the bill.

Much of the information in this report was derived from A Look at President Clinton's Accomplishments (an official home page located at the Whitehouse Web Site); from the President's 1995 State of the Union Address; and from Project Vote Smart, a nonprofit, nonpartisan political research organization that maintains an extensive database of issue-related information.