Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed it. The signed agreement then needed to be authorized by each nation's legislative or parliamentary branch. Before the negotiations were finalized, Bill Clinton came into office in the U.S. and Kim Campbell in Canada, and before the agreement became law, Jean Chrétien had taken office in Canada. The proposed Canada-U.S. trade agreement had been very controversial and divisive in Canada, and the 1988
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Welcome back to Washington Polls before the mid-term elections on November 4th suggested Barack Obama’s party would be beaten, but this was a thrashing. Republicans captured the Senate easily and their majority in the House of Representatives is now the biggest it has been in most Americans’ lifetimes. A Republican candidate in New York was indicted for 20 counts of fraud, but won anyway. Close-up, the results are even worse for Democrats. They thought they could bin a bunch of tax-cutting, union-bashing
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people would like to increase taxes and spend more, in order to pay the debt off. The Clinton era was the last to have surplus in the federal government with a small increase in taxes. Clinton not only received a surplus during his term, there was also a double surplus and the economy was booming to new heights. During the Bush era in the new millennium, the economy was seeing a good outcome due to the Clinton administration foundation. This all change when the world trade center where hit by airplanes
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Ted Rall: BAD Obama! In this article, Ted Rall gives his view on Barrack Obama. He states that Obama is stupid, even more stupid than Sarah Palin. Ted gives his points and reason to why he felts that Obama is a bad president. The thesis is sentence five of the article. This is the Thesis because it tells the viewer what he is going to talk about. In this case it tells the reader that Obama is dumb. This is what the whole paper is about, Obama being a dumb president. This article is aimed
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Cultural Event Report The cultural event that I attended prior to my departure for Afghanistan is a jazz concert at the Richmond Library. The concert was performed by the Richmond Youth Jazz Guild and the event was free. My youngest son has been performing with the Jazz Guild since 2010 and they are some of the most talentant kids. I physical don’t remember the date and time but the start time was 8:00 p.m. This music selection on this night was from Miles Davis; one of the greatest jazz performers
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The White House’s Stance on Deportation of Illegal Immigrants In the New York Times article, “In the White House, debating how far to go in easing deportations,” authors Shear and Parker (2014) claim legislation is not moving as fast as it should on Capitol Hill. They state Republicans are stalling on the proposed changes to immigration laws causing the President to halt deportations (para. 7). The authors comment that if the President should take further action damage could occur with any future
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Absentee ballots played a large part in the debacle of the 2000 election. By Florida law, overseas absentee ballots could be counted until November 17. Overseas absentee ballots often come from wealthy Americans living abroad, or from members of the military. At midnight, the deadline passed for receipt of overseas absentee ballots. There were an estimated 2,300 of these ballots for Florida (over 25,000 overall), which were expected to have an impact on the final results. After counting the overseas
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Hillary Clinton Government Official, U.S. First Lady, Women's Rights Activist “We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.” - Hillary Clinton “We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. That is why
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Healthcare Bill Caused A Government Shutdown What to do about the rapid rise of healthcare costs has become a contentiously argued subject by the United States two major political parties. The finale of this debate sees us two weeks into a government shut down with a small but determined faction of ideologue republicans threatening to default on our nations debt unless President Obama scraps the biggest piece of legislation he’s gotten passed into law since his election in 2008, a healthcare bill, commonly
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Rondell Data Corporation and W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Question: President Bill Hunt is clearly uncomfortable sacking Frank Forbus, that too on Christmas Eve. He says, “I can’t understand why we have such poor luck in the engineering director’s job lately”. If the present trend at Rondell continues, future engineering directors too would, quite likely, find their jobs on the line; even as yet other new products
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