The presidency of Bill Clinton began at noon EST on January 20, 1993, when Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2001. Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office. The nation experienced an extended period of economic prosperity during the Clinton presidency. Clinton vetoed many of these policies, but signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act into law. In August 1996, Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. In October 1996, Senator Ted Kennedy introduced a bill to provide health care coverage for children of the working poor, to be financed via a 75 cents a pack cigarette tax increase. Working with Clinton and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, Kennedy won passage of the Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997.
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