Clinton walked out of the UC Irvine Medical Center in California arm-in-arm with his wife Hillary Clinton, pausing to shake hands and take pictures with his medical team. Clinton will travel cross country to return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics, according to a statement from Dr. Alpesh Amin, who had been overseeing the team of doctors treating the former president.
Clinton's fever and white blood cell count are normalized, he added. Clinton, 75, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday. Clinton's doctors said earlier in a joint statement that he was admitted to the hospital for "close monitoring" and administered IV antibiotics and fluids.
They said that the California-based medical team has been in "constant communication" with the President's New York-based team, including his cardiologist.
NBC News, citing a source close to Clinton, said the former president was in intensive care as a "precautionary measure" taken by the hospital to isolate him — not because it was required as part of his treatment.
The original infection was diagnosed as urologic, but it turned into a broader one, said the source, according to the NBC report. Clinton, who is 75, also has had a history of heart problems. Religious Freedom in Schools Protected In order to protect religious expression in public schools while preserving the separation of church and state, President Clinton issued an executive memorandum outlining several principles of religious expression in schools.
This directive clarified that under our Constitution students are free to express their religious views, pray and discuss religion at school in a non-disruptive and non-coercive manner and that teachers may teach about the importance of religion in art, literature and history.
At the same time, schools and teachers may not endorse religious activity or doctrine, nor may they coerce participation in religious activity. The proposal required young people to prove their age to buy cigarettes, banned vending machines in places where minors can go, ended the marketing of cigarettes and tobacco to minors, and required the tobacco industry to fund an education campaign to prevent kids from smoking.
The proposal took effect when new FDA regulations were announced on August 23, Dayton Peace Accords Signed Leaders of the rival factions in the Bosnian civil war signed a treaty to end the nearly four-year-old conflict, formally approving the pact they had initialed in November in Dayton, Ohio after three weeks of U.
Since President Clinton took office, teen birth rates have dropped 18 percent, to the lowest level on record. Telecommunications Reform Signed President Clinton and Vice President Gore achieved the first major overhaul of the telecommunications laws in 60 years.
Reforms of the Telecommunications Act opened up competition between local telephone companies, long distance providers and cable companies; and required the use of new V-chip technology to enable families to exercise greater control over the television programming that comes into their homes.
The Act also contained the Vice President's E-Rate proposal, which provides low-cost Internet connections for schools, libraries, rural health clinics and hospitals. Encouraged the Adoption of School Uniforms President Clinton took steps to offer support and make it easier for schools to voluntarily adopt school uniform policies. Schools across the nation have demonstrated that school uniforms can lead to safer schools, more disciplined and orderly classrooms, and free teachers to focus on teaching and students to focus on learning.
President Clinton first sent this legislation to Congress in February and called for additional antiterrorism measures and actions after the devastation of the federal building in Oklahoma City. The law included measures to combat terrorism at home and abroad including provisions to provide broad Federal jurisdiction to prosecute terrorist acts, bar terrorists from entering the United States in the first place, toughen penalties over a range of terrorist crimes and increase controls over biological and chemical weapons.
Megan's Law The President signed Megan's law to require states to notify communities when a dangerous sexual predator resides or moves to the community.
The passage of Megan's Law built on provisions contained in the Crime Bill, the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, which promoted the establishment of state sex offender registration systems for child molesters and other sexually violent offenders.
Moving Welfare Recipients to Work President Clinton took the first national steps to require welfare recipients to move to work. An executive memorandum issued by the President required participants in federal training programs for welfare recipients to work to agree to go to work within two years or face the prospect of losing their federal assistance.
Food Quality Protection Act Signed This Act established the toughest standards for pesticide residues in food ever, and for the first times required that the standards take into account special risks to children. Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act required the strongest standards of safety and purity in America's drinking water while establishing a revolving loan fund to help communities upgrade their water treatment facilities. This increase was the first in 6 years and in it was the largest single-year increase ever.
Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Insurance Reform Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act This bipartisan health insurance reform bill prevents individuals from being denied coverage because they have a preexisting medical condition.
It requires insurance companies to sell coverage to small employer groups and to individuals who lose group coverage without regard to their health risk status. It also prohibits discrimination in enrollment and premiums against employees and their dependents based on health status. Finally, it requires insurers to renew the policies they sell to groups and individuals.
As many as 25 million people have benefited from the greater flexibility that this law ensures. Requiring Mental Health Parity for Annual and Lifetime Insurance Limits To help eliminate discrimination against individuals with mental illnesses, the President enacted legislation containing provisions prohibiting health plans from establishing separate lifetime and annual limits for mental health coverage.
New Protections for Mothers and Newborns The President signed into law common sense legislation that requires health plans to allow new mothers to remain in the hospital for at least 48 hours following most normal deliveries and 96 hours after a Cesarean section. The President also signed into law a provision to phase it in to percent in the Balanced Budget Act of Since , the Clinton Administration has assigned more federal prosecutors and FBI agents to fight health care fraud than ever before.
Welfare Reform Enacted President Clinton kept his promise to end welfare as we know it by requiring welfare recipients to work, limiting the time they can stay on welfare, and providing child care and health care to help them make the move from welfare to work.
The landmark bipartisan welfare reform law signed by the President also enacted tough new child support enforcement measures proposed by the President. Since January , the number of people on welfare has fallen by nearly 60 percent, from Designated Commission to Design Patients' Bill of Rights President Clinton created the National Commission on Health Care Quality and charged it with studying the need for consumer protections and ways to guarantee the quality of care. Commission members represented government, consumers, health care providers, insurers, and businesses.
The recommendations of the Commission formed the basis for the Patients' Bill of Rights. Created Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument The creation of this National Monument preserved unspoiled remote canyons and extensive geologic and world-class paleontological sites. Banned Federal Research on Human Cloning Because of the profound ethical issues raised by advances in cloning technology, the President issued a memorandum prohibiting the use of federal funds to clone human beings and urged the entire scientific and medical community to adopt a voluntary moratorium on the cloning of human beings.
Chemical Weapons Convention Ratified The Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention, which makes the production, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer and use of chemical weapons illegal. Created the Welfare to Work Partnership The Welfare to Work Partnership was launched at the President's urging to lead the national business effort to hire people from the welfare rolls. Now 20, businesses strong, the Partnership has helped an estimated 1.
Under Vice President Gore's leadership, the Administration has also done its fair share, hiring 50, welfare recipients, and has fostered partnerships between employers and community and faith-based organizations that help families move from welfare to work.
Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Reauthorized The expanded IDEA applies the same high academic standards for all children, ensuring that children with disabilities learn the same things with the same curricula and the same assessments as all other children.
It also ensures that more children with disabilities can be in regular classrooms and take part in all school functions including field trips and extracurricular activities.
Established the Initiative for One America To help facilitate a national dialogue aimed at narrowing America's racial divide, the President appointed a seven-member Advisory Board on Race. Over the next 15 months, Board members, individually and in teams, held hundreds of meetings involving thousands of people in every region of the country. They submitted several policy proposals that have guided the Administration in its effort to close the racial gaps that still exist in America.
These include increased civil rights enforcement, increased early childhood education and undertaking efforts to make sure all Americans benefit from our country's prosperity. The work of the Advisory Board also led to the creation of the One America Office in the White House to promote the President's goals of educating the American public about race, encourage racial reconciliation through national dialogue on race, identify policies that can expand opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities, and coordinate the work of the White House and federal agencies to carry out the President's vision of One America.
Stronger Air Quality Regulations Released The President approved the strongest air quality standards in history to control pollution from smog and soot. The standards could prevent 15, premature deaths every year and will improve the lives of millions of Americans suffering from respiratory illness.
Enforcement of the new standards has been delayed by court action. Balanced Budget Agreement Reached In February, the President submitted the first plan to finish the job of eliminating the deficit and the balanced budget in 27 years.
Within three years of enactment, all 50 states have implemented S-CHIP programs, and over 2 million children have been covered. Strengthening the Medicare Trust Fund When the President came into office, Medicare was projected to become insolvent in The Balanced Budget Act extended the life of the Trust Fund by an additional 10 years resulting in the longest Medicare Trust Fund solvency in a quarter century, extending the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by a total of 26 years and offering premiums that are nearly 20 percent lower today than projected in Modernizing the Medicare Benefit Package The BBA included a series of structural reforms which modernize the program, bringing it in line with the private sector and preparing it for the baby boom generation.
These reforms: waived cost-sharing for mammography services and provided annual screening mammograms for beneficiaries age 40 and older to help detect breast cancer; established a diabetes self-management benefit; ensured Medicare coverage of colorectal screening and cervical cancer screening; ensured coverage of bone mass measurement tests to help women detect osteoporosis, and increased reimbursement rates for certain immunizations to protect seniors from pneumonia, influenza, and hepatitis.
This funding, used for job creation, placement and retention efforts, has helped the hardest-to-serve welfare recipients and promotes parental responsibility among non-custodial parents who need to find work to honor their responsibilities to their children. Landmark Education Investments: America Reads, Charter Schools, Education Technology The President succeeded in doubling investments in education technology, increasing charter school funding, expanding Head Start to reach more than , children, and increasing the maximum Pell Grant by 63 percent, to the largest maximum award ever.
Together, these programs are the most significant increase in education funding at the national level in 30 years. The Round 2 EZs received expanded tax-exempt bonding authority to increase their ability to stimulate private-sector job creation for low-income residents. Created Smoke-Free Federal Workplaces President Clinton issued an Executive Order protecting Federal Government employees and members of the public from exposure to tobacco smoke in the Federal workplace and encouraged Federal agencies to establish programs to help employees stop smoking.
The Clinton-Gore Administration has also made our nation's health a priority by developing the first-ever plan to protect our children from tobacco, raising the federal tobacco tax, and by giving the American people their day in court against the tobacco manufacturers who engaged in decades of deception about the dangers of tobacco.
America Reads Child Literacy Initiative Launched The President set a national goal of making sure that every child can read independently by the end of third grade. Reached Agreement to Provide Child-Safety Locks With Handguns The President announced an agreement with eight of the country's largest gun manufacturers to include child safety locks with all new handguns. The voluntary agreement was reached after negotiations between the President, the gun manufacturers and the American Shooting Sports Council.
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