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The United States on January 5, 1997

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton D · since Jan 20, 1993
Senate
35 R · 32 D
67 senators · 105th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
27 amendments in force
Unemployment
5.4%
Dec 1996 · $1 then ≈ $2.12 today
Public debt
$5.31T
as of Jan 3, 1997
1997-01-05/executiveThe administration
President William Jefferson Clinton D
since Jan 20, 1993
Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D
Secretary of State Warren Christopher D
since Jan 20, 1993
Secretary of Labor Robert Reich D
since Jan 20, 1993
Secretary of Transportation Federico Peña D
since Jan 21, 1993
Secretary of Education Richard Riley D
since Jan 21, 1993
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros D
since Jan 22, 1993
Secretary of Energy Hazel R. O'Leary D
since Jan 22, 1993
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown D
since Jan 22, 1993
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt D
since Jan 22, 1993
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala D
since Jan 22, 1993
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Carol Browner D
since Jan 23, 1993
Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright D
since Jan 27, 1993
Attorney General Janet Reno D
since Mar 12, 1993
Secretary of Defense William Perry D
since Feb 3, 1994
White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta D
since Jul 17, 1994
Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin D
since Jan 10, 1995
Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman D
since Mar 30, 1995
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Franklin Raines D
since Sep 13, 1996
Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet D
since Dec 15, 1996
1997-01-05/congress105th Congress
Senate · 35 R · 32 D
Dale Bumpers (Democrat, AR)Barbara Boxer (Democrat, CA)Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, CA)Christopher J. Dodd (Democrat, CT)Joseph I. Lieberman (Democrat, CT)Bob Graham (Democrat, FL)Daniel K. Inouye (Democrat, HI)Daniel K. Akaka (Democrat, HI)Carol Moseley Braun (Democrat, IL)Wendell Hampton Ford (Democrat, KY)John B. Breaux (Democrat, LA)Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, MA)Barbara A. Mikulski (Democrat, MD)Paul S. Sarbanes (Democrat, MD)Byron L. Dorgan (Democrat, ND)Kent Conrad (Democrat, ND)J. Robert Kerrey (Democrat, NE)Frank R. Lautenberg (Democrat, NJ)Jeff Bingaman (Democrat, NM)Harry Reid (Democrat, NV)Richard H. Bryan (Democrat, NV)Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Democrat, NY)John Herschel Glenn Jr. (Democrat, OH)Ron Wyden (Democrat, OR)Ernest F. Hollings (Democrat, SC)Thomas A. Daschle (Democrat, SD)Charles S. Robb (Democrat, VA)Patrick J. Leahy (Democrat, VT)Patty Murray (Democrat, WA)Russell D. Feingold (Democrat, WI)Herb Kohl (Democrat, WI)Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, WV)Frank H. Murkowski (Republican, AK)Richard C. Shelby (Republican, AL)John McCain (Republican, AZ)Jon Kyl (Republican, AZ)Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Republican, CO)William V. Roth Jr. (Republican, DE)Connie Mack III (Republican, FL)Paul D. Coverdell (Republican, GA)Chuck Grassley (Republican, IA)Dirk Kempthorne (Republican, ID)Daniel Coats (Republican, IN)Richard G. Lugar (Republican, IN)Samuel D. Brownback (Republican, KS)Olympia J. Snowe (Republican, ME)Spencer Abraham (Republican, MI)Rod Grams (Republican, MN)Christopher S. Bond (Republican, MO)John Ashcroft (Republican, MO)Trent Lott (Republican, MS)Conrad Burns (Republican, MT)Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth (Republican, NC)Judd A. Gregg (Republican, NH)Alfonse Marcello D’Amato (Republican, NY)Michael DeWine (Republican, OH)Don Nickles (Republican, OK)Arlen Specter (Republican, PA)Richard J. Santorum (Republican, PA)John Hubbard Chafee (Republican, RI)William H. Frist (Republican, TN)Kay Bailey Hutchison (Republican, TX)Robert F. Bennett (Republican, UT)Orrin G. Hatch (Republican, UT)James M. Jeffords (Republican, VT)T. Slade Gorton (Republican, WA)Craig Thomas (Republican, WY)
House ·
1997-01-05/supreme-courtThe bench
John Paul Stevens R
Associate Justice · appointed by Gerald Ford · since Dec 17, 1975
Sandra Day O'Connor R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 22, 1981
William Hubbs Rehnquist R
Chief Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986
Antonin Scalia R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986
Anthony McLeod Kennedy R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Feb 11, 1988
David Hackett Souter R
Associate Justice · appointed by George H.W. Bush · since Oct 3, 1990
Clarence Thomas R
Associate Justice · appointed by George H.W. Bush · since Oct 18, 1991
Ruth Bader Ginsburg D
Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 5, 1993
Stephen Gerald Breyer D
Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 3, 1994
1997-01-05/weekWithin a week · Dec 29, 1996 – Jan 12, 1997
Agency + Joint Genome Institute
Jan 1, 1997 · sub_agency

Each office is shown as it stood at the end of the day. Cabinet records come from Wikidata and have gaps for some historical offices.