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The United States on January 5, 1999

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, 1997
Senate
39 R · 27 D
66 senators · 106th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
27 amendments in force
Unemployment
4.4%
Dec 1998 · $1 then ≈ $2.06 today
Public debt
$5.61T
as of Jan 5, 1999
1999-01-05/executiveThe administration
President William Jefferson Clinton D
since Jan 20, 1997
Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D
Secretary of Education Richard Riley D
since Jan 21, 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
Attorney General Janet Reno D
since Mar 12, 1993
Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin D
since Jan 10, 1995
Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman D
since Mar 30, 1995
Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet D
since Dec 15, 1996
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright D
since Jan 23, 1997
Secretary of Defense William Cohen R
since Jan 24, 1997
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo D
since Jan 29, 1997
Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley D
since Jan 30, 1997
Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater D
since Feb 14, 1997
Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman D
since May 1, 1997
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Togo D. West, Jr. D
since Jan 2, 1998
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jack Lew D
since May 21, 1998
Ambassador to the United Nations Peter Burleigh
since Aug 18, 1998
Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson D
since Aug 18, 1998
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta D
since Oct 20, 1998
1999-01-05/congress106th Congress
Senate · 39 R · 27 D
Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, CA)Joseph I. Lieberman (Democrat, CT)Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Democrat, DE)J. Maxwell Cleland (Democrat, GA)Daniel K. Akaka (Democrat, HI)Tom Harkin (Democrat, IA)Richard J. Durbin (Democrat, IL)Mary L. Landrieu (Democrat, LA)Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, MA)John F. Kerry (Democrat, MA)Paul S. Sarbanes (Democrat, MD)Carl Levin (Democrat, MI)Paul David Wellstone (Democrat, MN)Max Baucus (Democrat, MT)Kent Conrad (Democrat, ND)J. Robert Kerrey (Democrat, NE)Frank R. Lautenberg (Democrat, NJ)Robert Torricelli (Democrat, NJ)Jeff Bingaman (Democrat, NM)Richard H. Bryan (Democrat, NV)Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Democrat, NY)Jack Reed (Democrat, RI)Tim Johnson (Democrat, SD)Charles S. Robb (Democrat, VA)Herb Kohl (Democrat, WI)Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, WV)John D. Rockefeller, IV (Democrat, WV)Ted F. Stevens (Republican, AK)Jeff Sessions (Republican, AL)Tim Hutchinson (Republican, AR)Jon Kyl (Republican, AZ)Wayne A. Allard (Republican, CO)William V. Roth Jr. (Republican, DE)Connie Mack III (Republican, FL)Larry E. Craig (Republican, ID)Richard G. Lugar (Republican, IN)Pat Roberts (Republican, KS)Mitch McConnell (Republican, KY)Olympia J. Snowe (Republican, ME)Susan M. Collins (Republican, ME)Spencer Abraham (Republican, MI)Rod Grams (Republican, MN)John Ashcroft (Republican, MO)Trent Lott (Republican, MS)Thad Cochran (Republican, MS)Conrad Burns (Republican, MT)Jesse Helms (Republican, NC)Charles T. Hagel (Republican, NE)Robert Smith (Republican, NH)Pete V. Domenici (Republican, NM)Michael DeWine (Republican, OH)James M. Inhofe (Republican, OK)Gordon Harold Smith (Republican, OR)Richard J. Santorum (Republican, PA)John Hubbard Chafee (Republican, RI)J. Strom Thurmond (Republican, SC)William H. Frist (Republican, TN)Fred Thompson (Republican, TN)Kay Bailey Hutchison (Republican, TX)Phil Gramm (Republican, TX)Orrin G. Hatch (Republican, UT)John W. Warner (Republican, VA)James M. Jeffords (Republican, VT)T. Slade Gorton (Republican, WA)Craig Thomas (Republican, WY)Michael B. Enzi (Republican, WY)
House ·
1999-01-05/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
1999-01-05/weekWithin a week · Dec 29, 1998 – Jan 12, 1999
Agency − United States Information Agency
Jan 1, 1999 · independent_agency
Agency − United States Information Service
Jan 1, 1999 · other
Agency + Development Credit Authority
Jan 1, 1999 · other
Agency + National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Jan 1, 1999 · sub_agency
Order Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group
Jan 11, 1999 · EO 13110
Ruling Victoria Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc.
Jan 12, 1999 · 525 U.S. 182
Agency + Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
Jan 12, 1999 · sub_agency
Order Using Technology To Improve Training Opportunities for Federal Government Employees
Jan 12, 1999 · EO 13111
Ruling El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tsui Yuan Tseng
Jan 12, 1999 · 525 U.S. 155

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.