WHAT CLINTON            WHAT                    WHAT
WANTED                  HE GOT                  IT MEANS

Earmark 60%             Congress                Republicans neutralized
of the budget           essentially             this as an issue for
surplus for             agreed                  2000 but paid a high
Social Security                                 price

Ratification of         Senate turned           Democrats will be able
the nuclear test        thumbs                  to point to the vote as
ban treaty              down                    an assault on U.S. global
                                                leadership

Managed-care            House and Senate        Blocking a patients'
reform that             passed vastly           bill of rights gives
lets patients           different patient       Democrats a juicy
sue HMOs                protections             campaign issue

Medicare                Clinton by-             Democrats will harp
overhaul                passed chance           on inaction by the
                        to cut a deal           Republican Congress

Gun control             New gun curbs           Now the Dems can hold
                        fizzled in Congress     the GOP accountable

No Republican           Congress passed         Deprives the GOP of a
tax cut                 a cut; Clinton          major accomplishment;
                        vetoed it               could work against
                                                the Dems


DATA; BUSINESS WEEK