Timeline of the Bill Clinton presidency (1996)

• January 1 – President Clinton issues a statement on the death of Arleigh A. Burke, reflecting on his dinner meeting with him the previous summer and expressing condolences to his family.[1]
• January 2 – President Clinton states that he hopes an agreement can emerge during budget negotiations while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office.[2]
• January 3 – President Clinton addresses the ongoing government shutdown and its consequences on the American people in the Briefing Room.[3]
• January 3 – President Clinton sends a message to Congress on the subject of the national emergency afflicting Libya.[4]
• January 3 – President Clinton sends a message to Congress regarding the most-favored-nation trade status of Romania.[5]
• January 23 – President Clinton delivers his annual State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress.[6]
• January 26 – President Clinton signs H.R. 2880 into law. The legislation is the ninth resolution for the 1996 fiscal year signed by the president.[7]
• January 26 – In a statement, President Clinton calls the Senate ratification of the START II Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty an increase in "the security of the American people".[8]
• January 26 – President Clinton addresses the National Association of Hispanic Publications at the National Press Club.[9]
• January 27 – In a morning Oval Office address, President Clinton notes the tenth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and details efforts made toward getting Congress to collaborate on balancing the budget.[10]
• January 29 – President Clinton announces the national campaign to reduce teen pregnancy in the Roosevelt Room.[11]
• January 30 – During an afternoon appearance in the Oval Office, President Clinton answers questions from reporters on the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, Russia, Chechnya, and welfare reform.[12]
• January 30 – President Clinton delivers an address on the debt ceiling and answers questions from reporters in the Cabinet Room.[13]
• January 30 – President Clinton sends a letter to Congressional leaders over the United States Air Force being in operation in close proximity to Groom Lake, Nevada.[14]

‌* September 5 – President Clinton delivers a speech on the education policies of his administration while on the campus of Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida during the morning.[15]

• September 7 – A radio address, recorded by President Clinton the prior day, is broadcast during the morning, in which President Clinton calls on members of both parties in Congress to pass a treaty that "will increase the safety of our citizens at home as well as our troops in the field."[16]
• September 8 – President Clinton issues a statement on the death of Arthur Sherwood Flemming the prior day.[17]
• September 9 – President Clinton receives the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security's initial report and speaks to reporters in the Oval Office during the morning.[18] President Clinton discusses Potomac River flood damage in the South Lawn[19] and meets with Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu at the White House during the afternoon.[20]
• September 10 – President Clinton signs the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1997.[21] President Clinton delivers a speech to the Southern Governors' Association at the Ritz Carlton Hotel during the afternoon.[22]

• October 6 – President Clinton and former Senator Bob Dole participate in the first presidential debate in Hartford, Connecticut. The debate moderator was Jim Lehrer of PBS.[23]
• October 9 – Clinton signs the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 1996, following the death of Jessica Dubroff.[24]
• October 16 – President Clinton and former Senator Bob Dole participate in the second and final presidential debate at University of San Diego in San Diego, California in a town hall format moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS.

• November 5 – President Clinton wins re-election against former Senator Bob Dole from Kansas, the Republican presidential nominee.

• December 23 – President Clinton issues a statement on George Joulwan retiring.[25] The Press Secretary office releases a recording of President Clinton giving a Christmas greeting.[26] President Clinton delivers an address at the Goettge Memorial Fieldhouse in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina during the afternoon.[27]
• December 28 – President Clinton discusses policies being implemented for the protection of children in vehicles during his radio address recorded the previous day in the Roosevelt Room and broadcast during the morning.[28]
• December 29 – President Clinton issues a statement on the Korean Peninsula Submarine Incident Resolution.[29]

• Miller Center Clinton Presidential Timeline

• Timeline of the Bill Clinton presidency, for an index of the Clinton presidency timeline articles