- CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM
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- Experience: Member, Democratic Policy Committee
- Home State: New York
- Person Website: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/
- Running: President, United States, 2016
- Total Raised: $238,182,000Coverage End: Tuesday, May 31, 2016
- Winning: Won with 0.00%
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Personal
- Full Name: Hillary Rodham Clinton Gender: Female
- Family: Husband: William; 1 Child: Chelsea
- Birth Date: 10/26/1947
- Birth Place: Chicago, IL
- Home City: Chappaqua, NY
- Religion: Methodist
Education
- JD, Yale University, 1973
- BA, Wellesley College, 1969
Political Experience
- Member, Democratic Policy Committee
- United States Secretary of State, 2009-2013
- Sworn In, United States Secretary of State, January 21, 2009
- Senator, United States Senate, 2001-2009
- Candidate, United States President, 2008
- First Lady, President Bill Clinton, 1992-2000
- First Lady, State of Arkansas, 1978-1980, 1982-1992
Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees
- Former Chair, Arkansas Educational Standards Committee
- Former Commissioner, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Former Co-Chair, Congressional E-911 Caucus
- Former Member, Democratic Technology and Communications Committee
- Former Chair, Legal Services Corporation
- Former Member, Senate National Guard Caucus
- Former Member, Senate Rural Health Caucus
- Former Member, Senate Steel Caucus
- Former Chair, Steering and Coordination Committee
- Former Chair, Task Force of National Health Care Reform
- Appointed, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation, 1977
Professional Experience
- Author
- Former Staff Attorney, Children's Defense Fund
- Former Board Member, Wal-Mart
- Attorney, Rose Law Firm, 1976-1992
- Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas Law School, 1975
Religious, Civic, and other Memberships
- Member, American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession
- Co-Founder, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Former Board Member, Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Former Board Member, Children's Defense Fund
- Board Member, The Country's Best Yogurt Company
- Founder, Vital Voices
Additional Information
Awards:
- Humanitarian Award, Elie Wiesel Foundation
- Women Who Make A Difference Lifetime Achievement Award, Family Circle
- President's Award, League of United Latin American Citizens
- International Women's Philanthropy Award, Lion of Judah Conference of Combined Jewish Philanthropies
- Distinguished Bridge Builder Award, Leon H. Sullivan Foundation
- Recognition, Military Order of the Purple Heart
- Distinguished Service Award, National Association of Elementary School Principals
- Bully Pulpit Award, National Council for Adoption
- Black Women of Courage Award, National Federation of Black Women Business Owners
- Martin Luther King Jr. Award, Progressive National Baptist Convention
- Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service
- Woman of Steel - Role Model of the Year, United Steel Workers of America
- Arkansas Woman of the Year-1983
- Arkansas Mother of the Year-1984
- First woman to be elected into the New York Senate
- She won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio of her book "It Takes a Village"
Publications:
- Living History. (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
- An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
- It Takes A Village: and Other Lessons Children Teach Us (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
About Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is a woman who needs no lengthy introduction. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, she attended Wellesley College for a degree in Political Science, then went on to Yale Law School. It was during her schooling at Yale that she met her now-current husband and then-future President of the US, Bill Clinton. Although she was raised Republican and held to a right-wing political ideology for most of her academic career, she would ultimately change her views, and today has amassed an impressive resume of political accomplishments as a decidedly leftist liberal Democrat. This history – which includes her passive roles as First Lady of Arkansas and then of the United States, as well as active positions such as her two terms as a Senator for the state of New York and four years as US Secretary of State under President Obama – has led her to the present when, now a declared candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2016, she is easily the favorite in her party.
Clinton is well-known and generally liked amongst a large percentage of the American citizenry. With a serious chance at becoming the first female President in the nation's history, she has carefully nurtured her image for decades, with some believing she began planning an eventual White House run during her days as her husband's First Lady – if not earlier. Her intense preoccupation with always presenting herself favorably to the public (and, perhaps more cynically, her skill at playing the game of politics) has sometimes led her to bouts of questionable sincerity. For instance, she is known to have claimed that her parents named her in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary, an intrepid mountaineer famous for leading the first expedition to successfully climb Mount Everest. In reality, Edmund's life-defining accomplishment took place in 1953; while alive, he was unknown in 1947, when Hillary Clinton was born and presumably named.
In what had come to be regarded by many as a mere – but important – formality, Clinton officially announced her candidacy for President on April 12th, 2015. Now that she has declared, barring some major upset in American politics, she will almost certainly receive the Democratic presidential nomination. With her vast popularity across many sectors of the American electorate, especially among female voters, Clinton promises to be a formidable opponent for any prospective Republican challenger. Though she once enjoyed double-digit leads over some of the GOP's biggest names (numbers which have since ebbed), she still wields even standing to slight advantages over the best the Republican party has to offer. Of course, with a Democratic President on his way out in the 2016 elections and tides favoring Republicans, there are no sure bets, but any serious GOP contender would do well to train for battle against Hillary Clinton.
But Republicans don't appear to be hurt.
Every American on the left knows that when labor leader Eugene Debs ran for President in 1920 as a socialist, he got a million votes.
It's hard to believe that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
The threat lingered not just because Clinton and Trump were on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but because the tone and tenor of the two events seemed dramatically different.
One couple unintentionally reminded the Internet of Hillary's feminist roots.
Hillary Clinton made a 180-degree turn in the focus of her message between New Hampshire and Nevada.
The ex-president mixed memories with exhortation as he stumped for his wife in a key Super Tuesday state.
The Vermont senator denied that he has written off Saturday's primary in South Carolina.
Clinton is making strong support for Obama a cornerstone of her stump speech in South Carolina this week, as she tries to bolster her already-strong support among black voters.
Clinton said closing the prison would be a "sign of strength and resolve."
The unusual campaign event was part testimonial, part memorial, part call to action against what Clinton called lax gun laws designed to shield gun makers and dealers.
They are the only two candidates with ads on television in the state, a week before the Super Tuesday primary.
There is no shortage of punditry about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's homebrew server, and the resulting fallout, aka "Emailgate."
She's seeking to maintain her lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is trying to make inroads with black voters.
FLORENCE, S.C. — Halfway through a 40-minute stump speech here, Bill Clinton arrived on the topic of Bernie Sanders’s proposal for single-payer health coverage — and became annoyed.
The Clinton juggernaut is losing traction.
The state’s caucuses, next on the calendar, were once expected to fall easily to her largely owing to support among Latinos.
After dealing her 2008 campaign a crushing blow, the Georgia congressman is going pedal-to-the-metal for her this time around.
In the Milwaukee debate, Hillary Clinton took pride in her role in a recent UN Security Council resolution on a Syrian ceasefire:
The latest batch was the smallest one yet made public.
| Introduced Date | Bill Number | Bill Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/11/2010 | S.182 | Paycheck Fairness Act | 03/11/2010 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-1135. (All Actions) |
| 06/16/2009 | S.1390 | Perpetual Purple Heart Stamp Act | 06/16/2009 Senate Committee on Armed Services. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-100, pt. 1. (All Actions) |
| 01/12/2009 | S.211 | Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2009 | 01/12/2009 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) |
| 12/09/2008 | S.Res.727 | A resolution honoring the victims of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy. | 12/09/2008 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions) |
| 12/09/2008 | S.Res.720 | A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. | 12/09/2008 Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions) |
| 11/20/2008 | S.20 | Protecting Patients and Health Care Act | 11/20/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) |
| 11/20/2008 | S.19 | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes. | 11/20/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (All Actions) |
| 11/19/2008 | S.3708 | Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act | 11/19/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) |
| 11/19/2008 | S.3707 | National Principal Recruitment Act | 11/19/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) |
| 11/19/2008 | S.3706 | Elimination of the Single Parent Tax Act of 2008 | 11/19/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (All Actions) |
| 10/03/2008 | S.3625 | A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 245 North Main Street in New City, New York, as the "Kenneth Peter Zebrowski Post Office Building". | 10/03/2008 Held at the desk. (All Actions) |
| 10/01/2008 | S.3674 | 21st Century Wellness Trust Act | 10/01/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) |
| 09/29/2008 | S.3653 | Dairy COOL Act of 2008 | 09/29/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (All Actions) |
| 09/26/2008 | S.3635 | Supporting Mentors, Supporting Our Youth Act of 2008 | 09/26/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) |
| 09/26/2008 | S.3631 | Medically Fragile Children's Act of 2008 | 09/26/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (All Actions) |
| 09/26/2008 | S.3609 | Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2008 | 09/26/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (All Actions) |
| 09/25/2008 | S.3588 | Healthy Food for Healthy Lives Act of 2008 | 09/25/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (All Actions) |
| 09/25/2008 | S.3587 | Greening the Healthcare Workforce Act of 2008 | 09/25/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (All Actions) |
| 09/25/2008 | S.3586 | Green Hospitals, Healthy Hospitals Act of 2008 | 09/25/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) |
| 09/24/2008 | S.3567 | A bill to establish a Commission on the conflict between Russia and Georgia, and for other purposes. | 09/24/2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (All Actions) |
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