- 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.
Poor Hillary Clinton: She wants desperately to distance herself from President Obama when it comes to fighting ISIS. Yet her approach is every bit as lame as the one that’s driven his polls through the floor — because it’s almost exactly the same.
Two top Republican senators have written directly to Secretary of State John Kerry and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about possible leaks from their departments on the review of Hillary Clinton’s emails that left the wrong impression that two “Top Secret” messages were not that sensitive.
As investigations continue into whether Wednesday's bloody attack in San Bernardino, California, was an act of terrorism, Hillary Clinton urged people to remember that most Muslim Americans are just as traumatized as everyone else.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton accused Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Wednesday of "making racism and hatred the hallmarks of his campaign."
Chelsea Clinton is set to jump into the 2016 fray as a co-host of one of Hillary Clinton’s campaign cash events for the first time.
Hillary Clinton said putting combat troops on the ground in Syria or Iraq is a “non-starter.”
The latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails offered fresh insight into her schmoozing ways, her thoughts on the 2012 presidential race, and some sideline drama as the State Department and a watchdog for the intelligence community tangled on Monday over whether one of Clinton’s emails should have been considered classified.
Hillary Clinton is no stranger to freewheeling political analysis, gestures of indulgent flattery and myriad tech woes, as the latest batch of emails released by the State Department shows.
Just weeks before she stepped down as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton sent President Obama a memo urging him to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and offering strategies to do so, the Huffington Post reported.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton expressed sympathy for 17-year-old Laquan McDonald following his shooting death during an encounter with Chicago police last year.
Obama’s ethanol rule could make things awkward for the Democratic front-runner.
While Hillary Clinton was in Boulder for a grassroots organizing event Tuesday, she also met with survivors of gun violence and their family members.
She referred to the term a "poor choice of words."
Respondents ranked terrorism as one of the most important issues for 2016.
A federal judge has declined to speed up the release of a handful of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private account that refer to Anwar Al-Awlaki, the American militant killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Hillary Clinton will begin Sunday to lay out a set of proposals aiming to cut taxes for the middle class, a campaign aide said.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday offered an expansive foreign-policy response to last week’s Paris terror attacks – a strategy for countering ISIL and “radical jihadism” across the globe that represents an intensification of President Obama’s current approach – but not a major break.
NEW YORK – Hillary Clinton’s campaign will enter a new fund-raising phase next month with the first big-dollar event that actively solicits funds that could be used to boost the Democratic front-runner in the general election.
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton laid out a broad agenda Thursday for confronting the Islamic State terrorist network — and sent a larger signal that she intends to be a more aggressive commander in chief than President Obama, under whom she served as secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton picked up the endorsement of a key labor union Tuesday as she looks to lock up support from the Democratic Party base.
Introduced Date | Bill Number | Bill Title | Last Action |
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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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