- 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.
Labor unions are closing ranks around Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation last year raised $178 million ― its biggest annual fundraising haul in five years ― as it prepared for a possible future without its two biggest names.
Edward Klein, a conservative commentator and longtime critic of Hillary Clinton, says he thinks the FBI is investigating whether Clinton and her allies made false statements to investigators, and that the investigation will come to a close before the end of the year.
Hillary Clinton invoked the 9/11 terror attacks as she defended herself against complaints about her Wall Street donations during Saturday night’s debate, a response that drew bipartisan criticism.
Hillary Clinton’s proposal for $30 billion in aid for people suffering from the decline of the coal industry drew a mixed-to-hostile response Thursday from critics of President Barack Obama’s environmental policies — raising doubts about whether she can arrest the Democratic Party’s electoral slide in coal country.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sounded less like a decades-long supporter of charter schools over the weekend and more like a teachers union president when she argued that most of these schools “don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them.”
Presidential politics complicate Barack Obama's push to ratify one of the biggest trade deals in history.
The U.S. Latino community prefers ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as its candidate to win the Democratic primaries, while Hispanic backing among Republicans goes to ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
The State Department has released a new chronology adding perspective to how the diplomatic agency, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other elements of the U.S. government scrambled to respond to the attacks on the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has long declined to endorse legalized medical or recreational marijuana at the federal level, but on Saturday, she added more specifics to her proposal to increase research into medical marijuana.
Two terms in the White House didn’t get rid of Bill Clinton’s itch to be the president of the United States, his spouse, and Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton said on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday.
She said some states "have gone way too far."
"He was selling loose cigarettes. Was it illegal? Sure. Did he need to die? No."
The first signs of a major U.S. Latino voter mobilization are forming, and it’s Republicans turbocharging an effort likely to help Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton has increased her dominant lead within the Democratic Party’s presidential contest, now besting rival Sen. Bernie Sanders by a margin of two to one among primary voters in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
The once respectful Democratic primary has devolved into a slugfest about gender, with Hillary Clinton surrogates expressing outrage over how Bernie Sanders is conducting his campaign — even calling for him to fire his staff over alleged sexist remarks.
The Black Lives Matter protesters underscore the generational problem she faces with African-American voters.
Hillary Clinton has hit 50 percent support for the Democratic presidential nomination for the first time since April, around the time she launched her campaign, according to a new national poll.
The former secretary of state refuses to give ground as GOP grills her over Sidney Blumenthal emails and the 2012 attacks in Libya.
Hillary Clinton emerged largely unscathed from a marathon day of testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday.
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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