• CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM
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Experience: Member, Democratic Policy Committee
Home State: New York
Person Website: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/
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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.

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Labor unions close ranks around Hillary

Labor unions are closing ranks around Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. 

11/17/2015
By Tim Devaney | The Hill
Clinton Foundation raised $178 million in 2014

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.

11/16/2015
By Kenneth P. Vogel | POLITICO
Clinton critic: FBI investigating potential lies to investigators

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. 

11/15/2015
By Devin Henry | The Hill
Clinton invokes 9/11 in countering criticism of Wall St. donations, takes heat

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.

11/14/2015
Fox News
Clinton's coal aid plan leaves critics cold

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.

11/12/2015
By Darren Goode | POLITICO
Hillary Clinton rebukes charter schools

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.”

11/09/2015
By Kimberly Hefling | POLITICO
Trade pact backers hit 2 big hurdles: Donald and Hillary

Presidential politics complicate Barack Obama's push to ratify one of the biggest trade deals in history.

11/09/2015
By Seung Min Kim | POLITICO
Latinos prefer Clinton, Bush as presidential nominees

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.

11/09/2015
Fox News
Newly released State Department 'watch logs' detail Benghazi response

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. 

11/07/2015
By Josh Gerstein | POLITICO
Clinton joins Democratic rivals in backing change to marijuana classification

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.

11/07/2015
By Abby Phillip | The Washington Post
Hillary Clinton says if Bill could run again, he would

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.

11/06/2015
By William Cummingsm | USA Today
Hillary Clinton Says Infamous Mass Murderers Keep Her On The Fence About The Death Penalty

She said some states "have gone way too far."

11/06/2015
By Paige Lavender | The Huffington Post
Hillary Clinton Says Eric Garner Deserved Punishment, Not Death

"He was selling loose cigarettes. Was it illegal? Sure. Did he need to die? No."

11/06/2015
By Andy Campbell | The Huffington Post
How Trump is helping Clinton: Latino mobilization takes shape

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.

11/03/2015 10:32
By Heidi M Przybyla | USA Today
Hillary Clinton increases her lead over Bernie Sanders: NBC/WSJ poll

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.

11/03/2015
By Carrie Dann | MSNBC
Clinton allies shout 'sexism' at Sanders

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.

10/30/2015
By Annie Karni | POLITICO
Clinton's young black challenge

The Black Lives Matter protesters underscore the generational problem she faces with African-American voters.

10/30/2015
By Annie Karni | POLITICO
Poll: Clinton hits 50 percent support

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. 

10/30/2015
By Jesse Byrnes | The Hill
Clinton and Gowdy spar over Benghazi

The former secretary of state refuses to give ground as GOP grills her over Sidney Blumenthal emails and the 2012 attacks in Libya.

10/22/2015
By Rachael Bade | POLITICO
Clinton largely unscathed by GOP Benghazi hearing

Hillary Clinton emerged largely unscathed from a marathon day of testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday.

10/22/2015
By Julian Hattem and Amie Parnes | The Hill
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Sunday, March 6, 2016 9:00 PM CNN Democratic Debate
Location: The Whiting Auditorium in Flint, Michigan
Sponsors: CNN, MLive, The Flint Journal
Moderators: Anderson Cooper
Saturday, November 14, 2015 6:00 PM CBS News Democratic Debate
Location: Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa
Sponsors: CBS News, KCCI, the Des Moines Register
Moderators: John Dickerson
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 8:30 PM CNN Democratic Primary Debate
Location: Wynn Las Vegas
Sponsors: CNN, Nevada Democratic Party
Moderators: Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, and Dana Bash
General Survey
Issue Title Candidate's Answers
1. Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right

Strongly Support
2. Stricter punishment reduces crime

Oppose
3. Marijuana is a gateway drug

Oppose
4. Higher taxes on the wealthy

Strongly Support
5. Stimulus better than market-led recovery

Strongly Support
6. Vouchers for school choice

Strongly Oppose
7. Make voter registration easier

Strongly Support
8. Prioritize green energy

Strongly Support
9. Avoid foreign entanglements

Oppose
10. Expand the military

Oppose
11. Support & expand free trade

Oppose
12. Support American Exceptionalism

Oppose
13. Absolute right to gun ownership

Strongly Oppose
14. Expand ObamaCare

Strongly Support
15. Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens

Support
16. EPA regulations are too restrictive

Strongly Oppose
17. Keep God in the public sphere

Oppose
18. Legally require hiring more women & minorities

Strongly Support
19. Comfortable with same-sex marriage

Strongly Support
20. Privatize Social Security

Strongly Oppose
Total: 417
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)
Total: 1950
Date Bill Number Bill Title Result Vote
07/15/2009 S.227 Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Act
01/29/2009 S.181 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 Bill Passed (61-36, 3/5 majority required) Not Voting
01/16/2009 S.Res.17 A resolution recognizing and honoring Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, his co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, the crewmembers of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, and the first responders, ferry operators and tug boat drivers of New York City, for their heroic and intuitive roles in the safe emergency landing of U.S. Airways Flight 1549.
01/16/2009 S.240 Ready to Learn Act
01/14/2009 S.244 Education Begins at Home Act
03/02/2009 S.160 District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 Bill Passed (61-37, 3/5 majority required) Not Voting
01/07/2009 S.27 Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act of 2009
01/07/2009 S.10 Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009
01/07/2009 S.8 Returning Government to the American People Act
01/07/2009 S.7 Education Opportunity Act of 2009
01/07/2009 S.5 Cleaner, Greener, and Smarter Act of 2009
01/07/2009 S.4 Comprehensive Health Reform Act of 2009
01/07/2009 S.3 Homeowner Protection and Wall Street Accountability Act of 2009
01/07/2009 S.2 Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009
01/07/2009 S.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
01/06/2009 S.21 Prevention First Act
01/06/2009 S.Res.8 A resolution relative to the death of the Honorable Claiborne de Borda Pell, former United States Senator for the State of Rhode Island.
12/11/2008 S.Res.728 A resolution designating January 2009 as "National Mentoring Month".
12/11/2008 S.Res.710 A resolution designating the week of February 2 through February 6, 2009, as "National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week".
12/09/2008 S.Res.719 A resolution recognizing National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month and celebrating the heritage and culture of American Indians and Alaska Natives and the contributions of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the United States.
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