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Mar 8, 2008 3:12 AM
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> how about a balanced budget when he left office, and
> even a surplus that fueled the boom?
How about DOT COM BIG - then DOT COM BUST....he left a mess...
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Her first cause was children, fighting abuse, and chairing the Children's Defense Fund.
She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973.
following her career as a Congressional legal counsel; she was named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979 and was listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991.
During 1974 she was a member of the Nixon impeachment inquiry staff in Washington D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal. She helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment.
Hillary co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund, in 1977.
In late 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation.
She was the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and was active in a number of organizations concerned with the welfare of children, and was on the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.
Bill Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.
One of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship, she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place.
She introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.
As First Lady of the United States she took a very prominent role in public policy.
She was the initial first lady to hold a post-graduate degree and to have her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House. She was also the initial first lady to take up an office in the West Wing of the White House.
She fought hard for Universal Health Care as First Lady, although it wasn't successful, it's something she learned from.
She visited over 80 countries as First Lady giving important speeches, about such controversial topics as human rights/women's rights in China.
Her major initiative, the Clinton Health Care Plan, failed to gain approval by the Congress in 1994, but in 1997 she helped establish the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
As a Senator and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild.
She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero.
She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
She has visited troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in countless other locations, truly understanding the challenges facing our troops.
Hillary passed legislation to track the health status of our troops so that conditions like Gulf War Syndrome would no longer be misdiagnosed.
She is an original sponsor of legislation that expanded health benefits to members of the National Guard and Reserves and has been a strong critic of the Administration's handling of Iraq.
She has introduced legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage.
She has supported a variety of middle-class tax cuts, including marriage penalty relief, property tax relief, and reduction in the Alternative Minimum Tax, and supports fiscally responsible pay-as-you-go budget rules.
She helped pass legislation that encouraged investment to create jobs in struggling communities through the Renewal Communities program.
She authored legislation that has been enacted to improve quality and lower the cost of prescription drugs and to protect our food supply from bioterrorism.
She sponsored legislation to increase America's commitment to fighting the global HIV/AIDS crisis.
She has lead the fight for the expanded use of information technology in the health care system to decrease administrative costs, lower premiums, and reduce medical errors.
Clinton has successfully worked to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, with legislation now included in the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act.
She has also proposed expanding access to child care.
She has passed legislation that will bring more qualified teachers into classrooms and more outstanding principals to lead our schools.
Hillary is one of the original cosponsors of the Prevention First Act to increase access to family planning.
She fought with the Bush Administration and ensured that Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, will be available to millions of American women and will reduce the need for abortions.
She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.
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Mar 8, 2008 3:11 AM
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yes, this would be a good time for the u.n., alright.
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Mar 8, 2008 3:11 AM
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CORRECTION: IT'S
NO CHILD LEFT WITH A DIME!
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...until Next Time from PlanetPam ;>
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Mar 8, 2008 3:10 AM
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how about a balanced budget when he left office, and even a surplus that fueled the boom?
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Mar 8, 2008 3:10 AM
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> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/08/us/polit
> ics/20071114_CLINTON_TIMELINE.html#
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> too many to list. go see for yourself
That's the best you can do...You write all that Nonsense and you can't write 10 Major Accomplishments...Sounds like such a great candidate for President.....Just like Pam and tons of others have said....What Experience...
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Mar 8, 2008 3:10 AM
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GREAT SHOW.
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WHY NOT THE UNITED NATIONS INTERVENTION NOW?
Mar 8, 2008 3:09 AM
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WHY OR WHY HAS THE UNITED NATIONS BEEN LEFT OUT OF THIS MESS? True our administration ignored them when we went to war, but now is the time that the UN could really prove its value and assist with helping the US Vacate iraq and still leave a security force in Iraq that would benefit Iraq and the world as a whole.
STUPIDITY ON TOP OF STUPIDITY WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE DEATH OR OUR WAY OF LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. AND, FOR WHAT?
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Mar 8, 2008 3:09 AM
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i still can't get overtime to work, so i'm going to bed.
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hate to point this out but solzhenitsyn no longer lives in US, he is now back home in russia and is a huge putin supporter (which should tell you something about who putin really is). russia got their great ones back. he also says that all those russian liberals aka western darlings like kasparov are nothing other than pornographic insects and should be sent to gulags for being traitors. and this guy would know a thing or two about gulags. yep, this is who the west supports nowadays, it's pathetic.
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Mar 8, 2008 3:08 AM
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At least they did not harm. Not many can say that
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Mar 8, 2008 3:08 AM
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how about she's the only person who ever even tried to take on the insurance companies with health care reform?
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Mar 8, 2008 3:08 AM
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> I really think the media (and even you, Mr Maher)
> don't understand how angry the female voters in this
> country are at the misogynistic press....There is
> overt sexism being spewed out of the mouths of
> bloated, irritable, insipid, middle aged males (like
> Mr Scarborough) and many others........ENOUGH
> IS ENOUGH! "We're mad as hell and we're
> not going to take it anymore!"
Bill Scarborough is tame compared to that drunkard jerk P. J. Rourke that Bill had in episode 119. He made a crude stupid comment like "Obama kicked Hillary's ass and it wasn't too hard, you know, the target was very big. Ha-ha-ha! "
The stupid classless moron has the sentiment of a repressed closeted gay man. I say that, because, if he'd be openly gay, he'd have the sensitivity not to make fun of a 60-year old woman's ass. If he'd be straight, he'd respect for the natural female shape.
I agree with you: ........ENOUGH
> IS ENOUGH! "We're mad as hell and we're
> not going to take it anymore!"
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Mar 8, 2008 3:07 AM
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> > Jenni..
> > List Hillary's top 10 Accomplishments:
> > Let me make a template for you..
> > 1.
> > 2.
> > 3.
> > 4.
> > 5.
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> > 7.
> > 8.
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> > Thank you...
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> ? Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site
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> ? Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and
> Speech Month
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> ? Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor
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> ? Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall
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> ? Name courthouse after James L. Watson
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> ? Name post office after John A. O'Shea
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> ? Designate August 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart
> Recognition Day
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> ? Support the goals and ideals of National Purple
> Heart Recognition Day
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> ? Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on
> the bicentennial of his death
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> ? Congratulate the Syracuse University Orange Men's
> Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
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> ? Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men's
> Lacrosse Team on winning the championship
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> ? Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American
> Revolution Commemorative Program
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> ? Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda
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> ? Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the
> nation and express condolences on her death
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> ? Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford,
> firefighters who lost their lives on duty.
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> Only five of Clinton's bills could be described
> "substantive", say Morris and McGann:
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> ? Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims
> of 9/11
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> ? Pay for city projects in response to 9/11
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> ? Assist landmine victims in other countries
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> ? Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable
> respite care
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> ? Designate part of the National Forest System in
> Puerto Rico as protected in the Wilderness
> Preservation System.
I hope your Joking....
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