Due to experience questions about our candidates, maybe some members would like to review a partial bio of Hillary Clinton's work and contributions to Public Service for over 30 years.
Comparing her to other First Ladies or just a President's wife, is a little naive......
One of our leading candidates was still in grade school and the other maybe...college when she began her work to help children.
Sources, part from Wiki & other from Senator Clinton's Biographies...several books to verify.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodha... 1969, Rodham entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.
During her second year, she volunteered at the Yale Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development.
She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and worked at the city legal services to provide free advice for the poor. She was 23.In the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
During her post-graduate study, Rodham served as staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund and as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children.
She was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.In 1971 she traveled to Washington to work on Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education.
The following summer, Rodham campaigned in the western states for 1972 Democratic presidential
candidate George McGovern.
She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973, having completed a thesis on the rights of children.
Working for Rose Law Firm specializing in intellectual property & working pro bono in child advocacy cases. (1976)In her twelve years as First Lady of Arkansas, she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, where she successfully sought to improve testing standards of new teachers.
She also chaired the Rural Health Advisory Committee and introduced the Arkansas' Home Instruction
Program for Preschool Youth, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool
preparedness and literacy.
She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.
Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm while she was First Lady of Arkansas.
She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, in 1988 and in 1991.
Clinton had co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services and the Children's Defense Fund.As First Lady, Clinton supported women's rights and children's welfare around the world., Clinton hosted numerous White House conferences on children's health, early childhood development and school violence.
She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare.
She initiated the Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage.
She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.
The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome.
In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.In a September 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argued very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in China itself.
Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.
She was one of the most prominent international figures at the time to speak out against the treatment of Afghan women by the Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.
She helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative sponsored by the United States to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.Senator (NY) 2001 -
In the Senate, Clinton sits on five committees with nine subcommittee assignments in all:
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Committee on Armed Services, with three subcommittee assignments on Airland, on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, and on Readiness and Management Support.
Committee on Environment and Public Works, with three subcommittee assignments on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety, on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, and on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, with two subcommittee assignments on Aging and on Children and Families; and the Special Committee on Aging.
Senator Clinton has done a little more with her life than many people realize. Helping other people and knowing their needs is a quality which we should demand & must have in public officials.
She more than qualifies in this category.
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