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Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic
Site ●
Support the goals and ideals of Better
Hearing and Speech Month ●
Recognize the ●
Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall ●
Name courthouse after James L. Watson ●
Name post office after John A. O’Shea ●
Designate ●
Support the goals and ideals of National
Purple Heart Recognition Day ●
Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton
on the bicentennial of his death ●
Congratulate the Syracuse University Orange
Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship. ●
Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins
Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship ●
Establish the 225th Anniversary of the
American Revolution Commemorative Program ●
Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A.
Tejeda ●
Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the
nation and express condolences on her death ●
Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry
Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty. Only five of ●
Extend period of unemployment assistance to
victims of 9/11 ●
Pay for city projects in response to 9/11 ●
Assist landmine victims in other countries ●
Assist family caregivers in accessing
affordable respite care ●
Designate part of the National Forest System
in (B) – allen Ernstes http://hotflashes51.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/hillary-clinton-list-of-achievements/ Here’s a list of Hillary
Clinton’s Achievements: Education and beginning of
political involvement Rodham entered Wellesley, a prestigious women’s
college, after graduating from high school in 1965 where she began to blend
academic achievement with political activism. Valedictorian at the 1969
graduation, Rodham was the first student to deliver the commencement address,
during which she stated, “The challenge now is to practice politics as the
art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.” Graduating with a
degree in political science, her speech won Rodham a standing ovation and a
feature article in Life magazine. After entering Yale Law School in 1969,
Rodham served on the board of editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social
Action and provided legal advice for underprivileged and abused children at
Yale-New Haven Hospital. She also interned with children’s advocate Marian
Wright Edelman, received a grant to work at the Children’s Defense Fund in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1970; and worked for Senator Walter Mondale’s
subcommittee on migrant workers during the summer of 1971. During her second
year in law school, Rodham volunteered at the Yale Child Study Center, where
she studied new research on early childhood brain development. She also
worked at the city legal services providing free assistance to poor
residents. After graduating from Yale in 1973, Rodham began a year of post-graduate
study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center, after having
written her widely acknowledged thesis on children’s rights. She also became
a staff attorney for the Children’s Defense Fund and was recruited to serve
on the presidential impeachment inquiry staff for the House of
Representative’s Judiciary Committee, investigating the Watergate Scandal. In
Arkansas, the elder Clintons’ careers began to ascend, and soon the couple
moved to Little Rock. Bill ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House. Rodham
Clinton joined the Rose Law Firm in 1976. Two years later, Rodham Clinton was
appointed to the board of the Legal Services Corporation by President Jimmy
Carter, and Clinton was elected to the governor’s office. First lady of Arkansas
During Rodham Clinton’s 12 years as first lady of Arkansas, she continued to
pursue children and family issues. She chaired the Arkansas Education
Standards Committee to improve the testing standards of new teachers, founded
the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and introduced Arkansas
Home Instruction for Preschool Youth, a program that trained parents of
preschool children in preparedness and literacy. The first lady also served
on the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Legal Services board, Children’s Defense
Fund board, while continuing to work for the Rose Law Firm. She was named one
of the 100 most influential attorneys in America by the National Law Journal
in 1988 and 1991. She was also named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and
Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984. First lady of the White House When the
Clintons moved into the White House in 1993, the president appointed his wife
to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform that proposed a
national health plan. The controversial plan failed to receive enough support
to reach the floors of Congress. But she brought the national attention to
the need for a better national health plan. During her eight years as first
lady, Rodham Clinton also initiated the Children’s Health Insurance Program
in 1997, increased research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma
to the National Institute of Health, as well as assisted in determining the
cause of a mysterious illness affecting veterans of the Gulf War. She also
initiated and guided the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Rodham
Clinton has received many prestigious awards, including the Secretary of
Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the President’s Award of the
League of United Latin American Citizens, Role Model of the Year, by the
United Steel Workers of America; the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the
Progressive National Baptist Convention, and the National Association of
Elementary School Principals Distinguished Service Award. Rodham Clinton also
has authored best-selling books, including her autobiography, Living History
and It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, which won her
the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for the recorded version. These are the things we need
to remember, her experience and accomplishments: ●
Her first cause was children, fighting abuse,
and chairing the Children’s Defense Fund. ●
She began her career as a lawyer after
graduating from ●
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 ●
During 1974 she was a member of the Nixon
impeachment inquiry staff in ●
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 ●
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 ●
As First Lady of the ●
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 ●
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 ●
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 ●
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 ●
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 ●
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. ●
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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. Is that enough for you? For me, it is…, |