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Just Some Of Hillary Clinton’s Accomplishments

Go Left·Monday, February 29, 2016
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Equality And Equal Rights
A young Hillary Clinton was part of a church group that heard MLK Jr. preach a sermon in Chicago.
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In 1962, Don Jones, the youth minister at Hillary’s church took Hillary and her class to hear a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights pioneer preached a sermon titled “Sleeping Through the Revolution,” That night was one Hillary would never forget, particularly because of the moment after the speech, when Jones shocked the teen and her comrades by arranging to have them briefly meet with King. Later in life, Hillary would remark that these experiences opened her eyes ”as a teenager to other people and the way they live which affected me.“
In 1965 Hillary brought Black classmates to participate in services at her all-white church.
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Hillary volunteered with her church youth group to baby-sit the children of migrant laborers.
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While she grew up in a Republican household and was a “Goldwater Girl” at age 17, before she could vote, by the fall of 1966, she identified herself as a Rockefeller Republican. By the spring of 1968, though, she was volunteering for Democrat Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign.
Upon graduation from law school, she served as staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In Arkansas, she co-founded the group Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
Has Supported Cracking Down On International Sex Trafficking of omen and Girls.
Leaders of a coalition of women’s groups and politically conservative groups sent a letter of protest to the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The letter accused the administration of taking a position that was “extremely detrimental to women” in negotiations over a new UN treaty on sex trafficking. Ever since receiving that letter, Clinton has focused on the issue in her foreign travels and has repeatedly called for a crackdown on all types of trafficking of women and children across international borders.
Has Been A Fierce International Proponent of Women’s Rights
At the 1995 UN World Conference on Women, held in China Clinton lambasted the Chinese Government saying in a speech:
“Human rights are women’s rights. And women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.“
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Strong Supporter of Equal Pay for Equal Work and an original cosponsor the Lily Ledbetter Act
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Evolved on the issue of Same Sex Marriage from Supporting Civil Unions With Full Benefits to Fully Supportive of Same Sex Marriage
Approved That States Were Ahead of the Federal Government In Moving Forward On Same Sex Marriage
Voted Yes On Reintroduction of the ERA
Voted No On Constitutional Amendment To Ban Flag Desecration
Voted No on Constitutional Amendment to Ban Sam Sex Marriage
Rated 96% by the NAACP
Rated 89% on LGBT Issues
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Healthcare
Played a Critical Role as First Lady in 1997, along with Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and Republican Senator Orin Hatch to pass the SCHIP program (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) which still provides healthcare for millions of children.
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Oct. 6, 2007: The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Supported Universal Healthcare For All as First Lady in 1993 and continued to do so through 2008, pushing for Universal Healthcare then a Public Option to be Included Within the ACA.
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Hillary stepped up for New York in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, fighting hard to secure funds for medical assessment, referrals and outreach for 9/11 rescue and recovery workers, and volunteers.
International Affairs
Sec. Clinton helped avert an all-out war in Gaza by negotiating a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians in November, 2012.
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Management of the State Department during which time we saw a 50 percent increase in exports to China, aggressive work on climate (particularly at Copenhagen), and the effort to create and implement the toughest sanctions ever on Iran—helping to lead us to the agreement currently on the table.
Hillary Clinton was the principal author of the sanction on Iran that brought them to the table. Governor Howard Dean
American foreign policy was stronger when Hillary Clinton left the State Department than when she arrived. She took the reins from a Bush administration that had left America’s reputation deeply damaged and planted the seeds for the foreign policy successes we see today. From the agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, to the landmark normalization of relations with Cuba, nearly every foreign policy victory of President Obama’s second term has Secretary Clinton’s fingerprints on it. Senator Harry Reid
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was key in rebuilding America’s leadership and prestige overseas after the Bush years. She restored our alliances with the EU and key Asian allies as well as key relationships in Africa and Latin America. Governor Bill Richardson
She helped secure the START treaty’s ratification, and has advanced women’s rights in countries around the globe. Senator Chuck Schumer
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ALSO
Hillary Rodham Clinton was awarded top honors in the Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album category by The Recording Academy. Clinton won for the audio version of "It Takes A Village," her 1996 book which detailed how the then-first lady hoped to "to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults."
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Clinton was named by Americans in Gallup's most admired woman poll as the woman around the world they most admired in 1993–94, 1997–2000, and 2002–15. http://www.gallup.com/poll/180365/b...
On February 14, 2013, two weeks after stepping down as Secretary of State, Clinton was given Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the highest Pentagon medal given to private citizens or politicians. Both Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta praised the unusually cooperative relationship the two departments had during Clinton's tenure. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary...