Lauren Lewis Mr.

Tomes
December 5,2007
Government period 1b

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham,Dorothy and Hugh Rodham's
first child,was born onOctober 26,1947.She has two
brothers Hugh and Tony,soon followed.Hillary's
childhood in Park Ridge,Illinois,was happy and
disciplined.She loved sports and her church,and was a
member of the National Honor Society,and a student
leader.Her parents encouraged her to study hard and
to pursue any career that interested her.

As a undergraduate at Wellesley College,Hillary mixed

academic excellence with school government.In
1969,Hillary entered Yale Law school,where she served
on Board of Editors of Yale Law Reviewand Social
action,interned with children's advocate Marian Wright
Edelman,and met Bill Clinton.After graduation,Hillary
advised the Children's Defense Fund inCambridge
andjoined the impeachment inquiry staff advising the
judiciary committee of the House of
Representatives.After completing those
responsibilities, she followed her heart to
Arkansas,where Bill had begun his political career.

Hillary and Bill married in 1975 when she joind the

faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School in
1975 and the Rose Law Firm in 1976.In
1978,President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the
board of the Legal Services Corporation,and Bill
Clinton became governor of Arkansas.Their
daughter,Chelsea,was born in 1980.Hillary served as
Arkansas's First Lady for 12 years,balancing
family,law,and public service.As the nations First
Lady,Hillary continued to balanced public service with
private life.Her active role began in 1993 when the
president asked her to chair the Task Force on
National Health Care Reform.

She was elected United States Senator from New york

on November 7,2000.She is the First Lady elected to
the United States Senate and the first woman elected
statewide in New York.

Health-Hillary's American Health Choices Plan

covers all Americans and improves health care by
lowering costs and improving quality.It speaks to
American values,American families,and American
jobs.She wanted to make it affordable,available,and
reliable.

War In Iraq-She said it is time to begin ending this

war.Not next year.not next month,but today.We have
heard for years now that as the Iraqis stand up,our
troops will stand down.Every year,we hear about how
next year about they may satrt coming home.Now we
are hearing a new version of that yet again from the
president as he has more troops in Iraq than ever and
the Iraq government is more fractured and ineffective
than ever.
Education-From her first job out of law school at
the Children's Defense Fund to her time as First Lady
of Arkansas and of the United States to her service in
the Senate,helping children has been at the center of
Hillary's public life.

Security-When it comes to Social Securit,one of her

opponents uses the Republican talking points and has
been open to raising the retirement age and cutting
benefits.Now he says he is for lifting the payroll
tax,which would be a trillion dollar tax increase.