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    Hillary Clinton was born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She had a happy childhood and excelled academically. She attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School, where she met her future husband Bill Clinton. After law school, she worked for the Children's Defense Fund and on the impeachment inquiry staff. She married Bill Clinton in 1975 and they had one daughter, Chelsea. Hillary served as First Lady of Arkansas and then the United States. She was elected as the first female Senator from New York in 2000. As a Senator, she focused on issues like health care reform, ending the war in Iraq, education, and Social Security.

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    Hillary Clinton was born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She had a happy childhood and excelled academically. She attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School, where she met her future husband Bill Clinton. After law school, she worked for the Children's Defense Fund and on the impeachment inquiry staff. She married Bill Clinton in 1975 and they had one daughter, Chelsea. Hillary served as First Lady of Arkansas and then the United States. She was elected as the first female Senator from New York in 2000. As a Senator, she focused on issues like health care reform, ending the war in Iraq, education, and Social Security.

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    Hillary Clinton was born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She had a happy childhood and excelled academically. She attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School, where she met her future husband Bill Clinton. After law school, she worked for the Children's Defense Fund and on the impeachment inquiry staff. She married Bill Clinton in 1975 and they had one daughter, Chelsea. Hillary served as First Lady of Arkansas and then the United States. She was elected as the first female Senator from New York in 2000. As a Senator, she focused on issues like health care reform, ending the war in Iraq, education, and Social Security.

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    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.

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