Political Bio of the Week

After a couple week hiatis, we're back in the swing of things w/ the presidential candidates. This week is none other then the former first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, (wife of President William Jefferson Clinton), a Senator from New York; born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois; attended public school in Park Ridge, Illinois; graduated Wellesley College, BA 1969; graduated Yale Law School, JD 1973; attorney; counsel, impeachment inquiry staff, House Judiciary Committee 1974; First Lady of Arkansas 1979-1981, 1983-1993; First Lady of the United States 1993-2001; elected to the United States Senate for term commencing January 3, 2001; reelected in 2006 for the term ending January 3, 2013.

Favors:

Women's right to chose

Reduction in teen pregnancy by education and contraceptives

Require companies to hire more women and minorities

Sexual orientation protected by civil rights

Gays deserve domestic partnership benefits

Stricter sentencing of hate crimes

Universal Healthcare

Three strikes sentencing and more prisons

After school activities to prevent gangs

Extending tax cuts on capital gains and dividends

Illegal immigrants earn citizenship

Allowing illegal immigrants to participate in social security

Free trade w/ Singapore, Vietnam, Chile, and Oman

Stricter limits on political campaign funds

License and register all handgun sales

Replace US troops with UN troops

Extend peace treaties w/ Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese

Enlarge NATO to include Eastern Europe

Replace coal and oil w/ alternatives

Targeting 100,000 hydrogen vehicles by 2010

Banning oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Allow churches to provide welfare services

Opposes:

Constitutional ban on flag desecration

Limiting liability lawsuits to $250,000

Privatized social security

Parents choose schools via vouchers

Death Penalty

Absolute right to gun ownership

Prohibiting or banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers

Decrease overall taxation of the wealthy

More spending on the armed forces

More laws to prohibit drugs and drug use