Foreign Policy:
Myanmar transition
Iran nuclear deal framework
Israel/Hamas peace agreement/ceasefire
Promoting LGBT rights in Africa as Secretary of State
HIV/AIDS testing and treatment through Clinton Foundation partnership with ANTIAIDS and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Ukraine
Launched Global Hunger and Food Security program
Saved the Turkish-Armenian accord
Co-sponsored Afghan Women and Children Relief Act of 2001
Co-sponsored Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001
Co-sponsored Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2006
Co-sponsored Iraq Reconstruction Accountability Act of 2006
Co-sponsored Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006
Health:
Expanded the Family Medical Leave Act to include national guard/reservist
Co-sponsored Prevention First Act (family planning)
Changed State Department policy to include same sex couples in Diplomat benefits package
Lead group investigating 9/11-related illnesses in first responders (her Senate successor ended up passing her bill)
Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
Helped increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma for NIH
Helped investigate Gulf War Syndrome
Co-sponsored Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2008
Co-sponsored ALS Registry Act
Co-sponsored Poison Center Support, Enhancement, and Awareness Act of 2008
Co-sponsored Veterans’ Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008
Education:
Built Arkansas’ Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters
Reformed Arkansas’ education system as chair of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee
Co-sponsored Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006
9/11:
Instrumental in bringing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment
Established family compensation/small business loan programs
Co-sponsored Procedural Fairness for September 11 Victims Act of 2007
Children/Women:
Helped create Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
Helped pass Adoption and Safe Families Act
Helped pass Foster Care Independence Act
Supported and promoted the passage and rollout of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which expanded health insurance for children in lower-income families.
Co-sponsored Native American Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Technical Amendment Act of 2001
Co-sponsored Pediatric Research Equity Act of 2003
Co-sponsored PREEMIE Act
Co-sponsored Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007
This is considered by many to be one of the turning points of international women’s rights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXM4E23Efvk
In 1995, during an unprecedented address in Beijing to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Hillary recounted worldwide abuses and declared “It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and for the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights.”
Career:
Staff attorney for the Children’s Defense Fund in Cambridge
Board member of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action
Legal work at the Yale Child Study Center for child abuse
Volunteer at New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic
Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession
Political Career:
Researcher on migrant worker problems — Subcommittee on Migrant Labor
Jimmy Carter’s Indiana director of field operations
Chaired Arkansas’ Rural Health Advisory Committee, working to expand medical facilities for the poor
Chair of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee
Chair of Presidential Task Force on National Health Care Reform
First Lady of Arkansas
First Lady of the United States
United States Senator from New York
United States Secretary of State
Voting Rights
Wrote Count Every Vote Act of 2005
Co-sponsored re-introducing the Equal Rights Amendment
More legislation (that became law)
Co-sponsored Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
Co-sponsored Methamphetamine Production Prevention Act of 2008
Co-sponsored PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008
Co-sponsored KIDS Act of 2008
Co-sponsored Broadband Data Improvement Act
Co-sponsored Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 2008
Co-sponsored Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2007
Co-sponsored Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act of 2002
Co-sponsored Persian Gulf War POW/MIA Accountability Act of 2002
Co-sponsored FHA Downpayment Simplification Act of 2002
Co-sponsored Strengthen AmeriCorps Program Act
Co-sponsored 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act
Legislation Vetoed
Co-sponsored Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007
SOURCE:
https://medium.com/@hodgesmr/so-what...0e7#.41iptaa5t
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