Hillary's achievements

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Hillary Clinton has made job creation a centerpiece of her platform, casting herself as a pragmatist who would inspire “the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II.’’

But nearly eight years after Clinton’s Senate exit, there is little evidence that her economic development programs had a substantial impact on employment.

Despite Clinton’s efforts, job growth stagnated overall during her tenure, with manufacturing jobs plunging nearly 25 percent, according to data.

A day after announcing her 2000 candidacy, then-first lady Clinton vowed to infuse more than a half billion dollars into the upstate economy. A television ad ran just before the election, citing the 200,000 new jobs goal.

In March 2001, she introduced seven bills to stimulate the upstate economy — “part of a larger partnership to spur job creation across our country,’’ Clinton said.

None of the measures passed, records show.

Clinton shifted to federal grants and other assistance. In her 2009 Senate farewell speech, she said she had worked “hard to help make investments in New York’s economy.’’

Clinton’s self-styled role as economic promoter showcases an operating style that has come to define the political and money-making machine known as Clinton Inc. Some of her pet economic projects involved loyal campaign contributors, who also supported the Clinton Foundation.

Campaign spokesman Glen Caplin said Clinton “worked hard” to create jobs. “Facing the stiff head winds of the Bush economy, she never gave up and never stopped fighting for New York jobs,’’ he said.

Multiple analyses of New York data show that upstate actually lost jobs. During her overall Senate tenure, manufacturing jobs fell 24.1 percent.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/as-senator-clinton-promised-200000-jobs-in-upstate-new-york-her-efforts-fell-flat/2016/08/07/339d3384-58d2-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?wpisrc=nl_draw2&wpmm=1

 

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Clinton was first elected as a senator from New York in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She resigned to become secretary of state, so her Senate tenure was from January 2001 to January 2009.

Here are the bills she sponsored that passed:


S. 1241: A bill to establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in the State of New York.

S. 3613: A bill to name a post office the "Major George Quamo Post Office Building."

S. 3145: A bill to designate a highway in New York as the Timothy J. Russert highway.


http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/jun/23/jeb-bush/did-hillary-clinton-have-her-name-only-three-laws-/

 

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On Oct. 27, 1993, after an election campaign promising universal health care and months of meetings held by Hillary’s Health Care Task Force, the Clintons triumphantly unveiled the Health Security Act.

Its architects, Hillary Clinton and presidential aide Ira Magaziner, based the plan on the concept of “managed competition,” described by The New York Times as the combination of “market forces with Government regulation in the hope that doctors and hospitals will compete for business on the basis of price and quality.”

The Clintons chose a reform path privately and shaped it privately, even shielding the names of aides who contributed to Hillary’s closed-door task force. Hillary Clinton undiplomatically ignored the concerns of the insurance and drug companies, whose cooperation she needed to pass the legislation, and instead denounced them as villains. Character attacks, in the place of policy rebuttals, intensified fear that the bill was bad for business and the economy.

By 1994, Republicans had not only defeated the administration’s ambitious plan, but had taken control of Congress.

Hillary Clinton herself admitted that she had mistakenly believed that results would “speak for themselves.”











http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/July/Revisiting-HillaryCare--What-It-Proposed-and-Why-It-Failed.html

 

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Bloomberg Politics convened a focus group of Democrats.

Nearly all loved Hillary.

“She’s a bad mama-jama,” said one female participant. Bad mama-jama is good, by the way. The woman explained that Clinton is “not afraid to step up” or “afraid to say, ‘No. I don’t want to do it that way. I’m going to do it this way.’”

Another participant insisted that Clinton is a “better woman than I am” — a great standard for selecting a president, to be sure — because of Clinton’s ability to weather various scandals and humiliations.

The awkward part came when Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin asked the room, “What did she accomplish that you consider significant as secretary of state?”

The answers — or rather, the replies, since no one had an answer — were awkward to say the least.

“I really can’t name anything off the top of my head,” one squirming Democrat admitted.

“Give me a minute. Give me two minutes. Go to someplace else,” another Iowa Democrat pleaded.

A third let the uncomfortable silence play out for as long as she could before confessing, “No.”

One young man offered the most grudging endorsement he could. “She’s been at a high level in numerous offices for about 25 years now. She’s not perfect. But she’s been in the eye for a long time, in the public’s eye, and you’re going to have some stuff on her. But, you know, she has great policies and she knows how to get stuff done.”


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/22/hillary_clintons_accomplishment_deficit_126693.html