Candidate Positions

Original source: http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/34457/

But for the current senator, much of this apparently seems dubious, at least as a road map to the future. “We just can’t keep doing what we did in the twentieth century,” she told a reporter from Bloomberg, adding that we may need “a little time-out” before the enactment of any further trade deals. Accordingly, in 2005, she voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Last month, she announced her opposition to the South Korean Free Trade Agreement. She has backed legislation that would impose trade sanctions on Chinese goods unless Beijing stops holding down the value of the yuan. She has even repeatedly spouted skepticism about the wisdom of NAFTA—while stopping short of blaming her husband for its deficiencies. “NAFTA was inherited by the Clinton administration,” she informed Time magazine. “I believe in the general principles it represented, but what we have learned is that we have to drive a tougher bargain.”

Original source: http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/11/08/hillary-clinton/

Hillary Clinton has joined a growing claque of both Democrats and Republicans swigging from the cup of clean-energy Kool-Aid as they gear up for the 2006 congressional elections. In the past two months, the New York senator has popped up at a major Arctic Refuge rally, a high-profile global-warming conference, and a clean-technology investor symposium to make fervent calls for cleaner, greener energy policy.

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…proposed that Big Oil, now raking in sky-high profits, pay fees that could add up to $20 billion annually for a “Strategic Energy Fund” that would defray soaring home-heating costs and bankroll alternative-energy development. She called for doubling current tax credits for the purchase of hybrids and clean-diesel vehicles, and proposed that the feds stop buying “old-fashioned” cars and trucks by 2010 and start replacing fleets with cleaner, more efficient models.

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Original source: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ushill224636775feb22,0,1447657.story

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies - or even a government-funded “School of the Jihad.”
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“First family that comes and says ‘I want to send my daughter to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic School’ and you say ‘Great, wonderful school, here’s your voucher,’” Clinton said. “Next parent that comes and says, ‘I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist …’ The parent says, ‘The way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. … You gave it to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, under the Constitution, you can’t discriminate against me.’”
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The former first lady said that vouchers would also accentuate divisions, singling out government-financed Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland and similar arrangements in the Netherlands as examples of poorly functioning systems.

Original source: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/05/09/hrc.guns/index.html

U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton renewed her call for tougher gun control legislation on Tuesday before an audience of newspaper publishers.

“We have to do more to stand up to those who refuse to believe the reality that guns do kill and that common-sense gun measures can make a difference,” Mrs. Clinton said during a speech to the Newspaper Association of America’s annual convention in New York.
Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I believe we need a comprehensive plan to stop gun violence, and it is one of the reasons I am running for the Senate,” the first lady said.

Mrs. Clinton, who is running for the seat of retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York), added that she supports proposals that would require the licensing and registering of all new handguns purchased in the United States.

Original source: http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2007/01/what_are_the_candidates_saying_1.html

Of all of the candidates that have entered the race so far, Hillary Clinton is probably one of the most outspoken on the issue of immigration

One of her most quoted remarks about immigrants was made in 2004 when she criticized the Bush administration for not doing enough on border control and said, “I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.” This, of course, was widely quoted and spread across the blogosphere like wildfire. When the immigration debate heated up last spring, advocates criticized Clinton for not speaking out against the draconian House bill 4437 soon enough and for not taking enough of a leadership role in the debate around immigration reform. Ultimately, however, she was an outspoken critic of the bill, which she said would “literally criminalize . . . . probably even Jesus himself,” when referring to the provision that would have made illegal entry into the U.S. a felony. Clinton said it would be “an unworkable scheme to try to deport 11 million people, which you have to have a police state to try to do.”

Although most remember the Senate bill for its provisions creating a “path to citizenship”, Ms. Clinton never shied away from her focus on border control. “A country that cannot control its borders is failing at one of its fundamental obligations,” she said of America’s “broken system.”

In addition to supporting the Senate bill, Clinton has called for a guest worker program and endorsed and voted for “the Fence Bill.” In fact, she supported enacting the border enforcement piece of any legislation before putting into law a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants despite the Democratic leadership’s insistence that the two measures be enacted simultaneously. In December she voted for the “Secure Fence Act of 2006″, which included only the enforcement piece. She has also suggested that she would support a national identification card to crack down on illegal immigration.

Original source: http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=258779

Remarks by Senator Clinton on the Senate Floor Calling for Passage of Stem Cell Legislation

I welcome this vote on such an important piece of legislation, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act.

As we have heard eloquently from my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, stem cell research holds the promise of new cures and treatments for countless diseases and millions of Americans with chronic and curable conditions. The wide range of applications for stem cells may lead to unparalleled achievements on behalf of research concerning Alzheimer’s disease, as my friend and colleague, Senator Mikulski just so passionately described, with respect to her own family and her own experience; to spinal cord injuries like my dear friend, Christopher Reeve; to diabetes and other conditions.

For example, in my state of New York, research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has shown real promise for use in bone, cartilage and muscle replacement therapies. At Columbia University researchers have shown that stem cells can develop into neurons, special nervous system cells, that would allow us to actually treat vision loss. Other scientists at Columbia University and at the University of Rochester Medical Center are working to cultivate stem cells into spinal cells that control motor function as possible treatments for ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. And researchers from Rockefeller University, also in New York City, have explored ways in which stem cells can be used to develop dopamine-producing cells which could help Americans living with Parkinson’s disease who experience a decline in these types of important cells.

A broad consensus in New York and across our country has brought us to this debate and vote. There has been an upsurge of demand. It has crossed every line we can imagine, certainly partisan lines, ethnic, racial, geographic lines, people in every corner of our nation demanding that we in Washington open the doors to this promising science. It is long overdue, but finally we are at this point.

Original source: http://clinton.senate.gov/~clinton/speeches/2005125A05.html

Thank you all very much for having me. I am so pleased to be here two days after the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that struck a blow for freedom and equality for women. Today Roe is in more jeopardy than ever, and I look forward to working with all of you as we fight to defend it in the coming years. I’m also pleased to be talking to people who are on the front lines of increasing women’s access to quality health care and reducing unwanted pregnancy — an issue we should be able to find common ground on with people on the other side of this debate.

We should all be able to agree that we want every child born in this country and around the world to be wanted, cherished, and loved. The best way to get there is do more to educate the public about reproductive health, about how to prevent unsafe and unwanted pregnancies.

My own views of family planning and reproductive rights are heavily influenced by my travels as First Lady. I saw firsthand the costs to women when the government controls their reproductive health decisions.

In pre-democratic Romania, they had a leader named Ceausescu, a Soviet style Communist dictator, who decided it was the duty of every Romanian woman to bear five children so they could build the Romanian State. So they eliminated birth control, they eliminated sex education, and they outlawed abortions.

Once a month, Romanian women were rounded up at their workplaces. They were taken to a government-controlled health clinic, told to disrobe while they were standing in line. They were then examined by a government doctor with a government secret police officer watching. And if they were pregnant, they were closely monitored to make sure you didn’t do anything to that pregnancy.