Hillary Clinton

During her husband's campaign in 1982, Rodham began to use the name Hillary Clinton.

After her husband became a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination of 1992, Hillary Clinton received national attention for the first time.

Hillary Clinton made remarks about Tammy Wynette and baking cookies during the campaign that were ill-considered by her own admission.

Later saying she had been misled by her husband's initial claims that no affair had taken place, Hillary Clinton stated at the time that the allegations against her husband were the result of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Both Clintons' memoirs later stated that the revelation of the affair was a very painful time in their marriage; Hillary Clinton faced both support and criticism for remaining in the marriage.

Hillary Clinton received an "A" on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues.

Hillary Clinton has been involved in numerous controversies involving allegations of legal, financial, or ethical wrongdoings, notably official enquiries into her business dealings in Arkansas and her involvement in the administration of her husband, as well as controversial public and private statements that attracted media attention.

Hillary Clinton has been given numerous awards and honors related to her public service.

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. She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, in 1988 and in 1991. Other campaign workers also date from the "Hillaryland"team of the White House years. During her husband's campaign in 1982, Rodham began to use the name Hillary Clinton. Clinton voted for the USA Patriot Act in October 2001, as did all but one senator. She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. In 2005, when the act was up for renewal, she worked to address some of the civil liberties concerns with it, before voting in favor of a compromise renewed act in March 2006 that gained large majority support.

During the 2005 debate over the use of filibusters by Senate Democrats, which prevented some of President Bush's judicial nominations from being confirmed, Clinton was not part of the "Gang of 14", a bipartisan group of senators who would support cloture but oppose the Republican threat to abolish the filibuster. She attended Maine East High School, where she had participated in student council, the debating team and the National Honor Society. In November 1980, Bill Clinton was defeated in his bid for re-election, but returned to office two years later by winning the election of 1982. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the junior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party.

As First Lady of the United States, Clinton published a weekly syndicated newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over"from 1995 to 2000, distributed by Creators Syndicate. The plan was quickly derided as "Hillarycare"by its opponents, and did not receive enough support for a floor vote in either the House or the Senate, although both chambers were controlled by Democrats. In 2005, Clinton was joined by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who once led the Republican opposition to her husband's administration, in support of a proposal for incremental universal health care. Senator Clinton delivers an address to Families USA. . Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.

According to reports by the Associated Press, her speech received a standing ovation lasting seven minutes. Clinton later said that she did not read the National Intelligence Estimate that was delivered 10 days before the vote to all members of Congress, but that she was briefed on the report. Rodham then entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.