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Hillary Clinton Senate career (view source)
Revision as of 22:26, May 12, 2017
, 22:26, May 12, 2017→Illegal fundraising
The noted newspaper which covers legislative affairs, ''The Hill'', reported Hillary Clinton received more [[earmark]]s for Congressional [[pork barrel]] projects than only one other United States Senator. Reforming the earmark process had been among the Democrats top priorities in the [[110th Congress]], up until the time Democrats voted to rescind the rules aimed at reform that were passed in the first 100 hours of the new Congress in January. Ethics reform and the earmark process is widely attributed as the cause why Republicans lost control of both Houses of Congress after several members had been caught up in ethical scandals. ''The Hill'' reported Sen. Clinton received 26 earmarks worth about $148.4 million total, much going to [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] contractors.<ref>Tiron, Roxana and Wurman, Ilan (June 13, 2007). [http://web.archive.org/web/20081211151216/http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-can-boast-wealth-of-earmarks-2007-06-13.html "Clinton can boast wealth of earmarks"]. The Hill website/Leading the news. Retrieved from December 11, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
The noted newspaper which covers legislative affairs, ''The Hill'', reported Hillary Clinton received more [[earmark]]s for Congressional [[pork barrel]] projects than only one other United States Senator. Reforming the earmark process had been among the Democrats top priorities in the [[110th Congress]], up until the time Democrats voted to rescind the rules aimed at reform that were passed in the first 100 hours of the new Congress in January. Ethics reform and the earmark process is widely attributed as the cause why Republicans lost control of both Houses of Congress after several members had been caught up in ethical scandals. ''The Hill'' reported Sen. Clinton received 26 earmarks worth about $148.4 million total, much going to [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] contractors.<ref>Tiron, Roxana and Wurman, Ilan (June 13, 2007). [http://web.archive.org/web/20081211151216/http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-can-boast-wealth-of-earmarks-2007-06-13.html "Clinton can boast wealth of earmarks"]. The Hill website/Leading the news. Retrieved from December 11, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
==Illegal fundraising==
===Illegal fundraising, 2000===
In January 2006 Hillary Clinton's New York Senate 2000 campaign was fined by the FEC for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions.<ref>[http://www.fec.gov/press/press2006/20060126mur.html "Press release, Matter under review 5225"] (January 26, 2006). Federal Election Commission website.</ref>
In January 2006 Hillary Clinton's New York Senate 2000 campaign was fined by the FEC for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions.<ref>[http://www.fec.gov/press/press2006/20060126mur.html "Press release, Matter under review 5225"] (January 26, 2006). Federal Election Commission website.</ref>
===Illegal fundraising, 2007===
Norman Hsu was a 'HillRaiser', someone who brought in more than $860,000 for her 2008 presidential campaign, and co-hosted a $1 million fundraiser in Beverly Hills. Hsu had been convicted of defrauding investors of over $1 million in 1992 and had a fugitive warrant out for over 15 years at the time. Hillary had been warned about the source of the contributions earlier, but only returned the money after the scandal became public.
===Working moms===
After making a speech about how New York farmers "are really hurting these days," Hillary dropped into an upstate farming community diner. The manager told her breakfast was on the house. Hillary ordered two orders of scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast. When she left, Mrs. Clinton, who once took a 15-cent tax deduction as a charitable contribution for her husband's used underwear, stiffed the waiitress.
Not only did she stiff the waitress, when asked by a reporter about it, in true Clinton fashion, she lied. "This is just another wild story." The [[Free Republic]] website established the, It Takes a Village To Tip a Waitress Fund, and sent the mother $600.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/814914/posts</ref> Meanwhile, in crisis-spin mode, the Clinton team reached out to the mother, who was raising a son on $5000 a year before tips, with no healthcare and no child support. Hillary's staff bought a savings bond for the son's education to cover their boss's screw up. The bond would be worth $100 in 13 years, when the child turns 24.
In Iowa it happened again. Hillary ate in a greasy spoon and chatted with a waitress, a single mom of two children. It was the waitress's first day on the job and her primary work was in a nursing home. She was working two jobs to make ends meet. Hillary stiffed the waitress, and then repeated the waitress's story about two jobs on the next few campaign stops.
The waitress felt violated, that the personal story she told she thought was in confidence and now was being used without her permission. When the waitress's picture appeared in the local newspaper alongside Hillary, her boss at her primary place of employment, who was no fan of Hillary, cut her hours. The waitress was last reported as considering voting for Obama in the 2008 Democratic Iowa caucus.
==Voting record==
==Voting record==