tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post7524432563945268587..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: Hillary Makes Up "Experience"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-25739274309743295672008-03-31T14:24:00.000-05:002008-03-31T14:24:00.000-05:00Ya might want to preruse this little snippet:http:...Ya might want to preruse this little snippet:<BR/><BR/>http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/giving_hillary_credit_for_schip.htmlgwojtowyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15243844999357148993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-58351845356076335892008-03-15T14:43:00.000-05:002008-03-15T14:43:00.000-05:00This is from the Associated Press. Note that Ted ...This is from the Associated Press. Note that Ted Kennedy is quoted as giving Hillary some credited before he became and Obama supporter.<BR/><BR/> <BR/>October 5, 2007 <BR/><BR/>After her universal health insurance effort was defeated in 1994, Hillary Rodham Clinton began looking for other viable health plans. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and the Clintons explored expanding health insurance coverage to children who had none. President Bill Clinton announced a plan to expand coverage to as many as 5 million children in his 1997 State of the Union address. Kennedy, meanwhile, introduced the legislation.<BR/><BR/>But Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Republican, said the plan violated the balanced budget deal and refused to back it, prompting the president to call lawmakers to kill the bill. But Hillary Clinton said he would find ways to provide the insurance. The effort was revived, and Bill Clinton signed the bill in 1997.<BR/><BR/>While Kennedy is viewed as the driving force behind the program, the former First Lady's pressure was seen as crucial. Kennedy said, "The children's health program wouldn't be in existence today if we didn't have Hillary pushing for it.<BR/><BR/>"She wasn't a legislator ... and she wasn't the president," said Nick Littlefield, an ex-Kennedy aide. "But we relied on her, worked with her and she was pivotal in encouraging the White House to do it."<BR/><BR/>ASSOCIATED PRESSVChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03521787154035966295noreply@blogger.com