Hillary Rodham Clinton from Creators Syndicate

Talking It Over for 08/23/2000

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:00:00 -0700

When her friends and family talk about SuAnne Big Crow, they describe an energetic and good-hearted young woman — a gifted athlete who led the Pine Ridge High School girls' basketball team to the South Dakota state championship. An inspiration both on and off the court, SuAnne dreamed of returning to the reservation after college to work with young people, helping them avoid the pitfalls ...

Updated: Wed Aug 23, 2000

Talking It Over for 08/30/2000

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Imagine you're a new first-grade teacher in a large urban school district. Eagerly you arrive at school on the first day, only to find a classroom bursting with 35 antsy 6-year-olds. It's late August and despite the best efforts of a creaky old fan, the temperature in your classroom hovers at well over 90 degrees. After listening to your concerns, one of the older teachers warns that conditions ...

Updated: Wed Aug 30, 2000

Talking It Over for 09/06/2000

Wed, 06 Sep 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Congress is back in session. With only a few weeks remaining, however, before they hit the campaign trail, lawmakers face a daunting task: They must finish work on 13 spending bills before they leave town.

At the top of the Republican leadership's list of priorities this week, though, is not an appropriations bill, but rather an attempt to override the President's veto of the estate tax ...

Updated: Wed Sep 06, 2000

Talking It Over for 09/13/2000

Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Let me describe an after-school scene you might recognize. A teenager is slouched on the couch in the family room, doing his homework in front of the television. It's 4 p.m. and he's watching reruns of a video music award program featuring performances by gangsta rappers whose lyrics are obscene and celebrate violence, and where some female singers sport costumes clearly designed to shock. A 15 ...

Updated: Wed Sep 13, 2000

Talking It Over for 09/20/2000

Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Last February, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported startling increases in the use of prescription drugs by preschoolers. The use of Ritalin alone, the most commonly prescribed treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, increased 150 percent between 1991 and 1995.

Like many others, I was taken aback by the dramatic increases in the prescription of these d ...

Updated: Wed Sep 20, 2000

Talking It Over for 09/27/2000

Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:00:00 -0700

For nearly eight years, this administration has worked to bring peace to some of the most troubled spots in the world — from Northern Ireland to the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. But it is hard for us to make peace around the world unless we first commit ourselves to make peace within our own homes.

That is why it is critical that the Senate vote this week to reauthorize the ...

Updated: Wed Sep 27, 2000

Talking It Over for 10/04/2000

Wed, 04 Oct 2000 00:00:00 -0700

I have often heard my husband say that his proudest accomplishment as President has been the success of AmeriCorps — the national service program he created to provide money for college in exchange for substantial service.

Since the launch of AmeriCorps six years ago, nearly 200,000 Americans have served on the front lines in hard-pressed neighborhoods - tutoring in schools, respon ...

Updated: Wed Oct 04, 2000

Talking It Over for 10/11/2000

Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Poor families around the world stand to gain unprecedented access to economic opportunity with last week's passage by Congress of the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act, a bill that authorizes $155 million in each of the next two years for microenterprise development programs around the world.

Despite the current economic prosperity in our own country, more than 1.2 billion people in ...

Updated: Wed Oct 11, 2000

Talking It Over for 10/18/2000

Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Many people in this country would be shocked to learn that a modern form of slavery is one of the fastest-growing criminal enterprises in the world.

According to Theresa Loar, the Director of the President's Interagency Council on Women, "Trafficking in women and children is now considered the third largest source of profit for organized crime, behind only drugs and guns."

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Updated: Wed Oct 18, 2000

Talking It Over for 10/25/2000

Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Over the past five years, I have written nearly 300 columns, many of them about issues I have cared about and worked on for 30 years. As I look back over the list, I'm struck by the extraordinary opportunity this column has afforded me — the opportunity to bring these important topics to national and even international attention.

Only a few days remain in the 106th Congress, after ...

Updated: Wed Oct 25, 2000

Talking It Over for 11/01/2000

Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:00:00 -0800

After the 1998 election, a survey of 18- to 24-year-olds conducted by the National Association of Secretaries of State drew this frightening conclusion: We may be witnessing the emergence of a permanent class of non-voters.

In 1993, the National Voter Registration Act, or "Motor Voter" law went into effect. Aimed at young voters especially, Motor Voter proved a stunning success ...

Updated: Wed Nov 01, 2000

Talking It Over for 11/08/2000

Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:00:00 -0800

It was nearly two years ago that I was first asked to consider running for the United States Senate from New York. The thought of trying to fill the shoes of one of this country's finest public servants, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was daunting. Yet, the prospect of continuing to work for the issues that Americans care about was the motivation I needed — at least to study the idea. S ...

Updated: Wed Nov 08, 2000

Talking It Over for 11/15/2000

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:00:00 -0800

Last week, Americans went to the polls to cast their ballots in our national election.One week later, as I write this column, an extraordinary drama has unfolded, and we still do not know who the next President will be. While there have been demonstrations, lawsuits, appeals and challenges to the vote cast in Florida, our constitution and our democracy continue to stand as a model to the world, ...

Updated: Wed Nov 15, 2000

Talking It Over for 11/22/2000

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:00:00 -0800

At times, over the past week, as I traveled with my family in Vietnam, I was overcome with emotion. Thirty years ago, when our countries were at war, I never could have imagined I'd see Vietnamese and Americans working side by side at an excavation site, searching for the remains of an American pilot. With us at the site were the pilot's two sons, looking on and hoping that, after all these yea ...

Updated: Wed Nov 22, 2000

Talking It Over for 11/29/2000

Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:00:00 -0800

When I was a little girl, I was fascinated by the White House, and couldn't wait to see it. Finally, the summer I was ten, my family visited our nation's capital. We stood outside the fence along the south side, staring at one of the most beautiful houses I had ever seen — the house that symbolizes America for the world.

Years later, whenever I flew into Washington, I would strain ...

Updated: Wed Nov 29, 2000

Talking It Over for 12/06/2000

Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0800

This week, an important tradition is taking place on Capitol Hill — the biannual orientation for newly-elected members of Congress. Unfortunately, our lawmakers are sharing the stage for a more somber undertaking — a lame-duck session called to finish work on the federal budget.

At midnight tonight, the 16th Continuing Resolution — the temporary spending bill passed to ...

Updated: Wed Dec 06, 2000

Talking It Over for 12/13/2000

Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0800

As I write this, my husband, my daughter and I are in Northern Ireland. This is my fifth trip here — an especially meaningful one as it is probably the last overseas trip we will take together as a family while my husband is President.

We are very pleased to be returning at this historic time. Despite the obvious obstacles that remain, the Good Friday agreement is working. For the ...

Updated: Wed Dec 13, 2000

Talking It Over for 12/20/2000

Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0800

The Women's Bank occupies a one-room building in western India. The teller's counter is an old kitchen table covered with cloth. Bank clerks record all transactions by hand, on yellowed sheets that resemble worn-out telephone books. When I visited in 1995, I saw poor women who had walked 12 to 15 hours from their villages to take out loans — some as small as $1 — to invest in dairy ...

Updated: Wed Dec 20, 2000

Talking It Over for 12/27/2000

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0800

When I was a child, we decorated our family tree on Christmas Eve. With only one to decorate, we could afford to wait until the last minute. So, it was a surprise when the Chief Usher and the Social Secretary came to me shortly after my husband's first inauguration to give me the news that it was time to begin planning for Christmas.

Christmas in the White House is magical. There are doz ...

Updated: Wed Dec 27, 2000

Talking It Over for 01/01/2008

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

EDITORS NOTE: The following column is the first syndicated column written by Hillary Clinton for Creators Syndicate. It was originally released on July 23, 1995. All subsequent columns are arranged beginning with those filed most recently (in 2000 just before Mrs. Clinton joined the Senate) and ending with her first columns written in 1995. -- CREATORS SYNDICATE

On a recent trip to Ar ...

Updated: Tue Jan 01, 2008