Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Biography and Timeline

Birth of Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

Birth of Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

Education

Graduates from Yale Law School

Marriage

Marries Bill Clinton

Rose Law Firm

Named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm and twice listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America

Clinton Health Care Plan

The recommendations of the task force become the Clinton Health Care Plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organisations. Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act

Role range: 1993-2000

Clinton Health Care Plan

The plan is quickly derided as "Hillarycare" by its opponents; some protesters against it become vitriolic, and during a July a bus tour to rally support for the plan, she is forced to wear a bulletproof vest. The plan does not receive enough support for a floor vote in either the House or the Senate, although both chambers are controlled by the Democrats, the proposal is abandoned in September

Clinton Health Care Plan

As First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton Health Care Plan, fails to gain approval from the US Congress

Clinton Health Care Plan

Republicans make the Clinton Health Care Plan a major campaign issue of the 1994 midterm elections, which see a net Republican gain of fifty-three seats in the House election and seven in the Senate election, winning control of both.

Clinton Health Care Plan

The plan does not receive enough support for a floor vote in either the House or the Senate, although both chambers are controlled by the Democrats, the proposal is abandoned in September.

Clinton Health Care Plan

The plan is quickly derided as "Hillarycare" by its opponents; some protesters against it become vitriolic, and during a July a bus tour to rally support for the plan, she is forced to wear a bulletproof vest.

Election

Republicans make the Clinton Health Care Plan a major campaign issue of the 1994 midterm elections, which see a net Republican gain of fifty-three seats in the House election and seven in the Senate election, winning control of both

Election

Republicans make the Clinton Health Care Plan a major campaign issue of the 1994 midterm elections, which see a net Republican gain of fifty-three seats in the House election and seven in the Senate election, winning control of both

Health of Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

Republicans make the Clinton Health Care Plan a major campaign issue of the 1994 midterm elections, which see a net Republican gain of fifty-three seats in the House election and seven in the Senate election, winning control of both

World Conference on Women

At the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argues very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in the Peoples Republic of China

World Conference

At the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argues very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in the Peoples Republic of China

Trial

Becomes the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater controversy

Health Reform

Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program

Legislation

Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program

National Institutes of Health

Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health

Office on Violence Against Women

Clinton helps create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice

Reform of Government

Clinton helps create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.

Reform of Government

Promotes nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encourages older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare.

Reform of Health Policy

Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.

Reform of Social Welfare

Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program.

State Childrens Health Insurance

Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program

Scandal

When the allegations against her husband are first made public, Hillary Clinton states that they are the result of a "vast right-wing conspiracy". Dismisses the Lewinsky charges as the latest in a long, organized, collaborative series of charges by Clinton political enemies, rather than any wrongdoing by her husband

Adoption and Safe Families Act

Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act

Foster Care Independence Act

Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. instrumental in passage of the Foster Care Independence Act, which doubles federal monies for teenagers aging out of foster care

Health Reform

Bill Clinton appoints Hillary Clinton to head and be the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform

Health Reform

Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act.

Health Reform

The recommendations of the task force become the Clinton Health Care Plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organisations.

Legislation

Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act

National Health Care Reform

The recommendations of the task force become the Clinton Health Care Plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organisations. Bill Clinton appoints Hillary Clinton to head and be the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform

Reform of Social Welfare

Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act

State Childrens Health Insurance

Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act

Election

The campaigns of Clinton and Lazio, along with Giulianis initial effort, spends a record combined $90 million, Clinton won the election with 55 percent of the vote to Lazios 43 percent. First time an American First Lady runs for public office, also the first female senator to represent New York

Inauguration

Sworn in as United States Senator

Election

The campaigns of Clinton and Lazio, along with Giulianis initial effort, spends a record combined $90 million, Clinton won the election with 55 percent of the vote to Lazios 43 percent

Election

Democrat Hillary Clinton finishes first in the New Hampshire primary, ahead of Barack Obama and John Edwards

New Hampshire Primary

Wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary after losing Iowa

Role range: 2001-2009