NBC's Today Show Ignores Hillary Clinton's Record To Claim Personal Wealth...-HRC Room

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NBC's Today Show Ignores Hillary Clinton's Record To Claim Personal Wealth Gives Her A "Romney Problem"

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/05/28/nbcs-today-show-ignores-hillary-clintons-record/203796


the media can't hide they are out to get her.

[OKNancy]

1. need to keep this link

Senator Clinton Sponsored Numerous Bills To Support Low-Income Americans, Including:

Multiple Laws That Would Benefit Women, Children, And Low-Income Individuals. During her Senate tenure, Clinton co-sponsored bills to increase the minimum wage, a measure that would expand Social Security coverage to pregnant women, a bill to provide dental service to disadvantaged children, as well as a bill to provide education for homeless and foster children. Clinton also introduced the Food Insecurity Reduction Act of 2008 that would expand access to food stamps for low-income individuals. [Thepoliticalguide.com, accessed 5/17/15] [Govtrack.us, accessed 5/17/15]

Relief For Working Families Tax Act Of 2003. Clinton co-sponsored the Relief for Working Families Tax Act, which supported a lower tax burden for families with children and "working families." [CCH Tax Briefing, 10/4/04] [Thepoliticalguide.com, accessed 5/17/15]
National Affordable House Trust Fund Act Of 2003. Clinton co-sponsored the National Affordable House Trust Fund Act, which supports low income housing by providing funds to communities to "build, preserve, and rehabilitate rental homes that are affordable for extremely and very low income households." [National Housing Trust Fund, accessed 5/17/15] [Thepoliticalguide.com, accessed 5/17/15]

Overtime Compensation Protection Act Of 2003. Clinton co-sponsored a bill to protect overtime compensation in 2003. The bill amended "the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from promulgating any regulation that has the effect of exempting from FLSA overtime compensation requirements (which limit maximum hours at regular compensation) any employee who is not otherwise exempted under regulations in effect on the date of enactment of this Act." [Thepoliticalguide.com, accessed 5/17/15]

Clinton Played "A Major Role" In Legislating State Children's Health Insurance Program. FactCheck.org reported that as First Lady, Clinton was a driving force for providing health insurance to millions of children through SCHIP, a government program that provided health insurance for uninsured children who did not qualify for Medicaid. FactCheck.org noted that Clinton played a "major role in translating the new law into action." [FactCheck.org, 3/18/08]

Clinton "Used Her Influence Behind The Scenes To Push For SCHIP." PolitiFact reported that Clinton's "behind the scenes" influence worked to push SCHIP through Congress:

[Iliyah]

2. Thats one of the GOP's weapons, a 1%er

and she don't care about the people of USA, ya know, the same stuff which have been repeatedly reported on a democratic site.

[Thinkingabout]

3. There is a giant difference in the way the Clintons obtained their wealth and how Romney got his.

First of all, Romney received wealth through his father, the Clintons did not.
Romney did a lot of business deals through take overs, take the money out of the company and then declare bankruptcy.
The Clintons wrote books and made speeches. The Clintons worked hard and played by a different set of rules, Romney took over companies and then move them to other countries. Romney shielded his money off shore and only pays 12-15% in taxes.

[Cha]

4. Ha.. "Hillary has a mitt romney problem".. trying to tie her to that loser. All corpmedia are

!%erwhores.. Andrea Mitchell being one of the biggest. I stopped their propaganda machine in Nov 2002. One month after I joined DU.

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5. when Bill starts talking about a car elevator

then I'll start to worry

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/for-romney-a-four-car-garage-with-its-own-elevator/