Posted on 05/05/2003 11:04:06 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
U.S. Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Congressman Sherwood Boehlert will provide the keynote addresses at the 2003 SUNY Cortland Undergraduate Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 17.
Clinton will speak at the 10 a.m. ceremony and Boehlert will address graduates at the 2 p.m. ceremony. Graduating seniors may begin picking up their tickets for one of the two ceremonies on Monday and Tuesday, April 7-8 (see related story below).
Sen. Hilary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected U.S. Senator from New York on Nov. 7, 2000. She is the first First Lady elected to the U.S. Senate.
After two years in the Senate, Clinton has graduated from the freshman class, where she worked in a bipartisan way to get legislation passed, traveled to every corner of New York State, secured millions in appropriations and built a strong and effective constituent service operation.
Clinton serves on the Senate Committees for Environment and Public Works; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. She recently became the first New Yorker appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
During the 107th Congress, Clinton’s accomplishments included working to make the extension of unemployment insurance a national priority; supporting the 2002 Farm Bill that helped New York's $3.4 billion agriculture industry; hosting the first Broadband Conference in Upstate New York to encourage improved broadband access; bringing the Dublin, Ireland, Chamber of Commerce to Buffalo; introducing legislation to rebuild schools; championing a block grant to provide direct funding for first responders; working to reinstate the "Pediatric Rule" so that all medicines and vaccines are safe for children; and introducing legislation to strengthen the Upstate economy.
In the 108th Congress, national security, homeland security and economic security remain at the top of the Senator's legislative agenda. To meet the great challenge of helping New York recover from the terrorist attacks, Clinton worked to secure $21.4 billion in funding for clean up and recovery, to provide health tracking for first responders and volunteers who worked at Ground Zero, and to create grants for small businesses. Rebuilding and securing additional resources remains a priority for Clinton in the 108th Congress.
The Senator is recognized around the world as an advocate for democracy, religious tolerance and human rights, and as a champion for women and girls, emphasizing access to education, economic opportunity, family planning and women's rights to make their own decisions on reproductive health.
Born in Chicago, Ill., on Oct. 26, 1947, Clinton is the daughter of Dorothy Rodham and the late Hugh Rodham. She grew up in Park Ridge, Ill., and attended public school there. She attended Wellesley College and is a 1973 graduate of Yale Law School. She is married to former President William J. Clinton and they have one daughter, Chelsea.
In 1997, Clinton wrote the best selling book It Takes a Village: and Other Lessons Children Teach Us. She also wrote Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids Letters to the First Pets. Her latest book, An Invitation to the White House, was an immediate best seller and won critical acclaim as a tribute to the historic home of the nation's presidents and the families who have lived there.
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She's a big-enough kahuna to speak at the Universities like Buffalo or Albany, rather than pokey little middle-of-nowhere Cortland.
Hmmmm.
Sort of like and close to Ithaca.......
Gag me with a chain saw.
Very good
BS She and Chuck walked in the door and before they could speak, Bush said, "How much money will it take?"(paraphrase) Maybe she called it work because of the energy it took to get her fat a$$ there...
Except for Jaunita Broderick, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willy, etc. She's married to the world's most famous women's rights violator.
I could be wrong, but I get the impression that, when in Upstate New York, she tries to play the "elder stateswoman," and keeps her rhetoric toned down. She waits until she's safely in the confines of the liberal elite before she lets her true, hideous, nature be revealed.
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