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Related: About this forumWSJ: Hillary Clinton’s Explanation for Controversial Bankruptcy Vote? Joe Biden
Hillary Clintons Explanation for Controversial Bankruptcy Vote? Joe BidenClinton defended her vote for a controversial bankruptcy bill reviled by the left on Thursday, and said she did so at the insistence of then-Sen. Joe Biden, who just happens to be considering challenging her for the Democratic presidential nomination.
She sat down with a trio of women and one of them, Jo Smith, 43, asked her about that vote, noting that Elizabeth Warren, now a senator from Massachusetts, opposed it.
The overhaul was promoted by the credit-card and banking industries and would have made it more difficult for people to get relief from debts through bankruptcy.
On Thursday, Mrs. Clinton said that the bill was pending when she arrived in the Senate in 2001 and wanted some changes to protect alimony and child support payments.
So I negotiated those changes and then the people who had been handling the bill said, Well if we take your changes you have to support it. Thats the way the Senate works, Mrs. Clinton said. And so I said Its really important to me that we dont hurt women and children, so I will support it even though there are other things I dont like in it.
She then pointedly added this: And it was Vice President Biden who was the senator from Delaware and the Republican co-sponsor that I was talking with, so I said Id support it even though Id opposed it before.
The bill failed, but a similar measure passed in 2005. Mrs. Clinton missed that vote, she said, because her husband had been hospitalized for a heart ailment. She said she would have voted no.
During a presidential-primary debate in 2008, Mrs. Clinton was asked if she regretted her 2001 yes vote. Sure I do, but it never became law, she said.
Bernie Sanders voted against the bill.
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WSJ: Hillary Clinton’s Explanation for Controversial Bankruptcy Vote? Joe Biden (Original Post)
portlander23
Sep 2015
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Senator Clinton seems to regret a number of her most important Senate decisions....
mike_c
Sep 2015
#1
Oh god. I almost don't want to read anymore things because she's so terrible. She
roguevalley
Sep 2015
#2
I'm a woman, and I see a problem with this. This law wasn't just bad for women and children. To
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2015
#4
mike_c
(36,281 posts)1. Senator Clinton seems to regret a number of her most important Senate decisions....
Frankly, I prefer a candidate who gets on the right sides of issues in the first place, rather than one who expresses regret about being on the wrong side time after time.
frylock
(34,825 posts)7. HILLARY 2016: Regrets, I've Had a Few
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)2. Oh god. I almost don't want to read anymore things because she's so terrible. She
can't even figure out how to explain these.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)3. wow. she really can't own any decisions, can she?
pass the buck and vote against your supposed convictions cuz someone told/asked you too. just the quality we want in a president. yup.
840high
(17,196 posts)5. ...+1
jwirr
(39,215 posts)11. She should have read Elizabeth Warren's book about
bankruptcy instead of listening to Joe who came from Delaware the banking state. But I suspect that she came from the Wall Street state had a little to do with it also.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)4. I'm a woman, and I see a problem with this. This law wasn't just bad for women and children. To
secure protection for women and children but to say, okay even though I don't like it I'll accept whoever else gets hurt by it, is unacceptable. If it hurts people, then vote no.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)9. There are men who support women and children. n/t
Nedsdag
(2,437 posts)6. But it's all Joe's fault!
Way to show leadership, Hillary!
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)8. Oh the poor little woman, strong armed by the man. n/t
frylock
(34,825 posts)10. Weak sauce