2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDoes anyone believe that Hillary Clinton is not influenced by the
Wall St. money tree?
From 2004-Present Hillary Clinton is even more swayed by by big bucks,
What did she say about Wall St. and 9/11 ?
Elizabeth Warren vs. Hillary Clinton (2004)
And the impact of $money
Nothing has obviously changed in 2016
daleanime
(17,796 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)MaggieD
(7,393 posts)legislation, pushed by credit card and banking interests, would have made it more difficult for people to get relief from debts through bankruptcy. Clinton noted that she had opposed a similar proposal during her tenure as first lady.
When I got to the Senate, I wanted to see some changes so that alimony and child support would be protected, and 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, Clinton said. Thats the way the Senate works."
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, Clinton continued. 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.
When those provisions were removed she no longer supported the bill.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)but no.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)"All all of the women Democratic women I should say of the Senate urged Hillary Clinton to run, and I hope she does. Hillary is terrific," Warren said during an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," noting that she was one of several senators to sign a letter urging Clinton to run in 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/04/27/elizabeth-warren-i-hope-hillary-clinton-runs-for-president/