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Wed Oct 28, 2015, 11:13 AM Oct 2015

Hillary is protecting women and Children both times-Elizabeth Warren's candid interview about Hill

Well worth it read this short but concise story about Hillary's votes on bankruptcy



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Watch Elizabeth Warren's Candid Interview About Hillary Clinton From 2004


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The two women worked together to defeat bankruptcy reform legislation in the late 1990s.

Posted: 10/26/2015 03:41 PM EDT | Edited: 10/26/2015 03:55 PM EDT


....................Warren wrote a New York Times op-ed in April 1998 arguing that the legislation, pushed by credit card companies, would disproportionately affect women who were trying to collect alimony and child support from their ex-husbands. Clinton saw the piece, Warren recalled, and requested a meeting:

She says, "Tell me about bankruptcy." And I've got to tell you, I never had a smarter student. Quick, right to the heart of it. I go over the law -- it's a complex law -- went over the economics, showed her the graphs, showed her the charts and she got it.



Within 20 minutes she could play where the rest of it would come: "Well then, that will mean this part's happened, that will mean this has happened." I said, "Yes, that's right."



And at the end of the conversation, Mrs. Clinton stood up, she said, "Let's get our picture taken," which we did, and she said, "Professor Warren, we've got to stop that awful bill."


According to Warren, Clinton went back to the White House and urged the administration to oppose the legislation. And in 2000, President Bill Clinton vetoed the Bankruptcy Reform Act........................

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Hillary is protecting women and Children both times-Elizabeth Warren's candid interview about Hill (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2015 OP
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