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Clinton maintained a low public profile and built relationships with senators from both parties when she started her term.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0310/p01s01-uspo.html |title=Clinton's quiet path to power |author=Chaddock, Gail Russell |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date=March 10, 2003}}</ref> She forged alliances with religiously inclined senators by becoming a regular participant in the Senate Prayer Breakfast.<ref name="mj0907">{{Cite news |title=Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-hillary-clintons-religion-and-politics |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |date=September–October 2007 |author=Joyce, Kathryn |author2=Sharlet, Jeff}}</ref>{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|p=548}} She sat on five Senate committees: [[United States Senate Committee on the Budget|Committee on Budget]] (2001–02),<ref name="umich">{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/congress/sncom012.html |title=Senate Temporary Committee Chairs |publisher=[[University of Michigan]] Documents Center |date=May 24, 2001 |access-date=May 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707064827/http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/congress/sncom012.html |archive-date=July 7, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[United States Senate Committee on Armed Services|Committee on Armed Services]] (2003–09),<ref name="hwar">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/magazine/03Hillary-t.html |title=Hillary's War |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |date=May 29, 2007 |author=Gerth, Jeff |author-link1=Jeff Gerth |author2=Van Natta, Don Jr. |author-link2=Don Van Natta Jr.}}</ref> [[United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works|Committee on Environment and Public Works]] (2001–09), [[United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions|Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions]] (2001–09)<ref name="umich"/> and [[United States Senate Special Committee on Aging|Special Committee on Aging]].<ref name="hccom">{{cite web |url=http://clinton.senate.gov/senate/committees/index.cfm |title=Committees |publisher=Official U.S. Senate website |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011195718/http://clinton.senate.gov/senate/committees/index.cfm}}</ref> She was also a member of the [[Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutCommission.Commissioners&CFID=3874739&CFTOKEN=75235387 |title=About the Commission: Commissioners |publisher=[[Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe]] |access-date=September 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103052420/http://www.csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutCommission.Commissioners&CFID=813748&CFTOKEN=79881044 |archive-date=January 3, 2009}}</ref> (2001–09).<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2001/200109.shtml |title=Senate, House appoint Helsinki commissioners |work=[[The Ukrainian Weekly]] |date=May 20, 2001 |access-date=April 27, 2008 |archive-date=October 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018060914/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2001/200109.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following the September 11 [[September 11 attacks|terrorist attacks]], Clinton sought to obtain funding for the recovery efforts in New York City and security improvements in her state. Working with New York's senior senator, [[Chuck Schumer]], she was instrumental in securing $21 billion in funding for the [[World Trade Center site]]'s redevelopment.{{sfnm |1a1=Bernstein |1y=2007 |1p=548 |2a1=Gerth |2a2=Van Natta |2y=2007 |2pp=231–32}} She subsequently took a leading role in investigating the [[Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks|health issues faced by 9/11 first responders]].{{sfn|Gerth|Van Natta|2007|pp=238–39}} Clinton voted for the [[USA Patriot Act]] in October 2001. In 2005, when the act was up for renewal, she expressed concerns with the USA Patriot Act Reauthorization Conference Report regarding civil liberties.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=249895 |title=Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the USA Patriot Act Reauthorization Conference Report |publisher=Official U.S. Senate website |date=December 16, 2005 |archive-date=February 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214165103/https://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=249895}}</ref> In March 2006, she voted in favor of the [[USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005]] that had gained large majority support.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00029 |title=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress – 2nd Session ... On the Conference Report (H.R. 3199 Conference Report) |publisher=[[United States Senate]] |date=March 2, 2006 |access-date=April 24, 2008}}</ref> Clinton strongly supported the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|2001 U.S. military action in Afghanistan]], saying it was a chance to combat terrorism while improving the lives of Afghan women who suffered under the Taliban government.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=New Hope For Afghanistan's Women |url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,185643,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |author=Clinton, Hillary |date=November 24, 2001}}</ref> Clinton voted in favor of the October 2002 [[Iraq War Resolution]], which authorized President George W. Bush to use military force against Iraq.<ref name="balz-76">{{harvnb|Balz|Johnson|2009|pp=74, 76–77}}</ref> After the [[Iraq War]] began, Clinton made trips to Iraq and Afghanistan to visit American troops stationed there. On a visit to Iraq in February 2005, Clinton noted that the insurgency had failed to disrupt the democratic elections held earlier and that parts of the country were functioning well.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Clinton says insurgency is failing |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-02-19-iraq-senators_x.htm |agency=Associated Press |work=[[USA Today]] |date=February 19, 2005}}</ref> Observing that war deployments were draining regular and reserve forces, she co-introduced legislation to increase the size of the regular [[U.S. Army]] by 80,000 soldiers to ease the strain.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://poststandard.newspaperarchive.com/syracuse-post-standard/2005-07-14/page-279/ |title=Clinton among senators urging larger-sized army |last=Lyman |first=Peter |date=July 14, 2005 |website=poststandard.newspaperarchive.com |access-date=August 11, 2019}}</ref> In late 2005, Clinton said that while immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake, Bush's pledge to stay "until the job is done" was also misguided, as it gave Iraqis "an open-ended invitation not to take care of themselves".<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hillary Clinton says immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be 'a big mistake' |agency=Associated Press |work=[[U-T San Diego]] |date=November 21, 2005 |url=http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20051121-1341-hillaryclinton-iraq.html |author=Fitzgerald, Jim |access-date=September 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122001004/http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20051121-1341-hillaryclinton-iraq.html |archive-date=November 22, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her stance caused frustration among those in the Democratic Party who favored quick withdrawal.<ref>Heilemann and Halperin 2010, pp. 34, 39.</ref> Clinton supported retaining and improving health benefits for reservists and lobbied against the closure of several military bases, especially those in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hillary's Military Offensive |url=http://www.newsweek.com/hillarys-military-offensive-113773 |author=Meadows, Susannah |date=December 12, 2005 |work=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref><ref name="landler-nytm"/> She used her position on the Armed Services Committee to forge close relationships with a number of high-ranking military officers.<ref name="landler-nytm">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html |title=H is for Hawk |author=Landler, Mark |author-link=Mark Landler |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |date=April 24, 2016 |pages=28–35}}</ref> By 2014 and 2015 Clinton had fully reversed herself on the Iraq War Resolution, saying she "got it wrong" and the vote in support had been a "mistake".<ref>{{cite news |author=Lerner, Adam |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clinton-iraq-war-vote-mistake-iowa-118109 |title=Hillary Clinton says her Iraq war vote was a 'mistake' |work=[[Politico]] |date=May 19, 2015}}</ref> Clinton voted against President Bush's two major tax cut packages, the [[Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001]] and the [[Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003]].<ref name="pvs-hrc"/> Simon & Schuster released ''Living History'':{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|p=544}} The book set a first-week sales record for a nonfiction work,<ref name="auto1">{{Cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2003-06-17-hillary-list_x.htm |title=Clinton memoir tops Best-Selling Books list |author=Donahue, Deirdre |work=[[USA Today]] |date=June 17, 2003}}</ref> went on to sell more than one million copies in the first month following publication,<ref name="auto2">{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-75361570.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511212054/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-75361570.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 11, 2011 |title=Clinton's Book Sales Top 1 Million |agency=Associated Press |date=July 9, 2003}}</ref> and was translated into twelve foreign languages.<ref name="auto3">{{cite web |url=http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/the-administration/hillary-rodham-clinton |title=Hillary Rodham Clinton |publisher=[[William J. Clinton Presidential Center]] |access-date=May 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708145221/http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/the-administration/hillary-rodham-clinton |archive-date=July 8, 2009}}</ref> Clinton's audio recording of the book earned her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.<ref name="auto4">{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3472495.stm |title=Gorbachev and Clinton win Grammy |work=BBC News |date=February 9, 2004}}</ref> Clinton voted against the 2005 confirmation of [[John Roberts]] as [[Chief Justice of the United States|chief justice of the United States]] and the 2006 confirmation of [[Samuel Alito]] to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], [[filibuster]]ing the latter.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/us/politics/28judges.html |title=Stark Contrasts Between McCain and Obama in Judicial Wars |author=Lewis, Neil A. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 28, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Anti-Alito filibuster soundly defeated |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/30/alito/ |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=January 30, 2006}}</ref> In 2005, Clinton called for the [[Federal Trade Commission]] to investigate how [[Hot Coffee mod|hidden sex scenes]] showed up in the controversial video game ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Clinton wades into GTA sex storm |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4682533.stm |date=July 14, 2005 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> Along with senators [[Joe Lieberman]] and [[Evan Bayh]], she introduced the [[Family Entertainment Protection Act]], intended to protect children from inappropriate content found in video games. In 2004 and 2006, Clinton voted against the [[Federal Marriage Amendment]] that sought to prohibit same-sex marriage.<ref name="pvs-hrc">{{cite web |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/55463/hillary-clinton |title=Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton – Voting Record |publisher=[[Project Vote Smart]] |access-date=April 14, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13181735/ |title=Gay marriage ban defeated in Senate vote |agency=Associated Press |work=[[NBC News]] |date=June 7, 2006}}</ref> Looking to establish a "progressive infrastructure" to rival that of [[American conservatism]], Clinton played a formative role in conversations that led to the 2003 founding of former Clinton administration chief of staff [[John Podesta]]'s [[Center for American Progress]], shared aides with [[Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington]], founded in 2003 and advised the Clintons' former antagonist [[David Brock]]'s [[Media Matters for America]], created in 2004.{{sfn|Gerth|Van Natta|2007|pp=267–69, 313, 401}} Following the [[2004 United States Senate elections|2004 Senate elections]], she successfully pushed new Democratic Senate leader [[Harry Reid]] to create a Senate [[war room]] to handle daily political messaging.{{sfn|Gerth|Van Natta|2007|pp=267–69}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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