Hillary Clinton Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Political positions== {{Main|Political positions of Hillary Clinton}} [[File:Secretary Clinton Meets With King Abdullah.jpg|thumb|alt=Photograph of Secretary of State Clinton meeting with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. She is seated on the left, he is on the right. Their interpreters are in the background.|Clinton with King [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]]. Clinton supports maintaining U.S. influence in the [[United States foreign policy in the Middle East|Middle East]].]] Using her Senate votes, several organizations have attempted to measure Clinton's place on the [[political spectrum]] scientifically. ''[[National Journal]]''{{'}}s 2004 study of roll-call votes assigned Clinton a rating of 30 on the political spectrum, relative to the Senate at the time, with a rating of{{nbsp}}1 being most liberal and 100 being most conservative.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8573139/ |title=Clinton burnishes hawkish image |date=July 14, 2005 |work=[[NBC News]] |author=Curry, Tom}}</ref> ''National Journal''{{'}}s subsequent rankings placed her as the 32nd-most liberal senator in 2006 and 16th-most liberal senator in 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-journal-obama-most-liberal-senator-in-2007/ |title=National Journal: Obama Most Liberal Senator In 2007 |last1=Montopoli |first1=Brian |work=[[CBS News]] |date=January 31, 2008}}</ref> A 2004 analysis by political scientists Joshua D. Clinton of [[Princeton University]] and Simon Jackman and Doug Rivers of [[Stanford University]] found her likely to be the sixth-to-eighth-most liberal senator.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://my.vanderbilt.edu/joshclinton/files/2011/10/CJR_2004.pdf |title="The Most Liberal Senator"? Analyzing and Interpreting Congressional Roll Calls |journal=[[Political Science & Politics]] |date=October 2004 |author=Clinton, Joshua D. |author2=Jackman, Simon |author3=Rivers, Doug |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=805–11|doi=10.1017/S1049096504045196 |s2cid=155197878 }}</ref> ''[[The Almanac of American Politics]]'', edited by [[Michael Barone (pundit)|Michael Barone]] and [[Richard E. Cohen]], rated her votes from 2003 through 2006 as liberal on economics, social issues, and foreign policy.{{efn|See {{Cite book |title=The Almanac of American Politics |year=2008 |last1=Barone |first1=Michael |last2=Cohen |first2=Richard E. |author-link2=Richard E. Cohen |work=[[National Journal]] |page=1126 |author-link=Michael Barone (pundit)|title-link=The Almanac of American Politics }} And 2006 edition of same, 1152. The scores for individual years are [highest rating 100, format: liberal, (conservative)]: 2003: Economic {{=}} 90 (7), Social {{=}} 85 (0), Foreign {{=}} 79 (14). Average {{=}} 85 (7). 2004: Economic {{=}} 63 (36), Social {{=}} 82 (0), Foreign {{=}} 58 (41). Average {{=}} 68 (26). 2005: Economic {{=}} 84 (15), Social {{=}} 83 (10), Foreign {{=}} 66 (29). Average {{=}} 78 (18). 2006: Economic {{=}} 63 (35), Social {{=}} 80 (14), Foreign {{=}} 62 (35). Average {{=}} 68 (28).}} According to ''[[FiveThirtyEight]]''{{'}}s measure of political ideology, "Clinton was one of the most liberal members during her time in the Senate."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hillary-clinton-was-liberal-hillary-clinton-is-liberal/ |title=Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal. |date=May 19, 2015 |website=fivethirtyeight.com|access-date=July 27, 2016}}</ref> Organizations have also attempted to provide more recent assessments of Clinton after she reentered elective politics in 2015. Based on her stated positions from the 1990s to the present, [[On the Issues]] places her in the "Left Liberal" region on their two-dimensional grid of social and economic ideologies, with a social score of 80 on a scale of zero more-restrictive to 100 less-government stances, with an economic score of ten on a scale of zero more-restrictive to 100 less-government stances.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/hillary_clinton.htm |title=Hillary Clinton |publisher=[[On the Issues]] |access-date=June 23, 2016}}</ref> [[Crowdpac]], which does a data aggregation of campaign contributions, votes and speeches, gives her a 6.5L rating on a one-dimensional left-right scale from 10L (most liberal) to 10C (most conservative).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crowdpac.com/elections/2016-presidential-election |title=2016 Presidential Candidates |publisher=[[Crowdpac]] |access-date=February 28, 2016}}</ref> === Economics === In March 2016, Clinton laid out a detailed economic plan, which ''The New York Times'' called "optimistic" and "wide-ranging". Basing her economic philosophy on [[inclusive capitalism]], Clinton proposed a "clawback" that would rescind tax relief and other benefits for companies that move jobs overseas; providing incentives for companies that share profits with employees, communities and the environment, rather than focusing on short-term profits to increase stock value and rewarding shareholders; increasing collective bargaining rights; and placing an "exit tax" on companies that move their headquarters out of America to pay a lower tax rate overseas.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/us/politics/hillary-clinton-offers-economic-plan-focused-on-jobs.html |title=Clinton Offers Economic Plan Focused on Jobs |last=Chozick |first=Amy |date=March 4, 2016 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=May 7, 2016}}</ref> === Domestic policy === Clinton accepts the [[scientific consensus on climate change]] and supports [[cap-and-trade]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/us/politics/hillary-clinton-on-the-issues.html |title=Hillary Clinton on the Issues|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 12, 2015 |access-date=March 31, 2016}}</ref> and opposed the [[Keystone XL pipeline]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/06/politics/keystone-xl-pipeline-decision-rejection-kerry/index.html |website=CNN|access-date = May 23, 2016}}</ref> She supported "equal pay for equal work", to address current shortfalls in how much women are paid to do the same jobs men do.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-equal-pay-problem-solving-would-be-top-priorities/ |title=Hillary Clinton: Equal pay, problem-solving would be top priorities |date=February 24, 2015 |work=[[CBS News]]}}</ref> Clinton has explicitly focused on family issues and supports universal preschool.<ref name="AP outset">{{cite news |last=Lerder |first=Lisa |date=April 19, 2015 |title=Clinton patches relations with liberals at campaign's outset |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/130dda61f1e24e05ba2233b3e80fa638/clinton-patches-relations-liberals-campaigns-outset |url-status=live |access-date=April 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623162718/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/130dda61f1e24e05ba2233b3e80fa638/clinton-patches-relations-liberals-campaigns-outset |archive-date=June 23, 2015 |series=The Big Story}}</ref> These programs would be funded by proposing tax increases on the wealthy, including a "fair share surcharge".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2016/01/12/investing-in-america-by-restoring-basic-fairness-to-our-tax-code/ |title=Investing in America by Restoring Basic Fairness to Our Tax Code |website=hillaryclinton.com|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020201412/https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2016/01/12/investing-in-america-by-restoring-basic-fairness-to-our-tax-code/ |archive-date=October 20, 2016 }}</ref> Clinton supported the Affordable Care Act<ref>{{cite news |title=How Obamacare Could Backfire on Hillary Clinton |author=Pianin, Eric |url=http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/05/06/How-Obamacare-Could-Backfire-Hillary-Clinton |website=[[Fiscal Times]]|access-date = August 6, 2016}}</ref> and would have added a "[[public option]]" that competed with private insurers and enabled people "50 or 55 and up" to buy into Medicare.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8c4cc46cf79a4aeb99781119274ee414/nod-sanders-clinton-offers-new-health-care-proposal |title=In nod to Sanders, Clinton offers new health care proposals |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=July 21, 2016}}</ref><ref name=":38">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-health-care-public-option.html |title=Hillary Clinton Takes a Step to the Left on Health Care |last1=Rappeport |first1=Alan |date=May 10, 2016 |last2=Sanger-katz |first2=Margot |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=July 21, 2016}}</ref> === LGBT rights === Clinton supports the right to [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|same-sex marriage]], a position that has developed throughout her political career.<ref name="AP outset"/> In 2000, she was against such marriages altogether. In 2006, she said only that she would support a state's decision to permit same-sex marriages, but opposed federally amending the Constitution to permit same-sex marriage. While running for president in 2007, she again reiterated her opposition to same-sex marriage, although expressed her support of civil unions.<ref>{{Cite news|author=<!--not stated-->|date=August 29, 2016|title=Hillary Clinton had the chance to make gay rights history. She refused.|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/hillary-clinton-had-the-chance-to-make-gay-rights-history-she-refused/2016/08/28/843a5cfc-58cf-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303072544/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/hillary-clinton-had-the-chance-to-make-gay-rights-history-she-refused/2016/08/28/843a5cfc-58cf-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.html|archive-date=March 3, 2017|access-date=April 7, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SameSexEvolve">{{cite web|title=Hillary Clinton's changing position on same-sex marriage|last1=Sherman|first1=Amy|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/ |website=Politifact|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404042747/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/|archive-date=April 4, 2023|access-date=August 12, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> 2013 marked the first time that Clinton expressed support for a national right to same-sex marriage.<ref name="SameSexEvolve"/> In 2000, she was the first spouse of a U.S. president to march in an [[LGBT pride parade]].<ref>{{cite web |author=White, Nate |url=https://medium.com/@natewhite11/why-hillary-s-experience-argument-actually-does-check-out-64cc9a439442 |title=Why Hillary's experience argument actually does check out – Medium |website=medium.com |access-date=June 28, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821202223/https://medium.com/%40natewhite11/why-hillary-s-experience-argument-actually-does-check-out-64cc9a439442 |archive-date=August 21, 2016 }}</ref> In 2016, she was the first major-party presidential candidate ever to write an op-ed for an LGBT newspaper, the ''[[Philadelphia Gay News]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epgn.com/news/local/11120-pgn-exclusive-hillary-clinton-addresses-lgbt-equality |title=PGN Exclusive: Hillary Clinton addresses LGBT equality|publisher=Epgn.com|year=2016|access-date=October 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010034910/http://www.epgn.com/news/local/11120-pgn-exclusive-hillary-clinton-addresses-lgbt-equality |archive-date=October 10, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> === Immigration === Clinton held that allowing [[Illegal immigration to the United States|undocumented immigrants]] to have a path to citizenship "{{bracket|i}}s at its heart a family issue",<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/05/a-path-to-citizenship-clinton-says-is-at-its-heart-a-family-issue/ |title=A Path to Citizenship, Clinton Says, 'Is at Its Heart a Family Issue' |date=May 5, 2015 |work=[[The New York Times]] |last1=Chozick |first1=Amy |access-date=May 6, 2015}}</ref> and expressed support for Obama's [[Deferred Action for Parental Accountability]] (DAPA) program, which would allow up to five million undocumented immigrants to gain deferral of deportation and authorization to legally work in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/tim-kaine-issues.html |title=How Tim Kaine and Hillary Clinton Compare on the Issues |last1=Shepherd |first1=Katie |last2=Rappeport |first2=Alan |date=July 22, 2016 |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217111410/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/tim-kaine-issues.html |archive-date=December 17, 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=August 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-immigration-reform_us_5787c871e4b03fc3ee4fcefc |title=Hillary Clinton Promises Deportation Relief, Despite Supreme Court Ruling |last=Foley |first=Elise |date=July 14, 2016 |website=HuffPost |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205202249/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-immigration-reform_us_5787c871e4b03fc3ee4fcefc |archive-date=December 5, 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=August 12, 2019}}</ref> However, in 2014, Clinton stated that [[2014 American immigration crisis|unaccompanied children crossing the border]] "should be sent back."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-immigration-children-daca-661952 |title=Hillary Clinton Said Children of Illegal Immigrants Should Be Sent Back in 2014 CNN Interview |last=Price |first=Greg |date=September 8, 2017 |website=newsweek.com |access-date=August 12, 2019}}</ref> She opposed and criticized Trump's call to temporarily ban [[Muslim world|Muslims]] from entering the United States.<ref name="ban"/> === Foreign policy === On foreign affairs, Clinton voted in favor of the [[Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq]] in October 2002,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237 |title=Roll Call Vote 107th Congress – 2nd Session On the Joint Resolution (H.J.Res. 114 ) |date=October 11, 2002 |website=senate.gov |access-date=August 12, 2019}}</ref> a vote she later said she regretted.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-regrets-her-iraq-vote-but-opting-for-intervention-was-a-pattern/2016/09/15/760c23d0-6645-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html |title=Hillary Clinton regrets her Iraq vote. But opting for intervention was a pattern. |last=Kranish |first=Michael |date=September 15, 2016 |access-date=December 10, 2016 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> She favored arming [[Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War|Syria's rebel fighters]] in 2012 and has called for the removal of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/01/17/hillary-clinton-arm-syrian-rebels-obama-sotu.cnn |title=Was Clinton right about arming Syrian rebels? |date=January 17, 2016 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> She supported the [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia]] in 1999 and the NATO-led military intervention in Libya to oust former Libyan leader [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-07-26/news/0707250721_1_state-madeleine-albright-foreign-policy-kosovo |title=Clinton unlikely to change course on intervention|last=Chapman |first=Steve |date=July 26, 2007 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html |title=Hillary Clinton, 'Smart Power' and a Dictator's Fall |last1=Becker |first1=Jo |date=February 27, 2016 |last2=Shane |first2=Scott |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Clinton is in favor of maintaining [[United States foreign policy in the Middle East|American influence in the Middle East]].<ref name="ban">{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280629-trump-hits-back-at-clinton-sanders-was-right-about-you/ |title=Trump fires back at Clinton over Muslim ban: 'Ask Hillary who blew up the plane last night'|author= Yilek, Caitlin |date=May 19, 2016 |work=The Hill}}</ref> She has told the [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee]], "America can't ever be neutral when it comes to Israel's security and survival."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/aipac/article/hillary_clinton_to_aipac_donald_trumps_foreign_policy_dangerously_wrong |title=Hillary Clinton to AIPAC: Donald Trump's foreign policy 'dangerously wrong.' |date=March 21, 2016 |work=[[The Jewish Journal (Boston North)|Jewish Journal]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324081400/http://www.jewishjournal.com/aipac/article/hillary_clinton_to_aipac_donald_trumps_foreign_policy_dangerously_wrong|archive-date=March 24, 2016}}</ref> Clinton expressed support for Israel's right to defend itself during the [[2006 Lebanon War]] and [[2014 Israel–Gaza conflict]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/nyregion/18hillary.html |title=Clinton Vows to Back Israel in Latest Mideast Conflict|author=Healy, Patrick |date=July 18, 2006 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/hillary-clinton-blasts-unfair-world-reaction-over-gaza-cites-anti-semitism-as-factor/ |title=Hillary Clinton blasts 'unfair' world reaction over Gaza, cites anti-Semitism as factor|author=<!--Not stated--> |date=August 10, 2016 |work=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref> In a 2017 interview, after a [[Douma chemical attack|poison gas attack in Syria]], Clinton said that she had favored more aggressive action against [[Bashar al-Assad]]: "I think we should have been more willing to confront Assad. I really believe we should have and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."<ref name="Goldberg">{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-calls-for-u-s-to-bomb-syrian-air-fields-idUSKBN179058|title=Hillary Clinton calls for U.S. to bomb Syrian air fields|author=Barbara Goldberg|date=April 7, 2017|work=Reuters}}</ref> Clinton opposed a ceasefire in the [[2023 Israel–Hamas war]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Hillary Clinton rebuts calls for ceasefire, says Hamas rule in Gaza must end |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/14/hillary-clinton-israel-hamas-ceasefire-00127116 |work=[[Politico]] |date=November 14, 2023}}</ref> stating "Remember, there was a ceasefire on October 6, that Hamas broke by their barbaric assault on peaceful civilians."<ref>{{cite news |title=Hillary Clinton: 'There was a ceasefire on October 6. Hamas chose to break it' |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hillary-clinton-there-was-a-ceasefire-on-october-6-hamas-chose-to-break-it/ |website=[[Times of Israel]] |date=November 9, 2023 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page