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Remember this?? The wolf watching the chicken coop...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — As Hillary Clinton fights off intense criticism over her ties to Wall Street, a central question has gone unanswered: Has she ever taken any action that favored the financial industry?
“Anybody who knows me who thinks that they can influence me, name anything they’ve influenced me on,” Mrs. Clinton said at a CNN forum on Wednesday. “Just name one thing.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, took up the challenge.
“Senator Elizabeth Warren can certainly name at least one thing,” his campaign said in a “fact-check” emailed to reporters on Thursday
To make its case, the Sanders campaign is leaning on years-old criticism from Ms. Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and liberal icon, over Mrs. Clinton’s vote in 2001 to make it harder for Americans to wipe out their debts through bankruptcy.
Mrs. Clinton, who has received millions from the financial sector in speaking fees and donations to her campaigns and charitable foundation, expressed regret over the legislation when she ran for president in 2008, though she had plenty of company among Democrats in voting for it.
And the Clinton campaign said the email from the Sanders camp was simply a veiled personal attack.
“If Senator Sanders means to allege that Secretary Clinton ever changed her position because of contributions, he should have the courage to say it, rather than continue to assassinate her character through insinuation,” Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said on Saturday.
Ms. Warren’s critique had its beginnings in 1998, when Congress was contemplating an overhaul to the bankruptcy system. Ms. Warren, a Harvard law professor, wrote an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times warning that under such an overhaul, a woman owed child support could lose some of her ability to collect it if the child’s father declared bankruptcy.
Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Warren later recalled, asked to meet with her. Sitting down for a lunch of a hamburger and French fries after giving a speech in Boston, Mrs. Clinton peppered Ms. Warren with questions about bankruptcy law. “She said, ‘Professor Warren, we’ve got to stop that awful bill,’ ” Ms. Warren said in a 2004 interview with Bill Moyers.
Mrs. Clinton took a strong interest in the fate of the bankruptcy legislation, and President Bill Clinton vetoed it in late 2000. But its supporters pressed on, and in 2001, as a senator from New York, Mrs. Clinton was among 83 senators who voted in favor of overhauling the bankruptcy system, a group that included 36 Democrats.
And this allowed credit card companies to go hog wild wit interest rates and fee's. Thank you "hillery"....you bitch. A democrat...lmao.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — As Hillary Clinton fights off intense criticism over her ties to Wall Street, a central question has gone unanswered: Has she ever taken any action that favored the financial industry?
“Anybody who knows me who thinks that they can influence me, name anything they’ve influenced me on,” Mrs. Clinton said at a CNN forum on Wednesday. “Just name one thing.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, took up the challenge.
“Senator Elizabeth Warren can certainly name at least one thing,” his campaign said in a “fact-check” emailed to reporters on Thursday
To make its case, the Sanders campaign is leaning on years-old criticism from Ms. Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and liberal icon, over Mrs. Clinton’s vote in 2001 to make it harder for Americans to wipe out their debts through bankruptcy.
Mrs. Clinton, who has received millions from the financial sector in speaking fees and donations to her campaigns and charitable foundation, expressed regret over the legislation when she ran for president in 2008, though she had plenty of company among Democrats in voting for it.
And the Clinton campaign said the email from the Sanders camp was simply a veiled personal attack.
“If Senator Sanders means to allege that Secretary Clinton ever changed her position because of contributions, he should have the courage to say it, rather than continue to assassinate her character through insinuation,” Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said on Saturday.
Ms. Warren’s critique had its beginnings in 1998, when Congress was contemplating an overhaul to the bankruptcy system. Ms. Warren, a Harvard law professor, wrote an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times warning that under such an overhaul, a woman owed child support could lose some of her ability to collect it if the child’s father declared bankruptcy.
Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Warren later recalled, asked to meet with her. Sitting down for a lunch of a hamburger and French fries after giving a speech in Boston, Mrs. Clinton peppered Ms. Warren with questions about bankruptcy law. “She said, ‘Professor Warren, we’ve got to stop that awful bill,’ ” Ms. Warren said in a 2004 interview with Bill Moyers.
Mrs. Clinton took a strong interest in the fate of the bankruptcy legislation, and President Bill Clinton vetoed it in late 2000. But its supporters pressed on, and in 2001, as a senator from New York, Mrs. Clinton was among 83 senators who voted in favor of overhauling the bankruptcy system, a group that included 36 Democrats.
And this allowed credit card companies to go hog wild wit interest rates and fee's. Thank you "hillery"....you bitch. A democrat...lmao.