AP: Clinton Touts Government Reform

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

AP: Clinton Touts Government Reform
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Apr 14, 7:36 PM (ET)

By HOLLY RAMER

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that her failed 1993 health care plan showed her that perception counts as much as reality when it comes to advocating openness in government.

The Democratic presidential front-runner continued campaigning in New Hampshire a day after announcing a government reform plan aimed at making government more competent, cost-effective and transparent. Citing the Bush administration's "culture of cronyism," she vowed to improve accountability by cutting back on no-bid government contracts, banning former Cabinet officials from lobbying their former colleagues and requiring all government agencies to post their budgets and related documents online.


Democratic presidential hopeful, U.S. Sen., Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. acknowledges several hundred people as she arrives at a campaign event in a high school gym in Hampton, N.H., Saturday, April 14, 2007.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)

As first lady, Clinton oversaw a massive project to overhaul the nation's health care system. Before the plan collapsed, she faced frequent criticism that the task force she led too often operated in secrecy.

Though Clinton dismissed suggestions Saturday that the project wasn't as open as she promises to make the next Clinton administration, she acknowledged that "the perception (of secrecy) was there."

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[sam sarrha]

1. she's got my voe if she repeals NAFTA and GAT and reverses every free trade BS treaty * made

[Donnachaidh]

2. I wouldn't hold your breath on that one

And I agree - she has my vote ONLY if Nafta, Cafta and all the other heinous *free market* crap is going to be overturned.

And I won't buy the *I'll do it at the end of my second term* crap either. :grr:

[jamesinca]

3. Bill helped get some of that free trade

I doubt she will try to get rid of it. GHW could not get it through the Dem controlled congress, Bill could. Hill won't undo her husbands work IMHO. Bush has continued to push free trade agreements, but going after just his would be irritating, going after all of them would be productive.