Hillary Clinton in Sunday Political Talk Show interviews during 2015
On Free Trade:
Trans Pacific trade deal doesn't meet my standards
The Trans Pacific Partnership, which includes the US and 11 other nations, is the largest regional trade agreement in history. But as of today, I am not in favor of what I have learned about it. I don't believe it's going to meet the high bar
I have set for creating jobs and advancing national security. I am also worried about currency manipulation not being part of the agreement, and that pharmaceutical companies may have gotten more benefits from the deal than their patients.
Source: PBS.org on 2015 presidential hopefuls
Oct 7, 2015
On Gun Control:
Sensible restraints on manufacturer liability & online sales
I will push hard to get more sensible restraints. I want to work with Congress, but I will also look at ways as president. We must expand background checks for gun shows and online sales, and close the current loophole that negates the need for
a background check after a 3-day waiting period. I will also repeal legislation that shields gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers from liability suits, even in cases of mass shootings.
Source: Fox News 2015 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Oct 5, 2015
On Free Trade:
TPP must produce jobs, raise wages, & protect security
An MSNBC reporter asked Clinton on April 21 whether she had concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement the Obama administration is in the process of negotiating, According to CBS,
Clinton responded, "Any trade deal has to produce jobs and raise wages and increase prosperity and protect our security.
We have to do our part in making sure we have the capabilities and the skills to be competitive. It's got to be really a partnership between our business, our government, our workforce, the intellectual property that comes out of our universities,
and we have to get back to a much more focused effort in my opinion to try to produce those capacities here at home so that we can be competitive in a global economy."
Source: National Journal 2015 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Apr 27, 2015
On Health Care:
The science is clear: vaccines work
As the latest measles outbreak raises alarm, the vaccination controversy is a twist on an old problem for the Republican Party: how to approach matters that have largely been settled among scientists but are not widely accepted by conservatives.
Hillary Clinton weighed in with a jab at vaccine naysayers: "The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and vaccines work."
Howard Dean, a presidential candidate in 2004 and a former DNC chairman, said there are three groups of people
who object to required vaccines: "One is people who are very much scared about their kids getting autism, which is an idea that has been completely discredited. Two, is entitled people who don't want to put any poison in their kids and view this as
poison, which is ignorance more than anything else. And three, people who are antigovernment in any way."
"But the truth," added Dean, a physician, "is you can be conservative without putting kids in harm's way."
Source: N.Y. Times 2015 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Feb 3, 2015
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