Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton: on Health Care

Hillary Clinton: 1993:Ambitious role plagued from start by secrecy complaints

Bill and Hillary set two ambitious goals--rewriting the complex rules that governed 14% of the economy & meeting the deadline of delivering a proposal to Congress within 100 days.

The country seemed comfortable with the historic decision to put a First Lady in charge of a major policy challenge. It didn’t take long for the honeymoon to end. The Washington Times, in an article entitled “First Lady’s Task Force Broke Law on Secrecy,” claimed that reporters had been barred from the first meeting of the task force--an apparent violation of a law because Hillary was not a federal employee and the law allows outsiders to be kept out of advisory committee meetings only if all participants are federal employees.