Get to Know Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidate for President

Everything you need to know about the Democratic presidential candidate.

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ABC NEWS
June 9, 2016, 8:21 AM ET
3 min read

— -- Name: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Party: Democrat

Age: 68

What She Does Now: Full-time presidential candidate. After stepping down as Secretary of State in 2013, she traveled the country and the world commanding hefty speaking fees.

What She Used to Do: Former Secretary of State, two-term U.S. Senator from New York, 2008 presidential candidate, former First Lady of the United States, former First Lady of Arkansas, attorney.

Declared as a Candidate: April 12, 2015

Hometown: Park Ridge, Illinois

Family Tree: Clinton was born on Oct. 26, 1947 to Hugh Rodham, a Republican, and Dorothy Howell, a Democrat. She met her future husband and future president, Bill Clinton, in the Yale Law School library in 1970. They were married in 1975. Their married daughter Chelsea is expecting her second child, a younger sister for Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky.

Where She Stands on the Issues:

Climate Change:

  • Launch a $60 billion clean energy challenge
  • Reform leasing on public lands
  • Revitalize coal communities with a $30 billion plan

    • Economy:

  • Raise minimum wage to $12 and eventually to $15
  • Invest $350 billion in a new college compact so students do not have to borrow to pay tuition at a public college in their state
  • Reform tax code so the wealthiest pay their fair share, enacting the “Buffett Rule”

    • Foreign Policy:

  • Establish a no fly zone in Syria
  • Enforce the Iran-nuclear deal

    • Gun Control:

  • Close the “Charleston Loophole” that allows a gun sale to proceed without completed background check, if the background check has not been completed within three days
  • Tightening the gun show and Internet sales loopholes
  • Make so-called “straw purchasing” of firearms a federal crime

    • Healthcare:

  • Defend the Affordable Care Act
  • Lower out-of-pocket costs like copays and deductibles

    • Immigration:

  • Comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship
  • End the 3-and 10-year bars to keep families together

    • Social Issues:

  • Pro-abortion rights
  • Pass the Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Non-Discrimination Act