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Correct The Record Saturday December 13, 2014 Roundup:

 

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Bloomberg: Al Hunt: “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Democratic Front-Runner”

“Senator Tim Kaine is staying with his embrace of Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, even though his fellow Virginia Democrat Jim Webb looks like he will run too.”

 

Wall Street Journal: “Hillary Clinton’s Messaging Has Familiar Ring to It”

“Clinton backers say they are confident she can inspire voters. Mrs. Clinton, should she run, ‘will present a forward-thinking agenda filled with fresh and bold ideas,’ said Adrienne Elrod, a spokeswoman for Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton group.”

 

Washington Post blog: The Fix: Aaron Blake: “Hillary Clinton is the preferred candidate of millionaires? That’s doubtful.”

“One wonders what would happen if Romney were included in the CNBC poll or if he were matched up against Clinton one-on-one. We're guessing Clinton would no longer be the ‘millionaires' choice for president.’”

Associated Press: “2016 Contenders Quiet on Police Shootings Protests”

"The presumed leading Democrat, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said the families and communities deserved a 'full and fair accounting.'"

 

The Hill blog: Briefing Room: “Bachmann: 'Cromnibus' was 'most consequential vote' of my career”

“Bachmann’s been a vocal critic of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is largely seen as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. ‘I’ve been on the front line for eight years,’ Bachmann said. ‘While Mrs. Clinton was secretary of State, I was a member on the Intelligence Committee, I was in Congress at the time, dealing with this issue of Benghazi and all the rest. I have a lot to say about these issues for 2016.’”

 

CNN: “Bill Clinton on protests: 'We have to make people feel that everybody matters again'”

“As is the case with every interview, Bill Clinton was asked about his wife's presidential aspirations and when, in particular, Hillary Clinton expects to announce her candidacy. ‘I don't even know if she is going to run,’ Bill Clinton said. ‘But if she, sometime next year I think she will make a decision and announce it.’”

 

Washington Post blog: Post Partisan: Carter Eskew: “Hillary Clinton’s biggest challenge”

“She has unrivaled experience, the gender factor and the overwhelming support of the Democratic Party. Now she needs some fresh ideas.”

 

Breitbart column: Citizens United Chairman David Bossie: “Citizens United Going to Court Over ‘Stonewalled’ Hillary Records”

“This week Citizens United sued the State Department in federal court over its unlawful withholding of documents relating to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.”

 

 

Articles:

 

Bloomberg: Al Hunt: “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Democratic Front-Runner”

By Albert R. Hunt

December 12, 2014, 11:05 a.m. EST

Senator Tim Kaine is staying with his embrace of Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, even though his fellow Virginia Democrat Jim Webb looks like he will run too.

"I am going to stick with Hillary," Kaine, also a former governor of Virginia, said in an interview for Friday's "Charlie Rose" PBS program. He said he believes the former secretary of state is "the best qualified person to be a great president."

Many Democratic politicians are jumping on the Hillary bandwagon, but Kaine is a particularly interesting example for two reasons. One, he was an important supporter of Barack Obama in 2008 when the Illinois senator defeated Clinton for the nomination. He was on the final short-list of possible Obama running mates that summer. Second, Webb was Kaine's predecessor in the Senate; Kaine won the seat in 2012 when Webb retired.

Last month, Webb launched an exploratory committee to consider running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton, if she runs, would be a prohibitive favorite to get the nod, though some Democrats, including a few Clintonites, believe Webb could score political points against her. Webb is an economic populist, critical of Wall Street; she has close Wall Street ties. Webb also is a decorated Marine combat officer who is much more skeptical than Clinton about foreign interventions.

Kaine was optimistic that Ms. Clinton would run: "I don't have any inside intelligence, but my intuition says yes."

The full interview can be seen tonighton PBS and will later be rebroadcast on Bloomberg Television.

 

 

Wall Street Journal: “Hillary Clinton’s Messaging Has Familiar Ring to It”

By Peter Nicholas

December 12, 2014, 6:52 p.m. EST

[Subtitle:] Similar Language From Past Campaigns Shows Challenge in Posing Fresh Ideas

Sounding a theme that seemed suited to a presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton said the “basic bargain” of America is that people who “work hard and play by the rules’’ get the chance to build a good life.

At another event, she railed against policies that give “tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas.” In one appearance, she trumpeted data-driven, “evidence-based decision-making” in government.

Mrs. Clinton is giving hints of the themes and agenda that would animate her campaign if she were to run for president, offering the barest sketch of what could evolve into her basic stump speech. Yet, the ideas are, in a sense, frozen in time. Mrs. Clinton has offered the same thoughts—in virtually identical language—at earlier stages of her political career.

She talked about the “basic bargain” in 2007, using nearly the same wording in the Web video announcing she was running for president. Her husband, Bill Clinton, used the formulation years earlier.

Mrs. Clinton’s call for “evidence-based decision-making” dates at least to 2006. And ending tax breaks for so-called offshoring dates to Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 campaign but also to 1992, when Mr. Clinton included it in his own campaign manifesto.

The familiar language underscores a central challenge that Mrs. Clinton would face as a candidate: How does someone who has been a household name for nearly a quarter-century, as a first lady, senator and secretary of state, inspire voters with fresh ideas.

Clinton loyalists say her near-universal name recognition cuts both ways. It is one reason she has vaulted to the top of every poll of Democratic voters. But that familiarity could be a handicap, they say, if people see her as a throwback to another era.

Mrs. Clinton’s office declined to comment.

The 67-year-old isn’t a candidate yet and has ample time to refine a message—and she may yet decide that the ideas she has long championed are right once again for the moment. But some Democratic strategists are saying Mrs. Clinton must spell out a more concrete case for why she wants the presidency and where she would lead the country.

David Axelrod, who helped design the strategy that led Barack Obama to victory over Mrs. Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, said recently that her “candidacy is out in front of the rationale for it.”

Republicans have also tended to run on familiar themes, most prominently calls for limited government. But many potential GOP candidates have begun laying out policy specifics, or they are officeholders with recent records to run on. Mrs. Clinton, by contrast, has been largely absent from the political realm for six years, which draws additional attention to her language in her few forays into public policy.

In recent speeches, Mrs. Clinton has brought a new element to her thoughts on policy: her status as a grandmother. Even if babies aren’t grandchildren of former senators and presidents, they should have the same educational opportunities and prospects as 3-month-old Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, she says. It doesn’t hurt that grandmothers are often objects of affection.

“I’ve always said that Hillary Clinton would be elected president if she becomes a grandmother,” said Joe Andrew, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “They’re both wise and warm. The challenge Hillary Clinton always had was not being personally accessible, not being as warm as people would like her to be. Being a grandmother helps” overcome that perception, he said.

But at this stage, some of Mrs. Clinton’s speeches seem to borrow from past addresses.

In a radio address he gave in 2000, then-President Clinton used the “basic bargain” idea that Mrs. Clinton repeated many years later, at the steak fry and political fest in Iowa three months ago hosted by Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin.

“I’ve always believed that if you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to have a decent chance for yourself and for a better life for your children,” Mr. Clinton said. That is the “basic bargain,” he added.

Mrs. Clinton’s criticism of policies that give “tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas,” made at an event this fall for a Democratic Senate candidate, has long been part of the Clinton policy arsenal. In their 1992 campaign manifesto, “Putting People First,” Bill Clinton and running mate Al Gore called for “ending tax breaks for American companies that…ship American jobs overseas.”

Mrs. Clinton also mentioned the idea in her 2008 campaign, releasing a 30-second ad in Ohio that promised to “end tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas.”

Speaking in May, Mrs. Clinton described “evidence-based decision-making,” the idea being data and objective fact should trump ideology. It is a familiar refrain. In a 2007 interview with Newsweek, she said she believed in “evidence-based decision making, not ideological bases.”

Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor and co-founder of the Mayday PAC, a group that seeks to change the way campaigns are funded, said that Mrs. Clinton faces the risk of sounding stale. He said the midterm losses should show Democrats that “they need to excite the Democratic base. And to excite the Democratic base you need to be something more than the 1990s Clinton polished up with a new website.”

Clinton backers say they are confident she can inspire voters. Mrs. Clinton, should she run, “will present a forward-thinking agenda filled with fresh and bold ideas,” said Adrienne Elrod, a spokeswoman for Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton group.

 

 

Washington Post blog: The Fix: Aaron Blake: “Hillary Clinton is the preferred candidate of millionaires? That’s doubtful.”

By Aaron Blake

December 12, 2014, 2:35 p.m. EST

Here is a headline that you might see in an ad from a Democratic presidential candidate running against Hillary Clinton:

This comes courtesy of CNBC, which commissioned a poll asking 500 people “with investable assets of $1 million or more” (this is one poll that, safe to say, we’d all like to be a part of) which of nine potential presidential candidates they prefer. And it has been bouncing around social media this week as we all feverishly try to imagine a scenario in which Clinton might actually not beat the motley crew of Democrats who will run against her.

How could Sen. Elizabeth Warren see this and not immediately decide to form a presidential exploratory committee, you might ask.

This poll is also far less than meets the eye.

Here are the choices offered, along with what percentage of the vote each candidate got:

[GRAPH]

First of all, yes, Clinton is No. 1. This is also not how people are going to vote for the new president. The only place where this kind of election takes place is Louisiana, and even then, there’s a two-candidate runoff if nobody gets to 50 percent.

Clinton especially benefits from this format because:

1) She’s more well-known than the other candidates, save Vice President Biden. The rest of the field, quite simply, aren’t household names.

2) While the Democrat/Republican split is pretty even overall, Clinton is far more of a favorite on the Democratic side. Hence, she takes 72 percent of Democrats -- about like she does in primary polling -- while the Republicans all split up the vote pretty evenly -- Jeb Bush at 36 percent, Chris Christie at 19 percent, Scott Walker at 18 percent. Clinton’s share of the overall total is thus inflated.

3) There are more Republicans than Democrats. Yes, it probably only makes a small difference, but there are three Democrats, one Democratic-caucusing independent/socialist senator, and five Republicans. Again, that’s more people splitting up one party’s vote.

President Obama was the rare Democrat to win the vote of the wealthiest Americans in 2008, winning people making more than $200,000 per year (this is not the same as millionaires, but it’s the best approximation we have), 52-46. But it didn’t last. In 2012, Mitt Romney won people making more than $250,000 by a 13-point margin.

Even Clinton’s husband -- with a moderate/pro-business reputation -- lost the wealthiest Americans by 16 points in 1996 -- and it might have been by more if extremely wealthy Ross Perot hadn’t been on the ballot.

One wonders what would happen if Romney were included in the CNBC poll or if he were matched up against Clinton one-on-one. We’re guessing Clinton would no longer be the “millionaires’ choice for president.”

 

 

Associated Press: “2016 Contenders Quiet on Police Shootings Protests”

By Steve Peoples
December 13, 2014, 9:33 a.m. EST

Since grand juries in Missouri and New York declined to indict white police officers in the deaths of two black men, protesters nationwide have demanded a reckoning and an acknowledgement that "black lives matter."

Yet so far, there are few signs such a conversation will come in a place where it might most make a difference - the next campaign for president.

Most of the current White House prospects have avoided speaking in depth or detail about the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

From those who have, it only has been only brief, measured responses about a criminal justice system that many African-Americans view as stacked against them.

Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a former U.S. attorney, has just said he would not second guess a grand jury.

GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who recently visited Ferguson, Missouri, and has begun to court black voters, blamed Garner's death on the politicians behind New York's high cigarette taxes.

The presumed leading Democrat, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said the families and communities deserved a "full and fair accounting."

"We have allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance," Clinton said. "And I personally hope that these tragedies give us the opportunity to come together as a nation to find our balance again."

Clinton and her potential challengers have not set forth a course to do that. They have given no indication they might join in protests that have reached into popular culture, with NBA and NFL players participating.

"Both parties are reluctant to bring up race in an explicit way unless they're forced to," said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a University of California political science professor and editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

Jesse Jackson did make civil rights a central theme of his bids for the Democratic nomination in the 1980s. Fellow Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama gave major speeches on race during their campaigns.

But not since John F. Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon Johnson, has a party nominee cited civil rights as a reason why voters should elect him.

That's largely because today's political leaders see more risk than reward in tackling race, Ramakrishnan said. It is easier to accept a system in which Democrats expect to win vast majority of the African-American vote and Republicans do little to engage black voters for fear the GOP will alienate other parts of the party's base, he said.

Democratic presidential candidates have won no less than 70 percent of the black vote since Kennedy in 1960. Obama, the first black president, won 95 percent and 93 percent of the black vote in 2008 and 2012 respectively, according to exit polls.

The African-American vote isn't "in play the same way other swing electorates might be in play," Ramakrishnan said.

The political rewards are elusive, but the risks are real. The few conservatives who have weighed in on the issue in some depth and done so in a way that sided with police have drawn scathing criticism from black leaders.

New York Republican Rep. Peter King, who has been teasing a 2016 presidential run, focused on Garner's obesity as a contributing factor to his death, which happened after Garner was placed in a chokehold by a police officer.

Another potential Republican contender in 2016, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, charged that Obama was wrong to meet with "thugs" and "mob members" involved in the protests in Ferguson.

"I think that those type of statements are despicable," said the Urban League's president, Marc Morial. "It demonstrates a lack of sensitivity to humanity."

Morial and other African-American leaders said they also overwrite the positive signs that black voters see from Republicans such as Paul and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Perry has criticized mandatory minimum prison sentences and encouraged alternatives to incarceration for drug offenders, which are among the criminal justice reforms supported by black leaders.

"Right now, Republicans seem genuinely conflicted," said Benjamin Jealous, the former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "You'll see somebody do something hopeful, and then you see them revert."

Which isn't to say Democrats are doing much better, they argue.

Jealous points to Clinton and her record on sentencing reform, which he characterized as weak. "That's the opportunity ultimately for somebody like Rand Paul," Jealous said.

While the protests create a sense that a window has opened for, as Clinton put it, the "nation to come together," the differences in public opinion don't suggest an easy way forward.

Polls show little agreement among Americans about whether the grand juries made the right decision in the Brown and Garner cases, how much race was a factor and the degree to which relations between police and people of color can improve.

Without a clear road map, said Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, it's unlikely any presidential candidate will choose to engage the nation in such a conversation as the 2016 election season begins.

"Both political parties should have an interest in this," Swain said. "But for decades, no one has known what to say or do."

 

 

The Hill blog: Briefing Room: “Bachmann: 'Cromnibus' was 'most consequential vote' of my career”

By Ben Kamisar

December 12, 2014, 3:04 p.m. EST

Retiring Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Friday expressed dismay that the House passed a $1.1 trillion "cromnibus" spending bill, calling it the "most consequential vote" of her career.

Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to name the "most important vote" she took in her career, Bachmann pointed toThursday night's vote to keep the government funded and avoid a shutdown.

"The one I took last night," she said on "Wolf." "It was the most consequential vote because it really is a constitutional crisis."

The spending package combined an omnibus for much of the government with a shorter continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security for three months, setting up a fight over President Obama's executive action on immigration.

Bachmann characterized the bill as a vote for "amnesty."

"Remember, amnesty is not a law that Congress passed, the president just spoke it into existence," she added. 

“There was no compromise. This was a top-down, jam it down your throat bill, on both sides of the aisle,” said Bachmann.

Bachmann said she and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) asked Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to allow lawmakers a vote on language that would challenge the president’s action deferring deportations for millions of illegal immigrants.

She railed on House leadership for joining with President Obama and other Democrats in whipping support for the bill.

“This was the political establishment on both sides of the aisle,” she said. “They worked out a deal, the cake was baked.”

The four-term congresswoman did not seek reelection in November. She told Blitzer she was excited to “take the handcuffs” off and travel the country meeting with conservative groups of the 2016 presidential race. Bachmann ran for president in 2012, winning the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.

“I occupy a very unique space, I’m the only woman on the Republican side who has ever been in presidential debate,” she said.

“Presumably, we will have a woman again on the Democratic ticket in 2016, so [I] want to weigh in on that race.”

Bachmann’s been a vocal critic of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is largely seen as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.

“I’ve been on the front line for eight years,” Bachmann said.

“While Mrs. Clinton was secretary of State, I was a member on the Intelligence Committee, I was in Congress at the time, dealing with this issue of Benghazi and all the rest. I have a lot to say about these issues for 2016.”

 

 

CNN: “Bill Clinton on protests: 'We have to make people feel that everybody matters again'”

By Dan Merica

December 12, 2014, 2:26 p.m. EST

Former President Bill Clinton reflected on the months of protests that have swept across America in response to the deaths unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement, saying in an interview airing Friday that the country needs to make "people feel that everybody matters again."

"The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something," Clinton told CNN En Español. "If we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again."

Clinton, who was in Miami for the Clinton Foundation "Future of the Americas" summit, argued that the two issues at play in the protests were whether law enforcement made the correct decisions and how police departments can improve their relationships with communities.

In the last three weeks, grand juries have cleared police officers in the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York.

Clinton argued that in both cases, policing was an issue.

"There is not any question in Ferguson, whatever the findings of the grand jury, if the law enforcement officer had not gone after the man and felt compelled to shoot him, he would be alive," Clinton said.

And on Garner in Staten Island, Clinton was clear to point out that "police policy was against putting someone in a choke hold."

During the interview with Juan Carlos Lopez at the University of Miami, Clinton spoke at length about foreign policy throughout the Americas and the recent release of the CIA torture report.

"I think this is just the beginning," the former president said. "There will now be a real effort to find out what the details were and whether or not any other action is appropriate in that."

Clinton has been getting used to playing second (or possibly third) fiddle in his family. Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is widely seen as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2016 and the recent birth of Chelsea Clinton's first child, Charlotte, has been the fascination of many.

As is the case with every interview, Bill Clinton was asked about his wife's presidential aspirations and when, in particular, Hillary Clinton expects to announce her candidacy.

"I don't even know if she is going to run," Bill Clinton said. "But if she, sometime next year I think she will make a decision and announce it."

 

 

Washington Post blog: Post Partisan: Carter Eskew: “Hillary Clinton’s biggest challenge”

By Carter Eskew, Glover Park Group founding partner

December 12, 2014, 2:23 p.m. EST

To Hillary Clinton, the current recriminations within the Democratic Party must sound familiar. In the two years leading into the 1992 presidential election, the Democratic Party sought answers to why it had lost so decisively the elections of 1984 and 1988. Salons were held; new think tanks were formed; new candidates emerged.

The debate then, as now, centered around whether the party had lost touch with the middle class. For Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), one of the most prominent Democrats to recently autopsy the mid-term elections, his answer in 2014 is the same as it was for Bill Clinton in 1990: yes. In fact, Schumer’s recent speech at the National Press Club echoed Clinton’s campaign policy speeches at Georgetown in late 1991 and early 1992. According to Schumer, “the grand optimism of the American dream is in jeopardy”; in 1991, Clinton said: “…the very future of our country, the Americans dream, is in peril.” Schumer’s speech goes on to blame the Democrats’ defeat on a series of missteps from the roll-out of Obamacare to scandals at the V.A. that undermined Democrats’ unique selling point: an activist government to protect and advance the middle class. Moreover, Schumer noted that the party’s decision to make health care the centerpiece of its new agenda sent the wrong signal to a middle class that was more concerned about jobs and economic recovery.

What is more interesting about Schumer’s speech is what is missing: any new ideas for a Democratic agenda. In Schumer’s view, Democrats lost, basically, because they were incompetent and misguided in their zeal for health care reform. In 1991, Bill Clinton went beyond criticism to lay out an agenda: tax cuts for the middle class and modernization of government and welfare reform within a frame of a “new covenant” between government and its citizens. (The irony, of course, is that his presidency was similarly derailed by its zeal for health care reform.) It’s hard to remember, in light of all the Clinton controversies, just how fresh a thinker he appeared in the early 90’s. While his image as a slick rogue would overwhelm him, Clinton, as we all know, was a student of policy with a rare ability to package and sell it to voters in a way that seemed not only relevant but optimistic.

The difference between a senator, like Chuck Schumer and a presidential candidate, like Hillary Clinton is that a senator can stop at an intelligent description of the problem while a presidential candidate has to offer solutions. This is really the whole ballgame for Mrs. Clinton in 2016: She has unrivaled experience, the gender factor and the overwhelming support of the Democratic Party. Now she needs some fresh ideas.

 

 

Breitbart column: Citizens United Chairman David Bossie: “Citizens United Going to Court Over ‘Stonewalled’ Hillary Records”

By David Bossie

December 13, 2014, 6:37 a.m. PDT

This week Citizens United sued the State Department in federal court over its unlawful withholding of documents relating to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.

We are currently in pre-production for a sequel to our landmark film Hillary: The Movie. This film will take a hard look at Hillary Clinton’s career and will tell the truth about her failed record as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State.

We’ve filed numerous Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests for documents relating to Hillary’s time at the State Department. These requests have gone largely unanswered. What is the State Department trying to hide? Why won’t the Obama Administration prioritize transparency when it comes to taxpayer-funded public documents? The public has a right to know – yes, even if it is about Hillary Clinton!

Our lawsuit involves a FOIA request that was filed in July. By law, the State Department had twenty business days to produce the documents or explain why it would not do so. That date has long since passed. We’ve waited five months since our initial request before filing this lawsuit.

Citizens United requested records from the State Department about Secretary Clinton’s overseas travel. All we want to know is who accompanied Hillary on these trips and how much it cost the American taxpayer. Did any wealthy Clinton campaign or foundation contributors get rewarded for their largesse? These questions deserve immediate answers in light of the reports that surfaced during the Clinton Administration in the 1990s. These reports suggested that big Democrat contributors were allegedly rewarded with flights on official Commerce Department trade missions overseas. Selling access to big donors was a regular news item during the dark days of the Clintons’ tenure in the White House.

Sadly, stonewalling and slow-walking the production of public Clinton documents and records is all too familiar as well. As the former Chief Investigator for the U.S House Oversight Committee at the time, I can tell you firsthand that well-orchestrated delay tactics with document requests and subpoenas was the order of the day. And, of course, it continues to be the modus operandi of Hillary Clinton and friends all these years later.

As an example, Citizens United sent a narrow, non-controversial FOIA request to the State Department in January 2010. We received a small production of documents in response to this request in August 2014. The American people should not have to wait four and half years for public records from our government. This is simply unacceptable.

Our government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. The FOIA process helps ensure transparency in government, and only through that transparency can we the people hold the government accountable. It’s time for the State Department to stop stonewalling and turn over these documents. Sign our petition to break through the stonewall.

 

 

Calendar:

 

Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official schedule.

·  December 15 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton discusses closing gender data gaps with Michael Bloomberg (AP)

·  December 16 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton honored by Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (Politico)

·  January 21 – Saskatchewan, Canada: Sec. Clinton keynotes the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s “Global Perspectives” series (MarketWired)

·  January 21 – Winnipeg, Canada: Sec. Clinton keynotes the Global Perspectives series (Winnipeg Free Press)

·  February 24 – Santa Clara, CA: Sec. Clinton to Keynote Address at Inaugural Watermark Conference for Women (PR Newswire)

·  March 19 – Atlantic City, NJ: Sec. Clinton keynotes  American Camp Association conference (PR Newswire)