Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) on Tuesday at a Washington, D.C., luncheon hosted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors "laid out an ambitious agenda" for the first 100 days of her presidency that would include the enactment of health care bills vetoed by President Bush, the Miami Herald reports. Clinton said that she would seek to enact legislation to reauthorize and expand SCHIP and to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Tuesday in Washington, Pa., told a group of military veterans and military families that as president he would seek to improve mental health care and brain injury treatment for veterans (Douglas/Talev, Miami Herald, 4/16).

Clinton Health Care Efforts in 1990s
The Christian Science Monitor examines Clinton's experience working on health care reform and SCHIP as first lady, as well as her record on other issues (Feldmann, Christian Science Monitor, 4/16). In addition, the New York Daily News reports on a note written in 2000 by Clinton to then-Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.) in which she wrote, "If I had listened to you about health care in 1994, I would be far better off today - but more importantly - so would the nation's health care system" (Saltonstall, New York Daily News, 4/16).

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