Hillary’s Plans are impressive:

Hillary Clinton’s economic blueprint to restore the American middle class includes:

• Lowering taxes for middle class families. • Providing quality, affordable health care to every American. • Making college accessible and affordable. • Confronting the growing problems in the housing market. • Bolstering retirement security by promoting savings and investment. • Returning to fiscal responsibility and moving towards balanced budgets. • Harnessing innovation to create the high-wage jobs of the 21st century. • Creating a $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund to jumpstart research and development of alternative energies. • Strengthening unions and ensuring our trade laws work for all Americans. • Developed a Three-Step Plan to End the War in Iraq

Hillary Clinton’s Health Care plan includes everyone:

• Affordable: Unlike the current health system where insurance premiums send people into bankruptcy, the plan provides tax credits for working families to help them cover their costs. The tax credits will ensure that working families never have to pay more than a limited percentage of their income for health care. • Available: No discrimination. The insurance companies can’t deny you coverage if you have a pre-existing condition. • Reliable: It’s portable. If you change or lose your job, you keep your health care.

Hillary Clinton’s plans to promote energy independence, address global warming, and transform our economy includes:

• A new cap-and-trade program that auctions 100 percent of permits alongside investments to move us on the path towards energy independence; • An aggressive comprehensive energy efficiency agenda to reduce electricity consumption 20 percent from projected levels by 2020 by changing the way utilities do business, catalyzing a green building industry, enacting strict appliance efficiency standards, and phasing out incandescent light bulbs; • A $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund, paid for in part by oil companies, to fund investments in alternative energy. The SEF will finance one-third of the $150 billon ten-year investment in a new energy future contained in this plan; • Doubling of federal investment in basic energy research, including funding for an ARPA-E, a new research agency modeled on the successful Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency • Aggressive action to transition our economy toward renewable energy sources, with renewables generating 25 percent of electricity by 2025 and with 60 billion gallons of home-grown biofuels available for cars and trucks by 2030; • 10 “Smart Grid City” partnerships to prove the advanced capabilities of smart grid and other advanced demand-reduction technologies, as well as new investment in plug-in hybrid vehicle technologies; • An increase in fuel efficiency standards to 55 miles per gallon by 2030, and $20 billion of “Green Vehicle Bonds” to help U.S. automakers retool their plants to meet the standards; • A plan to catalyze a thriving green building industry by investing in green collar jobs and helping to modernize and retrofit 20 million low-income homes to make them more energy efficient; • A new “Connie Mae” program to make it easier for low and middle-income Americans to buy green homes and invest in green home improvements; • A requirement that all publicly traded companies report financial risks due to climate change in annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission; and • Creation of a “National Energy Council” within the White House to ensure implementation of the plan across the Executive Branch. o A requirement that all federal buildings designed after January 20, 2009 will be zero emissions buildings.

Hillary’s plans to help veterans:

• Enact a GI Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century. • Provide Affordable and Quality Health Care for All Veterans. • Ensure All Veterans Receive the Benefits They Have Earned and the Assistance They Need — Right from the Start. • Extend Hiring Preferences to Veterans-friendly Contractors. • Expand the Helmets to Hardhats Program. • Give Veterans Additional Opportunities to Serve. • Reduce Homelessness among Veterans. • Expand Veterans Homeownership.

Hillary’s vision for rural America will:

• Create a Strategic Energy Fund that would inject $50 billion into research, development and deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency, ethanol, and other homegrown biofuels. • Expand access to capital and strategic advice for rural entrepreneurs and small businesses and bring together businesses, community colleges, and four-year universities to ensure workers have the training needed to compete in the global economy. • Ensure that we get broadband to rural Americans who don’t have access now. • Enact her American Health Choices Plan, a plan to provide affordable, high quality health care for all Americans. • Fight vertical integration, which has crippled American agriculture, by establishing mandatory Country of Origin Labeling for all U.S. products; pushing for a ban on packer ownership of livestock; having her Justice Department investigate agriculture consolidations; and ensure that the small- and medium-sized producers compete on level playing field with corporate agribusiness. • Target our commodity payment programs so that family farms — not corporate farms — are the key beneficiaries. Work to expand market opportunities for farmers through innovative, direct-to-consumer marketing and niche markets to provide U.S. farmers with more options for selling their products. • Expand and enhance conservation programs in the Farm Bill and support carbon credit trading for producers who incorporate environmentally friendly farming practices.

Hillary Clinton’s plans for investing in ideas and creating high-wage jobs of the future:

• Boost support for multidisciplinary research in areas such as the intersection of bio, info, and nanotechnologies. • Increase the NIH budget by 50% over 5 years and aim to double it over 10 years. • Increase investment in the non-health applications of biotechnology in order to fuel 21st century industry. • Direct the federal agencies to award prizes in order to accomplish specific innovation goals. • Triple the number of NSF fellowships and increase the size of each award by 33 percent. • Support initiatives to bring more women and minorities into the math, science, and engineering professions. • Support initiatives to establish leadership in broadband. • Overhaul the R&E tax credit to make the U.S. a more attractive location for high-paying jobs. • Restore integrity to science policy.

Hillary’s Plan to Create a Green Jobs Revolution: Creating New, High-Wage Jobs of the Future:

• Modernize 20 Million Low-Income Homes to Improve Energy Efficiency • Invest $5 billion in accelerated energy efficiency and alternative energy investments to jumpstart green collar job growth. Senator Clinton believes that by immediately implementing components of her comprehensive plan to transition to a green, clean economy, we can both jumpstart green collar jobs and jumpstart our long-term transition to energy independence as well. • Create a $50 Billion Strategic Energy Fund and Demand that Oil Companies Invest in Clean Energy. • Raise Fuel Economy Standards. Hillary has proposed a plan to raise fuel economy standards to 40 mpg by 2020 and 55 mpg by 2030. • Help Automakers Retool Plants. Hillary would authorize $20 billion in low-interest “Green Vehicle Bonds” in order to provide immediate help to retool the oldest auto plants to meet her strong efficiency standards. • Promote Plug-In Hybrids (PHEV). • Create a Green Building Fund to Make Public Buildings More Energy Efficient. Hillary will dedicate $1 billion annually to states to enable them to make grants or low-interest loans to improve energy efficiency in public buildings, such as schools. • Train “Green Collar” Workers. We will need skilled workers to install the solar panels, build the hybrid transmissions, and seal the holes in our public buildings to make them more efficient.