Reply #10: Yep, Bill Clinton signed the Bill into Law. Hillary is expanding it! [View All]

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.: Clinton has supported the legislation that would ensure that workers can take paid time off when they are sick. She co-sponsored legislation to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act to provide parents with time off from work to go to the doctors' office with their child.

This bill also provides paid family and medical leave to qualifying parents time off to attend teachers' conferences for their children. (She points out on her Web site that her husband signed the FLMA into law in 1993.)

She is also a co-sponsor of the Healthy Families Act, (with Biden) which would provide workers with seven paid days off of sick leave, giving parents time off to go to the doctor with their children or aging parents.

Also, she has joined Chris Dodd and a bipartisan group of senators to introduce an amendment to the Senate-approved CHIP bill to extend Family and Medical Leave Act to family members of wounded soldiers to six months.

Clinton also reintroduced the Choices in Child Care Act (S.820) — legislation would give qualified families greater flexibility in providing safe, quality care for their infants. The bill would help parents balance work and family, help meet the critical shortage of infant child care, provide cost savings to state child care programs, support quality care for the critical first years of a child's development, and value parenting as a form of work.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3663649&page=1

And reason enough to support Hillary for President!