Clinton rolls out college plan

1	Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pictured here on Tuesday, March 3, has become one of the most powerful people in Washington.
2	Here's a look at her life and career through the years.
3	Before she married Bill Clinton, she was Hillary Rodham.
4	Here, Rodham talks about student protests in 1969, which she supported in her commencement speech at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
5	Rodham, center, a lawyer for the Rodino Committee, and John Doar, left, chief counsel for the committee, bring impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon in the Judiciary Committee hearing room at the U.S. Capitol in 1974.
6	Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton helps first lady Rosalynn Carter on a campaign swing through Arkansas in June 1979.
7	Also seen in the photo is Hillary Clinton, center background.
8	Bill Clinton embraces his wife shortly after a stage light fell near her on January 26, 1992.
9	They talk to Don Hewitt, producer of the CBS show "60 Minutes."
10	With Hillary, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton waves to the crowd at his victory party after winning the Illinois primary on March 17, 1992.
11	Al Gore, Tipper Gore, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton wave to supporters at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, after they gave speeches on family values on August 23, 1992.
12	Clinton gestures at a campaign rally November 3, 1992, in Denver.
13	After taking office, President Clinton chose his wife to head a special commission on health care reform, the most significant public policy initiative of his first year in office.
14	Bill and Hillary Clinton have a laugh together on Capitol Hill in 1993.
15	Clinton pours herself a cup of tea in 1993 while testifying to the Senate Education and Labor Committee about health care reform.
16	Clinton speaks at George Washington University on September 10, 1993, in Washington during her husband's first term.
17	Clinton waves to the media on January 26, 1996, as she arrives at federal court in Washington for an appearance before a grand jury.
18	The first lady was subpoenaed to testify as a witness in the investigation of the Whitewater land deal in Arkansas.
19	Hillary Clinton looks on as President Clinton discusses the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 26, 1998.
20	Hillary and Bill Clinton arrive at Foundry United Methodist Church on August 16, 1998, in Washington.
21	He became the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury when he testified via satellite about the Lewinsky matter.
22	Clinton shakes hands during a St. Patrick's Day parade in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens, New York, on March 5, 2000.
23	Clinton waves to the crowd as she arrives on the stage at the Democratic National Convention on August 14, 2000, in Los Angeles.
24	Clinton campaigns for a Senate seat October 25, 2000, at Grand Central Station in New York.
25	Hillary Clinton is sworn in as a senator of New York in a re-enactment ceremony with, from left, President Clinton, nephew Tyler, daughter Chelsea, brother Hugh Rodham, mother Dorothy Rodham and Vice President Al Gore on January 3, 2001, in Washington.
26	Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer and Clinton celebrate with a crowd of Democratic supporters after their wins in various races November 7, 2006, in New York.
27	Clinton speaks during a post-primary rally on January 8, 2007, at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire.
28	The Clintons pay a visit to the 92nd annual Hopkinton State Fair in Contoocook, New Hampshire, on September 2, 2007.
29	Clinton speaks at a campaign rally September 2, 2007, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
30	She was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
31	Clinton addresses a question during a debate with other Democratic presidential candidate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, on September 26, 2007.
32	Also pictured are U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, left, and former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska.
33	Felipe Bravo, left, and Christian Caraballo are covered with Hillary Clinton stickers in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, on January 8, 2008.
34	Clinton campaigns in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with her daughter, Chelsea, on January 1, 2008, two days ahead of the January 3 state caucus.
35	Clinton waves as she speaks to supporters at the National Building Museum on June 7, 2008, in Washington.
36	After pulling out of the presidential race, Clinton thanked her supporters and urged them to back Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States.
37	Obama and Clinton talk on the plane on their way to a Unity Rally in Unity, New Hampshire, on June 27, 2008.
38	Obama watches Clinton address the Democratic National Convention on August 26, 2008.
39	The two endured a long, heated contest for the 2008 nomination.
40	Sen. Charles Schumer, left, looks toward Secretary of State designate Clinton as Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. John Kerry, center, looks on during nomination hearings January 13, 2009, on Capitol Hill.
41	Clinton testifies during her confirmation hearing for secretary of state on January 13, 2009, in Washington.
42	Clinton, as secretary of state, dances with a local choir while visiting the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project in Philippi, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, on August 8, 2009.
43	Clinton looks through binoculars toward North Korea during a visit to an observation post July 21, 2010, at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.
44	Clinton walks up the steps to her aircraft as she leaves a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on July 23, 2010, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
45	Hillary and Bill Clinton pose on the day of their daughter's wedding to Marc Mezvinsky on July 31, 2010, in Rhinebeck, New York.
46	U.S. President Barack Obama and Clinton observe a moment of silence before a NATO meeting November 19, 2010, in Lisbon, Portugal.
47	Clinton listens as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu makes a brief statement November 29, 2010, before a bilateral meeting at the State Department in Washington.
48	Clinton shakes hands with a child during an unannounced walk through Tahrir Square in Cairo on March 16, 2011.
49	Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Clinton and members of Obama's national security team receive an update on the Osama bin Laden mission May 1, 2011, in the Situation Room of the White House.
50	Clinton checks her personal digital assistant prior to departing Malta on October 18, 2011.
51	Clinton dances while in Cartagena, Colombia, on April 15, 2012.
52	Clinton enjoys a beer at Cafe Havana in Cartagena, Colombia, on April 15, 2012.
53	Clinton appears with little makeup during an event in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 6, 2012.
54	She tells CNN, "I feel so relieved to be at the stage I'm at in my life right now ... Because you know if I want to wear my glasses, I'm wearing my glasses. If I want to wear my hair back I'm pulling my hair back. You know at some point it's just not something that deserves a lot of time and attention."
55	Clinton speaks as Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai listens during a news conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 7, 2012.
56	Clinton arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel on July 15, 2012.
57	Clinton looks on as Obama makes a statement in response to the attack at the U.S. Consulate in Libya on September 12, 2012.
58	Clinton applauds Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a ceremony where Suu Kyi was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal on September 19, 2012.
59	Bill Clinton kisses his wife after introducing her at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting on September 24, 2012, in New York City.
60	Clinton shakes hands with Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, while attending a reception with Prince William, second from right, in New York in December.
61	Clinton speaks to reporters at U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, March 10, addressing her use of private email for official work as secretary of state.
62	She said she used a private domain out of "convenience" but admitted in retrospect "it would have been better" to use multiple emails.
63	Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures before speaking to supporters Saturday, June 13 on Roosevelt Island in New York, in a speech promoted as her formal presidential campaign debut.
64	Exeter, New Hampshire (CNN)Hillary Clinton rolled out her college affordability plan Monday, pledging to voters in New Hampshire that "costs won't be a barrier" to secondary education in a Clinton administration.
65	Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gestures before speaking to supporters Saturday, June 13 on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
66	The speech was promoted as her formal presidential campaign debut.
67	Clinton waves to supporters as former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea's husband, join her onstage.
68	Supporters gather on Roosevelt Island for the rally.
69	Supporters wave flags and hold up signs.
70	Clinton speaks to the crowd.
71	A supporter waits for Clinton's appearance.
72	Hillary Clinton gets a hug from the former president.
73	Both of Clinton's main Democratic rivals - former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont - have already made college affordability plans a cornerstone of their campaigns.
74	Now Clinton has announced what her campaign is calling the "New College Compact," a pledge to tackle the cost of college, making low interest grants and loans more available and ensure the federal government "will never again profit off student loans for college students."
75	"College is supposed to help people achieve their dreams, but more and more paying for college actually pushes those dreams further and further out of reach," Clinton said at Exeter High School.
76	"That is a betrayal of everything college is supposed to represents."
77	She touted the plan as a way to lower college costs while at the same time making it easier for American families to send their children to school.
78	Clinton said college affordability is "one of the most important ways we can ease the burden on families and one of the single biggest ways we can actually raise incomes, by making college affordable and available to every American."
79	Clinton will do this,she says, by providing incentives to states that agree to provide "no-loan tuition at four-year public colleges and universities."
80	States that agree, under the Clinton plan, will win grants from the federal government.
81	Clinton also pledged to continue President Barack Obama's free tuition plan at community colleges, as well as ensuring that students will "never have to pay more than 10% of their income when repaying the loan."
82	"We need to make a quality education affordable and available to anyone who is willing to work for it -- without saddling them with decades of debt," Clinton said.
83	Michael Dannenberg, a director at Education Reform Now, heralded Clinton's plan for not being a "typical more money for college aid approach."
84	"This plan exemplifies the fact that both resources and reform are key to any pragmatic, progressive approach to higher education and K-12 challenges," Clinton said.
85	According to the Clinton campaign, the plan will cost $350 billion over 10 years but will be "fully paid for by limiting certain tax expenditures for high-income taxpayers."
86	Part of those limits would be cutting back on the number of itemized dedications for high earners, something Congress would have to approve.
87	Republican critics jumped on this aspect of Clinton's plan.
88	"What Hillary Clinton won't say is that her new $350 billion spending plan comes at the expense of charities across the country as she limits the deduction for charitable giving," said Jeff Bechdel, a spokesman for America Rising PAC, an anti-Clinton group.
89	Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican candidate, said Clinton's proposal was "irresponsible."
90	"We don't need more top-down Washington solutions that will raise the cost of college even further and shift the burden to hardworking taxpayers," Bush said.
91	Clinton's campaign also released a video highlighting a number of students who have been saddled with up to $200,000 in student debt.
92	"Higher education should be a right, not a privilege for those who can afford it," the video argues.
93	Clinton said Monday that the best way to combat lifting American incomes is by investing in education.
94	"College graduates earn $570,000 more on average in their careers than high school graduates," read a Clinton campaign fact sheet on the plan.
95	"Graduates of community college, career training, certificate programs and coding boot camps also earn more."
96	College affordability is a hot topic on the Democratic side of the 2016 presidential race.
97	Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley unveiled a debt-free college plan in July, promising to lower tuition at state college and universities and tying loan repayment to income.
98	"Unless we act now, more and more students will not be able to afford higher education at all, putting the American Dream even further out of reach," the former governor said in a statement.
99	After Clinton rolled out her plan, the O'Malley campaign needled Clinton for releasing the plan after the former Maryland governor.
100	"Debt-free college is an issue where Governor O'Malley has led, not followed," said Lis Smith, O'Malley's top strategist.
101	"We need big, bold goals like Governor O'Malley's vision to make college debt-free for all students, and Governor O'Malley's plan to expand pell grants and freeze college tuition is the standard of how to get us there."
102	Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders promised voters earlier this year that he would make all four-year public college and universities tuition free.
103	"We have a crisis in higher education today," Sanders said earlier this year in announcing his plan.
104	"Too many of our young people cannot afford a college education, and those who are leaving college are faced with crushing debt."
105	Sanders has pitched the plan as something other countries have done, including Germany, Denmark and Finland.
106	Clinton will continue rolling out her plan during a two-day swing through New Hampshire with events in Exter and Manchester on Monday and with another town hall in in Claremont and a community forum on substance abuse in Keene on Tuesday.
107	Debt-free college has been a particularly important issue for the progressive base of the Democratic Party.
108	The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has pushed hard for each 2016 Democrat to back a "debt-free college" plan and has pledged to hold candidates to their plans.
109	"Hillary Clinton's plan is very big and ambitious -- leading to debt-free college and increased economic opportunity for millions of Americans," PCCC co-founder Adam Green said.
110	"The center of gravity on higher education has shifted from tinkering with interest rates to making college debt free -- and Clinton's bold proposal is emblematic of the rising economic populist tide in American politics."