Reply #41: The problem is that the Clintons started laying that claim years ago

[karynnj]

The reason I found the 1997 article was that I looked when I saw an early 2007 website statement using "initiated". As I had heard a Kennedy 2004 speech speak of his and Kerry's work that eventually led to it, I was confused as HRC wasn't mentioned. Kerry's website's had claimed he was the co-sponsor to the precursor bill. Because I didn't want to be a source of distortion - I looked in the Senate record and saw that the original bill was introduced by Kerry for himself and Kennedy (as Kennedy said in 2004), then I read the speeches indroducing S-CHIP by Hatch and Kennedy. Hatch goes out of his way to say this was not a Clinton bill and he spelled out the differences between it and Kerry/Kennedy (as Hatch called it.)

It is most important because HRC uses it both as an accomplishment and to show that she learned by her mistakes.