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  • Chelsea Clinton Announces She’s Pregnant with First Child

    Chelsea Clinton, former First Daughter, is pregnant with her first child.

    Clinton made the announcement on stage at a Clinton Foundation event in New York City on Thursday:

    “Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year and I certainly feel all the better whether it’s a girl or a boy that she or he will grow up in a world with so many strong female leaders.”

    It was an appropriate slant for the announcement given that Clinton was participating in a forum at Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation, an event designed to promote empowerment among young women.

    The event took place at the Lower East Side Girls Club and was moderated by actress and activist America Ferrera.

    ” … thank you for inspiring future generations, including the one that we’ll be lucky enough to welcome into our family later this year,” Clinton said.

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat beside her daughter beaming proudly as the announcement was made.

    In a 2012 interview with Vogue Clinton alluded to the fact that her mother was anxious for grandchildren.

    “Marc and I are both working really hard right now,” she said at the time, “but I think in a couple of years, hopefully . . . literally, God willing. And I hope my mom can wait that long.”

    Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky in 2010. Like his wife, Mezvinsky is the son of politicians, but he seems content to stay on the sidelines, at least for now, and continue his work as an investment banker.

    After announcing her pregnancy, Clinton added “I just hope that I’ll be as good to my child as my mom was to me,” to which Hillary, who is seen by many as the front-runner for the presidency in 2016, replied “I’m expecting a grand child which I’m very excited about. We’re very excited about what’s happening in our family but we’re also very excited about what we’re doing.”

    Clinton’s pregnancy announcement came on the heels of her admission that she may consider running for political office at some point in the future.

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  • Marjorie Margolies Gets Campaign Help from Bill Clinton

    Marjorie Margolies wants to return to Congress in 2014 and she has a big name behind her: former US President Bill Clinton.

    Clinton will appear at an April 10 fundraiser luncheon at the Prime Rib restaurant in Philadelphia on behalf of Margolies. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, tickets are $1,000 and $5,000.

    Margolies and Clinton share important family ties: her son Marc Mezvinsky married Chelsea Clinton in July 2010.

    But Margolies and Clinton go way back.

    Margolies served one term in the House of Representatives from 1993-1995. She cast the deciding vote in favor of Clinton’s controversial 1993 tax increases.

    Margolies lost her bid for re-election to Republican candidate Jon D. Fox. She was one of 34 Democratic incumbents who were defeated in Newt Gingerich’s “Republican Revolution” in which Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

    Margolies stands by her historic vote insisting that, though it cost her re-election, the tax increase “laid the groundwork for the largest expansion of our nation’s economy since World War II.”

    Other legislation that Margolies is proud to claim she fought for during her Congressional term includes the Family and Medical Leave Act, the ban on assault weapons, and increased federal funding for women’s health care.

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    Margolies returned to her successful television journalism career when she left Congress. Her resume boasts stints as contributing correspondent on The Today Show, Sunday Today, A Closer Look, CNBC, and Real Life with Jane Pauley as well as five Emmy Awards.

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    Like her son’s famous mother-in-law, Margolies has suffered humiliation at the hands of a spouse. Her ex-husband Ed Mezvinsky, who represented Iowa in the US House from 1973-1977, was convicted of financial fraud and sentenced to federal prison in 2001. He served five years from 2003-2008.

    The couple filed for bankruptcy and Margolies abruptly dropped out of her 2000 bid for Rick Santorum’s Senate seat. They divorced in 2007.

    “I am convinced he had every intention of paying everybody back. He just got into a black hole that he couldn’t get out of,” Margolies has said of her ex-husband.

    Margolies is a case study in how women can defy the odds. In the years since her last Congressional term, she has served as an adjunct professor, lectured throughout the US, written books, and founded Women’s Campaign International (WCI.)

    Margolies currently serves as president of WCI, an organization whose “programs help women find their voices by giving them tangible skills in political leadership, conflict mitigation, economic empowerment and civic engagement.”

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