whacked during Clinton the First.  Part of it was due to the bombthrowers class of 94 but for the most part he balanced the budget on the backs of the disenfranchised.  I was working poverty law in the mean streets and I remember each program getting squashed. Of course, it's my prediction and uninformed speculation about what HRC would do but realistically she has not been pounding the bully pulpit for any number of progressive issues.  She's not a liberal.  All you have to do is look at Mark Penn.  There's a synergy between client and practioner.