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Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Associate Press Democratic presidential hopeful HillaryClinton, D-N.Y., gestures to the band that welcomed her on to the stage during Clinton's campaign appearance at Metro State College in downtown Denver on Tuesday. Photo by Associated Press.

DENVER - Senator and Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton held a rally on Tuesday at the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver.

One of the areas she covered was the rising cost of college tuition and student debt.

"I personally don't think you should be able to raise the tuition and the board and the room on any student once that student has started," Clinton said during the rally. "And I am personally going to do everything I can to take down those private lenders who have ripped off so many students."

Clinton then proposed a plan to forgive student debt upon graduation, by allowing students who want to pursue careers in teaching, social services or heath professions. She also touched on her controversial health care plan.

"We cannot continue with health care cost going up and up, I want to have a new approach," she said. "It's what I call the American Health Choices Plan, and here is how it would work: if you don't have insurance like 47 million Americans, or you do until you get sick and you call up your insurance company and they say 'just kidding'…we're going to open up the Congressional Plan, it has more than 250 options and it is affordable.

"We're going to say clearly, if it's good enough for Congress and federal employees, it's good enough for America."

University of Northern Colorado student Leninia Olivas, a senior sociology major, attended the rally.

"I think she is the best person for the job. She has the most experience and the best chance of winning," Olivas said. "I really enjoyed the rally, I thought she was very inspirational… I really like her health care plan."

Clinton is considered the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Colorado is a vital part of Clinton receiving her party's nomination because the Colorado Democratic caucus is scheduled for Feb. 5, along with 20 other states including New York and California. This also places Colorado behind the four important primary states Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

Colorado moved its caucus date back on June 1, when Gov. Bill Ritter signed HB 1376, moving the caucus date from March to the more popular Feb. 5 date.

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