The presidential campaign for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is launching a new television ad today in Iowa and New Hampshire that details the candidate’s record on the issue of health care.
The 30-second spot, entitled “Stand By Us,” describes Clinton’s efforts to pass universal health care in the 1990s and her work in relation to the Children’s Health Insurance Program — an expansion of which was recently vetoed by President George W. Bush despite Republican lawmakers such as Iowa’s own Sen. Chuck Grassley calling on him to approve the bipartisan measure. Although the U.S. Senate passed the measure with a veto-proof majority, the House vote was much closer.

