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By Karen Matthews, The Associated Press

NEW YORK Hillary Clinton used a ceremony Thursday honoring Oscar de la Renta to celebrate the contributions of immigrants like the Dominican-born fashion designer who come to America to pursue their dreams.

Speaking at a U.S. Postal Service ceremony dedicating a series of 11 stamps honoring de la Renta, Clinton said the designer was an immigrant and arent we proud and grateful that he was?

Let there be many, many more immigrants with the love of America that Oscar de la Renta exemplified every single day, she added.

De la Renta, who died in 2014 at age 82, dressed every first lady from Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama. First daughter Ivanka Trump carried on the tradition by wearing his companys designs during last months inauguration festivities.

Clinton did not directly address her presidential election loss to Ivankas father, Republican Donald Trump, but she alluded to Trump obliquely in remarks praising immigrants and the U.S. Constitution.

She said de la Renta was a fitting person to be chosen by our Postal Service mentioned, by the way, in the Constitution, something we should all read and reread in todays times.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who joined Clinton, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and others at the ceremony at New Yorks Grand Central Terminal, also praised de la Renta as a proud Dominican immigrant.

Our country is great because we welcome people from around the world. They come here to work hard and build a better future for their families, no matter where they come from, said Bloomberg, a political independent who endorsed the Clinton, a Democrat, for president.

Bloomberg said the U.S. gave de la Renta an opportunity to achieve his dreams and, in return, he helped others achieve theirs.

That included him speaking up in support of fixing our broken immigration system so that more people would have a chance to make it in America just the way he did, Bloomberg said.

Thursday also marked a nationwide action called A Day Without Immigrants, illustrating immigrants contributions to the U.S. economy and way of life.

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Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign may be over, but that doesn't mean she's done inspiring young girls everywhere.

As part of her all-girls music theory class, 13-year-old Isolde Fair composed a song inspired by Clinton's concession speech, then recorded the empowering results. Alongside her classmates from Sol La Music Academy in Santa Monica, Isolde sang Clinton's words to a background of piano and strings, writing on YouTube, "The message is that all girls (and women) should never doubt that they are valuable and powerful and can have their dreams come true."

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As if that weren't inspiring enough, Clinton herself eventually got wind of the video and took to Twitter on Wednesday to praise the "inspiring song."

"Thank you to everyone who made this video with me, to all the teachers and parents who helped us, and thank you for watching it," Isolde wrote on the video's description.

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WASHINGTON The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who has refused Democratic requests to investigate possible conflicts of interest involving President Donald Trump, is seeking criminal charges against a former State Department employee who helped set up Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday asking him to convene a grand jury or charge Bryan Pagliano, the computer specialist who helped establish Clinton's server while she was secretary of state.

Pagliano did not comply with two subpoenas ordering him to appear before the oversight panel. The GOP-led committee later voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.

Earlier this month, Chaffetz met with Trump at the White House and agreed not to discuss oversight. He has rebuffed calls for his panel to look into Trump's businesses and possible conflicts.

Chaffetz said in a statement that allowing Pagliano's conduct "to go unaddressed would gravely harm Congress' ability to conduct oversight."

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said pursuing charges against Pagliano would be a waste of time and money.

"Apparently, Chairman Chaffetz and President Trump are the only two people in Washington today who think we should still be investigating Secretary Clinton," Cumming said in a statement. He added: "The Oversight Committee can't afford to be distracted by political vendettas against Hillary Clinton while our constituents are begging us to conduct responsible oversight of President Trump."

Pagliano refused to answer questions in 2015 from a House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. He later spoke to the FBI under immunity, telling the bureau there were no successful security breaches of the home-brew server, located at Clinton's home in suburban New York City.

Pagliano said he was aware of many failed login attempts that he described as "brute force attacks."

The email issue shadowed Clinton's candidacy for president, and Republicans were steadfast in focusing on her use of a private server for government business, with several high-profile hearings leading up to the election. Chaffetz and other Republicans cast Clinton as reckless with U.S. national security by insisting on using private communications systems at potentially greater risk of being penetrated by Chinese and Russian hackers.

But Democrats insist the sole purpose of the Benghazi hearings -- and a separate inquiry by Chaffetz -- was to undermine Clinton's presidential bid. She lost to Trump despite winning the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.

FBI Director James Comey announced last July that the FBI was not recommending charges against Clinton in the email case, although he characterized her actions as "extremely careless," a remark that Democrats condemned as unnecessary editorializing.

Then, just 11 days before the Nov. 8 election, Comey advised Congress that new emails potentially connected to the case had been discovered and would need to be reviewed. A follow-up letter nine days later said the email review had done nothing to change the FBI's original conclusion. Many Democrats and Clinton herself have suggested that Comey's actions so close to the election likely affected the outcome.

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Following her defeat in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton delivered a powerful concession speechin which she addressed all the little girls watching. Now, a group of students at SOL-LA Music Academy in Santa Monica have turned part of the speech into a song.

To All The Little Girls is the product of a music theory assignment in a class comprised of all girls. Teacher Mary Ann Cummins passed out an excerpt from Clintons speech and asked her students to write a song based on the words.

On Jan. 20, 13-year-old Isolde Fair posted a video of the class performing the song she composed on YouTube, where it has reached over 50,000 views.

Even HRC herself saw the video, and on Wednesday, she tweeted it out to her 13 million followers.

Thanks to Isolde Fair & her classmates for this inspiring song. Im with YOU, Clinton wrote.

The video features girls ages 8 to 19 playing instruments and singing the song, with Fair taking the lead.

Isolde Fair

The message is that all girls (and women) should never doubt that they are valuable and powerful and can have their dreams come true, the young composer wrote in the YouTube description.

Thank you to everyone who made this video with me, to all the teachers and parents who helped us, and thank you for watching it, she added.

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