WASHINGTON -- Hillary and Bill Clinton paid $43.9 million in federal taxes from 2007 through 2014 on adjusted gross income totaling $139,097,232, according to tax returns released by the former secretary of state's presidential campaign Friday.
Hillary Clinton's campaign chose to release the tax returns along with a letter from her doctor giving her a clean bill of health on a Friday when the State Department released some of her emails from her time as secretary of state and the Federal Election Commission released donation records from Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton super political action committee.
The Clintons' average federal tax rate during that eight-year period works out to 31.6 percent.
In 2014, with both Clintons on the paid-speech circuit and Hillary Clinton on tour to promote her most recent memoir, Hard Choices, the couple brought in more income than in any previous year: $27,946,490.
They reported paying a federal tax rate of 35.7 percent in 2014 and donating $3,022,700, about 10.8 percent, of their income to charity. Those donations included $3 million to the Clinton Family Foundation and $200 to Hot Springs High School's Class of 1964, for which the former president attended his 50th reunion last fall.
Clinton senior strategist Joel Benenson said that with the latest release of tax documents, the Clintons will have made public 38 years of tax returns.
That puts Hillary Clinton ahead of one of her chief Republican rivals, Jeb Bush. The former Florida governor in June made 33 years of his taxes public. Another one of the 2016 presidential field's wealthier candidates, Carly Fiorina, was the first to release details on her taxes, providing two years of reports.
The Clinton campaign moved quickly to exploit the difference. "If @JebBush wants to call himself the most transparent candidate in the race about his finances, he is going to have some catching up to do," Brian Fallon, the campaign press secretary, said on Twitter.
In the release of her tax returns, Clinton called for higher tax rates on high-income Americans.
"Families like mine that reap rewards from our economy have a responsibility to pay our fair share," she said in a statement.
In her statement, Clinton emphasized that her family has not always been so wealthy. She and her husband "have come a long way from my days going door-to-door for the Children's Defense Fund and earning $16,450 as a young law professor in Arkansas -- and we owe it to the opportunities America provides," she said.
Friday's release covers the years during which she first ran for president, served as secretary of state and then made millions of dollars giving speeches. During the same time, Bill Clinton was making money through speeches and consulting. The Clintons have previously released tax returns going back to 1977 during earlier campaigns and while in the White House.
Health records released
With the doctor's note citing "excellent physical condition," Clinton became the first 2016 presidential candidate to release health records.
The details came in a two-page letter from Dr. Lisa Bardack, an internist and chairman of the department of medicine at the Mount Kisco Medical Group near Clinton's suburban New York home.
Clinton sustained a concussion in December 2012 after fainting, which Bardack attributed to stomach virus and dehydration. During the course of her treatment for the concussion, Clinton was also found to have a blood clot and was given medication to dissolve it. She remains on the medicine as a precaution, Bardack wrote.
The blood clot, which was in a vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear, led Clinton to spend a few days in New York-Presbyterian Hospital and take a month-long absence from the State Department for treatment.
Bardack said testing the following year showed "complete resolution" of the concussion's effects, including double vision, which she wore glasses with specialized lenses to address.
According to her doctor's assessment, Clinton's cholesterol and blood pressure are in normal, healthy ranges, and she has had the major cancer screenings and exams recommended for someone her age.
She has a very common thyroid condition and seasonal allergies, and takes a blood thinner -- Coumadin -- as a precaution since her fall and blood clot a few years ago.
There was no mention of Clinton's height or weight, but the assessment did say Clinton, 67, gets routine mammograms and breast ultrasounds, as well as colonoscopies and gynecological exams.
The doctor noted that Clinton's father lived into his eighties and her mother into her nineties. She has two brothers, and one had premature heart disease.
Because of her family history, she had full cardiac testing, including an ultrasound exam of arteries in her neck, and all was well.
Clinton's doctor said she exercises regularly -- practicing yoga, swimming, walking and weight training -- and eats a diet rich in lean proteins, vegetables and fruits. She does not smoke and drinks alcohol "occasionally," Bardack wrote.
Information for this article was contributed by Richard Rubin and Jennifer Epstein of Bloomberg News and by Lisa Lerer and Marilynn Marchione of The Associated Press.
A Section on 08/01/2015