''You are doing your part,'' the New York Democrat told 2,000 delegates to the annual convention of the National Conference of La Raza (The Race) in Philadelphia. ''But I don't know that your government is doing its part right now.''

Clinton, who received standing ovations at the beginning and end of her speech, took specific aim at the administration's economic record, recalling the years of job growth when her husband was in the Oval Office.

''We have not created one net new job in the last four years,'' she said.

In fleshing out her claim that Washington is doing too little for Latinos, the senator spoke in favor of several bills now pending before Congress, some of which have been endorsed by La Raza.

One would help children of illegal immigrants go to college by encouraging states to let those children pay in-state tuition rates where they live. Currently, about 65,000 undocumented children graduate from high school each year and are ineligible for any sort of tuition assistance.

Another bill would permit individual states to lift the federally mandated five-year ban on legal immigrants' receiving any form of government-funded health care. Under this proposal, exemptions would be allowed for pregnant women and young children.

Clinton also called on the federal government to do more to reimburse hospitals that provide free health care to immigrants.