Hillary Clinton

Lucinda

(31,170 posts) Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:39 PM Feb 2016

Bernie's sponsored legislation that became law: (CLINTON GROUP)

http://tinyurl.com/h729cv7

I'd heard this was the case for a while but finally looked it up for myself

3 - Sponsored became law:

2 - were naming post offices
1 - was a COLA raise for Vets

My link above take you to the "became law" results - but you can do it for yourself from here:

https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033

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Bernie's sponsored legislation that became law: (CLINTON GROUP) (Original Post) Lucinda Feb 2016 OP

LMAO cosmicone Feb 2016 #1

On his own. To be fair he signed on as a co-sponsor on others work Lucinda Feb 2016 #3

Yesterday I put together this list - sloppy though it is - to hold up against Bernie's nothingness Squinch Feb 2016 #5

I've been meaning to do the same. Glad you're on it. Lucinda Feb 2016 #7

Bookmarked! pandr32 Feb 2016 #16

I just found this neat thing in another thread: Squinch Feb 2016 #17

Not much leadership is right! pandr32 Feb 2016 #11

I think so. He may be valuable in the Senate as a cosponsor Lucinda Feb 2016 #14

Which is precisely what I've been saying for months, he's a follower, definitely not a leader. George II Feb 2016 #15

My assessment too. I dont fault his ideas, but we live in a society Lucinda Feb 2016 #18

He must have tenure wysi Feb 2016 #2

He supports others work a lot. Lucinda Feb 2016 #4

And... wysi Feb 2016 #6

Nope. Last thing in the world we need. Lucinda Feb 2016 #19

Good link, thanks. I've been "discussing" his legislative record here: George II Feb 2016 #8

It's another one of his no co-sponsored bills that has gone nowhere - not even a Dem co-sponsor Lucinda Feb 2016 #10

And in all his time in office, this man who is going to lead a revolution against corporations Squinch Feb 2016 #9

Well he may have introduced things....but certainly he hasnt passed anything Lucinda Feb 2016 #12

This revolution is going to be a snooze. "I say we make college free! Anyone? Anyone? No One? Okay." Squinch Feb 2016 #13

Another reason radical noodle Feb 2016 #20

I think older Bernie Dems are just tired of waiting for things that already should be. Lucinda Feb 2016 #21

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)

1. LMAO

Reply to Lucinda (Original post)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:42 PM

Feb 2016

So in 27 years he renamed two post offices and gave COLAs to Vets?

That's it????????????????

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

3. On his own. To be fair he signed on as a co-sponsor on others work

Reply to cosmicone (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:48 PM

Feb 2016

but yep. That is his total of what he put forth that became law. He didn't even bother to get any Rep co-sponsors on his 2015 proposals. And only had under10% each year for the two prior years.

So, not much leadership - and not much bi-partisanship on what he has submitted, lately anyway.
This is likely a BIG reason for his lack of congressional support. He's not a leader in Congress.

Squinch

(51,014 posts)

5. Yesterday I put together this list - sloppy though it is - to hold up against Bernie's nothingness

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:54 PM

Feb 2016

Here is an article that talks about some of her accomplishments. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/carly-fiorina-debate-hillary-clintons-greatest-accomplishment-213157

The SCHIP program was a VERY big deal and Kennedy, who authored it, said "The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue."

This article doesn't include the cease fire she brokered between Hamas and Israel, the increase that she authored to the FMLA that was rolled into the defense reauthorization of 2008. It doesn't include the coverage she got with her old enemy Lindsay Graham for National Guard reservists and retirees http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9063246/ns/politics-tom_curry/t/hillary-care-uniform/#.VsDt4XldHIU It doesn't include that she was on the advisory committee to President Obama that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Here's some more things not on that list:

◾Helped found Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a group dedicated to the betterment of children’s lives by advocating for their health, well-being, and education.
◾Attorney at the Children’s Defense Fund leveling the playing field for children
◾Director of Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law
◾Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth because she saw a need for educating young children. Bringing HIPPY to Arkansas enabled parents to be their child’s first teacher and prepare them for a life of learning.

These next are a little fuzzy, and I don't feel like looking up exactly what her role was. But feel free:
◾“Played a leading role in creation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Foster Care Independence Act”
◾Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
◾Helped investigate the affects of Gulf War Syndrome of the Veterans afflicted
◾Created the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
◾Initiated and helped guide the Adoption and Safe Families Act helping in children in foster care move faster in to permanent homes

These three were big deals:
◾Declared to the United Nations that “women’s rights are human rights” which at the time she said it, was a very big deal
◾Commissioner on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
◾With Chuck Schumer, secured $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment

AND... She won a Grammy!

There is more, but there's a start for you of her accomplishments.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

7. I've been meaning to do the same. Glad you're on it.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:00 PM

Feb 2016

pandr32

(11,615 posts)

16. Bookmarked!

Reply to Squinch (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:21 PM

Feb 2016

Awesome!

Squinch

(51,014 posts)

17. I just found this neat thing in another thread:

Reply to pandr32 (Reply #16)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:25 PM

Feb 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html?_r=1

When she was 24, the children's defense fund sent her undercover to investigate segregation in Alabama schools.

pandr32

(11,615 posts)

11. Not much leadership is right!

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:12 PM

Feb 2016

Good grief! Pretty darn unimpressive!

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

14. I think so. He may be valuable in the Senate as a cosponsor

Reply to pandr32 (Reply #11)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:16 PM

Feb 2016

and coworker, but that is truly all I see. It certainly explains his lack of congressional support.

George II

(67,782 posts)

15. Which is precisely what I've been saying for months, he's a follower, definitely not a leader.

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:19 PM

Feb 2016

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

18. My assessment too. I dont fault his ideas, but we live in a society

Reply to George II (Reply #15)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:55 PM

Feb 2016

with a representative form of government. You have to have detailed plans and push to make changes. I see no evidence that he has that experience at all.

wysi

(1,512 posts)

2. He must have tenure

Reply to Lucinda (Original post)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:45 PM

Feb 2016

Who else could do jack shit for 27 years and still keep his job?

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

4. He supports others work a lot.

Reply to wysi (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:49 PM

Feb 2016

But that isnt leadership in my book.

wysi

(1,512 posts)

6. And...

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:57 PM

Feb 2016

... we don't need or want a "caretaker" president.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

19. Nope. Last thing in the world we need.

Reply to wysi (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:56 PM

Feb 2016

George II

(67,782 posts)

8. Good link, thanks. I've been "discussing" his legislative record here:

Reply to Lucinda (Original post)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:02 PM

Feb 2016

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1237894

"Bernie Sanders Just Introduced a Bill That Would Transform Voting in America"

Where they're all agog over a bill he reintroduced (after it failed in 2005) back in 2014 as though it was an earth shattering current accomplishment. Funny thread if you want to wade through it. Just about everyone chiming in is oblivious to the fact that it's all based on a one year old article which in turn talks about a one year old bill that failed.

They're acting like it happened yesterday.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

10. It's another one of his no co-sponsored bills that has gone nowhere - not even a Dem co-sponsor

Reply to George II (Reply #8)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:10 PM

Feb 2016

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1969

Squinch

(51,014 posts)

9. And in all his time in office, this man who is going to lead a revolution against corporations

Reply to Lucinda (Original post)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:05 PM

Feb 2016

has done not one thing to legislate against ANY kind of corporate abuse.

Not one thing.

In 40 years in public office.

If he was going to start a revolution, shouldn't he have done SOMETHING about it before now?

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

12. Well he may have introduced things....but certainly he hasnt passed anything

Reply to Squinch (Reply #9)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:12 PM

Feb 2016

and his record of working across the aisle on HIS proposals in dismal.

Squinch

(51,014 posts)

13. This revolution is going to be a snooze. "I say we make college free! Anyone? Anyone? No One? Okay."

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #12)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 09:14 PM

Feb 2016

radical noodle

(8,013 posts)

20. Another reason

Reply to Lucinda (Original post)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 11:21 PM

Feb 2016

to conclude that he can't do anything he's promising. Not that I hadn't already figured that out. What in the world are his supporters thinking? My husband and I refer to Sanders as the Pied Piper of Rainbows and Unicorns.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

21. I think older Bernie Dems are just tired of waiting for things that already should be.

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #20)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 11:32 PM

Feb 2016

And the younger Dems don't know how things work.

I get the frustration, but I don't think you get a progressive country unless you move the center right - leftward. And that isn't going to happen with someone promising things that they know wont fly, and are really afraid of anyway. We've had 20 years of right wing people like Rush and Glenn Beck scaring Republicans to death about the awful things that would happen to their children under Dem politicians. I think that's why there is soo much disassociation between what Obama says and what they hear.

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