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imagine2015

(2,054 posts)
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 10:58 PM Apr 2016

Hillary knows how to get things done. She sponsored 3 bills during her 8 years in the Senate! Wow!

One established an historic site in New York, another renamed a Post Office, and the third named a portion of a highway in New York after Timothy J. Russert.


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Hillary knows how to get things done. She sponsored 3 bills during her 8 years in the Senate! Wow! (Original Post) imagine2015 Apr 2016 OP
My mama said to get things done you better not mess with Major Tom. Gomez163 Apr 2016 #1
OK malokvale77 Apr 2016 #6
oh my, she was so busy.....not. ViseGrip Apr 2016 #2
She leads from behind. She believes in incremental change at a snail's pace. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #3
She was busy plotting her first Presidential campaign. eom Lone_Wolf Apr 2016 #4
Didn't she co-sponsor a bill to make flag burning a federal offense? tularetom Apr 2016 #5
Yes. I believe it was this flag. imagine2015 Apr 2016 #7
LOL Art_from_Ark Apr 2016 #9
Thank you for a really good laugh. Impedimentus Apr 2016 #10
On point! nt Raine Apr 2016 #19
Real effective, isn't she? See all those laws protecting women's rights she got passed? Major Hogwash Apr 2016 #8
Good OP! Needed to be said. senz Apr 2016 #11
Except this is a damn lie. She sponsored 363 bills an co-sponsored 1,528 bills. Zynx Apr 2016 #12
How many passed? bvf Apr 2016 #13
More than Bernie's in his 25 years. nt Jitter65 Apr 2016 #14
Nobody's talking to you. Scram. bvf Apr 2016 #15
Three, same as Bernie. Except, of course, Bernie had six years of being with a Dem majority and Zynx Apr 2016 #16
Yeah, she had such a difficult time working bvf Apr 2016 #21
Meanwhile, Bernie's accomplishments leave Hillary in the dust. senz Apr 2016 #17
The first link above, to the People's War blog, is quite detailed and informative. senz Apr 2016 #18
She did try to introduce a year Jail time and a 100,000 fine for flag burning. Sky Masterson Apr 2016 #20
Let's be fair, you have to parse words like a true Clintonista. . . . pdsimdars Apr 2016 #22
In 25 years in Congress, Sanders has been primary sponsor of only 3 bills that became law. nt BreakfastClub Apr 2016 #23

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
3. She leads from behind. She believes in incremental change at a snail's pace.
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 11:09 PM
Apr 2016

If you don't sponsor bills, no one can hold anything against you in the next election!

I'm out of excuses.

Zynx

(21,328 posts)
16. Three, same as Bernie. Except, of course, Bernie had six years of being with a Dem majority and
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:35 AM
Apr 2016

a Dem president. Hillary only had two years with a Dem majority and W as president.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
21. Yeah, she had such a difficult time working
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 05:44 PM
Apr 2016

with Bush that she rolled right over on that Iraq War Vote--for a war everyone with open eyes knew was premised on goddamned lies.

Want more of the same? Clinton will deliver, guaranteed.

Meanwhile:

https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?q=%7B

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
17. Meanwhile, Bernie's accomplishments leave Hillary in the dust.
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:58 AM
Apr 2016

He has been a very busy man in both houses of congress:

Bernie Sanders is a progressive who likes to get things done and his record of legislative accomplishments in the House of Representatives and the Senate shows it. Despite being independent from both the Democratic and Republican parties, he got more done in his first eight years in the Senate than Democratic Party superstar Hillary Clinton did in her eight years there.

Before the people of Vermont elected him to the Senate in 2006, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi dubbed Sanders the “amendment king” of the House of Representatives noting:

“Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, no other lawmaker – not Tom DeLay, not Nancy Pelosi – has passed more roll-call amendments (amendments that actually went to a vote on the floor) than Bernie Sanders. He accomplishes this on the one hand by being relentlessly active, and on the other by using his status as an Independent to form left-right coalitions.”


https://pplswar.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/what-bernie-sanders-got-done-in-washington-a-legislative-inventory/

Further reading for those who actually want to know:

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-gets-it-done-sanders-record-pushing-through-major-reforms-will-surprise-you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251605502

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511324268

A constant theme in Bernie's career is that he fights for that which is good.

Sky Masterson

(5,240 posts)
20. She did try to introduce a year Jail time and a 100,000 fine for flag burning.
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 05:10 AM
Apr 2016

The Flag Protection Act of 2005 was a proposed United States federal law introduced by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert Bennett. The law would have outlawed flag burning, and called for a punishment of one year in jail and a fine of $100,000.[1][2]

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the act was summarized as such:

Amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions regarding desecration of the flag to prohibit: (1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace; or (2) stealing or knowingly converting the use of a U.S. flag either belonging to the United States or on lands reserved for the United States and intentionally destroying or damaging that flag.[3]

Since the law was not passed nor considered by the United States Congress, its constitutionality was not challenged by the Supreme Court; the bill was never assigned to committee.[4] However, the bill's language was designed so as to prohibit the desecration of a flag when the intent was found to be a threat to public safety, the intention being that it would therefore not violate the First Amendment and not be declared unconstitutional.[5]

Both co-sponsors of the bill voted against the most recent Flag Desecration Amendment of 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Protection_Act_of_2005

I don't know what it is about Jailing people and filling Jails that put a spring in the Clintons step and gives them that warm fuzzy feeling.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
22. Let's be fair, you have to parse words like a true Clintonista. . . .
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 06:52 PM
Apr 2016

she says she knows how to get things done. That is true, but she didn't say the things she got done were for the country.

While she was there she got a lot of things done for her foundation and to lay a groundwork for raising serious personal cash-ola.

You just ASSUMED she meant "get things done" for you. Ha! You commoners are so easily fooled, by lawyer-ese.

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