Congress.gov: Bernie Sanders vs Hillary Clinton on sponsorship/co-sponsorship of bills

[short circuit]

Note: I made this note on another thread while ago, and was encouraged to make it to an OP - and didn't quite have the post numbers to make it into an OP.

Bernie has sponsored 5 bills became which became law, but he also co-sponsored over 5,000 pieces of bills and 203 became law.

Here. https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?q=%7B%22sponsorship%22%3A%22cosponsored%22%2C%22bill-status%22%3A%22law%22%7D

Clinton... *ahem* sponsored 3 bills which became law...and co-sponsored only 74 pieces of legislation, and all became law.

https://www.congress.gov/member/hillary-clinton/C001041?resultIndex=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22clinton%2C+hillary%22%5D%2C%22bill-status%22%3A%22law%22%2C%22sponsorship%22%3A%22cosponsored%22%7D

I think Bernie's got this one, and that should end any idiotic memes about Bernie's legislative history about him doing 'nothing'.

[beam me up scottie]

1. And we've been told that co-sponsoring doesn't count.

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By the same folks who claim he can't work with anyone.

spin Spin SPIN that meme!

It's a wonder they don't fall down, I get dizzy just watching them.

[Chitown Kev]

2. Sanders was also in Congress a decade longer than Clinton

Sanders was in Congress when Dems actually had the majority longer than Clinton (1991-95, 2006-2015). There was the brief moment after Jeffords switched and from 2006-08...by then Clinton was running for President.)

[99th_Monkey]

3. Bill-counts can be deceptive

it doesn't even take into account what is IN the bills in the first place, which
I think is much more worth discussing than counting number of bills passed.

And to be fair, Bernie spent way more tim i Congress than did Hillary.

Don't mean to rain on the parade. I'm totally a Bernie supporter, I love his candidacy,
have donated and plan to volunteer doing voter reg.

Maybe I'm just feeling a bit cantankerous tonight.

[DanTex]

4. I only get 3 sponsored bills that became law, and 2 of them were renaming post offices:

https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?q=%7B%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%2C%22bill-status%22%3A%22law%22%7D

[leftofcool]

5. Sorry, renaming Post Offices just doesn't cut it with me.

[Renew Deal]

6. Bernie has been around a lot longer

Interesting that his flimsy legislative record has finally been noticed.

[SonderWoman]

7. Hasn't he been in govt for 30 years?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. You may want to re-read that.

He sponsored THREE bills that became law. That's three out of the 772 that he sponsored directly (not co-sponsored).


2 were renaming post offices, the third was a veteran's COLA adjustment.

Hillary also had 3: one renaming a post office, one renaming a highway, and one naming a historical site. That's 3 out of 711 bills she directly sponsored.