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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders' Legislative Accomplishments: A Partial List [View all]senz
(11,945 posts)17. He was known as the Amendment King.
It is a clever way to get progressive legislation through a Republican congress and Republican administration.
Sanders did something particularly original, which was that he passed amendments that were exclusively progressive, advancing goals such as reducing poverty and helping the environment, and he was able to get bipartisan coalitions of Republicans who wanted to shrink government or hold it accountable and progressives who wanted to use it to empower Americans.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-gets-it-done-sanders-record-pushing-through-major-reforms-will-surprise-you
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That is just one of the "bomblets" they leave around for children to find blowing up in their hands
Dragonfli
Apr 2016
#25
"Cluster Bombs Are Not Good for Children, Hillary" is a good article to read, (link below)
Dragonfli
Apr 2016
#31