Fact Checker: Just how effective was Bernie Sanders with a Republican Congress?

[Historic NY]

9. Forgot this part........

Voice votes and roll call votes serve different purposes, but the Sanders ad didn’t make clear his reference was to a subset of amendments when claiming he “passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member.”

In our review, which was not exhaustive, we found at least one Democratic colleague — Rep. Traficant — who in fewer terms passed far more amendments.

It’s true the Vermont senator is more prolific than many lawmakers at sponsoring successful amendments, particularly more consequential ones requiring roll-call votes, but taken at face value the claim is off the mark.

Fact Checker scores this claim a D.


Ben Gilman was my Congressman he was was in office until he hit age 79 when the Republicans redistricted him. He's still alive at 94 and live at the local VA hospital.