75 --- what an ironic number to pick.
Posted on 10/14/2004 10:44:51 AM PDT by dennisw
Saturday, July 31, 2004
John Kerry in the Senate: "The Man Who Wasn't There"
Yesterday on ABC's World News Tonight, John Kerry attempted to refute the notion that he has a thin record in the United States Senate, stating, "I've introduced many pieces of legislation that are the law of the land today…" The reality is that during his 19 years in the United States Senate, only five bills and four resolutions John Kerry has been a lead sponsor on have become laws. These bills and resolutions are listed below, following a quote from Dick Morris on Kerry's meager Senate record during the Clinton years.
Dick Morris: Kerry Is A "Back-Bencher." "Where did his 20 years in the Senate go? Oddly, his absence of biography confirms the impression I formed of him during my White House years: He's a back-bencher. I never can recall a single time that his name came up in any discussion of White House strategy on anything. He was the man who wasn't there." (Dick Morris, "The Bagel Candidacy," The New York Post, 7/30/04)
Kerry's Five Bills That Became Law:
Kerry's Four Resolutions That Became Law:
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My commentary:
John Kerry claimed during last night's debate:
KERRY: Once again, the president is misleading America. I've actually passed 56 individual bills that I've personally written and, in addition to that, and not always under my name, there is amendments on certain bills.
After last night's debate the John Kerry campaign came out with this. It's an instant response to last night's debate:
57 bills and resolutions John Kerry has sponsored over the years have passed the U.S. Senate. Countless others have been improved because of his work, including the Clean Air Act, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the COPS program.
http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/003473.html#more
Notice the sly wording, how Kerry's 57 bills and resolutions passed the US Senate. Only got past the US Senate and no further is my conclusion. However this 57 most likely includes the 9 the Republicans mentioned, that made it past the House and got signed by the President into law. So the Kerry breakdown is probably:
9 John Kerry bills and resolutions got signed into law
48 John Kerry bills and resolutions got passed by the US Senate and got no further. IOW they were duds.
**** The numbers 57 and 56 are not my errors. Are as quoted
I think you are being too generous. In all probability, the 56 or 57 is a lie based on the fact that no voter is going to check 20 years of the Senate Record. If there were that many, it's a) still shameful, or b) they never made it out of committee. Imagine, 20 years of us paying that bastard's Senate salary (which he doesn't need) for that kind of output. You or I would have been fired!!!
Wow, nothing in there about reducing taxes, help for the military, changing the intelligence gathering, Social Security, healthcare, or jobs.
Nothing.
A Bill For The Relief Of Kil Joon Yu Callahan.
What is this?
A Dolphin lived because of Kerry's heroic actions in the Senate...:-)
I am so proud of my conservative Senator, Ted Kennedy.
Gosh that hurt to even type it.....
Could you please add the left hand parenthesis mark in the title? Thanks
I think it's Bravo Sierra, but -- in the interest of being reasonably open-minded -- I'll entertain some EVIDENCE of this claim.
I think Kedwards owes the American people a refund for all of the hard work that didn't get done. I am serious. Are the senators paid by the state or by the whole country? If any of my money in Texas went to pay either of these "slackers" - I will sue for "work not performed".
I don't see anything in there to back up THIS factoid from John Edwards, do you?
EDWARDS: We are committed to cutting back anything in our programs that need to be cut back to get us back on a path to fiscal responsibility.
John Kerry, Mr. Vice President, has voted or co-sponsored over 600 times tax cuts for the American people -- over 600 times.
And there is a philosophical difference between us and them.
We are for more tax cuts for the middle class than they're for, have been for the last four years. But we are not for more tax cuts for multimillionaires. They are.
And it is a fundamental difference in what we think needs to be done in this country.
What crap too! Renaming buildings? Declaring "national day of so and so"??
tagged.
75 --- what an ironic number to pick.
The empty abyss behind capped teeth, botox and contradictory statements.
John Kerry ... The Accidental Senator
Nothing to back up this claim, either:
KERRY: Once again, the president is misleading America. I've actually passed 56 individual bills that I've personally written and, in addition to that, and not always under my name, there is amendments on certain bills.
But more importantly, with respect to the question of no record, I helped write -- I did write, I was one of the original authors of the early childhood health care and the expansion of health care that we did in the middle of the 1990s. And I'm very proud of that.
So the president's wrong.
LOL! PIMPJs
Sometimes it's just so humiliating being a MA resident. I can only hope that after losing this Presidential race, Kerry will go on to lose his Senate seat. The S.O.B. should have resigned it in the first place.
The MA Republican committee actually seems to be getting its act together and becoming a bit more proactive, at least as far as Statehouse campaigns are concerned. I've received three excellent, glossy mass-mailings from them in the past two days.
He is the very reason, I hold the opinion that all of congress should be only part time employees, with NO benefits. Let them buy their own health insurance like the rest of us have to.
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