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Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference

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Nuts to the gnats! :-)

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[SE Mom]

During his 1994-2002 Senate tenure, he was considered a reliably conservative vote. But he had few significant legislative achievements and he established a reputation as a less-than-hard worker.

“That’s one rap that you can cure,” Thompson said.

Defending his record, he said he managed the homeland security bill in the full Senate and added: “There were a lot of things. ... It doesn’t always have to do with putting your name on a piece of legislation. There was an awful lot of bad legislation that I helped to stop, for one thing.”

But, he said with a smile, “We’ll have a chance to get into all that when I start telling everybody what a wonderful person I am. But we’re not quite at that stage.”

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