Posted on 12/30/2015 4:18:37 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
For eight years, Hillary Clinton toiled away in the United States Senate, sponsoring many landmark pieces of legislation and getting them signed into law, forever changing the country.
Just kidding. Only three pieces of legislation that Clinton sponsored became law. None were of much consequence.
One renamed a post office in a New York town with fewer than 2,000 people. Another renamed a portion of highway outside Buffalo after the late Tim Russert. The third established a brick house in Troy, N.Y., as a national historic site to honor a 19th century female union leader.
During her Senate career, Clinton sponsored 713 pieces of legislation. Those were the three that became law. That's a legislative batting average of .004, and none of the bills had much consequence outside New York. For the most part, Clinton's bills were merely facelifts of public grounds.
To be fair, Clinton's Senate career started when President George W. Bush took office and ended when he left. There's not much that Clinton and Bush agreed on.
But even President Obama managed to get a couple semi-important bills passed into law. During his four years in the Senate, which also coincided with Bush's presidency, Obama sponsored 137 bills, two of which became law. But the laws were more consequential than Clinton's bills.
One Obama bill increased aid to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Another prohibited the federal government from giving away or selling mercury.
Those laws didn't have the gravity of laws like Obamacare, but at least they did something of substance.
Getting legislation to become law isn't the only way a senator can have an impact on the country, but it is the most important way. By this metric, Clinton failed to do much of anything for the American people. As she runs for president in 2016, let us remember her miserable Senate record.
For your list.
About as important as everything she has done, non-existent.
So, “At this point, what difference does it make?”
And let’s review her time as Secretary of State as well. That job was allegedly going to beef up her resume, and impress us voters with her foreign policy credentials.......
And she carpet bagged her way into NY
Didn’t work, did it?
Somehow, I am uncomfortable measuring the success of U.S. Senators by the number of laws they get passed.
As far as I am concerned, the fewer laws the better, and the laws we most desperately need to see passed pass are those repealing the other stupid/evil/politically self-serving laws that are already on the books.
Why? Perhaps because Cruz worked so hard to get the first TPA passed?
It's not just the number of bills Hillary got passed. It's that all three are frivolous wastes of time and energy, while everything in the US was careening toward the trash heap of failed civilizations.
Can't wait to see the ads comparing what Trump accomplished during those years vs what hillary accomplished. Think about it. Trump did more for job creation, world diplomacy, and the economy than anyone in the US did. And that's the GOOD part of her resume?
She Who Must Not Be Named simply used the Senate seat formerly belonging to Dan Moynihan as her trampoline to the White House (She was promised that seat, and the Kennedys be damned).
Her time at State was simply to tighten the trampoline for a better bounce.
Bump! Her “private server” and the Clinton Foundation broke the trampoline.
In order to change existing bad laws, new laws need to be implemented, even if it is just to erase the current law. For example, I'm sure most people on this forum would welcome a new law repealing Obamacare, even though it would require a new law being passed.
That remains to be seen.
Remember that She Who Must Not Be Named could eat a live negro fetus on “The View”, and Whoopi would praise Her for performing a post-partum abortion, and the other hags would compliment her lovely silverware set.
Yes. That is what I meant when I wrote:
As far as I am concerned, the fewer laws the better, and the laws we most desperately need to see passed pass are those repealing the other stupid/evil/politically self-serving laws that are already on the books.
Don’t forget her vendetta against cockfighting. The Mexicans should remember this well.
Hillary never works she is strictly a show horse whether US Senator or Secretary of State. Her original plan was to move from Senator to President. This got interrupted so to maintain political visibility she grabbed at a chance to become a figurehead Secretary of State. In the first two years she was flying around aimlessly all the time with Huma, meeting up with various heads of State for photo ops.
I will give her credit for having very good constituent services while a Senator. But to pull this off all you need to do is have enough brains to hire an excellent office manager
Who would want to buy it? The EPA would probably block any efforts at mining, and the asteroids are closer in any case.
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