HRC's Senate Record = Legislative Failure & Futility

[amborin]

There is not one single example of any legislation with her name appended to it.....

When she talks about “sponsoring” and “introducing” and “fighting for” legislation that obviously hasn’t passed, that’s a smokescreen for failure.

By introducing all that legislation that never makes it out of committee, she’s guilty of what she accuses Senator Obama of: confusing “hoping” with doing.

these were her campaign claims:

• “...{she} worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild.”


• “...she fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims.”


• “She is an original sponsor of legislation that expanded health benefit to members of the National Guard and Reserves.”


• “Some of Hillary’ proudest achievements have been her work to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, with legislation now included in the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act.” (What in God’s name does that mumbo-jumbo mean?)

But the reality is the exact opposite of her campaign claims:

Note that while her website proclaims that

“She is an original sponsor of legislation that expanded health benefit to member of the National Guard and Reserves”, she wasn’t able to rustle up a single cosponsor for legislation that would have extended military retirement credit for National Guard Members called up after 9/11.


So Senator Clinton is right when she claims to be the experienced candidate, although it’s not the experience she would like us to believe. It’s a track record of legislative failure and futility.


89. S.4065 : A bill to direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the feasibility of collecting crime data relating to the occurrence of school-related crime in elementary schools and secondary schools.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 11/16/2006) Cosponsors (None)


88. S.4029 : A bill to increase the number of well-educated nurses, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 9/29/2006) Cosponsors (None)


90. S.4103 : A bill to prevent nuclear terrorism, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 12/7/2006) Cosponsors (None)


77. S.3909 : A bill to amend the foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide assistance for developing countries to promote quality basic education and to establish the achievement of universal basic education in all developing countries as an objective of United States foreign assistance policy, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 9/18/2006) Cosponsors (None)


59. S.2993 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a temporary oil profit fee and to use the proceeds of the fee collected to provide a Strategic Energy Fund and expand certain energy tax incentives, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 5/23/2006) Cosponsors (None)


26. S.1144 : A bill to provide military retirement credit for certain service by National Guard members performed while in a State duty status immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 5/26/2005) Cosponsors (None)


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-hanft/the-curious-myth-of-hilla_b_87613.html

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

1. Just another example of Bernie making the primary about ideas rather than attacking her record

[amborin]

2. yes, and here she missed a lot of votes:

From Jan 2001 to Jan 2009, Clinton missed 249 of 2,616 roll call votes, which is 9.5%.

This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2009. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/hillary_clinton/300022#

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. Wow! She's not been vetted on a lot. They killed Rubio for not showing

[Skwmom]

3. The Clintons image (both of them) is all smoke and mirrors.