What Bernie Sanders Got Done in Washington
What Bernie Sanders Got Done in Washington: A Legislative Inventory:
Bernie Sanders is a progressive who likes to get things done and his record of legislative accomplishments in the House of Representatives and the Senate shows it. Despite being independent from both the Democratic and Republican parties, he got
more done in his first eight years in the Senate than Democratic Party superstar Hillary Clinton did in her eight years there. Before the people of Vermont elected him to the Senate in 2006, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi
dubbed Sanders the amendment king of the House of Representatives noting:
Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, no other lawmaker not Tom DeLay, not Nancy Pelosi has passed more roll-call amendments (amendments that actually went to a vote on the floor) than Bernie Sanders. He accomplishes this on the one hand by being relentlessly active, and on the other by using his status as an Independent to form left-right coalitions.
The following is a list of every substantive bill and amendment Sanders sponsored from the floor of Congress that became law (substantive meaning legislation
renaming post offices is not included). Many of the roll-call amendments he passed with majority approval like
limiting the federal governments ability to spy on peoples library records were removed from bills when the House and Senate negotiated over the final legislative text and did not become law.
Because the list is derived from Congress
official database of floor actions, it does not include achievements like his
insertion of funding for veterans health care into an Iraq war spending bill because that occurred off of the House floor while the bill was in conference. Nor does the list include what is perhaps his most significant achievement providing health care to an additional
10 million mostly low-income Americans by getting Senate majority leader Harry Reid to add $11 billion in funding for community health centers that provide care regardless of a persons ability to pay to the 2010 Affordable Care Act in exchange for Sanders rallying liberal Democrats who were considering voting against the bill once
conservative Democrats removed the public option.
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