Empirical study: Clinton more effective lawmaker in Congress than Sanders.

[kstewart33]

From a study by Jeffrey Lazarus, associate professor of political science at Georgia State University as reported by Lazarus:

This (study) also excludes legislation that Sanders and Clinton co-sponsored. A bill’s sponsor typically shepherds the bill through Congress and is usually (but not always) the bill’s primary author. By contrast, a co-sponsor merely signs his or her name on to a bill after it has been written and introduced, to indicate that she or he supports it.

Here’s what the numbers say: During her eight years in the Senate, Hillary Clinton sponsored 10 bills that passed the chamber. The mean senator passes 1.4 bills a year, so Clinton’s 1.25 bills per year is approximately in line with the chamber average. By contrast, Bernie Sanders has been in the Senate nine years and has sponsored only one bill that passed.

Clinton successfully amended bills 67 times in her eight years in the Senate. Sanders did so 57 times in nine years. On a year-by-year basis, that comes to 8.4 per year for Clinton and 6.3 per year for Sanders. Moreover, the mean senator passed 7.4 amendments. Clinton’s is significantly higher than the mean, and Sanders’s is significantly below the mean. Put differently, Clinton passed 33 percent more amendments per year than did Sanders.

Sanders’s record during his 16 years in the House of Representatives was similar. There he didn’t pass a single bill. Granted, it’s harder for members to pass bills in the House than the Senate — the mean House member passes only 0.7 a year — but even so, one passed bill over a quarter-century in both houses of Congress is a very low number compared with his colleagues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/07/hillary-clinton-was-a-more-effective-lawmaker-than-bernie-sanders/?postshare=7671460050101347&tid=ss_tw

[BlueMTexpat]

1. And there it is.

In black and white.

[dlwickham]

2. my cats would be more effective then Bernie

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. But can they wave their arms and wag their finger?

If a bird landed near them would it be safe?

[dlwickham]

5. That bird would have been lunch

[Cha]

3. Yeah! BS can't run on his record so he tries to tear down Hillary's and President Obama's.

TY, stewart~

[BlueCaliDem]

6. A very lazy congresscritter - and now he thinks he can be president?? Bwaahahaha!

NOT.

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R