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PolitiFact's editor: Was Joe Biden a climate change pioneer in Congress? History says yes (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2020 OP
Yes. The League of Conservation Voters has kept records of Hortensis Jan 2020 #1
It's disheartening g how progressives seem to underestimate Biden on so many fronts and know emmaverybo Jan 2020 #2
What matters is for sensible and honest people to realize. Hortensis Jan 2020 #3
Thanks for your response and right you are. emmaverybo Jan 2020 #4
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. Yes. The League of Conservation Voters has kept records of
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 01:23 AM
Jan 2020

all members of congress since about 1971, a year before Biden entered congress, so his entire voting history is there, though reading a good article will interpret it knowledgeably. They keep records on votes in over a dozen environmental categories, clean air, water, environmental justice, drilling, energy, wildlife and so on, climate change added in later years, and evaluate both lifetime and annual ratings.

These days almost all Democrats have 100% annual ratings, and newer members have 100% lifetime ratings also; most Republicans have 0% annual ratings. The LCV statement said they were "thrilled" when Democrats got control of the house in 2018.

Biden left congress to join Obama around 2007, so his LCV record stops then, but for nearly 35 years he was a good friend of environmental interests in congress, and he continues to this day. AND he has a great deal of expertise on national environmental issues.

lcv.org

If I were to vote in a presidential
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emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
2. It's disheartening g how progressives seem to underestimate Biden on so many fronts and know
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 02:02 AM
Jan 2020

so little about his many accomplishments. It also amazes me that many have no respect for the fact that he has more support among potential AA voters than the other candidates. It’s common to chalk that fact up to AA voters being purely pragmatic or say never mind, they will have to
come around for the party like they always have so their supporting him doesn’t matter, which to me is another way of discounting them on the political picture.

Anyway, thanks for enlightening us.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. What matters is for sensible and honest people to realize.
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 11:22 AM
Jan 2020

And as time goes on more will.

Agree AA are overall more aware and pragmatic because they've had to be. At 13% of the population, they were 12% of the electorate in 2016. Awesome exercise of strength.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
4. Thanks for your response and right you are.
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 03:42 PM
Jan 2020
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If I were to vote in a presidential
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