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In reply to the discussion: You might not like Bernie Sanders, or you might even hate him [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)look good?
The mean House member passes only 0.7 a year. One passed bill over a quarter-century in both houses of Congress is a very low number compared with his colleagues.
And "amendment king..."
That's like saying that someone who says that a wedding cake needs more sugar roses on it before it gets delivered is the "wedding cake king."
Those who did the actual work of baking, icing and decorating the cake might disagree. It shows me that the person who waits until all that is done to jump in with their contribution either doesn't work well with the other people in the bakery, or doesn't know how to make a good cake. Certainly those extra roses *might* have made a large difference in the overall effect the cake had, but one needs to understand where the real effort and skill was spent.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/24/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-was-roll-call-amendment-king-1995-2/
He certainly didn't carry that moniker with him to the Senate.