Reply #13: Obama actually has the record, not Hillary [View All]

[sandnsea]

His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427.
** First legislation, the HOPE Act, which increased Pell Grants to $5100, and later joined Senator Kennedy on the Higher Education legislation that passed July 20, by a vote of 78-18. That legislation also included funding for Predominantly Black Colleges to assist with counseling, tutoring and other needs of low income students. It also creates the Teaching Residency Act which will create a school-based teacher preparation program in high needs schools to provide each teacher with a mentor, content instruction, classroom management skills, a master’s degree and state certification, and a 2 year follow-up program.
**The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law),
**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law),
**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law),
** The “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act.
** S116 - Summer Learning demonstration project to provide summer learning grants and encourage new teaching methods.
**The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
**The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee),
and many more.

In all since he entered the U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096.

An impressive record, for someone who supposedly has no legislative record