HuffPost: Barney vs. Bernie: Sanders Is the Real ‘Progressive Who Gets Things Done’

[jg10003]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/barney-vs-bernie-sanders_b_9624560.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Here’s the truth: Hillary Clinton got very little done during her eight years in the United States Senate, while Bernie Sanders amassed an impressive record of accomplishments in both the House and Senate....

...In 2005, Rolling Stone called him the “amendment king.”

But as Politifact notes: “In comparison, Hillary Clinton passed zero roll call amendments during her tenure as a senator from New York from 2001-09.”...

In 2002, Sanders introduced an amendment in the House that blocked the Bush Administration from implementing a rule allowing companies to cut the pensions of older workers by as much as 50 percent.

Sanders introduced legislation to allow consumers to receive free credit reports and free credit scores. When Republicans refused to go along Sanders compromised and got a deal done.

Sen. Sanders worked with Rep. Jim Clyburn and won a deal which dramatically increased access to community health centers.

After the Postal Service announced it was closing 15,000 post offices, Sanders rallied an ad hoc group of more than two dozen senators and reached a compromise: these post offices would stay open, but with reduced hours. That wasn’t what Sanders wanted, but the alternative was much worse.

In 2009, when milk prices plummeted, Sanders was able to win $350 million in additional aid for struggling dairy farmers many of whom were on the brink of bankruptcy.

[Skwmom]

1. Can you post this in GDP? Bernie is the People's Amendment King.

[jg10003]

5. Done

[daleanime]

2. K&R.....

[CTyankee]

3. YEs, please repost in GDP; this should be spread as far and wide as possible...

[Jefferson23]

4. “The Amendment King”

[Blue Meany]

6. Actually if you compare the two fairly

it looks like Sanders spent his time trying to get good things done, and Hillary spent her time building her resume for a Presidential run. She submitted bills to appeal to every conceivable constituency and that she is constantly citing as bullet points in her speeches--but no bill of any significance that she authored actually became law. She has repeatedly cited her co-sponsorship of the Lilly Leadbetter Act as a major accomplishment, but guess who else was a co-sponsor--Bernie Sanders.