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courseofhistory

(801 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:50 PM Oct 2012

Who Got More Bills passed through Congress, Ryan or Obama?

Ryan has been in congress since the late 90's. More than a dozen years and all I could find was that.

How long was Obama in the Senate? And what did he do?

Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 570 bills in the 109th and 110th Congress.

Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 15 bills that have become LAW since he joined the Senate in 2005.

Senator Obama has also introduced amendments to 50 bills, of which 16 were adopted by the Senate.

Most of his legislative effort has been in the areas of:

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change (25 bills)
Health care (21 bills) and public health (20 bills)
Consumer protection/labor (14 bills)
The needs of Veterans and the Armed Forces (13 bills)
Congressional Ethics and Accountability (12 bills)
Foreign Policy (10 bills)
Voting and Elections (9 bills)
Education (7 bills)
Hurricane Katrina Relief (6)
The Environment (5 bills)
Homeland Security (4 bills)
Discrimination (4 bills)

List of Laws Obama Got Passed: http://quarkscrew.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/a-nicer-list-of-laws-obama-got-passed/

Check it out. It's a very long list.

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Who Got More Bills passed through Congress, Ryan or Obama? (Original Post) courseofhistory Oct 2012 OP
Lyin' Ryan is NOT a smart man. He just plays one in Congress.... Raster Oct 2012 #1
On TV a month or two ago they said that two of Ryan's bills had been passed. Tx4obama Oct 2012 #2
You are right brush Oct 2012 #3

Raster

(20,998 posts)
1. Lyin' Ryan is NOT a smart man. He just plays one in Congress....
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 08:02 PM
Oct 2012

...and rather poorly, I might add. Lyin' Ryan's biggest problem is that he believes his own bullshit P.R.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
2. On TV a month or two ago they said that two of Ryan's bills had been passed.
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 09:08 PM
Oct 2012

One was a change of the tax rate on 'hunting bows',
and I can't remember exactly what the other one was but it was something unimportant like naming a post office or something like that.

brush

(53,778 posts)
3. You are right
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 09:15 PM
Oct 2012

The other one was renaming a library in his district. And the repugs have been touting this do-nothing who's been in congress since 1998. That's 14 years and two bills passed. Woohoo! Hell, ALEC probably wrote that budget of his he's so 'famous' for and let him put his name on it. What the hell has he been doing for 14 years?

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