Gee, Senator Kerry was busy yesterday.

[TayTay]

He Sponsored or co-sponsored 15 bills or resolutions in the new 110th Congress. Nice to have a good Democrat hit the ground running like that.

Where Kerry's name is explicitly mentioned, it's his bill. Where it's not, he is an original co-sponsor. Not bad for the first day of work.

1. <110th> S.RES.19 : A resolution honoring President Gerald Rudolph Ford.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (99)
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Senate floor actions. Status: Submitted in the Senate and ordered held at desk.

2. <110th> S.2 : A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (29)
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

3. <110th> S.5 : A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (30)
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

4. <110th> S.10 : A bill to reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement and reduce budget deficits by strengthening budget enforcement and fiscal responsibility.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (13)
Committees: Senate Budget
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.

5. <110th> S.21 : A bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (13)
Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

6. <110th> S.95 : A bill to amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (5)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

7. <110th> S.96 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

8. <110th> S.97 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to replace the Hope and Lifetime Learning credits with a partially refundable college opportunity credit.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

9. <110th> S.98 : A bill to foster the development of minority-owned small businesses.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

10. <110th> S.99 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable credit for small business employee health insurance expenses.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

11. <110th> S.102 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

12. <110th> S.103 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that major oil and gas companies will not be eligible for the effective rate reductions enacted in 2004 for domestic manufacturers.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

13. <110th> S.119 : A bill to prohibit profiteering and fraud relating to military action, relief, and reconstruction efforts, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (12)
Committees: Senate Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

14. <110th> S.163 : A bill to improve the disaster loan program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

15. <110th> S.184 : A bill to provide improved rail and surface transportation security.
Sponsor: Sen Inouye, Daniel K. (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (13)
Committees: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Latest Major Action: 1/4/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

[ray of light]

1. Explain this to me...! WHY so few and sometimes zero cosponsors

with his bills?

[MH1]

2. A lot are about small business; Dems don't care about small biz as much as they should (imo).

Or maybe he didn't have time to drum up as much support.

Reid naturally will have a lot more cosponsors on his, as they are generally the official "Dem agenda" bills.

[TayTay]

3. Because Kerry Chairs that Committee

These are 'his' bills. He can gather co-sponsors as the process goes forth. And it will. Kerry can schedule hearings for his agenda on this.