Comments by GoldenDoodle

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Posted on: Obama takes hard swings at McCain's statements on economy

For those of you clamoring for some legislative experience of Obama's please see below. It was written by a commentator during the primaries to reveal Obama's legislative history vs Clinton's. I cannot take credit, but unfortunately do not know to whom to give credit. I have left out the parts regarding Clinton's legislative history in the Senate, but suffice to say it did not compare well with Obama's legislative record, all available on the Library of Congress website.

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Now, I would post those of Obama's, but the list is too substantive, so I'll mainly categorize. During the first (8) eight months of his elected service [in the Illinois state senate] he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced 233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others.
His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included
**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 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law),
**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. . . . * * *
Go Obama 2008! Posted By: Define Is? | February 07, 2008 at 03:54 PM

I hope this meets with those of your lofty standards for "experience", and if not, at least the standards for "industrious".

(Suggest removal) 9/18/08 at 9:43 a.m.