Posted on 07/31/2004 11:18:57 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
I went to the Thomas website to see how much of a "leader" John Kerry is. He doesn't get many bills passed. 4 Bills and 4 Resolutions in 20 years. That's less than one every session of congress. He certainly doesn't take the lead on issues. Let's take a long at his most important achievements.
S.J.RES.158 - 6-16-1989(Day Introduced)
Title: A joint resolution designating October 22 through 28, 1989, as "World Population Awareness Week".
Wow....his very first thing of anything passed.....
S.J.RES.160 - 6-13-1991
Title: A joint resolution designating the week beginning October 20, 1991, as "World Population Awareness Week".
There's number 2......Same thing.
S.J.RES.318 - 6-18-92
Title: A joint resolution designating November 13, 1992, as "Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day".
That's 3, and unfortunatly he did the honors there.
S.J.RES.337 - 9-15-1992
Title: A joint resolution designating September 18, 1992, as "National POW/MIA Recognition Day", and authorizing display of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag.
That's resolution number 4.
S.1563 - 7-25-1991
Title: A bill to authorize appropriations to carry out the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.
His first bill that was signed into law...7 years after he won his first election.
S.1206 - 7-1-1993
Title: A bill to redesignate the Federal building located at 380 Trapelo Road in Waltham, Massachusetts, as the "Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center".
That's the 2nd bill that was passed.....
S.1636 - 11-8-93
Title: A bill to authorize appropriations for the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 and to improve the program to reduce the incidental taking of marine mammals during the course of commercial fishing operations, and for other purposes.
Save the whales?
S791 - 4-14-1999
Title: A bill to amend the Small Business Act with respect to the women's business center program
And that's the last bill he got signed into law.
My state rep is a first term legislator. In TWO years, he has THREE bills passed into law already. One to require cities to notify residents for annexation. One on agribusiness permits(Agriculture is his background), and an election consulidation bill. One more and he ties John Kerry.
My former state rep is also a first termer(I moved out of his district). He's beaten John Kerry already - had 15 bills signed into law. Most of them dealing with local elections.
tagged.
Are these bills he penned or bills that he was a co-sponsor on. If it's the latter, that's really pathetic.
Dufus is definitely NOT a leader.
These are the ones he's pinned. I didn't include cosponsor since oftentimes reps cosponsor a bill right before it passes to look good.
Ones he's pEnned.
Ordinarily, this is a record I would admire. If all legislators were like this, our government would be smaller and more constitutional.
Wow. He can get France to join us, but he can't get Senator Kennedy or Byrd to vote for his bills? Yeh, right.
Looks like he sponsored 48 and co-sponsored 449.
The Flipper Bill
Let's see in 20 years flip-flop has penned 8 whole bills (0.4 per year), sponsored 48 (2.4 per year), and cosponsored 449(22.45 per year). I wonder if there's a single senator who has the tenure in the Senate that Kerry does who has done less. I don't even think KKK Byrd has that abysmal a record.
This number includes ones that didn't pass and amendments to bills.
This is hugh. Really hugh. Seriesly. He got my vote. What would we have done without world population week! Why, he's a real hero!
(Never heard of it)
Hannity's gonna have fun with that one :)
3 of his 4 bills that were passed into law were during the timeframe when Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and Presidency...in other words, he had no organized opposition to anything of his dreams.He's insignificant, save for his first job out of college more than 3 decades ago (you know, Vietnam), his backer Ted Kennedy, and his wife's money.
He's got no gravitas.
5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
That is a truly pathetic record.
Good work, Dan! Still, it may be a good thing that somebody like Kerry doesn't take much legislative initiative.
The rest of that time, kerry spent with his friends listed below:
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org/
DSA's "Progressive Caucus" Links below:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
They are the Enemy Within!!!!
This doesn't even include any leadership or committee stipends that Kerry may have received. Talk about the overpriced toilet seat over at the DoD.
Source:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senate_salaries.htm
1984 -- $72,600 per annum
1985-1986 -- $75,100 per annum
1987 (1/1-2/3) -- $77,400 per annum
1987 (2/4) -- $89,500 per annum
1990 (2/1) -- $98,400 per annum
1991 -- $101,900 per annum
1991 (8/15) -- $125,100 per annum
1992 -- $129,500 per annum
1993 -- $133,600 per annum
1994 -- $133,600 per annum
1995 -- $133,600 per annum
1996 -- $133,600 per annum
1997 -- $133,600 per annum
1998 -- $136,700 per annum
1999 -- $136,700 per annum
2000 -- $141,300 per annum
2001 -- $145,100 per annum
2002 -- $150,000 per annum
2003 -- $154,700 per annum
2004 -- $158,100 per annum ($92,225 prorate to 8/1)
I have to argue with you on that one. Thanks to his efforts, I am aware that the world indeed has a population. But I do think a whole week and two bills are a bit excessive to make that point.
From 1984 until 2004, Kerry has taken approximately $2,450,000 from the American taxpayers in the form of his base salary while allegedlt working for us in the Senate. But he has managed to author only eight measley pieces of legislation. Tha comes out to $306,250 per bill.
Thanks for your diligence...Pathetic isn't it?!
Phrased differently, the piece of dog crap on the bottom of my shoe passed as many items through the Senate in the past 5 years as the Democrat Nominee.
That certainly is something to think about as we approach World Population Week.
Very interesting! Probably has something to do with the fact that he never shows up for work.
Just for comparison, what is the avg number of bills a senator pens/sponsors/cosponsors?
Well I guess if he wins in Nov, there won't be much happening for 4 yrs, unless the terrorists strike.
INTREP - VNVAJK
Then I have to snap myself back to reality and scream "PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE".
IF they could just do that...
I would like a rule that legislators would be required to read the bills they are voting on. Hardly any of them do, and yet they make grandiose speeches for or against them like they actually know what the bills say. If they had to read the bills, we could limit the legislation passed in each session to a few thousand pages.
I been reading the tea leaves dan.
Dufus is over.
The dead rat bounce... will push kerry and his rat followers to increasingly turn up the volume of their smear and attack campaign. Go negative after such a positive convention?
hell yes.
the "positive thing" did NOT work.
and the "negative attack" thing will backfire as they increasingly accuse this president of treason, war crimes, stupidity and economic failure...
the nation has already begun to turn away from the vomitous mass of crap that IS the Democratic party.
BUSH will play some of the hardest political ball in history with the dems and their wild eyed nutcakes... AFTER this election. The Senate "stop all judges" game... is over. Cheney will personally supervise the change in the rules of the Senate by a simple majority vote. Judges, and other officials will be stocked and vetted in record numbers and the democrap machine will be sent in pieces and parts far flung afield. some will go to jail. some will not meet with good ends of their own accord.
Kerry will cost the dems even more seats in the house than they have already acknowleged they might lose.
McAuliffe and Clinton crime syndicate... may be REALLY surprised at how the "softer tone" turns to concrete AFTER there is no more "reelection" to worry about.
The clinton legacy is going to face some REAL purging.
What if the rest of the House and Senate followed his lead?
Gubment would sure be smaller and US Codes would be the size of a phone book
Mark Hacking can have both families believing he graduated college, was accepted into medical school, didn't smoke or drink, and still killed his wife when she found out the truth.
Kerry's supposed accomplishments are lies too. Let's get the word out before he murders our country!
Hmmmmm. That's a good question. One of these days I'll figure out how to go over his attendence record and pro-rate his salary accordingly. My guess is we're looking at probably a good $200,000-250,000 or so over the past two years he's been pretty much AWOL.
I see the Victims Rights Bill isn't on the list. He's only a co-sponsor on it.
Dem/Libs pull the wool over many dopey voters by harping how they "fought" or will "fight," rarely what they have accomplished.
Thanks
Good research. This is the kind of thing that needs to be reported over and over.
Per various radio and news talk, Kerry introduced a bill that would have gutted Intel services of $Billions. It was so bad that even Ted Kennedy voted against it.
That could be interesting research: bills Kerry authored or co-authored that failed. [Would any kind of pattern develop? It would be interesting to see what he supported but the Senate majority did not pass.]
This could be an interesting comparison:
Kerry supports and passed legislation vs Kerry supported and failed legislation.
Can’t we have a day without the terrible visage of Hanoi John?
I'm getting to the point that even his bunny (spermy?) suit is making me ill.
Why do you bash Vietnam Veterans?
(The Kerry camps stock answer)
Excellent post!
I also hope that the gloves will come off and the President will tackle other weighty issues such as border control and social security privatization.
One I'd really admire is bills introduced to repeal bad laws.
I'm a less government type too, but in order to get rid of bad laws, good laws need to be passed to replace the bad ones. IE - the "Gun Control Act" of 1934 is repealed.
The obvious question that comes to mind after seeing this pathetic record of non-achievement is, "What the ()^%$# was he doing 8 hours per day for all those years?" And answer to that would reveal Kerry as the total fraud that he is! Now we know when he learned to ski, bike, surf, and sail (but not throw a baseball)!
In 1994, Senator Kerry sponsored Deficit Reduction Act of 1994 S.1826 (the 103rd Congress), pulling billions of funding for Intelligence and key defense programs in 1994 and then killing the programs outright in subsequent years. It is right there in the Congressional Record. See for yourself. Just a perusal of the bill's sections is enough to make you realize this guy is the most dangerous man in America. He tried to pull $1 BILLION out of intelligence (Sec. 301) and PROHIBIT increases for the next 4 years (Sec. 1301)
In 2002 he filed 5 consecutively numbered bills in the Senate all with substantially the same title "To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of tomato sauce preparation." S. 2378 - 2382, 107th Congress. Tell me this wasn't some sort of conflict of interest! What's he doing legislating for the missus?
Thank GOD he only passed 4 bills in his sorry tenure as Senator.
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