House Hits 1,000 Votes Mark

AP via SFGate ^ | 10/24/7

[SmithL]

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- If you listen to Republicans, Democrats haven't accomplished much since taking over Congress last January, but they did reach one landmark Wednesday with the holding of a record 1,000th vote of the year.

The vote was on a bill to give self-autonomy to Native Hawaiians, extending the previous record of 942 votes in a year set in 1978. With this session of Congress expected to drag on well into December, the final figure should be far above that of previous Congresses.

"Our job is to take America in a new direction, and we are working hard to do that," said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

[SmithL]

Wasting tax dollars, over and over.

[xcamel]

993 of them were to rename post offices.

[shadeaud]

Does this include the votes that certain people voted for before they voted against?

[Resolute Conservative]

Does it include voting on lunch menus?

[geo40xyz]

10, 100, 1000 or 100,000 votes.... my approval rating for the House is 1% positive... I cann’t recall what they did right..

For the Senate my approval rating is -22%.

[Baladas]

Well, they’re good at “make work”, all the fluffy bills, but how many presidential vetoes have they overridden?

[rfp1234]

RATS are padding their totals with BS non-binding resolutions and cut-and-run amendments that have no chance of passing.

[A message]

"Our job is to take ruin America in a new direction, and we are working hard to do that," said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Fixed.

[afnamvet]

"Our job is to take America in a new direction, and we are working hard to do that," said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

That direction is straight down the commode.

[basil]

I think it would be informative if we could get a break down of how many of these things were actually passed-—

[RedEyeJack]

This is part of the campaign the Democrats just announced to improve their approval rating with the public... you are paying for it... Watch, this is being funded with your taxes as Democrat propaganda is pushed to their house members to be mailed out under their franking privileges.

[DJ Frisat]

Yeah, big deal. How many of these were resolutions condemning the President or voting ‘no confidence’ on something the administration did?

Stick a sock in it, Nancy.

[mike h]

“Never mistake motion for action.”
—Ernest Hemingway

[lesser_satan]

The vote was on a bill to give self-autonomy to Native Hawaiians,

Self-autonomy? Holy redundancy Batman!

[Loyal Buckeye]

1,000 votes and they are still a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

1000 votes but only 96 laws passed. And half of them were honorary post office namings. So 1000 votes and 100 bills. Shows you where that 10% approval rating comes from.

Thomas.gov bills 1-50 of the 110th

Thomas.gov bills 51-96 of the 110th