Sen. Kerry's record as Senator from Massachusetts

[Supercharts]

Sen. Kerry has served 19 years in the US Senate representing Massachusetts.
Here is a list of what he has done for his State in those 19 years:

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[Please feel free to add to this list. TYVM.]

 

[Atlas]

Sen. Kerry has served 19 years in the US Senate representing Massachusetts.
Here is a list of what he has done for his State in those 19 years:

1.

[Please feel free to add to this list. TYVM.]

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4. Spent much of the time away in DC. Many grateful citizens will vote for him for Pres to keep him away.

 

[Dorian Gray]

http://kerry.senate.gov/bandwidth/issues/legislation.html#

A sampler:

10. S.842 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for small businesses, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 4/9/2003) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 4/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

11. S.875 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an income tax credit for the provision of homeownership and community development, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 4/10/2003) Cosponsors (44)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 4/10/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

14. S.1254 : A bill to amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a vocational and technical entrepreneurship development program.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 6/12/2003) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 6/12/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

15. S.1255 : A bill to amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small business concerns, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 6/12/2003) Cosponsors (12)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 6/12/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

19. S.1595 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow small business employers a credit against income tax with respect to employees who participate in the military reserve components and are called to active duty and with respect to replacement employees and to allow a comparable credit for activated military reservists who are self-employed individuals, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 9/9/2003) Cosponsors (11)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 9/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

26. S.1886 : A bill to amend the Small Business Act and the Small Business Act of 1958 to establish the National Office for the Development of Small Manufacturers, to increase the level of assistance available for small manufacturers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 11/18/2003) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 11/18/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

29. S.2186 : A bill to temporarily extend the programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, through May 15, 2004, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/9/2004) Cosponsors (14)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 3/9/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

30. S.2266 : A bill to amend the Small Business Act to provide adequate funding for Women's Business Centers.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/31/2004) Cosponsors (10)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 3/31/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Note: Kerry sure helps small businesses a lot, doesn't he?

Note: This is the counter to the whole $87 billion thing:
28. S.1991 : A bill to require the reimbursement of members of the Armed Forces or their family members for the costs of protective body armor purchased by or on behalf of members of the Armed Forces.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 12/9/2003) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 12/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Note: Bush shouldn't have sent our troops there without proper gear in the first place.

These are bills that Kerry sponsored, meaning introduced - about 146 bills per session.

 

[BPSCG]

[BThese are bills that Kerry sponsored, meaning introduced - about 146 bills per session. [/B]

How many of them got out of committee? He may very well have introduced

S.843: A bill to pay BPSCG $10,000 in small unmarked bills every day until the end of fiscal year 2008.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 4/9/2003) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 4/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

but if it didn't get out of committee...

Has he ever introduced any bills that eventually became law?

 

[Atlas]

...but if it didn't get out of committee...

Has he ever introduced any bills that eventually became law?

Picky, Picky, Picky

 

[Supercharts]

Listen Up Pilgrim!!!
The admendments were Read Twice before being referred to committee. Twice!
But he did marry that Heinz bitch, so there!
What I'm looking for are examples of his leadership. Sure Tip O'Neil & Ted [Glug, glug, glug] Kennedy financed the "Big Dig" but what about the other important stuff like stuff on the economy, defense and ketchup exports?
We need some examples of leadership. Hell, he's been my Senator for 19 years - he's had to have done something. Reform the CIA, cut taxes, improved education, sponsored a bill for free herbal medicine for natural male enlargement? What? What? What? Free Botox injections?
Nada!
Come on...he must have done something. Anything. Womens rights? Stem cell research? Pickle production subsidies? Leno Chin Foundation Grants? Eh?

 

[BPSCG]

Come on...he must have done something. Anything. Womens rights? Stem cell research? Pickle production subsidies? Leno Chin Foundation Grants? Eh?

Well, he's your senator (one of them anyway, the other being the Hero of Chappaquidick), so if you don't know, how the hell d'yexpect us to know?

Yeesh, some people...

 

[Dorian Gray]

This is starting to look less and less like a slam on Kerry, and more and more like an admission of civic ignorance and apathy on the part of the topic starter.

 

[BPSCG]

This is starting to look less and less like a slam on Kerry, and more and more like an admission of civic ignorance and apathy on the part of the topic starter.

Well, Dorian, help me out here in my ignorance. I have to confess that the local paper here is more interested in handicapping the race, since that's what the Post does best, than in highlighting the issues. The political angles generally get front-page treatment while the issues get buried on page A-13. And even when the Post discusses issues, it's usually quickly derailed back to the race (e.g., "the president's stance on abortion is expected to help him with undecided voters in the swing states of...").

So enlighten my ignorance. What important legislation has Kerry introduced and shepherded through to final passage?

 

[clk]

Sen. Kerry has served 19 years in the US Senate representing Massachusetts.
Here is a list of what he has done for his State in those 19 years:

1.


[Please feel free to add to this list. TYVM.]

Kerry has about a 100 times more domestic experience than Dubya did when he ran for office. He also has a 1000 times more experience than Dubya did when he ran for office.

 

[mr rosewater]

What we have here is a very wealthy man by marriage whose leisurely activity is the US Senate, and 19 years has "earned" him the Presidency, and you now wish to throw a "record" in front of his train. Some may see that as, well, unfair.

 

[daenku32]

Why is this bad for those who push for a "smaller Government".

After all, GOP didn't mind the smaller government label when they were minority and couldn't pass any bills.

 

[Jocko]

Re: Re: Sen. Kerry's record as Senator from Massachusetts

Kerry has about a 100 times more domestic experience than Dubya did when he ran for office. He also has a 1000 times more experience than Dubya did when he ran for office.

Then how come mr. Experience can't hold together a simple campaign against a bumbling, mealy-mouthed boob with a 45% approval rating?

If that's your idea of experience, you can keep it.

 

[Tmy]

I remeber in a similar thread soemone pointed out the # of bills he sponcered that became law. It was a good amount. Compared to Cheney who had like one bill become law duringhis Senate years.

How does one really measure a Senator?? By pork?? Well the BIg Dig was a big pile that everyone fed off.

 

[mr rosewater]

Just how many miles of road does 10-12 billion buy in Massachusetts.

 

[BPSCG]

I remeber in a similar thread soemone pointed out the # of bills he sponcered that became law. It was a good amount. Compared to Cheney who had like one bill become law duringhis Senate years.

Cheney was never a senator.

 

[BPSCG]

Just how many miles of road does 10-12 billion buy in Massachusetts.

Is this like a lightbulb joke? Like "How many Massachusetts senators does it take to lose elections to the Bushes?"

 

[mr rosewater]

The joke was on the American tax-payer as all good jokes are. I may be wrong but I think it was about 4.1 miles long and four lanes wide, at a cost of about 15 billion dollars, some get fed, and some get fleeced. How much did Massachusetts democratic party get.

Edit- thats 4 dot 1 miles

 

[Dorian Gray]

So enlighten my ignorance. What important legislation has Kerry introduced and shepherded through to final passage?

My comments were directed towards the topic starter. You are not that person.

I am not from Massachussetts, nor am I from Texas. Why don't you let us know what Bush did while governor that qualified him to be president? And why don't you let us know what Bush started that made it through to final passage?

 

[Tmy]

Cheney was never a senator.

Oh sorry, he was a Congressman. And a crappy one at that. According to John Sprat

"Dick Cheney served in the Congress for 11 years. I served with him for most of these years. In that time, he only passed two bills. One was to build a flood plain on the Colorado River and the other was a bill to help a constituent. What’s even more telling about Dick Cheney’s record in the House is not what he supported but what he opposed – things like Headstart and funding for seniors. It seems pretty dishonest for Bush and Cheney to be attacking John Kerry - who passed 57 bills in the Senate – for his legislative accomplishments."

This press release from Kerry trumpets not only the 57 bills and resolutions that Kerry sponsored and passed, but also trumpets his leadership in the senate on various laws that he worked on, like the Clean Air Act, the Children's Health Insurance Program and the COPS Program.

See Silicons post in this "Kerrys Record" thread