The state has 675,000 in its entirety.

And legislation he worked on effected the entire country? This is what that is about.

I know the answer. Let's see if you do.

He got the community health centers added to the ACA bill. That is what was he was talking of -- and no, they aren't all in VT.

That was something he actually was given credit on. Many other points were things that he and many other worked on for which credit is split. EVERY year, it seemed that various New England Senators fought for LIHEAP. He was not the fist, the only or the last.

How many Bills did he author? How many Senators did he convince to vote with him?

It's getting so deep in here... where are my waders?

There are many ways to move legislation. Many large programs were introduced as bills and then the sponsor convinced a committee working on a major bill to include it. Here, he is the one credited with getting the community health centers - that have been the place that many in rural states have gotten care. Another way that you can get something passed is to use the amendment process to get it added to a bill.

Most bills have the names of the committee chair and the ranking member. This is why many people who did really pass legislation may not have many bills if what you do is to look at the 2 names on the bill. Sanders DOES have his name (with McCain) on a major VA bill.

Given their seniority, he might have more legislation than Warren. This does not mean he was a better legislator. Warren, of course, pretty much created the Consumers' Bureau, but she was not in the Senate and the bill it passed in was Dodd/Frank. Biden, who won his seat in 1972, was very senior for a very long time - chairing - at different times - Judiciary and then Foreign Relations. Klobuchar is someone who has many legislative accomplishments.

....or were accomplished via passed legislation where he was among a few hundred others.

The originator, (not Walter Gunnels) not surprisingly didn't provide any citations or backup data.

I'd like to know how he accomplished #2, #3, #4, and #5, along with many others.

quite the accomplishment!

I've never been a ranking member of anything so... yeah

if one is going select a candidate based on "accomplishments" defined by the idiosyncratic standard "I never did that!"

....school in Brooklyn"! WOW! Turns out that he really didn't, his school was defeated in the title game (as indicated in the link provided).

On the other hand, I just took another, random, accomplishment out of the list, this one: "Caused voter turnout to double during his tenure" (as Mayor)

That's an exaggeration, or he's really bad at math (no wonder he doesn't want to tell us how he'll fund his medicare for all?)

Voter Turnout:

1981 9880
1983 13320 (+35% over his first election)
1985 10269 (+4% over his first election)
1987 12094 (+23% over his first election)

In the real world "double" is 100%.

I'm sure there are others that aren't accurate, too.

Like becoming chairman of the veterans affairs committee and working with McCain to expand va benefits. I personally appreciate that one.

But since you bring up his chairmanship on the Veterans Affairs Committee, while Chairman the worst scandal in the Veterans' Administration took place.

There are lots of gross exaggerations in that list and outright accomplishment creations, too.

You know what they say about silk purses.

To connect the scandal with him is absurd.

So if twitter says so...

He does provide details

"The National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act". That was actually introduced in the HOUSE by his arch-rival Barney Frank in 2007, at a time when Sanders was in the Senate.

The Senate version was the National Housing Trust Fund Act, introduced by Senator John Kerry. Sanders merely co-sponsored it.

And so many others.

and delivered on tuition-free state university and community college. In Vermont, they still have neither.

It's really sad for anyone to attribute the concrete accomplishments of genuine leaders to a career politician who has spent a years lecturing others and doing very, very little.

Including bills that were incorporated into other bills, there are seven:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400357#enacted_ex=on

Who could forget about Vermont Bicentennial Day? He got the most co-sponsors of any of his bills for that.


Quite the success story for almost 30 years in Congress.
Damn, that must have been a tough time. Couldn't get anything of his own passed for 11 years until post office number 1. After that, he hit another dry spell for 7 years until he remembered his last success and got post office number 2 renamed.

"his" accomplishments.

That would be like saying, I, alone made Obama president knowing full well that there were 52 million others who did the same thing.

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Link to tweet

Link to tweet

written or co-wrote a bill?

Reading is fundamental.

Hispter branding for the campaign notwithstanding.