Mar 26 2008

Obama’s Accomplishments

Published by Gus at 3:39 pm under Primary Campaign 08

There are many people who ask the legitimate question of what has Barack Obama done? What is his experience? Now, many people like Obama for who he is (his transparency, inspirational leadership, integrity, etc..), as I do, but I also like what he has done, tried to get done, future proposals and how he’s approached legislating. So, if you were legitimately wondering what some of his accomplishments have been, here are some answers:

In his first year in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama 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)

Since entering the U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096.

He also has listed on his website more details of these bills and other substantial work he has done.

This chart shows his work in the Illinois Senate as well:

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One Response to “Obama’s Accomplishments”

  1. # wmwon 26 Mar 2008 at 7:24 pm

    For those less bullet-point inclined, here is an interesting article on Obama’s experience that also focused on how he got one piece of “heart and soul” legislation passed.

    “Judge Him by His Laws,” Charles Peters, Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

    Ah, here’s another link so you don’t have to register at the Post: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/maryabrams/gGCPhC

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