What legislation has Barak Obama authored?

Question

The guys looks good and is articulate but what exactly has he done as Senator?

I'm not talking about how he voted. I'm talking about what he's authored...and I don't think it's much.

Answer 1

Education

In April 2005, Obama sponsored his first Senate bill, the "Higher Education Opportunity through Pell Grant Expansion Act", S. 697. Entered in fulfillment of a campaign promise to help needy students pay their college tuitions, the bill proposed increasing the maximum amount of Pell Grant awards to $5,100. Provision for Pell Grant awards was later incorporated into the "Deficit Reduction Act", S. 1932, signed by President George W. Bush on February 8, 2006.

Immigration

Obama was a co-sponsor of the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act", S. 1033, introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on May 12, 2005. Obama also supported a later revision, the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act", S. 2611, passed by the Senate on May 25, 2006. He offered three amendments that were included in the bill passed by the Senate: (1) to protect American workers against unfair job competition from guest workers; (2) require employer verification of their employees' legal immigration status through improved verification systems; and (3) fund improvements in FBI background checks of immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship.
In December 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives had passed a parallel bill, H.R. 4437, which provides for enhanced border security measures, but does not address the broader immigration reform proposals contained in the Senate's bill. Congressional inaction on this legislation has become a heated issue in the lead-up to the 2006 midterm elections, with representatives of both major parties holding the other party responsible for the stalemate.

Transparency

Obama joined with Senators Coburn (R-OK), Carper (D-DE), and McCain (R-AZ) in sponsoring the "Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act", S. 2590, to provide citizens with a website, managed by the Office of Management and Budget, listing all organizations receiving Federal funds from 2007 onward, and providing breakdowns by the agency allocating the funds, the dollar amount given, and the purpose of the grant or contract. President George W. Bush signed the bill, also referred to as the "Coburn-Obama Transparency Act", into law on September 26, 2006.

Answer 2

NADA.

Looks and articulation do wonders in Hollywood, but it doesn't mean diddley in the halls of the Kremlin or in the office of Hu Jintao. We need a statesman with the guts to put our economy, security and future in order, not just the most popular guy who gives the ladies warm-fuzzies when he says the word 'bipartisanship'.

This man is from the state of Illinois. My home state. The state that gave us, if I'm not mistaken, Abraham Lincoln and Carole Mosley Braun (and a slew of the Daley boys). Mr. Obama, for his amazing talents and accomplishments, is a political infant. That's not good, that's not bad, that just is.

Now, presidential material means having some executive (and to a lesser extent, legislative) experience to hang your hat on. This man has neither. His neophyte, book-touring, facial recognition campaign is amusing and makes for good press. But we need an SOB in the White House in 2009, and for the balance of the next half century; someone who will put us in a position of strength on economic, military and political terms. Someone who doesn't placate the handwringers nor roll-over for the corporatists. Someone who bleeds Red, White & Blue, and not RED or BLUE or whatever colors are en vogue in Caracas or Mexico City or Brussels.

Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes on you....Where did our classy, polished, educated and able public servants go? We are relegated to a victor with the longest 'spray' in the 2008 political pissin' match. This is what our country has come to, where we look for pop idols as presidential aspirants, rather than those with the gumption and the gall to take this nation by the reins and usher in a New American Century. No wonder Brando moved to Tahiti !

Answer 3

Republicans don't allow Democrat authored legislation out of committee. That's not the way it always was, but that's the way it's been since the 1994 Republican Contact on America.

I have the sneaking feeling he will have a chance to sponsor some legislation beginning in January. You should check on his senate website.

If he gets farther with his bid, I wonder if the RNC will hire the agency who did the slime on Harold Ford of TN. They're pretty good at falsely implying relationships with loose white women and pornographers.

Answer 4

I am learning about him, I will be able to speak more knowledgable once I capture his essence...but thus far..he is capturing an audience, that reminds me of the JFK days..which is not only acquired, but is needed...this country is, at this point, lost all acknowledgement with the global atmosphere, we are no longer allowed to stand by our selves...I fear, as in the movie "Red Dawn", that we are headed that way. If we continue to put up the fences, (though we should forbid illegal immagrancy, though we should stand up for the opression of those who have inaliable humanities against them,and we must fight welfare, and those who refuse to work, and keep having babies due to the system). I totally oppose the current repulican party for allowing us to wage a war, without warrant. I accuse us, as a free/yet we aren't society to allow us to go forward without the truth, and I accuse our ambitions as a society for allowing the issues at home not to have the recognition that is needed to stop the following; for not keeping job's in america, allowing the companies to go overseas, when the economy requires the labor here in the states, for allowing us to deal with the same bull **** for the last 50 years on welfare, (keep paying people to have babies) when we can take that money for a national medical program...I could go on....but I tell you what, from what I've seen of Obama, he could, and if allowed, not answer or eliminate some of these issues, he'd be a hell of alot better than the republican we have or coulod have

Answer 5

Obama has great potential, but I think he has jumped the gun a bit by clearly starting an early run for the presidency. On the other hand, I suspect he may be gunning for an eventual choice as the vice presidential nominee. The way our system works, nobody who starts off running for the VP spot is regarded as competent to take over the presidency if necessary, as they seem not to have had the confidence to run for that office to begin with.

So its a sort of catch 22 situation where if you honestly say what your goal is, you have less chance than ever of attaining that goal. And if you believe in running an honest campaign overall, you have to start it off by, in effect, lying about your real intentions.

Answer 6

Yes he has written The Audacity of Hope, and Dreams of My Father. He is a very literate man and a great speaker.

Answer 7

Isn't he still a junior senator?

Answer 8

Voted against patriot act, body armor for troops, and against any anti-illegal immigration measures.

Answer 9

Let's see, he supports abortion, giving illegal immigrants benefits and taxing the hell out of Americans.

Sounds like a winner to me, lol!

Answer 10

Want to tell me what Bush has done -- on the credit side -- in nearly 6 years?