Kerry Sponsored Bills and Amendments Passed into Law Kerry Sponsored Bills and Amendments Passed into Law

Kerry Sponsored Bills and Amendments Passed into Law
by intrados
Daily Kos
Thu Sep 9th, 2004 at 03:16:24 GMT
So much has been made of Kerry's allegedly weak senate record that I went to check it out here.  

In his almost 20 year career, he has sponsored (667) and co-sponsored (4117) a total of 4784 bills and amendments.  By comparison, during the same years, John McCain only was associated with a total of 4247.

At least 85 Kerry-sponsored legislative actions have been signed into law by the President.  Here are 50 of the most important, listed chronologically.  

There is nothing about this record that is open to attack or ridicule, and the false notion that keeps getting repeated by the right-wing talkshow hosts that "no bill that Kerry sponsored was ever passed" needs to be actively debunked.
Diaries :: intrados's diary ::
1. S.AMDT.112 to S.960 To express the sense of the Senate that Congress should encourage the revitalization of democracy in the Philippines.
99th Congress

2. S.AMDT.239 to S.1160 To establish a moratorium during the fiscal years 1985 and 1986 on the testing of anti-satellite weapons against objects in space.
99th Congress

3. S.AMDT.396 to H.R.2577 To provide that none of the monies appropriated in this Act can be used to fund directly, or indirectly, activities against the government of Nicaragua which have not been authorized by or pursuant to law, and for other purposes.
99th Congress

4. S.AMDT.746 to H.J.RES.372 To provide for an annual report analyzing the effect of increased and improved tax enforcement and collection on tax compliance and revenue generation.
99th Congress

5. S.AMDT.1396 to H.J.RES.465 To prohibit the use of funds to conduct, in connection with the Strategic Defense Initiative program, development, test, or evaluation involving any explosive device which uses fissionable material.
99th Congress

6. S.CON.RES.99 : A concurrent resolution condemning North Korea's support for terrorist activities.
100th Congress

7. S.AMDT.170 to S.853 To provide for the implementation of a uniform system for handicapped parking designed to enhance the safety of handicapped and nonhandicapped individuals.
100th Congress

8. S.AMDT.614 to S.1420 To provide that between 20 and 50 percent of foreign loans offered by local third world banks will be guaranteed in order to facilitate loans to small and micro businesses.
100th Congress

9. S.AMDT.872 to S.1394 To provide for a penalty for the illegal use of funds for political or propaganda purposes.
100th Congress

10. S.AMDT.932 to S.1394 Urging the President to continue to make every effort to cooperate with the other nations of the United Nations to bring about an end to government-sponsored torture in Iranian prisons and to pressure Iran to permit inspection of Iranian prisons by an international delegation.
100th Congress

11. S.AMDT.938 to S.1394 Relating to the peaceful transition of government in the Republic of Korea.
100th Congress

12. S.AMDT.2775 to H.R.4784 To provide funding for the farmers' market coupon demonstration project.
100th Congress

13. S.AMDT.3697 to H.R.5210 To restrict international laundering of U.S. currency.
100th Congress

14. S.AMDT.943 to S.1711 To establish an Electronic Scanning Task Force for the purposes of making recommendations concerning methods of making certain U.S. currency notes traceable by electronic scanning.
101st Congress

15. S.AMDT.1490 to H.R.1594 To encourage greater sales of U.S. products and to further the integration of production between the United States and the CBI beneficiary countries.
101st Congress

16. S.AMDT.2064 to S.566 To study the feasibility of establishing an enterprise zone development corps and to study the feasibility of providing incentives for companies to invest in areas with high incidence of drug use and drug related crime.
101st Congress

17. S.AMDT.2102 to S.1970 To provide State and local law enforcement assistance.
101st Congress

18. S.AMDT.2933 to S.3037 To add a provision to foreign treatment of United States banks and other institutions and provision relating to fair lending.
101st Congress

19. S.AMDT.3157 to H.R.3977 To strengthen environmental protection of Antarctica.
101st Congress

20. S.RES.144: A resolution to encourage the European Community to vote to ban driftnets for all European Community fishing fleets on July 8 and for other purposes.
102nd Congress

21. S.RES.185: An original resolution to provide for expenses and supplemental authority of the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs.
102nd Congress

22. S.RES.324: A resolution relating to declassification of Documents, Files, and other materials pertaining to POWs and MIAs.
102nd Congress

23. S.AMDT.2686 to S.2532 Conditioning aid to Azerbaijan on that country's demonstrated steps to end blockades and other offensive actions against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabach.
102nd Congress

24. S.AMDT.2692 to S.2532 To authorize support for educational television programming for both children and adults with emphasis on teaching the fundamentals of a free market economy.
102nd Congress

25. S.RES.183: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the action taken by the Government of France against United States seafood products is a totally unwarranted action that is having severe repercussions on United States seafood producers and, in general, the United States fishing industry.
103rd Congress

26. S.AMDT.1354 to S.1281 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should not restrict the exchange of humanitarian activities between the United States and any other country.
103rd Congress

27. S.AMDT.1541 to S.1275 To strengthen the National Flood Insurance Program and to reduce risk to the National Flood Insurance Fund by increasing compliance, providing incentives for community floodplain management, providing for mitigation assistance, and for other purposes.
103rd Congress

28. S.AMDT.2640 to H.R.5030 To retain existing authorities under the 1988 International Narcotics Control Act.
103rd Congress

29. S.AMDT.1153 to S.CON.RES.13 To maintain public funding for Presidential campaigns.
104th Congress

30. S.AMDT.1342 to S.652 To prohibit redlining of any high-cost area or any area on the basis of rural location or the income of the resident of such area.
104th Congress

31. S.AMDT.2662 to H.R.4 To provide demonstration projects for using neighborhood schools as centers for beneficial activities for children and their parents in order to break the welfare cycle.
104th Congress

32. S.AMDT.2664 to H.R.4 To require applicants for assistance who are parents to enter into a Parental Responsiblity Contract and perform satisfactorily under its terms as a condition of receipt of that assistance.
104th Congress

33. S.AMDT.2695 to H.R.1976 To prohibit the use of appropriated funds for providing assistance to the United States Mink Export Development Council or a mink industry trade association.
104th Congress

34. S.AMDT.2745 to H.R.1868 To express the sense of the Senate concerning the provision of spare parts and other military equipment to Peru.
104th Congress

35. S.AMDT.4055 to S.1745 To provide for the Secretary of Defense to make payment to Vietnamese personnel who infiltrated into North Vietnam to perform covert operations as part of OPLAN 34A or its predecessor.
104th Congress

36. S.AMDT.4913 to S.1956 To require the implementation of a corrective action plan in States in which child poverty has increased.
104th Congress

37. S.AMDT.5046 to H.R.3540 To promote the establishment of a permanent multilateral regime to govern the transfer of conventional arms.
104th Congress

38. S.469: A bill to designate a portion of the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
105th Congress

39. S.AMDT.279 to Treaty 105-5 To require a compliance report on Armenia and other States Parties in the Caucasus region.
105th Congress

41. S.AMDT.309 to S.CON.RES.27 To empower local communities to provide essential interventions in the lives of our youngest children ages zero to six and their families so children begin school ready to learn.
105th Congress

42. S.AMDT.680  to S.936 To require an intelligence analysis of POW/Mia issues.
105th Congress

43. S.AMDT.1030 to S.1022 To provide funding for the Community Policing to Combat Domestic Violence Program.
105th Congress

44. S.AMDT.2689 to S.1415 To clarify Commmerce Committee intent regarding state strings.  (Ensure Funding of Children's Programs)
105th Congress        

45. S.AMDT.2944 to S.2057 To provide for payments to certain survivors of captured and interned Vietnamese operatives who were unmarried and childless at death.
105th Congress    

46. S.AMDT.1323 to S.1217 Kerry amendment to S. 1217 to increase funding for Small Business Administration Microloan Technical Assistance.
106th Congress    

47. S.AMDT.1882 to S.1650 To express the sense of the Senate regarding comprehensive education reform.
106th Congress    

48. S.AMDT.2543 to S.791 Kerry amendment to S. 791 to make an amendment with respect to the funding formulas and the selection process.  (Women's' Business Center Funding Increase)
106th Congress        

49. S.RES.264: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that small business participation is vital to the defense of our Nation, and that Federal, State, and local governments should aggressively seek out and purchase innovative technologies and services from American small businesses to help in homeland defense and the fight against terrorism.
107th Congress    

50. S.AMDT.828 to S.1050 To authorize the transportation of dependents to the presence of members of the Armed Forces who are retired for illness or injury as a result of active duty.
108th Congress