Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Checking in on Politicians (Bob Casey)
Bob Casey Jr. has been a U.S. Senator since 2007. He is an active member in various committees and is chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. Casey only missed 4 of 1,519 roll call votes since January 8, 2007. He has sponsored 174 bills since January 4, 2007 of which 170 haven't made it out of committee and non were successfully enacted. Casey also co-sponsored 733 bills during the same time period. Some of his most recent sponsored bills are S. 1239: Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act, S. 958: Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2011, and S. 1614: Computer Science Education Act of 2011.
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"He has sponsored 174 bills since January 4, 2007 of which 170 haven't made it out of committee and non were successfully enacted. "
ReplyDeleteThis seems really ineffective, but as I compare his numbers to other legislators' numbers, they seem to be similar. Lots of bills get stuck in committee.