Get ‘er Done

Friday, May 25, 2007

Speaker Pelosi’s Scorecard   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The Dems this morning are having an "accomplishments" press conference before they go home. Boehner's office counters with his assessment, FWIW:

NOTE on the Democrats’ list of accomplishments: As of today, only 26 bills have been signed into law; the war funding bill that was carried by Republican votes will make 27.

The “new direction” Democrats have taken in the last five months breaks down as follows:

13 BILLS TO NAME FEDERAL PROPERTY & BUILD A ROAD

• H.R. 49 – To name the “Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Post Office Building”

• H.R. 335 – To name the “Gale W. McGee Post Office”
• H.R. 342 – To name the “Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courthouse” [!!]
• H.R. 433 – To name the “Scipio A. Jones Post Office Building”
• H.R. 514 – To name the “Sergeant Lea Robert Mills Brooksville Aviation Branch Post Office”
• H.R. 521 – To name the “Lane Evans Post Office Building”
• H.R. 544 – To name the “Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse”
• H.R. 577 – To name the “Sergeant Henry Ybarra III Post Office Building”
• H.R. 584 – To name the “Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building”
• H.R. 753 – To name the “Clifford Davis & Odell Horton Federal Building”
• H.R. 1129 – To build and maintain a road in St. Louis County, Missouri
• S.159 – To name the “Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area”
• S. 521 – To name the “Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building & United States Courthouse & Customhouse”

5 BILLS TO EXTEND PRE-EXISTING PUBLIC LAW OR PASSED LAST YEAR

• H.R. 137 – Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act (passed last year)
• H.R. 188 – To extend the Thomas Alva Edison Commemorative Coin Act
• H.R. 434 – To extend the Small Business Act and the Small business Investment Act of 1958
• H.R. 1003 – To extend the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• H.J. Res. 20 – Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution

8 BILLS CO-SPONSORED BY REPUBLICANS OR PASSED WITHOUT OPPOSITION

• H.R. 475 – House Page Board Revision Act
• H.R. 727 – Trauma Care Systems Planning & Development Act
• H.R. 742 – Antitrust Modernization Commission Extension Act
• H.R. 1130 – Judicial Disclosure Responsibility Act
• H.R. 1132 – National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act
• H.R. 1681 – American National Red Cross Governance Modernization Act
• S. 494 – NATO Freedom Consolidation Act
• S. 1002 – Older Americans Reauthorization Technical Corrections Act

05/25 09:25 AM