Bradley in DC
02-06-2008, 09:49 PM
Sure, lots of things.
Initiated and lead the opposition to the Know Your Customer banking proposal to have financial institutions spy on their customers more intrusively--successfully generated 300,000 comments to the regulators against it forcing them to withdraw the proposed regulation (there were only 105 total comments for it). And that was after he was the only Congressman on record opposing it! (this was my baby :o)
Lots of things for his Congressional district (weren't my areas but things about nets for the shrimpers, waterways, returning some Federal lands or something back to local jurisdiction, etc.). :)
The "Church Protection Act" was redrafted as an amendment and passed on the House Floor. It was co-sponsored by Rep. Kilpatrick and promoted by the Congressional Black Caucus! :cool:
Lots of spending limitation amendments became law. Notably, Dr. Paul single-handedly stopped the National ID for years every year by denying it funding. :p
As you probably know, Congress is more of a team sport than individual medals. In committees, etc, he often offers amendments to legislation that have no chance of passing: not because they're pointless or just because he likes to educate the other Members (well, he does :D), but because they are part of choreographed plays as part of the legislative compromises. For example, a D (or socialist R) would want to increase funding on some wasteful program 20% which would otherwise sail through, Dr. Paul introduces an amendment to eliminate the program (and takes a lot of heat for it), then a "compromise" is offered by one of our friends to cut the increase to 5% or kill the increase entirely. It's not glamorous or make headlines, but he serves a useful role routinely.
These are just a few of the examples from the four years I was there.
Initiated and lead the opposition to the Know Your Customer banking proposal to have financial institutions spy on their customers more intrusively--successfully generated 300,000 comments to the regulators against it forcing them to withdraw the proposed regulation (there were only 105 total comments for it). And that was after he was the only Congressman on record opposing it! (this was my baby :o)
Lots of things for his Congressional district (weren't my areas but things about nets for the shrimpers, waterways, returning some Federal lands or something back to local jurisdiction, etc.). :)
The "Church Protection Act" was redrafted as an amendment and passed on the House Floor. It was co-sponsored by Rep. Kilpatrick and promoted by the Congressional Black Caucus! :cool:
Lots of spending limitation amendments became law. Notably, Dr. Paul single-handedly stopped the National ID for years every year by denying it funding. :p
As you probably know, Congress is more of a team sport than individual medals. In committees, etc, he often offers amendments to legislation that have no chance of passing: not because they're pointless or just because he likes to educate the other Members (well, he does :D), but because they are part of choreographed plays as part of the legislative compromises. For example, a D (or socialist R) would want to increase funding on some wasteful program 20% which would otherwise sail through, Dr. Paul introduces an amendment to eliminate the program (and takes a lot of heat for it), then a "compromise" is offered by one of our friends to cut the increase to 5% or kill the increase entirely. It's not glamorous or make headlines, but he serves a useful role routinely.
These are just a few of the examples from the four years I was there.