Legal Commentary

Obama talks (and talks and talks) the talk on global poverty, and the talk is for more talks

By Beldar

On the same OTB post I referenced just below, someone in the comments demanded to know (for purposes of contrasting Gov. Palin's accomplishments with Sen. Obama's) what bills Obama had introduced. I think he meant to ask, actually, what bills Obama had introduced that had actually passed the Senate, despite opposition, and then been enacted into law via passage through the House and the president's signature (or a veto override). To this inquiry, a commenter named "Sam" replied:

"Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) ? do a little research first, ok? You're not going to like the bill, but he (his office) did write it.

After reading this, I quickly confirmed my suspicion that this "Global Poverty Act" had not been passed by the Senate. In fact, while the bill did get to the committee stage, way back in April 2008 in fact, and was voted out of committee, the Senate leadership ? Democrats including Reid et al. &151; has not seen fit to bring it to the floor for discussion, much less a vote, and according to the govesite.gov website, it "would appear ... to be abandoned."

Surely, as per Sen. Obama's "this is the moment" speeches, this bill would have eliminated global poverty if it only it were to be enacted, wouldn't it? Or at least reduce poverty?

Think again.

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on September 01, 2008 (boomark / email).