Shocking! A positive Bernie article in the NYT!

[LiberalArkie]

1. OK, I will Add

Over one 12-year stretch in the House, he passed more amendments by roll call vote than any other member of Congress. In the Senate, he secured money for dairy farmers and community health centers, blocked banks from hiring foreign workers and reined in the Federal Reserve, all through measures attached to larger bills.

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Mr. Sanders got the rest of the Democratic base to listen to words he has been repeating for decades, not so much because his legislation has been in constant step with the nation’s, but rather because much of the nation has come around to the things he has been legislating.

“Bernie has been talking about income inequality since 1981,” Mr. Welch said. “And now that is a message whose time has come.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/bernie-sanders-amendments.html?_r=0