About 46 seconds into the video when Barack Obama is listing the laws that he has passed and includes that a law that "extended healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected". In the usual manner of these American political commercials there is a reference at the bottom; the reference is "Public Law 110-181 1/28/08". Most interesting but some digging reveals that:
"Public Law 110-181 was the 2008 defense authorization bill. It passed the Senate by 91 to 3 in January, with six Senators not voting. Among those six absentees was Barack Obama. So he cites a bill he didn’t even vote for. Did he contribute to it in some way that might be reasonably referred to as extending healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected? It certainly doesn’t seem that way, as even Obama supporters at the Daily Kos discovered when they tried to answer some of the bloggers who pointed to Obama’s citation of the bill. They found that Obama had tried to insert an amendment that had to do with screenings for service members returning from deployments, and one that would ease the discharge of service members found to have personality disorders, but neither amendment passed. Another part of the bill, calling for inspector general reports about hospital facilities, had come from a different bill Obama had sponsored."
Still quite light on accomplishments isn't he?
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