Schoolhouse Kobach

It should come as no surprise, but Kris Kobach continues to make false statements about Congressman Moore's record.

First, it was his false claim that Moore had never gotten any federal money for the district, now it is his continued charge that Moore has only passed two bills, both of which name post offices.

That's just one of those exaggerations.

Once again, we looked at the record and either way you look at it, Kobach is wrong.

If you use the logical definition that includes a bill becoming law on its own or when it is incorporated into another bill that is passed, Moore has more than two bills that have become law. These include his IRA contribution limit increase -- which another member of Congress confirmed was included in a tax package bill -- and his estate tax reduction, which the bill search lists as part of H.R. 1836 that passed.

If you use Kris Kobach's narrow definition that the actual bill has to pass on its own, then Moore has only one bill naming a post office that has passed, not the two that Kobach claims, because H.R. 3255's Senate version was the one that was passed.

So either way, Kobach is wrong.

Kobach seems awfully concerned about whose name is on the piece of legislation, as opposed to what good is actually done. If he thinks the "Kobach Border Security Act" is going to pass his first year -- or first decade -- in Congress, he is sadly mistaken.

Good legislators are measured by their results, not by how many bills with their name on it they can get passed.


UPDATE 1:33 p.m. -- Savvy KrisWatch reader JF writes in to point out that another person involved in the Third District race passed only two bills during his 11 year House career. Yep, Vice President, former Congressman from Wyoming, and big Kobach fundraiser Dick Cheney.

Now we don't know how many Cheney bills were rolled into other pieces of legislation, but we do know Cheney introduced far fewer bills (31) over six terms than Moore did in the last two (40).

Assuming Kobach would apply his strict test to Cheney's record, JF is surprised that Kobach would accept support from such a "do nothing" Congressman. Our thoughts exactly.