What has Kamala Harris accomplished as a senator and attorney general?

As the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris is currently within striking distance of the White House. As a result, her tenure as both California attorney general and senator is sure to come under increased scrutiny from Democrats eager to emphasize the positive aspects of their candidate’s record, as well as from Republicans hoping to exploit potential weaknesses in the opponent. their. With a decade of statewide service under her belt — she served as AG from 2011-2017 and as a senator from 2017-2021 — Harris’ performance as an elected official is fair game for dissection and, perhaps more importantly, prognosis with look at what her presidency might look like.

Here are some of Harris’ most notable accomplishments, both as AG and California’s US Senator.

As a senator, Harris “spent much of her time focusing on mental health, telemedicine and drug pricing,” with a particular focus on “maternal health — particularly black maternal health,” Roll Call said . Harris was “the first senator to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders’ bill, the Medicare for All Act of 2017,” which would have “eliminated private health insurance for all age groups” and established a “system of single payment administered by the government to benefit “every individual who is a resident of the United States,” including undocumented immigrants,” Forbes said. Ultimately, much of Harris’ health care agenda as a senator “failed particularly well,” with many of her bills showing “little chance of passing in the Republican-led chamber,” he said Politics.

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Harris has long been “criticized for her past as California’s tough-on-crime attorney general,” NPR said. As AG, she “appealed a federal court ruling that would have effectively ended the death penalty in the state,” The Marshall Project said. Her office also “fought to release fewer prisoners, even after the U.S. Supreme Court found that overcrowding in California’s prisons was so severe that it amounted to unconstitutional, cruel and unusual punishment,” she said. Vox said. As a top California attorney, she also pushed for statewide truancy measures where “some parents were arrested by local law enforcement and faced harsher penalties.” She later expressed her “regret” for the policy’s “unintended consequences” in an interview with Pod Save America.

As a senator, Harris crossed the aisle to introduce a bail reform bill with arch-conservative Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky), promising to “reform a bail system that is discriminatory and wasteful,” in – a New York Times op-ed. She was also a “major figure” in a House police reform bill in the summer of 2020, as well as a lead sponsor of a bill that would “make lynching a federal crime,” said NPR.

As attorney general, Harris “joined local prosecutors in bringing criminal charges against the operators of a failed oil pipeline that polluted about 100 miles of California beaches,” Inside Climate News said. While the case did not end in prison for the perpetrators, “state and local officials have collected millions of dollars on behalf of businesses and individuals who were affected by the spill,” E&E News said. She also “co-sponsored the resolution calling for a new green deal” and was “to the left of Joe Biden on the green new deal in 2019” when both were vying for the Democratic presidential nomination.

As a senator during her 2020 run for the White House, Harris “called for a path to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA,” NPR said. She also co-sponsored a Democratic-led bill to “accelerate the reunification of separated immigrant families and promote humane alternatives for immigrant families seeking asylum” in response to the Trump administration’s immigration policies . She also urged her colleagues to “reject President Trump’s FY19 funding request for an expensive and ineffective border wall, new Border Patrol agents, and a significant increase in ICE staff and detention beds.” US detention” in a letter to members. of the Senate Appropriations Committee in 2018.

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What has Kamala Harris accomplished as a senator and attorney general?

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