What George Santos accomplished in Congress: 40 motions, but no vote

Fired MP
40 motions, not a single vote: What George Santos really achieved in the US Congress

For a year, George Santos made headlines with his absurd antics. He also tried to score points with political contributions. However, the balance remained modest.

Whether it was his numerous made-up identities, the scarf stolen by his roommate or embezzled campaign funds: Even though he served in the US Congress for less than a year, things were a concern George Santos made more headlines during this time than most of his colleagues in their entire careers. The fact that the Republican also wanted to do political work was somewhat lost. Maybe also because he remained very alone with his ideas.

This is shown by the overview of his congress activities. According to the documents, Santos has submitted 43 applications, including 35 legislative proposals, five resolutions and three legislative extensions. This is by no means a small amount, as the “NBC” emphasizes with reference to evaluations of congressional work. Not one of his legislative initiatives was approved for a vote. None of them received a single vote. Only two of his expansion proposals were actually passed, including a ban on various US ministries from using their budgets to introduce mandatory vaccinations.

George Santos found little political support

Santos also had very little support when submitting the bills. Only one of his proposals was even signed by another member of Congress. In May, Santos wanted to limit the power of the Chinese ruling party CCP at US universities and received approval from party colleague Paul Gosar from Arizona. All other requests appear to have simply been ignored.

Santos had made every effort to score points with his party colleagues. Several of his drafts were intended to secure the US borders, were directed against alleged election manipulation by the Democrats or were aimed at putting pressure on President Joe Biden. The most important theme of his drafts, however, was China: Santos wanted to declare China the greatest threat to peace and freedom, hold the state responsible for the manipulation of its currency rate and the outbreak of the Covid pandemic. And even blame the Communist Party for the fentanyl crisis in the US.

The fact that Santos was not part of a committee and therefore had no topic specialization could also play a role in his failure. He was appointed to two committees, one for small businesses and the science committee. A short time later, however, he resigned from them when the ethics committee first began investigating his numerous lies.

Laws with a celebrity factor

He couldn’t even get his colleagues’ approval with bizarre tricks. Santos named two of the laws after celebrities: the SWIFT Act refers to singer Taylor Swift, the MINAJ Act refers to rapper Nicki Minaj. In both cases there is no obvious connection to the famous namesakes: the Swift Act is intended to promote the health of young women, the MINAJ Act calls for a longer waiting period for the development of vaccines. The biggest success of the designs for Santos: Nicki Minaj apparently liked one of the posts about the message, as “TMZ” reports.

Even with the motions he supported, Santos was unlucky: of the more than 150 motions from his fellow MPs that Santos supported, only one was passed.

Sources:US Congress, NBC, TMZ