Of the 58 bills she sponsored or co-sponsored, precisely one passed the full House: a repeal of the Affordable Care Act that has as much chance of becoming law as it does of becoming a kumquat.
She sponsored the sweeping 2007 legislation that made the city's exemplary campaign-finance laws even stronger.
She sponsored no other artist so resolutely, no matter who tried to cajole her into it.
In 1996, she sponsored a debut series for young soloists to perform with the orchestra onstage at Carnegie.
She sponsored the passage of a bill against childhood abuse, in 1991.
She sponsored The Testament Of Orpheus, and several sequences of the film were shot at Santo Sospir.
That was until she sponsored a bill that would make it a crime in France to deny that the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide.
She also took an interest in matters of highway safety, and she sponsored legislation that involved such issues as tax reform and privacy rights of mortgage borrowers.
Well before the Supreme Court took up same-sex marriage, she sponsored a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
In conjunction with Peace Now, she sponsored two annual conferences in Lenox in which Palestinian and Israeli negotiators met to work on peace issues.
When Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Malawi's life president and her lover of 30 years, turned senile, she sponsored her uncle to act in his place.
