Everyone loves wins and losses and statistics, even when they don't mean very much. Colorado legislators may introduce bills to provoke a discussion, or a legislator may get one major bill passed and loss several unimportant measures. But those interpretations are subjective. So here, as in past years, are the numbers.

There were 378 bills introduced in the House and 237 bills in the Senate for a total of 615 measures. Twenty-one were appropriation bills, 20 in the House and one in the Senate. Two House bills were withdrawn. Three Senate bills were duplicates of House bills intended solely for work on juvenile issues prior to the House bills passing to the Senate. That leaves 356 House and 233 Senate bills to consider in the statistics below.

The list below shows 66 House members because three of the bills were carried by Rep. Bud Moellenberg before he died.

As George Orwell could have written, "all legislators are equal, but some legislators are more equal than others." Of the 233 Senate bills, 93 were carried by 16 Democrats, and 140 by 19 Republicans. Of the 356 House bills, 24 Democrats carried 100, and 42 Republicans, including Rep. Moellenberg, carried 256.

Those statistics reveal 4 bills per House Democrats, 6 bills per Senate Democrats, 6 bills per House Republicans, and 7 bills per Senate Republicans. Democrats actually had a reasonable pass rate for a minority party, in the 39-41 percent range in the Senate and a 42-44 percent range in the House.

Legislators carrying the largest number of bills (all Republicans) were Ament, ll, Mutzebaugh, 13, Schroeder, 10, Tebedo, 10, Wells, 11, Anderson, 10, Entz, 11, Foster, 11, and Schauer, 10.

Carrying the least number of bills were Armstrong, Keller, Romero, and Young, one each, followed by Grampsas, and Lyle, 2 each.

In the Senate five legislators, Duke, L. Powers, Rupert, Tanner, and Weissmann had no bills pass for a total 0-21 total. In the House there were no going-away presents for departing Reps. Knox, Lyle, and Prinster for a 0-11 record.

In the House winner of "the most bills passed" with a 10-1 record went to Rep. Entz, who pretends to be a dumb country boy, but who is sharp as a whip. Best percentage in the House for legislators carrying five or more bills goes to Rep. Taylor with a 6-0 record.

The number of bills passed or killed do not reflect any vetoes by the governor.

SENATE Passed Killed

Alexander 5 2

Ament 5 1

Bishop 4 2

Blickensderfer 1 4

Casey 1 4

Coffman 4 2

Dennis 6 l

Duke 0 3

Feeley 3 6

Hernandez 3 2

Hopper l 4

Johnson 4 l

Lacey l 1

Linkhart 2 3

Martinez 5 l

Matsunaka 3 3

Meiklejohn 3 3

Mutzebaugh 6 4

Norton 4 l

Pascoe l 4

Perlmutter 4 2

L.Powers 0 4

R.Powers 4 3

Rizzuto 5 3

Rupert 0 5

Schaffer 2 2

Schroeder 6 3

Tanner 0 5

Tebedo 4 5

Thiebaut 3 5

Wattenberg 2 4

Weddig 2 3

Weissmann 0 4

Wells 9 1

Wham 3 3

HOUSE Passed Killed

Acquafresca 2 3

Adkins 3 2

Agler 2 1

Allen 3 l

Anderson 6 2

Armstrong l 0

Berry 2 2

Chavez l 4

Chlouber 4 2

Clarke l 3

Congrove 1 2

Dean 6 2

DeGette 1 4

Dyer 2 3

Entz 10 1

Epps 0 5

Faatz 3 0

Foster 4 6

Friednash 1 4

George 2 5

Gordon 4 l

Grampsas 2 0

Hagedorn 2 3

Jerke 1 4

June 1 2

Kaufman 6 l

Keller l 0

Kerns 4 2

Knox 0 3

Kreutz 5 l

Lamborn 2 4

Lamm 4 l

Lawrence 3 2

Leyba l 2

Lyle 0 2

Mace l 2

Martin 2 1

May 4 2

McElhany 2 3

McPherson 1 4

Moellenberg l 2

Morrison 3 2

Musgrave 4 l

Nichol 3 3

Owen 5 3

Pankey 1 4

Paschall l 6

Pfiffner 3 3

Prinster 0 6

Prinzler l 5

Reeser 5 l

Reeves 4 l

Romero 0 0

Salaz 2 2

Saliman l 3

Schauer 4 5

Schwarz 3 2

Snyder 3 2

Sullivan 2 2

Sullivant 4 1

Swenson 2 5

Taylor 6 0

Tool 6 2

Tucker 8 l

Tupa l 4

Young 0 l