work of Clinton vs Obama:

Hillary Clinton
(in 6 years + 1 year campaigning)

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Statistics: Hillary Clinton has sponsored 354 bills since Jan 22, 2001, of which 307 haven't made it out of committee (Extremely Poor) and 2 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Clinton has co-sponsored 1723 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers).

Those two enacted bills are (from Poblano) :

S.1241 (108th Congress)
Title: A bill to establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in the State of New York, and for other purposes.

S.3613 (109th Congress)
Title: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the "Major George Quamo Post Office Building".

Barack Obama
(in 2 years + 1 year campaigning)

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 129 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 120 haven't made it out of committee (Poor) and 1 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Obama has co-sponsored 545 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers).

His enacted bill is:

S.2125 : A bill to promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack

Now, these two other bills mentioned in the current diary:

2. the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law),

3. The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law),

are real, and Obama seems to have contributed heavily to them, but since they didn't appear in govtrack.us (and that site is very credible), he was probably a co-author, but the bills probably had only one main author (Coburn and Lugar, resp) listed in the system.

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Obama's IL Senate record:

The list given here (and seen elsewhere) seems to be what he sponsored probably at least a co-author of, not just a co-sponsor (co-sponsor can just call up sign on to a bill at least in the US Senate from what I gather. co-author is someone that writes portions of the bill):

233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.

What would be helpful is to know how many of these bills were passed into law in IL.

That's what I know.