
11-05-2012, 09:30 PM
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Planar Protector
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Originally Posted by Sirken
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- Cut prescription drug cost for medicare recipients by 50%
- Provided $12.2 Billion in new funding for Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
- Signed financial reform law establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the interests of everyday Americans
- Signed financial reform law allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay
- Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants' credit history, income, and employment status
- Signed financial reform law prohibiting banks from engaging in proprietary trading (trading the bank's own money to turn a profit, often in conflict with their customers' interests)
- The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: a $789 billion economic stimulus plan
- Created more private sector jobs in 2010 than during entire Bush years
- Voluntary disclosure of White House visitors for the first time in US history
- Appointed first Latina to the US Supreme Court
- Promoted social responsibility through creation of serve.gov, a national database of volunteer opportunities
- Reversed 'global gag rule', allowing US aid to go to organizations regardless of whether they provide abortions
- Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia
- First president to endorse same-sex marriage equality
- Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers
- Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB
- Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base
- Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse
- Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans
- Signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids -- 4 million of whom were previously uninsured
- Issued executive order to repeal Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
- Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis
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You forgot the part about Obama increasing the national debt 52% in one term.
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