What Has Obama Done So Far?
1. Health Care Reform Bill, preventing insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition.2. Tax credits for up to 29 million individuals to help pay for health insurance.
3. Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage.
4. Expansion of Medicaid to all individuals under age 65 with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level.
5. Cut prescription drug cost for medicare recipients by 50%.
6. Require health insurance plans to disclose how much of the premium actually goes to patient care.
7. Signed the Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids–4 million of who were previously uninsured.
8. Added 4.6 billion US Dollars to the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals.
9. Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America’s Veterans.
10. Signed financial reform law establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the interests of everyday Americans.
11. Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants’ credit history, income, and employment status.
12. Repealed Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
13. Developed stimulus package, which includes approximately $18 billion for non-defense scientific research and development.
14. 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)
15. Signed financial reform law allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay.
16. Provided $12.2 billion in new funding for Individuals With Disabilities Act.
17. Significantly increased funding for the Violence Against Women Act.
18. Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers.
19. Lifted restrictions granting Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send remittances to the island.
20. Increased funding for national parks and forests by 10%.
21. Significantly expanded Pell grants, which help low-income students pay for college.
22. Expanded hate crime law in the US to included seal orientation through the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
23. Provided stimulus funding to boost private sector spaceflight programs.
24. Appointed the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer.
25. Extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
26. Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system.
27. Issued executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
28. Ended Bush administration’s CIA program of “enchanted interrogation methods” by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations.
29. Increased minority access to capital.
30. Appointged more openly gay officials than any other president in US history.
31. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: a $789 billion economic stimulus plan.
32. Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse.
33. Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers.
34. Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB.
35. Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base.
36. Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis. Source: http://bit.ly/90NCpW