What has Obama accomplished?


ecarlson - Posted on 26 March 2010

  • Healthcare
  • Nuclear arms treaty with Russia (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/world/europe/27start.html?hp=&pagewant...)
  • Progress in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Improving environment for action against Iran, especially Russian relationship
  • Aid to home owners (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/business/27modify.html?hp)
  • TARP bailout and other financial interventions to reduce the duration and intensity of the recession
  • Progress towards repealing don't-ask-don't-tell, raising bar for starting a proceeding to expel a gay servicemember
  • Progress towards closing Gitmo
  • Return to science in policy making
  • The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
  • Roadless rule for national forests restored
  • Departments repeal Bush-era Endangered Species Act self-consultation rule
  • Department or Interior launches strategy to fight climate change
  • Bureau of Land Management halts oil and gas drilling
  • The Chesapeake Bay Executive Order to guide the cleaning of the watershed
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