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The First 100 Days...
So far, President Obama
► Ordered the closing of the Bush-Cheney torture facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ► Ordered the closing of the Bush-Cheney overseas Gulags (so-called "black sites"). ► Banned the use of torture. ► Suspended Military tribunals of foreign detainees. ► Orders the withdraw of combat forces from Iraq by August 2010, with the residual force, between 35,000 to 50,000 leaving by December 2011. ► Passes $787 BILLION Jobs-Stimulus bill. ► Signed $32.8 billion bill for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as SCHIP, extending health care to 4 million uninsured children. A bill vetoed various times by Bush. ► Told AFL-CIO union leaders in a videotaped address that the Employee Free Choice Act WILL PASS, pledging his administration’s FULL support. ► Overturned Bush administration's limits on embryonic stem cell research. ► Budgets $634 billion over 10 years as a down payment on health care insurance. ► Cancels government contract with Blackwater Mercenaries. ► Voids George W. Bush’s so-called "signing statements". ► Addressing Turkey's Grand National Assembly, President Obama states the United States "is not and never will be at war with Islam." Signaling a thaw, the story is carried on the front page of Tehran’s daily newspapers. ► Begins changing of U.S. policy towards Cuba. ► Announced the US will engage in direct group talks with Iran aimed at ending Tehran's nuclear program, marking another shift from former Bush's policy. ► Signed Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women and others to sue for pay discrimination, even if the discrimination has prevailed for years, even decades. ► Cancelled Bush decision to allow oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. ► Cancelled Bush decision allowing oil and gas drilling in parcels near national parks in Utah. ► Started a $75 billion plan to help 9 million struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure, offering refinanced mortgages or modified loans with lower monthly payments. ► Announces plans to drastically cut the world's nuclear arsenal. ► Began negotiations to reduce nuclear arms with Russia. ► Persuades G-20 to open $1.4 trillion fund to restore international credit. ► EPA moves, for the first time, to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet. (Partial list swiped from KOS) |
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