What’s Your Favorite Democratic Achievement?
- End the War in Iraq “We are ending the war … but we are not ending our work in Iraq.” http://bit.ly/cLaLQH
- Biggest Middle Class Tax Cut in History “President Obama proposed and passed one of the largest tax cuts in American history — $282 billion over two years — without Republican support.” http://bit.ly/HoYkR
- Health Care Reform “The law puts into place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will hold insurance companies more accountable and will lower health care costs, guarantee more health care choices, and enhance the quality of health care for all Americans.” http://bit.ly/9CXy76
- Student Loan Reform “The legislation makes substantial changes in the way students get money for college…Part of the legislation signed today also improves repayment terms… Loan payments will be capped at 10 percent of a student’s disposable income (it’s currently 15 percent) and any debt remaining after 20 years will be forgiven (the current threshold is 25).” http://bit.ly/92cgTB
- Wall Street Reform “The bill creates a consumer financial protection entity over the strenuous objections of the GOP and Wall Street, brings serious reform to derivatives trading, gives regulators the authority to break up major banks that are deemed a threat to the system.” http://huff.to/bCtjMC
- Nominated and Confirmed Sonia Sotomayor & Elena Kagan “Kagan will join Sotomayor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the first bloc of three women serving on the court at the same time.” http://bit.ly/9W6A7e
- SCHIP “(It) reduce(s) the number of uninsured children in America by about half over the next 4.5 years and boost the number covered by the program to 11 million.” http://bit.ly/c8zz18
- Stem Cell Research “The future of modern medicine took a new direction yesterday, as President Barack Obama signed an executive order, overturning a Bush-era policy on embryonic stem cell research.” http://n.pr/9GUkPd
- ARRA “While many of Recovery Act projects are focused more immediately on jumpstarting the economy, others, especially those involving infrastructure improvements, are expected to contribute to economic growth for many years.” http://bit.ly/2Il4wL
- Lilly Ledbetter Act “President Obama signed his first bill into law on Thursday, approving equal-pay legislation that he said would “send a clear message that making our economy work means making sure it works for everybody.” http://nyti.ms/7yRz
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