Enacted pay freeze on White House members making more than 100k. Banned gifts to members of his administration from lobbyists. Ordered end of detention without due process at guantanamo. Lifted 1991 media ban on photographing fallen soldier's coffins.
Enacted pay freeze on White House members making more than 100k. Banned gifts to members of his administration from lobbyists. Ordered end of detention without due process at guantanamo. Lifted 1991 media ban on photographing fallen soldier's coffins.
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Enacted pay freeze on White House members making more than 100k. Banned gifts to members of his administration from lobbyists. Ordered end of detention without due process at guantanamo. Lifted 1991 media ban on photographing fallen soldier's coffins.
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(1/21/09) Enacted pay freeze on white house members making more than 100k
(1/21/09) Banned gifts to members of his administration from lobbyists
(1/21/09) Required members not become lobbyists for 2 years after leaving (1/21/09) Stopped restrictions on FOIA claims for presidential records (1/22/09) Banned the use of torture during interrogations (1/22/09) Ordered the end of detention without due process at Guantanamo (1/23/09) Removed abortion restrictions on aid to family planning groups (1/29/09) Increased statute of limitations on discriminatory pay (1/29/09) Started the replacement of 16,000 sets of deficient body armor (1/30/09) Stopped federal funding for bribing of workers to not unionize (2/4/09) Expanded Children's health care program for low income families (2/26/09) Lifted 1991 media ban on photographing fallen soldier's coffins (3/9/09) Reinstated federal funding for stem cell research (3/29/09) Announced redecoration of White House will be out of his pocket (3/30/09) Gave national protection to 2,000,000 new acres of wilderness (4/6/09) Introduced program for new naval combat ship for Somali patrol (4/13/09) Removed Cold War era restrictions on travel to Cuba (4/21/09) Reinstated and expanded AmeriCorps program (5/19/09) Raised car MPG and emmisions standards for first time since 1990 (5/20/09) Started federal crackdown on fraud in financial institutions (5/22/09) Introduced provisions to stop credit/debit predatory practices (5/22/09) Cut out waste in defense contracting and research/development (6/1/09) Cash 4 Clunkers boosts MPG of automotive fleet to all-time high (6/17/09) Authorized benefits to same-sex partners of government workers (6/22/09) Disallowed marketing flavored cigarettes to kids (7/4/09) Successfully negotiated return of 2 citizens held by N. Korea (7/21/09) Discontinued F-22 fighters, a 1980's plane never used in a war (10/1/09) Prohibited federal workers from texting while driving (10/12/09) Created program for judges to save money for their families (10/5/09) Required federal agencies to cut fuel consumption 30% by 2020 (10/19/09) Stopped federal raids on medical marijuana dispensers (10/19/09) Allowed any court to issue warrants for stored communications (10/22/09) Required accountability on how VA health care budget is spent (10/28/09) Extended hate-crimes to include ones based on sexuality (11/6/09) Awarded Casimir Pulaski honorary citizenship (11/9/09) Extended outreach to hire returning veterans to government jobs (12/16/09) Removed social security benefits for times when one is in jail (12/16/09) Allowed amtrak riders to carry firearms in checked luggage (12/16/09) Ended ban on funds for needle exchange programs (12/22/09) Tasked the Department of Justice with enforcing human rights (12/30/09) Ordered creation of response plan for a biological attack (1/29/10) Stopped restrictions on releasing visitor logs of White House (2/1/10) Cut massively overbudget constellation program out of budget (2/12/10) Reinstated congressional restriction to offset spending w/revenue (2/16/10) Tax cuts and infrastructure improvement to combat recession (2/18/10) Created commission to provide full plan on reducing debt (3/18/10) Tax cuts for employees and employers (3/23/10) Largest reform of health care since 1965 (3/30/10) Removed need for student loans to be run through banks/marked up (3/31/10) Announced increase in hybrid purchases for federal autos (4/6/10) Approved targeted killing of Al-queda regardless of citizenship (4/8/10) Reduction of US and Russian nuclear arms by 1/3, focus on Iran (4/15/10) Introduced plan to incentivize private space travel companies (5/14/10) Froze congressional salaries through 2011 (5/25/10) Sent 1,200 National Guard troops to Mexico border (6/9/10) Started a fund to pay transportation of fallen soldier's families (7/2/10) Increased security of biological agents and toxins stored in US (7/21/10) Largest reform of background financial transactions since 1924 (7/22/10) Extended basic unemployment benefits for 2.3 mil Americans (7/22/10) Started investigations into stopping fraudulent federal payments (8/2/10) Reduced racial divide in sentencing for crack and cocaine (8/4/10) Posthumously restored rank of Vietnam scapegoat commander